LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 209, 23 January 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Jhe Borough Council will meet tomorrow night and discuss the tramways Scheme.

On his recent visit to Te Awamutu and Cambridge, the Prime Minister received 110 fewer than fortv-live deputations ill one day. Mr. Massev is still alive!

A meeting is to be held at Waitara shortly to discuss the formation of a co'-oprrntive casein manufacturing concern among the North Taranaki dairy companies.

A conference of school inspectors will be held at Wellington on February 12. The Taranaki Fd-.u-atioa Board has granted its inspectors (Messrs. Bailantvne and \\better) leave of absence to attend the gathering

Ihe value of the Xew Plymouth High School as an educational institute is effectively demonstrated by the fact that no fewer than H pupils attending the institution matriculated at the examinations held ft the end of the year

By the train from Wellington on Monday six or seven immigrants of! the Turakina came up to Taranaki. These men, it is understood, are da ivy farmers, and had booked through—some to Hawera, the remainder to Stratford and Xew Plymouth.—liawera Star. The steamer Ila wera, which went ashore at Pa tea three months ago, has been hauled above high water mark, and the work of repairing her is bein fr carried out by Mr. W. H. Brown, of Auckland, the builder, who expects to complete his task in about six weeks.

About 440 men are engaged in the Gear Meat Works at Petone. Of these 80 are slaughtermen. The Petone paper states that a local butcher has kept a record of his earnings over a period of twelve years, the average per week working out at £2 Kir. Also that there is not a slaughterman on the boards who would not accept a permanent iob at £3 a week.

A sub-committee lias been delegated ■by the Education Board to confer °\vitli the Polynesian Society with reference to its application for a site for a library to house its valuable collection of books. The chairman of the Board suggested that as an alternative to the Technical College grounds, a section in Leach street at the back of the Courtney street school belonging to the Board, might be used for the purpose.

Home remarkably interesting pictures of scenes in big-game hunting in East Africa have been obtained by Mr. Rainev, the American sportsman. Mr. Rainey secured these unique views by. climbing with his camera up a tree, from which, while hidden among the blanches, he was enabled to photograph elephants, rhinoceroses, baboons and other animals as they came to an adjacent drinking pool. These and other views _ depicting a lion hunt form a splendid tribute to Mr. Rainey's ingenuity and patience.

A meeting of the Early Records Committee yesterday lolegatcd a sub-com-nuttee to co-operate with the Veterans' Association in celebrating' the anniversary of the Province and the Battle of Waireka. The anniversary of the Province falls on, March 31,' and that of Waireka on March 2S, and the two occasions will be jointly celebrated bv a picnic of veterans and pioneers on the Recreation Grounds on March 27. The .sub-committee comprises Messrs. W. T. •Jennings. P. White, R. Cock, W. Newman. W. J. Penn, T. C. List, and it will meet in the Borough Council Chambers at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday next: In accordance with notice of motion, the Taranaki Education Board yesterday decided, on the, initiative of the chairman, that clause 20 of the Board'regulations with regard to holidays be amended, and that the holidays sanctioned by the Board will be : six weeks at Christmas, one week in winter, one week in spring, flood Friday, Easter Monday, Anniversary Day, Arbor Day, and the King's Biithday. Xo other holidays or exc'iange of days will be permitted. except with the special sanction of the Board. Committees may. bowever, dose their schools for the purpose of holiday school excursions or special picnics. but immediately the date of such holic.ay is fixed, written notice must be sent to the Board.

Wo arc in receipt of a copy of "The Maj»ri-Engli-,h Tutor" from the publishers, Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. The author is Mr. Henry M. Stowell (Hare Hongi),, and in his preface he gives ample reason for the necessity for such a work. Mr. Stowell says that while there are already several handbooks on the Maori language, it cannot be denied that the efforts of previous writers are not altogether adequate to a scientific study of the subject. The aim of the author has been to present a succession of genuine examples' of Maori, beginning with the simplest expressions and passing along by gradual stages to the most complex; to show the real simplicity of the tongue, its scope and at the same time its purity. Australia is a large importer of moving picture films, but it also does a lurg business in the way of film export (says the Sydney Telegraph). With so many pictures coming into the country every week, it must be obvious that, did the films remain here, there would be stored up somewhere a mighty mass of used-up picture*, awaiting the touch of some stray match to bring about their removal from the already overcrowded stock-rooms. But film-dealers have in China an unlimited market for every film that can be sent awav, and rarely a ship sails from Sydney to Shanghai, or any of the other ports in the China Sea, without its supply of films which have been exhausted in Australia, and which are awaited at their destination as eagerly as those which reach Sydney by each English and American mail. In the Philippines, too. there is a big demand for second-hand films.

