LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 68, 7 August 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a heavy fall of snow on tho liltham road on .Saturday night. The llenlesvillc Dairy Co. paid out Is l%d for butter-fat last year. The Manutahi Co. paid out Is 2%d. The Chief Postmaster notifies that the mails despatched for the United Kingdom on June '2B arrived in London on the 3rd hist, Among the local votes on the Estimate}; appear a sum of .€2OO for the .Stratford Post Office, ;uid an addition of £lO per annum to the salary of the gaoler at New Plymouth. A plasterer had an unenviable experience in I law-era yesterday. Whilst engaged in his work he came in contact with a live wire. The weigiht.of hi.s body enab'led Hum to break contact and lie sank on to the scaffolding on which he was working. He escaped with <a severe shock. The fire-kill rang at about 5.30 o'clock last night. The cause of the alarm was a slight outburst of flame at Mr. R. C, Hughes' office in Brougham street, caused through escaping gas coming into contact with the flame of a candle. The outbreak was extinguished prior to the arrival of tho brigade. The president of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association has sent the following message to the Hon. Jas. Allen: "I desire, on behalf of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand, to congratulate and thank-,you on your progressive decision in connection with the delivery of the Financial Statement to newspapers. It will relieve congestion on the wires for ordinary news to come through in time. Mutilations, especially of statistical matter, are unavoidable when telegraphed, and these will be absent. Your action will enable the papers of the Dominion to distribute the statement in reasonable time to their readers.—P. .Selig, president."

John Gilmour James, an able-bodied wharf-laborer, who is a single man paying 10s a week board, and who alleged that he sometimes earned only from 0s to 30s a week, was proceeded against in the Magistrate's Court yesterday by the Public Trustee (on behalf of the executors of W. Hatldcoe);. diseased) on a judgment summons for £l2 Ss (id, representing twenty-nine weeks' rent at 7s per week. Defendant, who stated that lie. kept no account, of what lie earned, was ordered to pay the amount forthwith, or in default undergo twelve days' imprisonment, the order to be suspended so long as he pays 20s a mouth, first payment to be made next Saturday. 'Mr. A. IT. Johnstone appeared for the judgment creditor.

"Have you ever asked for work?" enquired a solicitor of a defendant in a judgment summons ease at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, who said that although a single man he could not, in effect, help letting his rent get 29 weeks in arrears. "No!" was the response. "I. am not one of those sort to ask. If they don't give me a job, I go home." Defendant went on to allege that his-earnings were sometimes less than 20s a week, to which the solicitor rejoined: ■■How much of that have you spent-in beer?" "I could not say,"' replied the debtor. "A considerable quantity, if I am right in saving so," remarked counsel. In reply'to this, the defendant admitted that "he might have occasional drinks.

The following new books have been added to the Municipal Library:— "Mauven's Fairing." .T'liie Barlow; "The Prodigal' Pro Tern," Fredk. O. Bartlett; "As the Sparks Fly Upward," Cyrus T. Brady;"* "Fran," 'John IS. Ellis; ""Victor Ollnee's Discipline'." Hamlin Garland; "Riders of the Purple Page," Lane Grey; "Tweed." Henry S. Harrison; "Rewards and Fairies," Rttdyard Kipling; "Further Adventures of Quincey Adams Sawyer." Charles F. Pidgin; "Heart's Contending," George tSehock; "Ports and Happy Havens." Ethel Turner; "The Knight Errant," Robt. A.. Wilson: "The Winning of Barbara Worth," Harold B. Wright; ■"Dangerous Dorothy," Curtis Yqrke; "The P.ridc's Breviary." Anonymous; "A Girl of the Simberlost," Gene S. Porter. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., gave judgment for the plaintiff by default in the following undefended cases: —Taranaki County Council v. .1. J. Hills, £ll 3s sd. costs £1 10s (id; same v. John Wilks, £0 17s Od, costs £1 3s 6d; same v. Ben. Draper. £3 Os Bd, costs 10s; A.B.C. Co. v. F. ■IT. Boardman, £1 13s 3d, costs £1 0s; HI. 11. Ford v. A. Wills. £1 10s. costs ss; Hallenstein Bros. v. R = H. Earlv, £1 2s 4ld, costs ss; P. Berge v. W. Thompson, £l2. costs £1 10s 6d; F. G. Scrivener v. W. Lowe, £2 4s, costs 10s. In a judgment summons case, the defendant, H. Eva, who made no appearance, .was ordered to pay the sum of £25 14s 2d to P. Willis forthwith, or in default undergo one month's imprisonment, the order to be suspended so long as the amount is paid by instalments of £1 every four weks.

