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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of tlic Taranaki TCmployers' Association on August 6, will 1)u followed by the Association's first annual dinner, which will be open to all business men who purchase tickets. The members of the Public Service Appeal Board wil'l arrive in New Plymouth to-night, accompanied by Mr. A. D. Thomson, assistant commissioner, and will bold a short sitting to-morrow. On Friday night the Huirangi school, with the organ, and a small museum, and a number of Church service and school books which were inside, was totally destroyed by fire. 'The origin of the outbreak is a mytcry. Tlie Minister for Public Works has informed the Taranaki County Council that the application for a grant towards erecting a new bridge over the Timaru river at Beach road has been ;hoted for consideration pin the estimates. The. annual meeting of ratepayers of the Moa Road District was held at the Hoard's office, Inglewood, on Saturdayafternoon, and was attended by seven members of the Board, other ratepayers being conspicuous by their absence. After the balance-sheet had been read and formally adopted, the meeting adjourn- «*. . ..^gffl A passenger to Wellington last week complains of the indifferent quality of the butter served in the refreshment cars on the train*. He says the article is a very poor advertisement for the qualify of our dairy produce, and thinks it is advisable, if the Government must economise, to practise economy in some other direction. The returns of motor-cars and motorcycles imported into New Zealand from May, 1913, to April, 1914, a* made up by the Customs Department, show the following position, the figures in parenthesis being those for the previous year:—Cars, British 1(182 (040); other makes 2787 (2008); tota-1 3809 (2708). Cycles, British 3530 (2778); oth.-r makes 587 (450); total 4117 (3234). At the meeting of the Taranaki Employers' Association on Kridav night, it was reported that as the result of the recent deputation to the New Plymouth po-rf-master, a very considerable improvement had been effected in the telephone service. A deputation was. appointed to bring before the postal 1 authorities the present unsatisfactory position in regard to the telephone charges, and to suggest that the charge lie uniform througout the borough. The matter will be brought before the member for the district. From the time the Union C'ov.'s steamer Willoehra Ml Wellington for San Francisco til! she arrived back in port on Thursday afternoon, she was "never out of touch with news from the outside world. Some exceptionally good work was accomplished by tlie vessel's wireless apparatus. One 'one occasion, she was within range of Key West, station, Florida, at a distance of 4500 miles. The Willoehra received press news from San Francisco when she was 3100 miles out from that port. In addition to several other long-distance "talks." Wellington station was picked up at a distance of 1020 miles. According to the Sofia Dnicvnik. King Ferdinand commissioned some time ago a well-known Vicuna specialist in Heraldry and genealogy t 0 trace his descent from the ancient Bulgarian Czars. Tha difficulty of the task may have seemed at first sight formidable, but it has been successfully surmounted. It appears that King Ferdinand stands in the lino if direct descent from Maria, the only daughter of the Bulgarian Czar Samuel. Maria's daughter, Trene was the wife of the Byzantine Emperor, Alexins Cornmenus, one of whose descendants married Phillip of Hohenzollern. the 'ounder of the family, from whom bojih,. the Kaiser and King Ferdinand have s.Jrung.

During the quarter ending Juno 20, 09 vessels entered the port of New Plymouth, their, tonnage being 75,550. The imports for the period amounted to 22,081 tons and tile exports to 2,982 tons, making a total of 25,943 tons handled. The. figures for the corresponding period last year were 89 vessels, of a tonnage of 9C,fils tons, imports 19,432 tons, exports 2532 tons—total 22,255. The revenue for Hie past quarter was £3179 17s 2d against £2579 15s 5d last year. Some months ago a man, Thomas Hewitt, while Buffering from hallucinations, murdered -his wife in the .pros- 1 ence of his two children at Pa-tea. Information has just heen received of a sad sequel to the tragedy in the death m England of Hewitt's mother, who collapsed on hearing the news, and died almost immediately. The shock of the tragedy lias also had an effect on Hewitt's eldest daughter, a, bright girl of ten years of age, whose hair has gone grey since the terrible occurrence. There was not a very 'large attendance at the Theatre Royal last night, perhaps on account of the rather incitement weather, when the Citizens' Band held a sacred concert in aid of a charitable object. Bandmaster Cummins he'd the baton, and the following programme was riontributed: Hymn, ''Lead Kindly Light" (Purday); anarch, "Victory" (Greenwood}; grand selection, •The Porter of Harve" (Cagnoni); intermezzo, "Queen of Gems (Shipley Douglas); euphonium solo, "Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer" (Wallace); Bandsman Austin; overture, "Elvin Revels" (A. Rollings); march. "Our Lieutenant" (Maekio-Bevcr) ■ "God Save, the King." Those engaged in the fire enquiry at Pungari'hu on Friday had by no means a pleasant experience. The proceedings took place in the hall, which was innocent of any heating apparatus, and as the evening drew on, counsel,- witnesses, and spectators huddled themselves into overcoats and rugs, and shiv-i ered whole-hearted'ly. Nevertheless, the hall was filled with interested spectators, who stayed until the hitter end—which did not occur until 11.30 p.m. The spectators kept themselves warm with tugs-of-war outside the building, whilst waiting for the verdict, but counsel were less fortunately situated, h-avin" their official dignity to consider. The annual report of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company (telegraphs oar Maslerton correspondent) states that the result of the year's operations, after providing £2500 for depreciation', is a profit of £4791 2s 3d, of which £2500 has .been transferred to the reserve < fund. The balance the directors propose to allocate as follows: To pay a dividend of 6 per cent, on paid up capital, absolving £2709 Is 3d, and to carry the balance (£370 8s) forward. During the year, extensive additions were made to the works at Waingawa, and the plant has been maintained in a high state of efficiency out of revenue. The directors rctiring'by rotation were Messrs Pain and MeKc'nzie, who have been re-elected iin-opposcd. It has been frequently stated lint whey butter will not keep as well as ordinary butter, hut a recent instance which was brought under the notice of a Southland Times reporter would seem to prove that that contention is not altogether a correct one. Some time back, the captain of a Home liner which regularly trades to and from 'New Zealand visited the Edeiulale factory, and i took away with him a couple of pounds of the whey butter that is manufactured there. One pound was consumed before the vessel left port, hut the other was placed in the cool chamber. After the vessel had made two trips to and from tile Old Country, the pound that was stored was tried, an Tnvcrcarg'll resident who was not in the secret being one of those who partook of it. The result was that the butter was declared as good as any fresh butter.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 20 July 1914, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 20 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 20 July 1914, Page 4

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