LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 165, 29 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A sharp earthquake shock was experienced in New Plymouth at 3.49 o'clock yesterday morning. In the open class for Field Spaniels at the Stratford Show, the first prize went to Mrs._ McHales, not to Mrs. Jones, as stated in our report. Mrs. Jones took second prize.

Last evening Constable Egan arrested Leo Joseph Charles Thornton oil a charge of the alleged theft of a bicycle from Messrs. May and Arrowsmitk's premises. He will be brought up before the Magistrate this morning.

The New South Wales Government, following the lead given by New Zealand, has commenced afforestation by prison labor. Mr. Hoi man says it is expected that 300,000 seedlings of pinus insignus will be planted out in the coming year by 20 prisoners. Mr. J .Bennett has been commissioned to supply the gold and silver medals awarded to the winning men at the United Taranaki Fire Brigades' Demonstration to be held at New Plymouth next Thursday. The medals will be on exhibition in Mr. Bennett's window this morning.

Application forms for military pensions have just arrived. The examining officer, Sergt.-Major Bond, will be pleased to meet the applicants at the Drillshed on days as unttyi':— Saturdays, 10 to 12 p.m. Mondays, 10 to 12 and 2'to 4 p.m.; Tuesdays, 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 p.m.; Thursdays. TO to 12 p.ni.; Fridays, 10 to 12 iind 2 to 4 p.m. There must be a lunatic at large at Te Kiri (says,the Opunake Times). A few nights ago a telegraph polo was chopped through about a foot above the ground. The linesman put another in its place, and thought the trouble was ended. On Mond&y night, however, the idiot, for we can look on him as nothing else, becoming probably affected by a full moon, turned out and chopped another one through. Two motor cars driven by Father Bergin and Mr. J. Feeney, which had conveyed the Manaia cricket team to Eltham, were tampered with whilst standing outside the cricket ground during the progress of tile game, says the Star. The cais left on the return journey at about 6.30 p.m., but both came to a stop near the Eltham road toll gate and it was discovered that the lights had been tampered with and the benzine tanks filled with water. The result was that the cars did not reach'*Manaia until 3.30 a.m. next day, the party having been nine hours on the return journey. Another unfortunate result of the occurrence was that as three of the cricket team were down or items at Manaia Orchestral .Society's concert, the ..programme at that function was seriously disorganised.

Asked by a Times representative yesterday as to why the Government reduced tlie limit of advance* to workers from £450 to £3OO, the Minister of Finance (Hon. J. Allen) stated that the limit had been temporarily lowered because of tlie lack of funds and the financial stringency. Priority was bein» given to applications for loans not exceeding £3OO, and the limitation had not been made permanent, "Revenue is coming in very satisfactorily," said the Minister of Finance yesterday to a limes reporter who invited liim i.O make a statement on the financial outlook but at the same time expenditure is heavy, and we have a number of commitments." The Minister preferred not to make any general observations at present, however, and indicated that lie would make a statement on his return from the South'.

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Practically •■.II the tomato crops in the Carterton district anil many in Masterton have been destroyed by the recent wet and windy weather.

llie salary provided for the newly ap- I pointed Civil Service Commissioner is £I3OO a year. The Assistant-Commis-sioners are each to receive £IOOO a year. The Public Service Act comes into full operation on April 1. 1013. The Thames Advertiser, which has been published in the Thames as a morning paper since the .stirring days of 1808 —the year after the opening of the goldfield—lias ceased to exist, having been absorbed by the evening paper, the Thames Star. Both papers were run under thp same management. The executive of the New Plymouth Employers' Association has decided to recommend that Christmas Day and the day following (Wednesday and Thursday, December 25 and 2(1) be observed as Christmas Holidays, leaving the question as to whether the whole or half-day on Friday should be observed for each employer to decide; for himself. Owing to the poor attendance of members of the executive, the <|iiestiou of holidays on Wednesday and Thursday, January 1 and 2, in the following week wan likewise left open for individual decision. The following are the. results of the theory examinations held here by the Associated Hoard, Ti.A.M. and R.C.M., London, in November'last:—Miss Cecil Ilia K. Brydon (Miss A. 11. Smith, L.A.8., teacher) passed the local centre intermediate grade harmony examination with 103 marks (full marks 150). In the rudiments of music examination Miss Evelyn L. Coad (Miss A. 11. Smith, L. A. I?., teacher) passed with 1)8 marks, and Miss Myra May Foreman (Miss K. I. Gilbert, teacher) passed with 85 marks (full marks for the latter examination 99).

