LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 21 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Says the Wauganui Herald:—"Wanted —Man to milk one cow and gardeii; not found. Apply We should think not!

A meeting of the executive committee of the Moturoa Regatta will be held in the bathing tshed at Moturoa at 7 o'clock to-night. It will be followed at 8 p.m. by a general committee meeting. It is understood that the price of milk has been raised to sd. per quart in Wellington since the first of the present month, tlie rise being rendered unavoidable by the scarcity of milk in the districts supplying the capital city. George Main, the New Plymouth carpenter who is alleged to have attempted to commit suicide on (Saturday night, was yesterday remanded by Mr. A. Crooke, 6.M., to appear on Monday next to answer «, charge of attempted suicide.

The Tarata Dog Trials take place on Thursday and Friday next. Good entrios have been received, and given fine weather the meeting Bhould be a markoa succes3. Arrangements have been made whereby refreshment# may be obtained on the grounds,.

The Fitzroy beach presented a busy aeeue on Saturday, whan quite a crowd were to be see® collecting the piles of drift wood which had been brought down tlie various rivers l)jr tile recent floods, and deposited tncreon. An occasional Hoed is quite. a !>«•& in these days ot dear firing.

In view of the oadefc parade for the inspection by General Sir lan Hamilton, Inspector-General of tho Overseas Forces, the term 'holidays of the Hew Plymouth Boys' High School will be curtailed one week, so that the'school will break up on May Ist, ani re-open on May 18. The girls' school witt dose on May 8, one week later than usual, in order to complete the term's work, which has been somewhat br»ken.

"The young colonial'needs to be kept in check," said a. Cambridge delegate (Frank Reynolds) at the annual meeting of tho Auckland Acclimatisation Society. "I have been out shooting with lots of them," he continued, "and have found many to be nothing more than common poachers. We members of the Society should do all in our power to stop this unsportsmanlike practice.'-' The visitor admitted that he was a "young colonial" himself, but he claimed to be abore'such practices as those outlined.

The present troubles in Mexico (nays a London writer) recall the "rejoicings" (well stage-managed) in that thorny land on the occasion, just 60 years ago, of the entry, into Mexico City of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, chosen Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon 111., and his consort, Princess Charlotte. One hundred thousand Mexicans, including great numbers of Indians in their picturesque costumes, "acclaimed" their sovereign, and all was leather and prunella. In the midst of the popular enthusiasm an incident occurred which was regarded as an omen of coming ill. At the head ,of the imperial procession rode that sinister figure in tho FrancoGerman war of 1870, Marshal Bazaine, and his horae, taking fright at the noise, backed on the side of the imperial conch was such violence that disaster was narrowly averted. 1 Tkree years latsr Bazaine wag back in France, and thu unfortunate Maximilian was shot by order of .luaroK. The Empress Charlotte became insane, and spent the rest of her days in a private asylum in Belgium. Another Hapuburg tragedy!

Wherever there is a oold Df. Slioldon't New Biscovory is tho ahorteet pathway to good health. Prico Is <Jd and 3s, Obat Johnston Bros.

It is possible that a municipal function will be arranged for General Sir lan Hamilton on the occasion of his visit New Plymouth on May 20. A deputation from the Kew Plymouth Borough Council will i-ait on the Hon. W. Fraser, Minister for Public Works, during his forthcomiig visit to New Plymouth, with reference to clauses in the electric light license, to which the electrical engineer ha 9 taken exception. A North Canterbury farmer who is himself an ardent supporter of Ulster in her fight against Home Rule, has just received from a relative living in file disturbed province a letter in which the writer expresses a veiy poor opinion of Sir tdwurd Carson's "volunteers." In Ulster tlisy have ciraiiiviiced to drill for civil, war," runs one paragraph, '-'but it is really laughable to see the sort of people who have joined the volunteers. I here are some who if you took a stick and shook it at them would run."

At last night's meeting of the Borough Council, the mayor, in proposing the raception of the towii clerk's report for the year, congratulated that official on the valuable statement which he >had .compiled, and expressed the opinion that the town was fortunate in possessing so zealous and efficient a servant. These remarks met with the cordial support °* th e Council, and Or. Johnstone emphaaised tho importance of looking closey ln ''f> the Tarioug suggestions made in the report, inore especially those dealing the purchase of the gas works, and the 'housing of the Skjinner collection.

