LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 393, 19 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

1 The Dail y Sews will be published tomorrow, the day arranged for the Kind's itinera , only that it will be issued at an earlier hour than usual. f We are ashed to state that the case . h. Bruce v. T. A. Lambert. in which an t order was made at Tuesday's sitting of . the Court for payment of a debt of l,s b li I'l ll tl! •" 0t ' h;lVe l)Ct ' n e"i,(''l- - having previously been siti.sHe.l. E Last night the Mayor (Mr. (i. TUch) 3 received the following telegram from the enner: "It Friday is observed instead i ot lhuiwtay ~.s the weekly half-holiday ■lns week. no objection to change wiil ■ be made in respect to factories. T.lw inspector is being instructed in the mat- > ter. Please confer with him on the • matter." , At a meeting held on Wednesday r night, the .solicitors .practising at .Sow \ l > '. vn,o| ith and Waitara decided to close a for 'f'heir half-holiday on Saturday nfternoons instead of Thursdays. The change { Wl '" c °me into operation from an 1 after , 3»tli June. The offices will be do-ed all day to-morrow, on account of the funeral } of the late King. The number of passengers carried on the North Island main and branch lines '' ™ railways for the period ending 31st t March was 485,801, of whom (57,28!) were x nrst-class passengers and 418,512 second- ' 1,1 the total was 4(i!),34ti. I Ihe South Island lines carried 400,440 1 passengers in the .period endiii" .j.st, - Mai ch last, and 373,444 in the previous f year. 1 By request of the Mayor, the Minis- ' tors' Association will conduct a united memorial service in connection with the funeral of our late Monarch in the Re- * cieation (Jround on Friday afternoon at f 2.30 o'clock. The Rev. W. Cannell win preside. The memorial sermon will be <pieached by the Rev. S. S. Osborne, a united choir under the conductor-lii'i of Mi. (1. H. White will lend the singing, j and the cadets and band will be in at- - tendance. It is estimated that there , Wlll jj>e a very large attendance if the day is fine. If the weather is unfavorable the service will be held in the Theatre Royal at the same hour. t Some two months ago, it will be recollected, the Kaponga Town Board wrote several local bodies in Taranaki urging the claims of Kaponga as the terminus of the Ongaruhe railway. That progressive .body does not intend to let tnc matter drop, as at yesterday's meeting of the Stratford County Council Mr. R. G. Cook, clerk to the Town Board in acknowledging receipt of the Council's letter sympathising with the movement, stated tlhat a meeting of representatives of all parts of the district interested would shortly be called to discuss the matter, and the Council mould duly be advised of the date of such meeting. In the .Supreme Court, New Plymouth, yesterday morning, .before Mr. J. Terry, Deputy Registrar, in the bankruptcy 01 Helen Brown, of .Stratford, Mr. T. S. Weston, for Mr. John Alexander, solicitor, Auckland, moved for leave to file a proof of debt of Mr. J. A. Messenger, of Auckland, fruit merchant, on the | ground tlhat the creditor had not received notice of the bankruptcy to enable him to put in his claim (£72) within the statutory .period of two months. Mr. Coleman, the Deputy Official Assignee at Stratford, stoutly opposed the motion. The Deputy Registrar granted the leave asked for, and Mr. Weston then handed the proof to Mr. Coleman. The Mayor of .Stratford (Mr. Masters), accompanied by the borough solicitor (Mr. T. C. Fookes), waited on the Stratford County Council yesterday and 0 asked .the Council not to endorse the c deed of concession between the Borough Council and the Stratford Electrical n Supply Company. At the commencement t j of the discussion Councillors Porritt and > Thomson, who are interested in the comil pvny, retired from the room. The - Mayor explained that the borough was a trying to negotiate with the company g in a friendly way, and tihe company were now trying to bring the County Council into the matter. He asked the Council e to at any rate stay their hand until a [j conference had been arranged between the two councils. Mr. Fookes also exit plained the position fully, after which the deputation thanlked l.'he Council and withdrew. The question was discussed later on, when the chairman moved, in r> accordance with notice of motion, that H the Comity Council will not sign anv P concession 'to the Stratford Electrical - Supply Company. He stated that at - last meeting of the Council the position p was fully discussed, and 011 a division s the above motion was put and lost on p his casting vote. He had voted in the 1 affirmative first and then, when giving I his casting vote. had. according to preee.l dent, voted against it. Since the ineet--1 ing he had'learnt that Councillor