LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

llr. S. Turner has secured the Ouonui output, about 500 tons, for his lirm, Messrs J. J. Lonsdale and Co., Ltd. The Shearers' Association Conference resolved to send a deputation to the Minister of Labor as to Dominion awards. Proposals for the amalgamation of rural workers were discussed. The nctt proceeds of the plain and fancy dress ball which was held at Uruti last week, in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, amounted to £'2o Is 2d. In reply to Mr. Glover, Dr Pomare said that the gentleman in charge of the Goernment accommodation at Karatonga is not a German. lie is a Scandinavian. The police paid a surprise visit to two New Plymouth hotels last Sunday and found a number of people being supplied with liquor at each place. It is understood (lint prosecutions will follow.

Says the Klthani Argus: The two experts who did the tunnelling under the liank of New South Wales and Wilkinson's shop did their work so well that general regret is felt that they did not go to Callipoli and there exercise against the Turks their evident skill in trundling und tunnelling. That farmers in th? Waitara Road district pay some attention to tiie quality of their cattle is evidenced by the test at the factory. This, during the past few years, should easily rank as as one of the highest in the Dominion, and is, moreover, consistently showing improvement, as the following figures Drove: —IIHI, average test 4.24; 1!I12, 4.3!); 11113, 4.4-2; 1914, 4.52; 1913, 4.1 i. As the factory and its creamery have about SO suppliers, this must be considered a very good result. One supplier's cows averaged him 40511)3 of butter-fat this season, which at 14d, 'the price paid this season, averaged him £23 12s 6d per head. '•I woidd not trust my money to five fanners to run a commercial business," said His Honor Mr. Justice Hosking', sitting in chambers at the 'Welling Supreme Court on Tuesday. "A co-operative dairy eoropan|y means 'one cow, one share.' If they are to run a stock and agency company, buying and selling farm implements, dairy stock, buying and leasing land lor the purpose, runuing as wide a 'business as that of Levin and Co., they should call themselves something else than co operative dairy companies. They are mercantile companies, and should style themselves such. They should call themselves a dairy aad trading company,"

At IMangorei, during the storm on Monday night, two cows belonging to Mr. D. Simpson and a horse of 'Mr. George Salisbury's were killed by lightning. The WhitcclilTa Dairy Company have surely established a unique record. At the annual meeting this week it was decided to increase the directorate from five to seven. As there are seven suppliers, each is now a director, The number of births, deaths and marriages in the New IHymouth district (Mr. J. S. S. Medley, Registrar) for the mouth ending August 31 is as follows (last year's figures in parentheses) Birth 22 (24), ieaffis 8 (15), marriages 11 (9). Customs duties collected at the port of New Plymouth during the month of August amounted 'to £3004 9s 2d (August, 1914, £4600 3s), and the iboer duty to £95 19s (August, 1914, £lOl 1,1s). The decrease is attributed for the most part to delayed shipments, which will arrive this month or in October. The Waitara Dairy Company's contribution to the Patriotic Fund, on the basis of 1-B<l per lb butter-fat, amounted last year to the sum of £221 3s 3d. Mr. Matckay, who favored increasing it to >4O, pointed out that if every factory in New Zealand had contributed on the same basis as Waitara, the sum of £50,000 would have been raised. In the House yesterday afternoon the Petitions Committee reported that they hid no recommendation to make on the petition by Mrs. Royd Garlick, for compensation on account of the death of her husband, late director of physical instruction. After discussion, it was resolved to refer the report back to the Committee for further consideration. At the Napier Supreme Court yesterday, Pir-i Hire Jloani, a native woman, waa found not guilty of charges of obtaining and attempting to obtain money from three other Maori women by means of false pretences, namely,, by stating that tiie spirit of their father had communicated to accused that they mast pay her money. —Press Association. The Minister of Defence said yesterday, with reference to a question by the member for Wairarapa as to an alleged mutiny amongst the Maori troops on a transport, he iiad received an authoritative statement .to the effect that no audi incident had taken place. He deprecated statements reflecting on the honor of troops being made without adequate inquiry. A poll was taken at Tlma.ru yesterday on tilic question of a £50,000 loan for the municipal purchase of Messrs J. L. and G. Scott's electric light installation, the vendors offering to accept 5 per cent, debentures, with a currency of 20 years, for the amount of their price, £33,000. The subject had been well ventilated, and the proposal was rejected by STS to 571. —Pre-sj Association.

I-ast Saturday afternoon a number ot Cruti residents met and unanimously decided to form a branch of the North Taranaki .Patriotic League, and tho following committee were e'eeted: —Messrs C. Baructt, S. S. Butt, A. 15. Sutton, C. Musl;er,H. Richardson (all of Uriti), 0. Thompson (Ngntiinani), and 11. Larsen' (Tangitu). Air. Barnett was elected chairman and Mr. Bait was appointed secretary.

The German steamer Walkure, whiali visited New Plymouth some time ago and was afterwards sun!,- by the Germans during their bombardment of (Papeete, was to have been sold by auction, but the sale has been postponed. Resting on an even keel in about nine fathoms of water, it is anticipated that the Walkure can be raised with very little difficulty. The masts and bridge are showing out of the water. Mr. J. Lopdell, Stratford county engineer, alighted from his motor-car while proceeding down the Waiwera Road, Toko, the other morning, and was walking alongside it, when the clay bank gav« way underneath, and the ear was precipitated down an embankment of about llff-y fv-t. A-s far as tan bs asascertained, \ery litlle damage was done to thrj motcv.

