LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 13 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A progressive euchre party will be held in the Bell Block hall on Tuesday. 'A kiwi has been presented to the Pukekura Park Board by Mr. Marfell. of Toko. The house destroyed on the Bonithon property on Thursday evening was insured in the State office for £2OO. The Land and Income-Tax Department gives notice that returns of land must be furnished not later than Ist May. Rain fell on 18 days last month in New Plymouth, as against 7 days in March of last year. The fall was 4.01 inches; in 1911 it was only 1.01 inches. In recognition of its work on the occasion of the file in Devon Street last week, Mr. F. C. Griffiths has donated £2 2s to the funds of the local fire brigade. The municipal concert of the Garrison Band postponed from last Sunday owing to the wet weather, will be given tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon, in Pukekura Park, weather permitting. During the month of March 23 vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 5571 tons, entered the Waitara river inwards, whilst the same number of vessels, of a tonnage of 5510 tons were cleared outwards. The settlers of Allbank (Auckland province), who were visited by the Hon, T. Mackenzie when he was last in Auckland, aa Minister of Agriculture, celebrated his elevation to the office ol Prime Minister with a monster bonfire and fireworks display. A public meeting is advertised to take place in the Good Templar Hall tomorrow afternoon., at 2.30 o'clock, undes the auspices of Labor, at which prominent exponents of labor will speak on Professor Mills' unity scheme and the United Labor Federation's programme. It was stated by one of the directors at a recent meeting of the Masterto* Dairy Company that dairying experts in America were experimenting for the manufacture of an article of food which 'contained the properties of both butter and cheese, and it is expected that the result will be highly successful. The return march to Stratford was commenced yesterday morning by the two patrols of Stratford Scouts who have been camping at the residence of Scoutmaster Sandford, at Vogeltown. The boys anticipated reaching Tnglcwood the same day, where they will stay over- ) night, resuming their march this morn* - ing- ' Last evening Constable Lapouple, of Waitara, received advice from Tongaporuifu that wreckage consisting of barrels, tanks, etc., is coming ashore there, i This is the material that was used in an attempt to float the stranded steamer Manakau in the Waitara river recently, and which was lost when the steamer capsized. There is a general impression throughout the Dominion that in Nelson (saye the Colonist) there are about three single girls to every bachelor. This idea is exploded by a table published in the latest issue of the Gazette, which shows that in Nelson there are 7581 bachelors of the age of 20 years and upwards, and only 4032 spinsters of the age of 15 years and upwards, or an average of 153 bachelors to ev&ry 100 spinsters. The wharf workers can scarcely expect to keep the sympathy of the general publie if they repeat what they nid a day or two ago (says the Timaru Herald), when they held a meeting during working hours to pass a resolution which could just as easily have been passed out of working hours. The meeting lasted two hours (it was not about any matter of local concern) and two boats were kept idle as a result of this meeting. "He's not the first man that got inte trouble through eating an apple," re» marked Cr. Bower at the Clifton County Council meeting yesterday. This remark followed the relation of a story about apples which is going the round of the county at present. It appears that a kind-hearted settler left a bag of apples for the use of a gang of men who were engaged on county work, and one of them at once left off work and sampled the fruit, leaving the teams idle. In response to a mild remonstrance from the surfaceman in charge as to why he did not choose a more qpportune moment for his refreshment, he dropped his tools, donned his coat, and left the job. The anniversary services of the Whiteley Memorial Sunday School will be held to-morrow in the church at 11, 3, and 7 o'clock." The children have been practising special hymns and music for some considerable time, under the leadership of Mr. Herbert White, and the musical portion of the service will he of more than usual interest. The preacher will be the minister of Whiteley Church, Rev. J. W. Burton. The morning subject will be, "Interpreting the 'Child to Itself"; and in the afternoon there will be a special address to the children on "The Boys and Girls of Old and of ?Jew Fiji." In the evening Mr. Burton wiU take as his subject, "The Coward and the Man." The offertories during the day will be on behalf of the Sunday school

In the course of his remarks when proposing the toast of the dairying industrj at the banquet to the Premier at Manaia on Tuesday, Mr. F. W. B. Greville, editor of the Dairyman, mentioned that although the returns from farms in that locality had in some cases gone as high as £ll 5s per acre, even that was hardly dairying worth the name. It was quite possible to keep two cows to the acre, but under the grazing system—allowing the cows to wander all over the land—-one-third of every acre was wasted, and that system was the worst in the world. The dairy production of Sfcw Zealand, Mr. Greville continued, could be doubled by the adoption of the soiling system, and he would like the. Government to acquire a demonstration farm of, say, 100 acres in Taranaki and run it for the benefit of everyone in New Zealand. The Government could, he said, safely guarantee to pay the owner of the farm his best annual return previously undei the grazing system, on condition that he ran the farm on the soiling system for the future, the result of which would be, Mr. Greville claimed, that in addition t« paying the former owner whaterer ha might have taken annually off the farm —say £looo—<in additional profit of £2OOO or £3OOO would be made, which could be distributed in charity or in. whatever other way was considered advisable.

