LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 147, 8 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On account of the boisterous nature of the weather, the staff of Messrs Ambury Bros, were unable to take their annual outing to the mountain yesterday. A wireless telegram states that the s.s. Moana will arrive at Wellington this morning at 3 a.m. The 'Frisco mail will therefore probably arrive here tonight. Owing to the boisterous weather the formal opening; of the New Plymouth Bowling Club's season did not eventuate yesterday, nor did that of the Park Tennis Club.

The following additional subsidies have been paid to the credit of the Taranaki County Council:—-Moa Road District #45 8s 3d, Okato £2B 10s lOd, Tataraimaka £ll ll s lid, Waitara West £125, Werekino £lB Os sd.

Following on the gazetting of the resolution of the Borough Council adding the Hurworth Ward to the St. Aubyn-Mo-turoa ward, nominations are now being received for candidates for the position of councillor for the new ward.

The Postal Department is putting on a motor car to work a postal delivery from Hawera to the Waimate Plains. The rural delivery system is one of the greatest boons the country settlers enjoy. That between Inglewood and Matau has proved _a great success. Before long it is anticipated the scheme will be general throughout Taranaki.

The lance exercises in preparation for the Central School Carnival are being zealously practised by the boys under Captain Rogers, late of the 12th Lancers. On several occasions the lads have turned up for an hour's drill before breakfast, so keen are they to make this item a complete success, it is to be hoped that the weather on November 21 will be favourable, as the coming display will be worthy of the Rev. Mr. Bates' best effort.

Advice was received by the Mayor yesterday from Wanganui'that arrangements which could not now ibe altered, had been made for receiving the Canadian Cadets on their arrival in Wanganui by the express at noon on Monday. This crossed a telegram from Mr. G. W. Browne to the Mayor of Wanganui, stating that as the notice would be so short it had been considered advisable not to make any alteration in the arrangements. The Cadets will accordingly leave New Plymouth first thing on Monday morning.

Reporting to the Patea Fnrbor Board on Monday evening, Captain Tinrev, the Harbormaster, described (he mishap to the Hawera, He said that the steamer picked iip the channel without any difficulty and was coming in splendidly, keeping the beacons in line, but when within 150 feet of the walls she appeared to take the ground by the heel and her bow paid oft' to the "eastward, and before there was a chance of -picking her ■up she struck on the loose blocks at the end of the eastern wall, where she remained for about 20 minutes, and eventually was got astern and beached. All that the pilot could attribute the accident to was either to the boat sounding very dee]) or to a sand-bank having been washed up by the heavy sea. According to the Patea County Press report of the meeting, the discussion which followed was opened by the chairman, Mr. A. Christensen, who made the startling statement that much of the damage sustained by the vessel was due to the Board not having completed the breakwater on the point on which the boat struck and stuck for twenty minutes. The chairman was then taken to task ■by Messrs. Williams and Barton, who questioned the wisdom of making candid admissions when in a public position. Asked by the chairman whether the boat would he got off the beach, the Pilot said he had not the slightest doubt about it. Ho had seen boats in much worse positions rc-floatcd. There was still a good deal of cargo in the vessel consisting mainly of roofing iron and kerosene. Under date November 5 the Hon. 0. Samuel has written the following letter to Capt. J. Black, secretary of the local branch of the R.N.Z. Veterans' Association:—"The Government has finally refused to consent to any amendments, and the House of Representatives having passed the Military Pensions Bill unaltered, it has come up to the Council to-day. I need add nothing to the rough copy of my "Hansard" report, which I enclose. The Council, having no powers of the purse, cannot alter the Bill in favour of the veterans, so there is nothing for it but to pass it unaltered. Once more 'I am bitterly disappointed.'" The following is a copy of the Hansard report of Hon. 0. Samuel: "I can only say that I am bitterly disappointed this Bill. It has been in print before another branch of the Legislature c or a very long time, and it has been made the subject of representations by unmoors of this Council and of the other Hojse. Up to the last day or two I hoped that those representations would have some effect. The only thing to be said hi favour of the Bill is that it is better than the Act it is to replace. But it is an illiberal pleasure. It is doing no justice lo tte men whom it purports to benefit, and I am satisfied that the men win are supposed to be benefited will bitterly resent its provisions. I will not say more. I know we cannot alter the Bill; pnd therefore this is the last word I have to say on the subject—that, after weeks of striving, in common with other members of the Legislature, to get the services which these men have rendered generously recognised, I am bitterly disappointed with the result."

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Entries for the 'Hawera Show close to morrow (Saturday).

The annual meeting of the North Taranaki Hunt Club will be held in Messrs Webster and MeKellar's office at seven o'clock to-morrow night, and at eHit the members will hold their annual dinner.

