LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 170, 5 December 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The demand for the New Plymouth Gaol metal is greater than the 'supply, and the laborers in the pits refuse to work overtime. Australian mails ex Maunganui at Wellington will arrive here to-night, and San Francisco mails ex Aorangi at Wellington will arrive here to-morrow night. The Wellington master bakers are forming a syndicate to erect a large factory, with a complete up-to-date mechanical equipment, to turn out 15,000 loaves daily. The Taranaki estates certified last month for stamp duty included Edwin Bray £3401, James Brophy £1573, Margaret Gibson £1533, Joseph Francis Fabian £1470, Ambrose Long £570, Alfred Pearn £3OO. Mr. J. McNeil asks us to state that the donation of £5 5s for three years towards the New Plymouth Tourist and Extension fund credited to him on Monday is not his subscription. It should have been credited to the Grocers' Association.

The local agents of Burns, Philip & Co., Sydney representatives of the Nyk line, are advised that there is nothing at present to support the recent statement that the Japanese steamers contemplate extending their operations to New Zealand.

The foinulation stone of the new ward for women at the Dunedin Hospital was laid by the Hon. R. H. Rhodes yesterday. This ward is being erected as a result of the response made by Mr. Hugh J. Ward last year. The Minister will open the new Post Office at Kaitangata to-day. -

The Borough Council has made provision in its proposed loan of £40,000 for forming and metalling and construct-, ing a culvert on the Cutfield road, between St. Aubyn street and. Devon street. The St. Aubyn Town Board, in its loan works, allocated £l.lOO for the work, and the Council has now added a similar sum as its contribution to the cost.

From now onwards the XI. Regiment will have a distinctive badge representative of Taranaki. This will consist of a small brass badge in the form of a view of Mt. Egmont taken from tbe Stratford side, with the words "Taranaki Rifles XL Regiment" underneath. One will be worn on the peaked cap and one on each lapel of the collar. Some of these arc on view in the "A.8.C." Boot Shop.

A huge boulder, weighing between SO and 40 tons, was encountered by the borough workmen who are at present engaged in extending the sewers in King street. It is right in the line of the excavation work, and is about 20 feet in length at the base and 12 feet in height. The explosions which have been heard frequently the last few days are due to the blasting operations which have had to be carried out to remove the obstruction.

What it is hoped will be the first of a series of annual demonstrations under the auspices of the Taranaki Provincial Fire Brigades' Association will be held on Woolcombc Terrace to-day. The lung programme of events will commence at !) o'clock, and as. all the Taranaki Brigades are taking part the public should be able to form an excellent idea of ihe standard of efficiency attained by the brigadesmen. The demonstration will bo wound-up in the evening by a social evening which will be tendered to the visiting teams at the Central Fire Station.

There is a possibility of the fishing industry being taken up energetically and worked systematically in New Plymouth. The opening certainly is here, and a good opening at that, and worked on sound commercial lines the enterprise should return good results. At present there is either a feast or a famine, generally the latter. There is no reason whv regular supplies could not be arranged, as is the case in other seaport places. It would probably entail the erection of a small freezing plant, but the return from a regular service should easily justify the expenditure.

While pheasants are decreasing in numbers, the same ..cannot be said of the quail (states tbe Okaiawa correspondent of the Hawera Star)—a fact which is not appreciated by settlers who take a pride in their vegetable gardens. Quail are most destructive in these gardens, especially at this time of the year, as they have a particular fancy for peas which have just come through. To show the way in which these birds increase, ho mentions that two nests were recently found on a local farm containing 15 and 18 eggs respectively.

