LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 70, 13 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. A. B. Kyder returned last night to New Plymouth, and the electricity ■classes at> the technical school will be resumed this evening. The Rev. S. S, Osborne hag donated ten shillings to the funds,of the Beautifying Association, which, by the way, is very much in need of funds. The annual parade of stallions under the auspices of the Taranaki Agricultural Society will be held at New Plymouth on Saturday, September 23. The Egmont A. and I'. Association and the Taranaki Winter Show have been allotted challenge classes for the first time by the New Zealand Kennel Club. The ladies' committee of the Way Benefit Fund met last evening. Mrs. Doc'krill was elected president. It was decided to: mee.t agaiii;on Friday evening to make arrangements for the euchre party and dance. Splendid showers fell yesterday, but they ceased all too soon. The country is crying out for rain, and for more rain. Twenty-four hours' warm soaking Tain would be worth thousands of pounds to our farmers. A Taranaki man was recently travelling in a train in the north. He came across an old lady who was particularly anxiijus to know about oil prospects. "I take groat interest in the oil operations," she said. "You know" (and here she became quite confidential), "I have two shares in one of the companies! But you have Mr. So-and-So down there, and you must watoh him. Ido believe he would sink a well and take the oil from under the present producing bores!"

The following candidates were successful at the theoretical- examination ljeld in" connection with the .Trinity College of Music in December lust: —Maximum marks 100, honors 80, pass 60. Lower division, grade 2, Ethel A. White, 100 (Miss Smith, L.A.8., L.T.C.L.). Lower division: Kathleen M. Ilood, ,98, honors (Miss Smith); May Hawes 87, honors (Mis 9 Smith); Edith Annie Yeates, 85, honors (Miss P. Hofoy, fnglewood). Preparatory division: Mabel A. M. Sandford, A!) (Miss Smith); Alice M. Barnes, 98 (Miss Smith); Donald W. Thomson, 82 (Miss Smith). In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., judgment for plaintiff ,by default was given ii> each of the following civil cases: George Pearce v. William Ross, claim £5 So (costs'l2s); Momona Tamihana (Mr. Standi ah) v. Alfred Charles Yincent, £4 12s (id (10s); Westport Coal Company (Mr. Ilutchen) v. A. C. Vincent, £2O 6s (£2 14s); li. T. Joll (Mr. Hutch en) v. T W. Welch, £l2 !)s lid (£1 10s 6d); Skeates and Bockhaert, Ltd. (Mr. Hutchen) v. K. T. Eruera, £2 Is 6d (£2 2a <sd); H. Collier and Co. (Mr. -Hutchen) v. Mrs, J. F. Bevins, £8 19 8d (£1 12a (id). The funny man undertook to hftve some fun with a newspaper hoy on a' railway platform, and offered to buy a penny paper if- the lad could change a sovereign. The boy was about to reject the offer, when another passenger hand--04 him a, heavy canyas bag. ."Take your change out of that," he whispered. The boy opened the tag and. found it full of pennies. He counted out 240 coins, retained one, and handed the. rest to the facetious passenger, who was man enough to accept his bargain. It was afterwards learned that the obliging pas*enger was connected with a penny-iii'the-slot company, and had 'been making a collecting tour. With the present population of Now Zealand, which is not goiug to increase with any great rapidity, with the cost of .labor, and the restrictions with which employers are hedged about, a successful iron industry is not within Sight. It is quite useless to expect to be aMe to compete with other countries. When a natural industry of the country, such as the dairying, comos within the scope of assistance, there is stronger ground for hope. It has yet to be seen what is contemplated by the Government in respect to the "waste products from our butter and cheese factories." There ought to be little or no waste, and anything which can be done to diminish 'it will deserve sympathetic support. The Department of Agriculture deserves full credit for any effort it may make in this direction, and further particulars of what, it proposes will be awaited with interest.—lfawera Star.

Very sarcastic, eh?" said one of the councillors at Monday night's meeting when the following letter was read from Mr. G. Parrott, of Young street:— 'Just lately we received a visit from the borough inspector for the purpose of reporting upon the sanitary conditions and surroundings of our residences, according, I believe, to instructions received. I do not know as to whether the report was favorable or not,-but there is one thing that I have not seen any report upon, and that is the state of the water-table in Youn™ street, west of Morley street. There is a piece on the north side which is anything but a credit to the Borough Council, and is every bit as' much in need of being reported upon as any backyard in the neighborhood. The part mentioned, hcing a filling with practically no fall, the drainage of the various residences has no other course than to sink into the earth, the consequence being that it is anything but pleasant to view, leaving tiie smell out of the question. Of course, I suppose there is no such thing as contracting fevers and diseases from this sort of thing seeing that it is in -the front of the residences especially with the amount of sickness and colds at the present time. It is now some time ago since my medical adviser passed his opinion on the same thing, but as I had previously read in the Council reports that a sum of money had been placed upon the estimates for this portion of the street, I expected to see something done before this, but I suppose a few pounds here and there, not to mention perhaps the cost of a small n "th of concrete channelling (whidl could be flushed out now and again), this is not to cast any reflection on your inspector, but just to remind the members that, it is a piece of road that requites attending t,o before the hot weather comes round."—The letter was received.

