LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Melbourne reports that the heat wave continues. The temperature there yesterday was 103 degrees. A Hamilton message says it is reported that, following the lead of the southern glaxo factories, the ones at Matangi, Mat-amata and Te Aroha. West will, owing to over-production of the powder, switch over to cheese this .week. An enjoyable dance was held at the East End Pavilion last night in aid of the 'East End bathing reserve funds. About fifty couples attended, and the floor was in excellent order. As a result of the function it is expected to raise about £5.
Weather conditions were perfect for the Stratford District High School’s annual picnic, which took place at Motiiroa beacii yesterday. Two special trains conveyed the picnickers to the beach, and between them they carried nearly 2000 passengers. The second train’ stopped for passengers at Midhirst, Tariki and Inglewood. Another big picnic will be held at MotUroa today, when the schools in the East district will hold their annual picnic.
A return placed before Parliament shows that at the end of last year the Government held unexhausted loan authorities to the amount of £20,444,020. There were 30 such authorities in 24 different accounts. The largest amounts were £7,227,420 in the Electric Supply Account and £4,534,000 in the War Expenses Account. The Prime Minister explained, in connection with this return, that the authorities were for special purposes and could not be used for general works. Many of the loan authorities were intended to provide for the I completion of works t'hat were still in progress. .
A conference was held at the Taranaki Education Board’s office yesterday with a view to evolving a satisfactory system of controlling and co-ordinating the work of the manual and agricultural instructors, particularly with regard to primary schools. Those at the conference were the secretary to the board and the organising teachers and the agricultural instructors. The need for someone to be at the head of the various instructors being recognised, it is proposed to place the secretary in control. The conference was unable to evolve a complete scheme in the absence of definite information regarding the status of certain of the manual instructors.
“A blot on the landscape,” was the way in which Mr. S. Vickers described, the present appearance of the old hospital building at the last meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board. The buildings, which were now being iised as an isolation block, had fallen into disrepair, and the expense of effecting renovations was accumulating daily. He advocated that a definite effort be made to dispose of 'Um old nurses’ home and other buildings nbt required, the money to be used to renovate the old hospital buildings. The sooner this was done the better, as the price for old buildings, he thought, would never be higher than at present. The chairman concurred, and the hospital manager was instructed, to bring down a report on the disposal of the buildings named. A further remand, to next Friday, was granted by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at the New Plymouth Court yesterday in the case of Herbert Thomas Allens who is charged with two. offences against the gaming laws. Mr. R. H. Qurlliam, who appeared for the accused, asked that, the ’bail should be renewed and reduced. He asked for the reduction in the bail (a surety for £5OO and accused’s recognisance for a like sum), because this went out to the public and they thought the crime of which his client was accused was a terribly serious one. He had a wife and six children, and had lived here all his life, so it seemed quite unnecessary, to have so large an amount. SeniorSergeant McCrorie said that there was no objection by the police to a reduction. His Worship reduced the bail by half, making it a surety for £250 and accused’s recognisance for £250. It was intimated that a further remand would probably be asked for to suit the convenience of both sides, owing to the Supreme Court being in session.
A South Taranaki young lady, who is at present on a visit to England, writes a very interesting letter to her relatives here (says the Star). Speaking of her impressions of London she remarks that it is a wonderful city, and no one could have any conception of it until they had seen ‘it. There were so many tremendous shops with lovely windows and roof gardens, and then one could always wander into one of the lovely parks. After viewing the various wellknown sights in and around London, the young lady went to Glasgow and did considerable touring in Scotland, which she describes as a most beautiful country. The most beautiful trip of all was by train across the West Highlands to Oban. The train climbed right up amongst the rugged hills and across the brown and purple moorlands, and we looked down into the green valleys and lochs below, and upon whitewashed farmhouses here and there. Aberdeen impressed the visitor as a very clean city, all the buildings being of granite and marble. From there she went to Scarborough, which, however, was then under snow, and then spent a fortnight in Leeds and some time near Manchester. Concluding her letter, the lady visitor Ba y S .—-‘Great Britain is in a very bad state just now. Trade is so uncertain, and there are hundreds and thousands who cannot obtain work anywhere, and are really desperate for the want of food and clothing. Every day there are hundreds going from house to house, ing, playing, and selling all sorts of rubbish for pennies. It is awful to i(ee strong men, many of them, ex-soldiers, begging in the streets/’ If the proposed cut in wages is the question, then Rennie’s sale at the Big Store, Waitara, is the answer. Turn to page four and you will find a list of bargains to gladden fEe heart of every eaiefql spender. But you must act promptly. The quantity is small. Hurry. l
In order to expedite the work at the new wharf “cut,” the New Plymouth Harbor Board decided yesterday to make arrangements to work the dredge Paritutu eleven hours pea’ day. The engineer stated at yesterday’s meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board that 630 feet of the new wharf “cut” of 900 feet had now been dredged out to a depth of 30 feet, whilst an additional 30 feet had been dredged to a depth of 20 feet. Hamilton, as every visitor knows, has made the banks of the Waikato a beauty spot.. The council is just now negotiating for the purchase of another strip of land alongside the river in order to add farther to the attractiveness of the town.
