LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 157, 20 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A wild pig weighing 4051b was captared a few days ago at Waimanga West Coast.

Writing to a Gisborne friend, a Thames baker states that lie has got 4500 dozen eggs down in pickle, and will halt when he reaches the 5000 dozen limit.

On account of the Central School Carnival, which is to be held to-morrow afternoon, the Rifle Club's first shoot for the champion belt will be postponed. The Marlborough Land Railway League has passed a resolution of protest from the people of Marlborough at the cessation work on the South Island main trunk line.

The milk cheques in the Stratford district for the month are as follows: — Stratford Co-operative Dairy Company, £0785; Ngaire, £3177; Cardiff, £1704; Lowgarth, £224o.—Post. The mail train from New Plymouth was delayed three-quarters of an hour yesterday morning. The delay was caused through a slight mishap to the engine of the up-train from Hawera. John Mcehan, the originator of the pick-lunch counter in New York, died in that city last week. By the irony of fate this man's death was due to acute indigestion. Median had amassed a big fortune, and died worth £200,000.

Advice has been received by the Ta'ranaki County Council from the Minister of Internal Affairs that a commission will be appointed at an early date to enquire into the-proposed alterations of the boundaries of the Borough of Waitara.

The Davy-Richardson nun-refillable bottle syndicate pound shaves. ISs paid up, changed hands yesterday at £35. Mr. Williams will be hack in New Plymouth from Sydney on .Saturday night," bringing with him the proposals for sale to a Sydney syndicate.

At yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Land Board, a memorandum was received from the Under-Secretary of Lands drawing attention to the question of preference at ballots to applicants with small capital. The matter was left in the hands of the Commissioner. For the first time in the history of New York, a woman is an applicant for the position of chairman in the State engineering service. She is the wife of a civil engineer, and her application papers state- that she has studied engineering for over two years and had served as "instrument mail" on farm surveying of lauds and laying out streets. Rotorua is said to be almost fully "booked up" for the Christmas and New Year season. Some applications for accommodation forwarded through Auckland agencies have met with delay in receiving despatch, but it is understood that the overllow stage has not. yet been reached. The pressure, of course, only ■refers to the weeks immediately preceding and following the festive season. At the "People's Palace" private hotel, Wellington, conducted by the Salvation Army, the kitchen hands are to be given a complete holiday every week, commencing from Monday, November 25. For the last three years girls employed in the establishment have been given a weekly day of rest, and the extrusion of the same privilege to male employees will make the six-day-week universal, so far as. the "People's Palace" is concerned.

A ili'G iiisiiraiiee manager, in giving evidence in a case at Napier, remarked that fire insurance eoiiipunies had to take two risks—the physical lia/ard and the moral hazard, and added, "I am sorry to say that in New Zealand the moral hazard is three times as great as the physical, and is lower than any other country." When he reflected that witness' company bore the nam.' of an Australian Stite, Mr. Dolan replied with a courteous ''Thank you." Evidence of the plaintiff in the case of James Taylor, a fanner, residing at Waiongona, v. Henry Stockbridge, Brooklyn, Wellington, was taken in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M. The plaijit'liT alleges that, the sum of £3O Is 2d is ocing to him on a deal for the defendant's farm, made on July 12, 1911. The ease is set down for hearing in the Magistrate's Court in Wellington, Mr. A. E. Standish appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. (I. Grey for the defendant.

Buyers of New Zealand butter in London are inserting a stringent chaise into their contracts concerning th-. percentage of water in all imported butter. Butter exporters in New Zealand derive great benefit from the close watch kept by the Government produce grader to detect over-moisture in butter for export. In this way contracts are saved from repudiation. * One exporter recently lost over £3OO on a eontrset, his butter containing a very slight excess percentage of water.—Auckland Herald.

At a meeting of the provisional com-, mittec set up in coniuviiuu wiUi the reorganisation of the Tarannki Harrison Band last night. Mr. G. W. Hrowne presiding, a balance-sheet was diawn up for submission to a public meeting to be held to-day in the Council ChnmC-rs. Mr. R. Ellis was appointed secretary to the committee. The committee h:\> certain suggestions to place before thr public meeting with regard to placing ti u . finances of the band on an The bandmaster is to be :i.,ked to value the instruments belonging i.:, the b ail( ] for the purposes of insura.n.-e. MAINLY ABOUT MVi'S.

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