LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A proposal is, it is understood, on foot f<pr reconstructing tiro local municipal brass baud in view of the fact that the new scheme of defence does not .embrace the payment of subsidies to garrison bands. The whole matter will be discussed at the annual meeting of the band, which is not very far distant.
It is understood that proceedings are to be taken against seven local Territorials, who failed to attend certain compulsory parades at New Plymouth. The section of the Act governing this offence provides for a maximum penalty of £5. Proceedings have apparently yet to be taken agaiu.st those who did not put in an appearance at cither camp. An unusual arrest was effected by the New Plymouth police yesterday morning. With a jaunty step and an air of supreme indifference, which has been ascribed to the "Jackdaw of Itheims," a wcka invaded the bedroom of one of the guardians of the law at the police station, and announced by dumb show that it had come to stay. For it the lawhad no terrors, and, after having ingratiated itself into favor, .it was bailed out by a citizen, who proposes to add the bird to his little domestic circle. The following were the rateable valuations of the Taranaki County on March' 31 last:—Moa .Hiding £087,868, Waitara £409,228, Omata £142,072, Okato £352,317, Hunvood £113,571; making a total of £2,035,056. These, figures show a increase in the Moa riding of £74,240, Waitara. a decrease of £10,016, Omata a decrease of £IBOO, Okato an increas-e of £76,041, and 11 urwood a decrease of £158,805; all of which have been brought about by the merging of portions of the several ridings "into the borough of New Plymouth."
The third meeting of the New Plymouth Brotherhood Literary and Debating Society will be held this evening in the lower hall of the Good Templar building at 7.30 p.m. Impromptu speeches are set down for the evening, and this subject, regarded by all debating societies as the most popular, should be peculiarly interesting to the future orators, and most 'entertaining to the hearers. The challenge received from the Egmont Club, Stratford, for a debate with their society, to be held at New Plymouth, will be considered at the meeting. Almost unanimous rejection was the fate of a Taumarunui remit to the Municipal Conference. The proposal was that the Municipal Corporations Act should be altered so that no person would be eligible for election to the council other than those having a ratepayer's qualification. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. D. McLaren) remarked that he" had been returned to the Wellington City Council when he was not a ratepayer." Mr. E. Fletcher, Wellington, said that toe <could not conceive of anyone 'bringing the remit forward. It was the one blot on (lie | order paper. '"We should put .this to the vote, and wipe it out," Ire concluded. A meeting of the Aceliiuvsition Society was held last night, wiei the curator of the hatcheries, Mr Seal, reported that he had received 200 000 ova. The brown trout.ova were now pretty well all hatched out, while ihu va'.nbo.v ova I were beginning to hatch out. The :^tnda
paper of the annual conference ■of ae-. climatisatiou societies, to '■<; h.'hl :it Wellington on the 14th inst., was received, and disclosed ihit in-rr .'.as nothing of very great impo.'Vuce io be considered. Mr. J. E. VVi'sni vu!l be unable to represent tlie .-odriy. wl ich. in view of the unimporUnt m.iuve of the business, will not trouble about having special representation at the conference: With all the ova that is at present on hand, the local hatcheries at Frankley road would well repay a visit. Visitors are always welcomed i y the society. :
Spendthrift Maoris were 'briefly considered at the Farmers' Union Confe.renco on Wednesday. Mr. Ewan Campbell said lie had lived in a Maori country, and knew what the people were. He instanced Maoris who had received
thousands of pounds for their land., only to squander it all in a few months. They frittered away their money derived from lands. Ultimately, unless the Publie Trustee had the proceeds of the land handed over to 'him for investment in their interests, the Maoris would become paupers, and would have to be supported by the whites, and by, whites who would not get any benefit from the sale of the lands. . Natives wasted their money on finery and motor-cars. Major Lusk remarked that tins only salvation for the Maori was hard work. It was a very serious thing to place large sums of money into his hands at ono time.
