LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 182, 6 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tile senior English classes at the Technical School will be held as usual tonight.

Saturday's frost nipped tlic tops of new potatoes in .several gardens whic.i hud previously escaped Jack Frost's attentions. The Mangorei Co-operative Dairy Co. have decided to ship the whole of'their output for the coming season to Messrs. Collett and Co., on consignment, through the National .Dairy Association. There is a promising growth of gorse on the hill in the Recreation Grounds recently under the care of the iincmiploycd, whose "grubbing" was done above ground in many places. " There's a cry from Macedonia." The New Plymouth Harbor Hoard is to he approached by the Kawhia County Council in quest of a reduction of berthage rates at Moturoa, to assist the steamer trade to Kawnia.

At a meeting of the Taranaki Scenery Preservation Hoard, which was hold in Wellington during last week, a number of recommendations' were made in regard to Crown land -areas in the province. They are to be forwarded to the Government for approval. At tlie representative football match on Thursday a prominent supporter of the game was overjoyed when Taranaki secured a lead. Up went his bat, and lip went ]iis foot in a gleeful kick as his "lid" came down. They met. "i'was just as well he had won a new liat, lor ■his own was ruined. At a meeting of the sub-committee entrusted with the revising of the poultry section of the Taranaki Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Society's lillo seed-

ulo, it was decided to recommend to the i general committee that classes be provided for table and export birds (live).J to he judged as table birds only, and ' full classes for the American White Leg-1 horns, a valuable utility breed.

A young man named Broderick is imported missing from Klthnni since last Tuesday morning, reports tile Star correspondent. Broderick arrived in K|tliam on .Monday looking for work. The same evening lie was engaged by .Mr. A. C. ViiMPiit, a contractor, and went to Vincent's oamp near t'ae new dairy factory. At 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, ilr. Vincent got up to feed liis ■horses. Broderick was then in his ten*. At C o'clock Broderick was missing, but his swag was in the lent. He has not been seen since. Mr. Ilarlp Oiiles, Conciliation Conimissioncr, and Mr. Pryor, employers' representative, arc now visiting various dairy factories and creameries to obtain information concerning the dispute in the ' dairying industry in Taranaki. .Mr. [ Giles juis arranged to meet representatives of the parties to the' dispute at Stratford on Wednesday next. The eai■ployers) will he represented bv Messrs, R. Dingle, A. Morton and W.'Kiciiards. and the employees by Messrs. D. ilcMjllan, 11. A. Prideaux and W. 31. Sneddon,

'As showing the benefits to be derived from systematically testing and weighing separately the nfilk from each cow in a dairy herd, Mr.' T. H. Kxlev, who has worked o n these lines for tlie past three years, had a return of but-ter-fat for last season (ended June) nf 13,0951b ifrom a 'herd of 48 .cows (says the ilMwcra Star). Each cow thus averaged 2851b of butter-fat, or in hard cash an amount of £ls Ss -Id a head for milk alone, the milk cheques totalling it may bo pointed out that Mr. Exlcy'a herd included sixteen pedigree animals (siiicc disposed of), the remainder beins Jerseys and Jersey crosebreds.

| Newspaper proprietors (says KatnrI day's Klthaiu Argus) are put 'to a good deal ot trouble sometimes in trying to liiul out why subscribers ilo not' receive their papers. A copy of the Daily News of Wednesday';,' dale, addressed to the Post Office, 'W'iiitara, and fairing the New Plymouth Post Ull'icc stamp at (i a.m., September Ist, was discovered amongst the regular mail matter in t-ln.-Argus letter-box last night. Where the paper was located between Wednesday morning and Friday sight, and why when it was addressed .to Waitara i't eventually found its way into our letterbox at Eltbani, are questions' -which perhaps even the Post Office officials may lind it (lill'icult to answer. The incident goes to show that mail matter takes eonic peer journeys sometimes.

For Influenza take Woods' Great Hcnpermisi Cure, Never fails! Is 3d and 23 84.