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An epidemic of measles is at present prevalent amongst the younger members of the community of Dannevirke. The residents of Patea propose to raise a loan of £SOOO for the purpose of erecting a town hall and municipal buildings. The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd., has declared a dividend of 8s per share, payable on April 17th, for the half-year ended 31st December. The cost to the Uruguayan Government of sending the commission of six agricultural students round the. world for 13 months in search of information is estimated at between £SOOO and £6OOO. It is stated that the Canterbury Land Board intends exercising its discretionary power and allowing only married applicants to go to ballot for the Four Peaks runs; The eight subdivisions are all suitable for married men with families. There were no fewer than twelve wed-1 ding 3 celebrated in Wanganui during Easter, and, according to the Chronicle, the railway- porters were kept busy clearing up the rice and confetti, which seemed to have been used with great liberaHty. A story illustrative of the belief, even though it be superstitious, which is maintained towards the Bible by those who know nothing about it, comes from Korea through the British and Foreign Bible Society. A Korean gambler, with the belief that if he sat upon the New Testament he was bound to win, used it for this purpose. The first night he lost £lO, and the next one 12s, and decided that the doctrine was against gambling. "Land transactions in Hawke's Bay," said a gentleman from that province to a Wellington Post reporter, "have for gome time past been assuming very large dimensions. As an instance, only the other day a buyer from the South Island completed a transaction which brought his total purchases up to £170,000, all in less than twelve months. The large landowners," he continued, "are beginnning to realise that it is not in their own interests to retain the holdings, and several have determined to cut up portions of their estates in the near future." Th« Riverdale Co-operative Dairy Co. (Inaha) paid out £3723 to suppliers for butter-fat last month. This was at the rate of Is per lb. A further payment was made recently of £3060 by way of a bonus at the rate of 2d per lb up to December 31et last, thus making an average of Is 2d per lb for 1911. The supply is keeping up excellently and still averages about 12,000 lb of milk, or 33 per cent, per day in excess of the average at the same time last year. On the year's supply the figures show 17% million lb of milk as against K'/s million last year. Lessons by machinery are proposed by the Victorian Education Department. It is considered that at least some lessons—particularly history and geography —can with great advantage be illustrated by means of moving pictures. There seems to be no doubt (says the Melbourne Argus) that school work would be more attractive with kinematograph illustrations as part of the daily programme. The only doubt that lingers is -whether the pictures will not be too alluring; but probably it will be found wise to leave teachers to maintain a judicious admixture of pleasure and profit.

Messrs Gillies and Nalder commenced their autumn horse fair in the Princes Street Bazaar, Hawera, on Thursday. Ther« was a very good attendance of buyers, and an excellent entry of horses. Previous to the sale three telegrams were received stating that the Sydney market was not of the best just noyv, and this had a tendency to cause prospective buyers to he cautions. However, the fair, under the conditions prevailing, was considered satisfactory, for anything that was good sold well. Principally draughts and half-draughts were offered, the range of prices being £37. £3B, and £4O; lighter sorts fetched from £25 to £3O. and milk-carters commanded from £ls to £25. A pair of nicelv-conditioned fillies realised £SO. The fair was continued to-day under favorable weather conditions.—Star. In May of next year the British Admiralty hope to launch the first ship in the world to be built as a hospital. To a representative of the Daily Mail, Fleet Surgeon Langford, assistant to the Di-rector-General of the Medical Department, said the ship, which will have a tonnage of 5000, will cost about £IOO,000. There will be accommodation for 260 patients in peace and 330 in war time, and the staff will include eight medical officers and 40 nurses. Two operating theatres aftd bacteriological, dental and X-ray rooms are fitted. Vibration will be lessened by the use of turbine engines, and bilge keels will reduce rolling. Comfortably fitted motor boats will carried the wounded from their ships. Transference to the hospital will be by means of canvas cots controlled by electrically-driven cranes. Then in specially-fitted lifts the patients will be taken to one of the twelve wards. Th« Manawatu Herald (Foxton), a journal that has consistently supported the Massey party, says, in referring to that leader's remarks at Stratford: —We believe, with Mr. Massey, that the pledge ibreakers are paying the penalty. In fact, such notoriety as theirs would be dear at a thousand a year. But from what we can gather, from a fairly reliable source, the intriguing that went on to capture the votes, of the men who held the balance of power is a scandal and a disgrace to our public life. We do not say that Mr. Massey went the length that the Liberal party did in this connection during the crisis, but Mr. Massey should not lose sight of the fact that he was partly responsible for the present mix-up, by forming a temporary alliance with Labor in his attempt to defeat the Government at the second ballot. It is as well to remember the sawdust in our own eyes when attempting to remove the four-by-two from our brother's.

A PRICE-LIST OF PRICELESS BARGAINS AT THE MELBOURNE. ■Souths' displaced post office overcoats, 9/6; boys' knickers, 2/11 to 4/11 youths' smart tweed top-coats, 13/6 to 17/6; youths' raincoats, 21/9 to 26/9; boys' oilskin coats, 8/11; riding oilskins, 12/9 to 10/6; men's blue military coats, 23/6 to 27/6; men's saddle trousers, 6/9, 8/6, 10/6 to 13/6; men's Kaiapoi tweed suits, 29/6; Petone tweed suits, 35/-; splendid saddle-tweed suits, 39/6; smart fancy tweed suits, 39/6 and 49/6; genuine indigo coating suits, 65/-; men's raincoats, 20/6, 32/6 and 39/6; "Hydrotite" coats, 37/6 and 4G/6; famous "Pegamoid" riding coats, very light, 55/-; men's Kaiapoi socks, 3 pairs for 2/6; men's strong shooter boots, nailed or plain, 7>/<>; women's chrome 2-bar shoes, 5/11; children's chrome boots, 5/11 to 6/11; boys' splendid heavy chrome boots, with slugged soles, 10/9, sizes 1 to 5; boys' strong school boots, 6/11 and 8/11; men's famous welfed boots. 16/9, in seven different styles. Blankets and rugs! Look out for special prices next week.—Advt.

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