LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 129, 18 October 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. E. Maxwell has given notice that he will move as follows at the next meeting of I>he Hospital Board:—"That with a view to the more efficient supervision and control 'of the Board's institutions, the following reorganisation be made in the secretary's office: (1) That there be added to the secretary's duties the general supervision of the Board's institutions, including the ordering and receipt of supplies and tJlie control of the farming operations, the salary of the secretary to be £2OO per annum; (2) that in view of the extra duties thrown upon the secretary, a clerk at a salary of £l5O per annum he appointed in his otfice in lieu of the present junior clerk."

At a meeting of the committee of the Taranaki Agricultural Society this week, a letter was received from the New Zealand Jersey Breeders' Association suggesting that the committee allow a young Jersey breeder to accompany the ofl'icial judge of the Jersey stock with the idea of the latter imparting instruction in tihe judging of stock. The Breeders' Association is of opinion that 'the judging competitions wihich are frequently held at shows are not as efficient as direct instruction by the judges. The committee decided to write for further details. The following schedule committee was appointed to draw up the schedule for the forthcoming autumn show: —Messrs. Elliot and Watson (horses), J. S. Connett, E. Griffiths, S. J. Smith and G. Colson (cattle), 11. 11. •Street, G. Mitchell, nnd A. W. Wood (sheep), and A. T. Moore and J. 11. Bagley (dogs). The various sections of the committee will confer and drew up a draft schedule of their respective sections, and these will then be gone through by the committee as a whole before being submitted to the general committee for final approval. A committee was set up to canvass the country and town with the object of securing special prizes for the show.

ALL ARE UNITED In saying that for all stomach troubles there is no remedy like Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tablets. Price, le 0d and 2a 3d per tin. Obtainable everywhere.

It ii atatod that a company has been floated in Hasting* for the purpose of manufacturing margarine at the Hawko's Bay Meit Company'* work*.

It is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation next session regulating the use oil public highways not only of motor-care, but of all vehicles propelled by motive power. In the meantime, the revision of regulations under the existing Acts is being considered.

A poll was taken in Clu'istchurch yesterday on the question -of forming part of the Wa'imairi County (known as Lower Riccarton) in which is situated the Addington saleyards, into a borough. The proposal was agreed to, 345 votes being cast in favour of the proposal and 142 against.

All those willing to assist in making arrangements for the suitable entertainment of the Canadian Cadets during their visit to New Plymouth are requested to meet at the Town Hall on Tuesday next, 22nd inst., at 7.30 p.m. Those willing to billet any of the Cadets or to provide monetary assistance are requested to. leave their names at the Borough Offices before the meeting. The exports during the quarter ended September last totalled £3,007,728 compared with £2,719,024 in the corresponding quarter of 1911. The imports last quarter were £4,908,412, for the September quarter last year £5,791,007. The gold exported during last quarter was 80,102 ounces, valued at £310,599, compared with 125,531 ounces, valued at £500,358 in the September quarter 1911. Judging by remarks and events at Monday night's Town Board meeting, shipping rat »s must have gone lip (says the Opunake Times). The freight payable on the usual carbide shipment had gone up nearly 50 per cent, on the usual charge. A member stated that he had imported some goods from England, wlikJh cost £l2 for freight and insurance. The same goods cost tl7 in freight from Wellington to Opunake.

Particulars are advertised of the reception meetngs to Commissioner Richards which are to be held locally by the Salvation Army. To-morrow night a public meeting, presided over 'by the Mayor, will be held in the Army Hall, and Sunday's programme includes Salvation meetings in the Good Templar Hall at 3 and 7 p.m. On Monday the Commissioner will deliver a lecture on the Salvation Army work among the native races, in the Good Templar Hall.

Last night the Rev. Lewis 'became a little reminiscent. He told the story of his first introduction to Scott by reading Ivanlioe. His father, who was a minister in Scarborough, found him reading Ivanlioe and gave him a severe reprimand for doing such a wicked thing as to read novels, and that night at family worship, he prayed for his son's forgiveness. Next day Mr. Lewis placed IvanHoe open on his father's desk, and later came in to find Ihis father poring over it. There :wcre no more reprimands of His son Mr. Lewis next Sunday made a quotation from the work in (his sermon, and henceforth Scott's works took a foremost place in t'he family reading. A funny act was performed during the land ballot at Dargaville the other day. One anxious applicant, who was in for several sections, was a spectator through the -window, when the Board determined to eliminate his name from the list of applicants for one of the sections, on the ground that he was in for too mudh. This roused the ire of the man at the window, wiho commenced a raking fiTe (it the Board: "That's not a square deal, gentlemen; that's Massev's rotten Government!" The police were just about to restore silence, when the patient officers of the Board, working impartially as a machine, and proceeding with the ballot for the next section, called out "No. 20." By a strange ironv of fate, this was the man reviling at the window. Ilis cursing was turned to blessing in the twinkling of an eye, and he

was roused like a flash from the window to the tahle to pay the necessary deposit.

There has been a great influx of apparently unowned cycles to the shed at the Chrigteliuich police station, seven having come in on Thursday (says the Press), making a total of more than 20 •for three days. Three of the latest to arrive are ladies' machines. Tho authorities say that people are becoming more casual than usual, and do not bother now ■to report their cycles as stolen or to eall afterwards at the station to identify them. The ways of some cyclists seem weirdly and wonderfully careless, dno tnan with very great luck has had his cyole borrowed or stolen and recovered 110 fewer than three times within a fortnight. In another case a man brought ia a cycle he had found, and identified tha other machine as his own. Soon after there arrived a third man with a "found" machine, and identified as his property the one just left. Two maohines in the shed show the methods of ths mereiles# thief who takes; a new oyclo and destroys it completely, keeping nothing perhaps except tha tyres and ohain.

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday Bertram C. Emery was charged with having ridden his bicycle in Devon street without a bell. The defendant pleaded guilty, but stated that when he rode the bicycle he had no idea that the bell was missing. Ho called evidence to show that two days previous to the date of the offence a bell was attached to the bike. The defendant explained that he had hired out the bike, which had been returned the night before the offence "without the bell. Under the circumstances the Magistrate merely convicted the defendant without the imposition of a fine. A charge of having allowed the chimney on the premises occupied'by him to be on ftre was preferred against Richard John Cock. He was fined os, with costs 7s. Inspector Tippins prosecuted in each case. The Inspector of Machinery proceeded against Thomas N. Blaekhall for having sold a 15-h.p. boiler to Fisher Bros., of Tataraimaka, without giving notice of the sale to the Department, and of the name and occupation of the buyer as required by tha Act. The defendant, who did not put in an appearance, was fined 5s and costs 7s. For having failed to clear the gorse from his land to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Noxious Weeds, Arthur de Champs Beauchamp, of Waitara, was fined 10s and costs 10s. Since the service of the summons the gorse had, explained the defendant, been cleared off the land. PILES RAPIDLY CURED.

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NINE WEEKS IN HOSPITAL. "I suffered with dysentery for over sis years. I was in the Camden Hospital for nine weeks and came out worse than when admitted," says Mrs. James Ellis, Oakdale, The Oaks, via Camden, N.S.W. "I consulted different doctors and wa9 for nine months in bed in my own home. Then I began to take Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, and. after a few bottles were taken I was completely cured and have not had a return of the dysentery for the last five weeks." Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.