LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 74, 14 August 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The mail via Naples, which left the dominion on July ti, arrived in London on July 11.

The Waverley Bowling Club has approved of the "open-door" policy for tiie Taranaki bowling tournament. Stockings embroidered with life-sizv figures of mice are the latest craze in New York. They cost 24s a pair. A cane of "Hickory, dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock!" Several of the holders of West ( o;,-* Settlement 1802 leases have lately received notices from the Public Triwtee, asking them to appoint valuers prolirniiiarv to making an assessment of their interests and arranging a renewal of the le.—,es.

'Six hours a da}', four quid a week, and three sweethearts." This is how Commissioner Hay, of the Salvation Army, summarises the aspirations of the rising generation of Australian work" men. Tllo3' must, he said, combat such ideas.

It is almost incredible how some settlers will be content to stick in the mud for ever. Those in I'aparoa, on the Ivaipara Harbor, have been there for 50 years and they have no metalled roads yet. Last November, they rejected a proposal to raise £4OOO for the purpose.

The Egmont Box Co. shows a surplus of £2578 on its operations last year. A dividend of 6 per cent, has been declared, £IOOO placed'to a reserve account, and the balance carried forward. The expenditure for the year totalled no less than £20,455, and the receipts £29,033.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning one first offending inebriate appeared on remand, charged with helpless drunkenness on the railway station on August C. The accused,, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and discharged and ordered to pay 17s 6d, representing the cost of curative treatment. Default was fixed at 14 days imprisonment.

The season has arrived when the butter buyers are tumbling over one another in • th'eir eager desire to secure the factory outputs. There were seven buyers on the Wellington-New Plymouth train on Saturday. The present indications are that very few factories will sell direct this season; they will nearly all consign.—Eltham Argus. Yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court, over which Mr A. Crooke S. M., presided, was unusually brief for a civil day. There were no defended cases, and the proceedings lasted only a few minutes. Judgment for the plaintiff by default was given in the cases of John Roberts v. Wm. Thomson (Inglewood), claim for £6 2s and costs Bs, ami Taranaki County Council v. Mrs L. Patterson, costs only, 10s.

I A New Plymouth dressmaker recently had occasion .to leave h>r premises for about a quarter of an hour. She did not lock the door, and on her return she 'discovered that a .skirt, on the making of which she was engaged, and which she 1 had hung up. behind a-door, had <lisi appeared. Some kindly disposed person j had in the interim taken the garment j to replenish her wardrobe. It is now stated that forty members of Parliament have pledged themselves to support Mr. Hunter's Bill for extending the days of racing to over 250 a year. Prom this it appears that there are quite a number of politicians anxious to precipitate a movement for doing away with the totalizator altogether. If Air. Hunter's Bill goes through. AntiTotalisator Leagues will spring up from one end of the Dominion to the oilier.

The Hon. O. Samuel has written to file Ta ran alii Comity Council to the ell'eet that he is cordially in favor of the. construction of the Moturoa-Te 'Hoti railway line, as soon as practicable, lie hi;; placed himself in communication witli Mr. 11. Okey, M.P., with a view to joint action, when deemed -expedient. \A- no doubt (he council is aware," conjuiies Mr Samuel, ''the .represent:!:iv \s IVr Taranaki in the House of Representatives are not of one mind on this subject., and—and this is .still more serious—there seems a likelihood that borrowing,.both by Dominion and by local bodies mev hiife to., be reduced, if not practicailv to cease, for the near future." The New Plymouth Borough Council has decided to join with the County Council in urging the immediate construction of the line.

