LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 56, 27 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to t'be death of a relative of one of tlie company, the "Jolly Rovers" have cancelled all engagements! for the present.

The Leeds Stipendiary Magistrate made an order separating a young couple whose only trouble was that the wife had taken sixpence out of her husband's pocket. deputation from the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce will wait on the Chief Postmaster at New Plymouth with a view to having public slot telephones installed in the town. The New Zealand Farmers' Onion decided at its conference to claim a right to elect a representative on the Board of Agriculture, and expressed the opinion tihat the dairying industry slmnld he more fully represented on the Board.

A man named Charles A. Harris was anvslul in New Plymouth on, Saturday by Detective-Sergeant Boddam on charges of thefts to tliu; amount of £2l 4s from the Tnglewoocl agency of the A.M.P. Society. He. was brought before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., and remanded until this morning. The recent distressing accS'ljent nt. Mokau, an account of whieh ajni.ai. . News a week ago, Una* led the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce to again urge on the .Minister for 1 ; :''

Works to make the fullest possible provision in this year's Estimates for metalling the main north road. A report from Parengarenga, Auckland, states that on Friday night a rocket was seen between Coal Point and the North Cape. A rocket was also seen at, Te Hapua -an hour earlier. The steamers Rakanoa and Karori, passing the locality between 10 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. respectively, state that they saw no .signs of the signals. The demand for farm labor is not very great at present (says the Ashburton Guardian), but it is growing greater week hy week as the time approaches for the spring ploughing. At this time of the year the demand for farm hands is generally more apparent, but this is pro l bahly accounted for by the fact that many farmers have taken up sheepbreeding in preference to the more risky industry of grain-growing. What is suspected to have been a peculiarly senseless and vicious practical "joke" was perpetrated it about 1.15

on Sunday morning at the expense of the New Plymouth Fire Brigade. A message was received per telephone that a fire had broken out in an outhouse at the Tenninus Hotel, the hells- rang out, and the brigade was quickly on the scene, only to find no trace of a fire, and, moreover, to ibe informed that no such message as they (had received was sent from the Terminus Hotel. Step's are being taken to investigate the supposed hoax, and if some alleged humorist is concerned, to bring home to him a sense oi his folly. As the result of the Appeal Court decision, the Auckland police intend immediate action against hotel licensees who continue to employ' unregistered barmaids, xt is estimated that between thirty and forty unregistered barmaids are employed in private bars in the twenty Auckland hotels. A meeting of the Auckland Licensed Victuallers' Association of New Zealand passed a resolution unanimously urging the Licensed Victuallers' Association of New Zealand to seek the decision of the Privy Council, as the importance of the issue involved warrants such a stand being taken to establish the definite right or wrong of the Appeal Court's

judgment. A party of four going to the Trentham races on Wednesday had an experience which might have been serious, if not fatal, to some of them, but was not attended by any ill consequences whatever (reports the Wairarapa Times). They were driving in a meto,' eaT over the Kimutaka. and by some means drove off the road, and \Aiv. car rolled some way down the hillside. No one was hurt, and picking themselves up, the members of the party waited until other cars came along, and thus got to their destination. They telegraphed' to a motor garage instructions where to find the ear and to have 't ready for them on their return. Later in the day, a passing motorist used his car to pull the. other on to the track. This was accomplished, and it is a remarkable fact that the ear had sus-

tained not the least injury, and a couple of turns of the starting handle net it going again as if nothing had happened. Two travellers for Messrs Hat rick

and Co. had an almost miraculous- escape from serious injury in a motor-car accident on Saturday. They were passing a trap in their car on the Bell Block hill, when the machine skidded,

almost capsized, then righted itself, and backed down the hill until its progress was stopped by a fence. Neither of the | occupants was injured, and the car was soon brought back to the road, little the worse for the (mishap. Another motor accident at Bell Bloc!; occurred on Saturday night. When descending the. steep gradient past the school the ear. in which was a Stratford party of two gentlemen and three ladies, skidded and the electric lights temporarily failed. The car '.headed for the bottom of the gully and overturned. One of the men was thrown over an adjoining fence and sustained a nasty flesh wound, and the other had a collarbone broken, whilst the Ladies, who were pinned under the ear, suffered a good deal from, shock and minor injuries. Some young men in the ihall went to the rescue and righted the ear, which, but for a broken wind-shield, was undamaged, the party resuming their journey homeward soon afterwards.

