LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Opuna-ke paper is informed that a steam shovel and locomotive will reach Opnnake during the week for use on the Waiau cutting of the railway.
A memorial service to the late Right Rev. M. R. Neligan, formerly Bishop of Auckland, will be held in ;St. Mary’s Church on Friday next, at 10.30 a.m.
Consideration of the bills in the criminal calendar occupied the attention of the Grand Jury all day yesterday at the New Plymouth Supreme Court. The jurymen will resume their labors at 10.30 this morning to consider two remaining eases,
General Sir E. Chaytor, C.M.G., ha? kindly consented to unveil the marble memorial slab at Inglewood, containing the names of the fallen from the Inglewood district, on Sunday afternoon, December 17, at 2 p.m.
■School children throughout Taranaki arc to be granted a general holiday on election day (Thursday, -December 7), whilst those schools in the Stratford district have been granted a holiday in connection with the concluding Mardi Gras festivities.
“Women arc now eligible for any office in the church whether it be on the assembly, synod or parish vestry,” said the Bishop of Auckland (Dr. A. W. Averill) at the meeting of the Taranaki Archdeaconry Board last night. “I will not say if it is expedient or not,” he added. “I do not intend to go into that point—(laughter)—but at any rate they have the right.”
The matter of dental treatment of school children was again before the Taranaki Education Board at its last meeting. It was stated that application had been made for the appointment of a duly qualified dentist to this district and a strong hope was expressed that the nurses who were about to be allotted to the different districts would be sufficiently .qualified for all work. It was decided to make further application for the appointment of a nurse to this district.
“What time did you get up this morning?” asked Mr. Justice Chapman of two farmers who applied at the New Plymouth Supreme Court yesterday for exemption from the jury. Tn one case the reply was 4 o’clock and in the other 4.30. “Then I think you’d 'better not. serve,” was the considerate answer of Mr. Justice Chapman. Several other jurymen who pleaded inability to make adequate provision for the carrying on of their businesses were granted exemption.
The practice of boys, who were not scouts, wearing parts_of the scouts’ uniform was commented upon at the meeting of the North Taranaki Association of Boy Scouts on Monday. Mr. King pointed out that the uniform was registered and its indiscriminate use should be stopped. He moved that the Commissioner be asked to insert a notice in the press drawing attention to the fact that all scout uniforms are registered in the New Zealand Gazette, and that boys who are not scouts make themselves liable if they wear any parts of the uniform. Mr. Hopkins seconded the motion, which was carried.
The New Plymouth sessions of the Supreme Court were commenced yesterday before -His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman. One criminal charge was dealt with. Hubert Cedric Jepson was called on to answer several charges of failing to account for moneys he had received in his capacity of electric meter reader to the New Plymouth Borough Council, with stealing the sums mentioned, and also with furnishing a false return. The hearing lasted all day, and, after a short retirement, the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty, accused being then discharged. This morning James Worthley Glenn, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to two charges of theft from a dwelling and breaking, entering and theft, and James Elliott, who has also pleaded guilty to two charges of theft, will come up for sentence. When these men have been dealt with, Alexander Spence will be arraigned on a charge of perjury arising out of evidence given by him in the lower court concerning moneys he is alleged to -have stated he had received. Following him George Ferguson will stand his trial on a charge of forging the name of another man to an order for a case of whisky, and then James Richard Slight and Charles Slight will appear to answer charges of cattle stealing and an alleged breach of the Chattels Transfer Act. The cases against Robert Arthur Parkes (alleged false pretences) and Andrew Leslie Young (alleged breaking and entering) will then be heard. The Court will resume at 10 o’clock this morning.
■Entries for the New Plymouth Horticultural Society’s Summer Show, which will be held in the Workers Social Hall on Thursday and Friday, closed on Monday night, the total number received " being equal to last year’s en - tries. The “display of blooms should prove of much interest to flower lovers. The educational value of such exhibitions is not. to be overlooked, and chi llren should be encouraged to take an interest in flowers in the hope that they may become enthusiasts themselves. All wood citizens should make a point of attending the show, and lending thensupport °to a society, the objects of which should appeal to everyone.
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