The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 307, 5 February 1910, Page 4

The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the present time 40 girls and 20 boys from the West End school are attending the swimming and life-saving classes at the local baths. By some mischance our report of Thursday's garden party at "Aotea" omitted mention of the fact that -Mrs. Woods' orchestra played a programme of capital music, which was a very enjoyable feature. On the motion of Mr. Quilliam (Uovctt and Quilliam) letters of administration in the estate of William Julian, late of Oakura, farmer, deceased, haeo iß'en granted uy the Supreme Court to Mrs. Elizabeth Julian. The Hastings Standard states that as the result of the increase in railway fares, the Williamson Opera Company will be called upon to pay an extra £)JS for their tickets between New Plymouth and Hastings. Cr. Wilson has given notice of motion for the next meeting oi the Borough Council: "That t'lie Estimates Committee be recommended to place on the estimates for PJiO-11 a sum of money for the erection of an experimental groin on the ueach below Woolcombe Terrace." The new member of the Clifton County Council, Mr. Stewart MeGu'.uness, asked at yesterday's meeting if it were the custom to allow smoking during "business hours." The chairman said he allowed the indulgence, having found from long experience that councillors were less likely to become "crabby" when allowed to smoke. Mr. McG'umness said he'd rather have the 6moking than bad temper, and no more was heard of it.

The Inglewood Record reprinted the paragraph concerning Mr. Duncan's suggestion that Lord Kitchener should be taken for a trip to Queen Charlotte Sound, with a view of noting the suitability of Pieton as a naval base. Then the Record added: "And incidentally to view the wreck o f the Waikare.'' How the Waikare wreck has been moved from Duslty Sound in Otago to the northern end of the South Island is not explained.

A suite of St. Louis Seize carved furniture realised a remarkable price at Christie's (London) on December 11, •when, after keen competition between English and German firms, it was knocked down to the latter for £5230. The suite consisted of a settee, a pair j of large fauteuils, and six smaller oiks, upholstered.with Gobelin tapestry. It was a gift by the unfortunate Marie .Antoinette to the secretary of the British Legation at Paris in 1783. At the same sale a pair of Chinese vases and a beaker of porcelain of the Ming period realised £2OOO. About seven o'clock yesterday evening Constable Whitehouse could be seen in Devon street carrying at least twenty pairs of boots, of ail sizes. It wis thought by many that the genial me nber of tlie force had been attending a bargain sale and laving in a familysupply to last for a considerable time ahead. However, it was not so; l.c was only taking them to the police station for safe keeping during the niglit, as one of our business men, evidently of a trustful nature, liacl clc Scil j Lis sfiop for the night, leaving a valuable quantity oi boots hanging outside. A grand sacred Oolicert will he given bv the Taranaki Garrisou Band at Messrs Sole Bros.' pretty grounds, '•Aotea,* tormorrow (weather permitting), commencing at 3 p.m. The programme will comprise:—Grand processional march, "Romaine" (Gounod'); antluun, "''Jerusalem. My Glorious Home" (Mason); three hyms, "Abide with Me" (Monk), ''Sandou" (Furdv), and "Sun of My Soul" (Anon); chorus from Beethovens Mass in C, "Thou Alone Art Holy"; serenade, "The Bells o.f Seville 7 ' (Jude); Prayer from Moses in Egy,it (Rossini); glee, "Winds Gently Whis•per while she Sleeps" (Hume); anthem, "I will Arise" (Cecil); "The Old Hundredth''' (Franc). It will be remembered that some months ago the local branch of the Navy League invited Mr. C. W. Palmer, secretary of the Wellington branch, io visit New Plymouth for the purpose of forming school branches here. The subscription wag fixed at Ls per annum, find this entitles each member to a bronze medal and the journal published l>y the League and also when a warship ' visits the port to a free passage to and from it. Seventy-six pupils attending the West End school joined the League ! find have paid their subscriptions H>s Worship the Mayor (Mr. G. Tiseli). accompanied by Mr. C. T. Mills, local secretary of the League, visited the school yesterday, and presented each member with a 'bronze medal and a jouvn.il, and arrangements will be made to convey them to and from 11.M.5. Pegasus, which is to visit New Plymouth during the month.

The working of the Public Health Act occasionally hurls a bomshell into the midst of members of local bodies. Here's a case. . A settlor recently *eporteil to the Clifton county clerk that a young Maori was lying ill in a wlmv by the roadside_at ; Purangi, and was susppctecl of suiTering from typho'l. "flip Maoris would not call in a doct or on their own account. Mr. Vaush-in communicated with the TTplatli Depavtmcut's inspector at Stritfoi'd. and re »witod the locality with Dr. Gault. cf fnsrlcwood. the cxwneo? beiivr fhivjod !> gainst the Clifton Connie' Ooiui'' 1. ivhich was the local authorilv mulov ilie Public Health Act. The mrdi.-n found the man was suffering from obstructive jaundice, 'which w~ ; ; not an infectious 'disease. When the matter was reported to the County Council at its meeting yesterday, the chairman said it was rather hard upon the ratepayers that they should not only have to provide free roads and bridges for the Maoris to travel on, but where a Maori was suspected to be suffer!,ig from infectious disease the ratepayers should also have to pay the doctor's hill. Such, however, wafs the law, and they had to submit to it.

