LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 39, 6 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j «»i j A draught horse- slipped on the Eltham t £»rrcd streets on Saturday and sustained J injuries necessitating its destruction. j The Waimato West (Manaia) County I Council has decided to take a poll upon il a proposal to borrow £60,000 for the construction of up-to-date roads. The Farmers' Co-operative Organisa--1 tion Society will hold a meeting of shareholders at Inglewood this month, the date to be advertised later. Iron bark poles for the new traffic bridge at Akitio (East Coast) cost from £3O to £49 each. The freight from Wellington to the Coast alone was £lO on each pole. It is understood (says a West Coast paper) that two parties of Maoris have recently gone to the Weatland ranges in search of greenstone for a monument to be erected in Greymouth. to the memory of the early Maoris. Mr. F. ■Manner, member for Marsden, mentioned in the House of Representatives the otl.er evening that he went to work he was nine years old, and had never cost his parents the price of a pair of boot's since then. At the meeting of the New Plymouth Brotherhood yesterday, Dr. G. Home delivered a carefully prepared and interesting address on "Important Things in Education," advocating school instruction in the caro of the body and in sex kygiene. The address will be published in to-morrow's issue. The popular East End Troubadours, | who inndo their debut during the Band Carnival, have kept their concert party together, and propose visiting the country centres to provide amusements for their country friends during the winter evenings. The first performance wifl take place at Bell Block to-morrow night. The R.M.S. Rotorua, which left Wellington on Thursday for London, took about 1200 crates of cheese from New Zealand ports. The cheese was contributed by the following ports:—Auckland, 51 crates; New Plymouth, 54 crates; Patea, 207 crates; Wellington, 45fl orates; Dunedin, 143 crates; and Bluff, 289 crates. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Waikato Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company held at Hamilton or Monday authorised an increase of capital to £300,000 by the issue of 100,000 new shares carrying a fixed cumulative preferential dividend of six per cent. This step has been found necessary owing to largely increased business offering, which the company U unable to cope with; without increasing the capital. The loss sustained by Mr. G. P. Donnelly by the destruction of his homestead is incalculable, as lub collection of Maori relics, considered to be one of the finest in New Zealand, was almost totally destroyed, only a few exhibits being removed. So rapidly did the flames spread that in endeavoring to save a prized trophy Mr. Donnelly was threatened by the oncoming fire. He beat a hasty retreat, and found it impossible to re-enter the building. There was a lively ending !« a football 1 mutch at NgarieawluuSi'ia on Saturday (Says the Auckland Star), when the game bt-.tveen the llunt'.y am! Moehaki Junior League teams re-olved inlo something ->f <,\ free light. The match only lasted for 30 minutes. From thf beginning play was of a very rou;;h r allure, and the referee ordered emman off the field soon after play commenced, and both teams were ordered off , the field. Then a second mutch, between TiUipiri and Ngaruav.'aliia, was started. Almost immediately a |i;*ht took place . or the line, find this •.■•.■solved into a , general Imcelee, If'mi'sUble Ouvanagh had to assort his authority, and there . will probably be a sequel in the Police Court.

A resident of Vogeltown may have been seen on Saturday at street-repairing. Despairing of obtaining satisfaction from the Council, and the road being in a stale, hardly lit for traffic, he >et io work and, with material at hand, repaired the section nearest his property. This suggests a war out of the Council's diiliculties in the matter of keeping the streets in decent order. Vv'liy not organise a "Btreet repair day"? Every able-bodied nmn in tile town might he asked to doff his coat, and working on the lines of the Yankees, repair all the streets in need of attention, which means practically, every one! As for material, the Council, with its £OOO or £7OO windfall over the Skinner road gravel pit transaction should he in a position to provide all that is necessary.

During the Inst week of ihe Melbourne's great mid-winter sale, which lias been such an uunreeodcuied sU' 1 - eess. the whole of (he lino's , r lr:,eM slock of aieiirt end Lev-' ready ','■■• wear suits will be placed on -ale el si; ■)< bargain prices as silwyald not fail to ultrnct all who appicciare big w.ving:.

A PANACEA FOll AU, STOMACH ; TllOUrifJ'.S. is found in Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tab. , lets, which digest what you cat, and gh'A the weary stomach a much-needed rest. Price, u""i and ■>* lid. O'jlainab'.c every

To-night's "San Toy" rehearsal will be in the Whitelcy Hall at 8 p.m. A man named Sydney Herbert Gordon Doyle was arrested in New PJymoutli on Saturday by Detective Sergeant Boddam and Constable Wroblenski on charges of theft from the dweiling of a Maori named Rangi Watson. The articles which, he is alleged to have stolan comprised a greenstone "mere'! valued at £lO, and earringa and a tie pin of the same material, valued :0 fl sb. He was brought before Mt. A. Crooke, S.M., and remanded till today. A transaction wibh a pawn ticket in New Plymouth on Saturday led to the arrest by Constable Brown of a man named Alexander Webster, alias Bwnuel Rnoh, who »aj subsequently found to l.e "wanted" at Auckland, aB -well as for a breach of the terms of his proInilion at Rotorua. The charge on which the was arrested by Constable Brown, is that of having made a false declaration. It is alleged fjiat iho pawned a watch with a New Plymouth broker, sold th,> ticket to a third party, iind subsequently made a declaration before a J.P. that the ticket was lost, in order to obtain the issue of a now '<>ne. He' was formally dhfeurgod! on Saturday and remanded until to-da,y.