LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 252, 23 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■! am Slm , to , ;e robbw| ■"'•■•''iisis. a woman, afterwards .oiin'd "'•'• i«sane distributed £BOO in ~ank'" '" <~i »o her fel!ow- pil9S eiigers in a tram '■i-r.wi'cn lontoise and Paris.

■M. a meeting held on Friday after'l'Min lukekiirn Park Saturday was fix- ;;" ""' tbn April, and it was also ;''" V", ~ mem, "-' l- s' subscriptions j'^jMßecollected a few days prior to

••"■•; mi I.-1 loll; will have the opport'in- '» ol witnessing an aeroplane i"'■>! month, when it is understood Mr ':'•"'";! will 11 v in his Caiidron hil"am- from c. suitable ground in New 1 b-m.piil.li. The date will probably is ' : " ,r ' " k "est, the 4th prox. A record dry spell has hcen expeiien.vil m Keefton. The town reservoir <'"»' iniiug WIO.fllH) gallons, has to !>c carefully husbanded, and water is only In be obtained during four lionr* ihilv Almost all the creeks are dry. The ~o'w Ijnr Kiver mine has been compelled to c'.o.v and other mines will soon be affected. Rain is anxiously awaile.l.

■""""■' veinarkable catches of eels have ; iakwi place of lute in the Wniniii .-dream, near Wellington. A parly „l liii''-i- wont of!in;>.in the stream i-ot-fiit- !.>■• 'ln the (irst night Uiev caught. 1-23 <"!-. on Ihc second SB, and'on the third '/:. The average length of the cols ras ■>!{ Bin. The largest measure,! -II «i".. ajul weighed .-,l)]]i s . Most of (he eels contained young trout. Captain Christopher Milling, one of the few holders of the New Zealand Oro.". who was the chief scout under '.'enoral Wbifmore in the Maori War. is lio-.v publishing a book of his romini--ceuces, states the London correspondent id' the Lvftclton Times. Captadi Miil'Mg has had a most adventurous life, and in the wars of lSflfl-70 against lie.. I!.u;hans he had unmerous narrow es-i-a-n - while scouting'.

l'.-'vil,iiig n hush valley in the Tainia district, Cormandel Peninsula, a wvii-'r in the New Zealand Herald savs: M .-•< rin-!; up the Talcatakahia. and jii.i-.'M'illy ascended to the. foot of the iii.etnlains. In some, parts the river-bod is i-o full of great masses of kauri that ii -s impossible to cross it. I believe 'ihere are over SOOO logs that have been ne.-uniuhitiiisr for the past two years, and some of tliem are so large that, although mounted on a fairly tall horse, I eniih! not see over them when riding -doue-ide. Nothing I have, witnessed before has given me such a vivid im-pi-,.;..i0n of importance of our tun !>■• i indiH.ry as riding among these liuge log* for mile after mile, and it is a sight one will probably never see again, foi I doubt whether there will ever ,-igairi be such an accumulation of kauri in one small valley."

Two more cases of diphtheria have been reported from Fitzroy.

The Hawera water-tower is to be officially tested on Wednesday. Tho opening of the new Doralto Road bridge will take place on Thursday next. The XI. Regiment Band will parade at the Red House Hotel at seven o'clock this evening and march to the Theatre Royal, to assist at tliu Carnival. It is understood tb.it on Saturday, April 4, Mr J. W. 11. Scotland will visit New Plymouth and give an exhibition of flying in his Camlron biplane. Tlie Rangatira sailed from Wellington on Saturday, taking shipment of between 12,000 and 14,000 cases of apples from Motueka district for South America. This easily constitutes the largest consignment yet sent from the Dominion in one ship. "Farm products cost more than they used to." "Yes," replied Mr. CorntosseL "vVhen a farmer is suppose,, to know the botanical name of wbao he's raisin' an' the zoological name of the insect that eats it, and the chemical name of what will kill it, somebody's got to pay." The aviator, Scotland, was to have made an ascent at the Athletic Park, Wellington, yesterday, and about 2000 people attended, but the wind was too boisterous to permit of an attempt to fly. The wind reached a velocity of 30 miles at hour at times. —Press Association.