“What is the best method of protecting seedling trees from hares?” was a query addressed to Mr. Page, forestry instructor, at his address to farmers at Hastings. “Kill the hares,” was the positive answer of the instructor. “You can’t grow trees where the hares can get at them,” he remarked. Two large locomotives in parts were landed from the steamer .Leitrim, which arrived at Auckland from Liverpool and Glasgow last week. The under-carriages of the locomotives each weighed eleven tons, as also did each of the two boilers. The four heavy parts were lifted out of the vessel’s hold by the Harbor Board’s floating crane. It is reported that some of the largest farmers in Hawke’s Bay have no other course open to them but to destroy their cereal crops ’by fire. The constant and heavy rains of January have completely destroyed their value. Standing crops will be burned off and others will be rooted for manure.
Writing from the North of Scotland to a relative in Wanganui, a correspondent says that the religious revival, which has been previously referred to in the cablegrams, has affected all classes of the community—from the humblest peasant to the most influential in the land. Some remarkable scenes have been witnessed, and the movement is etill in progress. When a man was asked at the Wanganui Court on Monday morning what he thought of the idea of having a prohibition order taken out against him, he replied: “I don’t believe in it.” “Why?” asked the Magistrate. “It takes away a man’s liberty,” was the old hackneyed answer. The senior-sergeant suggested that the man was restricting his own liberty by his periodic lapses, for he was frequently intoxicated.
A Wanganui resident has just received a letter from Scotland, which contains a gloomy view' of the outlook in that country. Some of the big steel works, employing tens of thousands of hands, have only 'been in operation three out of twelve months, and the conditions of poverty in the industrial districts are appalling. During the war period the men were paid big but no provision was made by them for the “rainy day.” Families which earned up t(4 £2O a week are now dependent on charity, and the outside world has little conception of the real condition of the unemployed in industrial centres. Judge Talley has taken a case of bigamous . marriage recently before him in General Sessions to point his proposal that all marriage licenses obtained shall be advertised in the papers, states an American exchange. His plan offers a more thtxrough safeguard perhaps than the publication of banns in church as a preliminary to all marriages, and he favors the requirement of a month’s interval between the publication of the license and the marriage ceremony itself.
“During the war I met many New Zealand troops going through Fremantle of which I was mayor then,’’ said Mr. W. E. Wray to a Christchurdi Sar representative. “I could not fail to note their splendid behaviour, which was without exception good—so much so that on one occasion I sent a letter to polonel Fulton, who subsequently lost bis life, complimenting him on their behaviour, and I have learned since coming to New' Zealand that a copy was posted aboard the troopship.. The first ship that came to Fremantle with wounded men on board wah the Wandilla, carrying New Zealanders,” Mr. J. Dignan, an elderly resident of Morrinsville, without relatives, has made an offer of certain land to the Waikato Hospital Board, to be held in tc»ist for the benefit of orphans or aged poor, conditional on the board paying him £7 per week for his remaining days. The property is not to be sold, but is to remain as a perpetual endowment for the purpose named. One property is valued at £7OOO and the other at £l6OO. On the first there is a mortgage of £3500. and on the second £750. The properties are considered to have great, potential value. Acceptance of. the offer has been held over pending inquiries as to the legality of the position.
Fire-blight is reported to have made its appearance in the Wairarapa, the latest outbreak being at Greytown. Affected wood from an orchard was forwarded to’ the Department of Agriculture, and upon, being examined it was proved that the disease had found its, way to the Wairarapa, but it was impossible to tell by what means. A thorough inspection of the orchards has been made by the Government experts, but no further trace of the disease has been found. At Patea, departmental officers are inspecting the district, and paying strict attention to the affected area, which is being defined. As there are no hawthorn hedges in the district the experts do not anticipate any great difficulty in eradicating the disease. A gentleman well-known in New Zealand, and who is at present resi-”ng in England, writing to a Palmerston North friend under date December 21. says: “The cost of everything is not only appalling, but arouses the fiercest indignation in everyone who cannot meet the profiteer by’profiteering himself. Our New Zealand wool fetches 6d a pound, and knitting wool in the shops is atH! 10s a pound. New Zealand lamb is id wholesale, and for a side is lid a pound, the retailer getting more in 24-hours for turning it over than the New Zealand grower gets for taking twelve months to prepare it for the market. Canadian apples that left Canada at 27s per barrel, sold here at 13Qs to 140 s per barrel Fish that came to London from Scotland the other day cost 14s per 4s barrel. I paid £ll 10s for a simple tailor-made sac suit the other day, and a woolbroker told me that the value of the wool in it was 6<s Sd. . . . I think commerce aud trade are on the turn, and when they get going again it is quite on the cards there will be a boom, for the world is deeply ‘in need of the things that Britain can supply. But no thanks to the politicians when these things come. The business and resourceful genius of the race, and its capacity of coming down the straight when once it has turned Tattenham corner—this alone will save the situation.” A final reminder is given ofUhe Urenui Sports Club’s meeting at Urenui tomorrow. Full particulars of the programme are advertised in this issue.
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