LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. Newton King received a wire from Hamilton from Mr. Stanley Shaw advising a splendid sale of Mr. D:iy ! s pedigree Jerseys at Tamahere. The "Taranaki Contingent" who accompanied Mr. Sham- made things very warm. Mr. Robert Linn, of Xormanby, bought the top-priced cow at SS guineas. The New. Plymouth Employers' Association has rescinded its previous resolution that the 24th instant (Empire Day) be observed as a holidav, as 3rd June (King's Birthday) has now to be a statutory holiday. The association passed a resolution requesting the Telephone Department to revert to the old system of rendering daily accounts of bureau connections instead of monthly ones. The Parihaka Road Board, which can, if necessary, draw up to about £ISOO, had at its last meeting a credit balance of £lB7, and, moreover, most of the .roads are in fair order. The rate—viz., '/ad—is not a high one for the mileage of roads to be kept in repair, and such a result speaks well for the economic management of the Board, and also to a large extent for the spirit of self-help that prevails among the settlers, who assist to a considerable extent in keeping the roads in repair. Representatives of the employers and employees of the Wellington Hotels met on Wednesday before Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, to consider the demands filed by the employers in respect to the hours and conditions of employment, principally concerning women workers and lower grade hands. After some desultory discussion without any progress .being made the conference terminated, Mr. Carey stilting that a special meeting of the Cooks and Waiters' Union would be called on Friday night to arrange for the employees to be fully represented at a. conference before the Commissioner on Saturday next at 10 a.m.
We are glad to know that Dr. Fitehett, who has '.written so many brilliant pages of British history, is completing in "Life" a history of Australia and New Zealand. About the value of the story of bushranging days there may have heen some doubt, though its interest was manifest. But about the worth, as well as the interest, of the section with which Dr. Fitehett is now dealing, there can he no two opinions. It is the story of the '"Tragedies and Triumphs of Australasian Exploration." The first instalment appears in '"Life" for May, just received, and is entitled, "The Siege of the Blue Mountains," and it forms a chapter as unknown to the average man as it is romantic. This article —which is finely illustrated—is apparently the foretaste of an abundance of fascinating reading. Lord Chelmsford, in the course of his address at the annual festival of the Young Men's Christian Association in Sydney, pointed out that three maxims which Lord Cromer sought to inculcate as necessary in forming the character of a nation or an individual were, first, "Love your country"; secondly, "Tell the truth"; and, thirdly, "Don't dawdle." In amplifying the first of these, his Excellency said that every man and woman could serve the country, and, smiling blandly upon the audience, lie added. "They could do their duty by going to the poll," a sentiment which evoked considerable applause. He glanced at the privileges they possessed, for which their ancestors had struggled so bravely, and, in dwelling lightly upon the maxim "Don't dawdle," he administered a sly dig at those who allowed a love ; of sport to overshadow their serious responsibilities as citizens. '
According to the New Zealand exports leaflet, the grand total value of the principal exports in the month of April, 1910, amounted to £2,213,209, compared with £1,552,755 in April, 1909. The grand total for the <ear ending April 30th last was £20,709,2}3, as against £.16,055,491 in tne year ending April 30th, 1909. A-study of these figures will show the great improvement in the export trade during the last twelve months as compared with the previous period. The value of the butter exported from New Plymouth during the half-month from lfith to 30th April last, is set down as ■£19,574 (3915cwt.) and from Patea £9905 (2021cwt.) The respective figures for cheese are: New Plymouth £«7»2 (2717cwt.); Patea £39,017 (14,149ewt.) j The value of the butter exported from Auckland during the same period was £12,440 and of cheese£2l66, so it seems plain that Auckland is still a good way behind Taranaki as a dairy produce exporting province. At the Parihaka Road Board meeting on Wednesday the returning officer (Mr. A. O'Brien) mentioned that no nominations had been received for the Opunake : Ward. The trouble seemed to be nonpayment of expenses. If expenses were paid there would be no difficultv in obtaining nominations. It seemed an ■anomaly that county councils could pay expenses to members and road boards could not. It was the fault of the Act, and was certainly worth discussing. He understood that the Templeton Road Board got over the matter in some way, and he would endeavor to find out taw. The chairman said he was certainly in favor of reasonable expenses—say, a dinner and horse-feed—being taken' out of petty cash, as it was not fair to expect members to pay money out of their own pockets in addition to losing time. Mr. Willcox. had no objection (, as long as it was done fair and above board." Members were unanimously of opinion that the matter was one which needed attention, and it was suggested that it might be provided for when the new Local Bodies Act was brought forward. It was unanimously resolved to ask the Egmont County Council's delegate to bring the matter forward at the next County Councils Conference. NIPPED IN THE BUD. A cold, cough or influenza can be ninped in the bud by a few dose? of Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds. Price, Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere.:
Mr. W. Frewin, of Tariki, secured first prize for his paddock of carrots in con* nection iwith the Tariki Horticultural Show. The bronze symbolic figure which is to surmount the monument erected over the late Mr. Seddon's grave \va9 shipped from London last month by the Arawa, and is due to reach Wellington on June 13. A leading London woolbroker, in the course of a private letter to the head of a New Zealand house, says: "I fancy we shall have a firm market" now for the remainder of the year. The consump. tion of wool, especially in Yorkshire, is immense; but T think' America is a bit stuck with dcv.r merinos," The reference to the conditions in Yorkshire will make pleasant reading for New Zealand' wool-growers. Women who display a morbid interest in criminals were sharply rebuked in the law courts at Berlin by the Publis Prosecutor during his speech against a quintet of ■ "gentlemen burglars.* For some time the court-room has been* thronged with fashionably-dressed women, who move in the best circles of society. When the prosecutor was in the middle of his address to the jury hj« observed half-a-dozen 'women with lorgnettes and opera-glasses levelled at the prisoners' dock. "I decline to proceed," he exclaimed to the presiding Judge, "until these ladies sheath their glassus. The criminal court is riot a theatre.' r The Judge ordered the women to desist,, under penalty of expulsion. The prosecutor admitted that it was unusal for the dock to contain five burglars of the character of those on trial—a former military officer, an actor, a municipal official, tie private secretary of a prince, and an ex-dockyard superintendent—but, declared that that did not excuse the antics to which he objected. A striking theory, supported hv a large amount of curious and interesting evidence, is put forward bv Hare HonH (Mr H. M. Stowell), of Wellington, in the Dominion. The theory is that long before the earliest European missionaries came to New Zealand the Maoris were acquainted with the main facts of the Christian story, and that these are repeated in the legends of' their god. Tawhaki. Altogether, he has found more than 30 parallels between the old Maori and Christian records. The virgin birth of Christ, the sheet let down from Heaven, containing "all manner of four-footed ibeast9," the walking on the sea, the miraculous draught of fishes. the ascent into heaven and descent into 'hell, with numerous other features of the Gospel story, have all close parallels, though these have not heretofore been ■pointed out, in various legends of Tawhaki, ■which, Hare Hongi is convinced, have not been touched by modern Chrisl tian influences. The author has also made a study of Maori genealogical ireen descending from Tawhaki, .which give to the Maori deity a date exactly corresponding to the life .period of Jesus on this earth.
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