Tlic likotaliuiiji. Kxpress says:—A chapter of minor accidents occurred ill connection with tlie Gaisford-Kcbbell wedding. On Tuesday the car containing the bridedgroom broke down oil the road to Nga Rata, and caused considerable inconvenience. Oil Wednesday a car with one of the officiating pastors aboard sustained a punctured lyre, an,] in order that the clergyman could be in time for the ceremony the car was driven l'or a distance on the rim of the wheel. As a drag load of guests were leaving on Wednesday an accident of a more serious nature occurred. The vehicle was passing through a gateway when the gate blew in, forcing the front seat against one occupied by pas.-engers. One of the ladies bad her leg badly injured, and it was at first tliought the bone had been fractured. A doctor was .summoned, who pronounced the injury a bad one. though no bones were broken. The bridegroom was the youngest son of Mr. Tlcnrv Gaisford. of Oringi, and the bride Miss Rita Kebbell. second daughter of Mrs. William Kebbell, of Nga'Rata, Alfredton.

At the dance, the lodge, the theatre—at any social function ask for CAMROC DRY GINGER ALE by name. It is a delightful reminder that this famous beverage is guaranteed to be prepared from an original Belfast formula. All hotels and stores. •

A whale 80 feet in length was east up on the beach at Mataikona, oil the East Coast, a few days back. So far, 110 attempt has been made to prospect it for oil.

The Voice of Labor, a weekly journal published at Auckland, says:—Plans for the launching of a big general strike, embracing seamen, waterside workers, drivers and miners, is being projected by the lied Feds, at the present time, and systematic attempts to agitate the workers in these industries are to be made during the coming month. There is a certain'section of the workers—a small section, but a noisy one—who are just spoiling for a strike, and any tup- i penny affair that can be seized on as a pretext to foment a general "down tools" will be at onec availed of.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie has been enquiring in London into the marketing of New Zealand frozen meat, making a rcund of investigation last month. Most of the meat examined had been landed at Southampton, but a few carcases which had come through Londonv were in the sheds. It showed the usual signs* of meat discharged atVLondon—dirty covers, broken shanks, etc. "In one case, the High Commissioner states, two hind' legs and one foreleg were completely broken, the shoulder was knocked about, and the carcase badly bruised. On the whole the meat landed at Southampton was in good, clean condition, much better in appearance than that from London.

The credit of earning the largest medical fee on record belongs to a blind' practitioner, Dr. Gale, of Bristol, who received £50,000 for curing a wealthy patient of lameness by electrical treatment. Jay Gould, however, must have spent considerably more than this sum on doctors in his lifetime. For many years before his death he paid his doctor a regular salary of £3OOO a year, whether sick or well, and for cur in his daughter, Miss Helen Gould, of an illsess which lasted two months the rail™y n £ m g rewarded another doctor with' £IB,OOO. Sir Morell Mackenzie, for his attendance on the Emperor Fredencw, reecived in all £13,000.

A story of a bride who was ''waiting at the church" for a, bridegroom who did not- appear was told during the hearing of a case in the Chmtehurcli Ma<*istrates Court. Arrangements had been made for the wedding, which was to tnke place at a church not far from Chiistchurch, and at the hour fixed for the ceremony the bride was there, and the church was filled with many friends, ut there was no appearance of th« idegroom. After some delay the fhe fol,owin ff the example of „ b "f r ? om in popular pantomime son sent along a note to say that he ' He" tft thf?/- G t Ceremony t,lat daytie left the district, and althou«lV he again corresponded with the voun» ladr ST t V l n ° th r cbS. bnng the P arties the