LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 10 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

riinrc were twenty-eight applicants for Hi,. position ~f general inspector anil pomid-kocpcr for tlio Borough Council. Hie Works Committee, comprising the whole Council, held ~ meeting lust iiMit and decided („ recommend the appointment of Mr. ]{. Tippins to tlic post. A gentleman writing from VT('lliii"to-i to a friend in Christclmrch says: "f returned from Auckland on Saturday and came right through without breaking the journey. It is surprising the number of people who are travelling. One meets all sorts in the train—Germans, Maoris cripples, athletes, baliics, centenarians,'' impudent passengers, and courteous ones (not many), in fact all soil, are fheiv. Kncli one owns the train, ineluding luggage vans and engines. It is (piiu. common for one passenger to possess three seats, particularly those in a somnolent condition or trance-like stale. As for closing doors, it is out of the iiuestioii: in fact, some of them like

one to open the door for them. It is ' red hot.' and, in conclusion, T must say. that if manners only make the , man, then may the Lord have mercy on New Zealand railway passengers." Writes a correspondent to the Haweja Star:—"T returned from Palmerstoa North last, week more impressed than ever that llawera has' a big future before it. Palmerston Xorth is n much larger town, but the surrounding country cannot compare in any way. "During my stay there I took a" ten-mile drive out into the country and found it both poor and wet, and it naturally follows •poor country, poor people' ' On the journey home I got into conversation with a gentleman in the train. Yea's ago Ire «« a resident of Manaia. and he informed me that after travelling pretty well all over the Dominion he was satisfied that the Waimate Plains at £4O per acre was the cheapest land to be obtained at the present time. .\« a further instance of the productiveness of our soil we have in Okainwa. a former resident of the Tnglewooil district who brought his herd of dairy cows' down witli him, stale that the same cows have returned him up to £25 a month .more since he came to this district."

Every four weeks ninety-six dozen pairs of women's and children's cashmere stockings are imported into Tara■naki liy the' Melbourne Clothing Comminy and sold at U piir. These stocl--insrs—seamless', and nil pure wool—are imarantocd not to-lose color. Girl's sizes 3to (1 have 8-fold fctees. When nrderins add a penny a nnir nosta<>e.— Advt. AKE YOU DEEDING STORAGE? Wo lia.ve it available—in excellent brick-built buildings. Here we can store goods, bagsraaie, furnitme, in ' Inrjre or small oimntit'es, at lowest, curI rent rates. For travellers we have fine '.sample rooms—convenient in size, welllit, centrally eituatcd. Notify us, and we'll collect vour baggage or foods, anil store it or place it in a suitaWe .sample wom.—-The KZ. Express Co. (Ltd,)