LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 146, 29 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The September meeting of the Education Board was one of the lightest for some time past. The deliberations for the most part were about minor repairs to buildings, smoking chimneys, and the like. Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons have forwarded to the Borough Council a facsimile of the letter written by Queen Alexandra at the time of the late King's death. The copy is to be framed and nung in the Carnegie Library. The weekly session of the Egmont od f«' N°. 112, 1.0.G.T.. was hlld in kt. Mary's Hall last night The deputy C.1., 1 ro. J. C. Legg, presided. The programme provided by the Bros. N. T. Maunder took the form of lantern slades, . The Inspector-General of Hospitals desires to know whether the New Plymouth Borough Council is prepared to have vested in the Hospital Board all matters concerning the prevention and spread of infectious diseases, as provided by the new Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act. 'A man was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of obtaining goods from a Chinaman under false pretences. The purchase had been made about two and a half houTs before, but the com•pLaant was in the hands of the police only half an hour before the offender was run to earth. He wjll be brought •before ihe Court this, morningi. THE LATEST AND THE BEST. Remedy Ifor chest complaints is Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and. Golds. It cures when all else fails. Price "23 Qd and 3s. Obtainable everywhere.

Hie usual weekly session of the Hope of Egmoiit Juvenile Temple, No. 25, 1.0. G.T., was held in St. Mary's Hall last night. The C.T., Sis. G. Kendall, presided. The "musical chairs" programme caused much fun, Bro. Winter Ixiing the winner. The Lodge will hold their third anniversary on Thursday nig'ht, October (i, in St. Mary's Hall. For an unknown period, prior to the recollection of tihe ok'e-t. Maori inhabitant, 41 portioii ... wrecked vessel has lain on the beanh n.-ar Aotea. Although covered with san.l for nearly 40 years, it lias (says the Kuwihia Settler) recently bix'ii expressed, and has attracted considerable attention from the settlers. Its timber* are bolted together with metal and wooden sew > s the material of which fixen its workmanship and date of construction at somewhere in t'he eighteenth century—possibly a Dutch whaling craft built in the East Indies.

A lady cyclist performed a costly curtsey in Devon street yesterday morning. Cycling against the wind, with head slightly ibent, the fair pedaller did not notice that the horse in a butcher's 'hawking cart standing near the footpath was slowly veering towards her. Quite unconscious of dagger, slhe nodded to a friend on the footpath on the other side of the street, and bumped into the horse, which by this time was well out on the road. Sundry bruises and abrasions, and a broken bike, were the comparatively light injuries sustained in an accident which might have resulted very seriously had the horse been restive after tihe collision. Ex-President Roosevelt says that the incident that amused him most since his return to America occurred in his summer home at Oyster Bay on the day of his arrival there. Responding to the clamor of his townsfolk for an informal speech, Mr. Roosevelt reverted for a moment to his pet subject—race suicide. In the crowd was a man with three small children propped up on his shoulders, and a woman close beside him carrying two babies. "The speech was going along smoothly," narrates the former President, "when the man with the three children broke in with a voice that could have ibeen heard a quarter of a mile away. 'Hey! Teddy,' he shouted, 'can you beat this? It's a full house, Teddv. Triplets and twins—three of a kind arid a pair!'"

The result of the card match between Moturoa Lodge and Clifton Druids, at Waiter a on Tuesday night, was as follows (Moturoa players being mentioned first)Cribbage: G. Blanchard and G. Dickinson (4) v. J. Laing and Petch (6); Jas. Harvey and W. Groombridge (5) v. G. Millar and G. Bird (3); H. J. Gilbert and E. Lee (4) ,v. O'Connor ana Evans (5); F. .Joseph and W. Yardly (4) v. D. Sampson andi Cosser (6); totals, Druids 17, Clifton 20. Euchre: F. Horsup and F. Holmes (3) v. V. 'Longstaff and Limmer (5); Cooper and Vic Holmes (6) v. E. Laing and Callender (3); A. Nisbitt and W. Frances (3) v. A. Drake and Langman (6); W. Lints and A. Harvey (3) v. Davidson and McKoy (7); C. Harvey and E. Lister (0) v. Jones and Tinsmith (3); Arnold and Beard (2) v. Campbell and H. McCoy (0); S. Jury (0) v. Trimm (5); totals, Moturoa 29, Clifton 35. Grand totals: Moturoa 46, Clifton 55.

Writing from Constantinople recently tilie correspondent of the London Times said': "For better, for worse, the Navv Law and tilie extraordinary Military Budget have ibeen passed; it now remains to be seen how the Minister of Finance will meet the situation created by the somewhat lavish expenditure. The revenue may be increased by financial reforms, and especially by improved methods of collection, to £T30,000,000 in three or four yeans time; but the ordinary expenditure already amounts to a-bout £T33,000,000. Even assuming that tihe real 'deficit for the current year will exeeed £T5,000,000, the tendencies towards increased military and naval expenditure are very strong," and in the opinion of many well-qualified observers further demands for the purchase of war material and other military requirements may be expected at no distant date. For the moment Djavid Bey hopes to raise a loan of about £T5,500',000 in Paris, and to tide over any further financial difficulties that may ai'ise during the year by th? issue of £T3,000,000 in Treasury bonds. It is most unlikely tlhat he will be able to contract a loan on such favorable terms as the obtained in 1909, but a promise of orders for artillery from French firms may make the conditions easier than would otherwise ibe the case."