LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 143, 4 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Arrangements are well in hand for the carnival which is to be held on Ihe Recreation Ground on November 21. At a meeting of the committee last week Mr. F. C. J. Bellringer was appointed director of the carnival. A capital programme is being arranged.

The Inangahua Times states that the Inangaliua Miners' Union will have soon to say, "Save us from our friends." One night recently an Inglewood worker and a member of the Union, when going up the Energetic track, was stoned by some self-appointed pickets from above, one big stone hitting his horse. If possible, arrangements will be made for a special train to leave New Plymouth next Monday night, so that the Canadian Cadets can stay in New Plymouth over Monday. Failing this, the boys will leave New Plymouth on Monday morning by the mail train, as they are due to leave Wanganui on Tuesday morning.

The Wanganui Harbor Board's engineer, Mr. Howorth, reported to the on Friday that the old bar at the entrance to the river had practically disappeared, there beii% an improved depth, due to scour, of 2ft. 6in.. where the bar formerly existed. Where three or four years ago there was between 10 and 11 feet of water, there is now 25ft. fiin. The bar is 600 feet beyond the end of the moles, where the depth is 22ft. fiin., and the Board proposes extending the moles another 1500 ft., where the depth is 30 to 40 feet. The engineer says that a vessel drawing 20 feet can now enter the port.

Captain A. C. C. Stevens (Hawera) lias forwarded tlio following lottor to Major 1?. T. Bcllringcr:—"l wish to take the earliest opportunity of thanking you for your splendid efforts on behalf of the visiting Xew Zealand contingents of Cadets. The boys throughout Taranaki have had the most hospitable, if strenuous, of receptions, and I feel sure that their visit can only result in good to themselves and to all those who were able to see what discipline, tact and enthusiasm can do with the finest of raw material, i.e., the New Zealand youth. I am extremely grateful to you for having made my work in connection with the visit of the Cadets to your town an absolute sinecure, and I think the boys, and I am sure T myself, will always retain enthusiastic memories of our visit to hospitable New Plymouth,"

A tliiek fojj suddenly descended on the roadstead aDout midday yesterday, and several motor launches experienced considerable difficulty in making port. The warnings given in the local newspapers to visitors to (liristchurch during Carnival Week lie on their guard against a gang of Australian pickpockets appear to have been well founded, for, on the course at Riecarton on Saturday, four men, alleged to belong to the lightfingered gentry and to be well-known criminals, were arrested by the detectives on a charge of having relieved a man of 270 in money. The accused were in possession of fairly large sums of money, but they did not in the aggregate amount to the sum alleged to have been stolen.

A rumour is abroad to the effect that the Public Works Department are reducing the number of men employed on the Stratford-Main Trunk line at the rate of fifty per week, and that this will continue until Christmas. A reporter who visited the Public Works official on Saturday was unable to learn anything either confirming or denying the rumour, the ofTiecr-in-charge being away on official business in Wangunui. It is, however, absolutely certain that the services of many of the men are being dispensed with, and the rumour to the number to be "sacked" is backed by fairly reliable authority, At present the number of men employed on this line is from four to five hundred.—Stratford Post.

On Friday evening MY. Tabor presided over a well attended meeting of the committee which has the forthcoming carnival in hand, and good progress was made in the arrangements. Mr. Firth, in reporting on the hidden treasures competition, said that Mr. Collis would take the photographs of the biding place free of charge. It was decided to sell for £5 the right of taking cinematograph views of the various events. Some of the events will be extremely novel, notably those being prepared by Mr. Lints and Captain Rogers. Mr. F. C. J. Bellringer was appointed general supervisor for the day, and Mr. Hoffmann was deputed to arrange for the printing of the programme and to obtain advertisements lor it. Another meeting will be held next Friday, when linal arrangements will be nude and committees set up for the various events. From the evident keenness of all concerned, the carnival promises to be a big success.

So many people nowadays worship at the shrine of '"My Lady Nicotine" that the arrival of any of her priests is a matter of immediate interest. There is at present in New Plymouth the representative of the "Regent" cigarettes, a new brand of the insidious weed which is being put upon the markets in New Zealand and a sample of his goods proves them to be quite up to the standard of his representations. Ambrose Clarke has said that "the man who does not smoke may at any time he expected to kill his wife," and whilst this is, perhaps, almost superlative hyperbole, it is certain that the soothing weed plays a bigger part in domestic life than it is usually credited with. The "Regent" cigarettes are English made, and they are manufactured from the very ibest leaf tobacco and are gold tipped. In addition to being put up in .packets and ■Hat tins they are also packed in curved tin* to fit the hip pocket. With this issue readers will receive insets relating to the free gift scheme of presents in connection with l'egent Cigarettes. A great number of our readers shared in the Derby and Golden Eagle free gift distribution for pipe smokers. Messrs. Kronheimer, Ltd.. have now given cigarette smokers an opportunity of securing cigarettes of exceptional quality made from the finest Yirgininn tobacco by the Westminster Tobacco Company, of London, and every smoker has also an opportunity of securing a beautiful free present .for himself, his wife, sisters, or friends. The placing of this' new brand of cigarettes and tobacco upon the market lias alreadv been attended with wide success throughout the Dominion.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable today (Mondav). at ilie secretary's office, Currie street, from !l a.m. to 12.30. from I p.m. to •"> p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. — Advt.