LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wo are in receipt of an unsigned letter, bearing the Tariki post-mark, referring to dairy cattle for sale, and calling ifor a reply. Will the writer please forward his name and address? A well-known figure in New Plymouth will appear at the Magistrate's Court in a few days to answer charges under the gaming law. It is understood that fourteen separate charges will be laid. A cargo of dairy produce was shipped from New Plymouth yesterday. The COrinna sailed last evening with 8000 boxes of butter and 8000 crates of cheese for Wellington, where the produce will be transhipped to a Home liner. "I saw any amount of timber lying idle on the West Coast owing to difficulty in getting it shipped away," said Mr. R. Masters, M.P., in an interview with a Daily News representative. There were stacks and stacks of timber at soma of the mills visited, and it could be got away if there was more shipping avail-, able. A parly of dairy factory directors and managers visited the Ohura coal-fields on Sunday with the object of ascertaining the quantity and accessibility of the coal deposits. The party returned to Stratford yesterday morning, and expressed themselves as well satisfied with what they hail seen, being quite enthusiastic about the future possibilities of developing the coal-fields. "The trouble is that tenants have their landlords at their mercy," remarked counsel in a tenancy case at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. "Previously it was the other way, and the tenants were at the mercy of " the landlords," commented the Magistrate. "I know it is very hard on the landlord in'some case;'., but if the tenant obeys the law ■ the Court must protect him." There was a brief sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M. Laura Jane Brown and John Robert Tiplady (Mr. Hutchen) claimed from Ernest John Cattley, taxidriver (Mr. Bennett) possession of a dwelling at 15 Bulkeley Terrace; also the sum of £2 Ss, being mesne profits from April 7 to April 28. After hearing evidence the Magistrate refused to grant an order.

''The New Plymouth Borough Council are helping the progress of the town by considerably adding to the electrical supply," remarked Mr. A. Goidwater at the annual meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce lust night. ''They are taking time by the forelock and not waiting for the Government scheme, which will take years to eventuate, if their railway construction is a criterion to go by." A secret ballot to decide whether tlie offer of the employers in respect to a demand for increased wages will be accepted or not, and in the event of it being rejected whether they will favor adopting extreme measures to secure the Union's claims, is at present being taken by members of the Auckland Gas I'jinployecs' Union (says a Press telegram). The ballot papers are returnable before this evening, at 5 o'clock. At a special meeting of the union, held on the !)th inst., the company's offer was rejected, and the ballot is being taken to confirm or otherwise the resolution.

"I can recall, a few years back, a traveller saying to me, when land was £3O to £4O per acre in this district, that the fanner was paying too high a price for his land, and must become bankrupt," remarked Mr. A. Goidwater at last night's meeting of the Taranaki Chamber ot Commerce. "I replied, 'Do you see any farmers' names in the bankruptcy notices?' He said 'No.' At that time our butter-fat was eight-pence to nine-pence per pound. Now it is about two shillings, and with the advent of the dried milk industry, the returns will be much larger. The farmer is a shrewd dealer and knows what lie is about, ot course some lands are speculated with, and disaster may come to a.few." The Revs. Strand (chairman) and C. Palmer (secretary) of the County of Egniont Nursing Association, waited on the house committee of the Taranaki Hospital Board yesterday morning, and suggested a number of alterations in the plans of the cottage hospital to be erected at Opunake. The members of the Board agreed to the deputation's request, and decided to confer with the architect, with a view of having the proposed alterations incorporated in the plans. The Pukekura Park Board wishes to acknowledge with grateful thanks a donation of from the Misses Givctt towards the general maintenance of the park. Particulars are advertised by L. A. Nolan and Co. of a sale of furniture for Friday at 12.30 p.m. The catalogue is a large one and includes a large assortment of blankets and household linen. A gigantic winter sale is in preparation by the Melbourne, Ltd. Buyers of drapery and apparel throughout Taranaki are asked to be on the lookout for the firm's sale advertisement, which will be published in a day or two. The sale list will be forwarded to any address on application to any of the firm's branches.

The worries of washing day may lie considerably eased by the use of "Fairy Wonder" Dry Soup, which so lightens labor that the day's washing can be finished in half the ordinary time. Those housewives who take the precaution of soaking the clothes over night with this wonderful compound claim the washing can bo (lone in onethird the time of old methods. Cold feet? A British made. "Unique" hot water bottle will soon restore circulation. A boon these cold nights and costs a few shillings. Obtainable everywhere. Look for the brain 1 when buying.

A very short but sharp shuck of earthquake was felt in Patea at 840 on Friday night.—Press. The Borough Council has authorised the electrical engineer to hire a 'bus for the Vogeltown and Westown service for approximately three weeks, whilst the electric 'bus is being overhauled and varnished. The engineer was authorised to make any alteration in .the steps to make them more convenient.

•Taranaki,is often quoted as being the home of the Jersey, and that there is considerable ground for that statement has been proved by the sales of pedigree Jersey cattle that have been,held by Mr. Newton King at New Plymouth, Bell Block, and Inglewood during the last few days. At the four sales, 173 Jerseys have changed hands, realising the handsome sum of 15,474 guineas, which must easily constitute a record for pedigree sa'les in one district in such a short period. An appeal by II- V. S. Searle, formerly a master at the New . Plymouth Boys' High School, against the action of tne Board of Governors towards him, will b.> heard at a sitting of the Teachers' Appeal Board, to be held in New Plymouth to-morrow. Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., will be chairman of the Board, and the assessors will be Mr. S. G. Smith, M.r. (representing the Board of Governors) and Mr. H. Ai Parkinson (representing the Secondary School-teachers' Association).

A unique incident occurred at Wanganui last week. A couple of residents of Durie Hill saw the town ambulance swing round a corner and disappear up the street. They then noticed a dark object lying on the ground, and investigation proved it to be an elderly man all swathed in bandages. The man was on his way to the hospital, and had fallen out unknown to the driver, who got the surprise of his life when he reached the institution and found the patient missing. In the meantime another car had been procured, and the injured man conveyed to hospital, none the worse for his adventure.

As a sequel to the recent proceedings at Wanganui before the Chief Justice, in which Mr. G. V. Pearce, ex-M.P. for Patea, figured so prominently, Mr, M. Myers applied to and obtained from Mr, Justice Edwards an order prohibiting tha removal from the jurisdiction of the court of the youngest daughter of tindefendant, the custody of whom the Chief Justice had ordered to be given to the mother.