LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 28, 23 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A stag that lias been wandering round the mountain for a couple of seasons was shot last week. The animal vras a six-pointer, and wosi considerable annoyance to farmers' crops.

According to t'ho Southland Times, tht Carnival Queen election, which _M-r W. Lints is now organising, is shaping extremely well. are fifteen candidate from all parts of the province. The Queen will receive two first-class Australian and New Zealand round trips, in addition to the coronation nobes.

A Press megsage from Nelson reported -that a splendid view of Mount Kgmont was obtained from the hills surrounding Nelson early on Sunday morning. It stpodl out from tho ocean to a great height and presented a magnificent land inspiring sight, bait disappeared from view at sunrise.

Only six householders attended n meeting in the Town Hall last night for the purpose of electing tihree representatives on the TechnicaA College Advisory Board. Mr S. G. Smith took the chair. Messrs G. 11. Dolby, O'Brien, and A. E. Sykos were elected as citizens' representatives on t'ne Board. The great Gennan corporations lafe given a great deal of t study lately to the question of capturing colonial trade. The plans are now maturing, and a big forward move is being made. The keynote of the campaign is advertising. The keynote of the Dusiness-getting campaign of every up-to-date business Is advertising, and the advertising makes it more up-to-date still. The damands of military training are interfering with the attendance of young incn at night classes at the Technical College, and the director lust night suggested to the annual meeting of householders that it would be of advantage if some arrangement could be come to witta the defence authorities, whereby an attendance at night class might count as a drill. He was, he hastened to add, an enthusiastic supporter of the military training scheme. "It seems to me an utter farce to belong to the Technical College Advisory Board at all," said Mr 6. G. Smith, Who presided at the meeting of householders for tho election of representatives to the Board last nig'ht. Mr Smith remlarked that the lack of interest evidenced by the paucity of attendance at the imeefting was, in his opinion, due to the fact that the Advisory Board had no administrative powers, and had nothing to do but listen to the director's report before it was presented to the •Education Board. If there had been a larger' attendance, he would (have moved a. resolution to be presented to the Education Board. The director and others present concurred in this opinion. In a brief verbal report to a meeting of householders last night, the director of tihe New Plymouth Technical College (Mr A. Gtray), stressed the greater advantage from every point' of view of attracting a larger number of dJay pupils, who woirid foHow out a systematic cc-urse of training for a definite object, a«i against the more transitory pupil, Who attended odd night classes;." In •ttus respect, he said, the College was advancing considerably, while it catered nd,>timilely for pupils who could attend only at night. Incidentally he. remarked that despite newspaper articles and other statements to the contrary, commercial classes could not fail to be of value to Mfe ° r g ' rl ,USt CJltpri "£ on official

Commendable public spirit was skown oy two bluejackets on Thursday even- ' nig (aays the Wellington Post). They were passengers in a late train from Petone to Wellington, when a young man na7ned 'Basil Gordon McElwain, who was apparently having an altercation with an elderly man, used a filthy expression. As there were several women in the train Rt the time, the bluejackets interfered and apprehended McElwain, and Handed lain over to the Wellington pon n Ycster<la y. llc appeared before Mr. U. G. A. Cooper, S.M., charged with the use of obscene language, In extenuation lie said that the expression which was used in the heat of the moment was only used once. Mr Cooper remarkod upon prevalence of obscene.language in the city, and said it would have to be put a stop to. A fine of £2, and two witnesses' expenses Bs. was imposed. Thes alternative was fixed at a months imprisonment. A similar fine was imposed on Joseph Driscoll, charged witli a like offence.

New Zealand will si:oirtly lui've tan imI )u '' ill o s et of ollk'cs in I'io Strand (says t'hc London- UuiJy Uxmvss). A Rite Mis ■been secured adjoining tilie Adelphi Iheatie, and three shops on the west side are to be pii,!lcd down and ireplaml by tiie new .building. Tlie offices will iiiivc a frontage of 50ft. and a. dejpth of about I.loft, Tiieni will 'be six wtowes. llle ground floor will be used eliieilv for exhibition purposes, and on tile first ilOor will be a 'library and reading and writing rooms. Tlie .remainder of tihe building will be devoted to offices and to the Emigration Department. 'Awarding to the [j-in. Thomas .MiU'keiizii l , the High OoronrisKoner, the building will be plain and substantial. "Even if we decide to givo it up at a la.te,r date and go to Dominion House," hie whited, we can easily dispose of tho site. When Mr. Allen was over'he :w«« raWior impressed with liiie Dtanlinioii House scheme, .-o t'liat if we go Uifl.ro tihorc will be no loss over the fpiroposed new offices," Building operations are to begin in July, and the King lias promised to 'lay the foundation utone toward the end of the year. In Mr. J. Edmond, editor of the Sydney llulletin, Australia, possesses ail en-thn.-iia--.tii; champion of the State note issue and silver coinage. Speaking to a. 1 ost reporter Mr. Esmond stated tluit tliey were highly prolitable 'ventures. On ,'ilst December last there were close uon £10,000,000 iworth of Federal notes in circulation, upon which tlu> accumulated profits amounted to almost exactlv £l(K),(XlO. The Federal ( I ovorrjiicnt made Ihw profit by issuing its notes bo the banks and receiving gold in return, whbh it disposed of bv plating cio-e npon £">,(>00.000 to reserve. and investing tlie balance in Ciovernme-iit ties. Tile note issue, said .Mr. Kdtirond, was bound to increase, and with it lie thought there was a, of jnukiiy* £I»SO,(KK) to £200,003 per annum out of tilic centure presently. He conwidered it a great pity that Australia and New Zealand could not arrange to combine 'and have common note issues and common silver coinage, dividing the profits. As iregiwds silver e-oimige the publie would see. that there was a l>ig prothei'e was oily about 5d worth of | silver in a (--lulling.

