LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 19 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

JaZ #-° f t? 0 harbor y»t'erd»y and the chairman's conversion to the inner harbor, we referred to "the substitution of an attenuated, crooked wharf, with the attendant lighter dredging, for,an inside harbor, entailing vary heavy dredging." It should have read■l he substitution of an inside harbor entailing very heavy dredging, for an attenuated, crooked wharf, with the at-tendant-lighter dredging." The context however, clearly showed what was meant.

Good progress is being made with the irietalhng of Mount Messenger road.

A company lias been established in New York to provide weekly cinemas on Biblical fjulbjects in 1400 churches in four hundred cities.

A gun club has been formed in Waitara, the membership already keing forty. M r W. F. Joll is president, and Mir H. iLangman secretary. A witness named David Thomas, who was bound over to give evidence in a case at the Napier Supreme Court on Wednesday, failed to appear, and his bond of £SO was estreated. '

Main Trunk townships are making good progress, and one of the latest to show development is Raetihi, the ratepayers of Wiiich (have adopted a scheme of lighting, water and drainage, involving an expenditure of over £20,000.

It is understood that the Government proposes to erect four i workers' homes in Hawcra and two in Manaia, under the Workers'. Dwellings Act. An officer of the department recently met the applicants, to go into the position, A Commonwealth silver-gilt porringer and cover, the wedding gift of Oliver Cromwell to his third daughter on her marriage to Tf.omas' BelaS|ysc, Viscount Falconberg, was sold for no less than 000s an ounce at Christie's salerooms in London at the end of Aprih A Scotch preacher onco found his congregation going to sleep, before he had fairly begun. On seeing this, he stopped and exclaimed: "Brethren, it's no' fair. Wait till I get a start, and then if I'm no' worth listening, gang to sleep; but dinna nod yer heads 'before a' get commenced, die a body a chance."

Mr C. Leech informs the Waitara Mail that if the present rate of progress is maintained with regard to the making of the new Awakino Valley road it fJiould be put through in a couple of yews. It will be practically a level stretch then betwoen Awakino and Mtthoenui, and will greatly facilitate overland travel between Waitara and Te Kulti.

Should prisoners receive pay for their work ? was the question debated at the last meeting of the Wellington Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. The unremunerative work of the prisoner was fully discussed, and it was urged that the Government should issue regulations whereby prisoners could be put to payable work, so that the surplus above their keep could be devoted to their families.

The committee of the Anglican Sunday School at Vogeltown wish to thank ail those ladies who braved the elements yesterday to attend their gift afternoon, and *>r the many gifts received. For those ladies who were unable to Ims present they 'have decided to bo at home again this afternoon and at Mrs Neal's residence, when it is hoped the weather will he more propitious.

The new giant Cunardcr Aquitania will possess the first art gallery installed upon a passenger-carrying ship .(says the Standard.) The gallery stretches for nearly 150 feet from the first-class smoking room to the lounge. Fine prints will adorn the walls, notably old prints of English seaports in the early part of the eighteenth century. Show cases will contain jewellery, lace and' other works of art. A stir has been caused in Australian Methodist circles by some remarks made by the Eev. Henry Howard, of Adelaide, who, speaking at Ballarat, called attention to the "killjoy" element in religion. Some people, lie said, could not even have a picnic without tacking a prayer meeting on to it. When religion stopped a man from smiling the sooner it was knocked on the head and laid out for burial the better. God's house should be the happiest place on earth. Should Australian girls be brought under some system of compulsory training to fit them to share in the defence of the country in time of war? This is the query raised by the editor of "Everylady's Journal" for June, and answered by a number of leading citizens. The .views of these notable people make very instructive and interesting reading. Summed up, the general opinion seems to be that, while it is altogether inadvisable to give girls any form of Military Training, it would be a first-class tiling it' a course in domestic scienee was made compulsory.

Parliament will this session be asked to agree to the raising of a loan to cover the cost of railway stations in Wellington and elsewhere. It is stated that it is intended that the new central railway station in Wellington shall be the first work provided for under the projected new Bill, so that there are good prospects of the work of building the station being put in hand next year.

Mr. Fred Pi-rani lias a great reputation throughout the country as a worker, and it is characteristic of the man that, though he is now compelled to nurse a broken leg for a time, he cannot lie idle (i-ay.s the Wanganui ChrWielo). The day after his accident lie had the telephone, installed by his bedside, and before the morning had passed he was in communication with the Education Board office at Wanganui and others with whom he had to do business. Mr Pirani received shoals of telegrams from all parts of the Dominion, sympathising with hint on the occasion' of bis recent accident. There's a grand "ould reekie" whiff about BONNIE DOON TOBACCO—a homely, wholesome aroma which tells of honesty and purity. Why not try it to-day 1 Any tobacconist sell it—lots of it. ' ( _ 47