LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 265, 16 December 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The re-metalling of Devon Street central with stone from the prison pit is proceeding. it is stated that the persons suspected of damaging public property on the esplanade have been narrowed down to tbjree, | The Ciineyilcs, otherwise known as the True Witnesses, a new religious sect, have opened lire at Chuendon (savs the /Bruce Herald). ■' From Messrs. Webster Bros., the local agents, we .have received copies of a neat wall calendar issued by the South British Insurance Company. The election of a member of the Education Board to ill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. J. D. Morisou will be held on 25th January.

"1 find it very diMcult," said Lady l'llinkct at the Wellington Girls' College, -'to know where to start to congratulate you, as you seem, so perfect in this College, There is one fault, and that k that you are not Irish. 'That you cannot lemeu'y. lou can only wish you were.

The footpath in St. Aubyn Street opposite the railway station is being kerbed and channelled. The principal approaches to the town are thus being made quite a credit to the municipal authorities, who have certainly not been very aggressive in such matters in the past.

A party of sixty Maoris left Auckland by the Alaheno to take part in a series of native entertainments at Manly (th, Sydney seaside resort) during the notion y sennoii. They came mostly from ltotorua, and were in charge of Maggie Pnpakurn, the well-known guide, under whose direction the entertainments W3re ■irgunised,

A fly recently microscopically examined was found to be carrying on its legs, mouth, and body no less than 100,000 disease bacteria. A trustworthy authority computes that in forty days a ily multiplies in the proportion of I2,!HiO,UIHI to 1. One Ily to-day is reorescnted by 52,050,000,000 descendants this day two months,

Mr. Lionel Graham has returned to Timaru after spending live years in tie Argentine on a sheep station. He gives an interesting account of the drou«ht which afflicted the Argentine last summer, when the whole country was ttfected. There was a great loss of stock and prices fell tremendously. The small man, he Rays, felt the drought scverelv. Mr. Graham thinks that the climate 'is against the Argentine in the matter of smep-lirceiling, crops of turnips provin" a failure year after year. ° A man who was fined 30s at the Castlemaine Police Court, Victoria, for having failed to have his child vaccinated, said he was. sorry to violate the law, but he would not have, anything' belonging to him vaccinated— not even his dog. On being informed by the .Bench that they would have to impose a fine, the defendant replied, "Very well; lint I promise you you won't fine me any more. One moment wo hear of Sir John Madden lecturing on race suicJe and the next we are lined for havin« children." "

Arrangements arc being made bv the Victorian Minister of Agriculture'(Mr. Graham) for a (rial consignment of butter-boxes, made from Queensland hoop pine, to bo forwarded to Melbourne. The boxes will be delivered in the shook at Is iy„d each. Victorian exporter* have usually to pay Is Oil for their boxes, and' Mr. Graham is anxious to see whether cheaper bows cannot be made available in this Stare, lie points out that the exporters of Xcw South Wales and Queensland pay verv much les K than Is lid, and that this gives them a big advantage over their Victorian competitors'. The Minister is also having sample boxes manufactured from Victorian wolly butt.

In consequence ot the very large quantities of cheese now coining into the Moluroa freezing works from factories down the coast, it lias been found necessary to provide separate receiving accommodation for it. Hitherto the cheese lias been received from the waggons into the butter-grading room, thus not only interfering with the convenience of the graders, but absolutely stopping their work, for no butter could be opened in the room whilst the cheese was there, ' The directors have now decided to build a receiving-shed for the coastal cheese, and the contract lias been let. The building will be erected alongside the i office, and will haye receiving doors on the seaward side, the cheese being taken ! from here direct to the cool chambers. > It is the intention of the carrying firms to deliver their cheese at the works dur--1 ing the night, s'o this new building will he a distinct advantage to them. Mesdames A. Douglas and Brasch and ; Miss Ambury, representing the District Convention of the W,CT.U„ waited on the Education Board yesterday morning in connection with the temperance movement, and following up a letter in which the Union set out its wish that the children should be taught in the public schools the harmful effect of excessive alcohol on the body and the mind and upon the industrial and general productiveness of the nation. The deputation expressed gratification upon leaminn of the steps taken by the Board to suggest to teachers that these points might well be inculcated in the lessons provided by the syllabus, hut thought that instead of this teaching being optional with the teachers it should te compulsory. The deputation having withdrawn, 'the inspector, i n answer to questions, said that some teachers were putting the sngscstions of the eireular into effect; others were not; and it is not possible to make it compulsory, for the teachers had the right to select their subjects themselves frqin the syllabi^. With folks on the outer Barcoo, Who live upon beef and burgoo, The scurvy 'i be chronic Were not Laxo-Tonio A part of the regimen, tool LAXO-TONIC PttLS, lo%d and Is 6d. 1 Obtainable at Biillook and" Johnston's, agents), Devon-street, New Plymouth. I DR. SHELDON'S NEW DISCOVERY For Coughs and Colds cures when all else fails. Price, Is Cd and 3s. Obtain- i able •vwywtow, '

PERSONAL m Mr. G, Bayly was a passenger to Onehunga last night. Mr. John Mackrell, formerly solicitor to the New Zealand Government and the New South Wales Government., is dead. It was deceased who suggested the Sir Julius Vogel system of issuing colonial loans from inscribed stuck. I A London cable announces the death lof Mr. George Baiting, who annually spent £30,0(H» which he derived from Australian sugar estates and sheep | farms, upon art olijects and the collection of Oriental china. Deceased was I a rival of Mr. Pierpont Morgan's'. He is believed to have left his collections to the nation.