LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 206, 9 December 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Milton settler has had to pay damages and costs totalling £2B 17s Gd on account of his dogs worrying a neighbor's sheep. ° The Southland News states that there is at present an excellent demand for shearers and pick-and-shovel men in Southland. A party of Mastertonians, with three guns, claim to have shot two hundred rabbits on a property a few miles from the town on Sunday last. Nearly two hundred signatures of business men have been secured to the petition for uniform closing hours for all businesses in Palmerston. Marie Corelli has written another book. It is called the "Devil's Motor.- a Phantasy." As the critics are already tearing it to pieces by ridicule, it wiil probably have a good run for a time. The Danish dairyman breeds from his best cows, and insists on saving and continuing the breeding from their progeny. By this method the average cow in Denmark has been made to yield 62001b of milk, making an average of 2251b of butI ter per year, and showing milk test 3 of about 3.5 per cent. Progress for December is to hand. An unusually full number, dealing with the water schemes of the Government, the Aero Club of Auckland, the Panama Canal, Edison's storage battery, the aeroplane in war, the British Navy, daring feats of motor boats and submarines, the great trans-Alpine flight, the Union S.S. Co.'s new building, and much information about motors ami motoring, motor boats and motor cycles, and architecture —all very interesting and up-to-date. ■

The exhibit of woodwork and iron-1 work by the rural classes of the Strat-1 ford District Higfli School was much ad-1 mired at the Stratford Show yesterday., lit comprised two ladders, two gates, a wheelbarrow, dutch hoe, grindstone frame, garden seat, horse-9hoe, set of forge tools, S hooks, and hinges. Mr. F. W. Sandford is the instructor in. a very useful branch of education. The weekly session of the Good Templars was held on Wednesday night in St. Mary's Hall, Bro. C. l'epperell presiding. . It was resolved: that a deputation from the Lodge wait on the Mayor and Borough Councillors next Monday and urge that tJhe clearing of the Hall site be proceeded with. An interesting programme was rendered by members, consisting of music, songs and recitations. It was reported that the coming missioner was having successful meetings in England.

A Dunedin message states that, so far as the Union Company's boats are concerned, the passenger fares or freights are unlikely to be increased at present. The Company and the Merchant Service Guild work under an agreement, which, however, runs, out in August next. The Arbitration Court award made in Australia applies, however, to the Red Funnel boats running between Australia and Tasmania, and the fares and freights between those places will probably have to be considered immediately. A Wellington message states that the Anglican Mission of Help, which has been conducted throughout New Zealand, was concluded at the Town Hall, Wellington, last night. The Bishop of Wellington presided over a crowded audience. Canon Stuart delivered a spirited address. On behalf of, the audience, Bishop Wallis wished Canon Stuart and all the missioners, who are, leaving New Zealand to-morrow, a very grateful and affectionate good-bye. He said the meetings all through had exceeded' the greatest expectations. At a meeting of the East End Bathing Reserve Committee on Wednesday night, the secretary (Mr. W. H. Fletcher) presented the balance-sheet, which Showed that the credit balance resulting from the picnic and promenade concert held at the reserve a fortnight ago was £42 6s 6d, which will be divided between the committee and the Garrison Band. The committee passed hearty votes of thanks to 'Mrs. Dockrill and the ladies' committee 'Wlho provided afternoon tea, to the donors of prizes, and all who assisted at the function.

A purse-snatching incident is reported to have occurred in Auckland shortly after eleven o'clock on Friday night last. A man accosted a Maori in Grey-street, and asked him if he possessed any money. The native answered in the affirmatice, and, taking out his purse, proceeded to prove his statement, when, it is alleged, the man snatched the purse and fled in the direction of Queen-street. The Maori followed, but his aid was not required, for as thei fugitive turned into Queen-street' he ran into the arms of Constable Power, who arrested him.

Considerable excitement was caused, at Thorndon baths, Wellington, on Wednesday by tfhe presence of a shark five feet 16ng. The caretaker, with others, had been in swimming, and on emerging he noticed the shark. He went and got a rifle and fired three shots at the monster, all of Tttiich took effect. After two hours tfhe shark was fished out by means of a boat hook, and was then not quite dead. Then swimming by the public was resumed as if nothing had ihoppened. It is believed the shark grubbed its way through tlhe bottom of the protective fence.

Mr. Kendrick, S.M., heard an unusual case at Hawera yesterday, when the Hawera County Council proceeded against the chairman of the Waimate West County Council and an employee for cutting a road within Hawera County. Owing to a dispute between the two bodies respecting the upkeep of the rood, Waimate Council had applied for commissi sions, and while collecting evidence took two engineers to inspect the road, and it was cut to ascertain the depth of the metal, the permission of the controlling body not lhaving been asked for. The road, it was admitted, was undamaged. The Magistrate dismissed the case as trivial, but ordered Waimate County to pay the Hawera solicitor's fee, a guinea, and 13s costs.

