LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 319, 5 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nearly 1500 motor-cars are now registered in Wellington. The motor is rapidly superseding horse traffic. To ensure an all-night telephone service in New' Plymouth the signatures oi a few more subscribers are required to the petition.

Parents are requested to furnish their children with cards bearing their names and the titles of their fancy dress costumes at to-night's ball. The committee is very anxious to obtain a complete list.

The Taranaki Garrison Band has kindly consented to render selections in the town on Wednesday and Friday evenings, afterwards marching to the Drill Hall to give a programme of music on each evening at the winter show, which will be open from Wednesday afternoon till Saturday night.

On Friday night a motor-car, which the chaffeur endeavored to steer in between Mr. Carey's buggy and a, 'bus on the South road, collided with the buggy, and dashed it against an electric light pole, smashing it to pieces, and incidentally extinguishing the eleotric light on that circuit. The occupants of the buggy escaped without injury and the motor-car was able to pursue its journey.

A discovery of what is said to be an apparently inexhaustible supply of limestone is reported from near Ward, Marlborough, the present terminal station of the northern section of the South Island Main Trunk railway. It is understood that a company is being formed to exploit the field. Samples sent to various centres have been analysed, and favorable reports, we are informed, have been received.

In reference to the proposed WaitaraUremii railway connection, we are informed that trial surveys to connect the Urenui district with the railway were made many years ago, and that the surveyors were decidedly in favor of a junction at Sentry Hill. Since then, ot course, the junction of the Waitara line has been moved from Sentry Hill to Lepperton Junction. It was stated at that time that the far easier and less costly route was from the main line, the cost of bridges being considerably less than in continuing the Waitara line to Urenui.

The directors of the Paris Opera House have made a sensational engagement. It is that of 31. Magnere, a Frenchman, who lived in Chili until a few months ago. His "discoverers" declare that he is the finest tenor in the world. M. Magnere had no idea of singing on the stage until a few weeks ago. He has always been fond of singing, and studied with an Italian baritone at Santiago, where he made a point of going to hear the best music obtainable at the opera house. Six months ago 11. Magnere's mother, who was in Paris on a visit, fell ill, and M. Magnere crossed the ocean to her bedside. She recovered, and the young man went to take lessons from Mme. Martini, who urged him very strongly to bocome a professional. About the end of March one of the directors of the Paris Opera House met M. Magnere at the house of a friend, heard him sing, and asked him to give the musical director an opportunity of hearing him. The result was an immediate engagement. The mission so eloquently and powerfully preached in St. Joseph's Church by the Rcdemptorist Fathers Creagh and Whelan was brought to a close last night. The results have been highly satisfactory to all. Opened on the 28th of May by a most impressive sermon on the text. "What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul," preached by Rev. Father Creagh. the services increased in saltitnry results and power until the climax was reached on Sunday morning, when at the 7.30 Mass forty children received their first communion, and altogether over 350 went to the altar rails. After Mass a Volunteer Guard of Honor of the Blessed Sacrament with formed, when over fifty men joined the Guard. During the mission .there wore about 1100 communicants. The mission was closed last night at Vespers, when Father Creagh gave the Papal Benediction. The past wvek will remain a luminous page in the memory of the congregation of St. Joseph's, and all join in gratitude to the Almighty for the favors received and in wishing the missioncrs God Speed.

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A man who lias been "wanted" by the ( police since September last was arrested by the detectives at Wellington on Friday. The prisoner last year was fined £ll—with the option of a month in gaol—for a breach of the Legislature Act, in that he signed a false name on the roll and claimed a vote. The man disappeared immediately afterwards, and enjoyed a spell of liberty, which came to an unexpected close on Friday. The order of the procession from the Post Office to the Recreation Grounds on Coronation Day will probably be as follows:—Garrison Band, Veterans, Territorials, Cadets and Boy Scouts, Fire Brigade, Mayor and Councillors, Members of Parliament, Ministers of Churches, Members of Local Bodies, Coronation Celebration Committee, Friendly Societies, School Children, Trades and General Public. There is a suggestion, and, we think, a good one, that the school children should muster at their schools and march in a body to the Recreation Grounds, where they will be massed in position before the main procession arrives.

There was an invasion of Boy Scouts on Saturday, and New Plymouth was captured by patrols from the south of the province. The invaders came as far as Smart road by train to attack the town, the local Scouts being the defenders, and the Henui river the boundary fence. The attacking force was divided into two patrols. For a time the commander of one of the patrols had his men locked in a shed and subsequently secreted three or four of them in a dray, covering them with sacks, and in that manner they Teached New Plymouth and reported to LieutenantColonel Okey that they had captured the town. One of the attacking Scoutmasters was captured by a small patrol of the defenders, but his own patrol, who were in cover near by came to the recue and the position was reversed, and the Normanby boys continued their raid without further opposition. The visitors were met on arrival by Chief Scout-master Sullivan and Scout-master Mclsaacs, and after the manoeuvres were entertained by the local boys at their club room at Oaklands, and afterwards marched through the town by the Central Battalion to be given a sendoff at the railway station.