Friday was the (>Btli anniversary of the arrival of the Amelia Thompson at Moturai. The Hokilika prison is now formerly 'dosed and converted into merely a police gaol. [amliing is progressing satisfactorily ■n the fiawera district. A Star reporter was told that everything -had been fa"orable to fecundation, and that there were prospects of a good season. Road-making at Rangitatua (near Waitotara) has commenced. Already I throe (»iuigs of four men to each gang have been put to work on the southern | portion of the block.

The Customs revenue for the port of Putea for August totalled £3OO 3s Bd, a decrease compared with the figures »or the corresponding month of last year, which were £520 12s. The exports were:—Butter 325cwt., valued at £1593; cheese, 770ewt. (£2173); beef, frozen, 3031cwt. (£4245). The Dominion Pictures Co. (successors to Taylor-Carrington) gave two highly enjoyable entertainments On Saturday. The matinee in the afternoon was largely attended, and there was a ', fair house hi the evening. The pie tines were unquestionably the best ever shown in New .Plymouth, justifying the .belief that the company will be warmly welcomed by New Plymouth people :■< the future. The company have arranged to play in New Plymouth fortnight'.v and 'wi'll be here next im Thursday. 30th inst. They will have with them a tc>v apparatus, known ;is the synapho.'e, showing ••talking pictures." This novelty has never previously been exhibited

in the Dominion. In 'the Edinburgh Court of Session Lord iSalvese.n has granted a divorce to Isabella Melle-r Smith, or Maclcod, of Crniiglea, MannohVUl. Aiocrdccn, 'against licr husband, Alfred . George Maclcod, anil ■now residing near Wellington, New Zealand. Petitioner said she 'was married to defendant in 1003 when she vaa 21. They went to South Africa in the beginning of 1004, where respondent acted as district secretary to the Central Insurance Company, Capetown. They returned to Aberdeen in 1007. In South Africa fill* knew a typist in her liusband's office in Capetown. Unit she liad no suspicion of the girl. Early this year, however, she received a letter from the girl's father informing her that the prl had had a child by respondent. She then learned that on a previous occasion the girl's father tad attempted to communicato with her, bint his 'letter was intercepted by h-er husband. From Wellington a letter 'was received from respondent, which stated that he pleaded guilty t» the charge 'of infidelity. Her.r Syd'ow, Chancellor of the German Imperial Exchequer, stated in the Reichstag during ithe recent finance reform debates that "most Cemian. property is mortgaged." The assertion may sound strange to English cars, but mortgaging property is a recognised principle of German business practice. Hardly any German ithinks of improving his property without the eifrpbyinent of borrowed money. He will borrow and give a mortgage even if he has idle funds in the tank or otherwise

