LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 295, 16 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On the motion of Mr Covelt (Covetl and Quilliam) probate of the. will of the late Mrs. A. M. U'ealo has been granted by the Supreme Court to Mr. J. P. Woalef the executor named in the will. On the ilth hist., on tlie motion of Mr. A. R. SUndish. probate was granted by Mr. .Fusticc Cooper in the estate, of the late Victor Schierny to Mrs. Julia Schiernv. the executrix named in the will. Whilst motor-cycling' to Hawcra on Thursday, Mr. Frank Hromnhl, of Vogc-1-iown, met with a nasty accident ai Midhirst through a tyre bursting. As it result lie sustained a broki n collarbone, besides minor injuries. A curious thing happened to a parcel which was lost .in Tiunim last Saturday. It dropped out of the vehicle by which it was to be delivered, and, by coincidence, was picked up in the main street by the person to whom it was rldresscd. The Court procoedii!".-, in connection with the action of the Cane Milking Machine Co., Ltd., versus .1. 15. MacLwaii and Co., Ltd.. hav,. been set down for hearing at the Supreme l oiirt. Auckland, on dune -1. This represents an action brought by Hi,, proprietors of tlie Cane Milking .Machine. Company- for Infringements of the (Jane e-'tomatic -e----leaser. While the Kaupok.oiui Dairy Co.'s motor waggon, were receiving their supply of petrol the other evening' in a shed in the vicinity of the factor' Tan acetylene lamp held by a man ,land'ni"' liv caiiaed a sudden ignition of the petrol vapor, and at once a shoot of llamc sV>; »P to the roof of the building. The clothing of some of tho.se 'standing around was set on lire and there Were some exceedingly narrow escapes from .-■l'lioiii. injury. ' The roof of the front ol one. of the motors was set on lire and dc: I roved, but no further damage was clone.-Witness.

People residing in (his p.m oE Xcw Zealand are apt In think of as tiling belonging (u a vci'v remote and unenlightened past (writes (iie kvtHion Times), lint foll-gafcs survive'in tiio Nor!], Island and apparently »,> vigm-oiu demand exist* lor tlieir roroova!. A Canterburv I'arnier who travelled Uirm.nl, Tar.ma'ki tlie other week luvmgiii. back will, him as curiosities file lull ticket* that he invunmlaM during a i\.-.)'., tour in a motor-car. Tin re were |l ! ir.v slips, representing toils t„ 11,,. iiM.oniil hj! li'.i lid. 'Pile llav.vn C.untv <VT,eil Inid charged him :'.< to pas's through ils j;aic, ih,. Taranaki t'ouulv C0m,.,-! hail eolleeted :,-,. and ihe lO'llia,',, County .'oim.it had been eontent with a modest half-crown. Tile argument usually ompkiyed in support n: the m-iiu-teiiiinee of toll-gales is (h.ililicy enable a local authority to make the' cost of ro r d maintenance a. direct ehavec upon tra(.'-e. lint the truth is that a'tax of thi., kind .amounts (o a restraint upon communication. Taranaki ought not to be tolerating anything of this kind at

At Sunday's meeting of the Brotherhood Mr. R. Glegg will speak on "Heart's Charity." The annual general meeting will be held at the conclusion of the address. ( It is reported in Thames that a man [ and gill have eloped from a country K i district, the girl being' the daughter of ] a well-known farmer and aged about 1(1. It is understood (says the Auckland . Star) that a warrant has been issued for ! the man's arrest on a charge of abduction. ' Sly grog-selling is alleged to have , been' carried on fairly extensively among the Maoris on the Kast Coast, and the matter has been receiving the attention of the police for some time. It is asserted that men Jiave been purchasing liquor and hawking it amongst the native settlements. The following is an extract from a letter received by the Waitara Road Dairy Co. from a firm in Philadelphia that handled some of the 'butter this season, having purchased it from London buyers:—"We liked your butter very much. It has the proper color and salt for this market. Most of the New Zealand butter is too light in Color and salt to please our trade." i The Ohakune Borough Council is pro- ■ viding a little excitement for the resi--1 dents just now, in its endeavors to clear 1 its streets of stumps. In Pakau street 1 the othef day a party of borough workf men put a charge of gelignite under a ' stump, which, when the explosion took •' place, was hurled bodily into the air, and landed on the roof of ono of Mr. ' Robert Lyttle's cottages, going through the ceiling of one of the rooms, where ; it struck. The occupants of the house , were, at home at the time, but fortu- |. nately escaped unhurt. False teeth and packages of nails are - not the sort of articles the. average 3 athlete would covet as trollies for vici tories on the running track. Under the s open-order system, however, athletes i have accepted such prizes. This was e mentioned at the meeting of the eounii cil of the New Zealand Amateur Athn letic Association, whm a member of the ii Council stated that an athletic club to - which he belonged hail on on-.' occasion ;. been billed for a set of false teeth on e account of a runner, who had been sucv cessful in a race for which the prize

was an open order. Another member | related that in a similar case a bill had come in for a hammer and a quantity of nails. While the matter was beting discussed, the chairman's attention was drawn to the fact that one of the accounts before the meeting was for a hone (for sharpening razors), which had been selected a-s a trophy by a successful competitor. The chairman (Mr. A. Marryatt) ruled that this could not be passed. The members of the East End Committee have earned a name for energy and enterprise, and not consent with improving their reserve, teaching "-.he young idea how to swim, giving instruction in life-saving, setting the fashion in bathing dresses, and coaching a band of amateur showmen in the wily ways of "ringulet" and "hoop-la," they have recently added a. new field to their scope bf activity, and are now giving instruction in the art of the "light fantastic." Every alternato Thursday may be seen the East End dancing class m full swing, nor is it confined to young, ppople. Staid and sober citizen* who neglected to study the art in their youth, are to be seen gliding graeeiuliy over the floor with an air of ovei' anxiety and a pleased expression of countenance. Indeed, it is rumored that the East End pavilion is recruiting good dancers from the ranks of our most dignified city fathers. The class was very popular iast winter, and prjmijcs even better this year.