Junior cadet officers in and round about New Plymouth are up in arms against the suggested demilitarising >of the junior cadets, and the uncomplimentary references made as to their capabilities by General Godley. A particularly sore point with the officers, who are all school teachers, is that General GodJ.ey consi-stently refuses to allow them to Bit for examinations in order that they may qualify for duty with the senior cadets and Territorials, especially the former, Some of the cadet 'officera have been endeavoring for two years past to sit for examination, the date for which has been appointed twice, only to be cancelled at the eleventh hour by General Godley. The senior cadets "are in need of officers, and it is contended that it would make for better discipline and general conduct of the boys if their late school teachers (junior cadet officers) were allowed to qualify for vacant commissions.
Of the three remits sent forward to tin' Municipal Conference by the New Plymouth Borough Council ' two were carried, and. the third, which was moved in the name of the Gisborne Borough Council rejected. The resolutions adopted werc:--(l) That Section 10 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1910, which gives power for the taking of a poll upon a proposal to add any area to a borough be amended to provide that if the result of a poll is in favor of the proposal the Governor (in cases of divided boroughs) may, in the notice adding such area to the borough, also state in which ward or wards such area is to be included, or whether such area shall constitute a new ward or wards. (2) That Section 119 of the Publie Works Act, 1908, under which local authorities benefiting by the construction of a bridge, etc., may be compelled to contribute thereto, be amended to also provide that the local authorities concerned in lieu of taking the steps prescribed by the said section may, by agreement, arrange the proportion of the cost to be borne by each local authority. The rejected motion proposed an increase in hotel license fees.
Beneath the surface of the earth the temper,!tare increases about one degree for ever)- 00ft down.
A liotorua sportsman shot a iarge shag in the vicinity of Mokoia. Island. Upon ■being ojicmrd up the dead bird was found to contain a. trout (!'/., inches in lengthexcellent evidence of the havoc wrought by shags among the. fish.
According to tlio Hon. V. M. B. Fish-onr, tiro Government has at present under consideration a proposal 'to make provision for those who are unable to .earn their livelihood owing to being incapacitated by accident o,r deformity. The enforced visit to Auckland last week, owing to shortage of coal, of the tramp steamer Klvaston. turned out to be rather fortunate for the port, since over .£IOOO is being spent by the vessel's agents during her -stay there.
A candid professional confession was made by Dr. Truby King when he said during a recent address: "Many people die and we do not know what they die from. What did people die of 20 years ago? Something else. There are all kinds of tilings we don't know. We protest that we know hut we. do not. We know something, but not all.
At a meeting of the Kailway Officers' Institute in Dunedin yesterday, it was decided to urge on the Minister of Railways the necessity of ameiid/ing the Act and regulations to enable appeals to be properly placed before the Appeal Board, a,ml that the prescribed form referred to in section- 1201 of the Government Hailways Act l>e provided, giving full particulars of the procedure to be followed by the appellant.
A pathetic marriage ceremony took place in Budapest hospital on June 10. A German singer named Ardos, who was'appearing professionally in the Hungarian capital, was suddenly taken ill with heart weakness a few days before. He telegraphed to his sweetheart in Frankfort to come to him. The girl started at once, and arrived in Budapest. They were married immediately in the hospital ward, and Ardos died'an hour after the ceremony.
At the meeting of the .North Island council of the Clydesdale Society at Pabnerston North yesterday, as the result of a ballot, Messrs. Alexander McNocol, Wilfred Johnston, R. J. Bagg, a nd Alexander Hunter retire from the council, but are eligible for re-election. Messrs. It. D. P. McLean and A. Hunter were nominated for vice-presidents, and Mr. A. E. Harding for president. A argo number of entries from North Island breeders were scrutinised by the editing committee and council.
