LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 57, 25 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rovers Cycling Club intends to hold another road race to Bell Block and back on August 1.

The Marton district has produced from 20,000 to 25,000 tons of chaff this season, about 4000 tons being held for sprini? cutting. l b

A trench journal states that the railway authorities in France intend to inaugurate "silence" carriages for passengers who do not wish to be addressed by fellow travellers.

The accidental throwing of a ball ! through a second storey window by boys playing in a New York street recently saved the life of a man asleep in the room with a leaking gas-jet. At a meeting of the executive of the North Canterbury Farmers' Union yesterday, the following motion was unanimously agreed to: That, in the opinion of this executive, the services of Mr. Thomas Mackenzie should be secured as High Commissioner in London, because of his special knowledge of the requirements of the Dominion.

"I am taking the liberty of writing with the object of ascertaining whether there is any possibility of prohibiting inexperienced and untrained assistant teachers from using the strap and cane on young children. An untrained teacher lacks the power of imparting the knowledge, therefore the children suffer from what one might call the teacher's ignorance." —Portion of a letter received by the Education Board from a mother protesting against the corporal punishment inflicted by an assistant at a country school.

Branches of the Liberal Association I are being formed at Timaru and Terouka.

The Timaru hairdressers have decided to increase their prices from August 1. Something in the way of a record for the port of Greymouth was made for the week ending Saturday last, no less than 1,780,000 ft of timber having been brought in by the railway for various steamers in port. Of this quantity 890,000 ft was off the Hokitika line, including 250,000 ft from Butler Bros., Ltd., Ruatapu.

Some New Zealanders were in some peril in France during a recent tour. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Firth, of Wellington, were in the Paris-Calais railway accident, when the train ran pff the line, and narrowly escaped being hurled down an embankment 30ft deep. Mrs. Firth escaped with a few cuts on her face, and Mr. Firth was unhurt, but the shock was very great.

"It is not reasonable to change the holidays for GSO children merely because fifteen want to go to Wellington to play football. Next they'll want to change Sunday to some other day in the week." —Remark by a member at the Education Board meeting yesterday, when the Stratford school applied "for permission to change its August holidays. The request was refused without any further discussion.

A sure indication of dullness in the oat market is the large number of consignments that are being rejected at Auckland (says the Southland Times). One Jnvercargill firm on Saturday received no fewer than five different telegrams informing it of the rejection of a similar number of consignments. On a firm and rising market very little is heard of rejects, but when anything in the nature of a slump occurs rejects are usually painfully frequent. To the wife-hunter, as to anybody else, distant fields" are green. A fruitgrower in the Harcourt district, Victoria, some months ago wrapped round an apple a piece of paper on which he had written, that he wanted a wife, but that no Australians need apply. The apple apparently caused great excitement in Covent Garden, or wherever it was opened and discovered. The man who wrote the letter at random received no fewer than 111 applications from English girls. "Everybody in Samoa seemed to be doing well," said Mr. L. E. Brown, a Fiji merchant who has just visited Tonga, to an Auckland Herald reporter. "Cocoa and copra are very plentiful and the indiarubber planters are just beginning to tap their trees; some of their rubber brought as high as 5s iy a d in London and cocoa up to £7B per ton.'.' Prospects in Tonga for copra are splendid, and the bananas have quite recovered from traces of disease; shipping will commence at the end of the year; the crop is a good one. On the whole, Mr. Brown was impressed with the fact that Tonga was very prosperous; only liaapai suffered in the hurricane, so that good crops are expected. Letters to hand from San Francisco by the last American mail convey the information that the Spreckles line of steamers, which has instituted a direct service between San Francisco and Sydney, is being substantially subsidised by the United States Government, under a general Act for the encouragement of maritime enterprises by American shipowners. The Sonoma, which arrived at Sydney from San Francisco on Monday, must, to qualify for what is called the second-class subsidy, steam an average of 15 knots per hour for the whole of the outward voyage. On that condition her owners will be entitled to claim a subsidy of two dollars per mile. The distance between the two ports is 7400 miles, making the subsidy about £3OOO. Since the steamers were engaged in this service before (when they called at Auckland) they have been fitted up for oil-burning, and it is said that' they are now capable of steaming 17 knots an hour. On Friday last one of nature's best—a wild deer—was noticed quietly glazing on a farm at the town boundary (says the Opunake Times). A chase was instituted by a dozen Maoris (including women and youngsters) assisted by dogs, but the "gentleman" from the backblocks took the fences and obstacles without any inconvenience. The pursuers were," of course, left. Next day the deer was seen grazing with the town cows on the township and those who saw the animal with head erect (and a good sei of antlexs) standing on an eminence near the coast were delighted at the sight. On Sunday a crowd of "tailera up" in the chase inspected the place ef the deer's last visitation but no deer was visible; a thorough' search was made through clumps of gorse, behind Scotch thistles. Some of the seekers had guns but the deer was hot to be caught by that party. Early reports state that two deer were first seen together and when they parted and were noticed in various parts of the district the numbers were added together and the number of deer seen totalled a respectable herd. An amusing storj-, says the New Zealand Times, is being told at the expense of a well-known Taranaki farmer, who, with a number of .friends, was discussing another settler in the district. After the argument had proceeded for some little while, one of the friends made some remark to the effect that the settler whom they had been discussing was engaged to one of the farmer's daughters. He would not hear of it, however, and went so far as to back his opinion for £SO, a wager which was duly accepted. On arrival at his home the farmer consulted with his wife, and she confirmed his view of the matter. Her daughter, she was sure, was not engaged, but presently the girl herself came in, and when she was questioned by her parents shyly admitted that she had promised her hand in marriage. It was a big surprise to her father, whose consent had not been sought, but, after a while he took a reasonable view of things, paid over that £SO and arrangements were made for the wedding, which was in due course celebrated. To the delight and surprise of the bride, among the list of wedding presents received was a cheque for £SO from the friend who had made the wager with her father.

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