LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 62, 31 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ftPVn- thc UnitDd Kin S dom which left Wellington on J unc u and 21 arrived in London on July 29. The Dairy Company paid out for butter-fat last year £100,090, at the rate of Is OfcH per 1 lb, a „d ha y e still over £24,000 to distribute by way 0 f oonus, or nearly Is During the past season (says the Patea Press) the West CoastlWrige ° atmg Company handled' 10,952 ton T of nl ITJ pr £ UCt '' mdo U P »* follows•_ Cheese, SJ39G tons; butter, i m tons . sundries, CI tons'.' *" Giving evidence through an interpreter m the" Magistrate's Court yesterday morning .-in support of his inability to settle a judgment summons, a .Maori' wa s asked what ho did witlvhis'money The reply caused a little amusement. It was couched in the following terms"VVhen I receive any money I hand it over to my relatives. When'f have none I do not do 'so."

At the annua] meeting of the Whemiakura Co-operative Dairy Company, held vn Saturday afternoon (reports the Patea, Press), the balance-sheet showed a most satisfactory position., there bein" «J^ anc !i ? £lm t0 tl,u t ' re,lit of profit and loss account on the year's working The sum of £ ,.,,,,, j was paid to suppliers during the season fr<H a the s «le of, butter were £16,656 4s. Messrs. J. Hurley, p. Bourke, Turner, and W. D. Powdrell were elected to vacancies on, the directorate.

A very excellent example, which mHit be followed by other of our local societies, was set by Mr. 11. E. Baker (chairman of the Taranaki Employers' Association) Intf night. The annual meeting of thafc body was convened for last night, but at the appointed hour for commencement the only persons in attendance were the chairman, the secretary (Mr A Humphries), and m o other member ; (Mr. Goodacre), besides two pressmen. In remarking that the meeting was called, for 8 o'clock sharpy Mr Baker said he would allow members only two minutes' grace, and failino- a requisite attendance he would declare the meeting adjourned. The time was extended till eight minutes, seven and three-quarter minutes, to be precise, past eight by which time three other memhers had atnved on the scene "Time's up' announced the chairman, and the ™ eptln £ ™ s accordingly adjourned sine die. What we want to awaken interest is a Waihi strike," commented a member as those present filed out of tin room.

'Sitting m his- civil jurjsdietiona at the Magistrate's Court yesterday mornin* Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., gave judgment fw the plaintiff hy default in the eases of A. George v. Kupi Ropilia, claim £1 5, and costs 13s; T. P. Hughson and Sons' v. John Read West, claim £l2 ,js 4d and costs £1 18s 6d'.; L. A. Nolan v. John f.rupen. claim £:! 12s 2d, and costs 10s A Maori named Ramirau Tauwhevo was asked to show cause why he could not settle a judgment summons for £45 ;!s I'M. obtained against him by Win. Humphries. The debt represented I lie balaiice due under an old Supreme Court judgment. Tho debtor, who was crossexamined by Mr. D. llutchen. said he received about £SO a year from the Public Trustee on.account of his liner-e-ls in certain unlive land. He wis reading on his own property, his horse and trap had been seized under a distress warrant, and he had had to sell bis ratHe. lie was unable to work. XVi order wa.s made Another judgment debtor (!■'. Drtiry), who made no appearance, was ordered to pay the sum of £1 10s to J. Shister on or before August 2. or in default undergo two days' imprisonment. "Done up" after a day's work' "Camp CofVe'e" will alter that in a tick, with next to no trouble or expense. Just "Camp." boiling water, milk'and su<*ar (hat's all. ' ]2 '•Many cooks spoil the broth." but a child can make a cup of delicious "Camp Coffee." ~

At Stratford la*t night the Ngaerc Club ibeat Stratford in a cribbage match by G(j games to 45. The Stratford Club did not win a single round, but succeeded in scoring two draws.

Parliament met at Stratford last night, when the Hon. A. Header's Totalisator Abolition Bill was carried by the bare majority of one vote. A committee was appointed to make arrangements and suggest subjects for a debate with the New Plymouth Brotherhood, to be held at New Plymouth on a date to be arranged.

The Primate, (Bishop Neville), who has jast returned to Dunedin from the consecration of the new Bishop of Nelson, announces that a Nelson lady has given £OOOO towards increasing the endowment of the Nelson bishopric, while a Nelson gentleman has donated £2OOO, to be devoted to replacing the present wooden approach steps to the Nelson Cathedral with stone.

