LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 103, 17 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Sunday a cyclist was run over by a motor car on the Main South road, two wheels of the car passing over the bicycle, which was crushed like an egg-shell, but the rider, through some special act of Providence, escaped scatheless,, and calmly shouldered the mangled remains of his machine and sauntered on his journey. Tihe Borough Council is unable to comply with the request of the Fire Brigades' Association to Jay a temporary main to the Recreation Ground. This is brought about by the shortage of water pipes, none being available in the Dominion. In all probability the proposed fire brigades' demonstration will, in consequence, be held on Woolcombe Terrace.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report the sales of the following Marlborough station properties at satisfactory prices:— Meadowbank, 19,000 acres freehold, 7000 sheep, on account of Mrs. E. Bell, to Mr. E. C. J. Grigg, Canterbury; Gladstone Estate, 11,040 ares freehold, 9800 acres lease, 5000 sheep, S. M. Neville to C. Bdl, Christchurch; Tyntesfield, 10,000 acres freehold. 0000 sheep, R. F. Goulter to Grigg Bros.. Canterbury. The New Zealand products report leaflet shows that during the month of August the exports from New Plymouth were as follows:—Cheese, 125 cwts, valued at £344.. From Waitara 3401 cwt of frozen beef, valued at £4845, 4603 .carcases of frozen mutton, valued at £3902; 41 legs and pieces of mutton, valued at £O7; 91 carcases of lamb, valued at £55; 537 skins valued at £3O; 3 tons of tallow, valued at £111; and 2078 lbs of wool, valued at £B7. Applicants for land in the Whatitokarau Block should be careful to refrain from entering into any arrangements for partnerships or other disposal of sections, in the event of being successful at the ballot. The Land Act provides that no person who at the. time of his Application has made any such agreement shall become a lessee, and there; is a very heavy penalty imposed for a breach of the Act in this respect. If a. partnership is intended it must be provided for in a joint application. '

; '-Mew Zealand must be ji very wicked place, so many missioners come here to convert us," so said an irreverent yQung. man the other day. We cei'tainly do not agree with liirn as to the wickedness of New Zealand, and the missioners 'who do visit this country are invariably well worth hearing. Judging from the reports in the Australian papers, the Rev J. E. Watts-Dik'hfield, who will speak to inert only in St. Mary's Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow, is certainly well worth hearing., The Rev. gentleman will also preach at the 7 o'clock service held in the church dn the same evening. Speaking at the celebration of the completion of the Kelson railway to Glen 1 hope, Mr H. Atmore, M.P. for Nelson, advocated, the extension of the line to Mui'chison, in the Upper Buller Valley. He had been informed that there were 1200. dairy cows in the Murchison district,and these would soon be trebled. In his opinion Murchison would be the Palmerston North of the South Island. Mr Doney, speaking as a young settler of the Murchison district, said the development of the district depended on railway extension, and he was confident that the line would pay handsomely if put through.

The duty imposed upon the Department of Ijibor by the Licensing Amendment Act, 1!)10, of registering barmaids was completed during the year .which ended in March last. A total of 1002 registrations was effected, and each person concerned was supplied with a certificate. Every care was taken that the applicants had complied with the .provisions of the Act, the statutory declarations being verified by -officers of the Department. The Secretary for Labor states, in his annual report', that a few cases of hardship came under notice, viz., where registration was necessarily refused on account of the applications not having been received by June 1, 1011, the date specified in the* Act, also where by reason of illness or temporary absence a number of applicants who'were bona fide barmaids had not served the required three months in hotel bars in New Zealand during the preceding year as required by the Act. A very remarkable incident occurred the very last day on which Calcutta could claim to be '/he Imperial Capital of India. The Legislative Council closed its sittings, and the Vicerov departed for the north. Just before Lord Hardinge left, a violent thunderstorm broke over the city, and the British flag flying over Government Ilousy was "torn to shreds by lightning." No power on ejjrfrh will prevent that extraordinary incident from making a far deeper impression upon the people of Tndia than any Imperial announcement. The inherent pessimism of the Hindu race sees omens in evervthing. When the King landed at Bombay the Royal Standard stuck in a ball half-way up the llag-stall' and would not break, out. The same thing occurred at great review, ind Indians shook iheir head. Wh.M the s.s. Delhi struck the rocks near Tangier on the morning of fin Durlnr there was a profound sensation in the bazaars, and wiseacres recalled the old proverb. ''No dynasty .sits long on the .Peacoek Throne.'' But really, the flag incident was dramatic enough to interest far le.is superstitious people.

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Miiis Edmondstone has been appointed Plunket Xurse for Wanganui. The Christchurch {jity C'oncil last night, on tin; motion of the Mayor, agreed to the following motion: "That this Council urges upon the (Government the importance of bringing down a Town-planning Dill this session, if possible."

A new law i.s about to come into operation in Austria (says a cable to the Sydney Sun) under which all Government officials above a certain rank are to receive a salary of 200 crowns a year if they have one child, 400 if they have two children, and 000 if they have three or more. Lesser officials are to be paid half these amounts.

Russia is to celebrate this year the centenary of the campaign of 1812. It has been discovered, as the result of special investigations (says an exchange), that 25 soldiers who participated in that campaign are still living, the oldest being 120 and the youngest 117. Places of honor at the celebrations are to be assigned to these remarkable veterans.

