LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 6, 26 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is the 47th anniversary of the birth of Queen Maxy. The New Plymouth Borough Council will in future meet only once a month, and the Works Committee twice a month.

The "Miss Veta Gilbert, Art Union,'' in connection with the recent band carnival, is to be drawn at the Empire .Pictures to-nigiht. A sitting of the Conciliation Council, presided over -by Mr. T. Ifarle-Giles, will be held in the Town Hall to-day to consider a dispute filed by the timber workers of Taranaki.

"The municipal baths are costing £0 per week to run, and anyone who can make them pay should get a monument from the town." —Thus Cr. Jlarke at laßt night's meeting of the Borough Council.

Empire Day, which fell on Sunday, was observed in New Plymouth yesterday more in the breach tihan the observance, tihe fluttering of the post office flag 'being the only outward and risible sign of any anniversary. The secretary and president of the new Moturoa Seaside Improvement Committee have already resigned, and the Reserves Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council is considering a settlement of the affairs of that somewhat turbulent end of the foreshore improvement movement. Defence was turned into attack with a vengeance 'by the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. A resident of the town lodged a complaint that the state of the footpath bounding her section _ was suoh that her property was detrimentally affected. In accordance with a report of the engineer, the Council determined to notify her that she must erect a retaining wall for the protection of the footpath, to the edge of which (her section has been excavated. A boy named Robert Baxter, the twelve-year-old son of Mr. HaTry Baxter, of Urenui, was missing from his 'home on Sunday, and lad not returned when his father communicated with the polico yesterday morning. The boy had been guilty of some childish misdemeanour on Sunday, and evidently fearing his father's displeasure ran away, and did not return for the night. Be waa dressed in a blue sweater and knickerbockers, but waa barefooted.

Magistrate Crooko was very conaiuerate to witnesses at the court on Thursday, says the Opunake Times. When counsel for defendant in a case asked that all witnesses be ordered out of court, • the magistrate asked if there was any place where witnesses could go, as it was very cold and wet outside. He gave permission to tihe witnesses to go linto his roloni and sit within the waflmth from a nice fire. The men, from the country appreciated ' very much the magistrate's kindness.

The Crimoe anrived at Marseilles the otlher day (says a London paper) with a hundred ton weight of little sucks on board, which gave a metal clinic as they dropped! from Wie cranes. Throe or four other ships of the Messageries Maritimes unloaded smaller quantities of smaller bags, and all the bags have been sent to Belgium. They contain bullets which have been collected on the battle-fields of the Balkans. They, are going to Waterloo, wftcre they will b<| sold to tourists a3 relics. The stock of genuine Waterloo bullets gave out some time ago, and tho demand is very steady. The Balkan war will mow supply a long-felt want.

