LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 22 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mushrooms have v-„ ~,„■; i ell |~riv *'"'"» jn parts <,f T;,:„- during the past fortnight.

A Welliinrton l' n , VK „,..,,..„.,, si ., i( , a that on the co-operative ■■■:-.« ".!- o 'o'l me,, have been aide to m-,'-.- as a',,,,.], as lis p,. r ,]., lv ,_,,• ron ,. r ~ v "»'l nearly another lis ~a I •, -,f lint sometimes. "

How far siii-li matter, v.: '. ~.„„,,! led by the cxpomlif lire e'' ■!.- ~j,eet loans is not known, but ~ '•" :■ '•<[ lint many of the inigraiellr- V, : .■>!:„ j n the westward porlinn 0 f i'.,. i;„n,u«b are dangerously slipporv i : , •.■,.! ■.■.•e.->|l,|" r

M: the Waitiiru II;, v! v, r i:„ ,i ■„,.,,. "Ik on friday night. M,-. Pi,-,;:;.;,, moved that the (lovernmeiit bo re,-,., mended l<> iipuoint Mr. A. 11. J| :i l, . [,.. ;is the t'overmmmt nominee on Hi; ,■ d He added that it was desiral :„ : >-' north''Hi part of the district sh eld l,e better represented. Mr. Ogle , ; ,,ed as an amendment that, as the ;■ ■■'■: ■>• was in the lunula of the (.overmn, ■~' ,'.,. ]:„ard lake no action. Mr. Vau-i- ... seconded. Ihe motion was then put ■■• 'he vole ami resulted in Messrs 0/ '■•. ;i ne, and Vaughan vot.iji«» for th<* si" :„;-,r M |'. and Messrs Jenkins, Hirdlinj..- :v.[ llieks against, and the amenrfm, n e ■■- declared lest with the chairman's eastim; vote. Mr. liirdling's motion wro ■ -.T -d with the idiairman's east in,,' vet,.. V r , ] fin,., or. :> point of order, asked if if was not usual for a. chairman, when eveivisimr ]"' ! -. casting vote, lo cast '! , - the »v isting order. The chairman wid thai might he so, but he kney, that in the past the Board hud made recommend;. - ojis regarding the nominee.—Mail,

''Hcrriosville" is to ibe the name of a district in Ohinemuri County, apparently iu compliment to the Native Minister. "People imagine there can be no dumniyism wlien they have the freehold. In I'aranaki tiiero are many farmers with mortgages on their farms, owning only about o per cent, of their lands, while liie money-lender owns 95 per cent. That is as much dummy-ism as anything.''—. Mr. Veitch at Aramolio recently.

A'writer in un'English newspaper says that one result of woman .suffrage in NewZealand is that ''Xo boys arc allowed on the streets selling newspapers or acting js messengers after (1 p.m." lie further says that "Not a girl under IS, not a boy under Hi is anvv.-liere at woik, ami there s a sent; -n-n, '■". fav.n- of raising these limits." \\ hut fair-, stores people do write about Xevv Zealand.

The report that residents of Holdsworthy road, v'ogoltown, have, established a swimming bath on the road, to the great hindrance of passenger ami other traffic, is denied. Emjuiry elicits the fact that the water which almost imprisoned some of the householders in their houses yesterday was only about six inches deep, and that, far from being intentionally conducted to that spot, is the result of re-making the street. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases.—James Wallace v. Walter Bayley, £1 lGs (costs ss); Xewton King v. Jas. John Fitzgerald (costs only, lis 6d); Michael Jones v. John Reid, £5 (£L 5s fid); Kenneth F. Andrews v. Edward Still, £8 !>s fid (£1 3s fid); New Plymouth General Laborers' Union v. Henry Busby, £1 Cs (6s).

