LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 127, 7 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monorail has been declared the coming system of railroad construction in agricultural districts. "Bad fences make .bad bulls," said a witness in the Hawera Magistrate's Court last week, "and bad bulls make bad fences,", retorted his Worship. A smile went round the Courtroom. A party of prospectors have just returned from Preservation with several specimens of rich minerals unearthed there. Further prospecting is (says the Western Star) likely to be proceeded with. A leading Auckland doctor declares that the proposed amendment of the Public Health Act will not effect the Object in view, and that the onlv way to combat the diseases is to enforce the CD. Act.

In this, the o-ntenary year of the Primitive Methodist Church, the value of church property is over £5,000,000, the nunvber of members 215,000, with 1200 ministers, 4000 Sunday schools, and 2250 Band of Hope societies. Potatoes are now up to £9 a ton on the Wellington market. Canterburys are selling at that figure, and Tasmanjans are at £B. The high price is at.CrfbutecE to the poor crops in this country, and the dearth of imports from Tasmania. Some comment' has been made in Christohurch. on the fact that three on the staff of the Christchurch Hospital have died .during the past few w'eelre, and statements have been made that there may be insanitarv conditions 1 connected irtti the Narßes'Home. , u

The Wellington-Brindisi despatch of the 29th July arrived in London on the' night of the 3rd hist. I Mr. A. E. Watkins, of Urenui, has sold at birth for £4O a calf by Yankee Sweet—Queen of Beauty. The Jer-. sey strain continues valuable. i A witness in the Court on Monday (says the Opunake Times), was asked by learned counsel: "Well, what did Mr - sayt'7' "Come and have a whisky," was the reply. And no one smiled. The Avenue Road euchre players have arranged for a match with the eribbage players at their Club-rooms this evening at 7.30, and afterwards arrange olbout the social, which is to be held on October 6. , In the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., Alexander B. Waldie was fined £1 and costs for drunkenness, in default to <;o to gaol for 48 hours. The defendant had been convicted and discharged on a similar charge on Monday. j Mr. Turner, representative of Messrs. J. and J. Lonsdale, Ltd., (says tins Inglewood Record) has been successful in securing the output of under-noted factories on consignment. The figures are an approximate estimate of the number of tons of each factory:—Kaupokonui 2,500,. Kaponga 700, Awatuna 600. Lowgarth 400, Cape Egmont 400, Lupton 100, Mangatoki 450, Opunake 230. A business man in a Taranaki town complains of misdelivery of correspondence. The other day he posted a let-, ter to a namesake at Midhirst, and the letter was enclosed in one of the firm's 1 boldly printed envelopes. What was his surprise to have the epistle delivered to ; him at his place of business next dav, together with, a second letter, addressed to another man of the same name residing in a neighboring town! | The Collector of Customs at New Plymouth has been advised that a boat has been found washed up on the Waiiti beach, near Urenni. It is about thirty feet long and nine feet wide, and is painted white inside, brown on the bottom, and white on the top sides. It bears no name beyond the maker's (Bailey, Auckland). Two ropes are attached to the boat, one about a chain long and the other about two chains long. (Presumably the boat has been washed away from its moorings.