A Manaia statistician, interested in the growth of the motor, set himself to count the number of the. cars that passed throueh Manaia on the day of the Opunake race mcetine last year, and made the number that went through in the course of about three 150. On Tuesday last he began a similar count, but retired from the job after he had got to 115.—Witness.

The; annual rc-union of the Fitzro" Fire Brigade took place in the Fitzroy Hall on Thursday evcniii". when a very successful and enjoyable function resulted. Supt. Bellringcr prodded over _ a good muster. Songs were rendered by Messrs. A. Lambert. A. f>urtnov, Keys. Wadman, Novell, and Harnett, and recitations by Messrs. Goldsworthv and Priest. A presentation was made to Fireman R. Davy, who has recently been married,

In St. Andrew's Presbyterian Oirch, yesterday, special services were conducted by the Rev. T. H. Roseveare, in celebration of tbe anniversary of the Sabbath school. At the morning service the children were banded in the cisntre of the church, and -Vtr Roseveare delivered an interesting illustrated sermon on "Stories that Talk,-' which was much appreciated bv the children. At the afternoon service the nrizes for the year were distributed, and in the evening the preacher took a* his subject "Pitching Towards Sodom."

At the Murrain deputation to the Hon. W. H. Merries, the chairman of the Waimnte County Council expressed the opinion that our present method of roadmaking is out of date. The mode of traffic requires different class of road. We have heard the same opinion expressed at the other council tables. When asked, Whv not : mid the roads to suit the present-dav traffic? the reply is, "Want of funds." If the present means of roadt'nnkiiig is out of date, then- it is extremely b- d finnncp to spend money in obsolete roadmaking Opunake Times.

"The; schools are just shockingly ventilated." said Nurse Maude in an address on Fresh air at the Tuberculosis Dispensary in {'hrislcbtirch, "f!o int.) one after tlie children lire gone out, and you will find tlio carbonic acid gas enough to poison you. And the churches are fifty times as bad as the schoolrooms. These men architects never seem to think thnt;the bad air wants to "ct out as much as the fresh 'air ueeds"to be brought in. They provide j„st little windows away up in the roof! They're not enough. The whole roof wants' u, be raised to do anv good "

A life-size greenstone Matnc i.s to iihiirn the anginal native owner of thfi Kite of ho town, and the fathe n laiuni and Tarapuni, V reat ~f. whom the Taiunisand^rapuhia 'f to-day are descended. This statue ,« to be erected as a mark of regard for their ancestors b.v the present native owners ot (frcymoiith, the Tainuis and larapulns. A huge block of greenstone has been located, and in a week or wo a representative party will visit the "est (.oust and make arrangements for excavating it and sending it to Wellington for carving. The statue wiP probably be the oulv one of its class m the world.

latea is exercised in mind at the action „f the. authorities in not. crediting the ports with the amount of produce they export, l'atea, like New Plymouth, is credited with no dairv produce exports for the past 'two nioni.is, which- of course is as ridiculous as it is misleading. Th<> local pimer says:—"Up to Monday last the va'l.ie of the cheese exported was over half a million pounds. Altogether there were some 187.3f>1> cases shipped which valued at DOs a case, work out at something like .C 018.07.-5. 'in addition to the cheese there were some 01100 boxes of butter also shipped as well as a large quantity of frozen meat, hides tnd other produce."

Pome creditors in the southern portion of Taranaki aie just now anxious concerning the whereabouts of -.'. dairy farmer,, on whose transactions they require more light (savs Saturday's Hawcra. Star). He was the owner of a leasehold, and 7nilk;d quite a fair-sized herd of cows. lie installed rmlking-ma-chincs and various farm ini'demonts, none of which he paid for. but secured loans on them protected under bill of sale. He recently sold his interest in his leaselogethcr with stock aril implements, as a going concer.:, for 11-100, £3OO deposit being paid. Then- is a mortgage of £7oo registered against the, lease, sv that the creditors have only a possible interest in £3">o, and the purchaser, ascertaining the complications, now refuses to complete. The firmer, in the meantime, has disappeared.

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