LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 52, 10 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Maori witness was asked in the Opunake Court if lie gave an employee his ''tucker" in addition to w acres. "Yes, and sleep, too," was the rejoinder. Hosjs in the United States are now fetching the highest prices on record. Supplies have been greatly curtailed, and the western slaughtering last year was reduced by 5.000,000 animals. There must he a fair amount of money available in Wanganui for legitimate simulation. It is common knowledge that at the land sale on Thursday tljere were at least five different persons who were prepared to invest £13,000 each in the properties.—Herald. Tt may interest the present generation to know (says the Dominion eorresnondent) that at one time the whole of the Wairarawa Valley was under offer to a South Wairarapa settler for the sum of £.IOOO. The money could not, however, lie obtained at the time, and the opportunity never again presented itself.

"The half-crown will have to go. T fear," said the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth in referring to the protest of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce against the abolition of the halfcrown. "No provision was made in the Australian Coinage Act for the retention of the half-crown. Some years, however, must elapse before it will entirely disappear. The whole mm of the revised scheme is. as nearly as possible, to approach the decimal system without inconvenience."

Lady Plunket. who seeently returned I Home from New Zeafaind, has been revisiting Dublin, where a few weeks ago she opened a sale of work on behalf of the Rovk' 'Home, an institution in which Lord Plunket's father, the late Archbishop of London, took a great interest. Coming from New Zealand, said Lady Plunket. she could realise how great n future lay before the hoys who went to start life in the colonies. There thev \w] a chance of mnkins themselves ?ood, stroncr men. and iprovine a benefit to themselves and an acquisition to the Bmpire. For Chroflin Chest OonrolaiTiK Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6. 2,6,

On hearing liis <(internes l'owelka evinced considerable emotion, and there was a profound sensation in Court. Only £G3B of the note?, worth t'">2SS. issued hy General Baden-Powell during tho siege of Ma felting, were ever proented for payment. say the army accounts. They were kept as mementoes. 'ln the Police Court yesterday morning Frederica Ullmer was charged with cycling on a footpath in the borouirh. She did not appear, lmt she sent a letter stating that she had to plead guilty, and explaining, that she had refused to give her name to the borough inspect or when stopped 'by him because of his gross incivility to her. The inspector denied this charge. '".Some of these iladies," he ■added, "think you are insulting them when you merely ask for their names." Defendant was fined - 2s <kl and "<■ costs. The Thames Star learns that there is a probability of the representative of an Anglo-French syndicate paying a visit to the goldfields of New Zealand at n .n early date. In a private letter received ■bv a Thames resident one representative of the syndicate who has been in Chili, Bolivia, etc., for some years, ami w*o has just concluded operations oil a larje "concession," states that Australia and New Zealand will be the next part of the world visited, and if promising properties are available they will ' lie inspected, and if the inspection is satisfactory, perhaps worked under option.

The usual weekly session of the E<rmont Lodge, No. 112, 1.0.G.T.. was held in St. Mary's Hall on Wednesday night. Bro. J. C. Legg, C.T., presided over a good attendance of members and friends. One new member was initiated and three were proposed for initiation. The following members were elected:— Sister L. Rusden, Bros. J. Roch. 'N. Howell, and C. Smith. A number of items were given as follows-.—Harp solo, Bro. H. Rieketts; recitation, Bro. C. Pepperill and Miss Lilly Bruce; pianoforte solo, Bro. Lewis; pianoforte solo, Bro. Sid. Lewis; recitation, Bro. G. Hayden; recitation. Bro. A. White; cornet solo, Bro. C. Smith; recitation, Sister B. Connett; reading, Bro. N. Winter; reading, Bro. J. C. Legg.

At the Police Court yesterday morning, Mr. W. Bewley, J.P., presiding, the Truant Inspector proceeded against two residents of the Tarurutangi district on charges of having failed to send their children regularly to school. William Rogers, in answer to the charge, said he kept the youngster home because he wasn't fit to go and the weather was not fit to send" him. The distance from his house to the Tarurutangi school was over four miles by the nearest road. He was not aware that he could obtain exemption certificates when the distance, by the nearest road, the child had to travel was over three miles. The case was dismissed, the distance being greater than the three miles mentioned by the Aet. The other defendant, William H. Hurlstone, also argued that his place was over three miles from the school, but unsuccessfully. There -being no other reason for the child being kept at home, defendant was fined 2s, without costs.