LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 142, 2 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"I would not mind putting in a fortnight in gaol for my rates, as far as that goes."—Remark by a Clifton County Councillor during a discussion on the question of payment of native rates.

In a report of a territorial case, heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, it was stated that the record of one of the defendants, William Bransgrove, "was very bad." This had reference only to his attendance at drill.

The will of Eliza Tilley, late of Inglewood, has been proved before his Honor Judge Edwards, who, on the application of Mr. Hughes, has granted probate to Mrs. Henrietta Jane F.ranklyn, the executrix named 'n the will.

Some 5000 dozen eggs were handled by the Taranaki Egg Circle during October. The Circle has now 4000 dozen pickled eggs in stock. It is understood that it is considering the advisability of sending a trial shipment of eggs to the Home market.

During October Customs revenue to the amount of £4968 -as lid and beer duty totalling £B2 10s were received at the port of New Plymouth. For the corresponding period last year £3489 10s Od was reecived in Customs duties and £77 9s in beer duty.

The pheasants*at the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society's hatcheries have commenced to nest and already the caretaker has about 50 eggs. These will be placed in the care of ordinary hens for hatching. It is expected that with good luck the Society will be able to rear at least a couple of hundred birds during the summer.

The vital statistics for the month of October are as follow, the figures for the corresponding month of last year being placed in parentheses:—Births 43 (30), deaths 13 J9), marriages 10 (9). Out of the 13 deaths four persons were over the age of 80 years, one was 79, and another 75. The number of births registered (43) constituted a record, being one over the previous record. The small bird nuisance cropped up at the Clifton County Council meeting yesterday, when Cr. Sander referred to the damage done in the Tarata district by small birds, and suggested that some poisoned wheat should be obtained for ratepayers who required it. Other Councillors also spoke in a similar strain, mentioning that quail and pheasants also did a good deal of damage, but no action was taken.

The Canadian cadets will arrive by the mail train on Saturday next, and will leave New Plymouth by Monday morning's express. Endeavors are being made for the boys to stop over New Plymouth on the Monday, but no reply has yet been received. The tour has been fixed by the Canadian Commissioner at Auckland, with whom the town clerk (Mr. F. T. Bellringer) is in communication.

The major portion of the cargo remaining in the Hawera was removed when a preliminary examination of the hull was made. As a- result it was found that the,injuries, though, extensive, are not as serious as at first reported. There is a large hole amidships, but being a wooden vessel, the repairing of this presents no real difficulty. The -back of the. vessel is intact and the experts say that no difficulty should be experienced in re-floating her ns soon as the damages arc repaired. This work is now being carried out on (he spot and should be completed in about a month's time. A preliminary enquiry into the cause of the accident was held before the Collector of Customs, Mr. J. C. Patrick, when evidence was taken and forwarded to the Minister of Marine who will decide, whether a Magisterial enquiry will be held into the matter.—Patea Press.

The services in the Whitelev Memorial Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. J. W. Burton. The morning subject will be, "Life by Rule, or by Instinct?" and in the evening Mr. Burton will discuss the question, "Does Death

The customs revenue of the port of Patea for October, 1912, was £1543 lis 0d; in October, 1911, tile revenue was £470 7s 7d. The Garrison Band will render a number of selections in Devon street this evening, commencing at the Melbourne Clothing Company's corner at 7 p.m., if the weather permits.

