LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 318, 18 February 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two young men are being prosecuted for spearing trout in the Inglewood district.

James Douglas, a prohibited person, was filled 5s for cirufTkenness yesterday, and 10s and costs for procuring liquor during the currency of his order. An alternative of 48 hours' imprisonment was fixed in each case.

A wife's claim aga-inst her husband for maintenance was introduced in the S.M. Court yesterday, and adjourned till the 24th inst. Another case, an application for the varying of an order made unaer the Destitute Persons Act, was adjourned to the 21st inst. The five men of the Pegasus who overstayed men-leave, and who gave themselves up to the police, we.-e charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning with being absent from their ship without leave. They were remanded to Auckland J ""\vhere they will be d.alt with on the ship.

In an interview at Auckland, the Hon. Dr. Findlay contradicted a report that an English officer, with some years' experience in Bombay as chief 'of police, was coming out to join th? New Zealand force in an important capacity. When Mr. Waldegrave had matters sufficiently in hand, a chief-inspector for New .Zealand would be appointed, the selection to be made from the New Zealand force.

Perhaps-the proudest father on the Osteiiey (says the Argus) was an immigrant who set out with a wife and two children and arrived in Melbourne with a wife and three children. The newcomer was born in the Suez Canal. The surgeon of the steamer is Dr. Muir, and the delighted parents promptly loaded the new baby with the eloquently descriptive Christian names of Muir Osterley Suez. That the Angora goat is justifying its reputation as a weed eradicator, receives ample demonstration at Karaka Downs. Mr. F. E. Trolove's property, Aotea (says the Kawhia Settler). His little herd of ten are keeping blackberry vim's entirely stripped of leaves and young shoots, although grass is plentiful in their enclosure. It can only be a mat- • ter of time when the plants must lo?e their vitality in consequence of being constantly deprived of their foliage. The butter factory companies and merchants doing business upon the Auckland market have decided to ;n-----crease the wholesale price of standard brands of butter to 12'/ 2 d per lb nr' »This increase in due to the high prices and good prospvets reported from England. The prices ruling in England the last fortnight, it is stated, would have justified an earlier advance upon +he Auckland market, but tue eon>.p?.ni:s have delayed increasing the local pvl?e until quite assured of the position in the Old Country.

A peculiar case ha* come under th? notice of the Gisborne authorities, action being unavailing!}* sought io bring back a woman, the mother of several children, who was alleged [ .o have taken passage south with another man. The wife and family of the latter individual, so it is stated, hav> left on a visit to Auckland. Th;> aggrieved husband learned on enquiry that there is not provision for bringing back a runaway wife, although a defaultinu' hnsband, of course, can readily be arrested .and ordered to contribute to the maintenance of his family.

"Visiting Close By" is the jiom de plume of a lady correspondent, who replies to an anonymous letter which appeared in these columns a few days ago criticising the conduct of mixed bathing at Tc Henui. She rebukes the "gentleman' for rushing into print in a most uncivil manner, almost libelling the ladies. Why mention age? They like a bath on a hot day, as well as did their mother Eve an apple on a hot day. She could not wait till plates and knives were made, and we couldn't wait until our dresses were made; so we had to do without and take the best we could get. Next we will expect him to say we should have drawn curtains round our baths,* and the keyholes stuffed up, as the builders' did not put butterflies over the keyholes. T hope he will leave the duties to the inspector, Mr. Ben Tippins, next time. P feel 1 ought to take their part, as I saw no immodesty at the East End." Ratepayers generally confine their growls to talk. Not often is a County Council taken to task by letter, but the Egmont County Council had the pleasure at its' last meeting of seeing itself as a ratepayer saw it. Mr. A. T. Schinkel, Pihama, in enclosing a cheque for 12G for rates, said he had seen by the Council's card that they were claiming the same rate, V/Ji in the pound, as last year, which was very near double the amount of iast year's. He considered it a shame that Oeo fanners were getthg dealt with" like that, and considered there was a screw loos'e somewhere in the management of the Egmont County Council. He protested against such treatment, and averred that he had never seen tile like sine:' he was hori. Tt was a, scandalous affair. The whole of (he members wanted bundling out except one. Councillors indulged ifl a wide-spreading smile, but did not disclose which of the councillors Mr. Schinkel deemed - to be worthy of his' seat on the Council. REXONA, The Rapid Healing Ointment, cures wit,i remarkable rapidity sores, ulcers, burns, cuts, bruises, eczema, chilblains, and all diseases of the skin. Sold in triangular nots at Is fid and 3s. Obtainable at < Bullock and Johnston's.

An accident occurred yesterday to ;i motor oar belonging to Mr. A. W. Og! ', of Waitara. The car was travelling along Devon-street East, near the Red House Hotel, when the spokes I low out of one of the front wheels. Xo serious damage was done.

The Star reports that a. mishap occurred at the Haw era railway station on Tuesday evening which resulted in one of the engines (class 11) going right across the turntable, through an iron tenet-, and dropping into Guard Davis' garden. A large gang of men and tlnvengines got it on the road again about tw(. d'einek next morning.