Some very potent liquors, it is said, can be distilled from the innocent-look-ing banana, and also from the. milk of-the cocoanut. The Japanese make a beverage from plums, and from the flowers of the motherwort and the peach. The Chinese produce several qualities of spirjt from rice and peas, all of them intoxicating, besides.-which they can make an alcoholic drink from mutton.

The Government of Ontario have announced that at the next .session of the Legislature a Bill will be introduced to prohibit "treating." To some extent this measure is meant to offset the policy of the Opposition for the abolition of the bar. It will make it a misdemeanor'to either "treat" or be "treated," and the hotelkeeper will also incur a heavy penalty for permitting such a thing "on his •premises. This is a new aspect of the temperance movement. A certain Maori gentleman in the Waika.to, whose wits occasionally wander, is wont to imagine himself to be all sorts of men. . One day when the train came in he imagined ho was a policeman, and stalking majestically about keeping order, he noticed a passenger alight from the train with a slight stagger. He approached him, smelt his breath, and arrested him. The. victim calmly submitted, and the policeman proceeded to lead his captive to the police station. On the way ho met a real policeman in uniform. He 'halted-his prisoner,, saluted, and informed the officer that he had arrested the man. "On what charge?" asked the officer. "Oh. I dunno," replied the native; "charge the feller-ten bob and let him go."

Some of the settlers in the Uruti district', on the Uruti and Mokau roads, recently petitioned the Clifton County .Council to raise a loan of £IOOO to put about two miles of metal on the Uruti road at the junction of the Uruti and Mokau roads, a piece lying between the Main North road and the junction oi these two roads. The County Connci\ prescribed a special rating area which would be liable for special rates in respect of the proposed loan. Four of the land-owners who were included in tins special rating area, and whose property lay beyond what is known as the Tangitu saddle, objected to their inclusion on the grounds that they would receive no benefit from the proposed work, and so, in accordance with the regulations for settling questions of this sort, the matter was referred to the. Magistrate to decide whether or not the four objectors, or any of them, should be exempted. The objectors .have already been heard at Waitara, and at the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, this morning the County Council will adduce evidence in favor of the retention of the objectors within.the area. Mr. A. H. Johnstone is appearing for the objectors, and Mr. J. E. .Wilson for the Clifton County Council. . ..

A- twelve-year-old dun-colored cob, standing 14.2 bunds, was driven with a governess car 101) miles in 13 hours 2" min, completing' the. journey' in good condition., recently (says n. Homo paper). The' owner and driver. Mr. Thomas Davies, of Field House Farm, near Ecclpsfiall, I'StalFordsliire, has beeh in" the habit, of driving the horse long distances and has learned that he is a good stayer. The road was good and on the. whole flat. Mr. Davies left Eecleshall at 0.3 a.m. and •reached. Wolverhampton (twenty-three minutes) at about 8.40. lie baited for thirty minutes, returned, reaching Eecleshall at 11.40, and at once drove eight miles (four out and four in) on the. road to Stone. After an hour's rest a second journey to Wolverhampton was begun •at 1.20 p.m. At Wolverhampton there was twenty-five minutes', baiting,- and Eecleshall was readied on the. final return journey at 7.30 p.m. The pace throughout was between eight and nine miles an hour, except, on the short journey at mid-day, part of which was taken at twelve miles. The driver had no whip and drove with a slack rein, allowing the. horse to make its own pace. At the end the animal showed no signs of fatigue.

The sequel to the sheep-worryin" ease in which Fred Old, of Sentry Hill, obtained judgment, for the value. (£10) of a dog shot by Frank Sal way, of Bell Block, was 'heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when the defendant counter-claimed for £32 lis, representing the value of sheep destroyed and injured. Mr. Quilliam appeared for Salway, and Mr. Nicholson for Old. Salway's case, which was supported by his son and S. Paul, was that he saw the dog worrying sheep on bis property in the early hours of the Monday morning in question. Awaiting the animal's return, t«hcy saw him go into a paddock the same evening, and again attack the sheep. Thereupon tbev shot the do». Old's story, as supported by.his wife ami daughter, and one Robinson, was that the .dog was chained up at home the whole of Sunday night, and was released by Mrs. Old on Monday morniii" some time after the bulk of the worrying was stated to have taken place. In giving judgment on the counter-claim for" £3O 3s, with costs totalling £C, 13s the magistral (Mr. A. Crooko, S:M.)' held that Old's witnesses must have been mistaken a.s to the particular night on which the dog was chained up. Summed up, one man was paid for his do«\ and the other for his sheep, °