The Federation of Labor has -raised and flung the beet part of £22,015 away in "fighting for solidarity" at Waihi and Reef ton. There are several mines in New Zealand which-are not capitalised to that extent. Organised on rational lines these workers could have had a mine of their own.—Wellington Time*. A party of New Plymouth people left yesterday on a trip to the Mokou. They will return on Monday. The run by trap or motor to the Mokau is one of themost interesting in, the Dominion, as is the voyage up the river. As the attractions of the trip are better known it will become one of the most popular tourist trips in the Dominion. Replying to a question in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the Prime Minister said the Government intended to revise and re-organise the Immigration Department. At present it was under the Lands Department, but it was intended to place the department under a responsible head. The regulations would be revised and the department would be put on a business footing. The present scarcity of potatoes is likely to continue until the new crops are dug. Should the weather keep fine, the tubers will no doubt ripen quickly, but if rain continues the crops will be put back considerably and the market consequently further affected. One of the main causes/ of the scarcity is the enormous quantity being exported to Australia, especially from the South Island. It is ' understood that the (instruction given by the Hon. T. Mackenzie, when a member of the Ward Government, to members of the Department of Agriculture not to give information to the press regarding Departmental matters has been withdrawn, and in it's place an instruction has been issued allowing officials of' the Department to give to the press information that would, in the ordinary course, be given to fanners or commercial establishments, but not to give any information possessing any political significance. In reply to a question by Mr. Pearce. as to when the Department will be able to supply metal from the Egmont stone quarries, so that the local bodies in Taranaki who urgently -require it may be supplied, the Hon. Mr. Eraser (Minister of Public Works) stated that-every effort is being made to complete arrangements for quarrying during the ensuing summer. The line is now being pushed forward to a vast deposit of stone on a spur some distance from the crushing site and in an Opposite direction to the quarries it was originally intended to work. The rehearsals of "The Geisha" are proceeding apace and the opera promises to be easily the brightest and most scintillating performance that our amateurs have yet put on. The play is one of the quaintest and prettiest of modern light operas, and judging from a privileged view of the most recent rehearsal the cast has been especially happily selected. The company is now practically perfect in its work, but this is not preventing furthur vigorous practice. The box plan for the season will open at Collier's this morning, and as country applications are already heavy townsfolk should lose no time in booking their seats. f] 'lt is the first J-ime for many years that this portion of the road has been left without a grant," said Cr. O'Sulliran at the Clifton County Council yes.terday. This was in reference to the Mimi-Mokau road, for which the Council had applied for a grant of £I2OO to enable an additional mile of metalling to be done this side of Mount Messenger. It was most important, he contended, that a grant should be given, particularly in view of the daily mail service, which was to be run next year. The Council resolved to urge the matter on the Government again, and Cr. Kennington, when in Wellington on Monday, will interview the Minister of Public Works on the subject. Addressing boys attending the Marton school farm, Mr. J. G. Wilson (president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union) said he remembered the time when the people of Bulls, Rangitikei, used to bring their butter to the stores and sell it for fourpence per pound, and invariably had to take stores back in exchange. There was little money in circulation amongst them, and they were obliged very often to go back in the bush and gather honey for sugar. This state of affairs had all been altered as the result of scientific research and investigation. Though butter and cheese-making was probably understood in New Zealand as much as in any part of the world, it was amazing how little the average dairy farmer thought for himself. He knew how to do certain things, but he did not know why, and yet if the farmer were to read and think more and work on more scientific lines he could assist in increasing New Zealand's output of dairy produce by over a million per annum. The Clifton County Council find it necessary to renew various bridges throughout the county, and in order to do so must raise a loan from the Advances to Local Bodies Department. The Department has agreed to advance a loan of £3995 for the purpose, but makes the proviso that it will be necessary to give the name and amount allocated to each bridge. This, however, the Council considers a very objectionable proviso, as it is almost impossible to exactly estimate the cost of each particular bridge, and the effect of the proviso would practically . mean a separate loan for each bridge, and if one cost less to build than the estimate and the others took more, it would not be possible to utilise the credit in the one case to counteract the debit in the other. It was pointed out that a neighboring county had considerable difficulty over the same question. The Council had suggested that the loan should be allocated to ridings, not to particular bridges, as it was impossible to correctly estimate the price at which the contract would be let, say, a year hence. Moreover, it might happen that the money would be allocated to some bridge and be required for some totally unexpected bridge. The Council ultimately resolved that Cr. Konnington should interview the heads of the Department when in Wellington next week with a view to getting the required alteration in the provisions of the loan. 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State afforestation is now being vigoi ously carried out in Central Otago, and during the past two years over a million and a-quartcr timber trees were used in the plantations in the vicinity of Xaseby. It may be interesting to mention that the number exceeds the total operated with during the preceding twelve years.

"In Vienna. I had the unique experience of a coachman protesting that I had paid him too much," said Mr. L. T. Richel, who has just returned from Europe and' America, narrated to a Wellington reporter. What the traveller took to be the usual voluble dissatisfaction with the money tendered was in reality tho driver's conscientious objection to taking two crowns, when only one was legal payment. In the course of an address in Eketahuna on Saturday last, Mr. Taylor, Government Veterinarian, in expounding the theory that milk fever in cows was contagious, stated that he knew of an instance where the disease had been carried from one farm to another by flood water. Cows affected with the disease had been depasturing on a flat which was flooded by a river, and a short time afterwards animals on a farm miles down the stream contracted the complaint which had not previously been known in that locality.

