LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 221, 23 October 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. James Mclvean, of the Criterion Hotel, has donated a trophy for the half-mile race at the amateur sports on November Dili. A reporter was informed on good authority that some of the instrumentalists iu the Auckland streets earn anything up, to between £l(> to £2O a week. Owing to Hie confusion of names between Kuikoura (Marlborough) and Kaikora North (llawke's Bay), the residents of tin' latter place liave decided to change the name of their town to.Otane. The total amount of wages paid in the New Zealand factories last vcar wa» A710,22d, whilst that of the" previous year was £.3,31!),01<), showing mat we gained £301,207 on the wages of the previous year. The profit of the State Accident Insurance Department for last, year was £10,5118 (including £0505 brougut forward from the previous year). Since the total premiums were £2O,SU7, evidently there is' money in the accident insurance business.

So far as the Opunake railway is concerned, wherever the junction with the main line might be, there is no doubt the branch would pay. Equally, there is no doubt that if a 3 per cent.'guarantee by tlic district would result in the rails being laid that guarantee would be given immediately.—Hawera Star.

'The Premier made a statement in the House last night with regard to the financial position. He said the provable expenditure for the current lin.ineial year was C2,1!J2,!J.>0, while the applications for public works total ten millions, which showed the necessity for the pruning knife. In the House last night, the Premier referred to Hie exceedingly satisfnclnry terms made by the Government in raising loans, and quoted figures showing how advantageous these were. Beyond stating that the late million loan'was raised at 3>/ s per cent., with no brokerage or discount, he said lie could not at present give any further public information. A third-class middle-aged passenger, Mrs. Isabella Jones, who was journeying wil.ii her husband from England to New Zealand to join her children, died on board the Ilimutaka on September 13th, a few days after leaving Teneriffe. The deceased had been suffering Iroin heart disease. The body was buried a t sea. Captain E. T. Smith read the burial service. Among the petitions lodged in tlnHouse of Representatives are four, containing ll!l names, for the passing of the Kaitnkc County Hill. These petitions are headed by Messrs. T. Corkill, W. J. Gray, Orcchway Brothers', and Charles K. Honeylield. ' A counter-peti-tion" has been lodged by 73 ratepayers in the new Omata riding, comprising' the Oinata and itiirford Road districts. '' Are you a reporter?" asked an enthusiastic sheep farmer from Nortli Canterbury, of a scribe, working amid the babel of a crowded hotel just before the ballot, for the Te Akau block. '•Then," he lidded, without awaiting an answer, "rub it into the Government for not providing enough land. I've been chasing the ballots for two years, with about as much hope of success' as in Tattersall's sweeps."

Hurrying through New Zealand, Mr. Foster Eraser jumped to the conclusion that one of the features of railway travel was the incivility of the officials'. An observer of long experience, Mr. t.. M. Thomson (Dnnedin Nortli), remarked iu Parliament on Wednesday that he regretted Mr. Foster Eraser's rellections upon railway servants, for he had personally never known them to be guilty of any discourtesy. •• People are gen. rally treated as they behave themselves, was his judgment.

Speaking at a great social gathering, the Hon. A. Deakin, Federal Prime Minister, said: "The Salvation Army is no mere creation of a single generatio i. The vast majority of its members are men and women who have been drawn into it, most of them after reaching .years of discretion, by their deliberate judgment, or by an impulse deemed irresistible. The Salvationists of to-day have not been born but made. Thcv have been conquered themselves before tliey conquered others, and thcv are a great conquering social force." The Jl.iilwny Kngiuedrivers' ami Firemen's Association is making an attempt to alter the clause in the Arbitration ami Conciliation Act which refers to the Amalgamated Society of Hail way Servants, and lias presented several petitions to I'iirliameut with this end in view. At. 11 meeting of the Anilil".imated Society held in New Plviii'ontli on Thursday evening the following motion was carried: "That anv alteration m the Act would be detrimental to our Society and is contrary to the best interests of railway men as a whole." A copy of tile resolution will lie forwarded to -Mr. Okev, J).P. Inferring to (he question of renewal of bridges, etc., the chairman, Councillo (i. -\. Marchant, slated at the last meet |iug of the Stratford County Coiinei thill whether or not the position wa fully appreciated by councillors and rate payers generally, the fact: remained tin Hie time for reconstruction of manv o their works was now upon lliein. Afto years of use Innnels developed weaknesses, culverts rotted and had to in replaced, while many mails were uearli worn out anil required to lie renewed Therefore, if ratepayers wished tbeii roads to be kept in good order, tn'.-i would have to lie pic|nml to find inonni for the work.

Referring to the question of race suicide, the New Zealand Tablet say*;--for example, there is that insidious ami detestable'incitement to race suicide--11 without encumbrance" advertisement. At the very. tiine;rthaf the Australian Presbyterian Assembly were iss'uing their pastoral letter the following advertisement was appearing in t r Je Chnstehurch Press of dnte 2ilth Septem. her:—"Wanted for Y.W.C.A.. 135, Mad-ras-street, competent working housekeeper; 'no child.' Apply Secretarv.'' We need hardly explain that '•Y.W.C.A." stands for Young Women's Christian Association. Advertisements of this class, especially those in connection with .married couples for stations, inserted by rich and sometimes pious .-qua Hers, are becoming so common as to lie almost typical. Such advertisements are in reality far more deadly and reprehen--ihlc than the mere theoretical advocacy of .Maltliusiauisni wliieh the Victorian deputationisU asked their Premier to prohibit.

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