The only application for a judgment summons order -before the Magistrate's Court yesterday was the case of A. S. Brooker (Mr. J. 0. Nicholson) v. Charles Rogers. The amount of, the judgment debt was £6 13s 3d. The debtor stated in evidence that he had been an insurance agent until three weeks ago, since when he had been out of work. Sinco the date of the judgment, November 25, his earnings, with a pension of 10s per week, had amounted to 30l per week. He was single. On his own application the case was adjourned until May 20. The lucrative nature of the boxer's profession when the boxer is a champion is strikingly instanced in the case of Georges Oarpentier, who, though barely out of his teens, has already won £lB,500 (the "Daily News" says). In 1009, when ho began, he won £36, in 1910, £100; in 1911, £1320; in 1912,£7000; in 1913, £8000; and this year it is asserted that this winnings will be still higher. The Press reckons that if Carpentier had remained a miner's'apprentice at Yens, he would have had to work about 197 years at the rate of seven francs a day to earn this sum. A curious mishap occurred on Mr. C. M. Threikeld's Inglcwood property, Flaxton, (Canterbury) or. Monday. Two young horses had been harnessed, to a farm roller in the yard with a view to beginning work, when they took fright at something and bolted. They careered through tlie yard with the big roller bouncing along behind, and out through the gateway on to the road. The gates hiivo exceptionally big concrete posts, and the roller took gate and posts with it, but the shock sent horses, roller and all head-over-hecls into, the deep ditch of running water that flanks the road. The horses were extricated more scared than 'hurt, but the roller had to be left for later manipulation, A young man against whom a warrant of commitment for failing to pay arrears in the upkeep of his illegitimate child was issued in Vebruavy last year, will, no doubt, be experiencing keen regret that he went to Tnvercargill to spend the Easter holidays, (says the Southland Times.) When the warrant was issued, the man disappeared and was not heard of until last Christmas, when it was alleged that he spent a day or two in Ihvercargill. Ou that occasion, however, lie left the express at Woodlands and motored for the rest of the journey, unknown to the police. On Thursday night he again went south, but this timi-'he did not take the precaution of finiihing the journey by motor, and no sooner had he stepped on to the railway platform than he was quietly informed that he was "wanted." lie was hurried away to the police cells, and from there to the gaol.

Almost all the -Tews in die world got their supply of Passover bread from tlic United States when they celebrate the deliverance of their ancestors from the bondage of their ICgvptinn masters some 3000 years ago. In Hebrew, the bread is called matzos. A Cincinnati matzos factory, in operation onlv three months out of twelve, .bakes bread for about one-fourth of all the .lews living. The unleavened bread starts from the "fact or v early in December, and when the pushover feast comes in March, the bread i« m the hands of if, people in China and IVttvpt. The present clav niatzos is l,;lk«il 'by strain and ehvti'icit ■,-, unlike the original product baked in'the beat ot the sun, when the i|,-,.i n <v Jews left iVSO'Pt. in such a hum- [hat lliev did „ou '; IVl ' '""<> t I Hieir bread go through the i.i'oper Weniug v process. The produet is so in demand from this one futon,' that f.ltl) barrels of Hour are consumed every week for three months in converting the. pastry donirh into the Id-over-grown cracker-, void of salt anil shortening. ,\|,„„| |„|i ls () f ,i, llk(1(1 mat a minute is (he average rate of produc-

xVus eouies l,v m; iil tli iU .1,,,!,,,, [ji,|. I«.V, I'lesidimreal tin- Hampshire si-iitrm-i-,! ;iuv,. ,„,,„. -named W;.] ( ,.,: I ;" 1 '■ • |:l,il, : s l»'»»ili-in. ami James (,'rain-gi'r--tu av.lul iiTins or imprisonment for "Unit poai'lii,,.,- ,vith ann, at TJou-,1 .. illlv tt ,„ siV( , u s( . ven voar.s pi-nal Dou-i1,..,, fivevnv-. I 1" three year.. Those' who --now life ,„ (Jo. K.nrlisli comities at ad 1-jHiw V ]ni a ~-,,,! 1,. 1! .|>1 1 ,ti. m «„.,,. " ?' V |,''l,' st - S U "' ''"' -'■='"(i'y-]j ; ii l l n-ri-1,-- ; , , ni '". a »: i "'■•■"•' M.s''' , .wn",i;!„!'.' :: 'tt t«.' pnro ol meal mK„,!,,:,U1„. laborer lose ,a„„lv ,„ | : ,,., ( , .„„, ,„,.„.,,. 1:1 "»"■-< ; ;i-'V" hi'-er families tl 1;lll ■,!„.;,. «■*'■■ «.!M, :i ,l ::„,!» i,a verv dirtmuH »',» ! thes-lit oi.-real areas ~f |. lnil ] o ,a.. l''| eile OMIIISIM. Use „f sporlsmen ~",',"" "" l ""'',' :l n> l'l"'i' for (l„. value tiMoe a- lon- as it provides lliein ~..! sho„,i,i... is as the temptation of f' ! " :lt '" "•'.,„! to a hun,;ry onload. I u,re are hundreds, if ,„„ t thousand-, »l »"■!, ~i \ew Zealand, 100. who have, wlumi.ii K..™|j,ml.,ri„«. (l oil ilir *,■,„. | ifl : Oil fro.,, sue), preserves, lor (he oflVncc oi is common ennutrh. Y-t what in America or \cv /ieilaiid w „n!,i lm regarded as a trilling „ir,. m . ~ misdemeanor, m Kmdan i-, |„„|'.,. ',.,', on Ms an rmnnily : ami a j.,,1,.,. can ,',',, fom„) ,-,,„,;■ a,nan for seven years lor it.

