LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 138, 2 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Xo less than >SO eatable tubers were taken from under on© potato root at Vogeltown the other day. At yesterday's meeting of the Clifton County Council a special order was confirmed declaring foxglove a noxious weed within the Clifton County. The Gisborne Herald is informed that there ia a substantial rise in the price af bacon and hams throughout the Dominion, which ia to take effect immediately. Mr. C. Carter, chairman of directors of the Taranaki Petroleum Company, was away exactly six months, but during that time, he said, rain fell on not more than six days. A company called the Tarana<ki and Manawatu Meat Exporting and Canning Co., Ltd., has been recently formed' for the purpose of dealing in stock suitable for exporting and canning. The insurances in connection with the Inglewood fire were: £BOO on T. Drake's building; £450 oil Baker's stock in the South British Office, and £450 on Rolston's stock in the National Office. An error crept into the article License v. Xo-'license published in our columns yesterday. The last sentence should read: "While, 'by using both papers, local no-license may oome into force in six months."

Councillor McAllum has given notice to move at the meeting of the Taranatei County Coupcil on Monday that the ] toll on steam motor waggons 'be increased to £3 up to 5 tons in weight and £0 for all waggons over 5 tons, inclusive or exclusive of load. The directors of the Taranaki Petroleum Company gave a luncheon in honor of Mr. J. Brown, chairman of the British Empire Oilfields, (Ltd., and the return of Mr. C. Carter, chairman, in the Criterion Hotel yesterday. There were also present a few of the principal townsmen. An accident of a. serious nature recently befel the eldest son of Mr. Robert Coxhead, formerly a Taranaki farmer, and now living at Miranda, near the Piafco Country. The young man wa9 shearing a sheep, -when the animal kicked the shears and the blade entered his eye, completely destroying the eyeball, and, of course, the sight of the eye.

Agirl aged 1,0, a daughter of Mr. Charles Phillips, of Bombala, met with a painful accident last week. The girl, in company with others, was playing round a haystack when she tripped and fell heavily on the prongs of a hayfork, which entered her temple, inflicting an ugly gash, from which the blood flowed freely. Medical aid was summoned, but the girl was unconscious all night.

The Huntly correspondent of the .Auckland Herald states that on Saturday evening last a young grandson of .Mrs. Robinson, fruiterer, met witli a painful accident while carrying in a few lemonade bottles from'the storeroom to the shop. One of the bottles fell on the floor and burst, and a fragment of glass lodged between the eye and the nose, causing a very deep cut, whith bled profusely. One or two stitches were put in, and the little sufferer is progressing favorably.

"There are 72 shareholders in that journal," said Mr. Fletcher, one of the candidates for Wellington Central seat, in referring to the criticism which had been passed upon him by the Dominion newspaper. "How much do those shareholders own in the way of land?" he was asked, and replied*: "Ten million pounds worth. How can you expect land reform from an organ 'like that—from those who own such an immense territory of land?" And yet there are some small farmers innocent enough to imagine that the Dominion is on their side.

The following liotico of motion has been given by Cr. Mannix:—"That Mr. Climie, consulting engineer having (by letter dated November 10) declined the responsibility for the electrio power extension works owing to deviations having been made from his plans on the recommendation of the electrical engineer, the services of the consulting engineer 'be dispensed with and the electrical engineer (Mr. Black) be held entirely responsible for the carrying out of the work, the intention of this resolution being to have one engineer solely responsible and not in any way to reflect upon the capability of Mr. Climie."

"The system of carrying out public works in New Zealand," said the Leader of the Opposition at Xorthcote recently, "is no advance on the methods that were followed in the days of Noah. The pick, the shovel, the wheelbarrow and the dobbin are still tho tools used in building railways in New Zealand, and the consequence is that the railways cost thousands of pounds a mile more than they should." He contrasted these methods with those of other countries, where modern mechanical plant was employed in the construction of railroads. The argument that the working men would suffer if machinery were substituted for the pick and shovel had no foundation, for there would be no reduction in either the number of workers or in the amount of wages, and the country would benefit by the reduction in the cost of railways.

Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, has told a press interviewer in London that he has fought his last fight. "I shall never don the gloves again as a professional boxer," he said. ''l am giving a number of music hall performances, and then Tam going to America. lam retiring while still holding the heavyweight championship of the world. My wife has persuaded me, for she has never liked this boxing business. One way and another I have made £OO,OOO from boxing during the last five years. I received £IB y OOO as my share of the proceeds of my fight with Jeffries, and T have £20.000 in hard cash now, besides my motor cars, jewellery and other property. I shall settle down in some business, probably the motor car business, for I am very interested in mechanism." The services at the AThitcley Memorial Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. ,T. W. Burton. The subject in the morning will be "Man's dominion over Nature," and in the evening Mr. Burton will speak upon "lesus Christ and New Zealand Political Life." IT IS THE RESOLVF

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