LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 368, 20 April 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Amongst those present at the meeting of St. Mary's parishioners last night, occupying a front seat and evidently taking the keenest interest in the proceedings, were three octogenarian lady members of the congregation. The attendance record of the Fire Brigade for the past year has been good. There were in all 34 roll calls. Six members answered to their names on every occasion, and upwards of thirty attendances were made hv twenty members. In justice to the Recreation Sports Ground Committee we have been asked to say that the Sports Ground Committee were not conversant with and did not sanction the extra charge made by l the management of the "Besses o' tili'l Barn Bamd' 'for seats on terraces at I their recent entertainment. I At the Land Board meeting vesterdav a letter was received from momona County Council reouestiii" that section 19, block 1, Wham>amomona township, be vested in the Council as a building reserve. The application will be recommended for the approval of the Government.

A new li'bre is being introduced in Soroaliland, which is called Sansevieria It is coarser than sisal, hut very tenacious. There is practically an unlimited supply of the plant. At present the pnee of Sanseveria. is about £23 10s ' per ton. The Somaliland Develop! n» I Company's fielus are about fiftv miles from the port of Berbera. The labor is native, and is paid at the rate of 4d to od per day. There was onlv one undefended case heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, judgment bein<r <rj V cn j n the case of L. Keith v. Arthur 1 Edward" a claim of £lO, with costs £1 10s Gd.' In the judgment summons Dr. E. A. Walker v. Findlay John McLean, a deht of £4 18s, the defendant did not appear. An order was made for payment of the full amount of the debt iii seven da vs. I' in default fourteen days' imprisonment! !

Bench and Bar were not on the best of terms at times during the hearing of the Strathmore breach of contract, case yesterday. Here is a sample exchange between Mr. Fitzherbert, S.M., and m"i\ R. Spence, solicitor:—Bench: "If all I have heard outside is true but, of course, I wouldn't allow that to influence me in the least—this is a most exemplary youncr man." Bar.- "All I can say, sir', is that I am surprised that you heard anything at all outside, or allowed yourself to be approached in the matter." For Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great popj-rmict Cure, 1/C, 2/8

Captain TLnney, of Patea, who has had an experience of twenty-eight years sea-faring on the coast, declares that he never before encountered any tiling approaching the hurricane burst of Friday afternoon. It is notified in the Gazette that the first and final dividend 1 in the estate of Frederick William White, carrier, of Eltham, of lid in the £, is now payable, and in the estate of Lancelot Black, hotelkeeper, of Opunake, Is 3'/.d in the £. To-day will be a big day with the dairy farmers at Midhurst,' Taranaki, for besides the ordinary monthly cheque, the factory will be paymg out a bonus of Is 3d'per lb of butter-fat. The factory has had a most prosperous year, having been fortunate in getting rid of the butter at most satisfactory prices. Mr. Gilford Moore, who has' been chosen as counsel for Powelka, interviewed the prisoner at Palmerston, and said to him that ho would perhaps be charged with murder. Powelka declared he was not. guilty of any mur.l'or. Xo charge has been formulated against Powelka jet. He will appear in Palmerston on remand from Wellington on Tuesday, April 20. The charges against ihini will he heard in Palmerston, not in .Wellington. It seems likely that he will stand his) trial well on in May. At a recent wedding breakfast (says an American paper) the bachelors we're called upon to give them reasons for remaining so. The following were among them: "I am like the frog in the fable, who, though he loved the water, would not jump into the well because he could not jump out again." "I am too selfish, and honest enough to admit it," "I prefer liberty, refreshing sleep, the opera, midnight suppers, quiet seclusion, dreams, cigars, a banking account, and club, rather than on the other hand, disturbed rest, cold, rocking horses, bread pudding, and empty pockets." "1 have a twin brother, and we have never had a secret from one another. He is married." The little commune of Kissckeres, in Hungary, consisting of but eighty houses and 5(15 souls, has juyt taken a remarkable step in regard to the estate of the late General Haynay. This Gengeneral earned an uneviable reputation by his ferocious methods in suppressing the Hungarian revolution in IS4o—so much so that when he visited England in the following year the draymen ot Messrs Barclay, 'Perkins and Co.. whose brewery he had just inspected, belabored him in the streets. Popular delight was so great tnat the General left the ■country without satisfaction, the Government not daring to prosecute the assailants. General Haynay returned to his estate in Hungary, which by his will was to bo presented to the commune on the death of his daughter. This has now taken place, but the people have declined to accept the gift, ordering that the estate should be left to fall out of cultivation, and be called the "Bloody Meadow." In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning a Maori youth jauntily took his stand. He was the judgment debtor in the case Jacob Tisch Keen-in. the judgment creditor desiring to recover a. debt of £1 f)s. The de-brer said •he hadn't tried to raise the money to discharge the debt, for the simi)le"n.ason that he knew he couldn't" get it. He was married, he said, and had a wife and two children to keep. His wife got a little monev aunuailv for rent of property, but his property in the south was non-productive. He was at present working for Mr. A. E. Sykes. He wanted to pay the debt, and would do so as soon as he could. He "supposed he' would have to come to terms" with the judgment creditor, and agreed to an order being made for payment of the debt, the warrant for imprisonment in default of payment 'being suspended so long as he paid instalments of four shillings a week. The proceedings were 1 slightly amusing at times, due "to the young debtor's lackadaisical way of looking at things. At St. Mary's parishioners' mcc-:i):s last might Mr. S. W. Shaw asked if the inscriptions on memorial tablets erected in the church were submitt; ..I f o anvone in particular before being .placed within its walls. He was prompted to raise the suggestion by the fact that the memorial to the late Captain Good did not disclose in what way that gentle.maai had earned the right to -be thus memorialised. Older mem'Sers of the congregation, of course, knew, but a a great proportion of the vvesont day members did not know that he had been 'for many years a lay rc-ader at Te T-Tenui. As another instance, he mentioned the memorial tablet to the late! Colonel Stapp. It seemed to Mr. Shaw that there was too much glorification of the man and not enough glorification of God and his work j,» the church in tJie«e inscriptions. The Rev. F.' u. Evans ve . plied that Wie inscriptions were in all cades submitted to him and to the wardens and trustees. He had overlooked the phase mentioned bv Mr. Shaw bivt. concurred with his views. His 'own opinion was that these inscriptions should be as short as possible He mentioned that the late Captain Good had been a. member of one of the very early choirs at St. Mary's'. The wonderful success which has attended the poultry farmers of Denmark proves beyond doubt the emit value of poultry to the farmers, smallholders and peasants of England. The conditions in Denmark for poultry farming are not «o {rood as those in England I and in addition to this the si ze o f~Den-

I mark is only half that of Scotland. Yet I Denmark exports annually more than a J million pounds' worth of e<m S to En*I land. The export trade from Denmarkis so good that the prices obtained are so hiorh that the Danes themselves use Bussian for their own oonMimption. !>o far back as 1004 104 million e<™v were imported into Denmark from Kuwin and the laws of Denmark make it quite impossible for these e""s to he re-exported. Until the voar ' 18(54 the poultry trade in Denmark va-- as neglectedns it is in England to-dav. At that time the only l, fill known in Denmark was the Danish land hj,„, whifll wis only a moderate laver. and whose ep were vtrv small. The conflict with Prussia made the Danes turn their attention to some, means of economic development. Ther determined to increase the resources of the countn- hv the production of. amonor other things o ™ s In 1875 the Leghorn bred of fowl was7ntrodnced, and is now the national bird

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