LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 259, 8 December 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Three of the motor waggons for the j Transport Company arrived by the Koonya yesterday.' , lit is stated (s'ays the Otago Daily I Times) that efforts are being made to ( cllect a settlement of the impending liti- 1 {ration between the Otago.Dock Trust ( and Messrs. Scott Bros., > the dock contractors. .Hie main basis of the proposal is that the Dock Trust shall forego : the infliction of penalties fo r delay hj, : completion of the work, and that the contractors shall forego the claim of £20,000 compensation for alleged failure • to provide a dredge for excavation purposes. The proposal is said to be viewed unfavorably by the trust. The wheat crops of North Otago, as ■ was expected, promise a neavy yield, but the farmers are not (says the Otago jpauy limes) altogether pleased witn the position. Some have declared that unless they get a spell ot Mtrd, dry weather very soon they are going to sutler a loss, the explanation being that the frequent and heavy rains of the last month or two have induced a tendency to rust in the growing whea|k No serious damage has yet been done, though decided signs of rust have been tound, and a few weeks of really line weather, coming at once, will remove all possibilities of trouble. 1 A full cargo of wool, dairy produce, meat, hemp, etc., was taken 'from New- ', Zealand by the lonic, which lelt Weilington on Saturday morning tor l,onilon. Following is a summary of tin. 1 shipment:—3uSlli bales wool, 1)587 car- ■ cases mutton, 14 carcases lamb, 2olli • quarters beef, 18,587 crates cheesc.'-tS.dOli | boxes 1 butter, 2.j cases preserved meats, ' 9 boxes meat extract, 21 casks casings, ill) casks pelts and calfskins, 20:1 bales skins, 1100 casks tallow, 281)3 bales _ licmp, 580 teles tow, 50 bales leather, 132 bales hops, 4804 sacks copra, 6 bales . Hair, 4 bales horns, 430 sacks concen- . trates, 58 bars bullion, 4180 bundles and . nieces timber, 4712. casts and sacks kauri Sum, 114 sn.eks s i, P |i, ifl bales ( . otton) , 124 i sacks ryv grass, 522 sacks oats, . tti.i sacks beans, 52 sacks seed, 23 sacks . peas, U0 packages sundries. ■ Since leaving Britain Mr. Will Crooks', - the London M.P., has been interviewed I over one hundred times, and he has had one or two amusing experiences witu pressmen. Although he has always been on terms of cordial friendship with the • reporter, he is not averse to a joke at s Ins expense. Somewhere in Canada « i gentleman approached him with an air - of importance and much sell-assurance. : "1 am from the British Weekly," he -aid. llr. Crooks' looked at him for a moment in that singularly mrect way ■ lie has. "Well, that's nothing," he said. , "I'm from the British—daily!" In ! Vancouver he was standing looking about him and wondering wuica way i to turn, when a hurrying young man n5 w,, 1 !. 1 ,", 1 thc ttr,n - "J represent the World,- he explained. "So do i, old man," said Mr. crooks, promptly, "what can we do for each other!' The wilt of thc late Air. James M. Carpenter, filed for probate in St. Louis, L.S.A., besides bequeathing to his children the bulk of his-estate, worth 2,000,000 dollars, leaves them also some paternal advice and the rule of lifc* which, thc testator and parent says, was the mainspring of his success. "The revenue from my estate," lie says, "will be sufficient to keep all my heirs 'in' ' comfort if they exercise industry, frit- ' gality, and good judgment." He urges ' that none of the property be ' Continuing, the will says: "i solemnly enjoin on my children the rule wmcii with God's blessing has been the mainspring of my success—always live within your revenue. Thus you are secure from financial crisis. I beg my sons to , counsel with each other very often and to stand together, helping each oinei morally, socially, and financially." "K.fj.S.," writing in Everybody's' Magazine, says: "There is a city called Quito, capita] of the Republic o'f Kcua- I dor, South America, situated on a beau- t turn plateau ten tnousaiid ieet aoove S the sea in the Andes mountains. The c climate is eternal spring. Quito is not r like any other place on carta, neing \ directly under the equator. Consump- r |tion cannot exist in Quito. The air at ' I that high altitude destroys the germs, ■' not only within the lung's but in the.' r, [s'ahva, immediately. .Nothing spoils in 1 [Quito. -Neat only shrivels ami ones, t |lik|s dust. Krcrm one year's end u, , m - f ' l other t](c air is always the same—like l that of cokl spring— a)l i( there are ai- H ways flowers, always fruit. It rains for P our. hour (trom II o clock) every day. x ' Then the sun shines, the sky is blue, a S. thousand song birds' fill the air, and all T 1 is beautiful. Quito has all the modern 5 improvements, and a railroad, only re- "' ceutly bunt, runs oyer the mountains P. from the coast. Few visitors went there before the road was built, as travel was dilhciilt and had to be done on muleback. But tne doctors there torn me ~ that if a consumptive could make, the J trip, with 'even half a lung,' the disease tr would be immediately arrested, and oi after a year's stay he could live where „„ lie pleased. I am writing this with truth c 0 and sincerity, as I have been in Quito, uo and can vouch for all I say." < MEN'S SUITS! MEN'S SHITS!! if' TAILOR-MADE, at the MELBOURNE. U e I'he standard of exoellenoe established p e when this successful clothing store was tn . opened thirteen years ago, has never for al i a moment been abandoned. On the on- TV trary, it has ever been pushed higher ~' ind higher, until now the thousands of ',, patrons could not be induced to leave the safe confines