LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 125, 24 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. W. Gadsby lias sold his Manutalii estate to Messrs Geary Bros., of Meremere.

''The man who can work and won't work won't eat our food. The lazy man ought to die. There's no room in this industrial world for the lazy man, or the la/.y woman, either."—So said the Rev. Mr. Cole during last night's lecture.

When the Napier Brotherhood passed its resolution condemning the action of Cabinet in dismissing the Hon. W. A. Hogg, it was stated by a speaker that if similar motions were passed throughout New Zealand he had authority to state that Mr. Hogg was prepared to commence a campaign on behalf of the workers of the Dominion.

The party behind Dick Arnst had a royal win on Tuesday. Never were they more sanguine of success. Arnst'e private trial over the championship course, with pacers to carry him along, was 18 minutes, and with that knowledge up their sleeves they had no hesitancy in promptly covering 'every coin of Webb's' money in sight. They were on the highroad to getting rich quickly and how they staked and won made cheerful conversation for the, fortunate ones on tho evening after the eventful race. The revised international telegraph regulations come into force on the Ist prox. A registered address of a telegram is entitled to pass as plain language in the. text and signature as well ae in address. The letters "Ch" are to be counted as two characters in artificial and cypher, but as one in plaiu language. Groups of figures or of letters o r commercial marks compossed of figures and letters are counted at five figures or letters to the word. Thes'e commercial marks are agreed to be in plain language. A combvaation of figures and letters having secret meaning is. not allowed to pass at five characters to the word.

A meeting of the Taranaki Poultry Society was held on Tuesday evening, a good number of members being present. It is expected from the enquiries being made that the entries this year will be even greater in number than in previous years, and the home industries class, which has been added to the show, bids' fair to' be a great success, as n great many of the .ladies of' New ll'lymouth and surrounding district have signified their intention of entering an exhibit and asssit the Society. A special prize which will greatly interest every farmer in the district has been given by Jlr. W. Pellew, valued at 10s Od for the best two pounds of butter (factory ex- j eluded) in the show. ' A complaint was made at the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday evening that its officers were unduly interfered with by councillors. Particular reference was made to the sanitary inspector, Mr. Evetts, who had so often been Severely criticised fo r not takiug Court proceedings against persons committing breaches of the by-laws. Cr. Gilbert averred that the inspector had neve r had a fair chance. Alighting on a "case," he would initiate proceedings. Then some councillor would be approached by the victim, and the man with a friend at court would escape The by-laws, he contended, were being made too elastic when they touched councillors' "cronies" or men with money, and the inspector found it hopeless to carry out hie duties.

An accident that might very easily have had serious consequences occurred in the big cutting on the Victoria road Vogeltown, yesterday. Mr. h. Little was cycling back to business after lunch. Emerging from Shorthand street which joins the main road in the cutting, he came abreast of Dr. Home's motor ear, which had been hugging the bank to get a sweep into Mr. Bayly's gate, there was no time to clear. The chauffeur promptly stopped the car, and, unfortunately for Mr. Little, the <% stopped the bike, and he was thrown to the ground. He felt no serious effects of the fall until late in the afternoon, when he was compelled, by pain in his foot, to visit Dr. Fooltes, who found the big toe broken. It will be some eight or ten days before he will be able to resume his work.

At present there is an openin» in Manganui for a really reliable prophet. [Before the boat race Wanganui was certain- that Welib eould ream the championship. The daily newspapers, which the Gaming Act does not appear to afiect, openly declared the challenger a certainty. The public backed their opinion with good coin of the realm, and those princes of humbugs, the Maori "prophets," declared for Webb •epery time!" "Arnst had no chance," the latter gentry said, "lie was foolish enough to store his boat under a willow tree; a sure sign of disaster," thev declared. But fortunately for the Canterbury man their prognostications caught a crab or sprung a leak or otherwise went wrong. The shade of the wdlow tree-or a thousand willow' trees for that matter-proved just abo„t as harmless to the champion .is the .shade of the old apple tree."

_ A gentleman who was for sonn* year* in the civil service had soiuethin.r In say yesterday concerning t|„. (;, lvmi . nient retrenchment scheme. Km,,, his experience of departmental work he is firmly convinced Unit i„ inslitutinft a eeheim- of retrencliiuent the Government should, as far as possible, dispense nth the services of female ■employees. In support of hi s theory ] le stated that ins principal reason was that girls' nvere using office work merely as a staiid-bv o r a makeshift. They had no idea of continuing m the service for a lifetime °JS'"\ of ;; om " illi '"- '■■■ ">e ranks o clerks, for hey a) ; ■ lt . l! ] i ,,l loTmii to marriage, when they would expect soma mail o r other to toil for them. the employment of girls meant considerable expense in providing separate Moak-roo„, s and separate retiring offices, llurdly, he mioted his own extnct office. The iiinioi was a girl l„it she could not be persuaded to undertake messages to certain places, and he or some other higlily-paid man had to turn errand-boy for the nonce. L a «tlv he urged that there would he fc„ heard ll„" n ''Tr. 0y, ''™ t if t,,c lireadwinners cceived Government e,n,,lov„,ent, and he girls of (he Dominion deVotcd themselves to domestic pursuits Th.if he ng the unemployed problem, .„„, t| the domestic help difficulty.

Tho PorlHinoiitl, T.mea. a , WIX . r whien gn-s considerable ,itti>jitioi, to naval mutters, recently j.nl.lish.-d the followin S :-There ha, rcccntlv i,,;,,,, ~ .... J.O*. .1 that .insteurnfscrappi „„■ v „L ls f the Majestic !Ul ,l (anopus ela «ln„ these ships aiv in course l'»sl» : ,| OMt „f u,, Special r (wl . vl , fn '<'"onng «n the "llotlic..- flank" and sllch-like ontposl,), th« S ],i, ls , the stoics anil iiiHiiiiiintion should he «iven to such of pur respective mlonm as would car, to maintain and man then, for the protection of their own large commercial ports. Sine,., for several J'Ti n""',"' " o '"' " f om ' s«a-rivals will 1... able to semi a type of cruiser on a nudiiig expedition to our colon*:, which eouM outmatcli a Majestic or a tanopus in a stand-up fight, the ITiiitM Service Gazette things that the suggestion mentioned deserves some attention at the hands of the Home and colonial .overnmrats. These old hut useful lattleships could he manned by colonials trained to fight their guns in limes of peace and if they were only used as mobile forts for port protection, they would perform a very useful function, lint there is no reason why they should not steam out to th ( . oiling and eivane an enemy, if he appeared off their Irt«c ports with the object of levyimr biaeitmail, for, with their 12in'gun.i and armored sides, they should lie able to give a good account of themselves against anything outside of the Dreadnought type of battleship and cruiser. On such occasions they would also be backed by th c . new local torpedo flotillas that some of the colonies contemplate building for themselves; anil, so backed, they could vanquish a squadron of raiding cruisers. While capable of taking such a part in the defence of , the Empire, any decision to scrap' battleships seems the height of folly—at least, until the colonics nave ell'icie:t navies of their own. If the purchase price is a consideration, then we would' recuiiiiueud that the warships be offered to the colonies at their estimated I "wrapping" price, to form a nucleus for] a colonial navy

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