LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 9 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have to apologise to some of our country subscribers for the late delivery of papers yesterday, .several bundles having been overearricd by the. train runner.

A post office is to be opened at Lower Mangorei on the 1/ith jnst., under the charge of Mrs. Hooker.

The membership of the Maryleta;' Cricket tilub, who practically control the national summer game, is limited to WOO.

U is estimated that an acre of good fishing ground will yield .more food "in a week than an acre of the best land will in a year.

It is proposed by the Stratford Borough Council to raise a loan of £14,000 to take over the electric company's business.

Auckland is to have an old colonists' reunion towards the latter end of December in connection with the formal opening of the new town hall.

Says the Montreal Star:—ln the harbor of Wangannimu. New Zealand, they take whales in net*. Sull'ering mackerel'! Do they harpoon the herrings? A number of- shareholders in the New Zealand Lcatlier-rubber Company, which prowl an unsuccessful venture at Hastings, are how being ; ,- 10 ,] for arTOm f calls.

•As a memento of hi- thirty years" service to the district in Parliament, the electors have decided to raise funds for the purchase of a house at Johnsonville for Sir Wiliam Steward.

A Napier witness said the other day that 'between nine iu the morning and two in the afternoon be drank nine bottles of hop beer. Another witness owned that he had drunk 13 bottles in an hour. Native compositors of the Journal of Katanga, the fir-t Congolese newspaper, which has just appeared in the Belgian Congo, went on -tlike, claiming that all their names should appear' oh the front page.

The sanitary inspector 0 f the Stratford Hospital Board recently made an inspection of a farm four miles from the town. Lying j„ a creek he found 34 carcases of dead cattle. The board took no action.

iA new form of voting paper is to be used at the coming election. The corner of the paper will not be waled as heretofore, but a number will be inserted on the form to core-pond with a number on a duplicate slip.

Mr John Burns, who had advocated the ploughing up of all racecoiirccs in the British Isles, is now urging the public to support the Anti-gambling League in England in its atempt to drive the bookmakers from the cour-es. It is estimated that there are 30,000 bookmakers in England.

Water is sometimes an expensive commodity-.- At ..Hnyveru- a. dairyman who pleaded guilty- to watering his milk was ''only" fined £5 with 7s costs, and order-, ed to pay H)s (id analyst's fee. Defendant, had been convicted of a similar offence in I!MW. For adulteration the Act provides for penalties up to £SO for a first offence and v. 200 for a second offence.

Professor lie!], now in Xova Scotia, the well-known scientist, is still engaged in his endeavor to harness electricity to light, as it has been harnessed to sound, so that people may be able to see a great distance, just as' the telegraph enables them to write, and the telephone.' to speak. The principles involved in all these phenomena are the same, and Professor Hell lirmly believes that it will be possible some day to see from Washington to Xew York as easily a.s one ea°n convey the sound of the voice that distance.

This is how nits arc caught in Japan, as related by a roccnt English traveller. He states that he was much disturbed during the night iliy hordes of rats, which had been driven in doors by the cold, and therefore consulted a native hunter, who promised relief. The rat-catcher brought a number of sheets of paper, smeared with birdlime, and distributed them about the room aiftcr nightfall. In the morning there were no less than seventeen bundles of |>aper on the floor, each containing a ij v j n „ nll< t , l( . ir ~1 U( . Uld contortion* being. a ? may be imagined, very absurd.

A very enjoyable time was spent at the Frankley Road school on, Friday evening last, when a concert and dance was tendered in aid of the Frankley road school prize fund. The following programme was rendered, practically all the items being emored:-Piano solo, Mr Pearson; song. -The Aeroplane." pupils; song, Mr. Putt; recitation. "Tne FainGarden." pupils; Kon „. Mi , s ().] {m „. kc \ song, "Six Little Marks." pup ju ; , song (comic), Mr. IT. Coic; >n„.... "The Modest Quakeresses.'' pupil- : song. Mr. \\\ F.va; song, "tin Parade." p llp j],. , 0 „,, u ,,mic), Mr. .). T.ovell; song. Mks O-Rourkc- recitation, "The Stowaway." Alex Warren; song. Mr. W. Putt; song (comic). Mr. 11. Ode; recitation. Dorothy Chapmanrecitation, Alex. Reed; song'(comic). Mr J. Lovcll. A couple of ho„ r .s W cre then taken up by those having a de-ire to •lance, and the audience went away more ban satisfied. Messrs. F. Xeall 'and J. ■Novell made efficient M.'sO., and Mr. .Pearson supplied the music for both the •lancing and the accompaniments. The prize fund will.benefit to the extent of £8 2s. Cd.

