LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A visit to tlie outlying schools in the Olutra district will be made this week by Messrs S. fl. Smith, JI.P.. H. Trimble, and Hoskiii. The party will leave this morning, returning at the end of the week.

On Thursday morning a motor-car, which was travelling fairly fast, struck a staunch upright 011 the Te Namu bridge, Opunake, and shivered its timbers (writes our Opunake correspondent). On Saturday, two cars collided near Opunake and both were damaged. The collision of a gig with a telegraph pole, 011 which was lixed a fire alarm box, was the cause of calling out the Central Brigade at New Plymouth about 4.15 yesterday afternoon, and seeding thera in great haste to the cor-' Tier of Dawson and Powderham streets on a fake alarm.

■Reference to the widening of the path in Pukekura Park to the racecourse to enable the Prince of Wales to motor over it was made by the curator in his report to the Park Board last night. He stated the work was done without having to remove some fine pine trees near the path.

The Mamari completed loading at New Plymouth at 8.30 last night, and she will leave for the Waitara roadstead this morning. The cargo from New Plymouth consists of 1227 quarters of beof, 21,713 carcases of mutton, 2f103 carcases of lamb, 200 cases of tinned meat, 88 casks of tallow, and 5349 crates of cheese.

The New Plymouth Harbor Board's dreilge. Paritntu left yesterday for Wellington to undergo her annual overhaul. It is expected the vessel will be away at least a month. Captain MeMahon is in command, and has with hivn as first mate Mr. Jensen (a well-known Waitara mariner), and Mr. Jackson (of the Thomas King] as second mate. The programme for the visit of the Prince of Wales to New Plymouth has been approved by His Excellency the Governor-ficiieral. The .Minister of Internal Affairs states, however, that it must he distinctly understood in regard to the presentation of an address from the Masonic Order that 110 speeches must be made, and the address must simply be read.

According to police report*, tfte crowd which attended the Ma worn trotting mooting- on Monday contained no undesirable elements (stater,, the Star). The usual precaytions were taken to prevent men following; illegal callings and of bnd reputation from gaining admission, and the. vigilance of the police seems to have had such a wholesome effect, that men of this class make themselves very sca'rre, as far as Taranaki meetings are concerned. No one who regularly attends race meeting); could fail to be impressed with the good tone of the day's gathering. Aa important finding to all those in occupation of leasehold lands was uttered recently_ hy Mr. Justice Edwards during his judgment on the action in which plaintilflf claimed damages for Injury done to land and buildings by his tenant. His Honor, after quoting'wellknown English eases, remarked: "It seems now to he established law that, however ruinous a building niay be, if it is demised as a bujMinir, the tenant must from time to time replace all such parts a:, fail to serve their purpose, or make the structure dangerous, so that if the tej'ms granted are for a long period a tenant may. during its course, be compelled to reconstruct the entire building."

There's gold in the rock where the miners flock, " There's gold in the sands of the sen; There's gold in the very a : r we breathe, Could science but set it free. There's hidden gold in the pirate's hold; And we'll find it some day, I'm sure; There's ease worth gold for a cough or cold, Tn Wood's great Peppermint Cure. 2

It is stated that a large landowner in the Otaki district, who had 800 acres of hush felled, paid nearly £3OOO for grass seed, most of which lias failed to take root. The total expenditure involved was in the region of £SOOO.

As showing the intelligent interest in this Dominion taken in Australia, attention \x directed to the fact that 'a recent cablegram published in one of the principal Melbourne dailies announced that the Prince of Wales w!hile in Wellington would stay with the' GovernorGeneral, Lord Plunket.

Footwear is very expensive in France. Men's boots cost GO francs (£2 10s)' and women's 50 francs (£2 Is Sd). The' 2,000,000 pairs of national boots which the Government placed upon the market were sold at prices ranging from 48 francs per pair for men, 40 francs 73 centimes for women, 42 francs for boys and 37 francs 25 centimes for girls. '

A speaker at the Waimate Plains Trotting Club's smoke concert on Monday evening referred to the unfair distribution of trotting permits, which "avc Hawera only one day. Iu Hawera, ha said, they got all the best gallopers and he saw no reason why, with the better stakes the club would be able to pay in the future, they should not get all the best trotters also. He underthat the stakes would be increased by £OOO next year.—Star. At the meeting of the Pukekura Park Board last night it was decided to allow the Borough Council to make a preliminary survey of the north-west corner of the Parle in connection with the proposed tramway extension to \ogeltown._ This, it was pointed out by the chairman, in no way bound tlio Board in the matter of actually allowing the route to pass through Pukekura Park.

