LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 252, 14 March 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Australian mails, ex Warrimoo at Wellington, will arrive here this afternoon. Three hundred boxes of butter and five casks of petroleum were shipped by the Rarawa for North last evening. An exchange states that the recent Parliamentary trip through Central Otago cost £2757 5s Id. The dearth of domestic servants is being acutely felt in the Masterton district as high as 25s per week is being oll'ered in wages. A Gisbornc telegram reports that the (lisborne-Napier Ferry Service successfully performed by the Takapuna sin.ee the beginning of December is to be extended till the end of April. The Defence Department lias, states a Press Association message from Dunedin, ordered 20,000 Lee-Enfield rifles for the cadets. They are expected to arrive soon. Saturday was established as the statutory half-holiday at Waverle.v iasr. week, and a majority of the shopkeepers are said to express themselves satisfied that the change will prove a good move. A brilliant electrical disturbance was witnessed in Waipawa on Wednesdaynight followed by steady rain. This is the first rain for several months and is of great value to the district.—Press Association. The girls of the New Plymouth High School are holding their swimming sports at the Municipal Baths this afternoon, commencing at 2 p.m. Those having the interest of the school at heart as well as all old scholars should not fail to be present. A peculiar motor car accident is reported from Onehunga. The ear "was proceeding along at a steady pace when a dog ran into it and became entangled in some part of the steering gear underneath. The ear crashed into an iron verandah post and cut it out and twisting round capsized. Strange to say the dog escaped injury.

Tim elocution classes a-t the Technic;'.! College will commence this Friday evening. All intending students should he present in order to give the class a goot! start. The instructor, Mr. J. Ainslie. has had considerable experience in this class of work, and can be depended on to give the very best quality of instruction. "The ratepayer, as a rule, Is a most extraordinary person," declared the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr. 11. Holland) in the course of an address to ladies the other night. "When he wants a lamp or an improved sidewalk, or anything else, and the question of cost is mentioned, lie says, 'Never mind about the money, let's have the thing done'; but when ho gets his rate notices lie sings qiiite a different tune."

A half-caste Maori woman, who has weathered four score years, appeared before ilr. J. S. S. Medley, J.P., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of vagrancy. About a week ago (ilie was found wandering by the police, who took her in charge. Her sou appeared in Court and undertook to mala" himself responsible for her welfare. The old lady was accordingly discharged. The executive of the Amalgamated Society of Kailwav Servants in the Dominion liave decided to present a national testimonial to Mr. T. Royayne 011 the occasion of his retirement from the general managership of the New Zealand Railways. At a meeting of the local branch of the Society this week, it was unanimously decided to co-oper ate iu the movement.

A competitor in yesterday's road race to Bell Block met with a perilous experience. While racing for home with two other contestants, L. Nippert (the cyclist in question) had to pass two vehicles on the Mangaone ltill. He was riding between his two companions, one of whom went to the right and the other to the left, and a colli? ;ion was unavoidable as far as he was concerned. Ho crashed ino a trap and horse, upsetting the vehicle, so severe was the impact. Lucky to relate he escaped serums injury.

The Xorth Auckland correspondent of a contemporary says that he had a conversation with an immigrant recently, and was told the story of his first week's experience 011 the gumfields. Six days' work averaged a return of 2s !)d per day, lie had four fierce fights with Maoris, lost his gum-spear and spade in a gum hole, learned to say ! 'Kia Ora" and '"Dohra dan," the Austrian equivalent for 'good-bye," and ran up a bill with the local storekeeper for £3 lCs. He said ha thought he would try a fireman's job or bush work in the King Country.

Mr. Samuel lTordern, governing director of Anthony llonlern and Sons, Ltd., Sydney, in an after-dinner .speech at a banquet recently, said that although he had just returned from a tour of the Old Land he was delighted to be buck in Australia. He could not but remark on the difference in methods of conducting business in the Old World and Young Australia. The marked absence of poverty and the equitable conditions under which labor was conducted appeared to bring about contentment throughout the community —a state that seemed to be unknown in the Old World.

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