LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 8 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the TaJanaki -ounty Council will be held oil Thursday 17' th inst., to confirm a special ordtir merging pa* of the Atoa district muo' the county.

Artthur Morton, chairman of the -National Dairy Association, has been I STL* Btt, Pi»ing Companies J J nights and Charges Committee of tb<» Jlotise of Representatives to give evidence on the question of shipping Insights and provision for sufficient' cargo space for the ensuing season.

Considerable discussion took place at he County Council yesterday over the question Hid road-making, the main point being a® to blinding .before roHin« and incidentally the necessity of Having plenty of water available for the new metal before toeing rolled. j.,ie outcome of the matter was that the chairman undertook to sea thai. there was plenty of water available.

\\ ritmg to the Journal of Agriculture -Mr h. Clifton «aj« : —-It is stated thai there are 2,500,(J00ib. of local buttw in store m &tu I'mumco, the effect of a particularly good season ill California, this should noC exercise any effect on the importation of foreign butter. Uio price of butter has lately advanced, the best .butters in the 'higher-e'luss .stores utilising up to Is 5d a pound. .Prices are naturally high at this season of the year."

At -Uoturoa on Sunday afternoon a fourteen-year-old lad named urozier met with an accident, {shortly niter lunch he went to the .breakwater with -:onie other boys, and, whilst p'a-.in" with some dynamite cap", put a mutcil inside one, and jm explosion immediately occurred. The tmumb and the iirst two fingers of the left hand were practical])- blown oil. He was at once taken to the wher . ho was operated on yesterday.

A common sight at the Addingtan ™"P.^ u "i'g l be last day or two, navs a cnratctamSi correspondent, is a wellknown anti-militarist, who u-cd to -speak in 'the King's Theatre and ai stieet corner meetings against the citizen aranv, and who, on sundry occasions, went to goal ami to Uijei island for failure to pay the lines inlicted on -him for not registering Now he i,j said to be making appeals to be included in the Expedition,irr lorce,' but .the authorities will not accept iim.

A shocking tragedy occurred iii a billiard saloon at- Glen lnncs (N.S. !\Vulcs) on taie night of August 20, when a constable accidentally shot the .proprietor ot the saloon, Dan lliggms, dead. Accounts of tue occurrence state .that the constable was demonstrating how quickly he could draw his revolver, and while Jie wa« executing the manoeuvre the weapon exploded. The buJlet embedded itself in the saloon proprietor's heart, and the unfortunate man dropped without a sound. >a.e was killed instantaneously-.

Tlie usual weekly meeting; of the JOgniont Lodge, No. 112, LO.G.T. was held last evening in the lodge room of the liood Templar Hall, and after the usuaj business an, enjoyable programme was rendered by the following:—.Pianoforte solos, Sisters Blanchard and Way; songs, HartneU and Clark; reading Bro. West; recitation, Sister Benttie Connett (who also provided light refreshments) ; Aeloia-u harp solo, Bro. Ilicketts. During the evening thei'- was a, debate as to wiietiiej* Local Option should now be eliminated from -the .\oLieense platform, leaving the issue one ot Dominion prohibition only. Jiro. HartneU ted in iavor oi Dominion prohibition only, and Bro. Welch in iavor ot Local Option being ccmpled with Dominion prohibition. There was a lively discussion, but no definite decision was arrived at.

It as a little-known fact that it was chiefly through the action of one of the Magistrates of Glasgow—Ai.r Joan l'Jemiiig, of Cluinnont—that New Zealand was retained as a British possession. He wa s about the first if not the iirst man in tho kingdom to direct the attention oi the to the possibilities of New Zealand as a British settlement. He took up tlie matter with enthusiasm, and, enlisting the ser-

vices ot such men as Dr Norman >iaeleoclj iSheriil Allison, and Lord Provost Lumsden, convened a meeting in the Glasgow Athenaeum on Slay lii, ISM), wuicli was the (means of ai'ou'siitg publie attention ;to tho question all over the country, and 'brought about tie annexation of the island- in time to prevent their (passing into tlie -hands of I,lip drench. It was doubtless .the outcome of Glasgow's connection with (lie appropriation of the islands for Great Britain 'that New Zealand was largely colonised by Scotsmen. '1 o show tho Ihokl the game of cricket "New Zealand is (looked .upon as the sociological laboratory of - the world," remarked Professor J'Tly, professor of political economy in the University of \V iscousin, America, at the civic reception accorded to tlie visiting scientists at Auckland. "Tlie experiments you are ma,king are very good for the 'rest of 1 the world," he continued, ainid-t laughter, "and 1 hope -they arc good lor New Zealand, but there must be some i.ruwnacks. What the outcome is to 'i>e 1 don't) know. Some of tlie experiment's lire good; other* are not so gooik 'j lie "ittDor problem and tlie land problem

interest lue especially," Professor Kly continued. "I have been, very interested in land tenure experiments, and on this account, I went through Ireland recently investigating land reforms, i lia-ve now come to New Zealand and . lind certain experiments going forward; and I think those experiments' will be

very useful to us in tllio United States. Compulsory arbitration, too, interest ne.. . . Years ago an. American visited your country and came back to America 1 full of enthusiasm concerning the labor laws. I may remind you," Professor 1

Kir added, amidst, morp laughter, "that M lie wrolo a boot about your country I ' and called it 'lilie Land Without ]

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