LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 29 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A .Sheffield collier has named his baby, which was born during the strike, "Minimum."

The fund organised in Wellington for the purchase of pictures for the Art Gallery has reached £4OOO.

Twenty years ago the total export of wool from Poverty Bay was 8933 bales, and last year the output reached 45,539 bales.

A visitor from Invercargill informed a reporter that they had only seen the sun one day during six weeks in the southern city.

-S 16 Ti J ranald Education Board last night decided that school committees be granted permission to close their schools on Friday, June 7, to enable the children to visit the Winter Show, at New Plymouth. The past year of the Masterton municipal gasworks has been the most successful in the history of the works, a credit balance of £I2OO remaining, after allowing for interest, sinking fund and maintenance.

Mr. W. A. Collis informs us that people desinoua of visiting the mountain will have ito go to the old bouse or cottage, as before. The new house, though finished, will not be available for visitors till next season.

"Each year I notice that there are fewer badly-kept accounts, and this year I have had very little trouble with any," reported the auditor (Mr. Whitcombe) of the school committees' accounts to the Education Board last night. Members of the Taranaki Veterans received an invitation to the ceremony to be held at Normanby today, but the time was too short in which to secure a muster of the veterans, who otherwise would have been pleased to attend.

At a meeting of the Employers' Association last niglit it was decided to ask all shopkeepers to close their premises on Wednesday next from 11.45 a.m. until 2 p.m., on the occasion of the opening of tho Winter Show. The usiial whole holiday will he observed on Monday (King's .Birthday), and the Thursday half-holiday will also be observed next week.

Tho Post Office advises: Cable messages for Austria at deferred rates may bo accepted 'from June 1 and for Switzerland from July 1. Languages declared for use in telegrams to and from Austria: German, Czech, Croatian, Roumanian. Italian, Polish, Ruthenian, Servian, Slavonian, Slovakian, and Slovenian. Language's for telegrams to and from Switzerland l ; German and Italian, The following are the dates for the Dominion tour of Messrs. Portus and Talbot's great minstrel troupe, which is on its way from America, by the Marama: Auckland, June 10 to 22; New Plymouth, June 24; liawera, June 25; Eltham, June 2f»; Stratford, June 27; Wanganui, Juno 2!>; Wellington, July 1 to 9; Chrtetchuneh (King's Theatre), July 11 to 1!); Tima.ru, July 20; Dunedin (Garrison Hall), July 22 to 20.

At a civil sititng of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., judgment was given for the plaintiff by default in the following undefended cases:—Alice Sampson v. Charlie Cook, claim £2 4s 3d, and costs 10s; P. Willis v. FT. Eva, £2O fis, and costs £2 -18s; W hitaker and Son v. Archie Loverid'ge, £2 10s lid. and costs 10s; A. George v. 11. W. Busby, £2 and costs 10s; Wilson and Grev v. Leslie Steele, £7 8s 2d, and costs £2 8s fid.

A meeting of delegates to the North Taranaki Cricket Association had been called for last night to discuss matters of interest in connection with local cricket, particularly as regards the financial aspect. However, at the time appointed, out of a total of twentythree eligible delegates, there were present: Messrs. Williams, Nieoll, Gordon (secretary), representing the New Plymouth Club, and E. Whittle (Waitara Club). The rule states that a ■ meeting cannot be held unless there is a quorum of eight, and accordingly, after waiting some time without any further delegates putting in an appearance, the meeting Was adjourned.

t A:r iffltion has been received il ™ I" nald Ed Board from lith sSt nH D T rtment ' vmn slight alterations, the draft com' ? -regulations submitted by 'the kody for the compulsory attendance ,of students at technical and continuation classes. Reporting to the Boaid last night, the director (Mr. BalweS'S I'V'V.""* "WE. were to be brought into force at an early date, it would be advisable to set up a sub-committee to go into the matter and report to the Board. The Board received the report, and decided to consult those school committees in whose districts there were technical schools as to whether they wished the Board to move in the direction suggested. The proposal originally emanated from the Stratford school committee. Three schools would be affected in New Plymouth, and one each at Stratford and Inglewood.

