LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 113, 2 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Green peas are already in heavy .supply in the Nelson district.

A C'hristchurch motor expert estimates that as many as 10,000 motor cars will lie sold in Xew Zealand during the coining twelve months.

The- police are taking action to put a stop to cycling on footpaths in Vogcltown. This intervention in the interests of the safety of pedestrians is very welcome.

The Mormons are about to make a start in connection with their agricultural college in Hawke's Bay. They have purchased 130 acres, and have an option over another 130 acres. Fitaroy residents are advised that an extra clearance of the pillar box at the store will in future be made at 9.30 a.m. daily. The receiving box at the corner of Nob's Line will in future be cleared at 2.30 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. daily.

A clause in the Reserves Amendment Bill, which passed through the House during its final stages, provides for the vesting of certain reserves at Inglewood as a recreation ground. These sections were formerly revenue-produeing. The clause which * brings about the change was inserted whilst the Bill was in the Legislative Council as the result of strenuous efforts by Mr. Hine, member for the district.

Property-owners who have not complied with the notice from the borough inspector to connect with the sewers within a given time are to appear before the Magistrate's Court on the 10th inft. Summonses are now being prepared and issued from the town clerk's office. Those whose period of grace has not yet expired should take warning and take whatever steps are necessary to avoid legal proceedings being taken against them. There's a fomedv attached to the '•Ned Skipper" tragedy. This well-known native lias been missing for some time, and as a gun lent to him disappeared at the same time the Maoris seemed to think that a tangi for the apparently dead was a necessity. So, the story goes, they gathered in force, and had their feast, the missing man's pigs being slaughtered to provide part of the menu. Now word comes that Skipper has been seen in the Waitotara district, and, further, that he has told the man who saw him not to mention the fact up here. The police are investigating.

At the ratepayers' meeting at Westown last evening, reference was made to the name that has been affixed to the telephone office recently opened at Westown. The chairman (Mr. J. D. Sole) said that Mr. Watson had drawn his attention to the matter. The opening of the telephone office was a progressive move, but lie considered that it was au insult to give it a name that was practically unknown, viz., "Wakawhiti," a name that was not even correct. Wes•town. he considered, was good enough for them. A petition against the use of the name was signed by all in the room, and is to be forwarded to the authorities.

Professor Mills is unique in his methods. He is humorous. He is verbose. He is to the point, too. "Men and women," he said, when he was opening his address at last night's meeting, "there's a gentleman here that I am anxious to see, and I can't see him because there's a lady's hat in front of him. I would greatly appreciate it) if the ladies would remove their hats." Oil' came a number of specimens of headgear, but the. movement wasn't spreading very fast, lie helped it. "Of course, the request does not apply to bald-headed womeit. They can keep their hats on." And the professor had gained his point and caused a minute's hearty laughter.

Mr. Hamilton, director of the Dominion Museum :it Wellington, lias written to the Town Clerk at New Plymouth as follows: "Some little time ago Mr. W. H. Skinner, late of your town, lent me two large and very valuable stone images, found near Xew Plymouth. They were lent to me for the purpose of taking easts of them, and I received instructions from him to return them, when I had finished with them, to Xew Plymouth, to your custody to he deposited in Mr. Skinner's name at the museum in the Municipal Buildings." These images are understood to be very rare, and the British Museum authorities have gone to the expense of having casts made of them to lie placed in the British Museum. They will be placed in the Carnegie Library building. The petition in favor of merging Vogeltown into the borough is now being circulated. Ratepayers, we are told, are rather concerned to know whether the merging will affect the amount of their water rates. The position is that they now pay a water rate of sixteenpence in the pound on the annual value. By merging into the borough their rate becomes lowered to sixpence in the pound. Thus a property valued at £2o per annum now pays £1 13s 4d for water rate. When in the borough the charge will be 12s •Od. Besides this, there is a reduction in the charge for hose connection. Comparisons of general rates payable in tho county and the borough have been made from time, to time, and are in favor of the borough. The petition seems likely to be very largely signed. Some months ago we published a cablegram to the. effect, that £IOOO had been placed with the llonle .Secretary lift a prize for an efficient electric miner's safety lamp. Mr W. H. Hewlett, of the Xew Plymouth Borough Council's electric lighting staff, has undertaken the task of competing against the world for the prize, and has designed and constructed a lamp fulliling the requirements and conditions set out for competition. The lamp is a full size model, and is designed to give four candle power for 12 hours. It is splendidly made and finished, and j shows Mr Hewlett's capability as a mechanic and his electrical knowledge.. The lamp should prove most serviceable in collieries and for tunnel work, and be a useful band-lamp for domestic purposes. It is compact, michnnieally strong, simple to operate and will not easily get out of order. The various parts are made to be interchangeable, (lie light is well distributed, ail adjusting reflector is provided and it is hermetically sealed and efficiently locked. We hope Mr Howlctt will win the ,£IOOO prize.

For children's backing cough at night, Woods Great Peppermint Cure. 'l/6 & 2/6.

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■Butter is bringing better prices in the London market just now than this time last year. (In October of last year Danish butter was quoted at 117s. Australian at Ills, and Siberian at 104s per cwt. Last month the quoted London prices for butter were: Danish 140s, Australian 1295. and Siberian 1235.

The Union Steamship Company now owns seventy vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of about 200.000. Just over

thirty years ago they began with two small steamers. The last vessel being built for the Union Company is the Maunganui, of about 7000 tons. . She will have accommodation for about five hundred passengers. It is reassuring to learn that the flaxmilling industry in Otago and Southland, which, a few weeks ago, presented a somewhat doleful outlook, has now taken a more hopeful turn, although there is still very considerable room for improvemont.. At present there are about nine mills in opciation in different localities, as against 35 at this time last year.