of its territory. Absoute fair dealing, coupled to Taranaki's owest prices always, is TKe most potent nagnet. We quote specially low prut's "'" or several new summer models ne.vly irrived. Foremost among them are ren ashionable dark green and dark brown for itrincd worsteds at 655, indigo Venetians lets •nd jiidigo coatings at 655, stylish <nvy sto weeds and -worsteds at 40s 6d u y marE New Zealand tweeds in the new irown and green shades at 27s (id, 355, nd 39s 6d. Extra special value k a Ka lew design in an indigo check worsted, Tai ■ery fine quality, at 65s the suit, All wai f the above suits are correct in style "' nd cii(; from the newest and hesc of ina- 13 » erials. They fit with the acenratonoss bi g: f high-grade mndc-to-order goods, yet "tt iill for no time or trouble in the look- aA ig over, and aro minus the need for one umcious "trv-ons." You'll be wanting new suit 'or the holidays; come in and Hl' ■y one on. We'll not ask you to buy.— For dvf - else IN DKSPEKATE STRAITS aU « re many who could be cured by Dr. icldoa's New Discovery for Coughs and A dds. Price, Is fld arid 3s per bottle. Dl itainablc everywhere, " 01, l With folks on thc outer Barcoo, ," . Who- live upon beef and burgoo, Thc scurvy '& be chronic T j Were not Laxo-Touic j^;, A. part of the regimen, too! o ff fil "jAXOTOVIC PILL", lO'/jd and Is fid , pO ,, tainjble at Bullock and Johnston's, f 9 t> jnts, Devon-street, New Plymouth. '«ufc

start was made yesterday with thai ,'derham Street bridge. , is estimated that the dairy product i]icd so far tliis season shows an inise of £140,000 over that of last year, fnder the new railway arrangements B Wellington mail train crosses the ning train from New Plymouth at hum instead of at Stratford, as here- tl [ore. E L considerable improvement has taken Cl ce within the last Itwtt or three i * eks in the building trade in Welling- >■ i. The improvement is described as *' imply marvellous" by one person ae- " aiuted with the existing condition of * ngs a short time ago.—Times. Dn Monday the Mangorci Dairy Com- r ny manufactured 72 boxes of butter, record output in the history of-the mpany. It was expected that the new I rbines that have just been installed juld have been working by now, but I I accident to the penstock has slightly laycd matters. During the debate on the band Bill in | ic House of Representatives on Monly, the Hon. J. .Millar stated that the overnment knew the pressure of pub--0 opinion, and they believed it was only mutter of time when the freehold ould lie given. This is refreshing, comig as it does from an ardent leaseholder. The members of the Pukekura 'Pnr,< loard are unanimously of opinion tnat he condoning of olfences that has been he practice in the past is not in the best ntcrests of the grounds, and .hat nothing short of prosecutions will hcek the excesses of larrikins and mis-ihicf-makers. It is unlikely, therefore, .hat there will be any more " cautionng," a decision that will lie welcome.! ly the general public. One of the few places in the district ;hat should be a safe sanctuary Kor i lirds is Pukckura Park, but unfortun-1 itely the activities of the bird-nesting pouirgs'ters of the town do not allow at even the rarer of the native birds breeding in peace. It is understood the Board is taking steps to stop the depredation of the nests of tuis and other birds, and an interesting time is promised anyone caught at the "amusement." ■A sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held yesterday morning, Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., presiding. Judgment for plaintiff, in default of defendant, w is given in each of the following cases:— Louis Marks (Mr. Wright) v. Philip Eva, claim £2 10s (costs 12s); Webster Bros. (Mr. Standish) v. Charles Edwardß, £4 12s 3d (Ws')i New Plymouth Harbor Board (Mr. Quilliam) v. John Nichoras Ncilson, 14s (ss); Mark Johnston (Mr Quilliam) v. John Corkin, £7 3s 7d ( £1 13s Od); Sargood, Son and Ewen (Mr 0. H. Weston) v. George McCall Barnay £7 5s (£1 3s Cd); Samuel Jury (Mr A. Bewlcy) v. M, Loveridge, 10s (ss) Public Trustee, in estate of la t<i Widiaii Hancock (Mr. F. E. Wilson) v. Beatrici Percival, £4 lis Od (£1 17s) j Dr. I A. Walker (Mr. C. H. Weston) v. Jolv, •F. Mulqueen, £0 10s (£1 3s' Od); earn v. John Ward, £4 4s (10s). Mrs. Eleanor Dunn, a school tcacho of New Jersey, ilias Bailed for Englan to claim for the American heirs tli estate of Sir Francis Drake, the hero c the defeat of the Armada. Claims t other "vast estates" in England nav turned out badly, but the "Drake hen i in America, who have been doing thei claiming since 1838, are positive tns they etand a chance of winning thi •property, which is said to be estimate at | £25,000,000. Sir Francis Drake's e tatcs, including his grants Dy garlic ment, descended to his son, Sir Tboma and from him should have gone, it ; urged by Mrs. Dunn, £o Captain Franc: Drake, a soldier in the American Revi lution, but Captain Drake tailed t claim the fortune, and it went to i cousin. Mrs. Dunn will not admit thf her tacts are wrong, and slie Denev< American diplomatic influence can be si cured to demolish the objection that rebel fighting against the Mother Coui try ipso facto disinherits himself. Tl agent whom the heirs' sent to Englan several years ago lost interest in th search soon after he reached tnnt coui try. 'the "heirs" recently decided "t send another agent, a Miss Hoard, wh agreed to go for her passage money, fee of £IOO, and 25 per cent, of amour awarded to each heir, but Miss Boar would not consent to devote all her tin to the Drake claim, and so Mrs. Duni who is president of. the Drake Associl tion in New York, decided to go. fsh will waive the 25 per cent, commission.