LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 257, 6 December 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At several of the local churches festerday, reference was made to the new defence proposals, and resolutions were carried urging the Premier to excise from the Bill all facilities for the supplv of intoxicants at military camps. The anniversary eervices in connection with the Gill Street Baptist Church were very well attended morning, afternoon and evening yesterday. The services were conducted by Revs. ,1. Guy, ,1. Laird, and J. G. Chapman, and very interesting discourses were delivered,'tint m the afternoon being specially for i liechildren. The singing by the childr-n and choir was a feature of the scrvn-s and included two solos and two niui--' tettes. On Tuesday evenin" the anniversary services will ho concluded with a free social gathering. As Mr. Wooldrige's motor waggon was going down the Tapnae Hill on Saturday evening on the journey to Okato, it met a horse and gig. The horse became fractious, backed into the motor wa»gon, with the result that the gig wi?s capsized and the occupants, a lady and ! gentleman, were thrown nut", but fortunately escaped injury beyond a shakiri" The driver of the waggon had his -inchine under control and pulled up very promptly, but the gig was nevertheless considerably damaged. The damaged gig was placed on tile motor waggon ant taken to Okato for repairs, whilst its former occupants, having secured a iothcr gig, continued their journey to town.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable today (Monday) at Secretary's office, Cuvrie-street, from 0 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 n.m. to 5 pjn., and 1 p.m. to 0 ij.m.— Advt.

The United Kingdom produces about 40,000 tons of eneese a year.

The Danncvirka Racing Club made a iroflt of £9(l 103 7d on the recent.meetug. K. Arnst has forwarded £SO to cover iVhek'h'a deposit for a match for the ivorld's sculling championship. Mr. (i. P. Donnelly has installed steam-driven milking-machines for the dairy herds of natives at Waiohiki. Die plants will treat two hundred cows 1 .! The Gazette notifies that the Government .has guaranteed a loan for .t'iH.iiiiO for the Taihape borough water wor'js and electric light, and a loan for £"1750 for drainage.

While the court was sitting at Tonlon. France, burglars made off with some valuable bronzes, tfie gold-headed cunc belonging to the judge, and £2OO from the secretary's office. During the Soudan campaign, LotJ Kitchener was warned not to expose himself so recklessly when in actio.i, "1 shall never be killed," he sail "When my time comes, I shall die peace lully in my bed." "1 have visited Xew South Wales, V ; .' toriu and Queensland, including tin Darling Downs,""says Mr. A. Donald, tin

well-known dairy farmer of Wnirarupa, "and 1 have come to the concln >n that if 1 were about to make a beg.lining in dairying again, 1 would start in Xew Zealand, after all." "The life of a probationer nurse during her first twelve months in a hospital is practically the life of a hotel rousei.out. She' get 6no chance of nursing at all, for sne is kept washing and scraping'and cleaning all the time," said the Hon. J. E. Jenkinson, in the Legis'.a- ---; tive Council on Wednesday night. In these days of the exclusiveness of , sports organisations (says the Lyttelton I Times) it is refreshing to note at least ouc instance of the existence of a spirit of more comprehensive hospitality. The newly-formed Edgewarc Bowling Club bears the legend, "The public are cor- ■ dially invited." The Fire Brigade ball on King's Birth-

produced £5/ 7* lid for the brigide funds, a financial result which must be as gratifying to the ladies' committee as to the superintendent and members of the Brigade. The expenses were rntlrsr heavier than usual, amounting to £23 lis 'ltd. The gross takings were £79 19s sd.

A Carterton resident lost a valuable | mare in a peculiar way. She had lately cut her leg in a wiro fence, and spent a good deal of time lying down, finding some difficulty in getting up. She was getting well, and went to spring up in her old style, when the hind leg on which she put her weight snapped, and she had to be shot. "Many a life has been lost," said a speaker at the meeting of the Royal Humane Society's directors, at Christ.church, last week, "by people standing up when a house is on fire and being suffocated, whereas if they keep on their hands and knees they' could crawl to safety. There is often an area of lino air close to the floor."

'flic following amended regulations as to the taking 01 whitebait arc gazetted: "Xo scrim or whitebait net should ie •isi'il a- ;> .-et-net, or be set or placed in openings made in the banks of streaus or rivers, or in dams constructed therein; and no scrim hand-net having a circumference of more than ten feet eight inches shall be used for the purpose of catching whitebait. Pork prices are down. Farmers u\e now talking of co-operation, and running a bacon factory for themselves. WRon fhey had a concern of their own here the farmers sold their pigs to ,>ri- ■ rate firms for a little better price than :iic "co-ob nui'i give. The private , firms paid goou prices and got all the I business. The farmers' concern clossd . down, Then down came the price of . pork. Now there is talk of co operation again.

In the House of Representatives last week the Agricultural Committee ,ro-' ported that it had no report to make in regard to the petitions protesting against the dairy regulations. The Hon. T. Mackenzie (Minister for Agriculture) '•'aid the dairy regulations Teferrcd to by the petitioners hud no existence, lint a system of instruction by travelling instructors Had been inaugurated. Some desultory discussion on dairy and agricultural regulations followed, several minor reforms in connection therewith -eiii'i urged by several members. One of the finest pieces of sigii-wi-i----mg and lettering i„ lHe t own na3 )Usl for Mr. Newton King', as agent tor the Phoenix Assurance Co, upon the window of the new office just set apart in his Devon street block for the conduct of the insurance business. The design generally is a large pansl, enclosed m a border line of gold, having within it a second panel graded from '"'''l' to '!,S nt r e<l, which contains the ilotail k At trie heail is a capital representation of the fabled phoenix, in nt-i----tral lint*. 'J7 W lettering is splcndidl. '« /a goM, effectively shaded. Th'i- •'" '! o" ■'<>■■ ••■11:11 panel, the style of lettering here ueing of the artist's own ci>iice|iticin aud worked out with scrup'iliniH attention t 0 ellect and accuracy. The work covers the whole of tho window, mid is 11 credit to Mr. Rich, cf Messrs Bellringer Bros.' staff, who was responsible fo r it. Arnold Hare was charged at the Supreme Court at Auckland last week with levying blackmail. The Crown Prosecutor stated that on 28th August prisoner found a letter addressed to Thomas Edwin Clarke, care of Messrs li. 0. Clarke, Ltd. If published, some passages in it might be construed in a sense which would have the effect of injuring the reputation of the person to whom it was addressed. The prisoner wrote a letter to Clarke offering to sell the letter to him for £25, otherwise tie threatened to publish its contents. Clarke placed the matter in the hands of the police. In his letters prisoner indicated the procedure whereby the money could be paid over without u-s own identity being disclosed. He saw ho wanted no "funny business," and that he did not like such a dirty, despicable bit of business, but was very bard up. Detectives' Hollis and Cox' set a trap and caught the prisoner. For the defence Mr. Blomfield admitted tile facts, but submitted that there nad been no offence under the Crimes Act. It was not an offence to send a threatening letter so long as the person to whom it was sent was not accused of a crime. The jury found prisoner guilty. His Honor released prisoner on a £SO hail j pending the Appeal Court's decision upon certain points res'erved.