LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 30 March 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kaupokonui dairy factory when completed will be, according to the remarks of the chairman, the best in the southern hemisphere, if not in the world. Mr. Powdrell, chairman of the Kaupokonui Dairy Company, said he believed that 25 per cent, of the whole of the milk handled at the factory was water.

A little boy named Willie Nicholls, aged four yeaTs, broke his right leg yesterday morning in jumping out of a milk-cart at Huirangi. He was brought into town and attended by Drs. Blackley and Milroy. The children attending the Church of England Sunday School at Moturoa will hold their annual picnic this afternoon on the beach, near the site of the Pioneer Obelisk, at the unveiling of which they will be present.

At the Hawcra S.M. Court on Tuesday, John Cecil Montefiore was charged with assaulting Charles F. Hill, stationmaster at Hawera. The case arose out of the charges heard the previous day. After considerable evidence had been heard, the Bench reserved its decision. A first offending inebriate was arrested about 7 a.m. yesterday morning, and brought before Mr. C. M. Lepper, J.P., at the local police court in the afternoon. He was convicted and discharged, at six o'clock last evening he was again arrested in a similar state, and conveyed to the lock-up. When searched, a fully loaded revolver was discovered on him.

At the Arbitration Court yesterday, application was made by the New Zealand Federated Boot Trade Industrial Association of Workers to have the award regarding female operatives exi tended to include the Egmont Boot . Factory (Mr. Hal. Goodacre). Mr. Mr. Whiting, secretary of the Union, appeared for the Union. After hearing objections by Mr. Goodacre, the court I reserved its decision. The commercial course at the Technical School has commenced, and those intending to take up book-keeping, shorthand and typewriting would do well to start as soon as possible. Mr. White, the instructor in shorthand and typewriting, will be pleased to meet intending students to-night (Thursday) at the Technical School. The book-keeping class meets on Friday as advertised. Those wishing to take agriculture should enrol as soon as possible. The class meets on Fridays. A striking story of the brilliant musical powers of Mr. Robert Harkness, the young Australian musician who formed one of the Chapman-Alexander Mission party, was told bv the Rev. R. E. Da vies in Dunedin. Mr. Davies had been present at a great meeting of .MOO converts in the Sydney Town Hall. A lady rose and told how .<lie had given up her profession as palmist, and now had to face the world with only £2 17s and no, means of livelihood. "But," she added, "I will cling to the Cross." Mr. Harkness wrote on a piece of paper, and then handed it over to Mr. Alexander. "Sing it yourself, Harkness," said Mr. Alexander;' and he did sing it himself —words and music that he had composed while the lady was sneaking. When ho had finished Mr. Alexander turned to the choir of 40(1 voices, and they sang, "I. will cling to the Cross." Then, turning again, Mr. Alexander set the whole audience singing till the hall reverberated again and again with the words of a hymn that had conic from that woman's experience.

Sometimes sheaving machines do their work too well. Molesworth station, in the Amuri district, 'Marlborough, is said to have lost, about three thousand newlyshorn sheep as a result of the snowstorm oit January -Hi. The -heep are believed to have been shorn too clorfe.

The valuer in Auckland reported a few weeks ago that the rateable value of property for the ensuing year showed the substantial increase of over £OR,iUH). It would appear, however, that a good many of the ratepayers do not sec eye to eye with the valuer on this point, for no fewer than 218 abjections have been lodged against his estimates. Business people should bear in mind that, in accordance with the Secret Commisions Act, IMO, which came into force on January 1 of this year, when discounts, commissions or allowances are made to agents or others no invoice or receipt must lie given which does not show such discount, commission or allowance on the face of the invoice or' receipt This law affects all classes of business, and readers should particularly notice that not only must the reduction be shown on the receipt, but also in the invoice.

Within a comparatively short time Wellington will have the finest Children's Hospital south of the line. The Hospital Board is considering the question of further providing for interior decorations in the new Children's Hospital. Tke funds available for the building and furnishings total £16.082. The contract price for the building is £11,713 16s Bd. The sum of £2(100 has been allocated for furnishing, and payments to the architect and clerk of works arc estimated at £9OO. A sum of £1409 2s 8d remains available for expenditure upon improvements on the original design. The Hospital Committee is therefore of opinion that a further amount should bo expended on interior decorations, and it is to report to the Board on the subject. It is well known that no part of New Zealand has been so favored with private donations for public purposes as the great city of Auckland, and the existence of an estate worth £250,000 in the city which was set apart as an endowment for education very many years ago was pledged for a hospital loan, and is now set free for its original purposes, has naturally set moving those interested in education. Legislation will be necessary before this magnificent estate can be utilised, and with this object in view a conference of representatives of' educational institutions was recently held in Auckland to consider the position. The conclusions arrived at were that the foremost educational need of the province was the fostering of agricultural education, the erection of buildings and purchase of sites for other than primary schools, the provision of suitable boarding accommodation for country scholars seeking higher education, assisting the University College, and benefiting secondary education in the country districts. When formulated these proposals are to be submitted to the Minister of Education to be embodied in special legislation.—Exchange. The Hon. J. D. Ormond, M.L.C., speaking at Waipatu pa on Saturday at the unveiling of a monument to the late Henare Tomoana, M.L.C., and his brother, Penc te Uamairangi, referred to an occasion when these chiefs did the Europeans great service. The first was a period following the murder of Mr. Faulkner, at Opotiki, when a wave of fanaticism spread over the country and a large number of natives lost their heads. That fanaticism spread to Gisborne, which was J then a very small place, and large num- < bers joined the fanatics. .At that time, had it not been for the loyalty of our native friends, it would have been the! end of our European settlement for some time to come. Sir Donald McLean, by his great influence over the natives, headed the wave sweeping over the land. He (Mr. Ormond) was proud to have been Sir Donald McLean's trusted friend in those days. Sir Donald appealed to the natives of Hawk'e's Bay to assist, with the result that they formed a large force and went to Gisborne to help to stamp out the disorder. They were the fathers and grandfathers of the natives present who were led by Henare Tomoana, Pene te Ua, Renata and other chiefs. The late Mis. G. P. Donnelly's father, Karauria, was killed in one of the engagements. That was the occasion on which the chiefs whom they were there to do honor to that day did the Europeans a great service.

The Wellington Times' London correspondent writes under date February 17: The s.s, Tainui has just arrived in London with 3,345,6641bs of New Zealand butter, and the importers have 'wisely seized the occasion to advertise the butter far and wide on the front page of the Daily Mail, which has a circulation of nearly a million copies daily. The whole of the front page yesterday was occupied with the New Zealand butter advertisement. Beneath a picture which represented a dairy farmer in New Zealand handing a box of butter across the sea to a pretty housewife in England was a list of several hundreds of shopkeepers in London and the provinces who were spiling New Zealand butter, and had undertaken to make a special display of it that day. Such enterprise shonid give great stimulus to the sale of New Zcad butter, and had undeaxzfi fiffffizfiflfTlli land butter, besides spreading its reputation in this country. Between the months of November and May or June there is no butter on the English market to equal the New Zealand article for llavor. Beside it other butters seem insipid. Sold under its own name, it will make many converts, and establish a reputation among the public as it does among experts in the trade. Unfortunately, there is reason to believe that a good deal of New Zealand butter is sold as English, so that the Dominion does not get all the credit to which it. is entitled. Widespread advertising on the lines'attempted in the Daily Mail should do much to establish New Zealand's reputation for supplying the finest butter obtainable in this country.