The Premier states that he is thinking of arranging for some of the New Zealand war correspondent's matter to be sent by cable. Events were moving to rapidly in the Dardanelles thai the Dominion could not wait 'for lctler.3 with out impatience. It may he' mentioned that a. large batch cf letters from Mr. Ross arrived this week covering nearly a month, and bearing internal evidence of delay by the censors and in the mails. Some of the letters considerably ante-date his letter published last week, A great deal of anxiety is felt in Dunedin, says a press mc<-.;age, regarding the whereabouts of D''- I'. C. Bachelor, one of the leading medical practitioners in that eitj'. He left New Zealand with the main expeditionary force, with the rank of lieutenant-colon;/, and was invalided bacv.c from Egypt recently. Since returning to Dunedin he has undergone an operation in ft. private hospital, and is in a weak state of health. On Tuesday he expressed his intention of going to' Onslow ' House to make inquiries about accommodation there, and about 1.30 p.m. lie was seen in the vicinity of that establishment. At the Waugaiiui Supreme Court yesterday a middle-aged man, named R. W. S Oit. was found guilty 011 six charges of theft of painters' requisites from the firm where lie was employed. Counsel said awaiscd wad a married man, and asked for leniency. Justice Edwards, in sentencing the prisoned', said tluit lie had a most unpleasant duty, as there were enormous difficulties in monwliiig justice with mercy so that the innocent should not sutler. He considered there should he power to review sentences, as in 'England, and it was preferable that a sentence should he determined hv a gieater numlwr of judges than one. Sentence was deferred.

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At the recent musical examinations held in connection with Trinity College, London, Miss G. W. Taa ry, of Inglewoojd, was successful in passing the practical part of tike teachers!, diploma (A-T.C.Li.) An Auckland telegram states that (lowers were gold during yesterday in the streets by ladies of tho Patriotic League, with the result that 1780 was collected for the provision of winter waistcoats for troops. Hon. G. W. ißussell told a deputation of Rotorua bowiers yesterday afternoon that lie had selected Pnkeroa Hill, at the north-west corner of the town, as a site for a convalescent soldiers' home, which would be opened as soon as possible. Starting with 100 men, the first draft would consist of men returned by the Willoclira.—Press Association. The result of 'the Trinity Oolkg« (London) musical examinations at th« Eltham Convent on Tuesday was as foV lows:—Teacher's Diploma L.T.C.L, Gladys Turkington, 72 marks. Higliel Local: Ngahina Astbury, 62. Seniori Eunice Lording, 73; Dorothy Dawes, 62. Intermediate: Eunice Astibury, 73, Junjor: Cassie Carter 83 (honors). Prcpatory: Irene Nuttall, 70. First Steps: Frances Brown, 69. At the S.M. Court, Eltham, yesterday, judgment by d&fault wag.giycp«i|l the following undefended /«ases:-r-!El-tham Borough Council (Mr. Weir) v. Margaret Payntcr, £1 0s Cd; same v, William 11. If. Young, £2 lis 9d; costs lis; Allen Bros. (MV. Weir) v. George Barker, £l9 9s 9d, eostß £1 9sj same v. James Mead, £4 5s sd, costs 7s; same v. J, Behlman, £3 costs ss; Beilingliffui and Sons v. Angus' MeLeodj £l-' US' '(id, costs Ss. Frederick James Miiir was ordered to pay Charles (William Cullen (Mr. Stewart) tho sum of £ls 12s in weekly instalments of 2s lid.—Argus. At the Whiteley spring flower show to-day tiherc will be included an interesting educational exhibit kindly loaned by Air, J. G. Ellis, agricultural instructor for the Board of Education. It consists of a collection of cones, more than a hundred varieties, sent to Mr. Ellis 'by Mr. T. W. Adams, of Canterbury, who is New Zealand's acknowledged leading authority on the .family of trees represented in the exhibit. The collection will be arranged in such » way as to prove of instructive value. To the names of spring flower exhibitors given yesterday. those of Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Moore should be ded. Special attention lias been givdn this year to the stalls of useful and fancy goods, a, very fine display of scr ; viccable articles being offered for sale. The show opens at 2 p.m. to-day,: jlnil should be visited by every lover of tho blooms that herald the spring. Mr. Fred Watson has, during the past two or three days, been addressing meetings of dairy factories in connection with tho proposal to re-organise the Taranaki A. and P. Association. At Wliitecliffs on Tuesday lie put up a record, when he secured all the suppliers present as members, viz, Messrs If. Wells, P. Wells, W, J. Bowman, J. W. 11. Martin, A. E. Davis, W. J. Frcith, and C. liowe. At Waitara Road yesterday the following were secured: Messrs J. 11. Smith, A. Rowe, R. F. Giddy, C. Wilson, F. J. Andrews, L. G. Andrews, C, Wyatt, S. Mercer, H. Turnbull, W. Hall, G. V. Tate, G. L. Tate, A. Turnbull, H. Purdie, A. Fulton, J. Purdie, W. Sutton, P. 11. E. Surrey, O. J. Henick, J. F. Loveridge, E. M. Giddy, O. Bracegirdle, W. Honnor, P. Honnor, P. Godionagh, T. Luxton, W. Luxton, junr. Ineluded in this list arc the names of a few present members and enthusiasts Mr. U. V. Tate having been connected with the Association for over 40 years. Mr. J. S. Connett, the president, is at present visiting the Uruti and Okau districts addressing meetings. Handkerchief bargains at the Melbourne's semi-annual reduction sale:— Men's sixpenny Irish lawn handkerchiefs, now three for Is; ladies' pure linen hemstitched handkerchiefs, with initials, three for Is; men's mercerised handkerchiefs, with colored borders, two for Dkl; men's large working handkerchief* (colors blue or red with spots), two for ftd; ladie-.' hemstitched handkerchiefs, eiglit for H; men's kliak'i handkerchiefs, three for 2s.