LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 232, 5 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The slaughtering at the Waitara Freezing Works commenced on Tuesday. A busy reason is anticpated, writes our Waitara correspondent. Mails for United Kingdom and Continent (via Vancouver), despatched onspatched on September 28th, arrived at London on November Ist. At the Palinerston show yesterday Mr. Charles Clarke/* 1 Jersey stock met with great success. Seallet was awarded first prize and reserve championship, Genoa Girl a lir-U. Lady Disdain a second." All the progeny of* Mr. Clarke's ohampion stud biiil were awarded honors. Not thy least amusing feature in connection with the Marlborough Jubilee, at present being celebrated, is the distribution of jubilee postcards and en

ve!o|)es hearing tlie ridiculous inscription, " .Marlborough: tlie place that beat. Auckland at football." Marlborough toc-ballers take themselves seriously, and at present the flukey victory lias attained the importance of murders ind other sensational .happenings which, in the language of the "In memoriam," poets, " Can never be forgot."

Under the heading of "An Invitation from New Zealand." Dr. W. A. Chappie contributes an interesting article to the London Standard. He especially appeals to tile young men of goo'l families and ample means in Britain, and says: "Xew Zealand wants capital and land purchasers, as well as land workers. Anv Miiing Englishman may own his own farm, his own estate, or his own home in Xew Zealand, and his investment wil' he as safe as the Bank of England. British mothers can afford to promote the j emigration of their sous to a country like Xew Zealand. No country in th? British Empire offer- a more kindly and protective care, nor a more handsom" reward in those fnctniv licit makeup a full life, to young men of good birth and education anil capital who are willing In fi'itnd country estates modelled on those

Halely homes of rural England in whidi tfiey have been reared, as does thii porous young representative of tin I'litish race."

The-liev. Dr. Tudor done- liad some thing to -ay about the uiiing people ot Xew Zealand recently, 'lie followed up the plea which Dr. ISorghetii. in lii.lecture. bad just maile for an inteligent national life. Dr. Tudor .loaos said tliaf during his four years in New /'■aland lie had formed the opinion l.liat in regard tu brain power the young people here were ei]inil to any he had seen in Great Britain'or on tlie Contin cut of Europe. They were capable ot doing great work, and helping to tonn a real nationality in this country. AVliat was needed was a public spirit. or a great ideal that wo could live for and die tor. On going from lermauv to England he had been saddened bv th< contrast in the occupations in 'which the young nien and women spent then spare time. In Germany they studied—and not tlie young only, but men over liftv—while in England! just as in Xew Zealand, they seemed to spend their time quite aimlessly. It was not all their own fault. Tlie universities should help them more, and should not make examinations their goal.

Australian files just to hand show Unit Squires was considered verv unlucky to lose ill his contest with Lang for tin; heavy-weight championship ot Australia. 11c had Burns, ex-champion of the world, as his chief second, and boxed with great judgment, being an easv winner on point* right up to his eighteenth round. He then lost count of >t.he rounds, and in the next round believed that it was the last. He was badly exhausted, but managed to get through the round, and thought he had won on points, which at that stage he certainly had. When he found that there Has another round to go lie was jamazed, and when hit early in the round by Lang fell, and was counted out—exhausted, rather than knocked out. Squires had all the best of the contest, and was far too clever for Laug, whose exhibition was very disappointing to his friends. On several occasions Squires was within all ace of winning on a knock-out., but had bad luck. It is interesting to note that oxygen was administered to Squires every roijnd after the sixteenth, and appears to have had n n :o I ..fleet, but Its stimulating inlliicii.c parsed awnafter a minute or so. Another match at Sydney in December is probable.

"Engineering," in a recent issue, iliscussing the new cruiser-battleship Indc latigablc, launched last week at Devonpurl, .says the increase in. length is 2oft. in beam 2ft, and in displacement, nearly 2000 tons, as compared with tin' 17.2."i» tons of the Invincible class. There has been a slight increase in the size of the turbines, in order that the speed should be 20 knots in llii.s case also. As to the 11CW cruiser which is to be laid down in the berth vacated by the Indefatigable, it would be impolitic to giVe details. The vessel will be some (100 ft long, and *he will have turbine machinery exceeding in power Hint place,] in any preceding ship, excelling that even of Hie l.usitania ami -Mauretania. now doin" I ■such splendid steaming on the Atlanta" It IS too early to write about s'pec,|. but in view of the successful lines evolved liv Sir Phillip Watts in all his ships, and of the high ell'ieiencv of machinery arranged bv Admiral Oram the Engineer-in-c.hief, it niav be predicted that this vessel will eorlaiiilv e\coed 28 knots, so that, alike in' i,er power of attack, her adeqnncv of deIcncc. and her lleetness, she will ,„ark a departure which will furnisii further opportunities for the ability of the Vdmiralty officers' to keep pa.-e with iJie willingness of the nation tu excel 'n naval power.

