TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10228, 10 December 1904, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

The East Coast coach leaves al 9 a.m. on Monday. Electrical engineers liiive reported to the Dunedin City Council, preferring electric lighting to gas, both from the economical and Uluminating points of view. "It is a general hash up,. and we. do not know where we are." This was' the opinion of the Cliairman of t#e Lyttelton Harbor . Board as to-th,e new -elections to be held! under the Harbor Act passed last , session. A whirlwind on Monday caught a stable belonging to Mr W. Berry, near Gtentui, Canterbury, measuring 18 feet by 36 feet, and lifted the roof into the air, depositing it ' three aud a': half chains away. A horse inside the stable was uninjured. It is stated by the Manawatu Standard tliat, although the demand.:- for timber m the Wellington provincial district has greatly improved during the; last three months, it is not equal to w'hut it. was this time last year. Sawmillers are iti'ifl! holding heavy stocks, tlie demand not being equal to the production. .- The following have booked passages for South per s.s. Tarawera.. to-morrow evening : Misses Coleman, Thomson; Mesdames Stephenson-Smith, Parsons ; Messrs Hogg, Deßeere, Hales, H. Thomson, H. A. Barton, Mcintosh, Fraer, Hogan, Kline Partridge, Fowler, W. B. Common, DalzieT, Garrett, Adah', A. F. Kennedy, Whiteley. From the Wanganui Clironicle we learn that a big fire broke out at Waverley at 3.30 last Saturday morning. There was no wind, or the consequences would have beeu far more serious. The fire totally destroyed the premises of H.> Southcombe (general storekeeper), Stan Wall (liairdresser, etc.), and C. Lyon (tailor). Mathieson (land agent) and the. Clarendon Hotel had a narrow escape, being slightly charred.- All were insured, but far under their values. It happens very infrequently that a license to sell alcoholMFliquors is allowed* to lapse m this colony, but at a meeting of the Selwyn Licensing Committee it was stated tliat it was intended to do so m respect of the Castle Hill- hotel, on the Christchurclit-West Coast road', which possessed an accommodation license. Un- | der the Licensing Act of last session it is considered! to be impossible ;- to revive a license that has been allowed to lapse. If revived a license must be for premises situated within half a mile' of those wihichi previously- had! the license, iif situated m a borough, or within one mile if situated) in' a county. • A telegram from Madrid, on October 21, states that the Mayor of Ontur, a town m the province of Albacete, killed the town clerk that- day, after which the friends of the town clerk kMled '.the Mayor and a general riot followed. A political quarrel of long standing ended m a heated dispute between Seuor Joachim Garcia, the Mayor, and Senor Moreno, the clerk, and the Mayor, losing alii self-control, shot the clerk dead . Senor Moreno's friends, on learning what had happened, attacked the Mayor, and beat and stabbed him to death When tlie news spread abroad the inhabitants of the town took sides, aud general rioting began. Reinforcements of police were telegraphed for, aud subdued the rioting.

At Dixs, Wellington, just now Mr Percy Denton's impersonation of Mr Seddon is the great "draw." It is of varying quality, part extremely good and part capable of much improvement. The idea is an excellent one, and atXimes Mr Denton's voice and) mannerisms are exextremely like our great man. It is to be hoped! Mr Seddon will) go and' criticise the mimic. In speaking of the referendum, Mr Denton — m the character of the Premier — explained) that it got its name because it stipulated that everything was' to be referred to him, and secondly, because it was to make an end of the Legislative Council— "refer-endum, d'ye see?" His remarks we're continually interrupted! by a small telegraph boy. with messages from various- crowned heads andl minor personages. Mr R. F. Mestayer, consulting engineer for the Feilding water scheme, ,and Mr F. Ferguson, Wanganui, arrived m Feilding on Tuesday, and) m company with the resident engineer took a run over the proposed! water route. They also paid a visit to the reservoir, which will be completed at an early' date. Mr Ferguson states that the manufacture of the pipes is being pushed forward rapidly, and at the present tame a large number of pirjes are -available and! will be forwarded to Feilding within the next few days. The contractor for the tun-, nelling. at the intake couimenced operations this week with a Jarge staff of workmen. Tlie time limit for the contract's completion is six months from date. Commenting on the provisions of the new Licensing Act, the Manawatu Daily Times remarks:— ''The fact is it's hardly safe to do anything m New Zealand at the present time. But the people- will be pretty nice- samples of jelly-fish if they put up with this kind of tomfoolery much longer. Such legislation is a travesty on liberalism, and a parody upon democratic ideals. It treats men and women as though they were idiots and weaklings. It brings the law and its official administrators into contempt. Not 'trust the people,' buit belittle and degrade the people is tlie creed of the pre-sent-day 'liberals' who are bestraddling New Zealand and: alternately bleeding and duping the people. Far better to prolu'bit right out than, liquor laws which put a premium on hypocrisy ainl make hospitality a crime." A meeting of co-opera tive laborers was held on the Main Trunk Railway near Mataroa, on Sunday last. There was an attendance of two hundred men, and the meeting was unanimous m every way. The low rate of wages, received on the works was discussed, and it was decided! to respectfully request the Public Works Department to investigate into the cause of the same. A deputation was also appointed to wait on tne Hon. W. Hall-Jones andl lay the views of the men on the works before him, as they were quite aware tliat the prices paid did not represent the work that had been done. Something 6hould be done m the matter as there is widespread discontent throughout the wholo line at the way m which things are carried on. Now that the lino is noaring completion it would be a. pity if work should be hindered through some friction which could easily be avoided. — Tailiape Post.