LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 114, 30 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advice lias been received by the Taranaki County Council that the Joan of £OBS for the Carrington-Frankley cross road lias been finally approved. Parents interested in the movement initiated by Mrs. Godley to provide challenge eups for senior cadet shooting competitions are invited by the Mayoress i(Mrs. G. \\. Browne) to attend a meeting in the Town IJall on Wednesday. I A middle-aged man, v.lio 'hronirhout the afternoon displayed 'iirnlencies, was arrested bv .(iii; c -'k ; on B'turday for .<]nink.2ii:iess, and was brought to reason by means of two nights' accommodation in tJ.-- poliro cells, prior to being brought ix'" ore iluv Court this morning. The agreement entered into between the Borough Council and the New Plymouth General Laborers' Union in relation to the general laborers and drivers in the employ of the Borough has been witnessed by the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. T. J]arle Giles, and will come up before the Arbitration Court on Thursday for ratification as an industrial agreement, having the full force and effect of an award.

■ A Napier gentleman, writing from Dublin, says: "It is cheaper to live in Dublin than London, which is the moat expensive place on earth to live in. Living over here is much dearer than in New Zealand. T expect that will surprise you, but it is quite wrong to think that one can live cheaper here. Certainly clothes, etc., are cheaper, but foodstuffs are all dearer and the cheapness of clothes does not in any way compensate for the high prices of groceries, etc." So far very little interest apears to be taken in the f-ji tlien.ning (.<-•» r.ly eieetion to be held on T\V v n<xt. There are contests in t.vo riM-ys, viz.. Waitara and Mangorei. For the" Rimer two members are required, »n.| thre ;,re three candidate?. Mr. •!. IT :i, one of the silting members i? am in <cr.iiti sting the seat, and has a nolKraUon in this issue. Messrs. J. Andrews and LongßtafT are the other candidates, and fis Mr. 0. Tate is not seeking re-el "e----tion there is cerlnin to be at iea ( .•

new member For that riding. For th< recently constituted Mangorei riding there ig also a contest. Messrs. A. Morton and Benoni AA hite bein<r the caiididates.

One of the last things the late. General Booth did was to separate New Zealand from the Australian command and appoint a Commissioner to New Zealand. New Plymouth people will shortly have the pleasure of hearing Commissioner Richards, and the officers responsible for the different branches of the Army work. Lieutenant-Colonel F'sher, Brigadier Bray (Social Secretary). Brigad'iet Vince, D.C., and Captain Suitor will accompany the Commissioner. The Good Templars' Hall has been engaged for these meetings. On the Monday night the Commissioner is to speak "on the work of the Salvation Army amongst the natives of South Africa, his last command.

Mr. Frank Munsoy, the well-known American author and publisher, has purchased one of the York dailies, the Press, in order to provide Mr. Roosevelt with an organ in the capital of his own State.

Dairying is fast becoming, if it has not already become, the .largest and most important part of British farming. The average yield of the best herd of Danish cows is given as 3301b of butter per annum. "You are a clever man, no doubt," said a lawyer to a police constable giving evidence in a '"kegging" case at the Invercargill Police Court the other morning. ''Thanks," retorted the burly blue enforcer of the Licensing Act, "and I'd say the same about you only that I am on my oath." A cablegram from London to the Sydney Sun states that the trials to which the super-Dreadnought cruiser Princess Royal has just been subjected prove her to be the speediest battle cruiser in the world. During her trial run the new ship excelled the speed of the Lion by a knot £n hour. The greatest battleship in the world, H.M.S. Audacious, has just been launched at Birkenhead.. One projectile which will be fired from her larger guns will be heavier than the whole broadside fired by Nelson's Victory. The centenary celebrations in Russia of the battle of Borodino has brought into prominence an interesting character in the person of the only man alive who ■lias talked to Napoleon. The man is a farmer, and is 120 years old. He was captured by the French when the Grand Army entered Poland on its way to Russia, and Napoleon made him lead the army through Poland. The little Corsican rode continually beside him as ke guided the army, but the prisoner was ultimately able to escape. The battle of Borodino was fought on September 6, 1812.

A southern newspaper proprietor, who .has just returned from a trip round the world, told a' Star reporter that the newspapers in New Zealand contain a better symposium of the world's ne.ws than do the English dailies. The halfpenny papers at Home, he said, supplied only a small amount of foreign intelligence, and the New Zealand newspapers gave their readers a far better idea of affairs throughout the world. The reason seemed to be that the English news sheets endeavored to specialise in one subject every day, the consequence being that so much space was occupied with that feature that other news was crowded out.

A Palmerston North correspondent of the Lyttelton Times states that a singular case was' decided at the Magistrate's .Court there. A motorist at night time fan down a' valuable eatle dog and killed it. The owner of the dog claimed £l2 as compensation, which the motorist refused to pay, though offering £2. After hearing the plaintiff's ease, counsel for the motorist asked for and obtained a nonsuit on the ground that the motorist was on his proper side of the road, that he had lights, and that it had not been proved that he w : as driving excessively fast, but that, on the other hand, the dog was 011 his wrong side of the road and carried no lights!

"The best land I saw in America and Canada," says Mr. Frederick Cooper, who has returned to Wellington from a trip to the United States of Canada, "is not, in my opinion, equal to the pick of the country in Canterbury and Marlborough. At nnv rate. T prefer .New Zealand soil." Mr. Cooper was much struck with the systematic way in which the Americans carry out the beautifying of their towns and cities. Almost everywhere he went he saw street after street with trees on either side, and the eflVct- was most pleasing. In Chicago he and his sisters went for a motor drive, and: for 52 miles they never left the boulevards and parks. The action of dairy farmers and others in paying exceptionally high prices for land is evidently not approved 'by Mr. Justice Edwards. A witness in the Supreme Court at Napier the other day was endeavoring to explain that certain land increased in value to nearly £(iO per ..acre on account of the erection of a Creamery in close proximity. "Well, well," interposed his Honor, "with all the creameries in the world there, there must surely come an end to people paying these absolutely ridiculous prices for land." "But they still do it, sir," put in counsel, a remark which called forth the rejoinder from the Bench, "Oh, very .well; but it will not be surprising to see some of thera in the Bankruptcy Court before long."

The moa bones found at Clevedon have been examined by Mr. T. Cheeseman, curator of the Auckland Museum, and pronotinc. J to b ■ li;e remains of at least four species ut this remarkable bird, which lias been extinct for two or three centuries. The birds apparently varied in height from fift to 3ft. An attempt will be made to put together a skeleton for the Museum., The remains were accidentally discovered on the farm of Mr. Smith, who was draining a swampy piece of ground, and dug pp some bones. lie mentioned the, find to Mr. li. S. Munro, who made further explorations, and came on a large heap of bones and thousands of "gizzard stones," small pebbles which the birds used to assist digestion,, just as the barndoor fowl uses grit. The fiifd is interesting from the fact that it is the most important fact that has been made in the Auckland district.

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