The parents of the Halconibe triplets have been presented with £23. subscribed by.admiring residents in the district. ;

In delivering his Budget t]ie Premier said the largo increase in coal production wa? satisfactory, amounting to 2,11)7,302 tons, the highest output on record.

A remarkable performance was put up by shearers at Ruthven, near Longreach, Queensland, recently. The Merriwjt Shearing Company employed 40 shearers, and they put through 110,000 sheep in three weeks and five days, the actual shearing time, being 21 % days. On One. day they put through 0000 sheep, but 'the general average was between 5000 and 5700 sheep. The average wps juH over ISO sheep per man. The census of the Federated Malay States just shows a total of 1,035,933 persons!; as compared with 078,596 in 3®ol, thus indicating an increase of 357,338, or of 52.7 per cent, on the ten years. The Chinese included in the total number 4:C!,244, against 209,730, an .increase of 133,505, and they are now somewhat more numerous than the Malays. The booms in rubber and tin have brought many people to thatTvoun- , try, and a somewhat miscellaneous assortment of them' into the bargain.

A lady walked into a Masterton tradesman's shop the other day, and asked for ~a dozen blaek hens' eggs, "What is the difference between the eggs of the black and white hens?" asked the astonished assistant. "If you bring me the box," said the lady, ''l will show you." The vessel containing the eggs was placed on the counter, and the customer selected a dozen of the very largest eggs she could put her hand# on to. "Ther'e,"' she said, "those are 'black hens' eggs, and I will take them!" The assistant has no further black hens' eggs in stock.

The introduction of the musket among the Maoris, Mr. Xgata stated in a )pcture recently, had played havoc with the race. It was so sought after that there was much fighting for the possession of the weapons, and they made fighting all the more deadly. Then, being in possession of firearms, the Maoris had no longer the same need to live upon lofty situations specially suited for defence against hand-to-hand fighting, and the population emigrated to swampy, grounds where the cultivations were. It was estimated that from this came alone, owing to the less healthy surroundings, the numbers of the race were reduced by one-third.

There is a sad time in stqrc for lovers of light lilusic in Germany if the resolutions recently passed'at a congress of musical pedagogues held' in Berlin are carried into effect. War was declared at the congress against operettas and other • such unpretentious entertainments. And why? Because, forsooth, "The taste of the German people is suffering seriously from the enormous diffusiori of vulgar melodies," and, furthermore, because of "the harm done thereby to composers of good and serious music, who appeal in consequence only to perverted cars," What remedy was proposed for this lamentable state of affairs? Nothing iliore alarming, it appears, than the appointment of "special. commissions"'' in all musidal centres -in the -Fatherland,,, to inquire into the condition of things alleged, and to report thereon. It is a great surprise to the uninitiated to sec how uniform the surface of the earth appears when viewed from a great altitude. Although individual objects are hard to identify, such things as rivers, lakes, and railroads are easily recognised by their contour, direction or somtf slight' individuality or characteristic, which can readily be shown upon a map, especially if the maps are made or corrected by men who fly above the earth, and get an accurate and literal bird's-eye view .ol its surface. Objects which seem to loom up with the greatest clearness to one standing on the surface of the enrth appear very different and quite insignificant when viewed from above; while a patch of colored soil, which would not be noticed at all by a person standing on the ground, is a most valuable landmark to the air sailor.

A great many of those who read the statements made by the late Mr. T. E. Taylor about, boots containing brown paper soles being manufactured in New Zealand were inclined to underrate their significance, and even those who were inclined to place reliance on the word of the gentleman responsible for their circulation hesitated, to give him full credit for possessing sufficient knowledge on tlve point at issue. Recently (says the Feilding Star) we were shown ocular proof of the charge, and if we were to publish 'the whole facts —the present libel law in too precariously construed to admit o£ that—there would be considerable sensation in the "Dominion. For the boots, which have been shown to us, purchased this Season tfrom the manufacturers by a well-known Feikling firm of retailers, were sold at 25s—an expensive boot. And it is strange how the discovery came about. The purchaser desired to have rubbers placed on the heels, ami sent them back to the shop for that purpose. It was found impossible to lix the rubbers on the foundation, and when the reason for this was sought it was found that the heels were made of layers of very thin leather and brown paper alternately, each peeling oil with very little pressure. To the eye the boots are stronglooking and attractively made'; but they would stand very little exposure to water. It is difficult to express our feelings strongly enough on the action of a manufacturer who-would deliberately deceive a customer and- injure the trade in New Zealand manufactured boots by turning out shoddy boots of the kind referred to; and no' words are too strong in condemnation of the practices referred to. As an endeavor was made at a meeting at Christchurch recently to put the blame of paper-soled boots on to a Wellington manufacturer — and the explanation was that it had to be made to compete with the cheap imported aclicle—it as well to state that the pair in question were not made in Wellington at all. but by a large manufacturing firm in another part of the Dominion.

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