LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 3, 4 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The rainfall in Inglewooi last month totalled 9.27 inches.

There were no bankruptcies in Wellington during May, compared with two in May, 1912. The Forestry Commission has concluded its work and forwarded its report to the Governor.

It is stated that the moose liberated at Preservation are doing exceedingly well, and that they, are increasing at a satisfactory rate.

It is not generally known that the late Captain Scott, the Antarctic hero, unveiled the hatchment in St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth, to the memory of the men of H.M.S. Niger, who took no unimportant part in the local Maori war. Colonel Heard, Director of Staff Duties and Military Training, and a member of the Dominion General Staff, is conducting tu Bin Dunedin j n connection with Ii Jacking of a newspaper reporter at. tlie button camp. The enquiry will be purely of a departmental nature and not open to the press.

Auckland taxi-cab drivers are getting a reputation for fleecing visitors," said the traffic inspector (Mr. J.. B. Lindsay) in the Auckland Police Court recently, when prosecuting a taxi-driver for charging more than the fare allowed by the city by-lawg. '

It is not uncommon for people in other parts of the Dominion (says the Dunedin Star) to refer to Dunedin as slow and lacking in enterprise. Thev however, are quick enough to look to this city when any financial difficulty crops up. A local body in the north tried to raise a loan of £IO,OOO, but without succeßS - Th ® n they sent to Dunedin, where no difficulty was experienced in setting the money at 5 per cent. y®9-, rs a go an organiser visited Hutt and Petone, advocating the suppression of the Chinese storekeepers, but met with no response on the part of the residents. A month ago the matter was again brought up by the European fruiterers, and an effort is now being made to prevent the Celestial from underselling the European, but it is only receiving luke-warm support. °

.I °'L Friday Dr. and Mrs. Sloan, and the Rev. T. McDonald, of Hawera, met with a serious accident, from which, however, they most fortunately escaped with comparatively little injury. They had been to _ Waverley, and were nearing Maniitahi on the return journey, when two of the tyres became displaced, and. swerving, the motor capsized, all the occupants being thrown under the car. Dr and Mrs Sloan were absolutely pinned' and could not move, but the other occupant was able to crawl out without diffi°"i J Rev " McDon '' l ld raised the side of the car sufficiently to allow of ' . f lo '™ and then by their joint efforts they raised it further so that Mrs. Sloan was got out, but in an' unconscious state. She is the worst sufferer by the accident, but her injuries aye not; regarded as serious.—Wanganui l-lironicle.

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About twenty supporters of the Taranaki A. & P. Association attended the working bee at the Coronation Hall yesterday afternoon, and did a lot of useful work. Arrangements for the show are now in a very advanced stage.

There is no possibility, apparently, of the continuance of the double express service to Auckland during the winter. A letter to this effect was received by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce on Monday from the Minister of Railways. The Chamber decided to ask the Government to put on three night expres trains from Wellington to Auckland weekly.