LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 220, 22 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Speaking at the master builders' pi?nli. «t Sydney on Wednesday. MivKcniielt, of Xew Zealand, gave Sydney the palm for line buildings,, but said; "Xcw Zealand could run rings round them in nonie things. It could wipe the floor with them in football: had sent a man to show them the way' down the Parramatta river, and had sent a team of athletes In Brisbane who showed them a clean pair of heels." Messrs I'. C, Bellringer and .1, V, Moon, ,I.l','s, presided over a sitting of I he Police Court yesterday morning, and sentenced two prisoners' charged with offences arising out of their alcoholic excesses. Kate Brady, who was found drunk on the Esplanade, and who his J .often been s-en there in the company of , half-drunken nim ~„,[ surrounded by beer and whisky bottles, was charged with drunkenness and with being "an '•idle and disorderly." The woman" ,was an old ollcmlor, and only latterly an inmate of prison, and the lleuch sent ho.r to gaol for a month as an id!,, and disorderly person, indicting a line of 5s for drunkenness, with the usual alternative of 48 hours. Devid Cro/.ier was charged with drunkenness on the Esplanade, and was lined 5s and costs, i„ d O . lault J8 hours' gaol, lie had been •,. cently convicted of a ..similar Qfi'enco, There is to be a great slaughter Of prices it the A B. C. Boot Shop. The fir.,: ta been successful in securing he stock-in-trade of the nuc Win. Hancock. A big sale is l now proceeding, and a discount of 10s in the £ will be allowed an all marked prices.— Asvt,

In various parts of New Zealand fflf I forts are being made to acclimatise the rainbow trout. In Canterbury the fish don't seem to ''do'' very well. In South 'Taranaki the results are rather better. But what promisee to be the home of the a rainbow is the Waiwakaiho stream, near New 'Plymouth. Here the fish thrive, u As an indication of this it may be men- i tioned that of 32 landed this season hy t a local angler, 29 were of the rainbow variety, and onlv three were brown trout.' All of tne'lish were of fair si«. ' in fine condition, and gave good sport. The borough inspector had another j batch of borough by-law breakers before the Court yesterday morning. They were all cyclists. George Waters was ■ fined 5s and costs for riding at night without a light, and James Thompson, W. Coombcs and Howard Mhckay were similarly penalised for cycling on footpaths. Lily McSwceney was also charged with tliis offence, and was convicted .and discharged. The cases were adjudi-

cated upon by Mr. J. W. Boon, Justic-i, his colleague on the Bench (Mr. F. C. J. Bellringer) retiring because as a horoug'i councillor he was an interested party. In view of the many hostile criticisms recently based, on the quality of the mountain metal by local bodies in other centres, it may be .mentioned, asys the Post, tliat Mr.'E. C. Robinson, the Stratford engineer, is not quite* of the same opinion. Questioned in the subject at Wednesday's meeting of the County Council, Mr. Robinson stated that the metal supplied from the mountain for use on the East road compared favorably with any yet put on the road. Tins metal, however, he believed, sometimes varied in quality. The chairman, Cr. C, A. Marchaiit, was of opinion that much that was not not justified had been saidconcerning the poor quality of the mountain metal,