The milk vendors of New Plymouth were surprised yesterday by the advent on the scene of tlieir early morning • peregrinations of Mr. Fielder (Health Inspector) with the redoubtable inspector for the borough (Mr. B. Tippins), armed with a formidable array of bottles and sealing wax. The raid was quite a peaceful one, 'however, merely , with a view to obtaining samples of the town milk supply, to be sent to Wellington for analysis. No aspersion lias been 1 cast on the milkmen of the town, the . analysis being merely part of an endeavour to get at the bottom of the recent outbreak of typhoid fever in St. Aubyn district. An interesting demonstration of a now process of cleaning the carbon from inotor car cylinders was given at a Gishtome grnrage last Week. Hitherto bo remove the cairbon has been a difficult and slow task, necessitating muelh scraping, but science ihas come to the rescue. Oxygen w an incombustible gas, but in oxygen carbon burns freely aud rapidly. Tins being sot, a cylinder of oxygen is brought into requisition, and the gas led by a tube into the cylinder, a match being first applied to the carbon on the top of tihe cylinder. Immediately the wihoie of the carbon in .the cylinder burns out, andi a clean cavity is secured, the process occupying a few minute;. This should be a valuable method of dealing with onto of the principal mechanical troubles in connection with motor cam. It is not often that any ratepayer takes sufficient interest in the doings of the Borough Council to exercise his right to be present at its meetings, and one who did so last night was, unfortunately, through a misunderstanding, accorded a doubtful reception. Tho gentleman in question had been sitting in the Council Chambers for some time listening to a somewhat dreary committee discussion, when a councillor drew attention to his presence with the remark that the Council was in committee. The solitary spectator apologised, and despite the Council's explanation that lie had been regarded as a deputation (Hie presence of otherwise interested ratepayers being so unusual), and the assurance that his presence was not regarded as an intrusion, lie departed. The Rorouifh Council oslim.'il/w for Hi" current year, ns previously published, wen; adopted bv tho Council last night. The questions of subsidising the Te-eiini-t-iil College and the municipal eoru-erN given by the Band were held over for further consideration. Crs. Ohrke and Smith advocated an addition of alum) .CijOO to tile estimates for .street worl', even if it had to come out of overdraft. Tlu-y urged the rtesirabi'ity of treatiiii: as many streets as possible "with "soltar" or other permanent street surface. The discussion on this point bijweil without nuy action beyond a tentative t;;>n that (lie engineer might from tiu'e | to time recommend the treatment of any streetv, In> may deem advirable at a ensl over an.) al«,v.- tli» street oxne-iditiire provided for in Hie loan proposals Not lon;.' a:oi, in a i-crl.-rn town, ci ladv ■11! "I. wji.ll |)eJ")! -1,.,. \va... ;ir, ill'.' to the o::lou!-:e". i-mi' n-, ■■■di'" t • ilie ladv fsavs tin. Wiswnui Uerahi.'i , A certain 1,«.r ,| ra ,.,•!••• firm !ir - errrl im; new (Hdiii'.x, and ill ' etm'ritrloM !i->j! wwiim ;•» nut '» e.im'i'i-i.' foiraialiem. On- afteriioon (hey had lilted -vi'h 1 Short.lv Y.'vo i iild-s earn - iiii.„ Hie'v'Cini!y. 'liu-y v," e luld !o lie tar: e! 11! ef Hi" '■'Hi-erete. Tli'-v -"lid 1 tlu-.v would b". 1 Thev been me in a window alo't" d'de tho. concrete. One forgot Ih- warning. She stei'iied bac.k. and wa« I iately floundering up to the knees. Worse 1 than tbat, in-her endeavours to-extoi-1 heme.lf. she foil .into the itibsi. Tift rt[ j

The kindly Attentions of the borough inspector (Mr. B. Tipping) w iU be directed towards the practice of motor- I cycling along the Esplanade. ' The opposauma recently iatiroducod mto the country are proving a, eou/ree of revenue. A Paimer&ton firm has just shipped away over £IOO worth of skins. The values range from 2a to 7s. The Hutt and Marlborough districts are at present the chief suppliers. The extension of ,the water supply tJo the suburban portions of the borough will l>e pushed on at once. A supply of the British Manneamann 6piral steel pipes, feet of 4-inch and 3821 Wet of 6-inch, have arrived at the New Plymouth railway station ta the order of the Borough, Council for use im the work. t

One of' the settlers .who dlrew a section on the Hillierdsen estate arived in Blenheim last week with a waggon and beam of six horaes which he had from Geraldine, a distance of 300 miles. Tho journey occupied many days and the gritty traveller had much outspanning to do, but he covered the ground without mishap and reached Blenheim in tho best of spirits. Ht; reported, sava the Marlborough Express, that the only difficulty of any consequence that he experienced waa in the crossing of the Conway river. A fire broke ouft in the classrooms at tihe eastern side of the Boys? llLgli School at about 9 pan. on Saturday. The origin of the outbreak was a defective fireplace, and the flames were confined to the woodwork surrounding one of fihe chimneys. The fire-bells were not ruing, but tho motor fire engine was summoned ■ and was quickly on the scene. The masters and boys had by this time got the lire under control, and only the finishing touches were needed. The total damage, including tihe breaking of one of the partitions, about £25. A conference of municipal engineers from the principal municipalities in New Zealand which possess electrical plants, and a representative of the Firo Underwriters' Association, is being called by tihe Ohristcfhurch City Council for June 17, in order to secure uniformity in, by-laws relating to electrical matters and especially installations in private houses. The, Electric Light Committee of the Borough Council is considering the advisability of authorising the electrical engineer (Mr. H. Black) to attend the conference.

