LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 258, 22 March 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ill's. Tabor, of tlu; White Hart Hotel, lias purchased the freehold of the Terminus Hotel.

A total eclipse of the moon will take place this evening at 9.44 o'clock. It will bo visible in the Southern Hemisphere. The hand-bridge over the Huatoki, near theMwwling green, is in a dangerous state of and unless seen to soon an accident may occur.

A Press Association' wire from Wanganui states that the Methodist ladies' bible classes are in camp. About 150' men and 250 ladies have so far arrived.

The following steamers will probably be within wireless range to-night at Auckland: Maheno. Maunganui, Tofuu, Victoria, Lllimaroa, Arawa and Maitai. A special meeting of the Taranaki County Council on Wednesday confirmed the special heavy traffic by-laws relating to traction engines. The by-laws are now in operation.

It is a notable fact that New Zealanders are a migatory race, and that New Zealanders' Associations exist in various parts of ( the Empire. One has been formed in Tasmania at a meeting in Hobart, over which Dr. J. S. Purdy (late Chief Health Officer in Auckland) presided.

In the Magistrate's Court on Thursday Henry Francis Smith was charged with having broken his probationary license in that he had since, .March 15 resided in a place other than one sanctioned by the probation officer. Accused pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

The executive of the Association having in hand the entertainment of the Taranaki War Veterans on Thursday evening next, after the pioneers' re-un-ion, met on Thursday afternoon, Mr. J. W. Wilson (chairman) presiding, and adjourned till this evening, when the' (programme for the occasion will be decided upon. A party of twenty Scouts under Major Sandford and Chief Scoutmaster Sullivan leave New Plymouth this morning at 7 o'clock on treck to the Mountain. They expect to reach the house at about 7 p.m. A message will be sent back from Egmont Village, and it is hoped to get a message back per carrier pigeon at 5 p.m., which will state where the party •are. The message will be posted in Deare's shop window. Parents will thus know how their boys are getting on. A cable recently arrived intimating to the Foreshore Improvement Society that owing to the Kaiser mobolising his cavalry with a view to attacking England, he will be unable to supply the donkeys as arranged for, owing to his army 'being short supplied. However, not to disappoint the New Plymouth children, the Kaiser lias sent two of his favourite ponies, and they are at present domiciled at the Pieadilly Stables, and a real good time is promised the children on Easter Monday.

Wm. Pure was at the instance of Mr. IT. Munro (Stock Inspector) charged, in the Magistrate's Court on Thursday with attempting to sell sheep affected with lice. He did not appear, and was on the Inspector's evidence fined £2 and costs 7s. D. S. Ilobbs, similarly charged, was mulcted in a similar fine. Mr. Munro laid stress on the difficulty he experienced in obtaining evidence in these cases. Warning was, he said, given him bv the auctioneers when infected stock were handed to them for sale, and it was the Department's duty to prosecute. !

A case in which a defendant successfully established an alibi was heard in the' Magistrate's Court on Thursday, before Mr. Page, S.M., when defendant, a young native named Richard Preston, was charged by Inspector Tippins with having cycled at night without a light. He was defended by Mr. Frank Wilson and Mr. C. W. Govett appeared for the

Borough Inspector. Reviewing the evidence the. Magistrate said that the real question was tluit of identification, and Preston would be given the l)enefit of the doubt. He therefore dismissed the information. Xo costs were allowed. Lady Liverpool having graciously named the doll for the guessing com petition at the Foreshore Society's Picnic at West End on Easter Monday, and having placed the name in an envelope, sealed and stamped with her Ladyship's monogram, the public can rest satisfied that 110 one in Xew Plymouth is aware what the doll is called. The doll was

dressed bv Mrs. Grant and presented by ,\irs. Blanchard. The envelope will be

opened by Mr. H. Okey. M.H.R., at the Theatre Royal on .Monday night, and

the name will he announced during the interval, when the doll will be presented to the winner. Tn explaining his farming misfortunes at Whakatane, a bankrupt farmer explained to the Official Assignee that the whole of the land he had occupied was native land, to some of which he had no title at all. To other portions he had only a holding title. Acting on the advice of financial backers, he obtained, an extension to "21 years of all his leases, about GOO acres. This led him into an abnormal amount of expenditure, both legally and in other directions. In one case he had to ''square" 80 native owners in order to obtain a renewal of the lease of an area of 77 acres, lie was compelled to go on with the transaction, else lie would have lost all his improvements, about £OOO. Mr. Tippins, the Borough Inspector, had a batch of Borough by-law prosecutions in the Magistrate's Court on Thursday. On his evidence, M. .Tones was fined 20s and costs 7s for driving horses loose in the street. The horses had been impounded, but Jones had refused to pay the fees, hence the prosecutions. Helen Eva. who made no appearance, was fined 10s and costs 7s for driving an unlighted vehicle after sunset. Ernest Johnson and Harold Abbott were each fined 5s ;md costs 7s for riding unlighted cycles at night. D. 11. Cooper, who did not appear, was «n the prosecution of Mr. Johnston (Inspector of Dairies) fined £3 and eo.-ts 7s for sell-

in« milk from an unregistered dairy. Mr. ('homlev (In.-pector of Noxious Weeds) also prosecuted several delinquents for faiiinj? to flit weeds after due warniiu: had been jjivcii. On this ch-in;e Louisa Crozicr was lined 20- and costs, the fine l>eill;j light a< defendant liad since cut the weeds, Robert Roebuck was mulcted in a fine of £3 and costs 7s and doseph AYest in £2 and co-is 7s. MOHSTEP. REDUCTION SALE AT TIfE MELI3OUr.SE, LTD.

The Melbourne's annual redaction si"'": is now on. The richness and magnitude of the bargain* simply bepyr d°scr:ption. Everything in stock reduced for this great aniinnl event —tlr.» greatest, bargain sale of the season. Road here of a few of the bargains. Ladies' serge costume skirts, 3/1 i; boys' tweed Norfolk suits. 13/0: men's flannel shirts, 2/3; men's wire cord trousers. 5/11; men's Kainpoi socks. 3 pairs for 2/3; men's fine cashmere socks, 3 pairs for 2/0; lively toilet soap, 3d tablet; lwjys' all-wool Tarsi! v suits, n/H : mm's ntrvism penis. 2/9: men's indigo Ym-ihn t.s, ."9/0; men's Roslvn boxed suits, 32/0; men's Roslvn ail-wool saddle trousers ?•/■*>; men's large red handkerchiefs, 3 for ]/-; lien's honeycomb tennis shirts, 3/0: iline nuigo costume serge. 50 inches wide. 7/0 yard, worth 10/0; Welsh flannel. 1 Oil yard; boys' Norfolk suits, sizes S to 11, 13/0; marvellous value; ladies' umbrellas, serviceable and smart, 3/0. HnnircUs of o tlier money-saving bo rgains. .