The need for adequate depreciation in the keeping' of accounts of trading concerns of every description was lucidly explained and forcibly dealt with in o paper read by Mr A. Coleman, of Stratford, to a meeting of New' Plymouth accountants held under the auspices of the Accountants" Society on Friday night. Mr Coleman set out the various means adopted by accountants of setting aside and determining the, adequate proportion to be set aside for annual depreciation, dealing especially with dairy companies. He detailed some of the dillieulties under which accountants labored in convincing directors of the necessity for such allowance and concluded by making reference to the unreasonable, attitude of the Income Tax Department in refusing to allow for depreciation actually written of!', stating that if such an allowance were made by the department it would encourage directors of companies and others to see that adequate depreciation provision was made. The. paper was in every way interesting and instructive to accountants and students, and Mr Coleman was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for the able manner in which he had dealt with the subject. He talked of this, he talked of that, He talked of everything; J He talked like twenty phonographs, And then began to sing. '"But yesterday," lie told his friends, "You saw me. dumb and dour— The reason 1 am vocal now Is Words' fireat Peppermint Cure!" 1

The residents otf Franklcy road and district are holding a nutting at tin; Frankley 'rvnmaMU.m to-night to protest against' tli« proposed abolition of the Taranaki Education Distrbt. Xo doubt it was with the best of in-

tentions that the Mayor of Wellington concluded the civic reception to the town planning delegates with the remark that they would delay the delegates no longer. "Tliey want to get a bath and some dinner —which they want," he said.

The election for a member of the Taranaki Land Hoard, the voters heing tenants in the district, took place in the board room, New Plymouth, on Saturday morning, those present at tJhe opening of the voting papers being two officers of the Lands Department, and Mr. W. T. Jennings, who was scrutineer on behalf of Mr. \V. Sandison, The voting resulted: Charles James Byan, 409 votes: Mr. William Sandison, 140 votes, Mr. Frederick Charles Jones, SI votes. There were Hi informal votes. Mr. Ryan retains his seat, he having been elected at a previous contest threw years ago.

Writing from Buenos Ay res to friends in New Zealand, Mr. Harold Jenniiurs, who has been in South America for the past two years, states tfcit a severe depression has set in during the past six months'. There have been many fails;i.ry tsnouos oiuos puis 'ssouisnq uj so.m have occurred. An Australian, writing from the South American capital to the Town and Country newspansr, in a recent issue gives his impression of the hitherto prosperous Argentine. Summed up. sifter three columns of detail, it is due to over-speculation in land 1 , the driving out of the smaller man, and the consequent decrease in stock and produce generally—the shrinkage being a startling one, as shown bv figures -mbI lisbcd in the newspaper article.

It seems almost incredible that until Thursday, there should have been still residing in Orakei a woman who 'was an adult at the. time when tihe isthmus upon wliich Auckland is built, was the property of her tribe, with no pakeha resident upon it (states the Auckland Star.) Mrs Watene Kewiti, who died at Orakei on Wednesday at the great age of 101 years, was married many years ago to William Rewiti, who, with tlhe chief, Paul Tuahere, was one of the owners of the Orakei block. Mrs Rewiti was one of the original tribe that sold tllm site of Auckland to the Government, and lias seen the town grow from the time when the first pakchas landed in the Waitermata to found the capital of the colony. It is strange to think that all these'years there should have remained a Maori woman who was also present when the gale was made about 1840, When Captain William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand, founded Auckland. Mrs Rewiti leaves about 30 descendants, and for many years did Christian work amongst her people.

A case of pitiable poverty and want came under the notice of a Christchurch paper the other day. In Milne Street, Spreydon, there lived a woman and her three children, whose ages range from two to six years. The wonmr and her children were neatly but poorly dressed, and it was evident that they were having a hard struggle to make ends meet. In, the course of a conversation, the woman said that her husband was at present in the mental hospital at Porirua, and there was very little chance that he would be discharged. During the late strike, when her husband was out of work, she went out washing, and had kept herself, her husband and five children, the two eldest of whom were now in the charge of her sister at Wellington. It was eleven weeks since her husband had been sent to Porirua, and ever since then, she had been the sole support of herself and the three children. She earned 12s a week, and 7s went in rent, so that the family had practically been living on as a week for two months. Two days in the week the woman goes out washing, and for the rest of the week she is unemployed. Asked how she managed with the children on the days she went out washing, the woman said: "The baby I send to my sister's, the boy of six goes to school, and the boy of four I take with me. I wonder if I would be allowed to send him to school?"

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) arc notified that subscriptions will be due and payable today (Monday), at the Secretary's office, Currifi street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m|. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Advt.