A correspondent of a Wanganui paper suggests that the schoolmasters should take the boys out and measure up some of the adjacent paddocks and give their acreage, or work out father's cheque due to-day on milk supplied last month—for weight and test of milk is known for weeks before—or, better still, when near a port, get a load of cases and state how many tons measurement there are in same.

A New York cable, dated October 13, reads:—The terrible tidal wave which occurred at the Mexican port of Guaymas, in the Gulf of California, and drowned several hundred people, was the worst ever known on the eastern coast. The towns of Alataba, Topolbampo and Guaynias were completely destroyed. The waves was succeeded in turn by an earthquake and a terrific hurricane. Governor Hermosillo has wired asking for provisions and tents, and says that the plight of the people remaining is terrible. The despatch also states that from 300 to 500 lives were lost, and that it ia impossible to estimate the damage. The earthquake occurred at about midnight, and while the tremors were still being felt a will! of water rose to a height of 20ft and swept away everything for half a mile inland. Seventeen vessels that were lying in Guaymas Harbor were sunk. Apart from the fatalities, 500 people suffered injuries, such as broken arms and legs. They are without medical aid. and the Governor states that if doctors end nurses are not rushed out the death roll will reach 1000.

The amalgamation of Fitzroy with the borough has taken place, the first completed section of the Greater New Plymouth scheme. The Washing-up Bill passed by Parliament last week contained a clause to bring about the merging of that portion of the town district recommended by the commission to be joined to the borough and to vest the remainder of the town district in the Taranaki County. The clause was introduced without any previous notice somewhere about three o'clock on Saturday morning, and Mr. H. Okey, M.P., was unable to obtain its full purport or a copy of the motion or clause. An interesting position crops up now. If the merging or amalgamation took place on Saturday morning the possibility is that from that time the Fitzroy town district, ceased to exist. , But since that time —on Tuesday, to lie precise—an election of members of the Fitzroy Town Board has taken place! It is stated that the passing of this clause had already been mentioned by Mr. Okev to some of those interested before the election took place, but no official intimation of the matter has yet been received.

The County clerk, Mr. R. Ellis/lias been informed by the member for the (lis- [ trict that in the living hours of the session just dosed an amendment of the Public Works Act was put through the House to meet the request of the county council that the council should be given power to restrain persons from moving stone from the bed of a river within a certain distance of a bridge, the present exempted area being too little in the case of the VVaiwakaiho bridge and weir, the constant removal of stone frohi the riverbed close below the latter endangering the safety of these works. The amendment just passed gives the* local ! authority power to restrain any person I from removing stone from any riverbed if in the opinion of the local authority such removal will endanger its bridge or other works, and that, in the event of the action of the council being thought by the person affected to he unfair or unnecessary, power is given to have evidence on the matter submitted to a magistrate for his decision. Mr, Okey has had this matter in hand for some time, and has brought his work to this very satisfactory conclusion. At his meeting in Eltlv.uii oil Tuesday night, the Hon. Tlios. Mackenzie was iisked if, in the event of his being returned to Parliament, he would offer to Mr. Dive, the sitting member, the ! position of buyer of Ayrshire cattle for the Government. The Minister at first said lie preferred not to ileal with Mr. Dive, but, being pressed, said that in the House Mr. Dive had stated that the cattle in the Government's recently acquired herd were not worth thirty shillings a head. Now, the Government had been recommended by Mr. Dunlop, one of the Scottish Agricultural Commissioners, to buy certain Ayrshire cattle, saying they were some of the best he had seen. The Government had not been able to buy only a portion of the herd, so had bought the lot, some being, of course, of less value than others, but all of them were pedigree Ayrshires with good milking records. Mr. Dunlop had since bought for the Department some purebred Ayrshires- of an excellent strain to be put with the cattle now in the btate herd. These were shipped in September. Talking of purchases of cattle, Mr. Mackenzie referred also to the purcbied Holstein herd and a bull of threat reputation which lie had purchased for the Department. The whole herd cost AKOO. He could get £3OO now for one of the cows, and £IOO each for a couple of yearling bulls, besides which he had sold a calf of this line cow for 73gns. He thought the purchase of purebred cattle for the State farms was in pretty good hands.

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It is saddening to learn that within Among many tributes to the accuracy about six months no fewer than seven of He v. D. C." Bates' weather forecasts vessels bound to or from Sydney have some Marlborough runholders state that eome_ to grief. With them have gone the weather forecasts had enabled them 20l lives and BSOO tons of valuable ship- to move their sheep off the hi»h levels prng property. j before the worst of the storm of last

week, and stated that they considered they would have li»d a considerably heavier mortality amongst the lambs than was the case, on account of the sheep having better shelter. The heavy snow down south last, week caused a big smash-up with the rolling stock at Otira. As a rake of trucks was

travelling down an incline of one in 33, the brakes were powerless on the slippery rails, and the whole rake went

over the tip-head, carrying away tho sheerlegs and a length of trestle' with them and piling up about fifteen feet high. It took a gang of men two days getting them to pieces. The damage done is estimated at about £2OO. Owing to a dearth of labor at Northern Wairoa, farmers art! hard pressed to carry out their engagements. The incessant labor of dairying demands practically the whole time of suppliers, and in several instances dairymen have in despair sold their milking herds, and are concentrating their attention on sheep and fattening cattle. In one district

there is every prospect of the cheese factorw closing down, farmers finding that they oannot, with only limited assistance, continue to milk."