Tim auxiliary b.arquentiue Kimrod. which was used bv Sir Erm-si Shackleton for his Antarctic expedition of 1!M)8-H)0!) when lie achieved ihe of '"farthest south," is about to make a voyage to the Kara Sea on account, of the -Marconi Wireless Teh-graph Company. The vessel will take. the necessary material for the erection of wireless .stations in Xorthern Russia ami Siberia. For this purpose she is now. in dock, being overhauled and equip;.cd for the voyage. She is at present owned by Captain R. V. Webster, who last year organised and commanded a commercial expedition to the Venesio river, which vras eminently successful, and from which she returned to the Thames. Since her arrival in the Thames last September the Nirnrod has lain off Greenhithe.

lesterday's meeting of shareholders of the New Plymouth Gas CM. ww the largest which has yet been h.'d. Those present included fully a do/.'a ladies. This was brought about by the feeling displayed in the election of the retiring directors, and there was a certain small irregularity in collection with the rota of retiring directors. This affected the chairman (Mr. K. Dockril!) and- also other directors, it 1 on this being pointed out on the pre\i<>us da\ it was found necessary to obtain ]eo-,->l advice on the matter. -\t meeting the solicitor (Mr. r ' • ' ■,) advised that certain seats fac'o Vacant, and showed till «•<■> : •-••« Jo !>.. pursued by the sharcliold. / < iial restdled in the temporal".- . ,'r - -m! of Mr. Dockrill from the ch,;. T -\ a:- ; i pointment ef -Mr. Furlon" i, t |,: s 5i,..,,!. A fairly lively meetiii:.; ' ;>| which it was necessary at tin,'". - : he- eh:;ii--man to rule certain v -,i(, of order. The election iv. ! in due course, and the old dir-cl e- wi re returned, after a very scW . - t l poll.

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Another of the series of euchre parties was held in the Bell Block Hall last night and was well attended. The euchre prizes were annexed by Miss I. Conne.tt (jewel caaket) and Mr. il. Hoby (sovereign ease). For the enjoyable dance which followed Air. W. Hoskin was Ai.C., while excellent music was provided by Miss Giddy, Miss Rumlle assisting with extras.

It used to be said of Blackham, the celebrated wicket-keeper, that he became expert at taking the ball by lying on the bank of a river and catching the swallows as they dashed by, A porter at the' Carterton station '(according to the News) should shine in tliis respect, as he successfully stalked and caught a couple of sparrows, one in each hand, at the railway station the other morning. The sparrows were busy pecking grain from some sacks of wheat.

The chairman of the Lepperton Dairy Co., at the annual meeting last night, sounded a warning note in regard to the practice of using preservatives in milk. Personally, he did not think any of the Lepperton suppliers used preservatives, but at the buyers' gathering at Inglewood on Tuesday one of the buyers remarked that he would not take any butter if preservatives had been used in the milk, as he would not be able to sell it on the Frisco market.

Quite a noteworthy event occurred at a Dunedin implement manufacturer's premises a few days ago, when a plough numbered 20,000 was sent out. It is somewhere about forty years since the firm commenced the manufacture of farm implements, and in those four decades "20,000 ploughs have been turned out, besides drills, harrows, seed-sowers, cultivators and other implements. Surely this is a convincing proof of the marvellous development of agriculture in the Dominion. The men on the land have not been idle during' those forty years, and the plough has been much in evidence in the conquest of the wilderness and the reclaiming of waste areas.

The attention that has recently been drawn in the pulpit and the press to clairvoyants, fortune-tellers and others who practise upon the credulity of the public for pecuniary gain, was the subject of a conversation between an Auckland reporter and a prominent police official. "We know that such people arc practising their profession here in Auckland," the officer said, "to the number of perhaps a hundred, from the old hag who croons over cards to the crystalgazer and the pseudo-scientific person." But, he pointed out, what could the police do when the magistrate regarded the policeman as an accomplice of the person against whom lie was trying to secure evidence, when a judge of the Supreme 'Court, on being appealed to, asked if the Auckland police had nothing better to do than to harass a lot of old women? The officer said that he knew of some cases at least where trouble had been brought into homes through the influence of these fortune-tellers. They were mostly patronised by young girls, perplexed bv the eternal problem: "He loves me, he loves me not," or by foolish women concerned about the fidelity of their husbands. Then it was that the talk of the fair man or the dark woman or some other interfering person -was taken to heart, and domestic strife was caused.