I Mr. Justice Edward has no particular regard for medical terms which do not convey a clear meaning to those unI learned in medicine, and during the j hearing of a case in Auckland, in which I several of the witnesses were medical ; men, he made one or two remonstrartces • against-the use of strange words. One lof them was "haetmatoma," of which I neither he nor any one of the special I I jury hearing the case knew the meaning | until one of the counsel engaged gave i them a lucid explanation: "It's what you' get when you hit your finger with a hammer." The following is the text of the re-| port of Foreman J. Holes upon the inci-j dent which led to a dispute between Mr. J. C. Montefiore and 'Mr. J. E. Hill, a* Taranaki County Councillor:—Referring to damage to Mountain road. I told Mr.; Hill that Mr. Montefiore was carting; from Mr. Sampson's pit and was bringing mud out on to the road, and if he continued carting it would pick up the, metal while it was wes. I never made| use of these word—'extensive' or 'considerable' damage—to him or anvone' else."—The Council expressed itself as quite satisfied with the explanation given by Messrs. Hill and Holmes. A report reaches us of the mysterious disappearance of a valuable pedigree Jersey calf. A cow was placed in a:sheltered and convenient paddock the, other night, and every care was taken i to see that there was nothing which might injure her. The owner went! along next morning, confident of find-, ing his cow and a calf. The offspring, it was clear, "however, had been removed during the night by someone who knew' more about its owner's affairs than he had any right to, and it has not been heard 'of since. Breeders of "fancy" cattle will need to house their stock if this sort of thing is to become common. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbcrt, S.M., judgment by default was entered in the following cases: W. L. Gordge (Mr. F. E. Wilson, instructed by Messrs 'Wilson and Grey) v. David Carmichael,, claim £3 9s 3d, and costs 17s; Isaac Aroa (Mr. C. H. Weston) v. Ned Skipper claim 18s 2d, and costs 18s; Pike and Waters (Mr. C. H. Weston) v. E. Hopkinson, claim £2 16s, and costs, 10s; A. R. Clow (Mr. C. H. Weston) v. Wm. Stanley, claim £9, and costs £1 3s 6d; Weston and Weston v. Alice Ellen SymeS} claim £l' 2s, and costs ,ss; Wm. Humphries (Mr. F. E. Wilson) v. John F. Burke, claim £7 9s Bd, and costs £1 3s 6d. The members of the House of Representatives who responded to Mr. B. Dive's invitation to go over the route of the proposed Eltham-Opunake railway made the trip on Monday, accompanied by members of the Eltham-Opu-nake Railway League and others. The j party left the Coronation Hotel, Eltham, I at 9 o'clock, being accommodated in four motor cars. The route taken lay along the Eltham 'Road as far as the MangaI toki Hall, then*down the Hastings Road, along the Skeet, Manaia and Main South roads to Otakeho, then on to the Main South road to Opunake. A deviation was made from Kapanui on account of a difficulty in crossing' some streams on the straight road. After lunch at Opunake a run was made to Rahotu and back through Opunake, then along the. Eltham road, through Kaponga, and straight back to Eltham, which was reached at 5.15. The day ; promised fine in the morning, and the run out to Opunake was made under pleasant conditions. Rate, however, then set in, and the journey to Rahotu and back to Eltham was made in drizz-

line showers.—Argus. ' Miss Smith, local secretary for the! Trinity College of ,Music, London,' advises tis that the following were successful at the practical examinations conducted by Mr. Chas. Schilsky yesterday : Senior Grade—Rose Imelda Hynes, singing, 71 (Convent); Irene Connett, piano, 68 (Convent). Intermediate Grade—William Tarry, T)iano,72 (Convent, Inglewood); Sylvia G. Hodg-, son, piano, 65 (Convent. Opunake); Mona I. Corkill, piano, 63 (Miss E. Young); Clarice Street, violin, 60 (Con- ■ vent); Vida Drake, piano, 60 (Convent/ Inglewood). Junior Grade—Ruby Read,j piano. 71 (Convent, Opunake); Mary) O'Rorke, singing, 65 (Convent); Ethel' A. White, piano, 65 (Miss Smith, L.A.8.,j .A.T.C.L) ; Eileen Mannix, violin, 64 ' (Convent) ; Leslie Turner, piano, 62 (Miss Smith) ; Kathleen Thompson,; piano, 64 (Convent). Preparatory B Ethel Florence Leech, piano, 78 (Convent, Inglewood) ; Lyndall M. Rudd piano, 73 (Miss E. Young); Margaret Hickey, piano, 71 (Convent, Opunake); Rita Whittle, piano, 72 (Convent); , Baden Moverley, violin, 69 (Convent); ; Kathleen Thompson, violin, 69 (Convent); Victoria M. Monkly, piano, 631 (Miss Rose Thomas, Waitara); Barbara/, Allen, piano, $2 .(Convent). li