LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tin* Nortli Elmont Hostelry will be closed (hiring the present, month, reopening on September 2. Two petitions in bankruptcy were filed with the Deputy Official Assignee at New Plymouth during la*t month, the same number as for July. 1921. It is understood that the first meet ing of the newly constituted Taranaki Electric Power Board will be held at Eltham on August 7, when important proposals will be brought forward. A big sperm whale was washed ashore on the beach at the bottom of Manihi Road, Rahotu, yesterday morning, and was found by Messrs. F. Rothery and Peter Horn. The whale was dead when found. The presence of the unusual visitor has created considerable interest among coastal residents.

The report of the Superintendent of the State Advances Office for the year ended March 31, 1922, shows the advances authorised for settlers during the year. In Taranaki there were 47 applications and £21,410 was advanced. For advances to workers there were 31 applications and £11,705 was granted. At the inquest at Patea on Saturday touching the death of Francis M’Guire. father of Mrs. Margaret Boyd, of Hninga (near Stratford), Constable Armour stated that he had searched the clothes of deceased, and found twenty £5O notes sewn up in his waistcoat. Hi?, daughter said she was expecting £lOOO from her father. A verdict of accidental death through being struck by the train was returned.

Judgment for plaintiff by default was given at the Eltham Court yesterday by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M.. in the following undefended actions: Bank of N.S.W. v. R. H Phillips (balance due), £132 0s lid (costs £7 Is); Wilson’s Motor Supplies, Ltd v. Edith McLean, £l3 14s Sd (costs £3 Is (id); T. B. Crump v. J, Mainsor, £2 2s (costs 13s); F. Haden v. G. F. Murray, £5 16s 6d (costs £1 16s Gd). Speaking at a bazaar at Eltham on Friday night, the Rev. Howard Elliott said it was the first Protestant function of its kind held in New Zealand, although another was at present being promoted in Auckland. There they aimed at raising £2OOO, but if they could raise £l5O in Eltham they do remarkably well. The money would assist the cause in Taranaki, where the membership of the association had advanced wonderfully recently. Since the beginning of the year 800 new members had been enrolled. On behalf of the Dominion executive and council he wished tho bazaar good luck.

The booking for the two Rosina Buckman concerts constitutes a record for tiie Empire Theatre. All the seats for both concerts were booked before the doors wore opened, only standing room being sold at tho theatre. . Miss Buckman. Mrs. Buckman and Mr. D’Oisly will motor through to Ilawera this afternoon, where they will give the final concert of the New Zealand tour. After •i brief holiday at. Rotorua the party will sail for Australia on the Niagara on August 1.1 for their Australian tour They will return to New Zealand in December for a farewell tour.

At a recent function in New Plymouth. concluding with a dance, some Maori wahines were looking on, and became at first interested and then alarmed at the dress —or scarcity of it —of some of their white sisters. After several exclamations one Maori woman put the following poser to a man standing near: “What to boot, the pakeha wahine (white woman) wear not much clo? Suppose 1 come, to the pakeha dance with only the pin pin around my body, the pakeha wahine say I te werry pad feller!’*

At the request of the regiai-rar or electors for the Egmont electorate, the removal of 1919 names from the last electoral rolls was authorised by Mr. A M. Mowlem, :S.M., at the Eltham Court yesterday morning. The postmaster has been unable to locate the electors whose names were authorised to be struck off, but it is possible that a number remain in the electorate. The main rolls will shortly be closed, but it will be possible for electors to have their names placed on the supplementary rolls on ascertaining that they, are not included in the main roll.

When the police visited a lodginghouse at Fitzroy (Melbourne), last week, they found a room occupied by a man, his wife, and six children, the latter 1 ranging jn ago from nine years to five and a half months, the youngest being twins. Senior-constable dinnick said that he found the man in bed drunk. There was only one bed, and everything in the room was in a dreadful state. Tops of beer bottles were all over the place. The man and his wife were remanded on a charge of having neglected to provide adequate and proper food and lodging for the six children in their care. Community singing has become popular everywhere, and the fact that it is to be introduced at the plain and fancy dress ball in the Warea Hall tomorrow night in aid of the Warea School Football Club should be an added attraction. From the keen interest taken in the ball by both adults and children a crowded gathering is anticipated. Mr. Frank Sykes, expert cycle and motor cycle mechanic, advertises in this issue that he is starting business in the premises in Lia.rdet Street lately occupied by the Taranaki Agencies, Ltd. The Farmers’ Co-op. will hold a clearing sale to-morrow on behalf of Mr. L. W. Hunwick, Whakamara. Particulars are advertised on page 8.