LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 336, 11 March 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be family bathing at the municipal baths this evening between 7 and 8.30 o'clock, under electric light. On Tuesday night the Mana ran upon a mudbank in the Patea river, and was arrested for twenty-four hours, escaping on Wednesday night. According to a delegate at the Cricket Association meeting last evening, one of the teams in New Plymouth is composed of men "who only get enough to pay their board and keep out of jug." A park to commemorate the memory of the late Mr. T. L. .Toll was officially opened at Okaiawa on Wednesday afternoon by Mr. Felix McGuire in the pre sence of a large and representative number of settlers.

The East End Bathing Shed Committee wish to thank the following for donations towards yesterday's sports: Messrs. Cock and Co., Newton King, Arch. Clark and Co., W. Thomson. Waugh, Catran, Morey and Moore, The, Kash, Pcare, Bullock and Johnston. Price, Morey and Sons, Hallenstein Bros, and others." They also wish to thank jjjr. Hoby for a donation of bricks for the coppers. .

.■ Tile schools in the Midhirst district held their annual picnic yesterday on the beach at Moturoa. About three hundred eame in by the morning train, and young and old alike seemed to spend a profitable day. It has been decided to postpone for a lejv weeks the public ball announced liv the Cricket Association to be held in tie week after next, on the ground that the holding of a function of that nature would offend a large proportion of the public sentiment. At thii East End bathing reserve yesterday the Mayor stated that despite the fact that surf bathing had become so popular in New Plymouth, the receipts at the municipal baths had considerably increased over the receipts of the previous yuir. In regard to Sir Robert Stout's statement that many sections of English society were given up to pleasure, the Rev. H. S. Woolkombe says that so far as a New Zealander (as Sir Robert was) was concern.-d, it was a case oi the old proverb of the pot and the kettle. As a new-chum one thing that struck him as most amazing on landing in New Zealand was the number of opportunities the people had for pleasure-making, .and how gloriously they embraced them. Speaking 1o a representative of the Manawatif Times recently, Mr. Fitzsimmons said that he was convinced for three reasons that Jeffries would beat Johnson. Johnson, he said, was scared of Jeffries, and Jeffries, whose lightest fighting weight would be eighteen stone, would hurt him bad. Also he is satisfied that if by any chance Johnson should win, he would not be twenty-four hours champion, so strong is the racial feeling in the matter in the States, and there would be a race war in the American cities.

The following candidates were successful at the theoretical examination held last December in connection with the Trinity College o't Music (London).— Preparatory division: Charlotte Hamilton 98 (Miss Smith, L.A.8., A.T.C.L.),; Alex Keynton Warr'en, 97 (Miss Smith); Leslie Turner, 97 (Miss Smith); Jessie E. Mclsaac, 94 (Miss Smith); Kathleen M. Riordan, 87 (Miss Smith); Zoe Grimstone, 80 (Convent); Frances G. Plitsoh 72 (Convent). Junior division: Aileen Quinn, 85, honors (Convent); Norah Lavery, 78 (Convent). Intermediate division: Vera Roskruge, 86, honors (Convent).

' A Ngaire farmer agrees with the Dairy Division experts that New Zealand is losing annually a very large sum (of which Taianaki's share is a full quarter of a million) owing to the inferior character of many of the dairy cows. He told a Hawera Star reporter on Tuesday that he knows from experience that a little care in selection and breeding wouM make an immense difference in a very short time, ior within a period of five years he has by this means increased his out-turn of butterfat by at least 25 per cent. He has no more land than he had and no more cows, but he has improved the productiveness of his herd.

A sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held yesterday morning, Mr. IT. R. Fitzherbtrt, S.M., presiding. Annie Johnson, on behalf of her dan "liter, Mrs. De Silva, proceeded asrainst the latter's divorced husband. Julias De Silva, for an order under the Destitute Persons Act, for the maintenance or defendant's child. Mr. J. B. Rov, who appeared for the defendant, raised the point that an order bad been made hv the Supreme Court, and therefore his Worship had no power to make an order. Mr. Johnstone. for comolainant, said the troub'e was that the defendant was an itinerant hawker of jewellery, and it had r neen found impossible to serve him with a copy of the Supreme Court order, so that the order had not been senled. Mr. Johnstone added that his client had not consulted him before brinirin? these proceedings, otherwise he misrht have advised her of the lecra] understanding pointed out br Mr. Roy. His Worship aEreed with Mr. Rov. and dismissed the information. No costs were allowed to either party.

