LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 346, 23 March 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There vill 'be no issue of the Daily News on Good Friday or Easter Monday. In Saturday's New Zealand Herald appears a line view of Moturoa showing the four oil derricks. The photograph, which was taken by Mr. W. A. Collis, is headed "A Possible Future Baku of New Zealand." . "Traveller" writes complaining of what he describes as the exacting charge for bicycles levied by the Puniho tollgate. He points out that the charge at Mangatoki is but one penny; at Puniho it is threepence. "It is not the bicycle," he concjudes, "that destroys the road, but the road that destroys the bicycle, and the County Council, instead of penalising cyclists, should be glad to assist them by providing better roads."

For the fortnight ended on Thursday (says the Auckland Star), a total of 11,900 boxes, or 297y 2 tons of butter, •had been sent into cold storage for export, as compared with 9637 toxes, or 241 tons, for the corresponding fortnight of last year. Last fortnight's consignment is worth about £38,675. From Ist October to date 5197 tons have been exported from Auckland, representing an increase of 1406 tons over the -corresponding period last year. According to the annual returns, the total roll number of pupils attending schools in the Taranaki Education District last year was 5830, and the average roll number 5131. There were in all 176 teachers. The total roll showed an increase of 466 for the year, the average attendance increased by 478, and the teachers (including pupil teachers and probationers) increased by 24. The number of schools was 00, an increase of two for the year. "The technical school in Inglewood, to use a vulgar expression, stinks in everybody's nostrils," said Mr. Whitehead, chairman of the Inglewood school committee to the Education Board last night. It had, he said, been "so long on the go" that the people were sick of it, and lie thought there was no possibility of raising any money in Inglewood or the district. Mr. Trimble said he was of a totally different opinion, and informed the Board that he knew of two men who weFe willing to give £lO each towards the cost if nvo other* could be found to give similar amounts. It transpired that the Inglewood school committee and the committees in the neighborhood had raised £49 towards the cost, and the Inglewood Borough Council and the Taranaki County Council gave £25 each.

The local sea fishermen wonder why Oamaru should be.the only place along the sea coast infested with hordes of sharks, and sharks, too, of phenomenal size (says the North Otago Times}. One of the fishermen on Monday morning armed himself with a specially-made lance, with which to try conclusions with the enemy that was stripping :ns lines of hooked groper. A shark that had bitten off the body of a groper followed the head up to the side of the boat, and rtceived a prodigious jab with the lance. It made off like a flash. Another gne, about 17ft long, repeated the performance, and when it came alongside the launch it receive ! a thrust from the lance that was well driven home. The shark made for the boat, and evidently bit it, for when the launch was hauled up on the beach for painting, a. large tooth of a shark was found embedded in the wood, and there were evidences of teeth marks along the planks. The shark was evidently unable to grip the boat, for tho bite had glanced off. • The fisherman recovered his Jance, badly bent. Nothing daunted, he is going to try more lancing.

A remarkable accident which occural in St. Mark's Basin in consequence of the capsizing of a gondola is described in a telegram from Venice to the NewYork Herald. Mr. and Mrs. G. IT. Branch, two American artists, who were spending their honeymoon in Venice, took a gondola from the railway station to the Hotel Thew. When opposite the Doge's Palace, a local steamboat which was approaching the quay bore down on the gondola, and before the Gondoliers realised their danger the craft was overturned in deep water. Mrs. Branch showed great presence of mind. Although wrapped in heavy furs she leapt into the water at the moment the steamboat struck the gondola. Mr'. Branch remained sitting under the feltze, or carriage hood which covers the centre of the gondola and was carried under 'water. There is no record of a previous disaster in which a person has escaped after being caught in tlip "feltze" and carried beneath the surface of the water. However, Mr. Branch was able to spring through an ope'iins in the hood which served as a window .itv' rose to the surface. A erv was rai-eel and both Mr. and Mrs. Branch wor" promptly rescued, 'without being any the worse for their experience.

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The merging of the Omata, Hurford and Egrnont road districts into the Taranaki county is gazetted. Only one tender has been received by the Borough Council for the construction of the new tail race at the powerhouse at Mangorei. The executive committee will deal with the mutter this morning.

The Chief Postmaster advises that the Weiiingtou-Brindisi despatch of February 11th arrived in London on the 18th inst; also that the WellingLou-'Frisco despatch of February Bth arrived in London on the 20th inst.

The earnings of dramatic authors are sometimes exceedingly large. The late Clyde Fitch, whose death was recently announced, is said to have won over 41400,000 with his pen .luring his twenty years' career as a play right; while Mr. Hall Caine is stated to have netted £50,000 from "The Christian'' alone.

