LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 10 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Next week the town should be full of I press-men and printers. 'Wie Press Association directors arrive ir.re on Saturday night and confer on Monday. That evening the country newspaper proprietors of New Zealand will meet. The next three days will be occupied as follows:—Tuesday, annual meeting of the United l're.-s Association; Wednesday, annual meeting of New Zaaland Newspaper Proprietors' Association; Thursday annual meeting of the Master Printers' Association; Friday, social function. The site for the Auckland fish market will be ready in about two months. Mr. M. J. lirennan lias disposed of (he Opuiiaku Times to his sou, Mr. Arthur J. lirennan. A Southland farmer who tried a fivemile race in his buggy with the express train w.13 fined £5 for cruelty to liU I horse.

Chinese, market gardeners jn Paliifi - ston report a very bad season. The persistent rain followed by dry weather had a bad cll'ect on crops. The West (bast is progressing. A shipment of fat lambs, the first seni from the district by train, was despatched from the Grey Valley to the Addington market the other day.

At last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council, it was decided that the Borough Inspector (Mr. B. Tippius) should in future have •barge of the Fitzroy pound.

The Huiroa teachers and school children are holding a picnic at the Mast Kud beach today. They will arrive Jy the usual morning train. This will be the first picnic the school has h'.-M. While coming into town yesterday morning from Ugmont Village, Mrs John Broughton was thrown from her trap, owing to the horse slipir'ng. She sti - tained a broken arm and facial injuring, She was brought into the New Plymouth hospital. The New Plymouth Borough Council iutends to make an effort to have Roto*.are (Barrett's Lagoon) vested in the Council as u public domain. At the meeting of the Council last night, ('Jr. Collis remarked that the nverve contains 48 acres, including a lake of six and a-half acres.

St. Mary's .Schoolroom was well filled last evening, when Mr Hugo gave his third leisure. During the lecture Mi - . Hugo made the remark that he knew the country as well as any laan, and in Kis opinion no town had anything that could come up to the New Plymouth Recreation Grounds. The next and last lecture will be nest Monday, upon "Eyes." The following increases 'in salary i have been granted to members of tho electrical staff of the New Plymouth Borough Council as from April 1:—II. Black, electrical engineer, £35; A. Sandilands, power-house engineer, £l2; A. Milne, linesman, £l2; W. 11. Huggett, linesman, £l2; 11. Malt, assistant, power house, £l2; S. liobb, clerk, sub-station, £l6. Mr W. L. Bailey, meter-reader, has been placed ou the permanent staff on the usual conditions, at a salary of £144 per annum. The following increases of salary have been granted to the staff of the Town Clerk of New Plymouth:—Town Clerk's department: K. Ilolden, £lB per annum; R. 11. Baily, £ls per annum; N. C. Harding, as from August 1, 11114, £l2 petannum; Miss Hill, bonus. £.">; general inspector, £G per annum and bicycle allowance, £5 4s. Borough Engineer's Department: G. B. Hooker, assistant, £1? per annum; C. Rogers, engine-driver, 'is per week. Unless otherwise mentioned, the increase will be from April 1. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Egmont Lodge, 1.0.0.V., M.U., was held last evening, Bro. I. Morrison, KG., in the chair. The secretary reported that since the last meetiug Bro. W. J. Ciyde, of Inglcwood, had diCJ. The late brother had joined the Indue on September 10, 1861. It was resolved to forward a letter of condolence to the family of the late member. The annual balance-sheet of the lodge showed the membership to be 211' mules and 10 females, n total of 230, and the accumulated funds f711i7 lis yd.

The New Plymouth High School still continues to go ahead. Yesterday tin principals were in attendance to receive parents of intending pupils and very satisfactory increases were recorded. In the boys' school GO new boys presented themselves, and after allowing for departures this will mean a total- increase of 30 pupils over the number enrolled last year, bringing the total up to between ItiO and 170. Eor the girls' school there was also ft satisfactory number of applications, but the rolls have not yet been finally made up. The refusal of the East End Bathing Reserve Committee to allow the XI. Regiment Band to play on the committee's reserve and take up a collection there was discussed at the meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. Cr. Colli? stated that lie thought that the idea had been to prohibit the collection of moneys at the reserve which would not be spent on its improvement. His Worship the Mayor said he understood the reason for the' refusal was the committee's, objection to having a collection taken up on its reserve on a Sunday, ar.l the matter dropped. What about your old straw hat! Don't buy another, Use Clenzat, the great Cleaner. Pric 3d., Sykes' ''harr.:£cy.

The Wanganui Bowling Club lias opened its fine new pavilion. A meeting of the Expansion an J Tourist Lwigue will he held to-morrow ovoiiing. Tho Borough Council decided hist night to offer a bonus for the best design for the formation of :>. carriage drive along the foreshore, from Te Ilemi: to the Breakwater. Persons who -are at present holding tickets for admittance to the MurphyIreland fight on Wednesday, the 11th inst., can, by calling at Collier's, book reserved scats without extra charge.

