LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 46, 3 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Winter Show Committee has made a start with the fencing of Kawau street, adjoining the Drill Hall. The whole of this street will be under canvas. Three hundred cheeses will be benched for competition at the Dominion Dairy Show to be held in Hawera in July. This will afford a considerable amount of work for the judges, who are being appointed by the Dairying Department. The Postmaster advises that from June 1, 1910, daily accounts of charges for telephone bureau communications will be rendered to subscribers, conditionally that such accounts are paid the following day. To all other subscribers accounts will be rendered weekly. Good work is being done by the new Salvation Army Boys' Home at Eltfoam, which has Ibeen open only about six months. There are at present 38 boys in the home, of whom 15 are fatherless. 7 motherless, 5 fatherless and motherless, and only 5 possessed of both parents. There is room for five or six more boys. Mr. H. J. Okey, M.P., has received intimation from the Minister for Bailways to the effect that the Department will run an excursion train from Hawera to New Plymouth on the 9th, 10th and 11th inst. The running of holiday trains at future shows will depend entirely on the results obtained from this experi ir.ent. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Julius de Silva pleaded not guilty to a charge laid, on the information cf Annie Johnstone, of having disobeyed an order made under the Destitute' Persons Act for the maintenance of his son, at the rate of 10s per week. Defendant was convicted and fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. The .Magistrate pointed out tliat this fine did not absolve defendant from liability for the money due under the order. Defendant was allowed fourteen days for payment of the order. Yesterday morning Mr. W. Ambury. president of the Agricultural Society, received a deputation from Huiroa, who asked that efforts be made to sec-sir" the running of a special excursion train on the Stratford-Douglas section to conjnect at Stratford with the specials already fixed fcr the Tanvnaki Winter Show passenger traffic. Mr. Ambury was pleased to note the widespread interest in the New Plymouth Show, a id immediately placed himself in communication with the railway authorities' and the member for the district IJ.M.S. Pioneer, the Naval Reserve drill ship, is due to arrive at New Plymouth on Saturday, June 18. The vessel will remain here until Tuesday, the ] 21st, when she will sail for Wellington. I She leaves Wellington for Picton on June 0, and from Picton she goes on to Nelson on June 9. After a stay of three days at Nelson she continues to We-t----j port, thence to New Plymouth. Capt-iin G. (t. Smith, Royal Naval Registrar, will accompany the ves'sel in his official capacity. The Pioneer is in charge of Commander W. F. Blunt. At the instance of the Stratford School Committee Mr. P. S. Whitcombe, secretary to the Education Board, is now compiling a return of the moneys raised lin the past three years by school comj mittees in this education district. The | total will approximate £ISOO for three years. Particulars are also being ob-i tained from other boards. Otago "heads the list so far. Committees fo that district voluntarily raised £2404 Is 3d in the year ending 1 March 31. 1908, £2703 lis 3d in 1909. and £2814 lis 4d in 1910. In the Marlborough district the committees don't appear to worry themselves much, for the total amount voluntarily raised there in the past three years was only about £7 10s. In Westland, in the same period, £lO5 fls 4d was raised. j In opposing the local Bill promoted' by the New Plymouth Borough Council to give them power to lease certain sections on the Avenue road, Cr. Doekrill at Wednesday night's public meeting, referred to the strenuous work he had put in, in conjunction with the late Mr. Belli inger and others, jr» securing the reserve for the public. The time would come when the population of New Plymouth would be 30.000 and 40,000, and then this 1 reserve would be required by the public just as much as nriy other reserve However, after the remarks of one of the Ministers, he was quite sure of the way the Bill would be treated in Wellington. He was afraid that if the Bill were passed it would form a precedent for any Mavor who might get into a hole in the future. To get out he would just go and get rid of some of l the borough reserves.

It is proposed to establish a freezing works company with a capital of £75,<KM) at liak'lutlm. On Tuesday last the Tokomaru and Opawa took 230,000 carcases of frozen meat from Wellington. House rents are about 20 p«r cent, lower in Masterton to-day than they were two years ago. Residents have, in many instances, abandoned small homes for more pretentious domiciles. A Forty-mile ilush farmer, uoticing his calves nibbling the burr, or "biddibiddi," tried the experiment of boiling some of the heads of the weed and feeding the liquid to his young stock. He was surprised at the result. The oalves thrived as they had never done before, and were absolutely freo from "scours." Two Hi'itisli .subjects, a man and u woman who abandoned two young children in a park at Ostend, have been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment at Ghent. The children were found with some garments and some milk by their side. They were taken to the hx'al hospital, but they died there. The parents were arrested on a packet boat on their way to Dover. A slalb of modest talk from the New Zealand Herald:— I The Province: We use this title advisedly in speaking of the Auckland provincial district. It is par excellence the province of New Zealand. By its geographical position, by its area, by its far greater resources entirely undeveloped, iby its history, by its future, and by its magnificently-situated metropolis it is marked out for preeminence. It is distinguished not only by its achievements, but iby its promise. ''l would face a wild pig or a wild bull in the ibush, 'but I would not go round the Mnnawatu with a list asking the farmers to take up shares in a co-opera-tive concern. I have no faith in these retail co-operative schemes. I liave see* them fail too often," remarked Mr. Moore, of Mahoenui, at the Farmers' Union Conference at Marton. His panacea was cheap money, and to secure this 'he suggested the farmers should combine and go to London for one 'oig loan at a low rate.

