LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 190, 23 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The division of tlie Omata riding into two ridings, n* decided by tne Countv Unmcil, will 1,,, gazetted to-day. Tile Salisbury school will in future be known as the Tuna school, bv which name the local post office and erea.nerv are now designaled.

■\ Vil of a poser! The Education Department will pay house allowance to the school tea,-her at Tonga pom lu. provided he doc* not live in the residence, the teacher raift ,ret anywhere else to live, iinil t lie resilience fthev n il| i| a whare or a hut generally) is unlit for habitation.

Mr - S - l-'ilziiorlKMl, N.M., presided '' sitting Of Hip Magistrate's Court yesterday. Ihonias Falconer „ n od 10s and eosls (7s) for breach of a liibitinn order, and convicted and discharged on a .hnr-.- of havi,,., i )0I>11 found on licensed promises. A voiri" man named H. ]i. ir c K 0V) of was lined .£1 and costs' (7,) f nr a ' ( ; teinptin<r to board a train at the New I lyniouth railway station while the tram lvas m motion.

Mr Ihignes, a t last night's incotinpr. warmly advocated tha introdnetion of bathing machines on the New Plvmonlh and ojiined that they ' -would protc both popular and profitable. TTe thought tiiey might well copy Tiniaru 111 this respect, and also l,i making ilower-plots on suitable spots alouo the esplanade. Mr. Tisch remarked "that battling machines wore bound to conic sooner or later. As for tile llowor-ploU'. he thought. that the - bump of destruction flas too fully developed in fho lineal Novs, and in "those who had pjiaspd their boyhood sta^c. At the annual general meetine- of the shareholders in the Xgaire Co-operative Dairy Company, held on Tuosdav a resolution approving the directors''proposal to register under the Co-operative Dairy Companies' Act was passed, and it was also resolved to instal a plant for pasteurising the whev. Mr. A. E. Wickham resigned from the directorate, and Messrs. T. E. Coleman and H. Orr (bolli re-elected) and 11. C. Taylor were eleeleil to till vacancies tlierooii. .Mr. \\\ Morisou was re-elected as chairman of diveclors. 'Hie usual honorariums were voloif lo the chairman ami directors, who were als'o accorded votes of thanks ■ for their services. I,

Said Darin* to his old wife, Joan, "We. side by side have aged and grown, But here I tell you plump and plain, You shall not. poultice me again! There's something now to cure one faster Of cough or colli I ban mustard plaster. No more these blisters I'll endure, I'll purchase Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, A

Potato blight lias made its appearance early this year. We are informed that_ crops in the Fnnikley Road district are badly affected. "Xow, then, gentlemen," said the auctioneer at the Feilding stock sale on Friday, "you will have to buck up today. ' The grass is growing, the sun is sinning, mutton is up, wool is up, flax ip up. In about a fortnight you won't know when' you are!" A large tract of la«iil lying between Hnglan harbor and the Waikato river, which was originally given to some ol the Maoris who were loyal during the Maori War, was bought back from them some time ago T>y the ("iovcrnmcnt. Of this land, 1178 acres, being a portion of the Te Akau block, will be thrown open for selection, under the optional system on 11 th October at Auckland. Some idea of the self-sacrifice displayed by those who carry on the work of the West African mission, which i> represented in Chmtcliurch by the Very Rev. Father O'.Sullivan, and of the mortality caused by the climate of Western Africa may be gained from the fact that of seventy students who studied and 1 were ordained with Father O'SulHvan at the Seminary of the Society at Lyons from 1880 to *IBBS only three or four now survive.' The rest have died at their posts in West Africa. The New Plymouth Uedevtafel oil Tuesday evening held its first practise, the part songs being studied under the direction of Mr. ('. H. Anderson. Over '2O v<K-.\lUt4 were in attendance, and they showed considerable promise of developing into an excellent musical soi ciety. At a general meeting, presided over by Mr. T. C. Srhii.iekeuberg. the rules of tlie Liedertafel were adopted ami the additional oll'icevs appoi)ited. A communication was received from the Auckland Liedertafel stating that it had under consideration for some time the advisability of inaugurating annual musical and literary competitions, and asking the co-operation of tlie New Ply- | mouth Liedertafel.

"One of the most marked features f, f life ill Wellington " Dr. A. K. Newman, Mayor of Wellington, said at the Christian Endeavor meeting in the capital city, 'Ms the number of conferences which an* hold hero. They come from all over the country; all sorts and ouaditimiM of men seem to like to tnivi?l here for that purpose, much as they may abuse its weather, and so on. at other times. But wo have reason ro he thankful for that, for h eities whove there are no conferences people are apt in become dull and sulky. Therefore, the more inferences we have the more we have to lift us from the. rut wc arc m and to teach us what others art doing and thinking. Where there are no conferences there is prnetieally no progress, for you must interchange ideas and learn from others if you are to go ahead. So X believe that the presence of all th«w conferences hen l does us good and keeps our minds awake and alert." "The dav must come/' said the Hon. J. A. Millar at Wellington on Saturday evening, "when avenues- of employment in New 'Zealand will close up and young men will have to take to the sea." lie felt proud that many of the men who were holding prominent positions in the mercantile marine were horn in thw Dominion, and New Zealand was destined to become a maritime country. The man who goes to >ea to-day, said }lr. Millar, has now comforts that were unknown a few years ago, and every credit is due to those who have striven

