LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 125, 17 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The long-drawn-out case regarding the Kaimiro School prize fund was ventilated in the Inglevrood, Magistrate's Court yesterday and decided in favor of the School Committw. Leave to appeal was refused.

Tke petition which has been in circulation in connection with the Greater New Plymouth scheme, proposing the inclusion of the Westown, Frankley road and Vogeltown portions of the Taranaki County, was forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs yesterday.

A meeting of the Taranaki Master Tailors' Union was held in Stratford yesterday, and was attended by members from all parts of the district. Mr. H. R. Cattley, president, occupied the chair. The meeting was called to consider the demands of the journeymen tailors and tailoresses, who have cited the master tailors before the Conciliation Board at New Plymouth on Friday, 24th inst. The demands are for an all-round increase, and it was decided to oppose them, and arrangements were made for nrasenting the employers' case and for appointing assessors. Mr. H. B. Devereux, F.R.G.S., of W'aihi, in the course of his meteorological observations, says:—"We now appear to be approaching a meteorological cycle when two or three years of diminishing rainfall may be expected over most districts of the Auckland province, particularly the Waikato. Such a cycle began in the year 1870 and culminated in the years 1884-1880 Droughty conditions were particularly prevalent in 1885. The present cycle should culminate in the years 15)1*2-1913. The present type of weather will most likely extend into •January, with a prevalence of desiccating winds from westerly points, alternating with showery spells. In fact, unseasonable Christmas weather is anticipated." The cost of living in Britain has increased to such an extent that several prominent London newspapers are <temanding an investigation. Coal, it is pointed out, is Is higher than previously, while milk is now 5d per quart. The dealers prices for these commodities will remain unchanged until March at least. Against this, it has been ascertained that the average wage of the masses in England is 5s a week. The Daily News declares that the rise in prices is due to the middlemen having suddenly discovered that they can regulate the market. It further calls upon the Government to establish agricultural coleges. The Smallholders' League is sending lecturers into the country to advocate combination against the middlemen, and the necessity for fostering the neglected intensive agriculture and scientific farming. ''lt is unfortunate," the London Daily News says, "that Great Britain cannot feed herself. As it is, Danish, Dutch, or Siberian butter sells 'before the local product, and tlie same thing applies to wheat. Dutchmen, Danes, and Belgians are shipping milk to London at prices less than those charged by the present combine. Danish butter controls the market because English dealers declare that the local product will not pay them."

One of the most daring burglaries that has occurred in Sydney for many years .past was successfully carried out at the residence of Mr Frank Albert, head of the firm of Messrs Albert and Sons, music warehouse, Sydney, one morning last week. The burglars opened a large iron safe, and after extracting jewellery valued at about £IOOO escaped in Mr Albert's boat across Elizabeth Bay, first, however, treating themselves to whisky and soda found in the house. Mr Albert's residence at Elizabeth Bay fronts the water's edge, having a boathouse and swimming bath attached. Superintendent Edward, chief of the traffic police, resides next door, at "Leitli Links." All the occupants slept upstairs and Mr. Albert's safe was in a spare bedroom adjoining his own. Unfortunately, a door was left insecurely fastened on the ground floor, and this gave the thieves easy access to the house. Once inside, the burglars' task was easy, and they apparently experienced no difficulty in getting upstairs to the safe. They first made their way into the room when; Mr Albert was sleeping, and searching for the keys found them in his pot'kets, and secured them. Then they quietly returned to the room where the safe stood without disturbing the sleepers. They also opened the. safe noiselessly, and extracted the jewellery. Mrs Albert is an enthusiastic collector of precious stones, and these with other gems, were in the safe: but in the morning it was found the thieves had secured all the most valuable of the collection, including the presents made to her by Mr Albert on his return from a recent trip abroad.

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At KiiU-i«>koiiui the supply of milk up to the end of October was about 13'/a per cent, short of that received up bo the corresponding period of last year. Miss Clark, representative of the Viavi Company, New Zealand, gave a free health talk to the ladies of New Plymouth in St. Mary's .JJa.l.l on Wednesday afternoon, and notwithstanding' the inclement state of the weather, the meeting was well attended, there being between fifty and sixty ladies present. Mrs. Doekrill occupied the chair. Mies Clark gave a very able and instructive address on the subject of ''Girlhood, Wifehood, and Motherhood,'- illustrated by charts. Miss Clark will shortly give another health talk, when all ladies interested are cordially invited to be present.

At a meeting of the executive committee of the T. E. Taylor memorial fund at Chiistchurch, the lion, treasurer reported that the amount received bv him to date aggregated £2456. Qi this sum £2300 was lying on deposit with the City Council at call, bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent., leaving a balance in hand of £lB6. jfrom this amount must be deducted sundry disbursements amounting to something less than £SO. The secretary stated that the number of lists sent out amounted to approximately SSOO. Of -this number there had been returned with subscriptions 831, without subscriptions 1442, subscription lists cancelled 68, lists reported as having been destroyed or mislaid 250; total lists accounted for 2088. Any of our readers who have been travelling by mail trains lately and have pah-onised the refreshment cars must have noticed a change in the method of collecting the payment for meals (remarks the Eltham Argus). The refreshment 'ticket is now in duplicate form, with printed instructions upon it concerning the method of "punching" it, and instructing the recipient what to da with it. _ On each dining-table there is a card giving certain instructions topatrons of the dining car. Why ha.s the method of collection been changed? It was noticed on some lines that though the passenger traffic was increasing the receipts from the dining car were diminishing. This led to investigation and the discovery of an ingenious method by which the public revenue was being defrauded. We are not going into details because, so far as we know, th*re may yet be prosecutions at law. If there are not prosecutions it will be because of the merciful inclination*! of the Minister of Railways.