LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 191, 16 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent despatched via Suez on oth August arrived at London on 12th September.

A writ claiming tOOOO damages hat. been issued against a I'alinerston North professional man and his brother :n connection with the sale of an hotel at Woodvillc, and another professional man has been threatened with proceedings. It is a grievance, or alleged gric. ance, of old standing. The committee of the Taranaki IVdtry Society lias now ready for issue the annual membership tickets, which its members are endeavoring to dispose of to the old and intending meniliers of Ihe society. It has been the custom in the past to issue the tickets just prior to the annual show, but this year, owing to the incoming committee being saddled with some outstanding accounts frum previous years, it was decided that an active canvass be made for members, and that the year start as from September Ist. There is little doubt that sufficient funds will he forthcoming to pay all accounts at an early date. An elderly man named John Alexander Angus, with the aliases of Johnston and Stewart, came before Mr. 11. F. Russell, J.P., and pleaded guilty to having been found by night without lawful excuse, upon the premises of .1. A. Tutitill, licensee of the Taranaki Hotel.

In answer to a charge of the theit of a silk handkerchief, valued at (is, the property of Walter Taylor (loddard, he pleaded not guilty. Sergeant Ilnddrell produced the prisoner's record of fifteen convictions for various offences. On the lirst charge accused was' sentenced to a week's imprisonment, and on the second he was remanded for a week, to be brought up before the SlipendiarvMagistrate.

Interviewed respecting the position of the sharemarket, Mr. Lysnar. chairman of the Gish'orne Oil Company, slated that there were no shares now avail-

able for.the general public, the shares having all been taken up to the limit of the issue, 5500. After the news that oil had been discovered got abroad, a large number of applications were made for but would-be buyers were disappointed. Mr. Lysnar added that it was improbable that further shares would be issued, at all events at t'ie present juncture, and if any were issued it would only be for the purpose of Providing capital for immediate work that might be required. That, however, was a matter entirely for the directors to consider,

"A man has no right to be hang'i.ig about billiard-rooms and 'shouting' beer for his friends when hi? wit" ..nd family are in want of support," said Mr. KetUo at the Auckland Police Court oh Tuesday, "and whe n a man comes and tells mc lie has been doing this he goes • 0 gaoi." This remark was called fo'-rh by defendant in a maintenance case pro. during a book of Ins expenditure, showing among other things money paid for drinks. Mr. Dunlop. counsel for the defendant, pointed out that it was not a large amount, but his Worship replied that straws showed which way the wind blew. Counsel asked if the view expressed were not a rather extreme one, seeing that the whole amount expended was two shillings. Mr. Kettle: "That is my view. It simply means this, that if the husband does not do his duty and support his wife she must appeal to the Charitable Aid Board, and her expense falls on the ratepayers."

Mr. S. C. Faohc. of Clvdc. Ceulral Otngo, who has returned In Wellington afler spending seven yours in golddredging on the upper 'reaches of" the Irrawaddy river, Burmah. states that good returns are obtained from the. operations. "The dredges." he suy», ' "average over 100' ounces of gold per week each. The two dredges f have boon in charge of the Inst two years , averaged from 100 to 150 ounces"each per week. Natives are employed 071 the dredges as much as possible. On nr dredges we had throe different trili's. all speaking distinct languages. Each of the dredges carries Ave whites, and those for tlfe most part are Jfew '/„■■)■ landers, who like the life. They have ,t got to work as hard as UieV do out here, the coolies hcrag largely utilised for the rougher work. "The Kachin trilie is tnc one we have to deal with now. 'ihev have driven the other trihes out of the hills into the lower parts of the eountry-the Chinese out on their side I and the Burmese out on theirs. \v> |

got on with thcni very well. They never quarrel with a man—thcv simplv rat his head off. The Kachiiis are a veiv fine race, and very honest. Their laws] are peculiar. If a man steal, a has got to pay ten hack, ami if 1«. Yin,* not pay them hack within a certain 1 hue there is a vendetta against him, and '-e. probably loses his head. If you ask n Kaclim what his name is he'will never tell you, except, perhaps, to ask whv. lie never tells you where he conn's from, for fear you want to know something about hie 'vendettas, which .r„ back for years. Tn the Kaehbs' unadmiuistercd territory no white man has ever entered. W P even do not kn.'nv what the river is like ten miles from | where we arc operating. Tliere'iiiv ii'iv amount of head-hunters vet, and th -v arc only ton happy to get hold of a white man's head. The wliiti' man theie always goes armed; they have a wjiderful respect for him." '

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Church's agency (Mr. Callaghan manager) has concluded the sale of the Clifton estate at Palinerclon on belia-'.f | of Mr. Charles Weston. I The charge of wife desertion against Albert Edwin l'almer came before the Justices yesterday afternoon, and after a sitting occupying only a few minutes the case ivas dismissed.

.lodge Edwards hud quite enough of the Oliakune timber tangle yesterday, and, in giving a non-suit, informed counsel that if the case were brought again it would nave to be heard before a jury, lie would not undertake the ordeal again.

A man named Llewellyn Harris, at present .-living a sentence in the New Plvmoutli prison for vagrancy, was brought before Mr. 11. V. Russell, ,1.1'., yesterday morning and charged with the theft of .IS 10s from the person of Sydney Arthur, at Stratford, on the (ith inst. He was remanded to Stratford in eight days' time. Judge Edwards remarked yesterday that he would have liked a jury to decide upon the facts in the civil ease I'awsun and Co. v. Walhith Brothers, lie said he knew it wa»- the fashion to say that a jury was an unnecessary and useless apjiemlagc of the Court, +.lll he was sure that a jury of twelve men, or even of four, was more likely to arrive at a correct conclusion from facts than one lawver could do.

A .Morton Mains correspondent wri'.es to the Southland News: (mite a l.hin use colony is springing up in the vicinity of Invert-argil!. Lately several farmers in the Morton Mains and Kdendale districts have shown a marked preference for the Celestials, and it i- given out nn good authority thai some farmers intend to intro'duee Chinese labor into their milking-sheds. The experiment will be watched with interest as marking a new departure in the dairying industry."