LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 295, 22 January 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Garrison Band will give a sacred concert at "Aotca" on Sunday week.

There was no quorum of the School Commissioners yesterday, and the monthly meeting had to be postponed. There was a very poor attendance of members of the Association Football Club held last night for the purpose of electing a secretary to the club. Members are asked to attend a meeting at the club rooms to-night. Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., has presented six black swans to the Recreation Grounds Board. If thsv can be persuaded to tak e up their residence on the lower ornamental lake the difficulty in regard to the water-weed should soon cease to trouble the Board.

Mr. A. E. Selby asked at the annual meeting of the' Public Library last night whether the library committee was going to do anything to preserve for the history and records of the town, such as the copies of the daily press. He was surprised to find this was not being done. The committee undertook to see what could b e done in the matter, cne or two members being of opinion that about twenty years' newspaper files had been preserved, but not bound in volumes.

The proposal to construct a cross road between the Upper Carrington and Mangorei roads is being revived, and a meeting is convened For Friday evening next in the Upper Mangorei school-room vlien the Mangorei Road Board will lav before the ratepayers. The "cross-road Will he about"(il chains In length, and it will be necessary to erect a bridge over the Henui stream. The steepest grade on the road laid off is one in 15. and the estimate of the cont is about £IOSO.

.. "No harbor rate was struck during 1009," read the secretary of the Harbor Board yesterday from the chairman's annual report. '"Better put that in big type, Mr. Rennell," suggested Mr. Wilkinson, "for people don't seem to be sure of it." The secretary said he was aware of that, for' there had been .almost as much work in answering .complaints from people who had had no rate-cards, and returning the cash of ratepayers who were determined to be on the saf e side, as in collecting the rate.

Owing to the date of th c Taranaki Rifle Association's meeting clashing with the arrangements now being made for the mobilisation of the military forces at Wellington upon the occasion of the visit of Lord Kitchener, the meeting will now lieJiold a week earlier, on Mm 10th and 17th\ This date will clash with the Taranaki Jockey Club's races and the visit of H.M.S.' Pegasus, but the Trentham meeting is to be held in the succeeding week, and of the two evils the executive has chosen the lesser.

Yesterday afternoon two horses attached to a cab in Broadway, Stratford, cleared out whilst the driver was absent. After travelling a very short distance, they ran to the footpath in front of Mr. Grubb's music shop, bringing down three verandah posts. BoMi horses fell on the footpath, with the result that one broke its leg and h.id to be shot. The other was slightly iijnrcd, whilst the cab was considerably damaged. Shortly afterwards f< unhorses attached to" a waggon attempted to run away, but before Ulev made much headway they were brought to a standstill by a shunting train that fortunately happened to be across the road at the time.

According to (lie opinions expressed by <Mr. E. C. Barton," an enthusiastic meteorologist from Brisbane, Mount Egniont is particularly adapted for the making 0 f moToorol'ogica] observations. • Mr. Barton has just spent three weeks at the Mount and. he says, he took siu-l, a fancy to it that he ..pen! most of nis time ascending and. descending it. interviewed In- a New Zealand Tim-., iv porter. Mr. Barton had s.imet,iiiii» \vr\

interesting to s:r ;,b"u! Mount Egmom from a meteorological ~oint of' view. '•\m\ have." ho --..id, "flm tines|. materia! there for a meteorological nlj-ervajon thai evi-ts in the whole world! i.arriiithe peak of 'Jcueril'e. At on- of ih'.mountain houses there was no run gunge and no thermometer; at Ivginoui house f found only a r.-i.in gunge. ] 0 ,...-. tainly think both mountain house's should be equipped with h;>( rum-m -. because of the valuable data to be ohtabled there. From the lop of .Mount. Egmont it is like inspecting a meleoiv logical workshop. You -co the whole process of cloud-making and rainmaking being performed'"from Kawhia down to the Straits.'' ANXIOUS MOMENTS.

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The bicycle thief is in evidence in Stratford.

The Arawa, due at Wellington about next Tuesday from London, is bringing, 390 immigrants, including 13 for New Plymouth. A young man named Thomas Dodunski met with a painful accident whilst working the Stratford borouiih stonecrusher yesterday. It appears"that Dodunski and another workman were feeding the crusher with boulders, and the former had just put in u stone when his mate landed rather :l l K avv bould-u----across the back of his left hand, badly crushing it; in fact several bones were broken. The injured man is now in the doctor's hands, and som 0 time must elapse before he will be able to work again.—Post.