Captain Atwood, who was master of the ill-fated steamer Elingamite when she was wrecked on the Three Kings on November 9, 1002, and who was exonerated owing to the discovery of inaccurate charting, is petitioning Parliament for monetary compensation for the great injury suffered hv Mm. The Elmgaraite Rehearing Court of Inquiry last year, said petitioner, "absolved me absolutely from blame on all charges, and decided that the misleading information issued by the Marine Department, unconsciously of course, had rendered it impossible for me to safely steer my ship in the vicinity of the island.''
In Queensland recently a man who said he was a trainer was charged with being a disorderly person, living without sufficient moans of support. The police sergeant who effected the arrest stated that he found in the loom of an hotel occupied by the accused an elaborate array of "■ambling apparatus. TheTe were 28 dice—nine of them with the numbers faked, and eight loaded. In tho same box were a double-headed penny and another copper hearing two tails. Two wooden kips for playing twonp were also unearthed, and one was found to have been ingeniously doctored, a. cell having been cunningly mad-e in the end of one so tha.t'a penny could be inserted, ensuring its turning up all right. There were also dice boxes so constructed that a player who understood them could make the cubes show high or low figures, and two packs of playing cards, in which the spot .cards from two to eight were, slightly narrower, than tho others. The accused informed the Court that he had bought the gambling implements in Sydney, but had not used them for over two years. The double-headed and double-tailed pennies, he explained, were merely kept as curioities, while lie did tricks with the dice. On the application of his solicitor, a remand was granted for seven days. Giuseppe Salomone, brigand, poet and playwright, was sentenced at Aquila (Italy) to 30 years' imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of £O, for the murder of the mayor of his native village. He was acquitted of the charge of murdering two other persons on the ground that there were extenuating oireumstaueos. Salomone's life is like a romance from the Middle Ages. Years ago he was a hard-working shoemaker, and was engaged to the beMe of his village. The Mayor wa« his rival, and charged him with Murder, producing four witnesses who .«wore to hitj guilt. Salomone escaped to the mountains and became a brigand. He was captured in 1803 and sentenced to 18 years' penal servitude, but this conduct in prison was so good that he was reelased after 10 years. His first act was to kWI the mayor, who in the meantime had married his sweetheart, and the false witnesses. Then he resumed his profession of brigandage. During the trial .Salomone defended himself, declaring that lie was an advocate of justice and mercy. He treated the Court freely to his own poetry, and quoted at length from Dante. He read many letters from peasants whom he had befriended, wishing his good fortune, and he declared .that his only enemies in the
world were the officers of the law. While lie was in prison awaiting trial he wrote an autobiography, entitled, "The Last of the Brigands," a play about himself, and a volume of poetry. MELBOURNE'S REDUCTION SALE NOW ON. 'Semi-annually this famous reduction sale attracts its hundreds of patrons under the compelling influence of its mighty bargains - bargains that for genuineness) have no parallel in the history of Taranaki merchandising. This sale must not be confounded with or mistaken for a "sale," such as drapers hold at this period of the year to get rid of goods that will be worthless when the new season's goods arrive in a week or so. This sale is a genuine reduction of prices all round o;i men's and boys' clothing, mercery, hats and boots—-every-day wanted lim-s. \ear in and year out, and as of much use six months' hence as they are now. There is not a single article in the sale that can br. said to be out of seaaoM at any period of the "year. In these respects, therefore, the present sale offers saving opportunities seldom extended to floe average shopper. The sale catalogue has been circulated throughout the Taranaki newspapers, lint if you have not seen it call or-write ami we will gladly furnish you with a copy. Sale at all four Taranaki stores: New Plymouth, Tnglewood. Stratford and Kith am.
WHOLE FAMILY STRICKEN DOWN. "Influenza had my husband, self and children all stricken down,'" says Mrs. Minnie Titter, near W.inganui. N.Z. "Wo had tried several so-called cures, but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was the means of putting us right again. T would never think of being without a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house uow in case of emergency." Sold by all chemiatß ami storekeeper)!.
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