LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 113, 10 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Wellington telegram states that tlie price of butter has been raised to 1r wholesale! and to Is 2d retail m that city. Recruiting is healthy in the Taranaki Rilles. Captain Bellringcr timls'the time opportune for " weeding out" the members who make poor attendances ;it| parades, and nix of the worst offenders; are to receive notice'to <|uit. j

The Taranaki Poultry Society has received a donation of His (id from Mr. K. A\H«ttle for the guessing competition prize fund, and several '* specials," including those form Mr. S. Teed, the Kgmon.t Brewery, 11. .1011, J. Goodwin, W. Rowe, and llev. i'\ (I. Evans. Mr. S. Johnson, of Palmerston North, lias been appointed judge for the show, which is iixed for July 21 and 22.

We are authorised to state that tiO parade of school cadets lias been ordered h'or Fi'iflay evening on the of l.Mr. fR. Arab's lecture on univomal training. Apparently school cadets come under the regulution tl)at volunteers niu«t jjot atteml politwa) meotimrs in nnifonn. Tfie oflim- commanding tlie rf'adet baittalion will be pleased, -however, to meet the senior Imjvs of tlie schools 1 and uiemhers of the cadet compani"* outside tlie theatre before the couiniciwment of the lecture so tihat they | infliy as a. body file uvto itlie seats allot-1 ted to tlicrn. I

13orough workmen are at present engaged in constructing some chains of concrete channelling in Devon Street west, beyond Morley Street. A length of this was done under the previous borough engineer, but the 'authorities of the present day refuse to accept: his alignment, and that piece of concrete work fcas to be taken up 1 . The footpath is oeiiig minced from lourteen feet !■» twelve feet in width. It is a pity that borough councils of the past neglected to make Devon Street west of a uniform grade, in place of the see-saw undulations that now make the thoroughfare, anything but a credit to Xew Plymouth's; municipal road-making nolicy. An 'mtorpftting litle. machine for measuring and controlling the,size of ''nips" iwas involved in a case begun and then abandoned in the Wellington Magistrate'* Court on Tuesday afternoon. A wit>nes* was describing how the machine ;J----ilowcd jutft s>o much .liquid to run into a , (glass, when the Magistrate. Dr. Mej lArtJruT, broke in with an enquiry, "Can't | yoii invent a machine,-' lie aisked, "which I would register how many nips a. fellow has in a day? It would be very eonve- ; ni'ent in before the Court someMimes. (Npecinlly when a fellow comes 'along and says lie hats 'only had ,one or I wo. Von mig'lit'rhi.iik it over/' Wi teos said .he would, though the ditliculty Ire saw was! that $ man would need to carry the machine aibout with him. The Holy Trinity School at Te Ileum was well tilled on Tuesday evening, when a concert was given in aid of the vicarage fund. An excellent programme was rendered. |it opened with Heethoveirs Sonata No, 8. played by "Mrs. Denton. Mesdames Denton and Spencer and Miss Denton contributed a irio for mandolins and piano, and Mr. Cooke played a violin solo (a serenade by Schubert). Songs were rendered by Mrs. Harvey f" Irish Lullaby," " fluslieen," and " I he Sweetest, Flower that Blows''), Miss 'Raker ("Home hove." and "Tell Her I Love ller So"). Messrs. Warner ("The Toreador." '"The Lost Chord.'' and "When Bright Kyes Olanre 1 '), Lee ("The Trumpeter;* "The Home Land,' "The King of ihe Winds." and "AsUhmV), ami Bak<'r ("Hearts of Oak." "Simon the Cellarer," "On the Banks of Allan Water"), and by the l\cv. S. Spencer ("Long Ago in Aleala").j

•lust arrived, at Dockrfl!'s, Devon street Contrnl,. N'mv "Plyni n, \l!i. <tn indent. of Allan's funotif irfitfts boots. also C. nnd J! Clarke's superior todies' boots and. slioi.a. In stock, a largo assortment of tlici bent Indies', gents', ancl children 1 j colonial loots nncl siloes by reliab.e makers. All the above are offered fn ihc public n* prices that can't be Advt __ .. . jl t • „

Mai!* for C r nited Kingdom and ("on-1 'Liill'nL (viu Naples) despatched liUtlr Ajiril arrived at .London on Till June. i't was decided at Tuesday's meeting of Cabinet to pay to the Penguin relict fund the full amount of subsidy promised bv the liovenuncnt, namely, XIOOO.

At ii. committee meeting of file X mv Plymouth Club last night the report and balance-sheet weve approved for presentation to tlie annual meeting on Wednesday, .June 23.

A.s soon as the Oiiialu Hiding toilgates dilliculty lias been fixed up by the County Council, it is understood that tlie members will turn their attention to the Moa riding finances. The bridges in that district ale keeping 1 up an almost continuous appeal for funds, and it is hard to see how they can be re-lmilt without a loan—or toll-gates. The Kdircation Department refuses to | make a grant for the erection of a residence for the teacher at the Tarata so'hool, and makes' a suggestion that he should obtain ot'lier house accommodation. Xot OTily is. tire residence totally unli'tted for human habitation, but the rooms, which are sittaelwd to the school' proper, are required for school purposes. The position might prompt a drama entit.ed " 1 'he Je-achers Terrible Dilemma/' His hoine is not decently Inimitable; flie J'oard wants the rooms, bad as thoy are; and there's not another available home in the locality, with'the exception of some deported tumbledown shanties three or four miles away. The wordy conflicts between Messrs. Carter and Hopson at County Council

meetings have become a standing joke. On Monday, when Hearing the termination of one of the lodgest meetings oil record, the chairman intimated to Cr.

Carter that there was some likelihood of the ambulance being sent for him, his friends at the other end of the tele-l phone evidently fearing that he had met with some bodily harm. The man of business was as keen in his perception of the message. "Oh, no,'' lie chipped in quickly; "tell them that Councillor Hopson and I are on exceedingly good terms to-day." It was some time before the members got their faces straight again for business.

The Education Boaj'd is. finding some ditliculty in filling teachers' vacancies t various schools. Recently several positions were advertised, and names of selected applicants forwarded on to the committees, who chose from these. Now Miss Spraggon has' declined to accept; Pukeho. Mrs. Benjamin will not proceed to the York seihool. suid Mis* Brewer find's "from information received" that Bird road doesn't promise to suit her very well. School teacher* may talk lill all's ibhie about their grievances, but there is amongst them a sort of irresponsibility wiiieh finds outlet in the 100 .frequentpractice of declining positions for which they have applied and been selected: a:id in various other ways which the local Education Board has had occasion to point out more t'lian once, fn the matter under notice, how would it do to insist o-n applicants lodging a deposit nfi in the case of tenderers for contracts, just as sa guarantee of good faith, deposit to be 'forfeited in the event of the teacher declining to accept the appointment?