LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 319, 19 February 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Pliymouth Tennis Club defeated Inglewooa at Inglewood on Thursday by 119 points to 93. A press' telegram last night from Palmerston North stated that tenders have been accepted for the erection of a golf house at Hokowliitu, at a cost •of about £I2OO.

Cadets travelling to attend the review in Wellington next week will leave New Plymouth by the mail tram on Wednesday, 23rd inst, not at 6 a.m.-, as previously announced.

f An express belonging to Messrs Pike and Waters, and loaded with bottles of aerated waters, capsized in Robe street yesterday morning. Little damage was done, except to the content* of the vehicle.

By subscriptions limited to small amounts a neat tombstone has erected in Te Henui cemetery to the memory of the late Mr. E. Metealf Smith, who for aiany years represented this electorate in the House oi Kepresentatives. It has been suggested to us that the significance of the memovi-il might be enhanced were the inscription to show that it was erected by the constituents and friends of the deceased gentleman. In enumerating those things in which New Zealand claims to lead Old England, the Mayor in his address at the Theatre Royal quoted our State railways. The Rev. Woollcombe returned to the railways later on. "I've seen ns good railways -as your, State railways," he remarked, amidst loud laughter, and added: "I have been on a State Ailway where, in climbing a bit of a steep grade, the guard walked alongside the train and put a stick through the wheels to keep the train from running back. But I've enjoyed travelling on State railways." he said. "You can always enjoy a thing when you've ,;ot time to consider how good it is."

The Rev. Woollcombe reckons that any man with ordinary tact aan approach another and ask him to go to church. This is how one man went about it the other day. He called on a man one Saturday afternoon, ami found him working in the garden. (History doesn't record whether he engaged in the same occupation on Sunday). After some little conversation, ho asked the horticulturalist: "You're a member of the Church of England, aren't you?" The other man was startled. Yes, he believed he was, but he wasn't sure. Oh, yes, he must be, for he was christened in that church. "And weren't you married there?" Why, yes, of course he was; he must ■be a member of the church, certainly. "And I suppose you expect to be buried there?" Yes, he'supposed .so, when the time came. Here was the visitor's chance. "And do you think that we're going to keep up that church just for the privilege of burying you when the time comes?" he asked. The res»t was easy.

REXONA,

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Bauey, the spiritualistic medium, who visited Now Zealand some months ajro, is to undergo a series of tests by scientific men in England shortly.

The Fitzroy school picnic is to be held at "The Pines" on Easter Monday, and a ladies' committee has been formed to make all arrangements.

The matron of the New Plymouth hospital desires to acknowledge the receipt of donations of fruit from Mrs. Olliver. Mrs. Magec, Messrs. Webster and J. R. Hill.

An enormous glut in the supply of fruit is reported in the Hastings district. The total output daily by the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association is between 1500 and IGOO cases.

Unable to pay the debts which the municipality had contracted, the ■ittie town of Berditcheff, in the neighbourhood of Kieff, was treated as ordinary landed property and sold by auction. It has been purchased by the Brothers Roukavischnikoff for £145,000.

We understand that Mr. E. I-I. Tribe, liquidator of the Taranaki Co-operative Bacon Company' Limited, ha* sold the company's property at Fitzroy. The factory will be generally overhauled and brought up-to-date. It will be kno.,rn in future as the "Taranaki Bacon Company," under the management of Mr. J. Ingley. ■ A "News" reporter was informed that the Fitzroy residents are considering the matter of beautifying the beach \>ayond the Henui stream by planting suitable trees. A street, the continuation of Paynter's lane, runs from Devon street to the beach, and the plan includes the planting of shrubs along this thoroughfare. Someone writes to the New Zealand Times urging that greater respect should be shown to the two wonders of the 10th Century, the phonograph and the bioscope, than to use them, the one to roar out to all and sundry songs that are nowise elevating, and the other to place before them events that closely partake of the bloodthirsty and debasing contents of penny dreadfuls and novelettes.

A big game hunter, just arrived from India and Tibet, Mr. P. E. Hadow, told a Christehurch reporter that the Himalayan bears, which have been introduced into Canterbury, in their native country live in some of the wildest and most inaccessible places he had seen. In some instances he found that it was quite impossible to get at them. He is not very sanguine that thev will be a sucees in New Zealand, chichV on account of the small extent of country.

A map weighing 1 ton 3cwt, and showing all British North America, and part of the United States, is on view at the offices of Canadas Grand Trunk Rail.way system, Montreal. It is executed with strinking geographical accuracy on a solid sheet of glass 12ft wide by 6ft deep and thick. The map is on view, not only during the day, but also at night, when it is illuminated by 24 25-candle-power lamps. Eight skilled operators were engaged continuously for over five months on this n\ap. Lever Brothers, of Sunlight soap celebrity, have practically decided to build a, factory at Durban, the conditions 'being regarded as unrivalled for industrial purposes. Six acres, it is understood, are being acquired at Congella, near the Natal port, and a large number of operatives will be brought from England—probably about 10 ■ families. The firm have an oversea export in view as much as the South African market. ■Soap and candles are to be the main manufactures, and a good deal of che raw material required will be obtained locally.

During his visit to England, Mr. H. Brett, proprietor of the Auckland Star, had frequent consultations with Messrs Norman and Beard, the famous organ builders, regarding the instrument which he is to present to the city of Auckland for the new Town Hall. The specifications are by the organist, Mr. E. H. Lemare, who lias acted for the donor in the matter. The organ, whi-'h is now under construction in the firm's works at Norwich, will be the largest in the Dominion, the larsre front pines measuring over 3(5 ft from the top of the pipe to the bottom of the pipe font. The organ will consist of four manuals, and will contain 330.j pipes. The Wellington Town Hall organ contains 58 speaking stops and 3213 pipes. Wellington, says the Evening Post, is rat-infested to a degre? that is a source of much expense to the city. Proprietors of grain stores and grocers' warehouses, butchers' shops, and restaurants, all could tell of annoyances ami losses caused by rats, and so could most, private householders. The city engineer remarked that rats were a constant source of trouble, and that they were, encouraged and made move numerous by the facilities for living which were afforded them by careless citizens who left eatable rubbish lying about. Rats .were a cause of expense to the city, for they undermined the flagstones and made the foundations uneven. A campaign against the rats, with poison and the natural enemy, is one of Wellington's present needs.

Devon street was in roars of laughter ■for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon. The cause of all the hilarity wis "Jack,'' or rather a group of the sail >vs from IT.M.S. Pegasus. They wo-e "happy," and cold water hadn't mu-di to do with their merriment, either. They were as playful as boys after school, "happy as Larry," but, unli'ce the landsmen who reach that blissful' state, they were quite innocent in their ■fun—no obscenity, no rudeness. They commandeered a pony and, a bicycle, and they ran races up and down Devon street. They were notoriously bad riders, either on the wheel or in the saddle. Whilst the races were being run, on of them got astride a boy ; s tricycle. The fun was fast and furiois while, it lasted. Just before seven o'clock the happy band of Britain's bulwarks reported themselves at the polk'e station, as ordered by "the Court, in readiness for the steamer journey to Auckland to rejoin ship. They held quite a levee at the railway station, each of five windows framing tl; head of a sailor, who kept the erovd amused. Prior to leaving tney gavr three British cheers for the Mayor, three for New Plymouth, and three 'for the police., whom they described as "white men."

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