_ Included in the recent list of applications for patents in New Zealand is one from three residents of Pahiatua, for an aeroplane "round-about." The machine, which has already been patented in the United States, is intended for amusepurposes, to carry passengers a certain distance in the air without any of the attendant risks of the ordinary flying machine.

The usual weekly session of the Juvenile Temple (No. 25) was held in the Good Templar Hall last evening. The session was opened by Assistant Superintendent Sis. R. A. Reid. The prizes won in the "item contest," held last week, were presented to the winners by Sis. Mrs. J. C. Legg (treasurer). The programme for the evening was set down as "Somebody's Birthday." Items were given by Sisters Swinton, Waldock and Bro. Buttimore. Subsequently the "Birthday" was celebrated by the juveniles with a cup of tea and light refreshments, supplied by the superintendent.

"Denmark," said Mr J. B. Merrett at an amalgamated, meeting of poultry-men at Wellington on. Monday evening, "clips £2,000,000 annually from the English market by sending eggs to London. This amount equals our export of butter from New Zealand, and yet Denmark is not much bigger than Canterbury. For every inhabitant there are 438 head of poultry while in New Zealand there are only three. The Danes are a shrewd business people, and they would not keep poultry if they did not pay. With our excellent climate," said the speaker, "and our easily grown foods, New Zealand..ojight to be doing more out of its poultry industry than the dairy .business. ' The world's markets are open to us, and we should exploit them."

At the Hawera Magistrate's Court yesterday. before Mr, W. G. K. Kenrick, S.M., several cases of breaches of the Defence Act were dealt with. Two Territorials and three, senior cadets were fined amounts ranging from 10s to £3, with (iosts, in default seven days' imprisonment. Four senior cadets who had refused to drill after a certain hour in order to make up time of parades missed, and who said that some man had told them not to, were also before the Court. The Bench advised them to take no notice of what outsiders told them to do or not to do, but to do their duty cheerfully, and adjourned the cases, with ttie understanding that if by December 2 they had been attending parades regularly and doing their work well a conviction only would be recorded. For failing to notify his commanding officer of his removal from the district, a Territ'pria! was convicted, but without a fine.

The weekly meeting; of the Good Templar Lodge was held in the Lodge room at, 7.30 last night. The programme fot the evening was "Kindred societies' evening, in charge of Bro. G. 11. Maunder. The programme as drawn up was a new departure as regards the usual procedure on such occasions. Representatives of the various societies based on temperance principles were induced to chme along and put forth their respective claims, with -a view to securing a better understanding of each other's workings. The platform was occupied in turn by the following:--Tiro. F.,Goodaere (on liehalf of the Reehabites); Sis. Mrs. Douglas (representing the W.C.T.U.); Brothers 1:1. Cocker, 0. II: Maunder and Mr. W. A. C'ollis (on behalf of the No-, license League), Bro. F. 15. Pepperill (on behalf of the Lodge) and Bro. G. W. Ilartnell. After supper, the Rev. Roseveare spoke in support of the No-license League. ' . The new battle cruirser New Zealand, building at the yard of the Fairfield Shipping Company, Govan, on the Clyde, is well advanced towards completion (wrote the Sydney Daily Telegraph's London naval correspondent on July 26). The heavy guns and her secondary armaments were recently received from Messrs Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., JiSswick, and the former have already been mounted in position in their barbettes. The heavy guns include eight 12in. weapons, so arranged as to he practically able to fire ahead and astern. The New Zealand is fitted witli two tripod masts, although originally intended to carry only one. The conning tower is larger' than is usual in cruisers of her size, and very heavily armored. It is understood that she will be ready for her acceptance trials about October next under ordinary circumstances. The lines of the New Zealand are very fine, and she does 'not present the squat appearance of some of her sister cruisers.

To the credit of the S.t Pancras School - for Mothers, an institution, we believe (savs the Christchureh Press), for training girls : n the care of infants, belongs the credit of inventing a new competition—one for good babies. Nine mothers competed, and when we say that each baby was washed, dressed, fed, and "put down" in a cot for an hour, all

parents among our readers will admit that tl\e test was a severe one. The method of training mothers at this 'School of Mothers is not described, but it must be a good one, for not a baby howled oi" shed a tear when being washed; each passed through the dressing and feeding stages with credit, and not one of them lost a mark for crying or whimpering when lying down. As a variant on the ordinary baby .show, a competition for good babies seems worthy of the sittention of promoters of parish fetes and similar entertainments providing a popular combination of amusement and instruction.

| On Sunday morning, just a few minutes after midnight (says tho Hawera ■Star). Mr. I!. Burke, the liightwa tollman, and a friend were walking up High street in the neighborhood of the Empire Hotel. when thev heard the sound of breaking gla Xo footstep* worn hoard, and on making further investigation it was ascertained that the plate-glass window of tho Golden Crid fish shop had been broken, also the larger window of Mr. Boase's shop next door. Mr. Ur--1 jell's window was replaced only last, Monday, it having been broken in a similar manner about a month ago. The value of the window is about £ls, and that in Mr. Boase's shop would probably cost £2O. The laet of no footsteps being heard sifter the impact goes to show that the pieces of concrete—the missiles used —must have been thrown from the corner of Regent street. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police, and as suspicion rests on some individuals, there is a project that the p'-rpelratoi's of this dast.-udlv act will be brought to justicp.