LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

_ The meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, which was postponed from last week until Wednesday, ibas been further postponed until next Wednesday. Several members of the office staff are at present laid up witb the prevailing epidemic, and the active staff now consists of Mr. Whiieombe and two lady toembeTs. *

_ Last month the New Hymouth tram,ways ran 16,781 miles, carired 117,375 passengers, and took £Bl2 9s in fares, ~an increase of £IOB 15s 6d and 15,474 additional passengers over the same period of last year. The engineer reports ■tfim,t-tho..plan±-is operating satisfactorily.

The report of the' Signing of an. .armistice with Germany evidently struck ■t'ho office of the Pa'hiatua Herald very heavily. Half of . :e of the inside pages of the paper, instead of containing news had the following announcement in bold letters: "Germany defeated Armistice signed—War over. The Herald r «taff is oa strike; we don't Wame 'em."

The Patea Iron Ore Smelting Company had, say 3 the Press, another successful rim on Tuesday afternoon, when a large quantity of excellent iron was run off. The company is about to enlarge its works shortly, and will proceed with tiio work of smelting iron from the ironsand deposits on a large scale.

The Samoa garrison will be demobilised as soon as possible. Influenza has broken out there and is spreading. The assistance ca.bled for cannot be spared from New Zealand. The Minister is trying to arrange for medical aid from Sydney.

Owing to the influenza epidemic the Borough Council has decided to drop for the present the poll for b'ne loan proposals that was to have been taken next Wednesday. The town clerk stated it would be necessary to re-advertise the loan, which would mean a delay of s» weeks. Councillors were of opinion that it would not be opportune to take the poll at present.

A meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council was held last night, when there wcro present Mr. C. H. Burgess (Mayor), Crs. G. W, Browne, W. F. Short, R. J. Deare, and J. Hayden. Apologies were received from Crs. Clarke, Hill, Collis, and Griffiths. After the various reports were adopted and some business in connection with the epidemic was transacted, the council rose, the meeting occupying less than an hour. At the meeting of the Borough Council last night, Cr. G. W. Browne spoke in ihigh terms of the action of the members of the electric lighting and tramway staff, who, despite the jubilations that were going on over the signing of the armistice, stuck to their work and prepared the street illuminations which were sudh a feature of the celebrations. On his motion it was unanimously decided to tender them the thanks of the council.

"Lemons? Yen, I have a, good supply, hut ii' I sand them iuto New Plymouth i got nothing for iheni; but if I send them to Martoc, i can got., twopence and threepence apiece." This statement was made on Tuesday by acertain farmer with any amount of the citrus fruit that is bo badly needed br the Mayoress' committee. Does ho ever think 01 tlie sciviccs being rendered by the committee!?, who are givir.g up all their time, providing benzine, and keeping their cars going, and the ladies, who are working night and day, sparing themselves in no way—all to succor the sick, -yit'hout the slightest idea of personal advantage or regard? Happily, such mercenarincss and mconsideration !a not general just now; the opposite is the ca=e. There never was a time in North Taranaki when so much unselfishness and nobility of character were displayed.

What threatened to be an ugly riot ocrarreil in High Street, Chripteimrch, a little past the Bank of New Zealand corner*- about 51.30 o'clock on Wednesday night (The Press reports). There was a considerable crowd in the vicinity at the time, and for some reason or other thoy got it into their headd that the police were arresting one of their number 'or letting off fireworks, tcough there was absolutely no truth in the rumor Senior-Sergeant Cummlugs and two or three other officers proceeded (o the scene, and on learning that there was no suggestion of any kind o? arrest, «- plained . the matter to the crovrV, and started, to walk back to the Police Station. A large portion of the crowd fol* lowed them, and to make matters worse a motor came along Hereford jjfcreet and proceeded in the direction of iho Police Statjon, which gave rise to tuo cry that an arrested man wao in it, and was being taken to the eelb. Thia ivac, of course, quite unfounded, acd the car was merely & private one, Some hundreds of people assembled out3ide the Police Station, hoot : .ng and yelling, av.d Senior Sergeant Ck'-SBUiiga asked them to be quiet, as there waro isweral people iy:ng seriously ill in the vicinity, bat his v.-orda had no effect, Tho uproar in«cased, and several stov.ea and other missiles were tbruwn, on* sergeant being hit on the arm with three stones, and one of the station windows being broken. Words .being of no avail, the poliee, who behaved iu a particularly good-natured and quiet manner throughout the whole affair, got two or three leads of hose, and turned strong jets of water on the crowd many of whom were well drenched, and after a quarter of an hour there was no further trouble. A great number of the crowd were young boys and girls, and had it not heen for that fact, the police would probably have charged the crowd with batons, and there would have been considerably more to remember the disgraceful scene by than wet clothes.

