LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 100, 18 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

! Mr. F. W. Sandford, secretary of the Beautifying Association, acknowledges _ cash donations from Mr. J. McN'eill and Mr. E. Sole. We are given to understand that very shortly some practical work of considerable importance will ibe undertaken locally in connection with the development of the Taranaki ironsand deposits. On Monday, 23rd inst., the s.s. Barawa will not make her return trip to Onehunga owing to that day being a shipping holiday. She will sail for Onehunga on Tuesday night after the arrival of the mail train from Wellington. According to his Majesty's Consul at Monte Video, Swift and Co., the American meat packers, lately purchased a meat slaughtering establishment in the neighborhood of Monte Video, and intend spending about £320,000 in bringing the works up to date. The new works will have an annual capacity of 200,000 head of cattle, as well as sheep. Does the inspection of verandahs come amongst the. numerous duties of our übiquitous "Heir'? It seems a pity that these are not kept weather-proof. During such rain as we had yesterday afternoon the unsuspecting one, thankful to get in, as he thought, out of the heavy rain, hustled under a verandah and lowered his umbrella, only to lind a stream of water pouring ddwn his neck from the fancied shelter.

At the Kind Board meeting yesterday, a resolution was carried authorising Crown lands rangers to allow up to an acre for felling bush and laying down grass for the first two years of lease or license, and that after that period the rangers use their discretion as to the value of clearings. Previously there has been a hard and fast rule limiting the allowance to £2 10s an acre, but with the increased cost of labor and of grasr seed the work "can't be done for the money." An accident, which might have bad serious results, occurred near the railway station yesterday morning, shortly after the departure of the express train. A young man on a bicycle and a gig met at the end of the high picket fence between the station and St. Aubvn street. The gig came down the street from the Terminus Hotel, and was turning the corner into the station yard, when the cyclist came from the station, apparently with the intention of going aloiif Egmont street. Fortunately the lior.io .was well in hand, or the man might have been more hurt; as it was he got off with a few scratches and a broken bicycle, the front wheel being separated from the frame.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Mr. A. Crook, S.M., gave judgment by default in the following debt cases:—Newton King (Mr. Hutchen) v. I Alex. Aiken (Otakeho), claim £27 3s 4d, I and costs £3 Is; Newton King (Mr. I Hutchen) v. James Hodge, claim £3 10s j 9d, and costs 10a; E. -Griffiths (Mr. Qliilliam) v. Tom Wipit, claim £1 13s, and costs l*is; The Co-operative Transport and Agency Co. (Mr. Qtiilliam) v. Inia te Xgongohau, claim £!> 3s, and. costs CI. 13s <>d. In the judg- : ment summons .J. McNeil v. Cllas.. IJarriball, the debtor was crossexamined by Mr. Hutchen as to his means, and, as it was impossible to ascertain the amount of money which went to maintain the household, the Magistrate adjourned the application in order that the debtor should produce a statement of moneys actually received by his late wife out of the dairy factory cheques. While in Bradford, Mr. L. Collinson, of Palmerston, inspected the "trackless" tramear. The system is in operation between Laister Dyke and Dudley Ilill, a distance of a mile and a-quartcr. As there are no rails the current is returned by an extra set of overhead wires. There are, therefore, two lines of poles and wires, and on this account the expense is greater than is the ease with the rail system. 'Kach fretr 'has two motors, each of -H) horse-power, but the limit is not used: in case of the breakdown of one of the motors, the other is sufficient to drive the car. Twenty-eight passengers can be carried, and the fare charged is one penny. The idea of the trackless car originated in Milan, and a deputation from Bradford was sent to see its working. A favorable report was presented, and the car commenced running in Bradford on June 24th last, three weeks before Mr. Collinson saw it. The wheels run over a cobblestone road, and the car lias a sidewise radius of 30ft to enable it to pass vehicles. The men engaged in operating it spoke highly of its work.

hi referring to the importance of the honey industry, a contemporary says: — '"The best of our honey, it is worthy to remark, is able to command as much as £42 a ton in London, or a higher price than has been secured by any foreign honey that lias ever reached the English market. New Zealand's bees are not yet sufficient in number to supply the local demand, and yet the value of the product last year is estimated at not less than £40,000. The point that we wish to impress is that there is money in honey if the pur-nit is followed upon practical lines. A gentleman who has had charge of an extensive orchard near Gisborne for a number of years, and who also owns an apiary of close on 100 hives of bees, informs us that he is satisfled from experience that there is more money in honey than in fruit. For one thing, there is a sure and certain market. It is. moreover, ail industry that is practically suited to a person of limited means or to those who are physically unfitted to battle with the soil. It is light labor and profitable. A man with an acre, or two of land in a suitable locality can do well on bees." LACK OF ENERGY. If you lack energy, don't reV.sli your food, feel dull and constipated, all you need it a dose of Chamberlain's Ta.bletThcy will make you feel like a new man and give you a healthy appetite. The\ will do you more ,good than a 5s bottle of tonic.' Sold by all chemist!) and storekeepers.