The Annister for Jtducation ha* ia-i forn.iu .he Ntw . lyiu..::-, . " :, Seh»»'i Board that the limitation of the naki scholarships to one 'm . aen has been removed

A lorry owner, who has earning con-, tracts between ITawcra and Mmaia, a distance of 10-miles, demonstrated in the flush of the dairying season what could oc done with a motor lorry, lie,did "even tiips » dav, and, therefore, 'ran WO miles per day, fully loaded. The "Kcilding Star" states that more than the usual amount of thieving was done at the races on Easter Monday, and the robbers were in some cases over-bold. -Nut only were men's pockets picked, but several lilies had their -liandbuifs snatched lrom i-liem j n the midst of the crowd.

. the .-.alkure, v h,<sh is "xper-cl to nrVf V 0 'W? w ri y ß -outli from, Hell about r,th ■ i a dmu «'>t when laden i uui s,i, hut by ti.e time she arri»cg here her coal bunkers will ue low, a.nd shewn not draw omtc so mucn. She will have ai.out 50U0 tons of dead weight cargo to discharge here.

The young man is certainly coming into his own, at least in New York, states an American exchange, where the' Mayor is thirty-four years of a"e, the Commissioner of Charities thirty-seven, the City Chamberlain thirty-one, and the •resident of the Civil Service Commission thirtv-four.

It is now announced that the Taunanga route for the railway has been ixed for what is known as the Sulphur Point route. It will reach the town on the eastern side near First Avenue, thenct travelling ulong the harbor front northwards past the wharves, and, by a tunnel rfr cutting, through the northern prom. ontory on to low-lying land nearSulphui Point, at the extreme end of which dee) water can be reached.

An American company has offered t» build and deliver ten gasoline locomotives at the rate of one a month for service on the Australian transcontinental railway. These will be guarantee* capable of hauling 750-ton freight twenty-fivo miles per hour on or of taking 250-ton passenger trains from Kalgoorlie to Part Augusta in thirty hours, with enough fuel aad cool* ing water on board to make the entire journey without a stop.

The Wairarapa Age, a Reform journal, makcß a prophecy. Referring to the fact that our square-dealing Prime Minister stated at Auckland the other day that among the measures to be introduced would be one dealing with the method of electing znembcrs of the House of Representatives, our contemporary eays:— "We have a shrewd suspicion that this measure will deal only with city electorates. It will probably provide for large centres, leaving the country electorates to remain as at present. It would be impossible to apply the system ef proportional representation to the rural constituencies, unless the country quota were aibolished, and this would never be sanctioned. The Bill will be awaited with absorbing interest. If it does nothing else, it will discount the criticism of the Opposition that the Government repealed the Second Ballot Act without providing a substitute." 'Proportional representation in the cities and "first past the post' 1 in the country. No Parlianent would ever stand foi that, as the Right Honorable Mr. Massey well knows. He is putting up a dummy target to be shot to ribbons at short range.

Says the Sydney Bulletin:—These optimistic crank? who object to compulsory training for defence are a brilliantly consistent crowd. For instance, the Maoriland Social Democratic Party (which is a branch of the Red Federation of Labour) has published its platform in ttie Maoriland Worker. One ol the planks is as follows: "Arbitration of all international disputes." In the same issue of the paper (which is the official mouthpiece of the Social Democratic Party) a leading article has this to say of arbitration of industrial dis-putes:—'-We venture to predict that ' just as soon as the bulk of the wjHtos are convinced that the their condition is well-nigh hopeless, they will strike in spite of the law and) the threatened penalties. . . . Though out-and-out opponents of the Arbitration Court, if it seemed necessary to accept it for the time being in order to preserve our existence as organisations, wo would accept it and use it to the best that it could be put to until such time as we have either the industrial solidarity to break it or the political power to amend ' it. A delightful guarantee of bona tides that is to accompany a scheme for arbitration in international disputes.!