LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 9 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fifty head of young cattle were' shipped North by the Rarawa last night. According to the monthly report of the pilot at Patea, the depth on the bar there is lift at high water springs and 7ft Gin at neap tides. The width is IGOft. The inauguration of a daily coach service between AYaitara and Awakino, as from the beginning of the New Year, w hailed with delight by the settlers along the coast. North of Urenui the district is being rapidly opened up and the institution of a daily mail will come as a great boon to the increasing number of settlers along the route. The Territorials and the Fit-x.roy Corps and Junior Cadets paraded at the Drill Shed last night, and marched to the Recreation Grounds where Major Bellringer put them through a few ceremonial movements in connection with the visit of the Canadian Cadets to-morrow. The Central School Cadets are also parading ou Sunday afternoon. After the successful marble had been drawn in the ballot for No. 1 group at th(- Equitable Building Society, a member of the legal fraternity stated that only the day previous the holder had mentioned to him that she was thinking of disposing of her shares. His advice to her was to hold on. -'Good advice" remarked the Chairman, adding, amidst laughter, "I suppose vou will now chaw (Is 8d for it.""

The services in the Whiteley Memorial Church to-morrow will he .conducted by the Rev. J, AY. Burton. The' .morning subject will be "The Practice t>( the Presence of Clod." and in the evening '•The Simplicity of the Religion of -Testis Christ."

"Though many are now going in for the manufacture of cheese, I think those who are keeping to butter will come out on top in the long run," declared a speaker at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Central Co-operative Dairy Company on Saturday. In order to prevent an exposure of his thefts, a fourteen-year-old boy at Annaberg, Germany, locked a schoolmate, ten years of age, in a refrigerating room, from which he was liberated in a dying condition after twelve days' ulceration. Some of the free workers at Waihi are on the verge of nervous breakdown, owing to the continued annoyance by women, who appear to have a free hand in creating disorder, and as a result of such leniency appear to be getting bolder as time goes on. So far, tfcs;« nave been no tales of desperate scrambles for seats in the extra Main Trunk express, or complaints in the papers from disappointed passengers who had to reserve the sleepingberths in the hat racks. Traffic from either end of the line has been very mild. The ladies of the Queen street Church Guild are introducing several special lines at their Annual Bazaar and Sale of Work in the Good Templar Hall on Thursday. The refreshment stall is making Christmas cakes a speciality, and the ladies ol the Fitzroy and Omata Churches will have special stalls.

Seafaring men on the Firth of Forth are greatly interested in a whale, about ten feet long, which has taken up its quarters in the upper reaches. When an approaching ship sounds its siren the whole proceeds down the Firth, swims round it, and finally precedes it until its destination is reached. The Canadian Cadets will arrive in New Plymouth by the mail train tonight. They will proceed from the station to the Drill Hall, where they will be formally welcomed by His Worship the Mayor. Residents who have undertaken to billet the boys are requested to meet at the Drill Hall not later than 8.15, for the purpose of taking charge of the cadets allotted to them. The extent to which a scnooi committee is entitled under the Education Act to exercise control over the appointment of teachers will shortly be decided in the Supreme Court. The Auckland City Schools Committee has issued an originating summons to obtain a declaratory judgment upon the requirements of the Act in the matter of the consultation of school committees by the Education Board.

The following recommendations contained in the monthly report of the Borough Council Works Committee, will be of interest to residents of portion of the area recently added to the Borough: —"That the Electrical Engineer be authorised to extend the electric light lines to Franldeigh Park and Westown, as set out in his report at the estimated cost 'of £ISOO, the work to bo proceeded with at the earliest opportunity." .An interesting proposal is being submitted to the Borough Council on Monday night by the Carnegie Library Committee, which recommends: —"That a book register be kept by the Librarian, and subscribers be informed that for a payment of one penny to cover postage their names will be entered in rotation for any new book, and notification of it being available will be sent by post. 15 it is not then taken within twenty-four hours, the next in order will be advised accordingly." The punctuality and promptitude witli which -Mr. 8. W.'Shaw, Chairman at the Equitable Building .Society meeting put through the business at the annual meeting last night is worthy of emulation by many chairmen, especially of local bodies. The meeting was advertised to commence at 7.30 p.m., and commence it did to the tick. Briefly, but concisely the chairman made his remarks on the report which was adopted, directors and auditors appointed, and the annual meeting disposed of in ten minutes. Another ten minutes saw £OOO disposed of by ballot in the two groups, and the meeting c-losed_ at 10 minutes to 8, before the majority of meetings advertised at halfpast seven would have* started.