Fictitious "editors" aire regular members of tho staff of many Bussian newspapers. Ijasfc month the so-called "responsible editor" of a labor journal was dhairgad in (the St. Petersburg Justice under statute relating to the citement of class enmity, He pleaded not guilty, and it turned out that he could not even read, and could only write his own name with much difficulty. He had been promised £3 monthly for giving his name as responsible editor of the paper, and had received 28s on account. WTiereaa the journal was issued in St. Petersburg, the "editor irarked in Riga m a factory band, and mis actually serving a sentence for <rob?>ery wihen the present charge was brought against 'him. For a man to steal inbo the police barracks and' occupy the bed of one of the constables is considered to be a distinct breach of etiquette. Such an incident recently occurred at Gisbarne. Wlien the constable, whose room tad been surreptitiously entered 1 and his bed commandeered was asked 'has opinion on the matter he confessed it was ;, a t-iifle over the ic'dds." He admitted that he hauled accused out of his little cot and that he struck him, liuit orrly in self-dirfeucc. Accused, who is a native interpreter, said ho could not get accommodation and he entered the police station. He &nv a bed, and thinking it was provided for special constables, tucked himself in cosily. The magistrate severely rebuked tho man, said that tho constable should not have gone to Hindi lengths, and dismissed the information.

I Members of the New Plymouth Borough Council have lately been waxing impatient under the strain of protracted meotrngH, and at last night's meeting of that body, resolutions by Cr. Clarke, brought forward' by nkytiee of motioa from last meeting, having for rfheir object the facilitation of business and the shortening of the meetings, were tarried unanimously. The effect of the resolutions is that no new ordinary business , will Iks brought 'before the Council, | everything having to be dealt - with, first by the various committees. No letters except of an urgent nature will be dealt [ with unless they (have been received a certain time before the Council meeting. ' Questions on matters dealt with in com- . mittee will take the place of "ordinary business" in tlie agenda ah-oct. Or. i Clarke pointed out that this course , woiuld save fhe timewfiie&WißßiOwwaited in discuKsing correapoadencc and other matters which ev&ttuatyr ¥ouad their way to tlho various committees. Syndicalist troubles iuwp keen very prevalent in N«w York recently. There ■was fighting for ttuea Ihoaua one aiteriioou in tiho neighborhood of Union Square between iiOOO followers of the "Industrial Workere of ttie World/' and 400 Now York policemen, wi>» prevent ed the syndicalists from marching up Fifth Avenue a« they i»ten<ded, and breaking tfee wiodawn of the hotels and clubs, to empdiaeino their newljvproraulgutedi "right to tlukiß what t'hey want if society will »ot support. them." Nine leaders of the new anarchy wwe surrestod, and scores of iieiute were biloken by ■tho police, who, mKramtod aad on foot, used their baibons fwty. Many women wc.ru among the riotous, knt they wei_ treated KSoiisidwTutely by the police. The immediate purpose of lite authoring of the syndicalists wu« to tent the ini'jwrisoll- - of TiUmenb;uiim> wJio in oerviug a sentence tor leading the Indiwtrki' Workers of the World, ii. tiwir recent siisault on llio thur«Sic«. Th« effort by ! ho police to prevent iWh-o dcmftnstrator.i from maiVhing the street*, led to a fVM'ics of da' Jiwl, Wihic.lt <«*>Unued iliinmgliout tfiu nJit'«rnooiL The women in. tlie crowd, urges! the me* on, shoutin.?,' insults at litie police, and willing them rupitali-t. defenders. The. "Marsr.llaiw" \va., -.ling nud ft&JY* inscribed with Use on** word. "Ihtngear" w-r* waved. lied cm?<N diflarinp •"r.»ti'iei)l*tiO»> mnal i'l" I'l'lenwd" were di.Ai-'m-! e<t ar,d Wi'Tii. iii kt-HiiunU iv the. It Wii* it'-,i believed Pn»t tit-- con Mr.-(, vni-i linn!, ami »Umr «ui«l feasibly mo-re ser-;.Mi-.'|.!:i-'lieH we.ve ex-pfoted. between the ~ -1 : | |,l:e immigrant horde, who mnnt of 1 '■ r- Tii'tu.-'trril Workers of the World. j TUINXIKG R)I?RS A Nil V,('.?,KMA If you ore sufferingfrom rumm's son-s or «>r<-v of aiiv lew! do not. fail i<> »i.v. « i.riiil of Rexona, tlw> Hspn! llc,\ler. Von will soon be convinced of I,tie fcent;n" jwwirs of this modern Sold m"trbn!!'!l!«r lins at Is ')'! am' X »'«>• iii inn bl <■ cvftrywhor-i. The eheiuift was wrapping a bottle up qniek. Hiit. i lie hoy wst« US cnlc as aTor he cried: "Say, mister; You're just, a bit. slick — Ho! Yon don't catch me paying for that! 1 know wln.it I waul! —T w;«e told to be snro And bring nothing but Wo»d«' Grant Wmiermint Cine;. i It's bosker for eoldafrfliiid ouil lodge' doctor says TSftt we'll find it a ll(t|»?j»g h vanoas ,