LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 60, 29 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Three 1 men were lodged in the police ••lis on: Saturday evening. Two—both Maoris —gained, a free night's rest on account of an alleged fight at the gates of the, Recreation Grounds on Saturday afternoon.

A New York cablegram to the Australian papers states that .John Schultz, king of the Brooklyn loan sharks, who pleaded gailty to indictments for usury, was fined - '£'4oo and ordered tp undergo ten days' imprisonment. This is the la|gest. fine and, one of the longest sentences ever imposed upon a moneylender in, America, ' A handsome life-size bust in bronzo of the late Mr. T. E. Taylor ha» been recently'«ast:,'in Wellington from moulds mads by M£ Joseph Ellis, modelling master at. the Wellington Technical School. The casting was executed by what .ii! known as the cire-perdue, .or lost wax process, which has an advantage, over casting in sand inasmuch as the artist',can work on the wax model after it is taken from the mould, and repair any damage done to the moulding. There it another and greater advantage, especially in work in the round —that there is no cutting up of the original model into many parts, and subsequent joining and bracing together. No matter how intricate the work may be, it is quite possible to mould and cast it in bronze. The bust has been sent to Christchurch.

To assist the Minister of Justice (Hon. A. L. Herdman) to get a grasp of the prison system of the Dominion, and for the purpose of stiffening up and stimulating the whole service, he has temporarily detached Mr. A. W. Ironside, gaoler at Auckland, and sent him to inspect and report on matters relating to discipline and internal management of the gaols.' The Minister savs that probably the appointment of an* Jn.speetor of Prisons will be necessary. Should this be so, he hope's to be able to get a satisfactory man from the public service, without going out of New Zealand. '])r! Hay. who is in charge of the mental hospitals, and who attends to health conditions in the gaols, lias not the time to superintend the organisation and discipline of gaol .staffs. New prison reflations are being prepared by the ITmievSecretary for Justice, and they will soon be in the hands of the Government printer.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of Xew Plymouth (First and •Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be duo and payable today (Monday), at the; Secretary's Office, Onrrie street, from 0 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.— Advt. •.'■■,

The Borough Council has been notified ] by th« Railway Department of its ac- J ceptance of the council's offer of £230 \ in consideration of the railway land in Leach street being vested in tho borough. The Pepartment originally held out for £205. As soon as the legal formalities have been complied with, the Leach [ street deviation will be sold by the council to adjoining owners, as already arranged, and the work of metalling the street and laying down the sewer will at once be proceeded with. The Kiwitea County Council has written to the Taranaki County Council requesting it to unite with all county councils throughout the Dominion in approaching the Postmaster-General through members of Parliament in an endeavor to have the present charge of sixpence on all bureau connections per medium of private telephones to districts not exceeding twenty-five miles from the Government office used by such lines, where such Government offices have a telephone installation, reduced to threepence. The Kiwitea authority mentions that the matter is being introduced on account of the large number of private lines being erected by settlers in the outlying districts. The settlers have the whole cost of the line to bear, and are then charged the extra rate for bureau connections.

Professor W. T. Mills, of Wellington, lectured to some forty school teachers in the Technical College on Saturday morning on the industrial phase of school work. The professor told his hearers that he was now more interested in New Zealand than America, and, from recent visits, particularly in Taranaki. In a manner at once interesting and instructive, he outlined what he described as the wonderful work and great success of that great undertaking, the State Universities of America. There was, he said, a successful revival of the old method of giving the children animals and tools instead of books in their teaching, and, passing on, he advocated the encouragement of phonetic spelling, and outdoor teaching. He, was against the use of the «ane. In his opinion a child would learn to read in one-fifth the time it now takes if the inconsistencies and exceptions were removed from the English language. After answering a number of questions, the professor was accorded a hearty vote of thanks on the motion of Mr. 0. Johnson.

Citizens opposed to the proposal o! the Borough Council to erect a publw convenience in Brougham street met in conference last week in the office of tha New Plymouth Loan and Investment Society. The chair was taken by Mr. J. B. Connett, convener of the meeting. In his preliminary remarks Mr. Connett said: that the Borough Council was apparently taking no notice of the letter sent to it previously, as he understood it had already sent to England for the material required for the construction of the urinal. It was now necessary for those interested to make a further move m the matter. In his opinion the proposal to erect the structure in Brougham street was a monstrous thing. Were the street a wide one and the town lar<*er he could understand it. He added that if the council still insisted that the site must be central, it should select it round near the Council Chambers, where the old one was. The speaker said he was sure he could get a unanimous vote of the members of the Harbor Board against the erection. In a general discussion which followed, Mr. Roy that if the structure was erected°in Brougham street it would considerably hamper traffic, and would tend to direct it to Currie street. All present knew what that meant. Mr. F. P. Corkill said tnat the council intended to put the building in the closest proximity to the most valuable property in the town. In other towns he mentioned conveniences of the kind were placed out of the traffic and practically .hidden from view. Among the alternative sites suggested by various .■ speakers wero a council site in Queen street; Devon street, opposite E»mont street; and the present leptic taiSc site. Ihe general opinion, however was that it would be unwise.to suggest other ATr Tr, l COlmci *- 0n the mo "on of Air. J. a. Eoy, seconded by Mr. C H Weston a committee consisting" of Messrs A. McHardy, •A. H. Johnstone and the mover and seconder was appoint ed to draft a letter for presentation to the council at its next meeting. The persons present at the meeting Rifled their mtenfaon of attending on" that oc WialOD.

