LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 37, 7 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Plymouth's contribution to the Houne Rule fund was the sum of £IOO exactly. For shooting a hen pheasant two youths were fined 20s and 28s costs at Stratford on Friday morning. During the month of July there were exported from New Plymouth 1066 aheep, 58 horses, and 62 head of cattle. Mr.. G. W. Browne is making good progress with the foundations for the new factory for the Red Tost Furnishing Company in Devon street. The Taranaki County Council meets to-day. Members will probably remain in town this evening, in order to witness the trial of the new steam roadroller at Egmont road to-morrow. A live kiwi was found in Napier South last week. The bird was at the time in a weak condition, and it is thought it must have been carried down from the country on driftwood in the recent flood. Travellers by train greatly admire the magnificent holly hedge which is to be seen just beyond Inglewood. The masses of red berries with the dark green foliage are reminiscent of the Old Country at Christmas time.

Bearing the yellow man's burden! In a Chinese vegetable garden in the suburbs of Auckland for the last couple of weeks a white man could be seen, who is employed to walk up and down between the rows of peas and act as a living scarecrow!

A London pressman, Mr. W. Leonard Palmer, of the editorial staff of the Financial News, who visited Toronto lately, says that more than two billion dollars of British capital is invested in Canada, of which nearly 400,000,000 came last year. This year he believes the investments will reach half a billion dollars.

A man named Leonard George Walker, a contractor, wa« arrested on warrant in New Plymouth on Saturday by De-tective-Sergeant Boddam, on a charge of obtaining £OS from Claude Pettigrew on terms requiring him to account for it to Messrs. Ellis and Barnand, of Te Kuiti, and fraudulently failing to do so, thereby committing theft. The prisoner was brought before Mr. H. S. Fitzkerbert, S.M., and remanded to Te Kuiti. Bail was not forthcoming, and the prisoner was removed to the gaol.

There were, at the end of the last financial year, 10.020 pensioners on the roll of the Old Age Pensions Department, of whom 684 were Maoris, This was an increase of 700 for the twelve months. The new pensions granted totalled 2399 and the cancellations 16! M). The total amount paid out in pensions during the year was £383,393, as against £302,496 in 1909-10. This brings the total amount paid iu pensions since the Act came into operation up to £3,150,404. The cost of administration was very small and represented just under one per cent, of the annual payments,

The Rev. H. Mahon, formerly minister of the Tabernaele in Dunedin, who is. now in Pennsylvania, writes to a friend in Christchurch, suggesting that there ought to be an excellent opening for woollen goods in the United States. He relates that when he was in Indiana he entered his New Zealand rugs in the woollen section of the exhibition, the competition in which had been advertised as "open to the whole world." The rugs took first prize, and although some of the local competitors entered a protest j the award had to stand. He had no doubt that if displays of New Zealand goods were made in the States a useful I trade would result.

A little incident which occurred recently shows how very particular the King is with regard to the training of his boys (says the Windsor correspondent of the Daily Express). Two Jf the younger ones were riding near His Majesty when the cavalcade passed some men who were working on the road. The men removed their hats, and the King at once doffed his own hat. His Majesty noticed that the boys, in the enthusiasm of their gallop, had not followed his example. He immediately called a halt, took the Princes back to the workmen, and ordered them to remove their hats. This was, of course, done, and the Royal boys are not likely to forget their duty in this respect again.

Particulars of the massacre of a boat's crew of natives at the island of Malckula in the New Hebrides, are to hand by mail. Mr Nicolas, a French trader on Malo, was trading amongst the islands, and sent three of his boat's crow ashore at Mrtleluka from his cutter to buy yams. Mr Nicholas remained on the cutter and was startled by hearing rifle shots, The bush trijics had attacked the boat, and fairly riddled the occupants with .bullets. They then seized the victims and hacked them to pieces in a shocking manner. Heads, limbs, and trunks were subsequently hoisted on pole*, and paraded along the beach. Mr Nicolas was afraid to fire on the natives, as he could not see whether his own men had been killed outright or not. The cut tor's boat was seized, and Mr Nicholas was left helpless. Fortunately a mission vessel caime along, and in response to his signals boarded the cutter and assisted Mr Nicholas to weigh anchor and return to Malo. Mr Nicholas feared an attack from the natives before assistance arrived, and it was fortunate that the mission vessel appeared on the scene. A native boy, described as little more than a toddler, was rescued from the bushmen. He was unharmed.