University life would never reach its full possibilities, declared Bishop Crossley in an address to Auckland students the other evening, until it was removed from the bustling inllueuces of the cities to environments conducive to quieter and more thorough research. There was in the cities, he said. Mich a marked tendency towards seeking out short cuts, and these were of no avail in the search for true knowledge. Reiteration was quite unavoidable in such matters, for it was only bv repetition that knowledge could be made one's own. "There is no summer or winter at Honolulu—we have tlie finest climate in the world," said Dr. W. T. Brigham to a Dominion reporter the other day. "When anyone in -Honolulu thinks of taking a trip, he has to stop to consider whether it is summer or winter in the place he contemplates visiting . The temperature seldom varies more than 20 degrees—from (13 to 83 degrees Fahrenheit—but still we have our cold places. There are mountains 14,000 feet feet in height covered in perpetual snow. It is a long and arduous journey to them, and the natives do not like going, not only because it is cold, but because it is where they believe that their "akuas" (gods) dwell, for underneath a veneer of civilisation they still have a healthy regard for their ancient religion and superstitions', just as many of us believe it is unlucky to have thirteen at table.",.

A pathetic message attached to a will was discovered in the 700 ft' level at Mount Lyell after the recent disaster. It was that of an Italian, Valentine Bianchi. He was an elderly man, and was found dead in the 700 ft level, near Joe McCarthy, who also left a pathetic farewell note. It .appears, the searchers say. as if. when the smoke was coming towards tlio two men, they descended into a depression, which gave them enough air to write in. Valentin* Bianehi's will is as follows: "12/1/12. Please give £l5O to Fartella Bianchi. (An address in the Tyrol follows), (Signed) Valentine Bianchi. Witness: Joe McCarthy." In the corner are these Italian words: "Carissima parenti, pregate for me: addio. addio"; which ha» been interpreted: '"Dear parents, pray for me; good-bye, good-bye." , The writing is very shaky. In the geographical section of the Naturalists' Congress at Munster recently, Dr. Richard Hellig. editor of the monthly, World Traffic, pronounced very pessimistic views as to the prospects of the Panama Canal. It could not, he declared, be stated positively that the Canal would ever be practicable to the extent anticipated. The surmounting of all the technical difficulties was not yet by any means guaranteed. Dangerous subsidences of the embankment bad continued on an enormous scale down to the most recent dale, and it was not ye£ known how this threatening phenomenon could be counteracted, Nor had the problem of a water supply for the canal been solved, At the present moment no one knew where the first filling from the great barrage lake of G a turn was to come from. In America itself voices had been raised, with the warning that too much confidence.must not be placed in the foundation of the dam, and that the possibility of its not being quite impervious must be reckoned with. For American shipping the canal would be of great value, but for that of Europe it would have but comparatively.- slight importance. Thirty million dollars' worth of American automobiles are being sold abroad this year, roughly speaking, nearly 30,000 cars (writes an American correspondent). We do not know precisely how New Zealand likes our machines, but elsewhere we are doing brilliantly, despite French and Italian competition. The United Kingdom took a little short of 5000 of our cars, and Canada over 0000. We are creating a brisk trade in India and also in Brazil, though as yet we have not a very good South American market. Our export trade in automobiles would be even larger and better pushed if our home demand were not so urgent, active and profitable. It seems strange and almost incredible, yet within ten years the automobile business in this country has pushed itself up from virtually nothing to one of the first six American industries. There are nearly 600,000 pleasure automobiles now in commission in this country, and several hundred thousand new ones are built each year. The census of 1010 gave the value of the cars made in 1909 as 249,202,000 dollars, an increase of 4900 per cent, over what was ten years before. No one knows officially how high those figures have climbed to-day, probably over twice as much.

SECOND INSTALMENT SALE OF LONDON "JOBS."

The Melbourne's second job sale, now on, is crowded with magnificent bargains, entirely transcending the first job sale of a few weeks ago. Our managing director has succeeded on his second attempt in securing an aggregation of goods at such reduced prices as to almost defy imagination. Anyway, the goods are here, the sale prices fixed, and it only remains now for every man and woman in the district to come and take advantage of the great economies offered. Seeing is believing. Is is only necessary to visit any one of our four stores, at Stratford, New Plymouth. Inglewood or Elthani, to be convinced that the values are as represented. If you cannot pay us a personal visit, write (including cash) for any of the sale items, and if the goods do not meet with your entire approval return them and we will cheerfully refund your money. Here are a few trade-disturbing prices: Check glass cloth, linen. 14 inches wide, 3d yard; "Ivy" black mending wool, 5d ball; men's white handkerchiefs, 6 for Is; ladies' pure linen hemstitched handkerchiefs, 3 for Is; women's rough serge) costume skirts, 3s lid; Vinolia shhaving soap, 8d stick; ladies' white embroidered flprons, Is 6d; men's merino singlets, Is (id; men's brown cotton pants, Is lid; fine lace curtains, 2s lid; damask serviettes, 22 inches square, 8d each; and a host of equally alluring bargains,-~Advt-..