Thomp- - son, who voted in the negative, was a 1 shareholder in the company, and as such 1 was not entitled to vote on the ques--1 tion. Had he not exercised his vote the \ motion would have been carried, so he p thought it was only fair that the motion 1 should be again brought forward. Coun--1 cillor Thompson .said he was not of opinl ion that he had acteu wrongly in the - matter, but he would refrain from any ? further discussion 011 the question. The f motion was carried by four votes to - two. The King's Peace is among the few conceptions which are so deeply rootI ed in our national life, so grafted into all our 'working institutions, that I they stand apart from politics and religion and social status, being essential a to our existence in the .world (writes , "Tohunga" in the Auckland Herald). To maintain the King's Peace is the first t function of our Sovereign, his Viceroys, and all his Ministers, as to provide the ] means for its maintenance is the first duty of administrators and parliaments. | Schools are necessary, but we could do i without schools better than we could , do without .police and courts; drapers' I shops are eminently desirable, but it , were better never to have a fancy hat ( nor an up-to-date skirt than to be'with- , out rifles for the lads and guns for the forts: for leaving the Herman —who would at least drive 11s to drill and force | us to fight for him—when Asia conies I down upon us our women will not need hats and gowns any more unless we can shoot to kill. And to those who believe in the King's Peace, it were better to dye the oceans crimson and to descend, shoulder-to-shoulder, into the Hell of War. with all its horrors and its terrors, its ghastly suffering and its inhuman tortures, rather than live to see a single little New Zealander forbidden to speak English; much more rather than to live to hear a New Zealand woman cry for help against a .Tap, and be told that it didn't matter. Nor would it matter to any but himself were it not for (he soldiers and the sailors and for the legions that are mustering around us. in every •New Zealand town and township, so 1 that in the time of trouble that is stvreI ly coming, we may help in keening the j King's Peace. / Send vour order for printing to the I " Daily News " Printery. Prices riirht and satisfaction guaranteed.

There are 10,000 New Zealandeni living in .Sydney. A« si result of the sudden snap of cold, weather, the foot-warmers were in great demand on the early trains yesterday morning. The llaweiu Mounted Ri|| e Territorials on Tuesday went into encampwent oil the show grounds for ten days, there are seventy members under canvas. Auckland newborn per correspondents seem to have worked out the Ivnyvett episode, and there being no hig goosetiMjit's to write about, they aru discussin.g whether the walls of Jericho did or did not fall quite flat at tiie sound of the trumpet (s»ya an exchange). Certain negro characters are of a •uglily evolved tyipe," said Professor Arthur Keith, in a Hungarian lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons, ''and I •". ive a suspicion that some of the negioes of the Congo Free State man an oLi civilisation which flourished when Britons were in a primitive state." A settler in returning thanks at a, hue well function down the Coast t/he »t her night stated that he was partih' v. i SO " ,V 10 I<?ave tll,e (listriot where tie had made so many real friends, wlio were equally willing to help him if he •had a cow that required pulling out of a c-ieeGc or a fat turkey for Sunday dinner that required .eating. Sydney papers give the following details of the realistic stage duel at the Criterion Theatre (mentioned in our ca.bJo messages last week) in which Mr. -Asche and Mr. Cera Id K. Souper nu 're the principals:—"The two actors weje fighting •hard, for the duel, which is fought with swords and poignards. is a strenuous conflict throughout. It was in the third stage, just before the incident in which Count Hannibal (Mr. Ascne) sweeps the candelabra from the table and he lunged at his opponent, and the point of the sword struck him at the side of the left eye. The skin : ;V UH and the point pacing trough emerged above the eyebrow, blood pouring from the wound. With his face bathed in blood, and hardly able to see, Mr. Souper valiantly kept his blade flashing More Count Hannibal, and once got so close that his weapon scratched Mr. Asche's neck, and the point came through his shirt collar. The audience breathlessly watelied the conflict, eager to see whether Mr Souper could hold out to the end before receiving the vanquishing blow from Count Hannibal'; but this he did, and when the fight was over the audience accorded the .plucky actor an ovation. Mr. Souper lost much blood, as the state of the stage indicated, and was very weak when be appeared next night."