LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 167, 2 December 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A (ri-wcekly newspaper is to be started in Waverlev shortlv.

A young penguin was captured on the beach at the East End yesterday.

On the arrival of the lonic in Wellington on Saturday night six stowaways were handed over to the police. A\ e acknowledge with thanks receipt oi neat wall calendars from the National Insurance Company (Messrs. L. A. Nolan & Co.), Mr. 0. N. .lolmstone, furnisher, and Mr. H. Gilbert, seedsman. The banks were closed all day Saturday, it being St. Andrew's Day. The Government offices, which were open as usual, will observe to-day as a whole holiday in honor of Scotland's natron Saint.

The Amateur Opera Society had an extremely successful season with "The Geisha," and having' disposed of: the dresses and properties, will have a credit balance of about £2OO as a result of the production. '

During last mouth there were thirtyone births, ten deaths, and seven marriages registered in New Plymouth, compared with twenty-nine births, thirteen deaths, and live marriages during the corresponding month of last year. l'ublic-spirited citizens are asked, in another column, by Mr. Pi. Clinton Hughes, president of the New Plymouth rioautifying Society. to form themselves into a working bee next Thursday afternoon for the purpose of forming a track to Paritutu. It is not often that the Society makes an appeal of this sort, and it is to be hoped that the public will freely give a few hours' labor. A meeting was held on Saturday afternoon, under the auspices of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, to consider the advisability of holding a bazaar during show week, the proceeds of which would be devoted to the extension of the Coronation llall for the next Winter Show. As an outcome it decided not to hold a bazaar untii ]!)]•!, but to endeavour to arrange to hold a short series of concerts in the Hall in the 1913 Autumn Show week.

A party, of Now South Wales teachers to the number of twenty-one'gentlemen and six ladies will arrive in Wellington on December 18 for a holiday tour of the North Island. The party has been officially recognised by the New South Wales. Public Amateur Athletic Association. An effort should be made by the Taranaki Educational Institute and the New Plymouth Expansion and Tourist League to induce,the \isitors to include Taranaki in their itinerarv.

Til a speech at the opening of the new salt-water bailis at Shelly Beach, Auckland, recently. Air. T. W. Leys said that the baths wo:iid lie .open at certain hours for ladies ea.'li day. Tie pointed out, however, that the allocation of ladies' hours as proposed meant that those who worked in offices could not avail themselves of the opportunty to make use of the baths. Why, therefore, he said, should not men and women bathe together in the early morning, so long as proper rules in regard to costume and decorum were observed, under the supervision of the corporation's bathkeepers? In his opinion, it was time that foolish mock modesty was done away with, and so long as the costumes were in accordance with regulations and the dressingrooms apart, he saw bo reason why the bath should not be thrown open to both sexes at certain specified hours. Mr. Leys' proposal was received with hearty applause by those present, the majority of whom were ladies. At the sale of 11.COO acres of Mr. H. D. Vavasour's Ugbrooke estate, Afarlboroi'gh, the following four blocks were sold: —No. 5. of 500 acres, to Mr. S. M. Neville. Blenheim. £8 los per acre; No. 3, of ")(!3 acres, to ilr. John Ilealy. junr., Marlborough, for £ll per acre; No. G, of 310 acres, to Mr. R. Marfell, Seddon, at £fi 10s per acre; No. 8, of 1592 acres, to Mr. Hugh Campbell, Marlborough, for £6 per acre. The remaining six blocks were passed as follows, it being explained that the persons making the last bid would he givon (lie privilege of "first refusal":—Xo. 4, of 427 acres, passed to Mr. W. O'Donnell, Canterbury, at £l2 10s per acre; No. 1, of 013 acres, to Mr. •I. McGill, Canterbury, at- £ll 10s per acre; No. 2, of 430 acres, at £8 per acre; No. 7, of €lO acres, to Mr. P. Meelian, Marlborough, at £7 10s per acre; No. 10, of 4271 acres, to Mr. George Lane. Blenheim, at £3 5s per acre; No. 0, of 2700 acres, to Mr. T. Seeley, Timaru, at £4 5s per acre. Mr. R. J. Watts, some time of Brooklyn, New York, and latterly admiral in command of the navy of the Republic of Havti, is dissatisfied with his honorable and dignified office, and is willing to exchange it for a steady job on a coasting steamer. Mr. Watts recently poured out his woes into the confiding tars of an American reporter, and his pathetic and simple story is worth recounting. A year ago Mr. Watts, being dissatisfied with his prospects in the United States, enlisted in the Ilaytian navy. Promotion came to him quickly, and after six months he found himself in command of the entire fleet, consisting of one small gunboat, with the rank of admiral. Mr. Watts at once found cause for complaint. The navy leaked abominably. and Jier engines were not all that! they should have been. He pestered the Havtian authorities for repairs, and was finallv authorised to take the vessel to the United States navy yard at League Island and get an estimate of the cost of putting the navy in proper service trim. Private shipbuilding firms declared that the job could not be done under £6OOO, which sum the Haytian Government flatly declined to pay. The United States Government were then appealed to, and finally, after much correspondence, agreed to make the ship seaworthy for £3(10(1. Admiral Watts sent the contract home to Hayti for signature, but it was never returned. Idleness did not improve the vessel, the crew deserted, and the unfortunate admiral, who was without funds or friends, had to resort to shad fishing to got enough to eat. After a lew weeks of this precarious existence he received a command to sell the navv as a junk. All this the admiral told as he walked the dirty deck of his warship. "And say." he added, "if you hear of anyone who wants to exchange anything useful for an admiral's fulldress uniform, let me know, will you?" When the. last mail left the United States the Haytian navy was still unsold and its admiral was still catching shad.

