LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 183, 7 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki County Council's overdraft to-day stands at . £7205. It is -J'l years to-day since Major von Tempskey was killed 'at Te Ngutu-o-tc-Manu. The County Council has declined to agree to the extension of the New Plymouth borough abattoir district. Tlfc Hospital Hoard meets to-day. Tile Board will confer with Dr. Valiiitinc, Jn-bpeetor-General of Hospitals, upon various matters concerning the welfare of the institution. 1 lie Agricultural Society's committee meets this evening. Amongst other business will be the making of preliminary arrangements for the first Taranaki winter show. _ The experimenting with crude petroleum on tile Breakwater road is not an unmixed blessing. At present the sinearGd portion of the road is covered with | an meli of oily mud, whilst, the rest of the road is in fairly decent order.

The Cliicf Postmaster draws (lie attention of the public to Ihe fnet I hit pictorial and other postcards arc daily posted here without any address. Two such cards posted on Monday and signed "Lottie." are now lying at the C.l'X). The chairman of the Taranaki Counlv Council will attend the conference at I Waitara to-morrow afternoon i n refer "ico to the Waitara Harbor Hoard's bridge and Joan proposals. He i« instructcd not to commit , his Council to any expenditure.

; "It's just as well to spend all we e:in this year," said a County councillor yesterday—the "we" being the Coiinlv Council—'for m the event of the Kaitake county being formed the adjustment of accounts will be made over the whole coin,ty » The Council didn't tliscuss the point.

L,7-' lmmol '°iisly styled | the Taranaki County Council's "encyclopaedia on Waitara affairs," assured' the Council yesterday that he did not think it reasonable or likely that this county should be compelled to contribute towards tlite cost of the re-erection of the Waitara Bridge,

Upon noting the report that the Government had received from the Colonial Office, England, a large quantity of books and papers belonging to the old New Zealand Company, referring to the issue of shares in the company, its financial operations, and the shipment of cmi. grants to hew Zealand during t| lc - early forties, Ins Worship the Mayor (.Mr. (I Tisch) commwiicated with the Ministe- ? f Internal Affairs upon the matter. it is understood that the committee unpointed to examine and report upon these papers recommended that all duplicates be offered to the authorities of the towns and districts to which they iWate. Jhe Mayor pointed out to (he 'Minister that Sew Plymouth \va= the site of tbe first European .settlement in this part of the Dominion, and he urcrcd the c aims of New Plymouth both for I any duplicate correspondence amonirst the papers, and for copies of any particular documents referring to the New Plymouth settlement of which there mav not 1» a. duplicate. The Minister ],a s promised to consider tlie application. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' I : Great Peppermint Cure, U6d and 2s | j