LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 149, 20 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

the usual fortnightly meeting of tile Loyal Kgmuiit Lodge 1.0.0.1''. (M.l\) win held_ last evening, Jlro. a, J),,!],.,., y X i., presiding. There was.a good attendance ol members, and four Jadv candidates were proposed for membership. A large amount of correspondence was received and dealt with.

At a meeting of dairy factory representatives of South Taranaki 'at Ilawera on Saturday, to consider the reappointment of a Home agent, vice Mr Mackic (resigned), it was decided: "That his meeting approves of the .scheme in the appointment of a Home agent as siiggcsi'ed by the National Dairy Association, ami strongly recommends factories lo join in the proposal." Tiie secretary of the Waikato Hospital Board seems to have been surprised when he received a bill from the Tarannki Board for the maintenance i7i the New Plymouth Hospital of a man belonging to the Auckland district, lie. lias written in reply:—"l should think the eiiargp made by your Board, 7s per day, is about a. record for the Dominion in hospital charges, and, in-a case such as this, simply extortion. I shall take good care of any Taranaki patients 'in future."

A committee of tlie Taranaki County Council met .yesterday to open trailers. Ilic following were received and dealt will):—For erecting toll-gates and house at I'unilio: D. Penivanlen, ,Cil 14s (lieivntcil): R. L. Roberts and Son, £44 Ids. Lettering toll-boards: Bellringer ISro*., ,C 7 10s (accepted); West and (ion, ,07 12s (id; A. Lovi-grove. £7 15s. The tender of T. Parkin, at 5a a yard, Ims been accepted for carting stone on the South Road, between Mission Hill and the borough boundary.

Mr. Newton King Ims received the following cable .from his Sydney agent re hides: "Market strong." The relief fund in aid of the Bill family, two members of which were burned to death at Mangatoki recently, amounts to about £2OO. Much interest is being evinced in tlie address to be given by Mr. W. G. Ma-1 lone at the New Plymouth Club tomorrow evening on '• Compulsory Military Training." We are asked to state that the meeting is open to members and their friends. The syndicate which has purchased I the Pnrapara and Tiiranaki irousand

eases from the Public Trustee, as agent j or the late Sir A. J. Ciidman and others, [ s composed of Messrs. D. Rutherford, „ I'. Chapman, l'\ J. Snvill, T. A. Phillips, < iV. Parkinson, 11. Friedlaudcr, J. C. N. { jrigg, E. F. J. Grigg, and Jos. Smythc. , Chung llwah Hwoi Kwang, or Western s issoeiation, is the', name of a Chinese J ;iiib which has been formed in Welling- ' lon, with the help of, the new Consul i [Mr. Yung-Liang Hwang), with the main . jbject of improving Chinese residents in i iVestern manners and knowledge, so i that when they return to China Uiey nay be able to disseminate such knowledge amongst their countrymen. The Hope of Egniont Juvenile Temple was opened last night by C.T. Sister L. Allan. There was a good attendance. > I'hc Temple paid a visit to the Kginont I Lodge (No. 112), when the following was ' the programme: Heading, Sister T. Clou- ' nett; recitation, Sister T. Waldock; . > ' citation, W. Ewing; reading, W. Daiulley. Light refreshments were then handed round, concluding a pleasant social evening. At a meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society last wecK, a general distribution of the pheasants now , held by the (society was decided upon, , and a committee of rangers is to be np- ; pointed in each part of the district where the birds are liberated. A special meeting of the council will be held at an early date to decide the question ot having an open or close season for imported game next year, and it was dcided to send a remit to the Wellington .'(inference urging the Government to import, for distribution among the societies, a consignment of the English minnow, wherewith to stock rivers as food for trout.—Post. At the Stratford Magistrate's Co«rt last week, before Mr. A. Greenfield, 8.M., C. E. Meyenberg proceeded against J. W. Harding for £2O 4s 9d, the price of twenty head of cattle sold by plaintiff to defendant, plus expenses incidental to the transaction. In this case defendant did not dispute liability, judgment Doing entered by consent for the amount claimed, with costs £2 14s. J. W. Harding then proceeded against C. E. Meyenberg for £lB 10s, made up of £l2 10s' claimed for two cows, plus £0 for expenses and loss oi time. Judgment was given for £3 15s, being £5 each for two fat cows, less ±M 2s Gd each for two cows substituted, and £4 already paid into court by defendant, with costs amounting to £3 3s.—Post. "Unemployed!" queried a well-known farmer on Saturday, and there was a volume of disgust in liis tone. And then he went on to relate an incident on which lie based his unfavorable opinion of the so-called •'unemployed." "They'll be unemployed for a very long time (ins wording was even more emphatic) before 1 offer one of them a job again." He had picked up a down-in-the-moutli give-us-a-iob-mister cliap in town a week earlier. He was used to farm work, and csi«erly accepted an offer of light furzegrubbing at 8s a day. The farmer took the man home in his gig, gave him bis tea and supper, anil a bed. Next day was Sunday, and the out-of-work individual lived on the fat of the Innd—five meals that day. Morning tea on Monday, and breakfast, and the man went out, not too keenly, to his gorse-grnb-hiug. Bv noon he hail had enough of it. He had'his dinner, demanded his pay, and, complaining that gorse-grubbing was too hard on his back, cleared oft No wonder the farmer doesn't believe in the " unemployed."