LOCAL AND GENERAL.
At Nolan and Co.'s sales last Salimlav ],urcbreil roosters realised 5s In lis cadi. A most successful euclire party and . dance in connection with the West TCnd | Cyiiiuasiuin took plnci Wednesday night. There were .'i;i tables filled, anil some fifty onlookers. A 1 iss Kennedv won Hie first prize for ladies and Miss Joseph second prize. Mr. SHIM won the first prize for gentlemen, ami Mr. Ciriint second, after playing oil' will, Mr. Novell. After supper, dancing was indulged ill. Miss Uvvridgo presided at the'piniii). and Mr. W. .Mel.ean was M.C. The i,launder of the Tarala Co-opcra-li\e Mutter Factory has received the following from .Messrs. Hunter. Ltd.. ,)s----weslrv. England: "lie a consignment ,>F your butter from the Tarala Factory, imened on (be 1011, April, it was of excellent ,|ualil.v. and the lluvnr we con-j sider far siiiii-rioi- to Danish, and th • ic-ople in this district, prefer it to Danish ] reneralillrtting von on producing sneh I ja high-class article," etc. The butter, was made under the direction of Mr: C. j Cameron, a evry capable butter-maker. I For Influenza take Woods' Great P»npermint Cure. Never falls. 1/6 and ! ?/e. : ,
In the Magistrate's Court yesterday I morning, before Mr. 11. S. iMw.eruerc., S.M., two first offenders were charged with drunkenness. .N-rgi-aiii, llailo.eii j stated tliul both men imd got drunk in company, and had frei|iiented the Esplanade while drunk. Drunken men vr.-re becoming a nuisance, in this part of the town and as it was used by women and children lie would ask his Worship to fine accused instead of convicting and discharging them. Each ollendor was convicted ami lined .is, in default 4S hours' imprisonment. A good story is being told in Stratford concerning a couple of members of the ".Merry Widow" company who went out for a (lav's shooting in that district. Arrived at a place where the birds were alleged to congregate, and having disposed, to their n6t unqualified satisfaction, of the horse and trap, they laid hold of their alarming stock of cartridges and set oil'. Now, wanting a rest, one of them stopped and propounded to the other this problem, " What are we going to do with tilt; birds'! They bad brought I no game-ling, and one regretted that j they had not even a game pocket in their coats. " Game pocket," said the other, "what's that?" His companion explained that it was a large inner pocket, oecnpvimr almost the whole ot one side of the coat-front. With a turn for invention that stamped the playactor as mi Edison junior, he whipped out his pocket-knife anil ripped open his coat-lining across the breast, and soon had a capacious game-bag. He spoiled the coat. They shot one quail I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 114, 11 June 1909, Page 2
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454LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 114, 11 June 1909, Page 2
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