LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 22 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki County Council has just received the Government subsidy amounting to £978 18s 3d. ■ A complete new programme will be (given hy ''Tho Dandies" tonriiglit at the Theatre Hoyal. Last niglit'a concert was a real ireat. Three scholarships, of a yearly value of £35 each, are offered for competition among Maori boys this year. The scholarships are tenable at Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay. ' A masd meeting of the Opunake Harbor District ratepayers is to bo held to-morrow evening at Opunake, re the 'loan proposals for harbor improvement. Our Wellington correspondent wiros that the general ejection will he held as usual this year—either late in November or early in Decemlber. The wife of a runholdcr in the Albury district, South Canterbur}', gave birth on Tuesday night to three children—two girls and a boy (says the Christchurch Press of Thursday).

A number of men are employed along the northern line approaching Waitotara, in pulling up the old rails and laying down much heavier ones, in anticipation of tic speeding-up of the New Plymouth soction of the railways.— Chronicle.

A motor cyclist had a narrow escape from serious injury yesterday. While traversing King street his machine got out of control, with the result that instead of negotiating the curve into Brougham street it dashed across the road towards the Taranaki Hotel and upset the rider, who, however, emerged from under the machine without much damage. A gruesome discovery was made by eome workmen at Te Awamutu rccsntly. They were employed in carrying out excavation work in a footpath in Pari road where they unearthed a much decayed coffin, which fell to pieces i mmediately it was touched. There was nothing to bliow who had ' been buried there, but it was quite evident that tthe internment had been carried out according to r.uropeaui custom

Good progress is being made with the work of deepening the water alongside and in the vicinity of the wharf at Moturoa. Tho approach from seaward is now very satisfactory, and the chief work at present consists of blasting the hard material adjacent to the outer side of tho wharf. The weather of late has been extremely favorable for dredging operations, so that the time should not bo far distant when any of the ocean vessels trading with New Zealand can berth at Moturoa.

The usual weekly meeting of tho Egmont Lodge, No. 'll2, 1.0. G.T., was held last evening in the lodge room of the Good Templar Ilall. After the usual business, which included the initiation of three friends, Sister Mrs. Mctsaacs gave an address on ''The old Good Teoaiplar Days in New Plymouth," which was very interesting. A musical, vocal and elocutionary programme was given by the single members of the Lodge. At a meeting of the New Plymouth Patriotic Committee last evening, the offer of Mr. Royd Garlick, director of physical culture, who ia about to instruct classes of teachers in New Plymouth, to give a performance at the conclusion of his teaching here in the Park or at the Coronation Ilall (if wet), in aid of the Belgian Fund, was accepted with thanks. The chairman reported that he had given financial help to the wife of a reservist who had joined the New Zealand Artillery. Ilis action was confirmed. Tho rest of the business was of a routine nature.

A dastardly a-ssault w»o made upon a young woman on tho Mountain- road on Saturday evening (gay* the Elthatn Argus). S!he was oraployed in town- and was returning home after dark when ft«;osted by a man who asked her sevwishes to point out that iw the future eral questions albout the houses in the neighborhood. Having answered them the young woman was continuing lie;way when the man scued her by the arm and threw her to the ground. She struggled and screamed, and her assailant loosening his hold for a- 'brief space the young woman got away and succeeded in reaching a house when the man quickly decamped. The police were were communicated with *nd Oonstahio Wade has the case in hand. Such occurrences as this should be put down with a. heavy hand, and it is to be earnestly hoped that the culprit -will be caught and meted out fitting punishment.

The mischievous small "boy -has tfiocn much in evidence at the Powderhami street bridge recently. The boxing for posts 'had been placed in position on- the northern retaining wall and filled with cement, usual handrails passing through each post. Boys destroyed in a few 'seconds the work of many hours. In their swinging oa the hand rails they disturbed tho cemfmt, wliioh had not set, with the result that when tho boxing was removed yesterday, the ornamentations and corners on nine out of ten posts were cracked, in eoqn« cases almost beyond repair. This sort of thing ig very annoying to the man in charge of the work, as well being unfair to the ratepayer*. '

On the day 'before Great Britain- declared war, RcjiT-idroir-.il Mnhon, the American naval alhority, foreshadowed Germany's military procedure and tSie sequel in the followin; words: —"Germany's procedure ia to overwhelm nt once by concentrated preparation and impetuous momentum. If she fails in this she is lests able to sustain any prolonged aggression, as was indicated in the Franco-Prw; ; an war during end after the siege of Paris." As to the position of Britain in the contest, he said:—"Englamd must at once throw -her preponderating fleet against l>rmany for the one chief pvrpose of maintaining her own position aa a world power. For Engln ni! jt was a question, if ehe remained <ut of the war, of sacrificing ier empire in tlh-e next generation to the interest of .this generation. Great Britain, as the third member of the Entente, finda herself in the position of Russia in ISO;"), when alio permitted Napoleon fo strike down Austria unaided, and was liorself struck down the following year at Jena, or in th*t of France in 1866, whim she stood bv while Prussia crushed Austria, nsd was herself overwhelmed in .1870." | ENTERTAINING A* ENKMT,

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