LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 159, 30 July 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two or three men have been employed during the past l'e\v_days, under tne supervision oi Mr. W. \Y. Smith, in planting trees upon the esplanade. A shooting match between E. *Fromont and L. J. Cray, members of me locul Gun Club, took place on Wednesi day night at the Devon Street saloon I for a purse. Gray won by one point, the scores being 2!)*28.

A suggestion is made in the Hawera paper that Hawera people should hold a Taranaki wiutfer show equal to Palmerston's. The Taranaki Agricultural Society should lose no time in definitely announcing its winter show proposals. It is suggested that the West End school concert should be repeated in a couple of months' time, the proceeds to be devoted to the local sports ground and the Recreation Grounds. There need be no fear of the financial result. On the motion of Mr. Quilliam (Govett and Quililam). probate of the will of the lale James Daly has boon granted by the Supreme Court to Anne Daly, James Rohill Daly and William Edward Daly, the executors named in the will. The best hall on this coast is undoubtedly the Hunt Club ball at Hawera. This year the music for the function 16 to be supplied by Mrs. A. George's orchestra, of New Plymouth. The repu 1 "- tion of this capital combination is * . dently going far afield. Private advices from Christchurch show that the ranks of the unemployed are likely to increase. A gentleman in the soft goods trade writes to a friend m New Plymouth:—"All the shops here are putting otV hands. Nearly every Saturday night some more go off. This is a bad time to be out of employment, for business is dead slow."

The Petoue Chronicle has been saying unkind things to Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P. recently. TL' editor reports that he received a ileal .ittle package on Saturday, ''with T.M.W.'ti compliments. 5 ' On opening, behold, a packet of "Carter's little liver pilis!" The '"little liver'-' threaten* to do things to the constituency's ivi»'esentative at the next general election.

The Hon. J. Millar, in reply to < letter nvcived from Mr. 11. Okey, M.P., asking ii examinations for engine drivers' eertilicates could be 'held at New Plymouth periodically, and so avoid the necessity for New Plymouth candidates to travel to Wanganu' 'or examination, states th:\t, if possiu.., i,rrangenients will be made to hold two examinations at Xtw Plymouth annually, of'which, applicants will receive due notice. An examination will be held here next mouth. A movement is afoot to secure full compensation U» owners of pigs condemned at the local abattoirs. It is proposed that the farmers and butchers should each contribute to a fund at the rate of a shilling for every pig sent to the abattoirs for slaughtering, this fund to be drawn upon in the event of a pig being condemned by the inspector at the abattoirs. The idea is a good one. for there has been a certain amount of hardship in the past when one party —farmer or butcher—was called upon to bear the loss.

Writes the Kltham Argus:—"ln connection with the decision of the New Zealand Axemen's Association to allow 110 seconds in the chopping or doublehanded sawing events some of the news papers have misconstrued the intentions of the directorate, and have published a statement that no second prizes will hp allowed in these event*. As a matter of fact, thrre will be second prizes in all of them, but still there will be no 'second*.' A second, in axemen's parlanii'. is the man who accompanies a competitor, and assists him by pulling ; away pugnacious chips, showing him ! where to strike, and otherwise helping hnn on to victory, In future contests each competitor will be "on his own'— a case of one block, one man, adventitious aids being thus done away with, 5 ' And a good thing, too. One of I In* finest model yachts it has been our pleasure to see was cruising about the big pond in the Recreation (Iroiuuls yesterday morning. The 'Taniwha/' as the little racing machine i* called, is built to scale and is an exact replica of the American yacht '•Reliance." whVdi accounted for Sir T. Upton's last "Shamrock/ The lines are pretty and practically perfection in the matter of least displacement when under sail. leaving the very faintest "wake/' The little ve>,-el built wholly {if kauri, and cut out of oije piece, TTov spaits are also of kauri, and every fastening is of brass. Her length is Uft. with Mil beam, and from bowsprit to the tip of the boom is about l()ft ({in. her sail area being in proportion. The mas', top-mast, ami gall' reach about Hit in height. The splendid workman- 1 .-hip in the wood and brass extends lo the cutting of the *ails and the painting of iln- vom'l. With the exception of the painting and the brass cross-trees.! Lhe "THiinvluf represents the spare-time ! hobby of )\f, j.;, Jnch, of the local rail- j way stall.