LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 133, 27 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The merging of Fitaroy with the borough of Xew Plymouth is fixed for December 1. The fact was gazetted on Thursday. Mr. Bellringer has been asked by a number of residents of Fitzroy if' he will saipport a movement to have the Fit»roy station lighted and to gift the mail train to stop for the convenience of the people in that locality. lie. replied that he favored the idea. A good performance was put up by three local motorists on motor cycles last -Sunday. Leaving New Plymouth at 8 a.m., they motored through to Wanganui, and after spending a couple of hours there returned, reaching Xew Plymouth in time for tea. The manner in which Xew Zealand is regarded by British politicians is indicated by a forceful phrase used by Mr. T. C. Cooke, a member of the House of Commons', who is in Auckland. "We look upon Xew Zealand," ho said, "as a legislative, experimental laboratory for the world." A large and up-to-date hotel is now in course of erection at Suva for the UnionSteamship Company, and Mr. ■!. F. Salmons!, the company's architect, who has been visiting Suva, returned to Auckland by the Zealandia last week. The new hotel will cost between fSO.TOO and £40,000. "Are any people leaving Xew Zealand to attend the Durbar at Delhi?" was a question asked at Messrs Cook and Son's tourist agency, Wellington. "Xo; none as far as we know. The prices to be charged at Delhi is almost prohibitive to Xew Zealamlers—from £5 to £lO a day. The Durbar is to commence on December 12." Mr. J. H. Sellars, the well-known Berkshire pig fancier of Okaiawa, who won several first prizes and the championship with a magnificent sow, has sent this champion, together with another prizewinner, across to Sydney, through the Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile AgeiK-y Co., Ltd., to compete at tlhe Sydney Royal Metropolitan Show . A meeting of Tlntt electors called in support, of Air. Wilford's candidature was held at Horokiwi on Monday evening. Mrs. Wilford was the principal speaker,, and she explained that her sole reason for coming forward herself was because of the state of Mr. Wilford's health. She won for herself a vote of thanks and for her husband a vote of confidence.

ill'. Thos. Railford, of the Survey road, Tariki, was very successful at the recent Xew Plymouth show with his two Jersey hulls, securing first prize with Daylight in the class for pedigree Jersey hulls since July, 19(19, and second with Sunflower Pensens in the Jersey bull since July, 1910. In our detailed report credit was inadvertently given to Hansford Bros.

Pedestrian writes drawing attention to the state of the wire fence that is acting as hand rails to the Powderham street bridge. The footpath is narrow enough, in all conscience, and it is exceedingly difficult for two to walk abreast, .particularly in the dark, and 'to this is added the fact that there are several jagged ends of wire waiting to tear the clothes, aye, and the flesh, of the unwary. He says attention was forcibly drawn to the danger through his hand coming in contact with one of the protruding ends, and, as a result, he received a slight injury. The latest issue to hand of the Petroleum Review (October 7 states:—"There seems every likelihood that when the next oil boom does come along—and signs are not wanting to suggest that this will be in the near future —the possibilities of developing large petroleumproducing territories in Xew Zealand will be appreciated by the investing publie to their fullest extent. That a more serious attempt is being made to put the petroleum industry of that country upon a basis of solidity and real progress is evident on every hand. In numerous districts developments are already taking place, and the ■indications of a successful issue are meh that oil land values are rapidly rising." A British Consular report states that Siberia's butter exports amount to £4,0(10,0(10 annually. Of the total output. which is obtained from 2000 to MOO farms, representing a capital of only £1.000.000 in value, European Prussia, Oermany, England and Denmark take between them 50,000 tons. At present the area of production of butter is a strip of country of about 200 or 250 miles along the railway from the Urals to the Obi and thence to the Altai Mountains, surrounding which tract, are vast stretches of country which a. railway would immediately add to the comparatively insignificant area now devoted to dairying. Exports of other cattle products are placed at £2.000,000 annually, and attempts have lately heen made to introduce Siberian meat into England and Ormanv. More recently a shipping trade in game and poultry has been set going, and the eggs supplied to other countries arc increasing very rapidly in number. In the Magistrate's Court on Saturday, before Messrs. Dockrill and Boon, J.'sP., .Tas. Brown, alias Bowers, pleaded not guilty to charges of being an idle and disorderly person having no visible means of support. Senior-Sergeant Dart prosecuted. Constable Whitehouse deposed that at about 12.30 on Friday morning he had found accused sleeping in some straw at the back of Mr. Carter's shop. Mr. Carter, jun., said that one of his employees had given the man per- j mission to sleep there on Wednesday evening. On Thursday he had personally looked to see if the man was still there with a view to ordering him away, but failed to find him. Senior-Sergeant Dart pointed out that accused, who had no money when arrested, had been knocking round the town for some days with another man drinking. Accused said that he had come from the Catlins district and had lately been working in Stratford. He had work to go to at Koru and would go there at once if discharged. lie came to town on Wednesday, and as his blankets were wet thought he was doing no harm if he slept where he did. lie admitted several previous convictions. The Bench pointed out that but for an employee giving permission on the previous night they would have taken a more serious view of the case, which they adjourned till 10.30 on Monday morning. If accused leaves town by then the case will be struck out. XX IS THE RESOLVF

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■lncluding the su'jipicnientaries there are 7303 name.s on the Titranaki electoral roll, and 7031 on tin; T;uiiiuirumii roll.

A lu-at wave was experienced in New South Wales last week, tlie highest readings being—Morcc 100. Walgett 108, Coorcamble, Oiiainbone and Pililga 107, Bourke 10.0, Mungindi and Narraliri 104, Dutobo 103, and Tam worth 100 degrees. Owing to tin: can-crushing season in the Mackay (Queensland) district being shorter than usual this year the output of sugar will bo considerably less than last year. Since the beginning of the season £65,532 has been paid away in bounty on 15T.240 tons of cane.

A great take roofed over with salt is one of the wonders which the traveller who visits Odborsk, Siberia, can see. It is nine ■ miles; wide and seventeen miles long, and except in a few places is solidly roofed over with a deposit of salt which is becoming thicker ami thicker each year.

The butter tree nourishes in dry countries, and to make its actual acquaintance once has to go to Senegal. Its fruit takes an almond form. Reduced to pulp, it has the appearance and taste of butter. In, Senegal and Gambia the women use the fruit for cooking purposes, and also for pomade. An attempt is being made to import this vegetable butter into France.

Sheep-breeding is on.the down grade in Germany. Less than SO years ago there were seventy-five million sheep in the country, whereas now there are less than seven millions. This and other similar factors probably account for the phenomenal flocking of the population to the towiw. the abandonment of rural avocations. and the exodus from the country now in evidence.

The New Zealand journalist, hampered by the restrictions of a libel law, is sometimes almost driven to. envy his brother in other parts of the world. The Canadian papers, for instance, during the recent election campaign, were outspoken to a degree. The climax seems to have been reached when ;i paper circulating in a populous district remarked simply of an opponent, "Without beating about the bush, , whatsoever Mr ■says, he is a liar."