An accident that looked bound to result V(■■;•;, seriously occurred in Devon street yesterday afternoon. Thellissis Taylor were driving down Devon stiwt from the ;>ost office with the Fitzroy Imail, when the horse stumbled on a loose stone, and came down on its knees. Both of the young ladies were thrown out. One was thrown very heavily, and received a bad shaking. T )r. Blackley was sent for, and was on the spot in a couple of minutes. He found that the lady had broken her arm. The horse was stopped opposite the Criterion Hotel.

It is not often that anything like a complete edition of London Punch is offered ior sale in an auction room. On rci recent Monday night, however, some 37 volumes of' that famous journal, covering a period from IS4I (the first year of issue) to 1003, were brought under the auctioneer's hammer in a sale room in Dunedin. The whole of the volumes were offered in one lot, and after spirited bidding they were knock -d down to the Dunedin Athenaeum committee at os 3d per volume. The journal, which is well bound in cloth, will form a valuable addition to the reference library of, the Athenaeum, the Otago Daily Times observes. Says an Australian paper: "We have the. satisfaction of knowing that nothing said by us by way of anticipatory commendation approached in any degree to overstatement. With all our hearts Ave thank God for the coming of His servant." This refers to the most enthusiastic meetings Mr. Wooleombe recently held in Australia; and the said thing may be said of his New Zealand meetings'. Everywhere he is drawing great crowds of men, and it is expected that New Plymouth will be no exception to the rule. Already considerable interest is being taken locally in his visit, and it is expected that the Theatre will be all too small to accommodate the public this evening. The "guesser" who victimised the bluejackets on the racecourse on Wednesday had an exciting few moments last evening. The victims were the same sailors who missed the warship that evening, and had perforce to stay in town until they could h$ returned v'o their ship. After spenuing the day at the races they came into Devon stiwt last night, and one of them caught sight of the slippery gentleman whose face they were so anxious to disfigure as a slight return for the fifteen shillings that he had obtained from them. With a hue-and-cry they were after him, but Jack wasn't sufficiently vers.'d in the reefs and shoals of New Plymouth—otherwise the right-of-ways and street corners—and the man eluded pursuit by dodging into a right-of-way. Five angry sailors, had they caugnt, i,ie guesser, would have had a fairlv sultry revenge, and he may thank his lucky stars that he got out of the corner so easily.

The Pelorus Guardian of Friday gives the following particulars of the narrow escape of a family:—The settlor,, in the neighborhood of Mr. Samuel Watson's homestead at Deep Creek were startled at o a.m. on Thursday by a terrific explosion, followed by a rush of flames that quickly dissipated the early morning mists. The disturbance proved to have arisen in Mr. Watson's smith-,- shed' adjoining the residence. Mr. Watson and his son were busy in the smithy m Wednesday evening-, and when they had finished sharpening some tools they very .carefully extinguished the fire in the forge. It is supposed, however, that they must have overlooked some sparks, for about 3 o'clock next morning Mr. Watson's son ttladdy noticed a flare through the window of his bedroom. IT« awakened his fathei\ who saw flames darting through the windows ot the shed. Suddenly remembering there was a quantity of gelignite stored in the shed, Mr. Wa-tson roused kis -wife, and the three retired to a safe distance. Five ■minutes later the gelignite exploded with a deafening roar, and the burning shed timbers were hurled in all directions, [lurrying back, th? three startled ■peopic set to work to save their home. This proved a difficult task, for burning debris had been thrown on the house, the washhouse. and the dairy; while the hayshed. fiftv yards awav. and full >.\f hay, was utterly destroyed. The I'i'l- - of the explosion can be imagined, by a giance at the havoc in the residence. Every window is broken, the shelves were stripped of crockery and grass wore, which were thrown in fragments to the floor, and the piano ami organ were overturned. Tn addition, the house, which is an old one. was badly shaken, as though by a violent -artiiquake. BOOT BARGAINS at THE MELBOURNE. When the first signs of im-reasiog prices on leather goods cropped up, oar buyers were advised, and with the wisdom born of wide experience, they tremendously busy forthwith. Contracts were placed that manufacturers would have given much lo cancel later on. But, with our public in mind, we insisted on prompt delivery of every item ordered. That lioots and shoes are going to be dearer is a foregone conclusion; that prices like these will ".ot occur later on when you want footwear is a dead certain. Embrace the opportunity. Men's strong kip shooters, nailed or plain, 7* Cd; men's light chrome, bals, 10s fid; men's black canvas shoes, with clumped soles, -is lid; .women's canvas shoe*?, 3s ltd; children's chrome school boots, splendid wearers, 5s lid;, men's heavy kip watertight?, 14s Gd; men's kip bluchers, 4s lid; men's chrome balmorals, sewn soles, 12s (id; Avomen's chrome 2-bar shoes, os lid; men's highest grade box-calf, glace kid, and willow-calf balmorals (welted'), worth '-'is pair, in seven distinct styles, includ'nsr the newest Yankee form sli-nicr-. 10s fid pair. Hundreds of other bargains. ' A WOl:D TO TRAVELLERS.

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