On the motion of -Mr. Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam) letters of administration "de bonis non" in the estate of John Copestako. deceased, have be»n granted by the Supreme Court to Mrs. SI. S. Exler and Mr. Frank Copestake. "Please withdraw my wanted advt. I'm Hooded with applications from all over the country. Your paper must go a very long way. 1 got two wires from Palmerston North this morning."—-Thus an advertiser to the Daily N'ews yesterday. '

The Press came in for some warm criticism at the hands—or the tongues —of the Mayor and one or two councillors last evening. It was accused of ignorance, misguidance, "swelled head," malevolence, and many other things. Our report is unavoidably crowded out.

Krom the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce we liave received a copy of a brochure devoted to the interests of that progressive district. It contains a dvscription of Poverty Buy's resources and attractions as a field for settlement and emigration, and is profusely illustrated with views of the. town and district.

The earthquake shock on Sunday morning was felt somewhat severely in St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth. One or two ladies, who appeared to he con- ] sidcrably agitated, made, a bolt for th» i door. ' The stone building swayed a great deal, but no damage was done. The acting-vicar went on with the ser-, vice as if nothing unusual had occurred. "The Bun," the latest addition to th'.' I'rcsw of the Dominion, made its appearance in Christehurch on Friday. It is a Hi-page paper, of :'. size smaller than the usual newspaper, and excellently got up and printed. It defines ita policy as "broad-minded and independent," eschewing partisanship and its consequent bickering. The promoters must mot be deficient in faith to launch a paper in a centre already splendidly served with newspapers, and ones which, apparently, are solidly entrenched eotnmcuciallj. Tkey desevrc succcnj iu it* fullest Measure,

Tie OyuuaKe c»rre»poadent of tho Hawera Star •« Saturday remarked:—

"Yesterday was Maori pay-day in Opumike, and the township had quite •■< busy appearance, as, apart from tho native clement, there was quite »n i»llhx of pakehas—apparently after debt.. One native, as soon as he was paid, went down to the clerk of the court and took out a prohibition order against himself, and while the ink was drying on the trdcr he hastened up town and promptly started to 'refresh'—it is imagined at the expense of hi» friend*,— and then, when expected to treat back, calmly informed them that V was . prohibited man."

Two chimneys were shaken down in Lower Hutt by the earthquake on Sunday, one over the billiard-room of theFamily Hotel and one in the dwdliag of Mr F. L. Simpson. Iu the latter case some bricks dropped down the chimney on the cooking-range below, driving a tongue of flame across the kitchen. The bells of the Hutt town cock clanged and several clocks were stopped in the Hutt Valley, including the I'etone municipal clock, which stopped at IIX. A curious foature of the quake was that while most clocks were put out of action, one resident of Peton > says th-.-.t tho shock started his clock going for the first time for many months. -Dominion.

Are Magistrates' notes part of Court proceedings? Mr. YV. G. K. Keniick, S.M., says uo. The query and answer were given at the Patea Court on Thursday (says the Wnngnnni Chronicle). Mr. O'Dea, it appeared, made application through official channels to examine court documents of a certain case. The S.M.'s notes were included. Mr. O'Dea quoted at the Court sitting from the magisterial notes, and it was in reply to the enquiry from the Bench as to how he obtained access to the notes that Mr. O'Dea said he considered they were part of the court proceedings. His' Worship, however, maintained that they were, not so. He. did not take evidence; he merely took notes, and ho. objected to such being handed over to anyone without his consent. Air. O'Dea, while regretting the Incident, remarked that ho wanted it to be understood that he obtained use of the notes in [a perfectly legitimate way: by application through Court channels. Additional particulars of the hurricane whioh swept over tho small French island of Makatea were received in Auckland on Thursday by the Union Company's steamer Talune, which arrived from the Cook and Society Islands. The hurricane, which appoars to have been of a very seveTe nature, occurred at the beginning of January, and was felt throughout the various islands situated in that portion of the. Tacilic Ocean. The Talune arrived at Rarntonga from Auckland several days after the hurricane had occurred, and it was then learned that the news had already readied both Rarotongsi and

Papoete. The report which was first received in Auckland concerning the damage done at Makaton was confirmed by the residents at Itarotonga. The wharf nl the island was demolished,and most of the natives' huts destroyed, ft was also stated that it would be fully six months before everything in connection with the phosphate trade was in proper working order again. Although the hurricane wa.s not severely felt at Rarotonga and Papeete, it was reported that a heavy gale had raged for several days throughout the various groups. YOU SHOULD BE DETERMINED in rejecting the worthless and frequently injurious counterfeits which arc sometimes pushed for the sake of greater (jain as "nist as good" as the GENUINE SANDER' & SONS' VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Be not deceived, SANDER'S EXTRACT is recognised by the highest medical authorities as p* sensing unique stimulating, healing and antiseptic powers. The preparation of SANDER'S EXTRACT from the pure se iccted leaves, and the. refinement by spe cial processes, give it curative virtues peculiarly its own. Therefore, be not misled. Demand and insist upon the GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT, and you will derive the benefit that thou sands have reaped from it before. When ill you should not depress yourself mop by the common, bulky and nausea tins eucalyptus oils mid so called extracts'' What yon want is quality and reliability, in small dose, and this you frac 1 in SANDER'S EXTRACT.