LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 11 March 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The hours for ladies at the Municipal baths on Wednesday have been extended to 5 p.m. for the remainder of the season.

Acting on the report of a sub-com-mittee, the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce has adopted a scale of commission charges. They will be incorporated in the president's annual report. The s.s. Earawa was bar bound at Manakau yesterday. It is expected that she will cross early this morning, arriving this afternoon, and should 1 leave again for Onehunga this evening as advertised.

I The list of patent registered in the last issue of the Mercantile Gazette includes the following:—James ■ Ryland Cruickshank, of New Plymouth, produce broker—an improved construction of receptacle for the transport of butter and like_ goods. It is understood that Mr. Cruickshank is at present in England for the purpose of exploiting his patent. At a recent meeting of the Tramways Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council the town clerk was instructed to cable to the High Commissioner at to obtain and post to tlie council all available information in respect to rail-running petrol tramcars and the relative cost of installation and upkeep compared with the overhead system. J

According to the report of the Abattoirs Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council, 91 cows, 62 bullocks, 5 calves, 554 sheep, 215 lambs, and 116 pigs were slaughtered for local consumption at the abattoirs during the past month. This represents an increase qf 16 cattle and 11 sheep, and a decrease of 3 calves and' 34 pigs compared with _.the corresponding month of last year.

At Auckland last week the Methodist Conference investigated charges of heterdoxy made against the Rev. J. G. Chapman, of Wellington, but late of New Plymouth. The matter is fail/ lcportaJ elsewhere in this issue.

C. B. Lumsden, jun., who failed to surrender to his bail to answer a charge of indecent assault at the present sittings of the Supreme Court, was arrested at For dell on Friday night by a plain clothes constable, and brought to New Plymouth on Saturday night by Sergt. Till.

From Mr. Cf. J. Herrick, of the Te Arai Apiary, we. have received a sample of his this-season's honor, the quality of which is still The yield 1 of honey in Taranaki this year is much below the usual production, owing to the unseasonableness of the weather. The cinematograph film of Mount Egmont, taken by Mr. Brandon Haughton, of the Empire Theatre staff, is now complete, and will be screened at the Empire Theatre on Wednesday evening next. Mr. Haughton reports the film to be a capital one, the total length being considerably over 1500 feet. The whole series is toned throughout and sr—a *«>-' markable color effects LaVe "oeen obtained.

At the last meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce the president reported that owing to the unsettled condition of affairs politically the sub-com-mittee appointed by the chamber had up to the present taken no action with regard to Mr. Barnett's letter re procuring communication between Mangaroa and Upper Mokau. They had not lost sight of the matter, however, and hoped to be able to do something when political matters became more settled.