LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For exceeding the speed limit in Devon Street, Adrian Marett, taxi proprietor, was fined £5, costs 7s, at the New Plymouth Court yesterday. Last year the Inglewood Co-operative Paeon Co. paid £24,105 for pigs. The lowest price paid for pigs was per lb. The annual report of the company states that the indications for the coming year are good. The steamer Rarawa, which has been relieving the Manaia in the AucklandWh an garni trade, will make her reappearance at New Plymouth this morning. Included in the Rarawa's cargo is a shipment of 150 tons of cement and a quantity of sugar. The gas supply was cut. off in Auckland last night until further notice. This will cause a considerable amount of disorganisation in industry, and hardship among householders (says a Press telegram). • The Michaelmas divorce list in England is the biggest on record. Already there are 2600 petitions, and the list is still incomplete. Half the cases will be heard without cost, owing to the poverty of the applicants. It is asserted that the concession is being abused, and more stringent rules will be enforced after this. The fishing season opens to-day, but owing to the flooded state of the rivers the conditions in Taranaki do not favor devotees of the sport. It is anticipated, however, that goad fishing will be experienced during the Reason, especially on the coastal rivers. A good number of licenses have already been issued by the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society. A new batch of four men arrived in Hawera on Wednesday from Wellington, to assist in the erection of the workers' dwellings there. Altogether there are now ten men at work on the houses, and much better progress will be made from now on, saya the local Star. Our Parliamentary reporter telegraphs: The petition of fthe Secondary School Assistants' Association of New Zealand,! seeking a refund of costs awarded against them in the appeal case of Searle versus the New Plymouth High School Board, was reported upon yesterday by the Education Commmittee, which recommended that it should be referred to the Government for favorable consideration. Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., telegraphed to the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce last night that Mr. McVilly, General Manager of Railways, would be unable to pay his contemplated visit to New Plymouth this week end to diseuss with the various Taranaki Chambers of Commerce the improvement of the train services, unforeseen circumstances having firisen. The number of land agents registered in the Dominion during the current year was 1439, according to a return furnished to Parliament yesterday on the motion of Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington South). Twenty transfers of licensees were granted in the same period. The figures between 19114 and 1919 were: 1914, 1089 licenses and 7 transfers; 1915, 1013 and 5; 1916, 959 and 11; 1917, 800 and 9; 1918, SO6 and 9; 1919, iilsß and 17.—Parliamentary Reporter. For shooting grey duck in a close season, Victor Sjolund, of Mokau, was fined £3 and ordered to pay the costs of the case, £3 9s, at the New Plymouth Court yesterday. Replying to the Magistiate jduring the hearing, Sub-Inspector Hutton said the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, in whose district the area was, [were being troubled with a good deal of poaching, and asked for substantial penalties in these cases. ■ The S.M. intimated that in ordinary circumstances the penalty would be £5, but in view of the amount of costs in this instance the fine wduld be limited. An exciting incident occurred at an hotel in Auckland at about half-past j 9 the other evening, when the wife of the licensee discovered a man hiding un-1 der the bed in her room. She raised the alarm, whereupon the intruder, it is stated, rushed at her and attempted to seize her by the throat. She again called for help, and the man rushed down the stairs into the arms of the licensee, Mr. Albert Lloyd, the well-known heavyweight boxer. Mr. Lloyd dealt very effectively with the man, and held him until the police were summoned. Mr. W. Taylor, who has been admitted into partnership with Messenger and Griffiths, the well-known New Plymouth firm of architects, received his early training in the office of a Glasgow architect (Mr. J. M. Crawford, F.R.1.8.A.) and at the Glasgow School of Architecture. Prior to coming to the North Island he was for some time in partnership with Mr. Hurst Seager, the well-known Christchurch architect and Dominion town planner, and whilst associated with Mr. Seager, Mr. Taylor designed various classes of buildings, including two large boarding-houses, master's residence and memorial hall for Christ's College, and large residences for. the late Sir John Denniston, Bishop Julius, the Hon. W. Triggs, 11. Cotterill, Esq., and others. Owing to indifferent health', Mr. Taylor was compelled about a year ago to give up businesses and leave Christchurch. Men in the painting trade have been for some months past very concerned about the shortage of those important items of clothing, painters' overalls and coats. Messrs. Howell and Howell announce the arrival of full stocks of these garments, and this news will be welcomed by painters generally, especially in view of the low prices quoted in the firm's advertisement in this issue. Don't forget Howell's fox painters' overalls.