Every city in Canada i 9 growing, and as an example of the progress of the East, the situation in Toronto is summarised the Canadian Courier. In growth of population it has probably surpassed every other city m Canada in the last ten years—in numbers, not percentage. The assessment last year was 227 millions of dollars: this year it is "271 millions. An increase of 44 million* in one year is something extraordinary. The revenue from/ taxes and other sources during 1910 is estimated at 6,800,000 dollars, or a sum nearly equal to the revenue of the province' of Ontario. The new King Edward VII. Post Office, designed by Sir Henry Turner, which is now in course of construction, is described as "the most wonderful building in England," mainly, it would seem, because it is ibeing built of ferroconcrete. It is the strength or this system which has made the wonders of the new block possible, and some wlea of the dimensions of «the building can be guaged from the fact that the site occupies four and a-half acres, which have been excavated to a depth of 30 feet, and some 127,000 cubic yards of material had to be removed oeiore thestructure could be commenced. The "Happy Hours" Assembly's longnight in Brougham-street Hull on Wednesday night was well attended. Better music than that supplied by Mrs. George's orchestra could not lave beendesired, and the "extras" were all well played, too. Mr. Bert Bullot was M.C.. and attended to his duties with punctilious courtesy. There were not many fancy dresses worn. The prizes wcfre allotted to Miss Thompson and Mr. Russell. Among the guests were the members of the '"Caledonians'" troupe, and Miss Cissie O'Keefe and Mr. Cameron contributed vocal numbers. The wnok> affair passed off with an enjoyable swing, characteristic of these assemoi-es. One of the duties of the secretary of a hospital board is to supply a very full return to the Registrar-General, setting fodth the age, nationality, and various \ other information concerning the patients admitted to the hospital for treatment, even to the extent of scheduling the exact nature of the complaint from which each patient suffered. The secretary of the Stratford Hospital Board I reported' at last meeting that he Had i written to the Inspector-General tihat | this was an inrpossiblity for a layman , like himself. It was not possible to fill in the return by reference to the meJieal register, for there were names of disease there which were not on the Re-sristrar-General's list, and vice versa. There were altogether 170 different heads. Mr. Penn added that the Medical Superintendent would not supply these particulars, and the secretary had •been applied to. It was really absurd to classify the diseases so minutely. It should be sufficient to group them under eight or ten heads. He supposed the thing was at an end. "I can't do it, and ,the doctor won't." Nothing was done in the matter. Ladie9, this will interest, you. Cooper and Co., ladies' tailors, are making a display at New Plymouth of new materials and styles, the latest in coats and skirts. The date will be announced later on.—Advt. Men's Suits.—Worsteds in particular, our reputation for carrving the best in these is established. This season's ar« particularly nobby, are cut in the very latest style, with hair-cloth fronts, good French canvas put right through tha coat, and very good linings. They're brawled "The Prestwell," and you won't i ■ see their equal in New Zealand. Prices 2os to 05s. —THE KASH, Devon Street, Now Plvmouth.—A<lvt. A WOMAN'S CONFIDENCE AND A GRMT SALE. To win a woman's patronage at the cost of her confidence is not the policy of "The Melbourne." Every bargain advertised in the great Rebuilding Sale is I exactly as represented. It would be j folly for it to be otherwise. The great object in holding this sale is to reduce stocks as rapidly as possible, in order to make room for the builders. All tjie stock has been marked down, and tfle prices quoted show savings so genuine and apparent that you will be convinced that we intend to solve this stock-re-ducing problem in a quick and efficient manner. There's no room for a single thought of the ordinary buying and selling methods in this situation—it's purely a matter of making room for the builders in a restricted space of time, and it has got to be done. We will do it by vigorous and effective price-cutting. We're certainly enthusiastic about this sale. It not only means record-breaking prices, but it means the widening of our value-giving reputation in an unforgetable manner. And that is what we continually keep .in: mind when we inaugurate a sale like the one now under wav. CAN-'T SHAKE IT OFF. How often we hear persons with colds make the above remark; but Dr. Sheldon's' New Discovery shakes them off promptly and effectively in a few doses. Price, Is (Id and 3s. Obtainable everywhere. Send your order for printing to the "Daily News" Printery. Prices right and satisfaction guaranteed.