According to the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) New Zealand is well equipped from an educational point of view compared with other countries which he recently visited. Speaking to a Dominion reporter on the subject, he remarked that there were doubless' many hints which might be got from England and the various foreign nations. There was, however, such a difference between the conditions in New Zealand and in the older countries that the authorities Jiere should pay more attention to the tenching of agriculture. An endeavor should also be made to create a feeling in favor of country life so as to prevent the accumulation of people in the towns There was in his opinion a greater future for scientifically-trained agrioul. turalists than most people in the Dominion realised. As regards technical education he was satisfied that New Zealand could not hope to become a great manufacturing country like England—at any rate for a great many years. Even if goods could be manufactured fairlv cheaply in New Zealand they could not successfully compote against the manufactures o'f the Old World, owing to the 2 reat distance that they would have to be conveyed. Herr Gustave Lilienthal. the German inventor, a brother of the famous pioneer of aviation, claims to have discovered an epoch-making invention in .flying-machines. Ho has invented an aeroplane that can be worked by human muscles without requiring any mechanical motor power. Herr Lilienthal's now apparatus will enable every man or woman with ordinary strength to become a human bird. The inventor believes that the "air bicycle," as he calls his now invention, will in the near future become ns popular ns road bicycles are at present. Herr Lilienthal's apparatus is bird-like in shane, and has two lara-e wins*, but is lieht, and propelled fast as easily as a, bicvcle can bo worked op a road When the aviator ceases work, the firing machine jrlides qiiietlv to tne ground. Herr Lilienthal rer.i=os to make any more details public at present, but he has imparted confidential information on his marvellous invonti«n tn an ot Gorman exports who met to heav his do=crinti<m of +'>-■ : iv,vntidTi. Tt doon'v irepvossp' l ex»i>n<vp<»<>-T av'ntor*. w!v> -Wf the elmi room TT»r r T,i!i P nilvil - s lecture wn« doUvml with +Tie fo«l'Kr that -lnrinl nev'«atin»i is on the threshold of its Trr-st. important development.

Now's the time to purchase cheap clothing for the boys and nien. It's sale time at "The TCash," and you shrewd Tnranaki people kTiow that this mean lots of bargains. This firm bnv for cash and sell for ca.sh; that means' they bur absolutely in the best markets, securing special diwnnnt.o which +hev Tins" on to yon. Look them up a* once an<f secure some of their bargains. "Die Rash." just below Nolaa'a auction mart. New Plymouth.—Advt.

A meeting of the Beautifying Association is to be bold shortly to consider the proposal to institute a system of tree-planting in some of the streets in the borough. The output of Auckland export butter during the past iortuiglit amounted to •13,000 boxes, worth about £35,75#, as hgainst 9G37 boxes produced during the corresponding period of last year. On the Bth inst., his Honor Mr. Justice Edwards, on tr.e motion of Mr. T. S. Weston (Weston and Weston) granted letters oi the administration of the esjtate of the iate Mr. Henry Dennis, of Pa tea, to the widow of the deceased.

In the Supreme Court on Wednesday, on the motion of Mr. Quilliam, his Honor Mr. Justice Edwards made an order confirming a special resolution of the New Plymouth Sash and Door Co., Ltd., reiucing its capital from .£-10,000 to £30.i00:

At the public meeting on Wednesday night Mr. W D. Webster asked the Mayor row the Anniversary Day picnic at Motnioa last year was financed. The Mayor said that a man in his position ha;! to be prepared to perform little matters oi that kind, "but," he added "one's apt to get tired of this sort of thing if it kceue going too long."

"Mercutio'' writes in the Auckland, Herald:—What do distinguished men do with all tho public addresses that are thiust upon them? Lord Kitchener must have had a couple of hundred presented to him in Australia and New .Zealand. Lord Plunket's portmanteaux .must be bursting with them. What becomes of all these precious documents, the preparation of which involves so much Hme and expense? Are they thrown overboard, or burned, or sold to the waste-pc-per man when he comes .round for rags and bones? Or do the recipients, like Lord Onslow, our former Governor, paper a room with them?