Finality was reached in protracted litigation at the 'Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M.. when Wm. iSnell, of Dannevirke, sued George Omary Hill, of Koru, for £35 15s, claim for rent of a whare at os per week. Mr. A. R. Standish appeared for the plaintiff, while the defendants were represented bv Mr. A. 11. Johnstone. The claim has already been the basis of several civil actions. Hill and his wife, occupied the whare, which was a sawmill at one time owned by J. Patterson. The property passed into other hands, eventually coming iijto the possession of the plaintiff, as mortgagor. Snell claimed rent from October 14, 1!)0!). till present date. The Deputy Official Assignee first claimed the rent from Hill, who was subsequently sued by Mrs. Patterson, 'but the action was discontinued. Snell then brought on the present action. Hill admitted that he would have to pay the rent, but to precisely whom he pleaded he did not know. ,Hc was being called upon to defend first one action and then another. The .Magistrate gave judgment for payment by Hill of 4s per week from February 17, IMO, but dismissed the action against his wife, with £1 Is costs against the plaintiff. The amount of the judgment is £25, and costs £5 14s od. At the instance of Mr. Johnstone, the plaintiff undertook to indemnify TTill against any claim for rent which might be made by the Deputy Official Assignee, or Mrs. Patterson.

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It is stated that a local 'body exists in L\ew Zealand i.liat has a yearly revenue of ,CI(iO, out of which is'paid £l4O to the clerk! Clmrtred with drunkenness, a first offender was yesterday remanded bv Mr. A. Orooke, S/M., for a weeks medical treatment. The i'afea. Harbor .Hoard is in need of more f.uids. and an effort is .being made to borrow a further £SOOO. It has been suggested that a Kill for «itin« the district served by the harbor be promoted. /The (iovernor has a-ecepletl tlwreaiKmitjon of Lieutemt;it-Coloncl Ma'lone, 11th Regiment, Taraiuki Rides, as trustee 01 a,. », v Plymouth rifle range reserve a! ,d ] )a .s appointed Captain Heteher. oi the same regiment, ,to act instead.

The Msniaia paper, commenting on the motor cycle fatality 011 the .Main South road, complains of the danger which travellers arc subjected to through drivers and riders neglecting to carry lights ami calls on the local authorities to enforce the l>.y-!aw.

One of the largest whales ever seen on lbe.coa-t was captured off Te Kaha last week Utales the Opoliki Herald). It was sighted 011 Tuesday afternoon, and several hoats put oil' in hopes of securing it. When struck by the harpoons it stove in two of the boats and made for' the open sea. After an exciting run the whale succumbed just as it 'became dark. It took until five o'clock the following morning, however, to get the monster ashore. It measured 55 feet in length and 12 fret in height, and' being of the right species is probaibly worth £4f)o. The Argentine correspondent of the Pastoralists' Review writes:—"Not long since a contingent of some sixty Mkhs arrived here from British India—all {licked men, big, upstanding fellows, who .should make excellent colonists in a country like this, where the color line is no obstacle. The Covcrnmenf. however, while encouraging the riff-raff of Russia, Syria and oilier out-of-the-way places, for some occult reason discountenanced any further inrmigration from British India, and the men 'now here are not likely to forget the reception accorded to them."

The w,ork of rebuilding and refitting the works recently destroyed by fire at Moturoa fur the treatment of ironsard is now almost completed. The machinery includes two engines (one of 50 h.p.), a gas producing plant, briquette manufacturing plant, a large blast furnace, and ian elcclrut furnace. Tt is hoped to make j a test of a new process for the treatJ ment of the sand'just perfected by Joeal j inventors (tor whom the plant litis .been j provided) in the course'of a week or two. i If it is sui'ce-Kfud, fli-c Para para Ore Go. I will probably purchase (lie local nights of the invention and instill further plant, j The new process, if the chums of the inventors are borne out bv practical testing, will, it i.s stated, moan as much for New_ Zealand as the invention of the refrigerator lias meant, A poignant .scene was witnessed in one of -the principal thoroughfares oftleneva on June 2. A. woman of H'. Mine. Von AVeissenlliih. who had just obtained a divorce 'because of her husband's cruelty, was returning with two girl companions from a factory where they were employed as polishers of precious stones. The husband encountered them, and demanded of liis .wife that she should either kiss I him and go back to live with him or die. J The woman calmly replied that she pre»ferred death, whereupon Weissenfluh I pulled out a revolver and fired at her I thrice at short range, and then shot him'i self in the head. It was raining hard at the time, and the two other women knelt on the muddy pavement, and tended their dying friend. The wife, who leaves a baby a month old, expired before the arrival of a doctor. The murderer was expected to recover. ;

Chases reminiscent of the bushranging days occurred at Belata, between Narrator i and Mores, in New South Wales, last week. Mounted-constable Anderson went out to find a man who is alleged to hare stolen a horse. He came upon a mounted man, whom he questioned, and then took in charge. Constable and prisoner rode side by side for a few miles, when suddenly the prisoner wheeled his horse round and made off. The trooper gave chase, but the other, who was mounted on an old racehorse, gained ground. Fearing that the prisoner might escape, the constable called twice on him to stop, but the order was not heeded. The constable fired his revolver into the air, but as this had.no effect he fired again, and the bullet struek the man in the am. However, the man rode on, but when lie attempted to jump a 14ft creek he lost control of the horse, and horse and rider came down in the creek. Disengaging himself, the man clambered out and ran away. The troper dismounted, and, after a.chase of a couplo of hundred yards, caught his j man again.