LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 135, 6 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Commercial. Amusements. District Sews. Piirapara Iron Deposits, Those Toll Gates Ayain, Victim of Retrenchment. Tanmaki County Council.

The police lust night took i»ttf *us •tody a bunch of keys that had beci left in a private letter-box at the powi office. A limn begged the (Tower Bridge Police Court magistrate to sentence him to twenty years' imprisonment, S() that lie might escape from his mother-in-law. Forty persons died from heart disease iu New Zealand last month. Septicaemia was responsible for nineteen deaths, and cancer, ia. various' -"'on:-, another nineteen. Mr. Wragge's "Davenport" had a say iu preventing the members of the Marsland 11 ill Memorial Committee rolling up in force on -Saturday afternoon. In consequence it was decided to postpone the meeting to Saturday next. Owing to an accident to the mail van I while at New Plymouth, the postal stall', i on the express train yesterday morning | was accommodated in a second-class carriage, where, under dlillijcniities, they carried out tlie.ir usual duties. A Masterton butcher is advertising rump steak at -T/ y d. all prime joints, sirloins, at 3'/»d, legs mutton at V/ 2 d, loins mutton at at 3y.d, prime ribs at 'IV->d, all other joints at 2!/ a d; also a boom in sausages at ilb for Is. The ilopc of Kgmoiit Juvenile Temple lield its usuyl meeting last night, Bro. 0. Crone, C.T., presiding. There was • good attendance of members. The harmony programme was provided by the brothers, after which a light supper was served. While on the Hokio beach near Levin last week Mr. Bayliss picked up a corked and sealed bottle. On opening it he found a piece of paper, on which was written: "Bio Logue. capsized off Terawftiti; one boat adrift." And it was signed "Collins." Of course, the whole thing may he a joke, hut from the appearance of the paper it is probable that it has been in the bottle some time.

prime ribs at 3!£d, all other joints »i *2'/yd; also a boom in sausages at ill for Is. The ilope of Kgmont Juvenile Tempi* held its usuyl meeting last night, Bro 0. Crone, C.T., presiding. There was 1 good attendance of members. The harmony programme was provided by tin brothers, after which a light supper was served. While on the Hokio beach near Levin last week Mr. -R. Buyliss picked up a corked and sealed bottle. On opening it he found » piece of paper, on which r was ■written: "Rio Logue. capsized off Terawftiti; one boat adrift." And it was signed "Collins." Of course, the whole thing may he a joke, hut from the appearance of the paper it is probable that it has been in the bottle some time. There was recently sold in Taranaki, a small, dairy farm of Seventy-seven acres at the rate of 1&45 an acre. The land is the best description of dairying country in the great butter-fat province —all level and of grent grass-growing I'OAver. The properly iai well fenced, ha-5 I good buildings, and gcmerally in in a • high state of improvement. An evidence of its capabilities is ail'orded *u the return furnished 'by the Riverda'e Dairy Company which shows' that the previous occupier, Mm. Scott, received for milk during the past season the big amount of ,£490, and that the further bonus would bring the milk I payment to over £SOO. This represents I the return for the milk- of U cows, or an average of over ;CY4 14s per cow. which is not allowing anything for calves or the value of the -whey. When the cows were sold under the hammer the other day they realised the splendid average, of over £9. Two-year heifers j made £4 10s to £9.—Wellington Times, | Hoarseness in a child subject to croup is' a. sure indication of the approach of the disease. If ClmmberJaiu's Cough Remedy is given at onco or even after the croupy cough has appeared it will prevent the attack. Pleasant to take and contains no poison. Fox sale by all chemists and storekeepers. Mrs. Sarah Mcßurney, Upper Hutt, f N.Z., stays: "Chamberlain's Cough j Remedy is the 'best medicine for croup ( in children that is made. I have no fear r |of recommending it, after a lengthy / i trial. I have found it to have no bad s effect. Have used it for vpar*. and will \) have no other. All my friends say the same." For sale by all chemists and ) { Bto^ep.erß v ; . g

