LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 212, 13 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Daylight," the newspaper wliicli scored in th e betting prosecutions at t'liristchurcli the other day, has published its fin a! issue, after a life of only a few months',

A local gardening enthusiast, whose " murpliies' 1 are blackened and ruined by the potato blight, sworn, .itj ; a good round oath yesterday that it was "just raining potato blight." The warm drizzle rain which fell during the greater part of the day was, of course, an unfailing distributor of the blight, which has now attacked gardens in every part of the town.

lu tho S.JI. Court yesterday morn ing the following cas'es were decided i: favor of plaintiffs, by default of de fondants:— John Grayson v. Mrs. A .lames, claim f 1 17s (id, and costs as Westport Coal Company (Air. Wright) v. I<\ W. lietter, claim £lO 4s lid, and

costs CI-Ills Oil {..Richardson and Grey (Mr. Grey) v. T. and L. AI. Clare, claim £2l, anil il'i costs.

A well-attended social was held by the llccliabites Friendly Society in Foresters' Hall last night. By invitation, members of the Good Templars' Lodge were present. Bro. R. C. Ilugh-.'S presided, and welcomed the visitors. 4 very enjoyable programme was gone through, the following contributing items:—Bro. Lee Bullot (recitation), Bro. fhrtnell (address). Bro. Pcilew ('U'Mi!li ei-jiin -ado). Bro. J,egg (address

on ttiii|)ejiii)ie movement in England), Mr E. Goldin« and Mm Moverley (piano flu t), Mr. 11. Smith (temperance work in the Army), Miss Lces-eh (song), Miss White (recitation). Mr. Golding acted as accompanist, the piano being kindly lent by Mr. Hoffman.

At the Central Fire Brigade station last night the Taranaki Card Associations championship challenge trophv was presented iiy the president, Mr. 11. •T. (tilberl. to the Fire Brigade team, which won tile whole of the eighteen games played. Mr. Gilbert, in presenting the shield, said he did not think the record will ever be equalled again. The prize fa handsomely framed photo of I he Brigade) presented bv -Superintendent lieUring.T to the player ill the Fire Brigade team securing the best percentage of wins over losses was won h,' I'ireman ,T. Lve, who won 130 out of 221 games played. J. Lepine, with 127 wins, out of 210 games, was second, an-1 -I. Way, 120 wins out of 210 games, third. b '

Wp cannot avoid an uneasy feelin" isays the Christcllurch Press) that tV '-upposed retrenchment of the Government has been bungled, if it has not bee,, an absolute farce, and that up to tin; pi t'sent little or no real economy lms been effected certainly nothing approaching the economy which is cailorl lor by the exigencies of the situation. The readjustment of our finances on a sound basis stands forthwith the de. . "V vhf uiust important business of the session. We few tiiut en increase in taxation is inevitable, huf arliameni certainly ought not to sanction frc-li hardens being placed on the shoulders of (he people until it is .misled lhat every reasonable effort Ins been made to secure linancial equilibrium • i" the expenditure. "Cosmo" writes to tlic editor: "A "lie while ago. when the hospital hoards were holding conferences' with e.ich other and th" medical fraternit* til" doctors issued a sort of platform 'in 14l ' 1 -' '»•*'» planks was that people wlk, mm,1.1 afford tn pay for treat''•lent in private hospitils 'should go there, and not to the public hospital didn't think .much of the doctors for that, but felt tliev were- entitled to thenown opinion. just as we wore entitled to the hospital. \ mv c i, cnim , s over til,, scene. One „f tlic latest admissions to the hospital is one of the great and exclusive society of doctors! The doctor who sent him there, and the doctor patient, have thus publicly flouted the expressed opinions of the'leaders ot medical opinion in Taranaki."

Hie ttaitnra Borough Council's deputation to tli e Taranaki Couatv Council a week- ago a«ked that body for a contribution of fro„, £3O to ;C35 per annum for forty years towards the construction ol the W.iitnra bridge the ( nnncil's contribution being thus' estimated to produce i'l2oo or CI4UO The County Council was not prepared to agree to these terms, so the Waitara municipality lu.s reduced its demands and tli,, town clerk, Mr. T. UuchnaaiK has written to the county clerk as follows:--"! ani directed by resolution of •lie Council to inform 'you that the borough is prepared to accept a contribution of ,C2o per annum frum the iaranaki County Council for a period 0 f forty years, and failing the acrcpt;riec of such offer the matter will be submitted to a commission."