During IHO7-8 tl„, (olal huil.lm., |>rograinine for -tin. city illl.l .Sllljui'll.' , VI , S vuluo.l ill t|„. , n ,,|,,| tolal of X7")0,O0U, of which Cl.k, was made up in public buihliii"-; ~i,n,| 'l" r "'r it 11111 into „ litM<* over C,0(1.1100, I lie amount expended in pub. lie J>uilding,s during this period beim. Assuming for I lie moment I'luit I lie rate of progress n nls „ );lni . tested continues, and placing Uc amount to he spent in private buildings j dining tiie next decade at CliOll.noi) per !' M'H) thai. (I,e Hi.it, i Him* involved will easily run into a total of six millions sterling (savs the Herald). The period of ten years ij

taken as the time bv ivhieli the liar I hour Hoard', LI .OOll.iinn lo : ,„ ;lm | ' ],000.000 on drainage will have been expended, so that Auckland by that, lime, nn present propo-als and providing for eoutiiiftciU'ies such ay tramway extension, the erection of naval slorc.s, anil city and suburban road and other iiiipnrveiiiciiU not at present pmvid'd lor will, ill all probability, haw hud expended in it on improvements no less llian ten millions sterling. fu other' words, |irovided tin' present prospei'ilv i loiilinues', Auckland's spending pro-' gramme for tin. nvxl (en years may lie I [at the rate of. at, least, t:|,niH),OOo" per iinnuni. I I In 1881, 2.302,331 persons were I in agriculture in the United Kingdom. | Ten years later (ho number had de-I creased to 2,240,7.1(1; tfhilst ill inOl it was 2,109,812, I,

The Taranaki County Council meets to-day. In the Police Court yesterday another couple of Mr. Tipping' victim* were liiiea foi cycling on footpaths. The haka troupe of Maoris who arc now in America arc apparently expeuencing a most prosperous tour. A Maori iT.siilinnr in the MiisTerTon district his received a letter from a member oi tne troupe, in which the writer referred in "lowing terms to the warm recepti'» ijiven them. The writer considers that nt til/ conclusion of the trip his sliare oi the proceeds would amount to £2OOO. "If 1 had my way, lie would have only' I,iiken away half ot his fortune. The State should have bad the other half, rims Mr. Whitty, M.P., in telling the reuse oil Friday evening the story of a man who came'to New Zealand with a capital of £5 and amassed a fortune m , £.50,000, vet on the eve of his departure for the Old Country cursed New Zealand 1 at the top of his bent because the taxation of the country prevented hiin 'V-

maining here. 1 Fo r some time past there have been< thefts of fruit, honey, etc., ton Messrs. V Webster Bros.' fruit mart in James's. Lane. A watch wae kept, and eventual.y 1 .1 boy wa* caught in the building. lie J was handed jjver to tin* police, and yes-1 terday morning came 'before ilr. H. S. Fitzhcrbert, S.M.. on a charge of theft of two shillings' worth of oranges from 1 the above-mentioned /inn. As he had U-en twice previously convicted, he wa* convicted and ordered to the Burnham Industrial School. The verdict brought ■Jown a torrent of abuse for tlie police from the bid's districted mother, who I threatened, inter alia, to nuike her boy la policeman when he came from that,

'"breeding-ground of criminals, 1 Music circles in New Plymouth ar 1 shortly to have the pleasure of welcoming to this district as a resident a young lady who is rapidly coming to the from as a public vocalist. We refer to Miss Rosalie Handler, youngest daughter of Mr. T. Brnwnell 'Handler, the newlyappointed district manager for the NorMisli Union Mutual Life Insurance Society. Miss R- Handley won the silver medal for soprano .solo a.t the Blenheim musical competitions' last year, and th s year at Xapier she distinguished herself by winning two gold and two silver medals in various sections, securing three first prizes and one second. The young lady has. already done some exit Hent work as an Anglican Church (horister mid as a "Messiah" soloist. Two young men who liad resorted to a bout of fisticuffs in a public street had an opportunity yesterday of explaining their conduct *to* the Stipendiary Magi--

tiicir conduct to tne Mipeuuiary .Magistrate. They were Henry Todd and Charles Gilbert, and each was charged with threatening behaviour iu a public place and thereby occasioning a breach of the peace. Todd pleaded guilty, and , Gilbert guilty under extenuating circumstances. It was shown that while Gilbert and two companions were in a hotel [ bar, Todd, who was under the influence oi drink entered and wanted to fight the three, first separately and then to-

pother. They dot-liuod to brawl, and Gilbert remarked to Todd, "What's the good of talking like that?" Thereupon' j Todd struck Gilbert several blows, and Hie two adjourned to the street to I "have il out." Todd informed the Magistrate that he had been so intoxicated that ho did not remember what bad happened. Todd -was convicted and fined 2(H and costs 7s, and Gilbert was lined 10s and costs 7s. The question used to be "What Jies around the North Pole?" "Now," satirically observed the New York World, it is. ''Who lies about it?" Here is a delightful example of school humour,

unintentional, and refreshingly naive:— The children wen- asked to write on! the journeying-* of Commander Pearv and Dr. Cook. "Captain Peary," wrote I one, "reached lite North Pole on n Dreadnought. The reason why lie went by sea was because it wsw che,i|ier than going by train. The discovery of the N'ortii I'ole is a good thing, because 't is Hie end of the world." "There is now a lot of talk about the discovery of the N'orfh Pole," observed a girl of ten. '"Dr. Cook was supposed to have reached it, but when he got there Captain Peary came up over the side and told Dr.

Cook the Pole belonged to him. They both became very angry, and waved th l and Stripes, but presently agreed to leave it in t.he hands of tlie President of America." A third essayist :i----*erl.ed that the reason why Dr. Cook uid Commander Peary did not. die was Mint Ihev were Americans. Another, vho had read somewhere about the birth of the Peary babv n tlie Arctic some years ago, said that Mrs Pearv accompanied her husband to the Pole, and ;i child was born t Imtc and christened Hip Snow Haliv. '-It was liorn cover ■d with hair, and had a lot of fur round its eve*."