LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 213, 14 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The school cadets will not take paii in tno volunteer manoeuvres on Kind's Birthday. ° The Education Board has Jonvardi'd an application to the Education Department for a new school on the Franks v road. Mails for United Kingdom and Continent despatched from here on .September 3rd (via Suez) arrived at London on October 11th.

The result of the election of a member of the Education Board to succeed the late .Mr. Henry Fauil will be dedared 011 Tuesday next. The Mangatoki Dairy Company has decided to ship its output of lnitt.u' on open consignment through Messrs. Mis ami Sparrow, for wlmm .Messrs. I'.. Griltilhs and Co. are the local representatives. On i.Monday night, next the Rariiw.i will be delayed on her outward trip to Onebunga, to leave the breakwater at midnight, in order that Pollard's Opera Company may rearh Auckland on Tuesday, after the conclusion of their season here. The sub-committed'ot til" Agricultural Society has notified Dr. Paget that it is reluctantly compelled to hold over distance-driving competition, which was to have been held between New Plvniouth and Wailara, until next year. .Meanwhile the competition will lie <men full publicity per medium of the catalogue and otherwise. The llawera Star's Kapunga corr---polldcnt suites that the Kaponga Cooperative Dairy Company, 1.te1., have ar ranged to consign their oittpni tlirouir'i Messrs. Lovell ami (liristnia.s. The coin

pany expects to have a good season, .lust now the output is a goud deal greater than at the corresponding period 1 last reason. The amount to lie paid to suppliers for In.-'t month (.September) is very close 011 .C2IIOO. All sorts' of tricks and gliosis o; tricks arc being conjured up by people in discussing the Borough Council's decision to disqualify any applicant who canvasses any councillor for an advertised appointment under the council. Canvassing by or oil behalf of an app'icanl brings disqualilication of the applicant. What is simpler, we are asked, than for an unscrupulous' candidate to instigate sham canvassing 011 behalf ot his vompetitors, get them all " warned oil'," and romp in an easy winner? The following are tile entries and handicaps for the gold medal competition which takes place this afternoon in Jlr. J. Stagpoolc's paddock, Water Lane, under the auspices of the St. Aubyn Etreet Quoit Club:—C. Clark, Uay'lv, Mclvor, and Colson, scratch; Richardson, 2 points; Tenner and Woods, S points; Gilbert and Oliver, 4 points; McGonaglc and Beale, 5 points; Kevell, \A hite, and Stagpoole, 6 points; V.'II Boa] anil Uoullon, 8 points; Harvey, 1U points; Russell, 12 points; T. Francis, 15 points.

Mr. O. Stevenson, who for the past two years has been manager of the Cardiff Cheese factory, left yesterday to take up a position as dairy instructor under the Agricultural Dc'partiiM'iit. It is understood that Mr. Stevenson's work will continue in Taranaki. During his connection with the Card ill' factory Air. Stevenson h;w don- <••■<•«• well, obtaining highest grade for bis company's dliee.se at .Mntiima two vcars in succession. JI is successor will'be Mr. 1). Ogi!\'<*y, who for some time Ins heen associated with the T. L. .101 l Coinp.-UK. latterly as manager at JSkeel Road.--Post.

Mr. W. .1. Tristram, of Elthani, treas urer of the find, forwards us a statement ot tilie receipts and expenditure of the Bill Relief Fund. It will be e nieinbered that Mrs. J. W. Hill and two of her c'lildreu died as' the result of injuries received ill the burning of their home at, Mangaloki some time n-o. Subscriptions in aid of the widower and remaining children reached £253 3s Id. With this sundry store accounts have heen settled, clothing purchased, funeral expenses paid, anil so on; .C.in as Id was handed to Mr. Bill. .CIOO placed in the hands of the Public Trustee on account of Leah 'Hill, and (J-lil he William and Malcolm Bill. A copy oi the statement may be seen at this' od'ie'-. A local resident, claims to have discovered a new and unfailing cure and i preventive of potato blight, and -the mixture he recommends is nothing more I than a concoction of dock-roots. f| ( . has found that the water in which these roots have been boiled arrests the progress of the blight. Last year the only rows of potatoes ho saved were those sprayed with (he mixture, and alreaifv this season lie lias proved its value in a crop where the blight had just made | its appearance. A number of gardeners | in his neighborhood are trying the mixture. It is though;, tluit the bitterness of the dock-root wards oil' the insects which do lilie mischief. If this is so it. opens the way for further experiment with substances of pronounced bitter qualities

The Junior Civil Service examination/! will be held at New Plymouth and Stratford from the 20th to the 2nt.11 Xovcmoer next, 'there are 51 candidates for New Plymouth and i>3 at Stratford. Tile Junior National and the Board's scholarship examinations will be held at the same places 011 Ist and 2nd December. Candidates to sit at Xew Plymouth number 65, and at Stratford 38. The January examinations for teachers' certificates and Senior Civil Service tako place from the sth to the 18th of that month in New Plymouth anil Stratford. All examinations will be conducted <it the technical schools, with the Chief t„. epector, Mr. W. A. Ballantvne. as supervisor in New Plymouth, anil the assistant Inspector, Jlr. 11. fi. Whetter, a« Stratford.

Mr. W. Cox, llmn/liay-slreet, llail-i----rat, Vie., writes: "I have been a great suffered from rheumatism, and liavi.i" obtained-tho greatest relief by the use of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, I cannot speak too highly of it. Whenever I7eel the rheumatic pains -jomiJt; on, I giyc t'.io affected parls a few applications, and it always arrests the attack I know several people who have ü ß i,l Chamberlain's Pnin Balm, and they all speak in the highest praises of it," For Bale by all chemists and storekeepers,