LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 234, 8 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no issue of (he Turanaki | Daily News to-morrow (Kiny'n' Birthday). I The motor lorry to be used on Uie i south road belongs! to Mr. U'ooidndge, not Mr. Roebuck, as previously stated. At Stratford on Friday William Russell Jlatkav was eomiuitted to tile New rivmouth 'Supreme Court hillings for dial for alleged breaches ol' the BankI ruftcy Act. I The Opunake Times understands tha'. ! the proposed Amending Opunake liarl*.r Bill has received short shrift in the ' Mouse of Representatives, and is to be withdrawn.

As large numbers of ladies and eliii-1 dren are now visiting the beach, the Seaside Improvement Committee respectfully requests (hat all surf bathers wear full' bathing costume. • Five or six years ago a syndicate of I Lhree men purchased a llax swamp near > Foxton of an area of 3000 acres for £0

per acre. The royalties paid them by millers for llax have since brought in a return of about £0 per acre per annum! The following entries have been received for the half-mile race (amateurs) ,tt to morrow', sports in the Recreation | Grounds:—A. Parker, M. Ward, li. - toluv W. A. Boucher, C. McAllum, A. N. Morey, L. B. Webster, and C. Arnold. It has been suggested to the committee of the Horticultural Society I hut. a decorative class " vase or bowl of roses" should be included in the schedule lor to-morrow's rose show. In all likelihood the suggestion will be acted upon, and the fact will lie announced in to-night s Herald.

Garden-owners in New Plymouth are "l'Citilv troubled, particularly at tins time of the year, with the slug and shellback snail, the detftructiveness of which is little short of remarkable. A Palmerston North resident recently procured a seagull, clipped its wings, ana let it run ill his garden, which was hitherto overrun with slugs, with the result that, there is now hardly a member of the land-mollusc family to be seen. Here is a tip for the local gardener.

A few weeks ago a woman was killed in the South through slipping while attempting to cross from one railway carriage to another. It is surprising that more accidents of this nature do not occur, for the "gangways" used on the railways are far from safe. Another bar between the bottom and the top is al! that is required to make the passage perfectly safe for women and children, and, considering the small cost it would entail, it is astonishing that the Departnfent has not provided the safeguard. Passengers frequently leave the "gates 1 ' open. If guards are not already inj structed to do so, it would minimise the risk of accident if they were instructed to shut, as they pass through the train, every gate that is left open. The Taranaki Rifles have received an interesting and valuable addition to their orderly-room "art gallery," whic'i now includes many pictures' of historical | interest. Mr. A. H. Ilalcombe has just handed to the corps the oil painting of the encampment at Waiwakaiho in the year of Queen Victoria's jubilee, the painting having been done by his mother. The picture will be on view in Messrs. Bellringer Bros.' window. CaptainAdjutant Bellringcr has secured about twenty photographs of the company who went to South Africa, and these are being framed for hanging in the or-derly-room. The military authorities should take some business-like steps to erect a fireproof building in which to house their valuable collection of antiquities which now adorn the walls of the room.' Says the Omarau Mail:— Like everything else that the Liberal Administrations have done, the establishment of the Bank of New Zealand on a firm basis by means of a State guarantee lin<? been a triumph which, comparatively unimportant though the issue was has been an object lesson to others. Had New South Wales and Victoria only adopted the same expedient, the disastrous financial cataclysm which, nearly twenty years ago, dragged the people of thosc go-ahead colonies back to a M.»-uggle for existence would have been so modified as to be only a passing phase. As it was, the shock was felt even in New Zealand; for, after all, in those day s of commercial interdependence, all l»Jirts mint suffer more or less any keen trouble experienced by any part of the g v cat modern commercial system. At the Waitara Borough Council meeting on Wednesday evening the \\angamii Spiral Steel Company wrote, in reply to a letter from the borough clerk, that they are prepared to supply the Council with all pipes and fittings, and to allow all payment to stand over for t welve months or two years, pending the Council the loan. Should ilic Council by thai time not have done so, the Spiral Steel Company will accept the Councils -\\/., per cent, debentures in .payment. This was the same arrangement as was made with another municipality for some .C 10,000. They have now raised their loan, and are repaying the company. Thev had thus been enabled to get their "work completed before they floated their loan. Should the Council desire to place their order with the company they could instruct their solicitor to draw up an agreement, and their engineers to submit specifications of .sizes of pipes, etc., It was agreed that the Council should' take the necessary steps to borrow ,■€4ooo oil is'hort- dated debentures, whereby the ofi'er of the. company could be accepted.—Mail.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Croups) are notified that subscriptions will bo due and payable today (Monday) at Secretary's office, Curric-street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to o p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 n.m.— Advt.

COOLNESS TTIItOmiT A STRAW. Tho men who were short On straw eats arc now being forced to cove]'. And it's best to got the needed supply of coolness and cool look* at the present marset. We let every straw-hatless man in on the ground lloor to-day on this "inside information": Men's white chin straws, pliable and very light, 2s (id; men's Island hats with'straps, Is (id; toys' boater straws, Is 3d; boys' and youths' fine flexible pedal straws] 3s (id; l°ntils' fashionable boaters, 3s Oil; men's Hue French Brazilian hats, :j'/ 3 -ineli brim .)!/,oz, 4« lid; fine Jluxible hnita-

Minn Panama Brazilians; weight V/.0/., I n Oil; nobby extra-line dressy Brazilian?' u-ry smart shape, weight 2'/,oz, life 8d; line native-woven Panamas, I ■>> Oil, Las. 3,.5. worth ten shilling a i i'l more than any ollered at olleI ""'■•'J. In <-liiMreiiVi -traws we offer ''"Heel ion ever exhibited in I'ljMiaki. Foremost tile ne-y styles are trimmed Cialatcas. Is n,]. "velv ~-hite Sennet, unbreakable, at 2s "(I and ,1s lld ; n OW "p,.| 01 . p illlfi « ~f 2« Hd 3s lid, and os Hit; fine plaited . n "d rarcttos" at 3* lid Is lid. and (is (id; Babettes at Is Od' Watford, ami Kltlmm.