Oae of the most prominent of the free workers who signed on at the Waihi Company s mine on the first day of resumption was a 6ft Maori, who is known as the white hope." He is a most combative individual, fears no man, and has challenged all and s.ndry to "have a go. The police have had many anxious moments in watching their'dusky charge. He hails from Paeroa way, and is said to be an ex-college boy. Business men from New York are it is reported, to establish in Red Bank, New Jersey, the first butterfly farm in the world. They will raise butterflies of all varieties, specialising in specimens of brilliant coloring and highly decorative appearance. The product of the farm is to be sold to society women who thus will be enabled to satisfy their whim for having butterflies flying about their conservatories and parlors. A book likely to create a sensation when published is that containing the reminiscences of the late King Milan (says a London paper). It was thought that they would never sec the light of day, having been placed in the Servian State archives; but it is said that a Servian politician has copied them and sold the manuscript to a well-known-firm of i»ib!isliers.

VVncn an up-country sale of Maori land was being completed the other day prominent in the vicinity were motorcar agents, who, as soon "as the logical moment (for them) hid arrived took charge of the Maori vendors and drove them away. Tlie translation of Maori land into cash -and cash into motor ears, is a thriving business. In the columns of the Hawke's Bay Tribune Mr. G. P. Donnelly lately wrote:-«Pay° ing natives large amounts of money only means that it will be squandered in a few months, as they have no idea of the value of money, with the exception of a few who are making very good settlers, both m dairying and sheep farming. JNgata has been carrying on sheep and cattle farming with his tribe with very great success, and he deserves every credit for the trouble he has taken"

Writes « valued correspondent:—Regarding the drop of £71,000 in dairy produce as mentioned by vou recently/there is one other factor overlooked in your remarks, and it is one that is likely to be a serious matter to the co-operative dairyman by-and-byo, namely, aggregation of sections. Quite a number of sections in the Moa district during the past couple of years have changed hands by one neighbor buying the other out. In some cases sheep replaced the cows; in others, only a lessened number of cows were milked, and rearing of young stock gone in for. It must be readily seen that the result of these issues will mean a diminution of the butter and cheese turned out. A man living i n a ( i a i rv community on a 100-acre or 200-acr'e lilock and who does not supply milk is not doing his duty to that community, yet lie would ask for the increased value given his property by the community's action in erecting a butter or chees« factory.

It pleasing to record that the •'Geisha" was a financial as well as an operatic success. The total receipts were approximately £220—£55 in excess of the takings of any previous production staged by the Society. As the expenses total only about £l4O, the Society has realised a handsome profit. At the conclusion of last night's performance the enthusiastic audience accorded -Mr. A. M. Bradbury an ovation out of compliment to his gratuitous services in painting the scenery. The stage-manager (Mr. 11. Hill Johnson) publicly thanked Mr. Bradbury, Mrs. Free (who assisted in the management and trained "Molly Seamore"), the business manager (Miv If. ('. Collier), the treasurer (Mr. Bayly), the secretary (Mr. Bert McEwen), and Mr. Remind, as musical director. The Societv is also indebted to Mr. 11. Brooks, who assisted generally with the scenery effects—his knowledge and experience being invaluable—and Mr. J. Riddles, who, assisted by Mr. Goodacre, arranged the scenery and built the "Geisha" tea-house and other scenerv.

Tlti' land-owner and those generally who have for some years now been wolfing everything that should have gone to the producer—all these may be allowed to look after themselves (remarks the Waimate Witness, in commenting upon the views of the "Taranaki Daily Xews" regarding the inflated land values in the province). The indisputable fact is that these people have been the real beneficiaries, the real garners of the harvest of high prices. But so it has always been. The people on the far outer edge of the industrial circle are those who profit by the big prices that weigh like mill-stones round the neck of the producer. The wish that some day prices for land in Taranaki may bear a closer relation to value is one that -will receive fervent and general approval. And yet when that day comes—when the usual happening has come along to knock the bottom out of the land boom—the opportunity of the producer may have passed, but, as usual, he will remain to shoulder the burden and clear up the wreckage. The Australian aborigine has, like the American Indian, vanished wherever the white man has settled, and now is only to be found in a wild state in those remote parts of West Australia and the Northern Territory that have not yet been opened up. Mr. F. Connor, M.L.C., who owns a cattle station of 7,000,000 acres in the far north-west of Australia, and who frankly confesses that he has no great love for the blacks, because they frequently spear his cattle, told an interviewer at Sydney (says the Auckland Herald's correspondent) that there was a lot of foolish sentiment and too much coddling of the blackfellow. He was doomed to extinction, no matterwhat they did. "Civilise him, and he dies out," Mr. Connor went on. "Sometimes a young black who has been working on a station will run away and join a wild tribe, and put them up to all sorts of mischief. They're the worst. You may try to save them, but it's no use. Obedient to some mysterious law, they vanish wherever a white man treads. Nearly all the blacks on the eastern side of Australia are gone. and. as I have said, they will in a couple of decades all bo gone on the western side, too."