LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Eltham Dairy Company .manufactured 243.93711) of butter last month. Tlic average test wa s 3.5. The companypaid out to suppliers on Saturday £8795. __ The inquest on the death of Albert Stinson in the motor-coach accident recently, has been further adjourned until Wednesday, December 7. The principal witness, George Stinson. brother of the deceased, is still in the hospital and unable to attend.

The following choice morsel was disentangled from the mass of correspondence read at the last, meeting of the Stratford County Council: "Dear Sirs i wish to inform you that the pound-keep, or is n<jt attending to his duty as there is cakes on the road and horses and cows which are breaking my fences which are a continual lmssice all the time which are a perfect humbug now a wish ypu .t%Be,e, to jt earJieatA

Ninety-two lock gates for the Panama Canal will weigh 00,000 tons, and cost, over £1,000.000. The Dunedin city trams on Thursday carried 52,<J3-'S passengers. There were 472 special trips to the A. and P. Show Grounds. Members of the Park Tennis Club are asked not to walk across the courts when they make their periodica] inspection visits, that is, unless they are wearing rubber-soled shops.

Mr. Newton King's Princess Galatea was adjudged the champion cow at the Auckland A. and P. Show yesterday. Mr. J. R. Corrigan, of flawera, showed the champion English Leicester ram. The city of Magdeburg, in Germany, has advertised for a mayor at a salary of 5250 dollars a year, including the rental of a dwelling in the City Hall, and 1000 dollars for official expenses. The German idea is that a municipality is a business, to be conducted on business lines.

Dr. Bertillon, head of the Anthropometrical Department of the Paris police, has invented a new method of identifying criminals. For the future not only will a record be taken out of the finger and thumb prints of every convicted person, but the color and texture of the hair will be noted.

On charges of having illegally sold beer at Te Wera on the sth instant, Ellen Mounsey, who pleaded guilty, was lined £3O, with £1 13s costs, at the Stratford Magistrate's Court yesterday. Her husband, John Mounsey, was also fined £5, with 7s costs, on a charge of storing liquor for sale. At the same sitting a man named James Bailey, on a charge of following and using obscene language to a lady, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment without the option of a fine. The garden party held at Mrs. Arden'a beautiful grounds, Frankley road, on Thursday was most enjoyable, and there was a large attendance. Afternoon tea was served on the lawn, and excellent music was provided, the arrangements for which were in the hands of Mrs. Arden and young people, most of whom were old scholars of the Frankley Road School. The gipsy tent was in charge ot Miss MacDiarmid; sweets stall, Misses Okey; fruit salad, Miss Arden; boating, Messrs. Dive and Arden. The proceeds, amounting to £ll os, will not only provide the prizes but will leave a substantial surplus to be applied to reducing the debit balance in the school funds. A New Plymouth exhibitor at the Waitara Horticultural Society's show will more than likely walk the "carpet" for his cleverness. The pelargoniums were magnificent blooms, and it puzzled even the judge to know how they could be produced hereabouts; in fact, he had never seen anything like them before. His curiosity came to the rescue in his dilemna, and with a knife he cut out the heart of a bloom. Lo and behold! It had been "faked," the extra petals to supply the perfect bloom having been neatly inserted and the whole held together by a thread. Number two was a replica of the fraud, and so he decided to leave the third spicmen to the committee of the Society to hold as a curiosity in the floral world, and take what action' they deemed commensurate with the meanness and duplicity evidenced by the exhibit. That the 'exhibitor was there and then disqualified in the class goes without saying. The only course open to the society is to declare him "a lifer" and prevent the opportunity being given' him of further prosecuting his cleverness.