For having failed, while out on probation, to report bis change of address to the probation officer, Albert BartoMy, an indeterminate .sentence prisoner, was yesterday fined £4 10s and costs 7s in the Magistrate's Court, with the option of 14 days' imprisonment. When arrested Bartoldy was. it was explained in Court, earning an honest livelihood. David Morrow Crozier was arrainged for drunkenness, the third time within the last six months. Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., fined the accused £3, or in default ordered him to undergo seven days' imprisonment, A week was allowed in which to pav the fine, * '

As a result of Monday's wool sale over £200,000 will, we suppose, go into the pockets of the farmers of Hawke's Bay, and will in due course circulate through the district (says the Herald). There was some doubt expressed whether the abandonment of the first sale would not make the second unmanageably large, but the weather which has prevailed prevented that. The wool shown was, we learn, of exceptional quality, and the demand was also exceptionally keen. It was anticipated that the wool would fetch a high price, but we imagine that all anticipations must have been exceeded, and the result must have come with a joyful surprise to the farming community.

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II is estimated that potato growers in the Oainaru district this year received £30,000 for the potatoes which they exported to Australia. Accordinp; j. 0 th" Wailii Daily Telegraph, it i.s probable that Mr. Robert Semple, organiser of the Federation of Labor, will be prosecuted in connection with a recent demonstration at Waihi.

In many districts in Southland the wet weather and consequent floods have materially abated the rabbit nuisance; but it is' doubtful' (says the Times) if they have ever been more plentiful than they are at present on some properties. Where the gorse hedges have spread they are to be seen in droves.

The daughter of a prominent New York financier and the son of the State Chairman of Arizona-, have just been married according to Mold Indian rites, which are few and simple. As soon as the bride and bridegroom have eaten an oatmeal wedding cake the chief pronounces them man and wife. A peculiar position has arisen in Kumara, where there is a, shortage of Justices of the Peace. The Inspector of nuisances has informations to lay in connection with wandering cattle, but as all the Justices of the town are borough councillors and therefore interested parties, the affidavits are unsigned and sum raonses cannot be issued. The marks of earliest Peninsula industries are fast passing away, and the Peninsula people are almost forgetting that their fathers depended very largely on two very important means"of obtaining a livelihood in milling timber and whaling (says the Akaroa Mail). The old mills are almost gone, without anything to mark their once busy eentres, except, perhaps, a few heaps of sawdust which are not yet entirely decayed. The whalj ing is in almost as advanced a stage of oblivion.

The Olinkime Time? understands that a writ for liljt-1 has beer, issued by Sir John Fimllay (Messrs Findlav,' Ualziel and Co., Wellington) on behalf of W. Canning, postmaster, Oliaktme, against A. H. Wilkie. commission agent, Ohakune. The amount of damages "is said to be £5Ol. At a recent sitting of the Magistrate's Court, Ohakune, an application was made lor permission to proceed for criminal libel in this case, and the Magistrate refused the permit, stating that the plaintiff could find his remedy in a civil action.

There is a probability- of a new federation being formed in Auckland to promote political action principally, but, at the same time, should any union be involved in a strike or lock-out, to rendei both moral and financial assistanej to that body or organisation. The reason given for promoting the new federation is the fact that the United Labor Party does not meet with much approval and support fr )!;:'•!;,';,! unions, and also that the Xcw Zealand Federation of Labor is altogether too militant and revolutionary to merit the support of the trade unionists of Auckland.

Big steamers come now almost into Queen stre.it (states the Auckland Star). A remarkable demonstration of the advantages of Auckland's new berthage accommodation was given when the P. and 0. steamer Mongolia and the HuddartParkor Company's Zealandia were both berthed at the landward end of the Queen street wharf. Those big steamers were within two minutes' walk of the Chief Post Office, the tram terminus, the railway station, and the Government Buildings—a convenience which is quite rare among ports in the Southern Hemisphere. Passengers landing from the steamers, in fact, found themselves stepping from the gangway almost into the business heart of the city.

•Says the Auckland Herald: The hardships and perils of a gum-digger's life were revealed at the inquest held on Alfred Ban-hard, an elderly man who was found in a dying condition beneath an office in Newmarket on Saturday. Deceased was once ln»t in the bush for several weeks during -winter-time. As a result of exposlure he suffered from frost-bite in his toes. When he was taken to the .hospital it was found necessary to amputate both his feet. Since that time he had been going about with a pair of specially constructed boots. With advancing years, however, he had found it difficult to get work, and when discovered on Saturday, he was in the last stage.-, of exhaustion through starvation.