LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 17 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The secretary of the Tourist and Expansion League desires to acknowledge with thanks a donation of £2 2s from Mr J. McNeill.

The Mines Department has received information from tho High Commissioner in London regarding BcnocUtc as follows: Quotations for soheelito on June 3rd, were 29s to 30s per unit. A libel action is set down ior hearing at the Hamilton Supremo Court, in winch Mr. Dixon (president of tihe Ikintiy Ministers? Union) claims £IOOO damages against the Maoriland Worker for alleged reflections in an article.

A motor-car driven by Dr Blaokley and two gigs had an entanglement in Uill street last night. The driver of one of the gigs was thrown to tin) ground, ibut was apparently uninjured, the only damage being to the car, which was, ratioer badly smashed. In the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, before Mr A. Crooke, S.M., judgpment by default was given in the following cases:—John Nodder v. Dunean McKay, 18s Cd, (costs ss); John Richards v. Thomas Henry O'ivcr, £22 3s Od, (£2M»). l!...rct;;J')

A noisy band of buglers in Territorial uniform created a miniature pandemonium in Devon street last night, and the public, who were not carried away by the music, wished that tlhis fate would befall tho musicians, or at any rate that they would practise elsewhere.

It is stated that while Macmahon's circus was travelling between Lyell tand Murdhison, in the Wostland district, a week ago, one of tJhe vehicles, with two girls) aboard, went over the siding and rolled down seme 300 ft. into the .Butler River bed. When rescued, one of the girls was unconscious. A large number of applications have been received from farmers and their sons desirous of entering the winter school to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, N.S.W., from June 23 to July 18, and many inquiries reach the Department of Agriculture daily from various parts of tlho State.

In our report of Mr E. Maxwell's speech at the Walkure luncheon, published in Saturday's issue, he is reported to have said that "twenty-one years ago it was possible to walk dry-shod whore the bows of the WalkUrie now rested." Mr Maxwell points out that this should have read ''the stern of the Walkure" as (he vessel ia bert Hied with her bows towards the -open sea. Following on tha investigations recently made by the New Plymouth Health Department into the milk supply of the town, it is understood that two New Plymouth vendors will be prosecuted for breaches of the regulations of the Food'-and Drugs (Act. It is also understood tlhat investigations made into the weight of bread sola in New Plymouth revealed the fact that several bakers had been selling undor-wcight bread.

Lengthy reviews, all of a highly appreciative character, are being accorded to the book, "Russia of the Russians." Its author is a New Zcalander—Mr. Harold W. Williams, RuD.>—who has lived for a number of years in Europe. For some while past be has been residing in St,, Petersburg, occupying part of his time with press work for ">i'.e important European journals. The Nation considers that Dr Williams' book is the best thing of its kind that has been done for the past 40 years. A Dannevirkc Press message last night stated that the Bank of New Zealand yesterday completed the purchase of a corner section in High street, at present occupied by the office of the Dannevirke Publishing Oonioany, for the purpose of erecting ultimately up-to-date bank premises. The 'purchase necessitates the Publishing Company building new premises' on another corner section a little further along llir»h street, which also changed hands, the transactions being the largest that 'have eventuated in the centre of the town for a considerable time past. Cabinet on Saturday agreed to the acquisition of about 14,000 acres of native land on the west and north aide of (Lake Waikaremoana. From- this, however, two Maori clearings at Te Puna and Maurea arc to be excluded. The conversion of the forest reserves on the southern side of tJho lake to scenic and climatic reserves has also been agreed to. Cabinet further decided upon the closing of the road reserve along the southern shore of the lake, and the acquisition of a strip of land for about fifty chains along tho Waikore River, from the outtet. The road from the outlet to the accommodation home is to be metalled.

It is not generally realised (says an exchange) that there are nearly 300,000 acres of, shifting sand dunes' in Mile North Island. ]n their present state tbeae areas are not only a desert, 'kit are a menace to the neighbouring land. A great belt of sloifting sand extends ailong the coast line 170 miles from. Paekakariki to Patea, occupying in all about 92.C00 acres, in Eurone, under climatic conditions much less favorable than ours, similar belts of moving sand have been, turned into sourses of national profit instead of lobs. 'l'he sand dunes of Gascony, for instance, have been planted with maritime nines, and new yield large quantities of turpentine. A tribute to Auckland was paid by the captain of the German steamer Ti'berius, which put in for bunker coal, having run short while bound from Antofagasta to Newcastle. Speaking to a Star reporter, he said fcWt when the members of bis crew first saw the harbor and its nearly all* of his men immediately applied for shove leave. The universal nature of the applications, however, raised the captain's suspicious and as he wished to sail that evening, lie re'used aOl the petitions. Four of the men, in -spite of the prohibition, managed to got ashore, and as a. vc-Milt the vessel was delayed until the next afternoon. A fair proportion of the crow are r,.en working their passages to Australia, j.-iul the visit to Auckland

was quite unexpected. The concert on Monday evening last, in aid of Mother Aubort's Homes in Wellington, was given to an appreciative audience. Every item was heartily applauded. Miss K. Bennett opened with a good pianoforte solo. Mr. Brian Malone sang in his usual pleasing style, and was recalled again and again. Miss Cant sang "My Dear Soul" in exceptionallv good voice, and <rave us an encore "A Little Pink Rosebud." Mr. Coldsworthy's rendering of "Sister Grace and Munition" was splendid, and was heartily encored. Miss E. Bennett sang, very sweetly, "Good-bye to Summer." The Misses Bennett's pianoforte duet was very pleasing. Mr. and Miss George plascd a violin and piauoforc duet artistrfoTly and cleverly. Miss Doig also recited. The programme was brought to a finish by the humorous rendering of "The Village Pump." bv Miss Boig and Mr. Mttlone.

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