LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 8 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hope of Lgmont Juvenile Tempi* was opened last night by C.T. Bro. (J Crone, al li'.oU p.m. There was a largi attendance of ineniibeio. Mr. U. 11 Maunder gave a lecture, which was mud appreciated. TJie exports Iroiu Paten fur the montl of May were as follows: —iluttei UUiewt, value Ju31I8; cheese, 050Uewt value ' £20,017; frozen beef, lltflcwt value £803; mutton (2030 carcases) 10/lcwt, value £1505; lambs (1234 car cases), 35Uewt, value £004; woo value 1407; At a meeting of the executive of thi of the New Plymouth branel musical prograwuu will apjiear in to-morrow's is'sue. The usual fortnightly meeting of tfu Loyal Kgmont Lodge, 1.0.0.1'"., -U.U. wa; held last evening, Uro. lleg. A. J.s'ewton .vCT. presiding. There was a good at tendance of members and one iemah and one mule candidate were initiated ' and one female and two male caadidatu , were proposed for memhera'Mp. Tin I sick visitors - ' report was received am | the thanks of the lodge were accordei them for tlieir report. , Whilst cycling along Devon htreet al i about eight o'clock hurt eveniug, Mr. L (_'. Gladden was run into by a cyclisl i without a light. As a result, Mr. SladI den received somewhat severe injuries 'to his head, necessitating medical at ! tentioii, whilst the other party rcispon I sible for the accident escaped scathlcs* I The "-Merry Widow'' was performed , to a record house last evening. Our re- | port of the performance, which wa«s n | great success, is unavoidably held over,

A live-horse team of lioivsori attached to a waggon 'belonging to Mi\ W. Heyiiolds, of Otakeho, was startled by a motor ear whni rounding the "devil's elbow/' on tile Main South mad, between llavera and .\knntia 3 with the j'emilt that the animals swerved ami preeipitated the waggon orer the embankment, falling a. distance of lifteen or twenty feet. Neither the animals nortne driver were hurt, although lliere will be extreme dillieulty in getting the waggon balk un to the road.

The Xativc Health Department, as was anticipated would be the case, has come under the retrenchment scheme of the Government. It is' to be abolished "lock, .slock and barrel.'' Dr. I'omare, Xativc Health Olliccr, who ha* occupied that position since the establishment of the department in 11)00, will retire from the service in a few weeks, and ten sanitary inspectors will receive notice of their retirement very shortly. It is probwble tliat after concluding his connection wilh the department Dr. I'omare will take a trip Home prior to starting, business on his own account.

The Alanaia lire brigade had its first taste of ''lire'' cm Sunday evening, when it was called out to cope with all outbicak in a small cottage in the main street. Under good organisation the brigade prevented the fire from spreading to adjacent premises, although the scene of the outbreak was complete!v gutted. It is somewhat extraordinary tliat although there were stored in one of the looms' of the 'building about twenty thousand rounds of ammunition, there was.no explosion, which fact niav be explained by the/"brigade directing the hose around the "danger zone." It is understood that the regalia of the local branch of the Oddfellows and also the books ivere destroyed. Referring to wheat and Hour in the coftrse of hit, presidential address to the 'i'aranaki Chamber of Commerce last i'liday evening, ill'. T. C. Sehnackeubcrg said that during the winter and spring ot 1007 an ill-advised agitation was fomented against the duty on imported Hour, with the result that fanners were too frightened to put much country under wheat, and consequently the crop was so short that thousands of tons were imported, the .»ricc to the consumers lieing fully £■> per ton higher than if they had grown sufficient in New Zealand. Chambers of Commerce and public bodies resisted the propositi change. The confidence of farmers was restored, and 252,301 acres were m,t into wheat, instead of 103,030 the previous year, and with, ii favorable a magnificent harvest had been secured, averaging 33 bushels per acre. T"ie result to the consumers was that Hour was about £2 under ' the Australian price instead of £2 over, a savin" of L*-l 41?,' I 1'"! |,( l lliv alent to 2d,per 411) loaf, and instead of importing New Zealand was exporting so largely that I hv lailways in the S„„t|, Island were blocked will, tnillic, and every port wa = in]] uf steamers loading with grain.