» A deputation of Fitzroy residents was expected to wait on the New Plymouth Borough last night to protest against tne action of the Council in proposing to annex the Fitzroy hall site as a site for the tram-ear siheds. A letter was, however, received from one of the fitzroy committee aet up to deal with the question, stating that as the Counc ; l ii n ?, w propose to use the site of the na,ll, the deputation would not appear, but he trusted'' that the Council would go on with its applicatien for s P e ™'t to take the trains over the WaiwaJcaiho bridge. A couneillor remarked that the Fitzroy committee must be better informed than the Council itself. '

Th« Borough Council proposes t» level up the ugly dip in Xfatson street near' the cemetery gates. Resideilts in the locality petitioned the Borough Council j •last night against going on with the work in sucih a manner ae would inter- I fere with the traffic on Xcach' street and j the old railway route to Fitzroy. It was ' explained r that a gvade of one in 20 was being provided in Watson St., and even- j tually the road along the eld railway line ' would be constructed on a grade of one in 44. Much other isattex was discussed, but it appeared that the residents' fears and representations were based on incorrect information itnd a. want pf knowledge of the Council's real plans. There was * "do or die" tone about the Borough Coimcil last night. The owner of a stable who bad received notice to pull the buikling down on tha gTounds of msanitatioi wrote statins that the building was bow in a sanitary condition and, moreover, was not now being used as a stable, and he thous\it it Tf th« siibject of persucution bv the aealth Dcpartmtnt. Someone suggested that the Borough inspector should inspect the stable. Cr. Clarke remarked that the inspector "might get shot" if he did, whereupon the mayor philosophically remarked that he would havfe to get shot! Gr. Ambury, however, pointed out that b)ie inspector was too valuable a servant to be summarily sent his doom, and it wa"s";decided to forward the letter to the Heajth Department instead.

At the Borough Council meeting last night Mr. B. Tippijis, general inspector, reported for the year ended March 31st, - 1914, that, 500 dogs had been registered ] (representing £l2B lis fid i# fees), 100 - drivers' licenses i.fsued (£4O 10s), 120 • vehicle licenses (£113) and billiard saloon fees taken to' the amount of £2O. Fees for motor-cars and cycles collected amounted £59 53, dangerous goods licenses £34 10s, public halls £25, lodging houses £ll, hawkers' licenses £7, and pound fees £43 Us (id. He had prosecuted in 104 cases of breaches of the i>orough by-laws, and only one case was dismissed, while three were withdrawn. Fine 3 received amounted to £32 17s. A considerable amount of his time had been taken up in serving notices on property owners, calling on them to connect with the sewer; and in inspecting back yards. His total receipts , amounted to £515 123, as against £468 ; last year. < Mr. Gadsby, who has a 1000-acrc farm i near Te Kuiti, assured an Auckland > Herald writer that he has shorn 2400 1 sheep on the property before it was fully broken in. The Herald' writer conr tinues: When I visited Mr. R. Weir's I place at Mangahoe he told me that from E 1500 acres of grass he had sold £BOO i worth of wool, 600 wethers at 235, and , had 100 bullocks ready to sell which he estimated would readily command £7 I per head. These figures give some idea of the productive value of King Countryland in its first stages of pasture, but it haa to be recognised that there is an ' immense amount of arable land on which i the finest fodder and root crops can be ' , grown. When cropping is carried on in , conjunction with pasture the returns , per acre both from dairying and from ! sheep will very largely increase so that ■ a.part from the immense area of absoi lutely virgin country which has yet to be made use of great increase can be expected from the land at present altogether under pasture. A distressing case was before the Hawera S.M. Court on Saturday, resulting in six children being committed to the Auckland Industrial Home. Detec-tive-Sergeant Boddam stated that tinfather of the five children before the Court, their ages ranging from two to twelve, years, was a sharemilker at Okaiawa. The five children were living with liim, and in addition there was another child in ili e deaf and dumb institution at Auckland, and another two months old under the. care of a relative at Eltham. The father had recently lost his wife, and since the mother's death the children had been kindly looked after by Mrs. .Sutherland and the neighbours. The father was in indigent circumstances and unable to look after the children, who were in a somewhat neglected condition. The father, whose earnings were 25sa week/offered to pay £3 a month towards the support of the children, Adding that he was already paying towards the support of the child in the Deaf and Dumb Institute. The Magistrate committed the five children, and the infant, at IfilUiam, to the Auckland Industrial Home, am! ordered the father to contribute 3s per week towards each child. His Worship the father to see that the moneys were paid regularly, otherwise proceedings would be takes agninit him.—Abrid"ed from Star. i JOIN THE AK\TY. | of those who have tested the wonderful curative virtues of Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment, ft gives q U j c |, re ]j,,f lnfl >Wriv inre whenever applied to "a I'lirti hii stnr. bruise. or a pmn or sore •)f any nature. Price, is «d, and 3g. Obble at Johnston Bros. Dainty Rimless Eyeglasses. Ernest TavieSi the London optician.