"Yes, they're boosting the Holstein jijst now," remarked a well-known stockman at the Wanganui Show, "but you can take it from mo that the Holstein has got to fight it out with the Ayrshire, and the Ayrshire is going to come out on top." "But the Ayrshire is handicapped by the smallness of its teats, is it not?" "Yes, I grant that, but Ayrshire men are busy breeding to meet that; and there is a way to do :t, too. I'm a Shorthorn man, and I know," lie concluded, with a wink apparently intended to suggest that the Shorthorn was destined to help the dairying industry.—Chronicle.

Members of the Borough Council met in committee last night, and went into the tramways' question with the consulting engineer, Mr. I<\ Black, M. Inst.. C.K The meeting was held for the purpose of enabling councillors to informally discuss matters with Mr. Black, and make any suggestions. In order to gain a knowledge of the developments that are taking pl.ve. Mr. Black went over the whole of Greater New Plymouth yestrl.dily' an<l W!ls il "l 11 ' ( ' sse( l with the possibilities; of tramways in the district, whidh will be borne in mind by him in revising his original scheme. Mr Black will submit his report in-January, to enable the present Council, after discussing it, to place tramway loan proposals be" fore the ratepayers before it goes out of office.

Montenegro never forgot Gladstone, nor what lie had done and tried to do for them. They sent him a message when he was lying on his deathbed at Hawarden 14 years ago. It was as follows:—"Many years ago, when Montenegro, my beloved country, was in difficulties, your eloquent voice and powerful pen successfully pleaded and worked on her behalf. At this time vigorous and prosperous, with a bright future before her, she turns with sympathetic eye to the great English statesman to whom she owes so much, and for whose present sufferings she feels so deeply." And to the then Prince Nicholas was sent the following answer:—"lTis interest in Montenegro had always been profound, and he prayed that it might prosper and be blessed in a,ll its undertakings." In a letter to the Taumarunui Borough Council, the Prime Minister says, as the law now stands, it is open to any person to acquire the freehold of sections in native townships, subject to the approval of the Maori Land Board, and the consent of Governor-in-Council. The clerk had previously written to the Prime Minister, suggesting holding over sales of township leases until an enquiry had been made. The Council held that native townships were very unsatisfactory. A councillor stated that at Te Kuiti tue sections were individualised. At Taumarunui they were not. If anyone wanted to acquire the freehold it meant calling a meeting of assembled owners—--128 of them scattered in all parts of the country. A motion that the matter be brought before the member for the district by the Council was carried unanimously. The London Standard publishes perhaps the most astonishing and dreadful piece of arithmetic which- has appeared in the Press for a century. It is the statistics of the white'slave traffic issued by the American Federation of Sex Hygiene. The Federation consists of leading doctors, scientists, philanthropists—men who know the facts about which they talk. They issue a formal statement declaring that the cost to America of immorality and sexual diseases is £600,000,000 annually. This sum seems incredible; it is almost beyond imagination; but the Federation, by way of assisting us to accept these stupendous figures, gives the annual expenditure in America upon certain luxuries. The total expenditure upon intoxicating liquors is £400,000.000; on tobacco. £240,000,000; on jewellery and plate, £160,000,000; and on motor cars, £100,000,000. The. total spent upon church work, the Federation —with a touch of cynical humor —adds, is £52,000,00».

Moving pictures o! the recent Central School Carnival at Pukckura Park last week were shown at both local theatres last evening, and evoked much interest and not a little enthusiasm. The film, which was taken by the local Empire Film Company, is a particularly clear and good one, the faces of those taking part in the procession, as well as of many spectators on the terraces, being easily recognisable. The ponies and donkeys come out very well, as does the mounted "monkey." which evidently posed specially before, the, 'camera man. In many respects, the view one gets of the procession and the '''March of the Flowers" on the cinema screen is superior to the view one had from the terraces, the whole proceedings being brought closer to one. The beautiful foliage of the Park, or those glimpses that can be obtained from the sports ground, lose nothing at' the hands of the photographers; and it is a pity that more of the lovely bush was not taken and shown. For examples of scenic 'beauty, the cinema shows that we need not go out of this town. A film on the lines of this one, if shown throughout the Dominion and Australia, would give the place as effective an advertisement as any member of that alert and enterprising body, "'The New Plymouth Expansion and Tourist League," could desire.

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