LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 99, 12 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. Au-i rulian mails will arrive here totniirruii' afternoon from Wellington. Cases involving Verious alleged breaches of 'tin' Licensing Act will be heard at the .Magistrate'* Court, Inglewood, todav.

Tlie annual meeting of shareholders of the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company was held yesterday. The balance-sheet showed a profit of £8237 on the year's working. This a.mount was carried forward, uo dividend being declared.

A statement that operations at the Moturoa ironsand works have been permanently discontinued is entirely untrue. Work has been temporarily stopped to effect minor repairs to the" furnace, and active operations are to be resumed immediately. Preparations are well in hand for the. Fit/.roy Fire Brigade bazaar, which opens in the Fitzroy Hall this afternoon. An attractive array of stalls have been: erected, and attractions without number provided. In view of the elaborate arrangements made, everything points to success.

About seventy applications were received by the Pilnira Co-operative Dairy Company for the advertised positions of cheese managers. The following appointments were made: General manager, Mr. J. Callaghan; manager, Skeet road, "Mr. K. F. Duckworth; manager, Waitekia; Mr. W. H. Milns—Times.

On the motion of Mr. Roy (Roy and Nicholson), Mr. Justice Cooper (has granted probate of the following wills to the respective executors named therein:—Robert McMillan (New Plymouth), on August 30; Robert Cross (Wcstown, New Plymouth)., and Mrs. Elizabeth Bayly (Waitara). on September 4.

At the theory examinations held in connection with the Trinity College of Music, London, in June last, the following pupils from the Convent were successful:—lntermediate honors, Sylvia Hodgson, So marks; junior honors. Kathleen Council, 81 marks: preparatory honors, Eileen Hooper 08 marks, Margucrita. Whittle, 81 marks.

Mr. (!. E. Butler's picture, "The Shining Pathway/' which was exhibited in this year's Royal Academy, lias been purchased by a lady for £275. Mr. Butler is a Wellington artist settled in Bristol. England, and the son of Mr. Butler, of the Lambton Quay Picture Gallery. He is a regular exhibitor now at the' Royal Academy and the Paris Salon.

Last year orders from South America for New Zealand apples could not be filled. It is believed that if space be available, the apples can be supplied this year. Messrs Moritzon, jJmiedin. have written to the Minister of Agriculture pointing out that there should be Hiill'icient. fruit available for shipment U) South America this season.

An unusual organisation has lately been started in America so that women mechanics may receive an efficient trainnig. Although the scheme has only been proposed for a short time if is reported that over fifty applications have been received from women anxious to become practical bricklayers, plumber*, masons and builder-;. The school will provide for a hundred and fifty students, bul whether the stall' will be composed of the fair or the stern sex is not yet evident.

A Continental cafe on modern lines is to be established in Auckland next summer. A southern business man lately visited America, and while there he was lnniresscd with 'the necessity for better reslaiiranN in Xcw Zealand', and especially in Auckland. He has decided to provide Auckland with an up-to-dafe summer cafe, ami negotiations which have been proceeding for some davspasl, have concluded in buildings b.fny secured for the purple. The establishment of the cafe will accordingly be commenced almost immediately, and U will be open at the commencement of the Himtaer.

It is stated by a technical journal that the full-sized up-to-date, motor busses, now running in London, can be run at a cost of sixpence per mile. A few years ago this figure would have been laughed at, even by those who favored motor buses. Aviators in Russia will Jiave to be very careful in future where they pilot their machines, when out for an aerial spin. Under the new espionage law any airman is considered a spy who is. seen (lying within *ixtecn miles of a fortress, and is liable to two to four years' imprisonment. ,

At a meeting of delegates of local bodies and school committees, held at Masterton yesterday, a resolution was carried supporting the recommendation of the Education Commission in favor of disestablishing district high schools, and establishing agricultural high schools in their stead, and advocating the establishment of an agricultural high school in that district.

Practical jokes sometimes have nyvkward results. In the Wanganui Magistrate's Court a defendant was sued for £5 for expenses incurred through having taken away plaintiff's child. Counsel explained that defendant, probably for a joke,, had picked up the child from its father's doorstep, and driven it into the country, afterwards leaving it asleep in the trap. The father had to hire a motor car, and get other assistance to find and recover his child. After hearing the plaintiff's evidence the Magistrate gave judgment for the amount claimed and costs.

To-day M. Millerand, Minister of War, is the idol of the barracks, says a Paris correspondent. He has restored the old bugle calls. His very proclamation has a military ring, and is in itself a bugle call: "The reestablishment of the calls which mark the chief moments in the life of a regiment cannot fail to have a happy effect on the spirit of the soldier by restoring to the barracks, a gaiety and animation desirable from every point: of view. There foie T decree the reestablishment in all regiments provided with bugles of the following calls: —The Reveille, the Pinner Call, the Muster. and the Curfew." No one. continues the correspondent, knows why these calls were suppressed, end their restoration will iidd much to the gaity and color of the little garrison towns, whose pleasures and interests are so closely bound up with the life of the soldiers in their midst.