LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 36, 2 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Customs duties collected at the port of New Plymouth during the .month -of June, 1914, amounted to £-1213 7s Sd. as compared vith £3733 13s Id in June 1013.

A Pros* Association telegram announces that Mr. John Macßae, of Weraiti station, has made a gift of £IOOO to the Masterton branch of the Y.M.C.A.

".'..cad sweet lives", said the l'ev. J. D. Junes to \\'* congregation at Christ church .recently, "and talk no .scandal, nor listen to it. 'My if tha.t were done, it would put a tiop to a iot of conversation."

The recent prosecution and conviction of a Native tor trout poaclhing in the Wainiarino acclimatisation district is to have an interesting sequel. A nuniiber of Maoris, relatives of the delinquent, are interesting themselves in the matter, and are raising a fund for the puirpol.se of testing the' validity of the protection of front and pigeou as far iis| flic. Natives are concerned. The mattur, it is understood, will be placed in the (hands of a well-known solicitor wlnn will endeavour to prove 'his case on the linen followed in i lie recent action in connection with tthe ownership of Lakes Unto mi and itot.iii.

A recent Sydney bride is now bewailing the loss of most of her wedding loot. One afternoon in town she was hailed by a woman friend, who straightway started to compliment, her upon the smartness of her new gardener. "Gardener!"'moaned the bride, "why. we haven't got a gardener!" ''Well, who was it I .-aw on the verandah as t parsed. lie kr.tw quite a lot about: flowers, and said—" But t'ie lady with ■the unguarde I suburban home didn't wait to hear what he said. She jumped aboard a painfully slow tram and arrived home onily to find that the place had ■been cleaned cut. A sarcastic note on the table informed her that 'the writer had taken her furs, as an after thought, as he felt sure she would not begrudge them to his wife!

He talked of this, he talked of that, Tie talked of everything; He talked like twenty phonographs, And then began to sing. 'But yesterday," he told his friends, "You saw me dumb and dour— The reason J. am vocal now Is Words' Great Peppermint Cure!"

The Deputy-Mayor (Mr. W. A. Oollis) and the Borough Engineer (Mr. C. 6kitrop), are leaving on Friday for Auckland to investigate the "Uituco" street preparation in use in that city. The visit is wade at the invitation oi the company, which is bearing Use expense.

In the report of an interview with the Borough Engineer on the subject of concrete work, published in our issue ol yesterday, a statement was made that "'tihe total cost of a cubic yard of concrete kerb and channel turned out by tlie mixer U £3 las." This should, of course, refer to «. chain of kerb and channelling, as the context of the article plainly showed. The following is the return of number of birth, death and marriages foi the New Plymouth, district (compiled by Mr. J. S. S. Medley, Registrar) for the month ending June 30 and for the half-year ending June 30, 1914, the figures in parentheses being those for the corresponding periods of last year:—For the month, births 40 (28), deaths 10 (8), marriages 17 (11); for the halfyear, births 17S (176), deaths 63 (70), marriages 60 (01). A sale of Oriental goods will 'be held in the Good Templar Hall to-day (Thursday) and to-morrow. Attention is particularly drawn to the beautiful Indian laces and crochet work. There will also be a great display of Chinese and Japanese work, antique copper, bronze, etc. A special feature of the sale will be the Japanese china stall. All profits from the goods sold will go to help Ramabat in her noble work. There are 25 millio'ns of widows in India, and to be a widow there means to be an outcast. Ramabai is a high-caste Indian lady with a heart overflowing with love for her down-trodden sisters. She started a home for them, and thousands have passed through the home. At present there are some 'ISOO being cared for and educated. Books containing the story of the work are given free to all interested.

If persons who buy packets of "everlasting perfume," "wonted beans," and similar commodities from street haw kers, had looked in at the Central Police Court yesterday they would have heard something 'to their advantage (says Uliie Sydney Daily Telegraph of recent Unite). A young man waa charged with vagrancy. His business, he said, was to sell studs, tie and other trifles in the streets. The police explained that he had a stock ol "sicented nuts" in his pockets, which he was selling. The nuts supposed to retain their aroma, if not for ever, at least for a very long time. The young man kept a bottle of cheap scent in another pocket, and he had only to put a drop of the scent on to t/he nutunseen to customers—to give it the qualities which, multiplied its value indefinitely. Mr. Wilkinson, top 'magistrate, seemed intensely interested in the youth. He took him off his present occupation, and gave him la week's work —hard work .

Discussing the many vessels that have gone to the "Port of Missing%hips" in recent years, when homeward bound from Australia, and New Zealand, a retired .shipmaster attributes most of the disappearances to collisions with ice in the Southern Ocean. He states he saw in hi* time more ice islands than were nyceable. On one wension he was embraced for eleven dttj'B in an archipelago of bergs, some half a mile in length and higher than a vessel'* masthead, and it was only by K)he moist curefull navigation that he then got dear undamaged. On another occasion his vcsvsel almost ran iright on to a huge expanse of field ice, lying flat and low, therefore all the nwre dangerous: mid Urn sailed for forbv miles along its edge before he was able to continue the pa«-wc eastward. Not many years ago, too, the old. Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Wellington struck an iceberg, and it was onfv with great difficulty that .she reached a So.ith African port. These instances, he considers, must be regarded, ,u,d, failing better proof, the ice theory ought, perhaiw, to Avoid ground as well an°many others less likely.

Sneaking about the reported operations of the Meat Trirt in New Zealand, whin lie addres-ied' the Board c ; Agriculture, the Prime Minister Rud that he was in a position to get information which did not come hefore the public, and he could say tnat the Meat T-usts of United States were operating i„ Mow Zealand. "So long as they confine their operations to legitimate competition," he added, "we «m l'«™ ™ fault to find, and I (to not think tlu.v can be intaitred with. But what 1 sm « fs t is this: that they should' be ve-'rv careful!/ waU-hed, because what we "want to'avoid are the conditions which are said to oxis.t in the totes of \meiica, the. Argentine, and other countries where tlu Meat Trusts have start,.d business. I do not want to go into details or into particulars *nfw, because I do hot think there is inuch dawer. so l-ng Sis the farmers insist on owning t'.iei,- own freczing-wortcs «o loniT m we moke it impose for the Meat Trust to arrive at an understanding with the shipping companies doing business between this country and .ragland, or 'between this cojmtTy awl \mcrica-an understanding wMi yvonld 1„. detrimental to the interests of our producers. As T say, so long as competition is perfectly legitimate and Genuine, we have no fault to b.ul and there will be a benefit rather than otherwise, tot wo must not let them get irto such a pc.s4.io-n as will enable them to squeeze the producers- of this country in the way they are reported to ee squeezing the producers elsewhere."

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