A resident of Kaponga had an exciting adventure at the Opunake beach on Labor Day. At low tide he went out on --the rocks, and underneath one of these, lie espied an octopus. The "devil fish" saw the man at the same time and immediately advanced to the attack. The man was armed with a sheath knife, but, not caring to come to close quarters, hunted round and found a long stick, to the end of which he lashed the knife. The knife was then driven home into the body of the octopus, which in the meantime had been steadily crawling up the rock after its prospective victim. Immediately it was struck the octopus shot up a tentacle", which reached within a feu - inches of the man's hand. For a considerable time the creature clung to the lance and the rock, and resisted all efforts to dislodge it. After a while the tentacles began to relax their tenacious grip, the lance was withdrawn, and a few more blows ended the struggle, the octopus being dragged ashore in triumph.—Hawera Star. A matter of interest to employers occurred in Wellington the other day. The staff of a warehouse, where storemen are employed, recently petitioned the head of the firm asking to be allowed to cease work at 4.30 p.m. instead of at 5 p.m., and offering to make the time good by taking half an hour instead of an hour for luncheon. The employer expressed himself as willing to agree to the proposal, which was about to be given effect to, when the award of the Storemen's Union was given out by the Arbitration Court. This provides for a 48 hours' week, with one hour for luncheon, and as the employer concerned did not wish to run counter to an award, he waited on the union's secretary, explained what his men wanted to do and showed him the petition. The secretary said that there had been petitions of a like character before organised by the heads. He must, he said, sec the men personally. So he visited the warehouse in question, saw the men. and was informed by them that it was their wish to cease work at 4.30 p.m., and have only half an hour for luncheon. Still the union secretary was not satisfied, and finally brought the matter before the union, which passed a resolution to the effect that the award hours were not to be altered unless all the hands concerned joined the union. "Very well," retorted the. employer, "let them join by all means and work the 48 hours specified in the award, instead of the 30 hours worked at present." And there the matter rests.—Dominion. IT IS THE RESOLVE

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Taihape is in the fortunate position of possessing the highest pressure water supply in the Dominion. The maximum pressure varies from 1701b to 1801b per square inch, which is much higher than the pressure registered in most towns. New Plymouth's pressure is from 1301b to 1501b.

The practice of renting pews, which is in vogue in many Auckland churches, was responsible for an incident, in St. Matthew's Church on Sunday, a woman demanding in a very audible voice that a visitor should give up her seat, as it was "rented by her husband, and her husband was coming to chinch to-day. l After some very unorthodox behaviour in the church the offending visitor left the seat into which she had been shown by the verger and took up her position in a seat heaving a placard informing all and sundry that it was "free."

In "White Australia." any Chinese, Japanese, Hindoo. Afghan or American or African negro may marry a white woman. But in most of the American States such marriages are illegal. The law of Oregon prohibits for ever and declares null and void any marriage between a white person and one of "African descent." The' Oregon law renders void any marriage of a white person with a person having one-fourth or more of negro, Chinese or Kanaka, blood, or any person having more than one-half Indian blood. Most of the States of the Union have laws declaring marriages void when contracted between a while person and a negro or descendants of a negro for a certain number of generations, usually three; i.e., "having one-eigh'th of negro blood." Australia, in this instance, remarks a West Australian paper, might well take a leaf out of America's book.