LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 2 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Avenue Road Card Club's annual social is to be held early in October. A Press wire says that regulations under the Death Duties Act, 1009, were published at length in last night's Gazette. The gold exported during the last month amounted to 43,813 ounces, valued at £171,121, compared with 39,-1 593 ounces, valued at £154,909 for Aug-' ust, 1909.—Press wire. In the Supreme Court, on the motion of Mr. (Jovett (Govett and Quilliam), Letters of Administration of the estate of the late Margaret Valintine have been granted to Dr. Valintine. There are 500 empty houses in Wellington at present, .but there is no disposition on the part of property owners to lower rentals. One house, which is at present returning 35s fid rental, was before the boom occupied for six months rent-free, as no one would pay the 13s demanded. Vogeltown is undergoing a mild persecution. The poisoner is still at work, and a couple of family cats and a doggie have yielded up the ghost. A lady complains of the loss of a valuable garment from the hallstand in her house, and another has missed a valuable rose tree' from her garden. Our Wellington correspond cut wires:— The following is the result of the tendering for the construction of the su.s----i pension ibrklge over the Tangarakfiu | [ river: P. M. Grayling, New Plymouth, I £1553 (accepted); A. H. Christie, Warn iganui, £1589; G. gangster, Stratford,"] £1594; and H. Kensington, Stratford,' I £.1798.

The Mayor of Eltham (Mr. E. Parrott) has received a telegram from Mr. B. Dive, M.P., stating that a Parliamentary party will leave Wellington on Saturday* morning for Eltham, and will go over the district to he traversed by the proposed Opunake railway. This settles the chance of a Parliamentary party visiting the oil wells this week.

News received by the mail on Thursday gave a description of the remarkable demonstration that took place at Lowestoft, when Canon TupperCarey left that place, where he has worked with great success for many years. From three to four thousand people crowded to say farewell, and all vehicular traffic near the railway station had to be suspended. The demonstration revealed the great respect and affection felt iby the Lowestoft people for their rector. So imbued were some members of the conference of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with the spirit of preventing unnecessary suffering that one delegate from Dunedin suggested that crayfish and lobsters should not be put into boiling water alive. The chairman, Mr. H. Hankins, pointed out that it was necessary for edible purposes that the fish should be boiled before they were dead. T*hough it was cruel to course for sport, it was not so when it came to a matter of food supply. He gave'similar instances where the line had to be drawn, and advised members not to go too far with their resolutions otherwise there would be little chance of getting legislation which was badly needed.