LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 137, 8 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The committee of the Taranaki Jockey Club met on Tuesday afternoon. Jt was decided to grant the use of the course to the Taranaki Hunt Club cm the occasion of its race meeting, to be held in September.

At a largely attended battalion parade on Monday evening Lieutenant-Colonel Okey presented the Taranaki Guards with the shield won by its shooting team against the other Taranaki volunteer companies. There is a movement afoot having for its object the abolition of the Barrett, Omatii, and Ilurford road wards, their rating areas to be merged into the Taranaki county as a riding separate from the Omata riding, of which it at present forms a part. 'During the current month 1!).>,!>23 acres of Crown binds, exclusive of lands under the Lauds for Settlement Act, will be opened for sale or selection. Of the total area, no fewer than 14.1,000 acres arc national endowment land. Last month 217,:H2 acres of Crown lands, including 2000 acres of national endowment land, was offered.

I Tlie seventh euchre party and daice of the series in aid of the West End gymnasium fund was hold in the Smith lioad kill last evening. Despite the inclemency of tiie weather there if is a Rood attendance, twenty-three tab! 's lichig occupied. When tlie count took place it was found that Mrs. A. ]Serridgo had won the prize, and Mrs. Oorgo secured second. The successful gentlemen proved to lie Mr. .]. MeCivcn first and llr. A. Stark second. . After an excellent supper had been served dancing was indulged in till the early hours of the morning, to the capitil music provided by Hiss Loveridge. .Messrs. A. Wilson and McLean pe--forined verv cmlitublv the duties of M.C's.

'flic Croatian*, commonly callod Anstrians, of whom there arc' Severn 1 hundreds in Hie northern YVniroa, district, arc (write* an Auckland correspondent) disconcerted on account of press references to (lie danger of their residence in New Zealand, should: Creat Hritain | heconie involved in war. The "Gins I Istinc.'' a. weekly Croatian paper, published in Dargaville, repudiates with vigor the suggestion that in such an eventuality the Croatian* would side with any alien force invading the Dominion. The paper declares that the rumor proclaiming that Croatians are armed and organised to assist any invasion is ridiculous, and asserts that, I in the event of any such raid upon these shores, they, to a man, will join the New Zealanders " in repelling and annihilating the foe in a. momentous manner." For Childron's Hacking Cough at ■tight, Woodp* Great Pepperjaiat Cum; 2/«an42/l. /. ;-..;;.....<.,. ,u.,d.;.