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Whole-hearted support is being givesto the proposal to establish a freezing works in Hawke's Bay, and at a meeting of the provisional directors of the proposed company, held at Waipuknrau, it was decided to take the firit step towards the incorporation of th« company—namely, the registration of til* memorandum and articles of association.

A retired British soldier, Mr. Frederick Irvine, who was wounded at the relief ol Ladvsmith, has just been discharged from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, after a remarkable operation. A Boer bullet wrapped in a shred of hja pierced » tunic was found to have, lodged just within an inch of his heart, and was extracted after remaining there for over twelve years. The ivound seemed very slight at the time, and the doctors said > that the bullet must have glanced off his ribs, lie soon recovered, and rejoined his regiment. A month ago the wound again troubled him, and in hospital tke X-rays revealed the presence of the ballet. '

In the South Sea Tslahjls there are more ways of posting a letter than by consigning it through a prosaic letterbox. When Mr. R. 13. Morris, Chief i' Postmaster .it Christchurch, was at a picturesque Tongan port recently, he witnessed the despatch of the "tin can" mail. When the steamer Tofua was lying about a mile off the coast, hermetically sealed tins, containing letters and papers, were cast'overboard, to be towed ashore by native swimmers. The natives then returned with the Island mail, and, swimming alongside, handed it up to the officers by means of long poles. With them came out a white man. who conversed with the passengers, and told them about the recent volcanic eruptions, when thirty-four mountains were belching fire, smoke and lava together. A romantic story is associated with Mr. Thomas Ward, who on October 4 was selected as next Mayor of Nottingham. He was one of a family of twelve, and wa9 torn fifty-four years ago in the worst slum of the city. His father was a framesmith. earning 18s a week, and at the age of seven the future Mayor began to earn his living by selling newspapers, and was afterwards sent into tin Hull fishing service. When 19 he succumbed to the Australian gold fever, and became a Government emigrant. He found Sydney swarming with starving men, and promptly worked his passage to San Francisco. Thence he tramped ■ across the United States to New York, a distance of 3000 miles, finally working his passage back to England, ending his hunt for fortune as he started it, penniless. He found fortune later in his naive city as a vcast merchant, starting ns a porter in the business he now owns. On his way across the States he hid himself in a railway waggon, from which he could not escape, and lay five nights and four days without food or water. He was found senseless and almost dead.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Ground are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable to-day (Monday), at the Secretary's Office, Currie street, from 9, a.m. to 12.30, from 1 P.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.iii.— m ;S jfp