LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 20 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Daily News will not be published on Monday or Tuesday next, Xmas Day and Boxing Day.

The meeting convened for yesterday at 2 p.m. to consider the sea-side picnic for New Year's Day, was adjourned until 8 o'clock on Friday evening.

At the Central school committee meeting last evening it was mentioned that last week the roll mimber was the highest in the history of the school. During the discussion on the state of the school buildings at tho Central school committee meeting last night, members said the school buildings in the .town are a disgrace. Habitues of the racecourse to watch the early morning gallops were yesterday treated to an impromptu exhibition of the Jeffreys-Johnson act between two local horsey men, that, while it lasted, provided plenty of thrill. It has been incorrectly stated that tho election to Parliament of Messrs. Bollard, father and son, is the first case of the kind on record in New Zealand. In the early eighties Mr. William Hutchison represented a Dunedin constituency, his son, Mr. George Hutchison, representing Waitotara.

At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., a lirt offender was convicted and discharged. Accused was arrested by Constable Egan, when in charge of a horse and trap. On account of the good character given by the police, His Worship dealt leniently with him. The Wanganui head centre of the Royal Life Saving Society have appointed Mr. W. Lints as their representative and organiser in New Plymouth. We are asked to state that all information as to the aims and objects of the society and particulars of the awards granted by the society can be obtained from him.

The Taranaki Land Board is evidently determined not to allow aggregation of Crown lands in this district. At yesterday's meeting two applications for transfer of sections were refused on tliis account. In one case a single man. who held -178 acres, applied to transfer his section to another single man, who already held a section of 473 acres. .As tin? majority of the Board considered that each section was capable of supporting a family, they declined the application. Many of the Crown settlers consider that they have a. perfect right to take up extra, land provided they do not exceed the maximum extent, viz.. (Hill acres first-class- land, 200 acres sec-ond-class, ami 5000 acres third-class. This, however, is a matter that is left entirely to the discretion of the Land Board.

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We have to acknowledge receipt of calendars for 1912 from the Wcstport Coal Co. and the New Zealand Insurance Go.

No fewer than 200 swaggers were accommodated with beds and meals on one Mastorton station during a recent fortnight.

There ought to be a big future before the condensed milk industry in this Dominion. During last year Great Britain bought from Switzerland 25t),(K>!)cwt of condensed milk, valued at £<i4S,ol2.

The decisiori of the Duchess of Connaught and her daughter, Princess Patricia, to spend most of next summer in Europe, has provoked a good deal of unfavorable comment in Canada.

The Waitara Freezing Works have been fairly .busy lately putting through sheep (says tlie Waitara Mail). As shearing has been much delayed, it is expected a large quantity of stock will be. ready during January. The batch of Illawarra milking Short-, horns which were imported from Australia recently by the Government have served their term of quarantine on Soames Island and were removed to the Weraroa State Farm.

An interesting exhibition of homespun tweeds, Scottish and Irish, will be on view at Mr. H. Cocker's, Devon street, to-day only. This is the largest collection of such goods that has ever been shown in .the colony, and for this reason, if for no other, is worthy of inspection. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr. Johnstone applied for a re-hearing in the ease Callow v. Keith. He said that an arithmetical error had been made by a witness, which had made a difference in the amount of the judgment given. Mr. Fitzherbert said it wstild be establishing a precedent to grant a rehearing, but he would give his opinion on the matter this morning. A eabk from Cairo to Australian papers states that Lord Kitchener is not popular with the natives there, and there was a sufficiently striking illustration of this fact a week ago. A rumor got abroad that the famous soldier had' died suddenly. This was "glorious news" for the native population, and without waitting to see whether it was true or not, they at once closed their bazaars and gave up the day to rejoicing. Can this be true? Discovering that a lady elector, whom he was driving to a booth:, whs not going to vote for the candidate for which he was working, a man in a motor car down South on election day (says an exchange) drove miles out into the country, and politely told the lady, after stopping, to remove herself. When she stepped out, he restarted, and left her to return as best she could.

Id the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbe-rt, S.M., judgment by default was given in the following cases:—L. Marks (Mr. Bcwlev) v. W. Pratt, claim £5 19s, costs £ 1 14a 6d; Hawkins and Smith (Mr. C. H. Weston-) v. James Connell, £sl ss, costs £3 15s fid. Judgment was given by default in the following judgment summonses: Okey, Son and Arnold (fiovett and Quilliam) v. T. H. Sims, £lO 10s. The sum of £5 5s was paid into court, and mi order made for the balance to be paid within seven days or 14 davs' imprisonment. W. H. Leamish (Mr. Bewley) v. Henui Eroka, £7 13s, order made to pay the amount into court within seven days or 14 days' imprisonment. Newman and Hall (Govett and Q>illiam<) v. T. H. Sims, £l7 lis <Sd; £8 15s 9d was paid into court, and an order made, for the balance ( £8 15s 9d) to be paid within fourteen days or fourteen day*' imprisonment. Probably the most disgusted man in New Plymouth yesterday was a wellknown business man who labored under that detestable feeling of losing a halfsovereign through a hole in his pocket. On becoming aware of his loss he travelled about three hundred; yards of New Plymouth street, quicker than he ever did previously, and got back to his office very warm and disgusted, after a close search without* striking gold. Meeting some friends he unburdened himself, and received sincere condolences, one telling him his loss was worse than that of being beaten at an election, for one did get some fun and pain out of that, but he got nothing out of his loss. At last a suggestion was made that the elusive half-sovereign might have dropped into his ,boot. With scorn the loser repelled the idea, but ultimately he was prevailed on to take off his boot, when the missing bit of gold was shaken out, to the loser's manifest delight, and with a shout of joy from his friends tha.t outrivalled the shouts of Okeyites and Bellringers on election night. The recovery of the lost coin was celebrated: by the owner treating all and sundry to libations from the cup that cheers, with buns thrown in, he also telling his audience, which kept on growing, that if he spent a "tenner" over the (recovery of that half-sov. he would not care, so great was the satisfaction he felt.

During the last day of the session of Parliament of 1011 an important clause was added to the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act. It was the outcome of representations made by Messrs. W. T. Jennings and R. B. Ross, who presented petitions and introduced deputations to the Minister of Lands about the position of Crown tenants on the upper reaches of the Wanganui river, who hold sections that are rough, and have practically no ingress or egress. These and similar sections, on the recommendation of cacli Land Board, may be brought under the provisions of the Bush and Swamp Lands Act, which provides for remissions of rates and rent up to four years. At the Taranaki Land Board meeting yesterday Mr. Jennings appeared in support of a settler who lias a rough section on the Mold road, and who wished to come under the provisions of the Act. The Board has instructed the ranger to report on the matter. This Act will be a boon to Crown settlers on heavy sections, and on which it is difficult to make ends meet for the first thveo or four years. We understand there are a number of settlers in North Taranaki applying /for relief under the new Act. This elausw in the Reserves Act was strongly opposed at first by Messrs. Fisher and Massey, but on a division being taken the opponents to such a beneficent measure were reduced to Messrs. Herdman, La wry, Fisher and Wright. Mr. Lawry called for a division on behalf of the Government, to see how many of those who were speaking against the clause would vote against it. IT IS THE KESOLVF

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