A disputed tradesman's account occupied the attention of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, i n the adjourned case of Thomas W. White v. Richard Birch. The claim, which was iZo gT Vu ia3 , 3U PP Iie<J) dated back to 1902. The plaintiff produced his day book containing the entries of the goods m question, some being in his own handwriting, some in his wife's, and others in nis assitant's handwriting. White swore that he could remember delivering the goods, even after a lapse of nine years. The wife of the plaintiff also deposed to having sold goods to thft defendant or his wife. For the defence, Mrs. Birch (wife of the defendant) denied that, she had made arrangements With Mr. White to pay cash monthly, on the understanding that the overdue account would stand over until later. Mr. White had never told her that her account was getting too big. In giving judgment for the plaintiff for £9 15s 3d and costs, Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., remarked that the plaintiff had not explained why he had left the claim standing for so long, but then, as defendant had not pleaded the statute of limitations, there was no reason why White should not collect his accounts. Plaintiff had his books to refresh, his memory with, while defendant had to rely solely upon his memory. Mr, Hut«ihen appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Grey for the defendant.

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It is expected that owing to the inability to procure store sheep, many of : the stations in the Masterton district will bo understocked this yeur. The conference of the Federation of Labor in Wellington; was not resumed yesterday, as the special committees have not presented their reports.

Katlierine Bradley 'Bigelow, an American child, has recently inherited a fortune of £100,001). Her fortune will be forfeited, though, if she ever travels miaccompanied by a maid or chaperone of education and refinement, or if she marries a divorced man or au actor. As she is only ten, it will probably be some time before she is tempted to do either. The waters of the Buy of Plenty, in the neighborhood of Tauranga, have long possessed a reputation as providing one of the finest hapuku iishing grounds in New Zealand. The reputation of the local waters in this respect was well sustained on Monday and Tuesday of last week, when fishermen were successful in catching no fewer than 225 hapuku of excellent quality, which take is a record for the Bay of Plenty. The dressed weight of a single fish ran as high as 821 bs, and undressed up to 1081bs, and the whole catch were a good even lot.

During his recent visit to England, Mr. A. W. Rutherford visited the Kings stables, and did not think much of either the horses or the manner in which they were kept. Indeed, he goes pretty near lese-majestc in saying that with few exceptions they were a lot of sorry-looking old crocks. "Many of them are over twenty years of age. ' Most of them never had been any good. One of the exceptions was the late King's hack, a line type of the short-legged weight carrier, olifTsh, but with a good hack action and a fine intelligent head. The ladies' hacks would fetch ahout a tenner each in New Zealand." The famous cream-colored and black horses used on State occasions, "at close quarters are sour-headed, ugly brutes." The cairn in Waihi Cemetery, and the monument in Victoria Park, Normanby, erected! to the memory of the soldiers who fell in the Maori war, and which are to he unveiled to-day, were completed on Monday. The cairn is constructed of rough boulders cemented together, about Oft. square at the base, audi standing about Oft. Oin. high. Two marble panel tablets, containing about thirty names, are let in, and space is left for additional names when they can be ascertained. The cairn will be enclosed by a massive cast-iron railing mounted on concrete and l plaster pillars, each wall 'being fifty-six feet in length. The monument erected in Victoria Park is :>.n imposing four-sided structure wit-h a gabled cap surmounted by a carved urn. This stands on three concrete bases three feet from the ground, and the monument being Bft. 6in., gives a height.of 12ft. in all. The four sides are thickly lettered, bearing Hie names of some 49 soldiers who fell in the Maori War. On the front face there is a device of helmet and crossed ewordit inlaid in lead. The monument will make an imposing landmark, and will bo in full view of both the main road and railway.— Star.