Women's Christion Temperance Union. —A meeting of the above will be held on Wednesday next, .Tune 24, in the Good Templar Lodge Room, at 3 o'clock, to celebrate "White Ribbon Day." Address .by Miss Gaustad; musical items. Collection for Maori work. All friends and non-members, as well as members, cordially invited.— Advfc.

Colder and colder mornings—you'll enjoy Camp Coffee more and more. "Cam])" warms you all over, puts "go" int» you, clears the cobwebs, coaxes your

The state of the main road through Vogeltown. from tin; Mill road corner almost to the 'bus tevmiiiuw, is 4 without, doubt, disgraceful. The met a! has completely worn through in imany places and the road is a suocisMon of mudboles wilth intervening metalled surfaces.

The registration of tlie following companies is announced <hy the Mercantile Gazette:-—Orepuki Shale Refineries, Ltd. Capital, £IOO,OOO in CI shares. Objects: To acquire the lands 'belonging to the New Zealand Coal and Oil Co., Ltd., together with all buildings, plant and machinery, and to develop any concesions in slialc, coal, and other minerals. North Brunner Collieries Coy. Capital, £40,000 in £1 shares (10,000 deferred and fully paid up and 30,000 ordinary). Subscribers: A. P. Harper, A. E. Meek, 11. K von ITaast, U. F. MTOafoc, C. Piimmer, \V. Qlayton, G. Fitzgerald, all one share each. Objects: Colliery and mine owners, and incidental. Evidence of the wish of many city people for a country life' was furnished to a gentleman in business in Dunedin tliis week. Desirous of securing the services of a young man to attend to his' horses on his fruit farm in Central Otago, he advertised the position in a daily paper, adding that a suitable applicant would have an opportunity of {earning fruit culture. On the following day thirty applications were received, and twenty-four of the 'Applicants were young men engaged in office work in the city. Two cases of the hardships under which settlers in the backblocks labor as regards the education of their children, were mentioned at the last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board (states the Herald). Mr Harris said that he knew of a family of twelve, between Wanganui and Raetihi, not one of whom could read or write. A few minutes later the case of an up-river settler was mentioned. This man has seven children of school age, and the nearest school is six miles away over impassable "roads." Oolonel Logan, A.D.C., Officer in command of the Auckland Military District, unveiled at Tauranga on Sunday, in the presence of a large gathering of Maoris and residents, a memorial erected in the military cenietery (by European and Maori subscriptions to Raioiri Puhiraki, a Maori chief, who led the Maoris when the British forces suffered a reverse at Gate Pah on 29th April, 18&4, and again at Teranga on 21st June in the same year, whore he was killed. The monument, a red granite, twenty feet high, is the most imposing memorial in the Bay of Plenty. The monument bears the inscription that it was erected on the fiftieth anniversary of Rawiri's death, to commemorate his chivalrous and humane orders for the protection of the unarmed or wounded who fell into tlie hands of the Maoris, and for his respectful treatment of the bodies of his enemies.

The jury empanelled to hear st ease in a country town in the Auckland province were prevented giving a wrdkt by a strange incident- It was late in the affternoon wnen the twi-lve good men and true retired. All, anticipating ®n ea-.Cy return I'onie to t«-a. mvre agrcc.d upon the ■verdict, nr.v one. Vlith this one the others argued til! the hour for tea had come and gone. Finally a meal was brought in for thi- i 'rort When the (Adurate one saw th« fond. I* said to the constable. "Thi* did not come from my ,plac?, did it:" Answered in the negative, he became "ery ancTy. and then it wns Known Uisf he usually catered for jurymen's nwr-la. and his. sole object in W.ding O'.it was to s*vv.r*> an order. Having missed the order, he determined to make iJw trial inconclusive, nnd, at. {he ojpiration of the allot ted time, the jur •• were discharged tuid a new trial ordered.