LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 11, 13 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The door-takings at the Taranaki Winter Show for the past two days total £IOO. Of this amount yesterday's takings contributed £125. "if the weather continues fine, the Show will prove a record financial success.

A speaker at the Casein Company's luncheon yesterday stated that his company, who had taken up casein manufacturing, was paying out 11 per cent, more to suppliers than would be the case were the company making either cheese or butter.

Ueplving to a reporter oil his return from England on Tuesday, Sir William Mall-Jones said:—"l have no intention whatever of re-entering public life in New Zealand. I have had a long time of it, and now i think T should let others have a turn," said Sir William. "Things at Home are exceedingly prosperous at the present time," remarked the Hon. James Allen to a preasman in discussing his visit to England. "Trade is booming, money is in great demand, and prospects generally are exceedingly promising. Certainly they are having 1 j.-il>ot - troubles there as everywhere, and they hamper industry to a certain extent." Tuesday next will he the occasion of two great events in the history of Kew I'lvmoiith, the first attraction being the visit of the battleship Xew Zealand, and the second the screening at the Empire Theatre of wha't is perhaps the greatest and most expensive picture ever filmed, namely, "Queen Bess," with the world's most celebrated actress, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, in flio title role. What Beethoven was as a musician, what Michael Arigelo'waa as a sculptor and architect, what Shakespeare was. as a dramatist, Sarah Bernhardt is as an actress. She has moved millions to tears and smiles, and her dramatic power in this piece is little short of marvellous.

1 Two Vtflawr e#s*s »w.«re <ierft> with by Mr. A.' Crrioke, S.M., .at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Roy Parkin, for driving a vehicle without having both lamps alight, was fined ss, without casts. George Hooker, for riding his wife mulcted in a penalty of 7s lid and Tb costs. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. £>. Crooke, 8.M., an application was made for an order for the payment of maintenance and other moneys, by John William Stains, the father of an illegitimate child. His Worship made an order for the payment of £i:t I .'is, medical and nursing homo charges, £.5 to be paid forthwith. Costs were allowed. Mr. H J. H. Okev, M.P., recently forwarded to the Minister for Public Works (Hon. W. Kraser), a petition from a number of settlers holding land on the upper Carrington road, requesting that this road should be opened up between the Keri river and the Oxford road. He has now received a reply stating that the request will have the Minister's careful consideration. The feature of the deadlock which has resulted over the proposed New Plymouth Hospital building, is that • the present building is to be made a home for incurables for the whole province', the Department holding that concentration in this respect would mean a big saving in expenditure. Naturally, Hawera, Stratford, and all the rest are now looking to New Plymouth to take these eases, but a solution of the money problem has not yet presented itself, and they will have to look in vain, presumably, for quite a long while.

The plans of the proposed New Plymouth Hospital building have cost the local Board the big sum of £472. Last night the Board's chairman (Mr. TV T. Rellringer), when interviewing the'-ITon. R. H. Rhodes, complained that the Department could give the Board no model plans, and thus save part of such a iiig expenditure. The Minister suggested that the many and varied shapes and styles of building required, as well-as' the continual changing which progress demanded, made the matter of model plans an unworkable suggestion. The Hon. R. Tleaton Rhodes (Postmas-ter-General and .Minister for Public Health) received a deputation last night on the subject of the duty on oil-boring machinery. Mr. E. Griffiths, representing the various Taranaki oil companies, asked the. Minister that he would use his influence to have the duty on this class of machinery entirely removed. He pointed out that dairy machinery came in nearly free, whereas on an oil- j boring plant, which might cost as much as £3OOO, the duty was many hundreds of pounds. The Government should realise that this was a young industry that required fostering, and would amply repay for that assistance, when it had taken firmer hold. In reply, the Minister said he would be very glad to bring this matter under the notice of the Hon. F M. 15. Fisher (Minister for Customs.) As far as he was personally concerned, the proposal had his support, as he believed in encouraging an industry which, he was assured, was for the general good of the country. . The Wanganui Chronicle publishes a rumor as current in Marton that a local resident had fallen heir to a fortune of four millions. There seems to be foundation for the report, though the gentleman in question is only one of six to share the money, which really totals the respectable sum of four-and-a-half millions. ft is the same legacy which a Rewa fanner was recently ered'ed with having received. The' Rewa '•.•an, Mr. G. Hartley, is now Home. He '• ;s made several trips for the same pur- '•• namely, to collect his share—but 'i:itil recently had not the evidence to establish his claim. It is understood that this has now come to light in the form of a family Bible; 140 years old, containing a reliable record of the family tree. Mr. C. Hartley, of Porewa, near Marton, has been sent for to go Home. The money, which belongs to the Hartley estate, comes from a greatgrandfather, through the late Mr. Hartley. the Maori interpreter, of Palmerston North. Two Wanganui residents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacques, are among the lucky ones to claim a sixth' share. The money is not in C'hancerv.