A young man named Hhomas Frederick Moult was brought before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., yesterday morning, on charges of drunkenness and indecency, to both of which he pleaded guilty. On the "first he was convicted and discharged. With, regard to the second offence, which arose from tie first, His Worship pointed out that the Act allowed him no alternative to imprisonment. In his opinion there ought to be provision for a fine. Tile present case was one of those eases which were very difficult to deal with. The accused made an earnest plea to be fined instead of being sent to gaol.? He had never been in gaol, and he did not want to go. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning Mrs. Grace Francis charged Christian Johnson with having failed to make adequate provision for his child. Mr. Standish appeared for complainant. There was no appearance of defendant. The evidence showed that in July last Johnson and his wife signed a deed of separation, by which the former agreed to pay £1 per week for the maintenance of his wife and child. He 'had!, however, paid only £7 since that tim« In September Mrs. Johnston left the child in charge of Mrs. Francis, and went out to earn her own living as a servant. Defendant had since left New Plymouth, and had taken no notice of letters which had been sent to him. An order was made for the payment of 10s per week for the child's maintenance.

An interesting case was heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Mr. Fitzherbert, S.M. Edward Beal was charged on the information of the borough inspector with selling ice cream in a public place in contravention of the borough by-laws. The circumstances, as disclosed by the evidence, were that defendant had a stall at the East End bathing reserve on the occasion of the opening of the swimming season. Last year lie had the refreshment rights, but on the occasion mentioned in the information he had no such right, and sold from his cart, which 'had been placed on that portion abutting on Buller street which was above high-water mark. He had refused to move when requested to do so. The defence was that the cart was on a place waslhed by the sea at spring tide, and Mr. Hughes (who appeared for the defendant) contended that such land was outside the jurisdiction of the borough by-laws. The case was adjourned to enable the Magistrate to visit the locality.

ENDING OF A GREAT SALE. The closing days of what has proved to be the Melbourne's greatest sale ever held are announced. Naturally, after such a stirring time, there remain over many odd lots, broken sizes and remnants. These have been marked down to such a level that customers will buy on sight. The "Giving-up" sale of ladies' boots and shoes will, of course, continue in full swing so long as a single pair remains in stock. The reductions in this department are so drastic and the opportunity so unusual that it is a certainty that no ladies' boots or .shoes will be carried over into the New Year. Ladies requiring first-clas? footwear should not miss this splendid chance to secure real genuine baiigains,—Advt.

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An incident of interest occurred at the finishing up of the loading of the Terra Nova, causing much merriment among the onlookers. Several casks of beer had been sent down to the ship as a parting gift, and some of them had been taken on board, when an official whose words carry weight ordered the beer to be put ba«k in the railway trucks. The bluejackets winked at each other, and one of them, with mixed facial expressions, enquired), "What's gone wrong with the condensed milk?" A bystander on the wharf volunteered an opinion to the effect that the kegs of beer would experience a warmer hospital if distributed amongst the oversea steamers laid up at the adjacent wharves. "The truest words I've heard this many a day," rejoined a man in the garb of a merchant stoker, and a small coterie commenced to compute how many gallons of beer each cask as the railway people shunted the untapped "refreshments" up thie wharf. An exciting incident which occurred at Paparoa, on the Coromandel coast, about a fortnight ago, is recorded by a correspondent. Mohi Mangakahia, a Maori chief's son, with others, had gone to visit friends in a borrowed boat. After dinner Mr. Hira's son Jerry took a little boy named Makoare out in the boat to have a fish. The boat capsized, .and the two boys, neither of whom could swim very well, were thrown into the -water. By this time the natives on shore had miss* ed the boat, and hearing cries Mohi ran to launch a small punt with the intention of going to the rescue of the boys. The punt contained only two palings in place of oars, and these proving useless in the breakers he tied a rope round his neck, and, towing the punt after him, managed, after stupendous efforts, to reach. the boys, who were now clinging to the upturned boat. The smaller boy, Mokoare, had thrown off his clothes and intended to swim to the shore, and was calling out lustily to his mother, who was wailing* and wringing her hands oil the beach, "Don't cry, mother! I'm all right." Happily, after a great deal of battling with the waves, 'Mohi succeeded in rescuing the boys, and the boat was landed on the beach with difficulty. The native Mohi, the rescuer, was educated at Three Kings College, and has spent seven years or so there and at St. John's. He is said to be a splendid type of native and very courageous.