LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 349, 29 March 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Operations at the oil works were suspended during the holidays. They will be resumed this morning. A piece of smart work was done at the wharf yesterday morning, over 500 tons of merchandise being transferred from the Koonya to the railway trucks between 1 o'clock and 7 o'clock.

The biggest pear we hav6 seen was left at our office on Saturday by Mr. B. Enroth. It scaled 2%lib. It was the largest of quite a number of big pears grown ill Mr. Enroth's orchard at Devonstreet west.

The Excelsior Lodge of Oddfellows is holding a social next Tuesday evening, and has extended to the Egmont Lodgea cordial invitation to be present. x;<e invitation has been accepted, and it is expected that .there will be a large gathering of Oddfellows and their friends.

The expedition to Waireka fifty years ago was for the purpose of bringing to safety the Rev. H. Brown, Mr Gilbert, M. Touet and their families. At least three of these were pres'ent at the service at St. Mary's Church yesterday morning. They were Mrs McKellar, Mrs Fleetwood, and Mr Brown.

At Wellington, before the Chief Justice, a well-known hotelkeeper named George Pinnock was adjudged bankrupt on the petition of Messrs. Allan Maguire and Hamilton Gilmer, who were interested in the estate to the extent of £709. Pinnock, it was alleged, committed an act of bankruptcy by not complying with the bankruptcy notice. On Saturday morning a horse bolted with a cart from in front of the Central Meat Bazaar, and galloped along several of the principal thoroughfares before being stopped by Mr J. Mynott, who rushed into the street and checked the animal. A little eight-year-old boy who was sitting in the cart at the time was thrown out, and received a severe scalp wound. He was attended fo by Dr Blackley. The application of the Stratford District High School for additions was before the Education Board on Tuesday, and was referred to the architect to prepare plans, specifications, and estimates, and it was decided to apply to ■tlie Department for a grant. In our report of the Board meeting we erroneously stated that the application was referred to the Chiei Inspector for a report. %

The Post understands that the East Mountain House committee, which has in hand a sum of about £SO for expenditure on buildings at t'he house, has decided not to spend the amount there until something is done towards putting the ( track in order. The amount held cannot 'be spent on the track by the committee, which this year has not, as has been rastomary in the past, a grant from the Government for track improvement purposes. New Plymouth's comparative immunity from crime has 'become almost a byword. Our local detective and the police officers must keep their optics fairly well "skinned," for no s'ooner floes a man with a "record" appear than he is promptly invited to transfer his attentions elsewhere Or, should he commence operations, he is always brought to book, and that right smart ly. The' midnight capture of the alleged perpetrator of two daring burglaries the night before last is just another instance of the effectiveness of our local force 'bf police.

The existing branding registration districts throughout New Zealand are being abolished and new ones substituted. Particulars are given in the latest Gazette. The following are the new districts in this part of the Dominion, with the counties they include (boroughs and town districts within the counties are also included), the names of the registrars, and the .places of . their offices:—Taranaki—Counties .of Clifton and Taranaki, Mr. H. Munro, New Plymouth. Stratford—Counties of Whansamomona and Stratford, Mr. j. M. Hignett, Stratford. Hawera—Counties of Eormont, Waimate West, Eltham, and Hawera, Mr. D. Elliott, Hawera. Patea —Counties of Patea and Waitotara, Mr. D. Munro, Wanganui.

A meeting oi directors of the South Taranaki Winter Show Company, Ltd., was held last week, when the dates of the show were finally fixed for July 13, 14, 15, and 16, and were so arranged at the request of the principal dairy firins, who thought tfle show should take place about three weeks after the Palmerston North fixture. The secretary (Mr. Conroy) was instructed to immediately issue t'he dairy section of the schedule, and entries will close on May 10. Committees were set up to confer with the Technical Sohooi Committee and the Hawera Poultry Association to frame technical ana .poultry sections of the schedule. The secretary was authorised to call for tenders for a half-ton cheese, in which will be placed gold and silver coins. Special .prizes have been donated as follows:—Lovell and Christmas lOgns, F. W. Boase 2gns, Christchurch Press Company, Dominion, New Zealand Times, Taranaki News, Auckland Weekly News, twelve months' issue of the journals in each case; Speight and Co., Dunedin, £1 10s.

Napier and Hastings are considerably stirred just now over the applications made by the boroughs of each place for loans under the guaranteed advances Bystem. Napier asked the Government for £135,000, and Hastings for £85,000. Napier received word that it could have £35,000 out of the total. Hastings, so it was alleged, was notified that it could have the full £85,000 asked for. The result was a mild saturnalia of fury and objurgation in Napier at being so singled out for unfavorable treatment in comparison with Hastings, while in the latter borough there were sounds of great rejoicings, mingled with self-satis-fied sniggers at the assumed fact that "Napier and Vigor Browne have got a lovely set-back." It appears that a faked telegram was sent to Hastings that their application had been granted. What the two boroughs are now trying to find out is?: Who faked the pretended official telegram to Hastings, and why? Meanwhile the burgesses of both boroughs are full of a kind of enthusiasm that has murder in its mien, and on the whole there is what may ba called a pretty kettle of flsh.

YOT'NO XEW PLYMOUTH, Jow is you r chance to secure a smar looking, taiJor-finished. boxed suit fcr yourself. Most of ("he well-dresnerl youths you se« in Ntw Plymouth get" their bet suits from The Kash We've iust finished a lot of youths' suits in plain knickrps. buckle and strap knickers, ari.l button-kneed Rnicker. made from the rooet fashionable dothp and finished in tin-ton style, with well-fitt.ine padded •HotibVrs and srootf-fittin? s - iits. We ham "l.hem from 20s f.. *»os 6d.—THE KAS"