SALE OF MEM'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING. The Melbourne Clothing Company's great mill and factory sale oilers unparalleled opportunities for huyiii" men's and boy's clothing at- prices very much less than ordinary. Since the inception of the 5;,!,, last'week many hundreds of garnii Ms, fresh from the leading mills and factories, have poured into our stores, replenishing o-.ir already huge stocks, and imparting a bri'dit. crisp freshness t„ „;„• ~„„ds v , ]lir i7 is unobtainable elsewhere. More important than all this j s the remarkable low"ess of price, together vOlh the hi"li •Pialny of -oods, a combination rarefy. )t ever, achieved by others. Here are striking in-lanccs of (Jie wonderful savings we otter yo:i. Boys' Xorf.dk washmg suits, :"," 11 ; boys' Kaiupoi tweed suits, sizes 7 to !■_'. I,'i/fl to liCli; boys' splendid tweed Varsity suit-, all wool in nice shades of browns, greens and' greys, 11/ i;, siyes 5 to 1(1 years; men's dark tweed coats ami vests'. 17/ (ij K .,\ ( , n . didly tailored; men's Kaiupoi tweed suits, 28/(1, worth Ma/-; men's natty worsted trousers. 7/11. in neat stripe designs; men's splendid Pet.oue tweed suits, splendid for knockabout wear, 30/-; men's superb tailor-made suits, special purchase of lovely worsteds and indigo "Jielwarps." DO/li;' si mining values in saddle-tweed trousers. stron* and dark grey saddle trousers. S.-'ii; Ros' lyn saddle trouseis, O/il; j'Vlone and Kaiapoi dark grey saddle trousers, 10/(1 : Oamaru saddle trousers, 13/tJ, best value in the Dominion.—Advt.

' The Department of Agriculture has a marquee -on the Ilawcra show grounds, where fanners may meet the officers of the Department t» discuss matters, and here literalurc issued by the Department can lie obtained. The Departmeiii. will he represented in this way at both the Taranaki and Stratford shows.

"Living in England is frightfully expensive," says a Xew Zealnnder. writing to a friend in Auckland, "and, owing tfl Lloyd George and strikes, everything is rising. There is also a rumor Lliat as soon as winter sets in (the letter is ilatnl the first week in September last) all the eoa.l miners are 1o strike, and we shall have no coal. 1 nm beginning to think that England is a good place to lie out of, at any rate, until we get a change of Government." What are these poor men to <loY ISetwcen the Radical- of Xew Zealand, the Liberals of Britain, and the Labor Party in Australia, it would really seem impossible to live under the tTn- ■ ion. Jack.

A private letter recently received in Wellington from Major Madock*.R.A.. who served with New Zealand's First Contingent in the lioer war. states that the writer, who m touring South Africa, with General Sir Tan Hamilton. Inspector-Gen-eral of the Over-seas Forces of the Empire, visited Nov Zealand Hill, near Colesburg. The Major found that the stone sangars built for the defence of the hill, and' over which the Xew Zealanders charged on January 15, 11100, .wwe through the ell'ects of time and weather, falling away. Cartridge cases and other evidences of the bayonet charge were still .Bcatteral alroirl. it will he reniemWred that it wap'during the cha'rgy.... at' Xew 'Zealand Hill • Sergeant Gourley -and' Trooper Council weie killed. The daughter of a well-connected family in, England, whose income recently underwent a severe slump, sought, so rumor lias it, to add to her sadly depleted pin-money by acting before a kiuematograph camera. She is pretty and clever, and was regarded as an acquisition. Naturally, she did not confide her secret to anyone, hut, unfortunately for her, it came out of its own accord. Her father happened to be present at a kinematograph show, and his astonishment may 'be fairly imagined when he saw his daughter playing the part of a prairie belle and other characters of a romantic type. It is .-aid that he has oll'ered to pay for the films if they are destroyed. but the price the proprietors as-k for them is altogether beyond his means.

Cheviot, K-late has seldom presented a better appearance than it does at present (say.-, tlie Lyttelton Times). The crops ami Mock look well, settlers are busy, and on all sides there are signs of prosperity. Some parts, espeeially near the W'aiati. suffered somewhat from recent floods. The principal damage, however, was done to the llood-gales and other ijnililie works. In the township, miles of tall, thick hawthorn hedges are in full bioom. They are' covered with the white flowers, which give Lhem the appearance they have after a slight fall of snow, ami till the air with a pleasant aroma. Tin- hedges, which grow luxuriantly, were planted many years ago, when Cheviot was a vast, sheep run. and when compulsory purchase of private estate wa- not dreamt of.

'.' At flic Colac (Victoria) Police Court last.week a-girl nanied Kezia .Jane Baker charged Thos. Smith and 'Robert Raker with having assaulted her. The informant stated that defendant put her ori a table, lathered her face, and .-hav>-d it with a razor. Smith held her down, and shaved one .-heck. Then Baker held her while Smith shaved the other cheek. Robert Laker said that as he was shaving himself informant said jokingly. "T have more hair <jn my face than you.'' He replied, '•'Conic on. then, I will shave you." lie then shaved her. and s n( . laughed about, it. Thomas Smith denied having tried to shave the girl. The magistrate said he believed th« girl's storv, that both defendants had shaved beV. but her evidence was uncorrolmratcd as against Smith, the charge against whom would be dismissed, linker was fined £5. with £-1 costs.

Dealing with land settlement at. Taumarunui, Mr. W. T. Jennings. M.P.. said that in the Taranaki Crown !an<ls district there were onlv •241.0(10 acres unsnrveyed, of which 411.001! acres were reserved for climatic and other purpo-es. Willi regard In the rating of native lands he had always held thai: where Maori lands were contiguous they should pay their fair share. There were.a few comities utilising the power tinder the new Act. It wu.s a well-known fact that in some counties, where there were large areas of native lands, the local bodies were doing nothing, because some of the members were so mixed up with Maori leases. The Waitouio County Council had taken advantage of the power, with the result: that they had increased their rateable value by C31H.143. which, at %d in the tl. gave an increase in rates to the extent of .£(141.