Wv have Ikcji requested by two or t.iree old residents to suggest to the Talanaki CrsuTison fSand to include some t»f (lie well-known liyimis of their childl,i:°d s di».\\s in their next Simdav aftcrn°"n SM!- ; .si«.,| numbers are " Xearer, .My Cod. In Thee/' - with Mo," jind the "Old Hundredi-h/' In support. of flu. n»qm«sl j{ k urged that utany people, whilst not utiappreefative of Hi.- inow advanced suUjeeis which the bnnd renders in such musterfill style, are quite unacquainted wrth the "real musters and their works, and whose souls respond fully to the simple yet sublime hymn music with which they have long been familiar. H is l understood that, the? next .Sunday appearance of the Garrison Band will ho at Aotea CMr. E. Solo's grounds), on the second Sunday in November, when the grounds will by opened to Hie public for the first time this season, the collection fo be given in aid of the Beautifying Association. Itnglewood and 'Waitara people have promised to be present u large numbers, weather permitting. By way of reply to the Rev. F. W. Hoys (whose letter we reprinted .yesterday) the ITmvera Star says: "In aeeordance with our usual custom we print to-day n full report of the quarterly meeting of the liawora Methodist Church. On Friday a similar veport of the Kaponga Circuit appeared. Recently Hie opening of the Maori -Mission IlaiV (Methodist) at Okaiawa was amply reported, and it is no part of our policy to restrict spsu-e in eonnectio-i with religions nclivitie.v. The official organ ot the Salvation Army, of October 2 } was good enough to acknowledge the which the Star had devoted to the Army's operations. Rev. F. W\ Boys, Methodist minister, of Hawcra, lias apparently allowed these matters to (,s----i cape hi* attention. In the course of I letter to n contemporary, referring to I the Star, Mr. Boyg says: 'There is a studied s'ilenco upon topics of interest to many of us; good work receives but scant notice.' So far as the religious organisations of this' district are concerned we are sure that none has just eause of complaint, and least of all tin denomination which Mr. Boys represent*." The report of the Methodist meeting, which the Star published on Monday, covers just on three-quartern of a column,

The cough that 19 contracted in the . winter and which continues through the spring and summer nearly always indicates some throat or lung trouble, and should not "be neglected. The ordinary cough medicine may soothe tile throat, but it has not the power to heal. Rt-I covery is not complete, and a second attack is more liable to follow. You can-' not get a medicine for coughs of j this description than Chamberlain's) Cough Remedy. Chamberlain's Cough | I Remedy is an excellent medicine for all throat and lung trouble, for it not only | soothes the irritation, but it heals the affected parts and leaves them In suchi a healthy condition that the danger of 1 a. second .atfcnek is removed, Tor s?,\e J by all and storekeeper*, ✓

Mr. H. Okey, M.P., has- advised the Taranaki County Council that local bil's will probably be dealt with early in the present .session of Parliament, and that the Kaitake County Bill will come on earlier than he had previously stated to the Council. Thus it would be well for the Council to appoint its delegates, si I that they could be advised at short i notice. The Council recently referred the. matter of opposing the Bill to its chairman, with power to act.

At the invitation of the world-famous guide, Maggie I'apakura. over three hundred people assembled in the native reserve at Whakarewnrewa on 4th instant to witness the ceremony of the opening of her new whare. This is a large, sun* stantial building, lit throughout by tricity, and the eyes of the ligurehead are represented by two electric lights. It has been named "Tuhoromatakaka,'' being called after the eldest son of Tamatekapim. the well-known chief who came to-New Zealand in the canoe Arawa from Hawaiiki. By giving it this title the owner has kept up the old custom of naming the wlure* after their ancestors. The carvings, which have not been stinted, were done by Teni»_Waitere, assisted by Koreopa Ilori. Tene ; Waitere (says the Hot Lakes Chronicle) I is probably the only Maori living capable of doing really good carving, and i has- well illustrated his skill in the work ! on the new whare. | '"The future of this country and tiwt' or all other countries rests will) its ynung men. The point is: How are the young men of this country getting ready to equip themselves; to enter into the great commercial strife with the young , fellows of the United States?" remarked Mr. John Foster Eraser at Duneillu.'l "Going up to London in the morning by I a suburban train or by the tramcars the I talk you hear from the young fellows is all about cricket and football. Go into the suburban trains and cars running into the big cities of the United States and listen to the young men's talk, and you find it is all about making money, making labor-saving machinery, making electric appliances—but chiefly about money-making. This may not be a very high ideal—but still it is there, and is calling forth from the young men all their energies. What are'the young men of this country talking about? I i have not been here long enough to ; know; but T have been told. I would like—nothing would give mo greater . pleasure—to go to America and deliver lectures there on Greater Britain <iud

Britain Across the Seas Up to Date. But it is no good thinking of preparing a lecture for that purpose until I fivl the men in tliis country and in othir parts of the British Empire are taking just half as much interest in the duties of life as they arc taking at the present time in football and cricket."