LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Included in the cargo of the steamer Croyden now . discharging at from New York are 29 motor cars.

Several new classes have been-added to the schedule of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, which is now practically completed. The Eltham school is holding its annual picnic at the New Plymouth beach to-day. At time of writing the weather was not too promising. The rage for attending picture shows is very prevalent in' Auckland. The butchers (says an exchange) actually advertise that cold joints will be left at certain places so that they may be picked up by the housewives when they leave the shows for their homes. Next!

A Wellington syndicate intends erecting a new theatre and rink at the corner of Charlotte and Sydney streets. Plans for the building have been prepared by Mr. James Bennie. These make provision for the accommodation of 1300' people . In the rink there will be a skating floorage of 7000 square feet. The theatre, which will be of the most modern type, will cost: about £9OOO.

1 On the West Coast it is reported that therie is a possibility of a strike occuring at the Arthur's Pass tunnel works. The' men, it is understood, intend demanding a. 44 hours' week, increased wages, and bank to bank conditions, with half an hoUr daily for crib. : The granting of the bank to bank conditions would ■lean that instead of working eight 'at the face, the men would work about seven, hours a day. i The advertising for I<K) men, and are* advising them not to write for a job, but to come right away and get a job, New pests seem to appear with every fresh season. An old settler in the Ha-_ wera district has had a blight on his mangels • this year,' and has heard M' many similar cases where seed had to be sown more than once. While speaking of this, he remarked that he had known cases where sowings of the same seed had been made on consecutive days in the same paddock and had turned out quite different.' The one was poor, the other was good. This he. ascribes just to the different circumstances ''ruling when the seed was ready to sprout. When Mary Denton was remanded at Highgate, (England) recently, charged with inciting her daughter to steal, it was stated that the girl had been stealing purses for fhe last two years, and in this way, had practically supported the whole She used to go about with another girl, who had taught her to pick packets. Last November, she told her mother she was, stealing purses, ,a,nd her mother said she was a good girl, and she should go and get some more. On an average she made about £1 to £1 10s a week, and divided this money with her mother.

Titles to dramatic production's are often misleading. In other parts of tlj,e Dominion people have been heard discussing the musical capabilities of'"The Speckled Band," so there was some excuse for the natives, to the number of 30, who journeyed jn from Fraser road and Taiporohetiui to Hawera on Monday evening to listen to the "Band," of which they had heard so ; much. t-During the interval'fifter the first -ast some of these natives were malting 'enquiries .as to when the famous band was to make its appearance. Some of them, who occupied prominent positions in the stalls, were quite unable to follow the dialogue, and it was soff.e time before they made the discovery that they had been misled by tHe. title of the piecei-^-Star, At the' monthly meeting of the St. Aubyn Town Board the chairman reported the acceptance of Messrs. Bejkin, Bros.' tender for metal on South road. Mr. G. Blanchard was appointed representative of the board on the New Plymouth Technical School Advisory Committee. The foreman was instructed to repair the roads leading to Mr. R. Honeyfleld's property, via Bainsford and Newtown streets, and also' to finish Devon road, and the clerk was instructed to notify ratepayers that all rates not paid on or before March 1 would be sued for. The solicitor to the board (Mr. J. E. Wilson) is to be asked to advise the board as to what steps can be taken to cope with the extraordinary traffic «n South road. Thursday, it Was notified, had been fixed the statutory halfholiday. ...

An amended estimate of the cost of reforming and improving the streets in the St. Aubyn Town Board district, for which it is proposed to raise a loan of £SOOO, was submitted at the last meeting of that body. It reads as follows Main South road.—Making road full width, grading, and channelling, Cutfield road to Belt road, £340; grading Morshead's Hill, £400; reMetalling road, making footpaths, kerbing, and channelling, £750. Devon road: Metalling full width, kerbing and channelling to Mr. S. W. Shaw's gate, £284. Widening and filling in Lome street, £076. "Gain street: metal, kerbing, and channelling footpaths, £IOO. Hine street: metal, kerbing and channelling footpaths, £IOO. Belt road: Metal from railway to South road, kerbing and channelling, £IOO. Belt road bridge, with easements, £836. Regrading Belt road from Devon street 1 tjo Gaine street, without metal, £45; lifting the road at the new bridge site, about £2s—£7o. Roy Terrace, £150; Newton street, £B3; culvert, £22o—'' £453. Glen road, 1 in 10 grade, £350. Cutfield road:_ Half cost forming, metalling, and making culvert (in conjunction with the 'New Plymouth Borough Council, which is being approached in the matter) £l4O.

MORE MELBOURNE SUIT TALK.

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