The Daily News THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 272, 23 December 1909, Page 2

The Daily News THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ON FIRST AND FOURTH PAGES. Sporting. Swimming. District News. / shipping News. Musical Exams. Farm and Dairy. Axemen's Carnival. West Coast Leases. Public Works Votes.

There will be 110 issue of tin- " furlnaki Daily News'' uu Saturday ((.'liiis„lnas Day) or Monday (Hon in;; Day). The ltarawa took to Onelniiicisi last night the largest number of she has Carried "or some time, over a hundred being 011 board. The express train arrived about Ul minutes late last night. liusincss iii'.-n awaiting the arrival ot their correspondence were greatly iiieomiuod-.'d thereby. Excessively heavy puasengMtratiic was the cause. At the Tikorangi factory the milk supplied last month amounted to !>-! 1,831 lbs, being an iuerease of 100,557 lbs over November of last year. '1 uu average test was 3.53, the highest beuy 4.4; and the amount pa.d out to suppliers was £1505 12s lid. Some short time ago the Clifton County Council appointed a ranger to keeper the roads clear of roaming stock. The ollicial has now commenced his duties and (oh! whisper it softly!) one of the first animals seized was a "moke : belonging to one of the councillors. It was reported to the police un Tuesday that the premises owned airi occupied by W. J. Blackistoek, hairdresser ami tobacconist, at Kapong-.i, had been burglariously entered and that razors, pipes, cigarettes, quantity of tobacco, also X(i 15s 111 cash, had been taken away.—Hawcra Star. The children attending the I'ukeho school, a small country district near Tarata, have put up a record for regular attendance during the past year that will be hard to beat. The scliojl was only opened at the commencement of the school year, ana out of a roll Dumber of 26 children nine attended every school day, whilst one only missed one day; four other children of the 2(i never missed a day from the time they started, but unfortuuately they •uu not commence until about three ■i-ecks after the school was opened. The Amalgamated Society of RailwayServants in the Wangauui-Taranatii district held a ballot yesterday to elect two delegates to the annual conference. The results were as follows, the figures being for New Plymouth, ilawera and Wanganui, and total, in that order: - Cu'lVfe, 39, 40, 108 total 194; Foreman, 35, 97, 73, total ®)5; Foster, 7. U. 11. total 27; JJatta, 8, 0, 21, total 27; Trainer, 20, 29, 68, total 157; Smith, 87, 33, 74, total 194. Mr. J. Foreman (Hawera) is elected, and the tic between Messrs S. 6. Smith (New Plymouth) .and T. Carlyle (Wanganui) will probably be settled by the returning oilicers. In the Palmerston Nin iii di.-irk-t llessr9 W. T. Wilson and R. Lc Grango were elected.