LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 228, 1 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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; An initial Blenheim » va ,, iMto «■ «''< Si JW"* Kte ov'' r ill" to 1,, ' , l ' U Slll,Urlli, » is, IKT.M'It .1 nl< . < >'Uiirilian. reported f 'j ' ■' valuable liml of «]iee,'ite J" ' h «»- A portion of fi,j- v ,| hl> '' HV,, riinicnt liibom- , and realised -J!» per h , ~ J'lK- market value of arc liZr 'V' 2 " I"' 1 ' tOM - ""'I there pare!" n't °™ * A for analv.-is. tu , '' ra " re ' h< 7 Writer of a eoinnin in the Daiiv "i",?r ii, . N •"»«■ windowparagrapli reoentlv:.1 I lie -rareh tor novelties it is s o,m>"nrprinHii; tllllt s , ten. 0 ' / v • ii„iihs of New Zeal,nul, have hitherj{?it 0111 P'aws of entertainment. J .it hi aif to see them ere loii" \ fr'rVl"" , T voca,isls ami dancers, Mt.\ strong, ] UIS sailed f Ol . America hue they mU perform, in New York •'«') "flier Cities, „fterwarils fO.„i„.r to Vai'' V'' I '"'-" *"< l <4 oYe 7 "t' ll ' l ' distinsnislied visito-J 1 lo -\e« Zealand liave witnessed Maori J ''" ncw - *«» keenly iii.terpst,.,!.!' ■' 4

Wl "voii""" r sto,l " u ' l, ' n 1,11 wro "P' s ° ar" " '"'"due'" I>oWels Wi " " ot aet - • , ' Oll • There'* a safe en re for this I lurnins mis'ry to Wi ss _ • ake « Pill Uxo-Tonic or two. nit ■ ) "V,' XTf ' l ' lr ' r 'S. 10V!,d and 1 S ltd. v! a'ni «' 15 « anil JohMOTSI >w Plymouth. 'I

I The petition of Thomas E. M®. New Plymouth for a grunt ol land, its equivalent, has been vecominende d I by the Petitions Comm.ttec to the fa able consideration of the Govern.nent Green leas »*' e i u evidence aga'n tho dliop windows. TlieHrrf coh-W'-Lent was sold on l rr f C t„U liros.' fruit mart and brought n oou

The peculiar quality of the Aniuic-i , known as hustle Mr. John l'o=t ;> • attributes to the invigorating; »' 1 » , the climate, "iranspoiit nJZ" lie to the slower climate of MVS, "and in one vi'a r he will be transformed into the slow and stolid The standard width of footpa is m Devon-street has been fixed at tut foot. Near Hover-street the existing path is very m,uch wider, so that at Mr. McNeill's new store at that point the verandah posts are standing well in the footwav, about three feet from the kerb.

A signalling station for using the | Morse "code bv electric Hash by liifi'it I his been installed at the wharf, and it is possible to speak to ships at a distance of about ten miles out. at sea. Capta 11 Hood informs us that as far as he ] can ascertain from shipmasters this is , the «oconii installation of the kind oil the New Zealand coasts. The Minister for Agriculture is to be asked bv J' l '- Witty whether lie will „ive instructions to the Government traders at the various ports, that every | ° ■l'tilicate issued by them shall clea'ly Let out—; 11 Name of shipper; (2) qminititv written in words; (I!) description; 1(4) marks; (5) steamer shipped by.; (li) Iport Shipped to; (7) grade or quality; and (H) port sent from and date ot shipment. Travelling over the district iu the neighborhood of New Plymouth <>»« ** struck by the improvement being clleded bv fanners in their methods of workill" their places. The land is being cleared of fern, weeds and logs, ami top-dressing and manuring gone in tor to a considerable extent. Result miproved fields and a larger stock-carrying capacity. Evidently the advice of tin agricultural experts and the object lessons of the local A. and P. Society are

bearing fruit. An indication of the demand for dairy cattle this season may be taken from the following:—At a recent clearing sale held in the district a pair of -workin" bullocks which had done yeoman service for their owners for many years were submitted and sold. The dairy cows were then put up_, and realised satisfactory prices. It transpired aft'r the .sale that one of the herd was t!ie mother of one of the working bullocks, but .she with the others soon found a new owner. Notification has been received that the Eltham gasworks loan has been approved by the Government. The Hon. W. (Jarncross has received the following telegram from the Premier on the subject: Referring to your inquiry regarding the loan for the Eltham Borough Council, the Government has guaranteed the loan, it is now for the borough to proceed and the debentures will be signed by the Treasury on their production." It should 1 not, therefore, be long before the construction of the gasworks is put undea way.