Mails for United Kingdom and Con-| tment despatched on May 27th (via San Francisco) arrived at London on June 30. tA contract let some months by the Carrington Road Board, and since taken over by the County Council, lias been dragging along so slowly 'that the Council has given the chairman authority to determine it. When this is done tliu 3iiO yards of ,boulders there will still need to be 'broken, aud the Council proposes to have this work done by hand, I with a view of -providing work for the unemployed. Payment will he at the rate of 3s per yard. The usual fortnightly meeting ol tlw Loyal Bgmont Lodge 1.0.0. F. (ALU.) was held-hist evening, Bro. A. Duller, N,G., presiding. There was a good attendance of members and two candidates were initiated (one female and one male). An invitation was received from the Loyal Excelsior Lodge to a social evening on Tuesday, 13th inst. lit was decided to forward a letter of condolence to the family of a recently deceased member. The quarterly report and balance sheet was read and adopted.

"Well, there's the position, genu.men. Here's a £IOOO contract going on. The loan money hasn't come, and we can's get any money out of tnc Government at all. We can't even get an answer to our letters. The council hasn't got any money, and certainly we can't finance a thousand pounds and wait for the Government." This is the ' position of the Eliot lioad loan authorised by _ the ratepayers of the Eliot Road district prior to their merging into the county. The Road Board declined to allow the contract to proceed until the Government had given an assurance that the loan money would be available. The assurance came, but it won't pay tlie contractor. The Rev. H. Mason has been successful iii locating several streams of water on Mount Wellington (Auckland). Mr. Mason went in quest of water at the instance of the Remuera Road Board, which .is at present dependent on tne Manukau Water Supply Board for the supply for the district, and wishes to find an independent source. Mr. Mason located' about eighteen streams on the Panmuro side of the mountain. Then, ascending to the crater, he traced two large streams down the other side of the mount. Both streams were 18ft wide, and showed a :big flow of watersuch a large flow, in fact, that the twig the diviner held in his hands was twisted where lie grasped it, and the physical reaction on tlie diviner iwae pronounced. Mr, Mason says there is an ample supply of. water for the district. It is believed tlie two streams find their way into »St, John's Lake, and it is proposed to tap them.aad carry the water through a pipe to the Mount Hob«m reservoir, three or four miles a.way. There recently appeared ill our local contemporary a letter signed "Waggoner," dealing trenchantly with the County Council's administration of affairs in the Omata riding, and making the charge that the Council was paying for more metal than was ever placed on the roads. Yesterday, acting upon the county chairman's (Mr. Browne's) instructions, Mr. L. C. Sladdcn, of the firm of Messrs. Sladden and Palmer, made a special trip to Okato to measure the drays used in carting out metal on to the roads. His report, delivered to the Council during the afternoon, was to the eifect that the carrying capacity of the drays was 1.97 yards, where there should be 2 yards. The drays were fairly loaded, and the Council was getting full value for its money. The computation worked out that for every 200 yards of metal supposed to be put on tlie road the Council got 107 yards. l"i referring to this matter the chairman and Councillors Carter and Andrews all regretted that such a serious charge had been made over .a nom de plume. The action of the chairman in obtaining Mr. Sladden's report was unanimously confirmed. If we should see two African tribes adjus't their trade balances by gravely sending an ivory .tusk from one camp to the other and as gravely returning the same package six months later, ''civilisation" (says an American paper), would sneer at the heathen. Exports and imports of gold are on a par with such a proceeding in Africa. America and Europe, with the deepest gravity, send shiploads of gold back and forth at nearly stated seasons of each year. There must be real gold. It does not matter that very frequently gold imported from Europe will 'lie in the American assay office unpacked for six months and then be returned to Loudon or Paris in the identical package in which it had arrived. The shifting back and forth of the metal at considerable expense and at the risk of total loss at sea is at present the only method of satisfying certain international trade needs'. It is cumbersome, inconvenient, mid barbaric. Mr. Cortelyou, Secretary to the Treasury in Mr. Roosevelt's Cabinet, suggested a' most rational plan to supersede the old order. He proposed the creation of international gold ccrtilieates, based on gold and good as gold, for such importing and exporting purposes. AVe have gold certificates for money, and everybody accepts them and nearly everybody "prefers them to the actual metal which they represent. Such certificates could be sent back and forth between American and Europo without trouble at scarcely any expense and at no peril of loss, since their intrinsic value is virtually nothing.