The great Capitulation Sale by the Melbourne, Ltd., has beeu further postponed until Monday next, 25th inst.

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Jn has montMy report to lie News Plymouth Bownrgi Council, InfepeotorDay states that whilst in Auckland he 1 spent a day at the paper mills, and wasable to see what tihey would buy, and found that the Gouaea would he aide to sell ail the paper at a-faa- margin on cost of handfing. :

There were slaughtered for local consumption at the New Plymouth abattoirs last month, 181 cattle, 8 calves, 629 sheep, 34 lambs, 81 pigs, and 2 suckers, 2 ox heels and 172 tripes cleaned. There were condemned I cow 1 sheep, and 1 pig. Tees amounted'to £l2l Os 9d, fees from otiher works £5 us, rent £6, and sale of Wood 18s, making a total of £133 9s 9d, an increase of £2O 4s 64 over the same period of last year.

The Licensing Bill ia printed and lhas only to come before the Cabinet for final approval. It is confidently expected (says the Post) that the Liquor Referendum legislation will be adopted by a large majority. There wfll be no argument really about the issue being, decided by a bare majority of voters. It is taken for granted, practically by all parties, that the bare majority will be provided for; but in the event of failure to carry Prohibition, tihe following licensing poll will be decided on a three-fifths test It is probable that the Referendum will be fixed for March next. Many Parliamentary Prohibitionists will make a keen effort to cut out from the Beferendum the question of compensation. They are confident of securing a majority against the payment of £5,000,000 to Ifce "trade" for goodwill. The electric lighting applications received during Hie month in New Plymouth were 3, the number of new consumers connected to the supply mains 15, and additions to old consumers' installations four. The turbine ordered over two years , ago is now being delivered at the power house, and the engineer says it is reasonable to expect ! that at will ber uniting within the next | -month. On three occasions during the month trouble was experienced due to lightning discharges and charges, but in each case the lightning arrestors fulfilled their functions and no damage wa3 done to tlhe plant. The Waiwakaiho river, Mr Bartley says, has required careful watching during the last three .weeks, in which it has been in flood seven times, and large quantities of shingle have had to .be dealt with, to keep the intake open.

After describing some of the experiences of Mr Newton King and his staff on the return journey trom the last Ohura sale, the Taumarunui Press says: But there was still more to come. A prominent member of the party made for the railway station to book sleeping berths, and an exciting interview with one of the high officials followed, in which some unparliamentary language was need, and tine visitor was promptly ordered to get out of the official's office. The visitor in question is one whoso rank and station in life give him every advantage and secures many privileges that do not come to the ordinary man, but oil this occasion, not being recognised and his clothes being covered with mud as the result of the car journey, the official evidently thought that ho was a third-class passenger, not a first-class one, and did not pay the usual airs of courtesy that are shown to one of Ihigh standing. But, after all, great men have often to pay a penalty for the misunderstandings that often happen, and Taranaki's 'lCing" may console himself with the fact that the late Duke of Norfolk, one of England's richest peors, was told to "get off the grass" at Arundel Castle, wlhieh stately home he owned, because his gardener did not recognise him. Better luck next time, Mr Newton King, when you come to Taumarunui!