At the Opnnake Court on Thursday G. Ward (a darkie) and A. Griffin were charged by the police with being engaged in a boxing exhibition at Awat.una, at which a collection was taken up, the same being contrary to law, as no permit was granted. T'he accused both pleaded guilty. The Magistrate said it was not a very serious offence, but unless til'! law were olwyed disturbances might be created, lie 'would convict them both and line them •"»■•> without costs. A batch of men were charged with being present at the boxing exhibition, and were convicted and lined 2s and costs'. The Magistrate said lie had the power to line them ,C2O, but as no 'barm was done he would let t.heni oil' lightly. A golfer who hadn't golfed very long, and was consequently still keen on the game •when the . curtain rang down the other, dav on the golf season, refused to give up his sport with club and ball. The other night he took a little bit of practice at home, as has been tkis wont, li.tt because golf balls are too expensive to lose, and because it is easy to lose golf balls on a moonlight night, this economical golfer used a stone wrapper in a piece of white rag. lie smote, and smote hard. The rag was cut through, and the stone went hurtling through the air on its own. Crash! it went through a window. The golf season ban closed now as far as lie is concerned. ,'Canada appealed to nie as an ideal) country." said Mr. (I. 11. Wilson, president of the Ossett Chamber of Commerce, Yorkshire, when interviewed at Auckland, ''but when we visited Australia I changed my niiml in favor of that country. Tasmania then appealed U' me as the most fertile country 1 lmd seen; lint now 1 shall say emphatically 10 my friends at Home ihat Xctv Zealand offers the greatest attraction to visitors and settlers. This part of llie Dr,iiiinion is more like our own countrv. with the additional advantage of a more genial climate. You have done wonders in developing the country, but your population must be doubled many times before you can make the most of Your lesourccs. If I were young and desired to colonise I should come to this part of the countrv. The harbor f regard one of the eights of the tour." The pitfalls that beset the path of the newspaper proprietor are many and varied. A lew weeks ago the i'oildiug Star, in all good faith, inserted an advertisement regarding a lost box, which advertisement concluded with the phrase: "No enquiries will be made," which, was equivalent to saying So questions will be asked." Let the I'Vildnig Star itself relate the tieqtiel:—"Tlie auuve innocent-looking line landed the 1 1 cilding Star, into loads of trouble yesterday, including two summonses and a Filially ol IjU! l t appeared in an advertisement S cut in to Hie office late last inursdav afternoon, and escaped tile eagje eye of the censor of this journal a.t#ou«{li tJie objectionable line was dethfc ?: uoc ' vullill a i*s«i'. it appears that the police authorities, whose caiv lor the public morals is wonderfully atu.e, considering the multifarious duti« they have to perform, read in the J, veitisement an attempt to compound liloiiy, aild accordingly issued a sum«*Ms- against us under the Justice, ot Ue 1 eace Act. When the case came on e Stipendiary .Magistrate pointed o»t o iv h '" K! i'till"l -***^lll onlj b, reco^d^iffir^fimry ami that |.«\uuid not impose a penalty on.#-- Ml. sooner than give any f,,X J-,iJ U th IIU - l 7 lk ' e ' '! dtiz ™ this

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b3 an instance of the faith that the' English investor had in New Zealand, Jlr? 'J'. M. Wilford (chairman of the Wellington Harbor Hoard) stated jn Parliament that the Wellington Harbor Board had been offered a million loan ai 4'/■ per cent., although they had no rating powers and no endowments. The Harbor Board was unable .to accept the j ulVer for several reasons, one of which < wns that it could not spend the inonev ' all at ome, and it was not sound finance to borrow at 4 1 /" per cent, and keep a large portion of the loan out at interest a'. 4 per cent, until required.

father a strange coincidence occurred during a sliort trip to Scotland paid by Mr. W. A. Parkinson. He had a nignt to spend in Inverness. Looking out of his window in the morning he was surpiised to eee on a shop just across the street "flillanders' Teas." Going over., he asked the proprietor who was his predecessor. The reply was, "Mr. flillanders, who went out to -Yew Zealand to a place called Hawera." II ib astonishment was great when lie ltnew that, the questioner also came from tiie little jNew Zealand town. The world is not so I large after all. Needless to say, Mr. ■ Gillanders was keenly interested to hear 'so directly of the oid "town he had left I to conic to this Dominion.

Tin. annual meeting of members of the Crescent Terrace Croquet Club at Inglewood was held on Thursday afternoon, and was well attended. The election of ntliecrs re-nltcd as follows:—President, ills-. IJawortli; secretary, ill's. C. K. Hiiinei'ton; committee, Mesdanies Orbell, O'Carroll. and K. Rogers, with the presiI dent and secretary ex officio members, j The statement of receipts and expenditure for the past season was rend, showing a eredil balance of CI lis (id. During the 'winter the club's lawn was levelled and a portion rcsown, but as the grass on thin piece lias not made the headway that was anticipated, it was deemed inadvisable to play on it before the end of the year. Mrs.'Winfield, however, has kindly placed her lawn at the disposal of members until the .club's lawn is available.

Strong advocacy of some preferential treatment in the taxation of large families was heard in the Ilonse of Representatives on Friday, Mr. T. E. Taylor jChristchureli North). putting the point in n very interesting and forcef i! 'fashion. lie remarked that when his friend the niemlier for Wairarapa (Mr. Buchanan) or the lion. It. MeNab travelled on their holidays, they had n*: family to trouble about, hut the family man was handicapped immediately ht took train or steamer, lieeause hp lint (lone the very tiling that Parliament and the Church had been urgin« him *< do, viz., keep tl'e cradle full, "lie wai the victim of that, act of patriotism ~'ind was thereby taxed because lie ha. liot shirked his duty as a <itizen. h connection 'with the income tax, Nev Zealand ought, he suggested, to'be aid to follow the example of the Old C'oun try, where the recent Budget made i remission for each child, (Hear. hear. Certain European nations not only di tnia. but they gave free education in ouier concessions to ?very child in ■ family after the fourth. We ought. I. ,e e that a family of moderate size di not constitute a tax. A member: Pu if. on bachelors. Mr. Taylor: T n m sur the Prime Minister will earn the grat tudc of the wearied mothers of til he will make the burden little easier for them.