LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 145, 28 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Arrangements have been made for Mr. Hutton to conduct art classes at the Stratford Technical School. The Tikonuigi Co-operative Dairy Company have sold their output to the end of April to Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co., at ?. satisfactory figure. The whole of the Turanaki dairy companies have now, we understand, either sold or made arrangements to consign for the season. The .number of concrete fouilcling9 of viarious types is on the increase in Auckland. Several reinforced concrete structures havs already gone up, and it is expected that the number will be added to shortly. Camerated concrete has also been used in a large number of building?, including several residences. At the international lawn tennis tournament at 0-stend A. F. Wilding, of Chris.tehuie.h, the English champion, was seen to advantage in the final of the singles, his driving and volleying being extremely effective. The New Zealander won the doubles wih Paul de Borman. and, with Mile. M. Transens'ter, was also successful in the mixed doubles. He de-6-2, 6—2, 6—l. On account of the examinations at the Tikorangi and Waihi .schools being fixed for the first week in October, the chairman of the Education,. Board authorised the school committees there to defer the spring holidays until after the examinations. The Urenui Committee has been granted permission to'dispense with the spring holidays, on account oa the school having been closed so long on account of sickness amongst the children. The greater part of the equipment of the Inglewood Technical School has now been procured, and the school is •ready for the holding of classes. In OTder that interest in the work of the classes may be stimulated, it is highly desirable, in the opinion of the director of technical education that some form of local control should be instituted. The Education Board is of the same opinion, and last night adopted Mr. Ballantyne's recommendation that the Inglewood School Committee be constituted a technical school committee, and that Mr. H. Stratford, the headmaster, ibe appointed honorary superintendent. At the S.M. Court yesterday morning judgment by default was entered in the ■following cases:—Mary Larkin (Mr. C. H. Weston) v. Ann jane Trye, claim £1 12s and costs ss; Richard Bwing (Mr. A. R. Standish) v. Robert Campibell, claim £l6 7s 6d, and cost £1 10s 6d; M. 0. Butcher (Mr. A. R. Standish) v. Taylor and Falkner, claim £2 17s fid and costs 10s; Longstaff (Mr. Standish) v. Charles Ormsiby, claim £5 7s 6d, and costs \£l 3s fid; J. West (Mr. Grey) v. James Henry Walker, claim £3 ssi, and costs 10s; G. H. Haribnell (Mr. F. E. Wil9on) v. Alfred Fawcett, claim £4 16s, and costs £1 16s, and an order for possession of tenement on October 1. "South Africa would not be a bad place, if it were not for the food," said Dr. Thacker, who fans just returned from the Zambesi, to a Post reporter the other day. "The food is simply wretched. You can't get good fool even in tihe best .hotels —even Johannesburg andl Capetown. It was so bad at thu Zambesi that Arnst gave up' tihe hotel and lived largely on guinea-fowl he shot tenuself, and what his friewfe sent him from Rhodesia. The beef and mutton art dreadful, and people live a good deal on tiinnel stuff, as frightened oi the beef. So many cattle fall gi»k, that you never, whether the meat you are eating is off l a diseased animal or not. There should be a good market for New Zealand products, if they can only get in," At the Education Board meeting last night the chairman congratulated the Board on the excellence of the new school building erected at Frankley road, and he congratulated tl\e architect also upon the conveniences and the very good work shown there. He considered the school would be a credit to any district in the Dominion, i He was not quite satisfied, however, that the committee intended allowing the children sufficient of the old school as a shelter shed. There was an idea abroad that the old school was to be retained as a sort of public hall, but it was well known that the Board had allowed it to remain so that it could be used as a shelter shed. The Board decided to await the course .of events, and, if . necessary, to insist upon the conditions being observed.