A wire from Wanganui states th;it the Kai'korai Band has withdrawn fro.n | the forthcoming band contest. 'At the corner of Devon and CurrL- j streets last evening a carter named ! F. Burke accidentally fell under his horses' feet. The horses were pulled up by a bystander, and Bourke extricated from liis dangerous position. Beyond a few facial abrasions he escaped injury. The exports from Tarauaki ports during last year were valued at £1,549,158, to which New Plymouth contributed £601,380, Pa tea £577,8%, and Waitara £369.972. ill lboß the total was £1,222,945, and the individual contributors were: New Plymouth £437,865. Patea £500,588, and Waitara .£284,492. "The whole duty of women is to govern," declared the Rev. J. Hobbs, of Hastings, at the Anglican Synod at Wellington. "They govern us during the most diflicult times of our lives. When we are children we are under petticoat government and when we 're adults with responsibilities upon us, we put ourselves under petticoat government, and we are all the better >"er placing ourselves under the government of those who have such a strong interest in us." The banks, we are informed, ha _ e decided to reduce the rates of interest on deposits in the course of a few days, which may be taken as a further indication of the ''easing" of the money market. Enquiries made in several reliable quarters show that there is an abundance of money for investment n gilt-edged securities at from 5 to o'/ 3 per cent, per annum. Anticipating Hie action of the banks the building companies'some days ago reduced the rate J /o per cent, for deposits. —Wellington Times. It is understood by a northern paii-T that a company is being formed for the purpose of procuring a suitable vessel for trawling the west coast of the No.rth Island. At the present time a:l the inland towns arc supplied with fish from Napier or Wellington, making fish rather a luxury when it should be in everyday article of food. The steamer is to be fitted with up-to-date freezing machinery, and cool stores are to be erected on shore so as to ensure regu:ar daily supplies. Tile headquailters of the company will be one of the coastal ports. There are large areas of good trawling grounds within reach of a seagoing trawler, which at the present time are not now fished and should give excellent results. For the theft of tools to the value "f £2, the property of the Egmont Box Co., Ltd., a young man named Robert Vance, a former employee of the company, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Eltham on Wednesday. A conviction was also recorded against him on a second charge of stealing a saw and a chisel, the property of Edward Henn, the Box Company's foreman. The goods were stolen prior to October last, and were found in accused's boxes at Eltham on November i.">, when the boxes were searched under warrant by Constable Wade, Vanee having left the district and gone to Duncdin, where he was arrested on Norember 11, and sentenced to thv-e .■nonths' imprisonment for stealing goods from his employers to the value of £lB.

Writes our "Stratford correspondent: "I notice by your report of the Briti-ii and Foreign Bible Society meeting tli.it the Rev. Osborne takes me to ta-k for lack of knowledge concerning the Book of Holy AVrit. I thank the ivv. gentleman, and I am pleased to see that even at this late hour he has discovered the lact that his mission i< :o enlighten the heathen that writes in darkness on such intricate suhjec.s. After all, I don't feel disposed to pirs the Ham-bone with the gentleman, f'.itwo reasons: Firstly, the Ham-bnne would probably he salt, and 1 am sure we would never agree on ilie l'ight kind of liquor to wash it down: secondly, most of the original members of the lost tribe are dead, and I never care to reflect on the dead; finally, it i.« immaterial whether Ham bejjat thv •bribes or the iost tribes begat Hani", and, further, I believe it is banned amongst the Israelites (ham)." M the Magistrate's Court, Elthani, on Wednesday, before Air. Kenvick, S.M., Leonard Faster and Phillip Ev.i ■were charged with committing an assault oil a Chinese laundryman named Chong Lee. In giving judgment, Mr. Kenriek, S.M., stated tiiat these assaults upon the Chinese were becoming a too frequent occurrence in different part's of the Dominion. The Chinese were a law-abiding, peaceful lot of citizens, and were entitled to the tion of the law. In other districts where he (Mr. Kenriek) had presided, he had warned miscreants that if a second assault on the Chinamen*, took place lie would punish the offenders by imprisonment without the option of a fine. He wished to give the same warning to residents here. 11l the present charges he would inflict a flue of 40s and costs, amounting to 21s. against Foster, who had pleaded guilty. ,\s Eva had pleaded not guilty, and had put the prosecution to the expense of procuring the services of ail interpreter, lie would fine defendant Eva £3 and costs amounting to £3 12s Rd. The default would be one month's imprisoament in Eva's case, and 14 days' imprisonment in the case of Foster. The borough is not the only local body in and about New Plymouth that is alive to the question of electric tra ilways. It is very evident that the Fit/.roy Town Board regards the sarly arrival of trams as more than a po.-sibi-litv, and is making provision accordingly. The Devon road through Fitzroy is also an established fact to the fnil width that the borough has yet u> complete. As has been done by the borough, the Fitzroy Town Board luvpurchased and is providing a through stock road, enabling such traffic to uc diverted from Devon street and Devon road. Their sympathy with the tramway scheme is, further, not of just recent acquirement. Over two years agn, in November, 1907, the Board appointed a deputation to wait on the Boroiurh Council to itweu's by-laws and tlv ! question of trams, but at that time { the suhiect was no*' treated serio'i-'v | There is no reason to believe that pu:i----i lie reeling in Fitzroy has undergone I any change in the interim, and wli»n ! the Council is ready with its scheme, it will probably be found that the Fitzroy To-.vn Board is ready to join heartily in assisting the movement, and sharing with the borough the responsibility of raising the necessary loans. A millionaire dangerously ill. Whose relations denied him a pill, By advice of the cook. Laxo-Tonic Pills took, He recovered, and made a new will, LAXO-TONIC PILLS, 10M,d and ls Od. Obtainable at Bullock and Johnston's.