An Illuminated address lias been presented to Mr. C. Carter, chairman of the Taranaki Petroleum Company, by his late fellow directors. The address, which is of handsome design, runs as follows: —'"Dear Sir,—On the eve of the dissolution of the Taranaki Petroleum Company your fellow directors desire to place on permanent record their high appreciation of the energy, devotion, tact, and courtesy which you have displayed in the conduct of the affair's of the company while you hiivo been chairman. You took office at a critical juncture in the affairs of the company, at a time when hasty determination 6r ill-consider-ed action might have brought disaster, and we feel that your discretion led to the almost absolute unanimity which has led to the present successful results. We recognise the debt due to you by your company in your leaving home and business at almost a moment's notice to prosecute ,the interests of the shareholders in London, and we heartily appreciate the determination and ability which enabled you single-handed to cope with the trained financiers- with whom you were brought in contact, and to wrest from them concessions which are of so great pecuniary value to the company. We trust your work as chairman of the Petroleum Company is only your low rung in the ladder which, will in future lead to your occupying a <high position amongst your fellow townsmen, and will enable you to use your talents lor the elevation and advancement of your fellow citizens. With every wish for your health, happiness, and prosperity.—We arc"—and here follow the signatures of Messrs. C. E. Bellringer,* J. K Roy J. J. Elwin, J. Little, H. Okey, w ™ dlrectors of the company; Mr E *. Blum]ell (manager of the Bank of New Zealand), Mr. E. H. Tribe (secre™ryk r ' J ' R Quilliam (solicitor), and Mr. 11 Keith (manager of the company). Ihe address, which is bordered with photographs of each of the signatories, is on view in Mr. Carter's business premises in Devon street along with a framed photograph of the directors presented to Mr. Carter l, v a fellow director (Mr. Elwin) «i„ mnembrance of the time that you led Hie way to oil and success." '

At Hie great Whit-Monday Eisteddfod<l at Carnarvon Grand Pavilion, tk« J conductor of the successful children's choir waa a itul named Elvet Lewis, aged cloven, the son of a working quarryman. He is already the holder of three medals and a challenge cup. He commenced his musical career when only six years old. Ernest Feldkirch, a Gottingen carpenter, SO years of age (says a Berlin correspondent) has cheerfully looked death in the face for 26 years. His -first illnese, which came when he waa <3O, suggested to 'him that, having no relatives, he should provide for his burial himself, and as soon as ho recovered he set to work and made himself a coffin, which he placed conveniently beside his bed. After a number of years it began to deeay, and he was obliged to make another. The second is now in the same condition as the first, and his friends are urging Feldkirch to discard it for a third. The old man, who is bale and happy as ever, declares that he will make one more, and if he finds it decaying, he will give the 'business up as a bad job. In the days gone by, our grandmothers spent tho placid evening hours over the pages of a three-volume novel, or in carrying out some homely household duty. Illustrated magazines—and especially women's magazines—were praetic-. ally unknown. To-day, a wise, intelligent housewife finds time, not only to j keep abreast of ber husband in general literary matters, but makes herself a better manager, a brighter wife, and a wiser mother, by closely reading one or more of the splendid magazines now published for the women in the- home. Until recently, Australian and New Zealand women were content to buy imported magazines. The publication in Australia of a high-grade, popular local magazine for women is rapidly changing this state of things. This local magazine—"Everybody's Journal"—has quickly won its way into the homes and hearts of scores of thousands of women all over Australasia, till to-day it is more widely read in Australia and New Zealand than any other woman's magazine, The July issue of "Everybody's Journal" is before us, and represents a wonderful sixpenn'orth.' It contains scores of fashion designs, the beginning of a powerful new serial story, several {complete new stories, many special ar- ■ . ticles, such as "Cooking for Sarah Bernhardt," "Should an Actress Marry?" "Lady Fuller at Home," "The Miracle of Light," "Entertainments for Winter Evenings," "Madame Fashion- and Her Ways," and it gives departments on cookery, beauty, health, verse, etc. We strongly recommend "our readers to spend sixpence at the local newsagents, and get "Everybody's Journal" for July. Says the'N.Z. Times:—Professor W. T. Mills, who is to address a public meeting in ,the Good Templar Hall this evening at 8 " o'clock, entitled "The Masse(y)s and the .('-lasses," has been speaking constantly for more than a year in New Zealand. During all of this time lie has been speaking on some phase of the labor question. He has addressed schools, churches, colleges, trade unions, political clubs, debating'societies, student associations, Y..M.0.A. gatherings, co-operative societies, and fruitgrowers' associations, but in every instance he has undertaken to present the questions discussed by him in eneh *a way bhat the positions taken by him and the arguments offered in defence of those positions should be such as should commend themselves to sincere and honest people of allH.rades, professions, callings, and of all religious faiths of every possible variety. For a great many years it has been his purpose to avoid offensive personalities; to deal with principles

only and to support such • measures as can be supported in behalf of the principles which to him seem to be of fundamental importance to the beat interests of society. Since he has been in New Zealand there has hardly been a .single Sunday when ho has not spoken in some public "hall, opera Bouse, church, or schoolroom, on some topic directly related to the work in which tie is en gaged. Religious people of every faith, and those who have supposed they were altogether irreligious, haye listened alike to these addresses, and -in mdfe than one hundred such meejmgs held on Sunday no word of complaint had ever reached the writer that the work he was doing on Sunday was in any way inappropriate to the day and to the associations which belong to the day until within the last week. His Dannevirke meeting, in epite of certain protests, was a great anecees, and such is the popularity of Professor Mills that hi?' success is assured here.