to make the life of the eea more comfortable than it has been in the past. Hi' referred to the growth of foreigners In the mercantile marine, and the Explanation seemed to be that the sea as an vmpiovment had not been made suiU(iently attractive. "If we desire to get our hoys to go to sea," continued the speaker, "then everything must be doi.-c for the comfort of those who go down ; to the sen in fillips." At Aoroa, in the Northern Wairoa. h to 'he found tin agricultural college on a small seair. The traveller passing aumg the main yond in front of the school cannot help but be impressed with the view of tlie school garden. On the occasion of a visit by the Auckland Star's travelling correspondent, the garden was in full cultivation. At the entrance ■» trellis arch had been erected and allotted to tlie culture of climbing T o<vs. .hist inside the entrance was the horticultural section, chiefly controlled by the girl scholars. Beyond the flowers were '22 lieds «»T different grasses, whrle in show the benefits of manuring, a plot adjoining the grass beds- had been planted with different kinds of veg3« tables, rows of which were placed right ' aciw* the ground, one-half of the land being manured, with basic slag, and th« other left in its natural state. Th-?re was also a small area of land given over m the culture of different kinds of flax. Along one fence the scholars have gone into sweet-pea growing, and adjoining the pinv--hed the master and scholars haw built a Irelliswork fernery, into which they transplanted, besides ferns, several New Zealand shrubs and trees. I In the school itself excellent agricultural work it; carried on. and there they ir:- langhl the testing of soils and (technically) the method of planting and trenching.

h;i s reached Singapore t from Java of ;t thrilling »ad venture which an Englishman louring the island with a balloon and parachute experienced at a village called Pati. While he was' making an ascent one of the natives hoMing the ropes failed to let go at the critical moment, with the result that he wan carried into the air. lie held on pluekily for several hundred ieet before he was seen by the aeronaut. Hundreds of spectators were assembled below, anl their cries drew the attention of the balloonist to the predicament. Without a momenta hesitation ho lowered himfcelf, hand over hand, down the fiwingin" rope until he was able to hold the man la>it with his feet. He lifted h'nn slowly until he could grip his luiir with one hand, and so pull him on to a trapeze suspended from the car. The native, hall-dead with terror, did hi*> utmost lo throw the aeronaut from the trapeze • : n order that bis safety might be the better .secured. The plucky Englishman, however, never lost his hold of the unrortunate Javanese.-who, it is said, continually fla.wed and bit his rescuer for a ..pace of at leafit forty-live minute.?. Eventually a" descent \v,\* made bv means of a parachute, the acclamations oi a large gathering of spectators bein* or the utmost enthusiasm. As soon as a landing effected the crowd showed their appreciation of the heroic rescue by raising fund* for the ben.'(lt of tne aeronaut. One hundred guilders were collected on ihe .spot, and were handed nvcr to him. and of this. h 0 gave onohaif to the native who had endangered his life, r

Wuipukiiruu, ill llawkes Hav is mi. »f lie smallest of our New Zeala.id towns, and vet its residents claim that It IS the best lighted in l|,Dominion. H that the chairman of th rt I own Board (.Mr. W. A. Chambers) is a " lllv eutive turn of mind, and the ighting by a company with gas produced from petrol not proving satisfactory from an economical point of view the Board took over the plant, wlievi , 1 • 4 handlers at once supplied a biirwr hat gave a better light at less cost t urn that provided by the eon,pat;v. But there still drawback. The S.\»te:n ot gas-production by means of the orig,",,) earouretters was foir.Hl to fan tj, and .Mr. Chambers ultiinatciy succeeded i„ inventing an cntirclv new method whereby the capaeitv if (lie mnlii v '? ( ' l m • , ■ pi ' s<,|l lrafol 'l 'and the qualiU ot the gas was much improved, rhe manager ot the gasworks gi |,i, opinion in these wo„ls : -"T thfnk that m ime it will put eo;„ g ns J ?-,m ' ' If ? ' v rc< l l,irc « 'o become ' , lt "5 so much chea-ner than I col, i gas, and there ig no danger to t'i'e | consumer It is also hotter "than ml ! ga'. and therefore is much better adant--1 'J™ 1 ""4 i'" (l coking purposes. , 'fnitlier. it is absolutely safe; no exposions ))oss n, Je} i ; n(1 it Vfl M"' 1 ' 1 ™"' g " S ~ in fact - if TO" eft the burners oa all night it would ; ' mlr ? I| f"H | cial to health than otherwise. If «o ~-ed coal gas It would he necessary „ , itt , c v £ a<f , lo rrim of "Cnoo or i 10, but with gas from petrol wc can SWC arß forthe

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