At a meeting Of the Hillsborough 1 School Committee on Monday evening to enquire, into ,an allegation that the. school teacher had stood a boy on his head in the porch as a punishment, the following resolution was carried, on the motion of Messrs. W. Stanley aad J. B. Marsh: "That the Hillsborough School Committee respectfully request that the Education Board will take into consideration the very urgent necessity for investigating the very unsatisfactory state of affairs at present existing at the school. The parents are taking their children away, and very shortly we will have a very small attendance indeed, d£ the present state oi affaire continues, and that this .committee requests the Board to suspend the teacher pending an enquiry by the Board." The resolution was the outcome of a discussion upon evidence given by several pmpils concerning the incident. The request came before the BoaTd at last night's meeting, and the 'chairman andi Messrs. Morton and Trimble were appointed to hold the enquiry. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning Mr. H. S. Fitzheirbert, S.M., gave judgment in the case of Johanna Rftill, of Koru, against the Deputy-Of-ficial Assignee in the bankrupt estate of J. J. Patterson, of Dannevirke, the evidence in the case having been heard last Tuesday. Mr. A. H. Johnstone Appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. J. J. Patterson for the defendant His Worship decided against the defendant jon the nonsuit point. Mr. Patterson had claimed a nonsuit on the ground the plaintiff was only one of (the patties to the agreement under which the Action 'had been brought, and that the whole of the parties should have been joined) in the action. But as the agreement stated definitely that the plaintiff was the only person entitled to receive the rent, this rule did not hold good. The claim was for £lO4, and it was admitted that this amount was due if any rent at all were recoverable. There had been no Ibona fide defence raised. The principal defence, if defence it could be called was that the D.O.A. had no knowledge of the existence of the agreement, but in cross-examination by Mr. Johnstone it had been made very clear that he had knowledge of it, for he had had correspondence about it within a. few days of the bankruptcy. Judgment would be for plaintiff for the full amount claimed and coats aanountfata to £9 Is. Send your order for printing to the "Daily News" Printery. Prices right. iSatiUiMjtioo guaranteed. .

During the inquisition oil Monday night into the reasons why the Darenaki Guards had not paraded on two occasions when their attendance waftcompulsory, the men indulged in skylarking and leap-frog. It has been explained tliat, before the. anen did they had been dismissed, and were consequently not bound to observe the» usual military decorum. If the men were dismissed they were justified i» playing leapfrog or any other game. According to t'he Southland News, there is an unprecedented dearth of sawmilling labor in Smiit'hland at present. The secretary of the Southland Union statesthat lie was informed by a miller theother day that he ihad been considering; the question of closing down until a fult complement of men could be obtainedHe estimated: that there were 1100 sawmill hands in Southland, a larger number* than ever before in the hi&torv of theindustry. The milling trade, he added, is. brisk, and several new mills are in course* of erection or in contemplation. •A remarkable freak is on view in » shop window in Eltliam, says the Argus. It is in the form of the tiniest, calf imaginable. Anyone taking a casual glance would imagine it to be mere* ly mi artificial affair—a sort of toy But it is a real, genuine calf; wasborn alive, and was discovered by the-, owner shortly after it was calved, though it died soon afterwords. Ifr stands only about Oin. high, is a nice red color, and well slwped. There 2$ nothing of the monstrosity about it, but it is simply so tiny as to be very re? markable—a miniature calf, in fact. i A young woman was discovered in male attire at IPerth a few days ago. A detective noticed a peculiar-looking youth in the company of Mahomet Leak,, an Afghan, at a performance in His' Majesty's Theatrei He followed ttie pair to Murray street, which is the-i Asiatic quarter, and took the suppositious youth to tihe Detective Office. It was 'ascertained that "ha" was the> daughter of a respectable farmer in the country, and came to Perth recently.' She imade the acquaintance of the Af- . ghan, who is said to have purchased her male attire. The girl, who is about 25 yeans of age, was handed over to the Salvation Amay. The pushful >Maori abroad. Miss Maggie Papakiura advertises as follows in the latest Sydney Morning Herald to hand: "Maggie Papakura sends greetings and ardha to her many friends in (Sydney, and by this message desires to impart' the knowledge to them that she will on October Ist inaugurate a tour of the worlds with a brief season at the Sydney Sports Ground, bringing with her a complete representation of a Maori village, and an artistic combination of fifty Maori entertainers, vocalists and musicians, wik> will present an entirely novel, attractive and varied series of entertainments. The organisation will include, in addition, to a number of carefully selected soloists, ;witih phenomenal singing voices, the celebrated Arawa 'Male Double Quartette, whose recent appearances in New Zealand created a sensation."