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A gentleman, not a New Zealander, writing to a friend in New Plymouth about the Coronation procession, said, "Of all the decorations, I thought the New Zealand art-h in Parliament street was the handsomest thing on the route; I and so said many others." At the Stratford Magistrate's Court on Friday John (,'arrington McCarthy was convicted of having on July 1 been found drunk in a railway carrige, made use of obscene language, assaulted a railway guard and broken a window. He was fined iSa and costs ( £4 ss). The Land Purchase Board spent £ 168,796 last year in the purchase of 14,389 acres of land from private landholders for the purposes of closer settlement. Since the Lands for Settlement Act came into force in 18H2, the expenditure on the purchase of land has been £5,506,588, and the area acquired 1,252,406 acres. On Friday an accident occurred at the Mokoia railway deviation • works, resulting in an elderly workman named Wilson having his arm broken. It appears that a fall of earth unexpectedly took place, coming on Wilson. He was also cut on the face. The unfortunate man was brought into the Hawera hospital. Six year-old Grand Duke Alexis, heir to the throne of All the Russias, seems to liave inherited «. taste for shipbuilding from his illusbrous ancestor Peter the Great, who went to Holland two hundred years ago at the age of twenty-five, in disguise and worked for wages as a shipcarpenter under the name of Peter Zimmerman, lodging in a small house in SaardHiiii. The Czarevitch has had a complete miniature navy yard constructed and fitted out for him on the borders of a lakelet in the grounds of Tsarakocsclo. There he amuses himself with building model ships of war and other craft, under the expert tuition of a naval engineer.

One of the Gordon pipers who played "Cock o' the North" while the regiment stormed the heights of Dargai in the Tirad campaign in 1897, arrived dn Melbourne the other day, nominated by the Agent-General as a settler. Everybody knows the story of Dargai, how the pipers inarched out Iwforc the regiment, and how Piper Flindlater, shot in the leg, fiat on the ground, still playing. For this he received the V.C. Piper John Kidd, who risked as much, escaped the bullets of the enemy—and the V.C—only to be struck dawn after 16 battles toy a Zakka Khel marksman near Mardan. While Flindlater recovered, Kidd will walk lame for the rest of his life. The new arrival brought out with him his wife and five children, all very Scottish, and with pretty brown eyes. He has no friends in Australia, but will no doubt soon make thorn.

"A municipal milk supply for Timaru would cost almost as much as the underground drainage," was the statement made by a well-known citizen of that town. "You would require for a start," explained the citizen, "300 cows, which would involve an initial outlay of about £2500. You would further require about 000 acres of land, which, situated ■within a reasonable distance of Timaru, and at the present ruling prices, would cost about £20,000. Then you have your buildings, concrete-floor 'dairies, fencing, delivery vans and horses, which would probably cost another £4OOO or £SOOO. Then you would require to have yoirr high-paid managerial specialist, farm and delivery staffs, bookkeepers, collectors, and lastly but not least, your bad debts. And after you have done all that you would not reduce the present price »f milk by a farthing per gallon." Throughout the sitting of the Imperial Conference certain weighty people hare (says a London correspondent) ' been dropping hints that the debates hate been fruitless fln d the whole Conference void of result. Now it is over. The early disappointments are more or less forgotten, and opinions seem to coincide in a peculiar manner that after all the Conference has clone good. "I think it is generally admitted," remarked Sir John Findlay, in reply to a question, "that the Conference has produced more substantial practical results than any previous one. True, it did not embark on any wide scheme of Imperial federation, but there -runs through the whole of the deliberations a strong tendency to treat the Empire as one in a sense in which it has never been treated before. With the utmost frankness and absolute openness the Home Government .disclosed the whole of the foreign policy of Great Britain and the reasons for it." Sir John considers that the commission which the Conference decided upon is a great step towards the Imperial Council which was aimed at in the New Zealand resolutions. The Prime Minister of Great Britain has given an undertaking that two of the very best men England can furnish will 1m appointed, and each of the selfgoverning Dominions will have one. The commission will be peripatetic, and its recommendations, if of an urgent nature, may be referred to subsidiary conferences.