LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 301, 13 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Sunday eight inches of snow fell at the North Egmont Mountain House on Sunday, the heaviest fall this year. Mr. BirdUng, of Waitara, recently shipped 218 lambs Home. He has just received a cable that the actual net result was 15s lid per carcase. On the application of Mr. Roy (Roy and Nicholson), probate of the will of John Luke, late of Fitzroy, was granted by Mr. Justice Edwards on the 7th inst., to Lucy Fredericka Luke, the executrix therein named.

Large congregations greeted the Redemptorist Fathers at the opening exercises of their- mission in St. Joseph's Church on Sunday. The mission will be continued during the week.

Probate of the will of Harriet Hake, late of New Plymouth, widow, was, on the application of Mr. Nicholson (Roy and Nicholson), granted by Mr. Justice Edward on April 21 to E. F. Halse and J. B. Roy, the executors therein named.

The Rarawa was unable to leave Onehunga yesterday afternoon on account of the unfavorable weather there. She will therefore miss the trip and will not arrive here till Thursday morning, sailing the same evening on her return to Onehunga.

The casual camp of the Xlth Taranaki Regiment of Territorials will be held at Oringi from 23rd to 31st inst. The men, will leave New Plymouth by the mail train and travel as far as Palmerston North, thence by train leaving Palmerston at 4.40 p.m. After a short discussion, the Borough Council last night adopted the following motion at the instance of the Mayor, seconded by Cr. Kibby:— "That the question of framing a standard test to be possessed by drivers of licensed motor-cars before being granted drivers' licenses be referred to the By-laws Committee, and that in the meantime the inspector be authorised to grant temporary licenses, using his own discretion as to whom licenses shall be granted." The management at the Empire Theatre has decided on a change in the seating accomodation in the body of the hall. The tip-up scats are being removed to the back of the hall, and, commencing from next Wednesday, the Cd part of the house will be the section of seats nearest the screen. Entrance to this part of the house will be through the side passage. The stalls and dress circle will be entered through the main front hall, and the charge will be Is to all seats.

The meeting called for this evening in tli! Taranaki County Council Chambers for the purpose of making arrangetrunt* for the monster carnival in aid of a new set of instruments for the band of the XI Regiment Taranaki Rifles, will not take place. Professor Cardston, who was to conduct the meeting, is unable to reach New Plymouth in time, owing to the fact that the Rarawa has been bar bound at Onehunga. The meeting will take place at a later date, due notice of which will be advertised.

A hoy cyclist hart a startling experience on Saturday. A motor car containing four members of the Rovers Football team was proceeding to Okato, and, when on this side of Oakura, ran into a boy on a bicycle. He was riding in front of the car, and. becoming startled at its approach, attempted to cross on the wrong side of the road. There was an ominous thud, the car was immediately stopped, and to the surprise and relief of the motorists the youthful cyclist was seen clinging to the bonnet of the car. Despite his miraculous' escape from death, the youngster's 'first thought was for his headgear. "Have you seen my hat anywhere?" he inquired, and then in the same unperturbed way, "I wonder if the bike's smashed?" The bike was a complete wreck, and it was a work of art disentangling it from the ■works of the car.

The usual weekly meeting of the Egmont Lodge No 112 was held in the Good 1 Templar Hall last night. The business for the evening was Quarterly Reports and Installation. Reports were read by the Secretary, Treasurer, and Marshal, and were afterwards discussed by the Lodge. The following officers were then installed bv the L.D.: —C.T., Sister Mrs. Legg; V.T., Sister B. Connett; Chaplain Sister Brace; P.C.T., Bro. Hartnell; Secretary, Sister L. White; Assistant Secretary, Sister R. Reid; F.S., Bro. H. Hayden; Marshal, Bro Reid; Deputy Marshal, Sister Lammerton; Guard, Bro. Cottam. The programme for the evening was "New Officers to entertain," and the following items were rendered: Recitations, Sister B. Connett, Sister L. Bruce, Sister Reid, Bro. Reid, and Sister Lammerton; pianoforte solo, Sister B. Rusden, harp solo, Bro. Reqkitts.

The matter of the proposed Taranaki Court at the Auckland Exhibition was mentioned by the Mayor at last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council. In view of the failure of the suggested combined action on the part of local bodies in the Province, Mr. Browne considered that New. Plymouth should do something on its own account to he represented at the exhibition. To his mind the Council shoi'ld -take steps to this end. Or. A. H. Johnstone contended that it was a matter for the individual producers, and they, not the Council, should bear any expense incurred. It did not stand to benefit the Borough Council. A suggestion was made that the Mayor should convene a meeting and enlist the co-op-eration of the general public, but ultimately it was decided to write to the secretary (Mr. Richards, of Stratford) of the promotors of the proposed Taranaki Court, inquiring what steps had been taken and the whole position of the project.

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Solicitors practising in Auckland seem unanimous in the opinion that the tim« has come for the appointment of a third magistrate to cope with tho large amount of business coming before the Magistrate's Court.

Mr. E. Short, or Pororangi, and another Rangitikci breeder, last week sent away 28 trucks of cattle to be killed at Auckland for export to the Argentine. The cattle consisted chiefly of Shorthorns and Horefords.

Sir John Rollcston, M.P., has introduced into the House of Commons a Bill of two clauses to forbid the docking of horses' tails. Some English magistrates regard docking as cruel, and will convict an oH'ender, whilst other stipendiaries refuse to convict.

The fact that the greatest opportunities which New Zealand oilers to the farmer are being recognised was emphasised upon the arrival of the Marama from Vancouver on Tuesday. By the steamer there came a wealthy Canadian farmer, who has been making enquiries concerning the prospects of securing a farm in the North Island. It is his intention to secure a sheep station, and for this purpose he left Auckland to make an extensive tour of the farming districts.

Of the four thousand and forty men in camp at Oringi last month, nine hundred and thirty-seven were treated by the medical staff. This may seem a very high percentage, but it must be remembered that, when doctors with big reputations are to be consulted free, gratis, and for nothing, patients will not be wanting. Trivial complaints are also responsible for many of the nine hundred odd cases, while instances of that virulent disease "malingering" were not conspicuous by their absence. The champion stand of Japanese chrysanthemums in the show in Christchurch on Wednesday were grown at Amberley, by a lady of fifteen (says a southern paper). The blooms caused the experts to marvel,- for they were a distinct advance on anything previously seen in Christchurch. One of the judges, who was a noted grower in England, and was unsurpassed as an exhibitor here, agreed that the blooms were better than anything he had ever seen. The other judge—a leading grower from Dunedin—expressed the opinion that the blooms were in the nature of a freak, and Nature could not be expected to do the aame again.

A correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, writing from Greymouth, does not take a very encouraging view of the prospects of the Otira tunnel. "The fact is," he writes, after describing the position, "the tunnel as at present laid out will never be completed. They must divert it to emerge on the south (or coach road) side of the river. I have seen and talked to so many of the men engaged on the work that I know as much, if not more, than the 'arm-chair engineers' of the Public Works Department, and, as you know, I have in my time had a bit of experience in road work, if not actual tunnelling. I have always thought there would be trouble if they bored under the river-bed, as it is of so porous a nature, and now the engineers have founti it out, and work at the Bealey end is stopped." The correspondent distributes the blame for the state of affairs that' has arisen with deligMful impartiality, but he suggests that the present Minister of Public Works has failed to make himself acquainted with all the facts.