LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 163, 19 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On account of -JJie Primitive Methodist anniversary at Inglewood, the Rev. John Nixon will not he able to preach at Kent Road to-night. An English file states that Ladv Warwick, presiding at a meeting at the Ritz Hotel in aid of Dr. Barnardo's Homes, laid great stress on the fact that it was 'largely due to the efforts of Labor members in the House of Commons that the Bill for the feeding and medical inspection of school children became law. The first prize in a lottery held at the end of August at a fete at' Ableiges, in France, was kept a secret until the drawing took place, when the winner found, to his horror, that it consisted of two graves, on which flowers were to be planted at the expense of the river. The giver is a'florist and also the'local grave-digger. _ A Capetown student named Jan Hendrick Hofmeyer, has just established a record which is probably without parallel in modern times. Although he is only 15 years of age, he has graduated B.A. at the Cape University, with first-class honors in classics. He has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, but will not iro ceed to Oxford until 1012.

A first offending inebriate who came before the Court yesterday morning was convicted and discharged. In the S.M. Court yesterday morning the Red Post Furnishing I o. (Mr. Nicholson) obtained judgment against Leslie Spieer on a claim for C2 2s 2d and costs OS. It is stated that the Waitara Freezing Works will commence slaughtering for the season on Tuesday, Novembei 1. The Patea co-operative freezing works resumed operations yesterday. The company anticipate a good season. Five of the six Ministers in the South Australian Labor Cabinet, and eight of the ten members of the Federal Labor Ministry jire total abstainers. Of .South Australia's twenty-two Labor members, twenty are temperance men. The Postal Department has erected s receiving-box for mail matter at the corner of Weymouth and St. Aubvn streets. It is one of the smaller variety, and consequently people are requested to post their newspapers at the nearest pillarbox to the General Post Office. "Guilty, under provocation, your Worship." This was the unusual and astonishing plea put forward by yesterday morning's "drunk" dealt with by the Stipendiary Magistrate. Without inquiring into the merits of the qualification of the plea, the usual decision of "convicted and discharged" was announced. [ In reference to the letter of " Disi gusted," appearing in Monday's issue, • and dealing with the failure of the Poultry Society to hand over a trophy to the winner of it, the secretary of the Society states that the writer of the letter is in error in stating that the I prize has now been cancelled. The ' whole matter was referred by the an- ' nual meeting to the incoming commit- [ tee to make the fullest enquiries and " come to a final settlement of the mat- ' ter in dispute. , The majesty of the law was well rel presented in the Magistrate's Court yesi terday morning. Eight eagle-eyed bar- - risters and solicitors were gathered >, there, in various interests. Only one ; judgment was secured, and in that there j wasn't a penny of counsel's costs, for . the summons had not been taken out i "by a solicitor, and the amount claimed i was too small to allow of the lawyer - having costs awarded him. New Plv- ! mouth must be acquiring a habit of payt ing its debts. . A strange discovery was made a day ! or two ago in a clay pit which supplies ' Kendiick's brick works at Aramoho. ! One of the men was turning over the p clay which was being dug out, when he came across a large shark's tooth in h state of perfect preservation, even down | to the last little serration on the edges. I The substance of the tooth is hard and firm, though it has somewhat lost its ! color, being now of a faint bluish white. | It was found imbedded in stiff clay, I some 40ft. below the top soil of the face. , How long it has been there is, of course, a matter for interesting specula* I tion. s As an example of the rise of land va- : lues in the city of Wellington, the re* , newal .of certain leases in the Te Aro . reclamation, authorised by the City ■ Council, is conspicuous. The section on I the corner of Willeston and Victoria ; streets, on which Messrs R,oss and Glendining's warehouse stands, is held on a twenty-one years' lease, which expires in February next. The rent has been £147 per annum. The Council decided to grant a new lease at a rental of £420 a year, with rights of renewal for successive periods of fourteen years in perpetuity at ground rentals to be fixed by valuation for each period. In another portion of the city—on Lambton Quay—the [ rental for a renewed terra of lease was increased 75 per cent, on the present sum. In the S.M. Court on Monday, i before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., John Os- ' borne Cock, formerly of New Plymouth [ but now of Stratford, was charged with having failed to compfy with an order of the Court for the maintenance of his son. The, information was laid on September 22, when the arrears amounted to £3, but it had been adjourned in consequence of defendant, who is in regular employment, promising to send the money, which he failed to do. Defendant, who failed to appear, is a widower, and the child is in the charge of its mother's relatives, who instigated these proceedings in consequence of defendant's failure to pay for the child's maintenance. Mr. Fitzherbert convicted accused and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment with hard labor, the warrant to be suspended for one week to allow accused to pay the money due. Speaking during the second tending debate of the Water-power Bill, Mr. 6. M. Thomson (Dunedin North), who is a scientist, said that no matter how cheaply a power could be produced it 'would take a long time before the whole could be utilised. The Dunedin corporation were making a very good thing out of their Waipori works. This was shown by the fact that it intended to enlarge its operations. lie was in favor of the Government's proposals, but would like to sound a note of warning in the matter. With the aid of cheap power nitrogenous manures could be manufactured at a reasonable rate. Tlie farmers were under the impression that such manures were not wanted here. Our analysts said so. This was a mistake. New soils did not . need them, but such was not the case with regard to soils which had been under cultivation for many years. Nitrogenous manures raised the yield of cereals to a very considerable extent at an economic rate. Dr. E. J. Dillon supplies in last month's. Contemporary Review an astonishing account of the position in Spain. In spite of a law passed in 1887, monasteries, convents and religious houses have, he says, sprung up in every province of Spain, until they have reached the enormous total of 3450. "To-day the number of secular priests, monks, nuns, friars and members of religious con2i'e£ations amounts, roughly speaking, to 150,000. As the population of the kingdom is, in round numbers, nineteen millions, it follows that there is one member of a religious body to ISO souls of the population! The total income of these com-mun-ities and prelates has been estimated at over 770 million pesetas, which is more than all the sums annuallv spent bv the "\ .. , 1 . 1

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