I ravelled. The principle is that capital can In- borrowed on .mortgages at a lo'wer raite of interest than capita] -an earn in oilier forms of investment. Not only, is town renlty generally mortgaged, font practically all facm lands and even the great landed' estates. A man 'will iinihl one story of a new house and mortgage it to procure funds to proceed with the second story, and so on, story hy story, till his house is jbu'ilt —and 'fully mortgaged. Tt is easier to disposed of mortgaged than unmortgaged property in Germany, because the buyer lis requiivd to ipay less in cash. In reference to the intention of the Home Government to tax the unearned increment of land, a few facts may oc mentioned to show what some vi the large landholders of (treat Britain owe the country that has given them their wealth. The Portiuan estates, we are told, consisting of 220 acres, were rented in 1512 for ,£8 per annum. They let to-day for .£1,890,000. The Duke of Westminster draws £3,000.000 annually n« rental on the 400 acres of laad which he owns in the eity, and his Grace recently gave notice to the aged men on his estate to apply to the Government for old-aye pensions. Lord Howard de WaM<m is paid an annual rental of .-£2,000,000 .for 202 acres; Earl Cadwan draws .£1,500,000 for 200 acres- and "he Duke of Norfolk, "who cannot afford to give his, native land a picture," gets .tUOO.OOO Iforthe rent of Ms extensive properties in the Strand. "At present," says the Kothe.rlmm Advertiser, "these gentlemen don't pay any land tax. The lax has -been cunningly fold on < )a]lds and properties," and the tenant pavs, generally speaking, what the State asks for m one sum." Says the Eltham Argus:—The Palmcrsl cm \r.rth people wish to alter the time-table of the mail train, the result tit whieii will be that passengers from Wellington to i'atea, Hawera, Eltham, Mratford and New Plymouth will reach their destination much later than they do at present. Th e . only gain will he that there will he a through service '•'tween Napier and New Plymouth,and the throng,, passengers between these points are very few indeed. The New 1 lyinouth Chamber of Commerce appears to be ready to fall in with the proposal. We can see nothing to recommend it. The Palmerstom people wish to delay (lie starting of the Wellington train threciuartcrs of an hour, and foi< the sake of two or three ,«s----sengers who may occasionally wish to make the through journey from Napier to New Plymouth hundreds of passengers between Wellington ami New Plymouth are to be delayed. The New Plymouth Chamber of Commerce is a very complaisant body if it agrees to the proposed delay, and wc ai'e sure it does not represent the views of the New Ply month people on this question. The members of the Clifton County Council had something to say about themselves on Friday, and, peculiarly enough, the trend of the remarks was along the lines adopted very often by their complaining constituents in cold print. Councillor Hunter was the principal complainant, and he charged his icollcagucs with ipxhibiting a criminal diUjtonncss m transacting the. business "f the Council. The chairman s'aid he was quite prepared to carry on the meetings with ilue regard to Parliamentary procedure if the members wished it, but he was of opinion that, unaccustomed as country settlers were to sitting down and dispatching business at a moment's notice, the best result* were more likely to lie obtained by conducting the business on more free-and-easy lines The members agreed generally' that » .rood deal of time was and theu'procceded to transact the most lackadaisical afternoon's business within the memory c| our regular scribe. It would he exceedingly interesting, but no less startling, to see the business of the Council conducted strictly according to tile laws of.debate, and as a "eneral rule the meetings would finish "before the mid-day meal.

_ A savage and revolting ease „f ]Vnchiiig in Russia is recorded bv the St. 1 etersbtirg correspondent of the Patric, as occurring on a recent Sunday in the village of Voleoki. A young and beautiful woman living in the village hurt succeeded in incurring the haired of the other women of the. village- by her Ilirtations with the men of the neighbourhood, both married and single, the woman's hatred for the girl reading a climax when it became known that "on her account one of the young men, of the village had broken liis promise tn marry another girl. On coming out of church on Sunday the women," both old and young, threw themselves upon | tlio flirt, and, in spita of her cries for | mercy, tore all the clothes off her. They tlieii dragged her through the. village by til,, hair of the head, beating aid stoning her mercilessly. At first the

men laughed, but when they saw how savagolv the girl was boing'inaltreutwl t'lioy attempted to rescue her." The infuriated women, however, drove tiiem oIF, and then dragged their unhappy victim, who was by now a mass of wounds, to a large tree just outside the village, where they 'hanged her to one of Hie branches, and. then lighted a lire of brushwood under her. When the police arrived on the scene they found the victim of the women's fury lying dead under the tree, blackened to n cinder., PILES RAPIDLY CORED.

"I liad been suffering from Piles for some little time, and had trbd various advertised Ointments for ray complaint. imt I only grew worse. I gave Rexona a trial, and was pleasantly surprised to lind I was completely cured in four days, i used Laxo-Tonie Pills ait the same time, so'they may have helped towards my quick recovery," writes Sirs. Maggie Munro, Cooper-street, Mnlmain, ST.SAV. Rexona, the Rapid Healer, is sold in ii'ijragular pots at Is fid and 3s. Obtainable everywhere. "Get it at The Kasli,'" is always being heard about boys' and men's clothing. They're such'a reliable firm to deal with, and the prices are always right. During their sale they are offerrag some splendid bush rugs, sft long, at 4s Od the pair; men's dungarees, Is 11, 2s Od; men's overcoats at halfip'tico; boys' braces, 3d; hoys' knickers, Is lid; boys' white jerseys, In. Look ' in any time you're passing and see Band-painted amd new Oriental cm- > JsroiJered ties at the Melbourne. Ask ; tor itttem.—Adrt, -: ■ , . |