LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough Council meets this evenmg, Tho Taranaki Agricultural Society wishes to acknowledge with thanks tho receipt for £2 2s from the Ridd Mil .' in o Machine Company as a donation > • wards the prize-list of the autumn shu ■> to be held on February 25 and 20. On Saturday, the East End Bathing Reserve was again tlie gathering place for a large crowd of picnickers, when the employees of the Egmont Box Company held their annual picnic. The weather was glorious, and a most enjoyable time was spent by aIL Twenty-eight miles of telephone for £2OO that is the cost of construction to some settlers above Awakino who wanted the telephones installed. The poles used were not standard poles, but they serve as well. As showing the extent of the development that is going on in the back country of Taranaki, one large holder got down about three thousand acres of bush last year, and has had a good burn. It ■will be laid down in grass shortly and carrying stock next summer. ' '

At the meeting of tile Xew Plvmouth Borough Council to-night, the 'electric liffhfc committee will recommend that the application of the East End Bathinp Reserve committee for the loan of electrical fittings in connection with their bazaar, be referred to the electrical engineer with power to act. A pedestrian in Devon street 011 Saturday narrowly escaped being nm into by a motor car which was coming down hiil towards the comer of Currie street. The car passed 011 after a momentary pause and narrowly shaved another pedestrian. The (juestion of controling motor-car traffic on the streets of New Plymouth is one which urgently requires attention. The ear in question was certainly travelling too fast. Rome gangs make good pay on tho i public works; some very poor. An instance in point. One gang employed Oil work at lahora. 011 tiie railway Jine, averaged 28s a day. Another gang, with work almost identical, averaged Gs Sd One gang worked hard and long; all were goers and didn't mind the hours. The other gang were content to adopt tile Government stroke, as well as Government hours.

The s.s. Rarawa will leave Onehunga to-night, at 6.30, to enable the Australian cricketers to proceed South bv her. On inquiry lust night, we learn that the condition of Mrs. X. Fulton, of Stratford, who is at present seriously ill in the Xew Plymouth Hospital, Jias wen so far satisfactory. A London cable slates that the Kev. Burrows, Bishop Suffragan of Lewes, has been appointed Bishop of Sheffield. The. Reverend Hodgson, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne, has been made Bishop of Ipswich. Attention is drawn to a sale of thoroughbred horses at Messrs. Jackson Bros.' stables, 011 Thursday, 121 h inst. (sccoiid.raee day) by Mr. Newton King. The four lots io be offered are exceptionally well-bred, and should attract much attention from racinjj men. In the Supremo Court, 011 the motion of Mr. Quilliam (Govett ami Quilliam), probate of the will of the late J. K. Duncan, deceased, has been granted to Mr. R. 0. Duncan, of Clyistchurch, the executor named in the will; also of the will of the late Martlu Jane Juiian, of Inglewood, to Mr. 11. J. Julian, of Inglewood. The Commissioner of the Salvation Anny visited Waimate on Saturday, and was enthusiastically welcomed. The Chief Secretary (Lieutenant-Colonel I'owley) was present at Timaru. On Wednesday, the Mayor of Dunedin will open the new maternity hospital which the Army has erected i'll that city, and Commissioner Richards will give a brief address on the steady progress of the Army throughout the Dominion. Arrangements have been made by Mr. H. Okcy, M.l\, for the Hon. James Allen, Minister for Education, to visit New Plymouth 011 February "2{i. He will arrive on the evening of the 25th, and 011 the following day will probably visit the Moturoa oilfields, the Xew Plymouth High School, and the Taranaki Agricultural Society's show. In the evening he will be entertained at a dinner to be given by the Xew Plymouth Borough Council and the Society, to which the judges for the.show will also be invited.

The fact that the train from south, which should have arrived at 10.40 a.m. on Saturday, did not arrvie until forty minutes past that time, caused some caustic comments concerning the running of the New Zealand railways and of Tarnuaki trains in particular. The delay was caused by the extra amount of shunting at Kltham, in connection with the extra carriages required 'to convey the Kgmont Box Company's employees to New Plymouth, where they held their' annual picnic. The train was further delayed at Waipuku, where it had to wait for the second down-train to pass. Paul Dufaiilt, the great tenor, who is to be heard iu Xew Plymouth shortly, has been winning remarkable praise from both Australian and New Zealand critics. The New Zealand Triad hail-, him as "The poet of the concert-plat-form." and adds, "lie is the finest ami most satisfying concert tenor thai I have ever heard." At his coming concerts here, Mr. Dufault's assisting artists will include Miss Paulino Bindley, soprano, F.rnest Toy, the well-known violinist, and Harold Whittle, pianist. Mr. Whittle will be remembered as the pianist of both the Mclba anil De CU-> neios tours.

A lovely array-of men's new suits is being shown at the Melbourne. Ltd., 'These suits are being offered at prices solely in accordance with the rebate of twenty per cent, received from the manufacturers when the goods were bought •'job." Buyers of these suits are assured of a saving of from 7s Od to 13s, according to quality purchased. ■Several of the factors that go to the • making of a first-class high-quality eos■tume form the principal features of Mr. ..Cocker's replace atlvt. on page. 1 . With the large increase in cream separator manufacture, and the ever-in-creasing new brands, the advt. to-dav 011 page seven by Griffiths and Co.. of the Alfa Laval separator should be of more than passing interest to the dairymen who by now should be aware of the enormous profits resulting from the use of this class of machine.