The afternoon train from the soutli yesterday wan very late in reaching New Plymouth. It appears that just" after leaving the U-pperton Junction station one of the cylinders of the engine gave way. It was some time before such repairs or adjustments could "be made as enabled the train to proceed. The damaged side of the engine was disconnected, ami after being helped up a sharp pinch by the Waitara branch line engine the train came on under its own power, and eventually arrived at its destination at about a quarter to 9ix nc-iU'ly two hours behind schedule timellie outward afternoon train from New Plymouth, which usually leaves at 4'o was delayed until 5 o'clock, when "it was allotted to proceed.

At the meeting of tile Pnkekura Park Board Inst evening the hon. secretary (Mr P. E. Stainton) mentioned the desuability of forming a sub-committee to tatce control of the sports ground at the Park. lie moved that an invitation be extended to the various athletic associations of the district to appoint .1 delegate to form such a sub-committee wlr.cli would take charge of the sports ground and report to the Heard iiom time to time. A delegate from tins sub-committee would be entitled to bo present at the Boar.d meeting. The Board would, of course, exercise financial control. This motion was carried and Messrs. Weston and Stainton were appointed as the Board - -, delegates on the sub-committee. "

Miss Catherine Braddock, M.A., formerly of Petone and now at Cambridge University, writes that English people imve the queerest notions about New land. She says:—"A woman in a Yorkshire tram, with whom I came into conversation the other day, could not get rid of tile idea (even after her mistake was pointed out) that New Zealand was somehow part of America. ,'Ven among the better educated class ideas 011 the subject are very vague. One prevailing notion seems to be that Now Zealand in a place where everything is perfect, where nothing ever happen:-, and so far ofl that nothing she does matters. The first notion of New Zealand as a Utopia ia no doubt imparted by our soldiers, while the second and third are deductions from the almost entire absence of New Zealand news from English papers." 0

The owner of a section, which fronts on a side road dose to Devon Street East on which there are growing a lot of splendid fruit trees which are in full hearing paid an early morning visit to His holding on a recent Sunday and wet a man coming out of the place with a sugar hag full of the choicest fruit from the orchard. On being asked what he wan doing there, the intruder replied: 'L;p to the same as you, I suppose." It was some time before the visitor could be persuaded that the newcomer was the owner of the property, but he eventually admitted "being outmatched and was made to turn out the proceeds of lus plunder, and returned home with nothing njore m his bag than when he set out. the owner of the propertv is known for his generosity in this respect, and had the poacher been less impudent and had admitted a "fair cop", he, no doubt, would hove been allowed to take the fruit home. On another "occasion me small bo t vs were discovered in the some orchard l,y a . son of the'owner who gave them a quicii exit.

If we divided the year into two seasons, summer and winter, the winter of Hemisphere hfcs now commenced. In tins ?onnection it will in!!f aders (o ieara > O" the authority of Sir Kobert Ball, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, that of the total amounts heat received from Iho sun on a hemisphere of the earth m the course of a. year, G:i per cent is received during the' summer and At per cent is received during the winter. He also tells us, in the course ?, M ". Rrgument on the astronomical theory of the let Age, that with tlu> present eccentricity of the earth's orbit tiie greatest possible difference octween summer and winter would amount to Jays. When all circumstances combine to, accentuate as much as possible the difference in the lengths of the seasons one of them may be 1!)!) days long and' the other 1(16. Jvow that the period of evening reading has set in, our people would find Sir Robert's books, and others of the same type, much mure interesting than frothy fiction.

Tn our advertising columns Messrs. rail-brother and Pickering advertise for sale a very choice herd of Jersey cows, the owner w only selling because he cannot keep pedigrees and grades on his small larm, therefore the grades are to go. 8 This is one of North Taranaki's best Jersey herds.

To-morrow the Girls" Friendly Society will hold their annual sale and music-al entertainment in St. Marys Hall. There ml be a small produce stall, flower stall and fancy stall, and the proceeds will go towards improvement of grounds and lUrnishing of the rooms they arc- intending to let, in their present quarters, as double rooms, for girls earniix.their living. °

Carry a bottle of "Nazal" in your v<»st pocket or handbag, and use very freely. It is undoubtedly the best preventative k.: nvn against influenza infection.