The New Plymouth Amateur Opel* atic Society intends, on the nights of November 3 and 4, -to produce tba opera "Dorothy," locally. In the view! of discriminating critics no English opera is sweeter or more dainty .than this, same "Dorothy." It contains numbers that, as musical gems, have never beeij surpassed in the whole range of opera, and ite choruses are inspiring and utt> forgettable. The quaint and beautiful dressing requisite for "Dorotfcy" crownj it with a halo <xf romance, and the poeb* ry of the lyrics is unexceptionable. So* loists have particular scope in the work* and one is led 'tfr believe/.thafc* arduous study the Society is giving to it, the production will be highly credt'bable to its members, and worthy ol the composer and writer of one of the daintiest musical romances ever ooanmitted to paper. The Society intend to use the traditional costumes for toe occasion and the beautiful rural ecenerjr necessary as a background for thfil charming work. While on night duty ait Melbourne, Constable Rowe was called into ft house in D'Arcy Alley, where a woman an advanced age lay on a miserabTe truckle bed, helpleaa and sick, and apparently in want of the common necessaries of life. Taikeo to Melbourne Hospital, die was admitted for treatment. Her casewas one of general debility, accentuated by ailcohoHsm. On making inquiries, Margaret Joyce, who is single, at one . time leased the premises in which she resided as a boardiwugbouse. Owing to advanced age and foolishness, she had been unable" to carry on the business, and the landlord in compassion allowed her to oocupy one, of the back rooms rent free. .As tw oonst&ble was about to depart tHAj tihef sick woman in an ambulance, one of thecrowd of neighbors wiho had assemble# remarked!, "I believe she has money,«m?table." The only lively place in the roon) wfhere money would have been concealed was a tin trunk under the bed. This was pulled out, and inside it was a. leather brief-bag full of money—bank notes of vaauous denominations, sovereigns, lialf-sovereigna, silver, and copper* were all mixed up in a greasy, odoriferous heap, and when carefully «orted otA at'the police headquarters panned oat at £2ty 13s 44

Dr. Thicker, of Ohristchurch, who returned 1 to New Zealand last week from hia trip to the Zambesi as Artist's backer in the raoe against Barry, has a very high opinion of the Soutih African railways. He told a Post reporter that it would pay the New Zealand Government to send the Minister of over to the opening of the' Unlon Parliament, if it were only to study the working at the railways in South Africa, The guage is the same in 'both countries (3ft Gin), ibut the accommodation on the South African lines, said the doctor, wu infinitely superior to that given in New Zealand. The sleeping arrangement* were better than anyttog had Been in England, America or Australia, not to mention New Zealand. Our raihmy* were obsolete compared with the South African. The sleeping arrangement* on tihe cars and the attendance were perfect. There were either two or four-berth compartments, each of them fitted with lavatory and all conveniehces. . There was none of the waiting for places at -the common wash-basin as on the New Zealand railways, with the common towet and everything. Bedding was supplied separately, and passengers were allowed to bring and use their own. The corridors were all at the side, and so there was no annoyance of passengers' wandering up and down the train. Theoficiala uniformly, wherever foe travelled, 1 the ous, anxious to could for the comfort and convanWofc of the passenger. *- He- think? ti» Jfew Zt* land Government might well <tfrk6 S out of tihe South African book, / •