A syndicate or "association" is being i formed in Masterton to take up laiKij under the provisions of the Land Settle-! ment finance Act, which came into I operation on January 1. The local paper says it is the intention of the association to purchase the fine estate of; McGregor Bros., at Mauaia, consisting : of 000 acres of splendid land. | The port medical officer of Wellington, Dr. H. Pollen, has just returned from a trip to England. He was in I London during the thick of the election, I and mentions, as an example of the ex-l traordinary and universal interest taken' is the elections, that When he went to' visit a very distinguished specialist he found the doctor's house simply placarded from floor to roof with posters bearing the device, "Down with the Lords." It was a new thing, thought the visitor, for medical men to plunge so deeply into politics. The Hot Lakes Chronicle accuses Lord Kitchener of having made a pun. While escorting him over the Whakarewarewa Reserve, it says, Maggie, the guide, was explaining to him that the very worst thing one could do to Maoris—the greatest insult that could be offered—was to compare them to something.that they were in the habit of eating", such as to call a man a pig. In the olden days the punisnmeilt for such a crime was death. "In that £ase," said Lord Kitchener, "it wouldn't do to call a nice Maori girl a deer (dear)." "There seems to be a very favorable opinion of the Dominion at Home," said Mr. H. P. Stark, manager of the Greymouth branch of the Bank of New South Wales, to a New Zealand Herald representative, Mr. Stark, who has been touring in the Old Country and abroad for a year, -found evidences that New Zealand's credit was very sound in Great Britain. "The Dreadnought gift," he said, "is largely responsible for the good feeling existing: It has made New Zealand very 'sweet' with the British people. This has had a good effect in financial quarters, and the Home attitude towards our mining investments is also on the mend."

Why is it that trout grow to such great size in Xew Zealand and Tasmania as compared 'with Ensland. hemland, Norway, etc.. asks the Sydney Daily Telegraph. The capture of a trout from five to ten pounds weight in the Old Country is paragraphed in a dozen newspapers, and seems to lie quite tin event in the fishing world, while in Xew Zealand, for instance, it is no extraordinary achievement to land a 2011) fish or heavier. It has been suggested that in European water o , where the lakes, etc., are frozen over, the food supplv is reduced to a minimum in winter. which retards the growth of the fish. This theory seems quite feasible, continues our contemoorarv. and t~n« views of anelers of cold-country experience would he very interesting. The largest restaurant in the world, capable of accommodating (>oflo peop'e, is to he erected in New-York. The capitalists behind the venture are the same group that constructed the ncwlv-own-ed Cafe de l'Opern on Broadway. The new restaurant will provide first-class fare at prices lower than are now charged at the best New York dining -.il ices. ami customers will he served >ll the -familv stvle of the German citie=. There •will he ten kitchens, each with it's separate staff, and each equipped to serve 000 people. There will also be ten serving bars. Tn the centre of the restaurant- there will he a srlass dome high. with an area of about 10.0(10 square feet. An ice skatin* rink w'll he provided on the roof, wh ; e!i miv 7-e transformed into a roof card en theatre in the summer.

A Budapest message states that the local journal, Az Mjsasr, publishes the following amusing storv: —On their return from their farewell audience of the Emperor-Kin" in Vienna, the members of Dr. Wekerle's Cabinet, had a disagreeable experience at Budapest. The porters refused to take any notice of /the saloon ear in which *he ex-Minic-ters were travelling. Thev bustled about in obedience to tV .->v/|pv a of <he other passengers but refused to hear the eloquent appeals even of Dr. Wekerle in his stentorian voice. At last Count Albert Opnonyi. highly amused at the turn matters had ta.k»n. sei7C l his Gladstone bag and hsi-box and walked away. The others vwwino<] consolnte and neglected until *he f'*Honniaster took pity on their »Ti£rht. He found the porters grouped Aether in the cloak-room, nneonceHier]]v '•hntti"? and smokine. Somewhat reluctantly thev obeved the order to <m at on™ tn the rescue of the »x-Ministers. Questioned as +o the motives for this extraordinary behaviour, one of the men s«W: "Two members of the ret'rin? Cabinet have persistently refusal ro give ps anv tips—even tl" 1 minimpm prescribed by thn by-laws—for the work of enrryinsr thf'r luc<rasre to 'i-om the trains. Therefore we refused to serve anv of them."

FINAL WEEK OF THE MELBOURNE'S BOOT SALE.

Hear in mind this extraordinary sale with its money-saving opportunities. The better a judge you are of good hoots and boot values, the more eager v ou will he to attend this sale. We are literalh- sacrificing one of the finest stocks of hoots in Taranaki at prices avera.ginf

Los TX THE POUND, and thi* in the face of the recent advance in lather! Don't fail to secure ba raw ins like these: Youths' stronjr shooters fis lid, men's shooters 7s (id. women's two-strap chrome shoes ns lid. xyirls' bee ehome boots 5s lid. youths" sohool boots (very strong chrome with steel-sln™£red soles) lOs fld, men's sewn 'oalmorals lis 6d, men's eh r ome bnlmorals (riyeted soles) 10s fid, men's heavy watertight.* 14s fid, men's splendid chrome shooters 13s fid; men'.a genuine welted and standard screwed boots in box f"lf, glace kid. p tkl willow calf, some with extra strong double soles, 163 9d pair, worth 255;