LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8062, 19 March 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

it The Education Board at licefton -t last week refused to grant a teacher's t application for one day's leave of absence to enable him to act as returning _ olliccr ar (he licensing election, the Board expressing its disapproval of Icaclicrs taking up outside work during school hours. There is probably no restaurant in J the colony that Ims tlic same cleanly ' appearance an Mr Kurta's "Golden find" in Xcvv Plymouth, the front being of white marble and tiles. The interiur arrangements, which will be more fully described, are ,|uite in keepnig with the elaborate front aspect. peculiar thing happened at llie Dunedni railway station a lew days ago. During one of the eMra heavy gusts, somebody opened the cud door of a carriage, and (lie door at the oilier end slammed with such violence as (o shatter the glass in the lace of a shunter named Carter, who had to bo sent to the hospital to have the tlcsli stitched. oimi'i,ktki,v erii.ui> after NINKTKKN VKAIiS. Alter nineteen years suflering from rliemiialism. liiiui'Mo brought relief to Mr I lias. l>o\vset|, the well-known I'liiiuncy-su cep. ol | Murphy-street, Wellington. lie iU l mhnt Mr llowsetl H rites T thank you very muck for the use ol' Uiiiji mii. f' Imy,. use,l nearly everything in i.\isteti.'e for rlieu, unities, but found no relict' till I used 1 your Kheumo. After niuctceu years suffering it is a great, comfort to lie free * from pain," (five Kiiui:.\hi a lair trial, 11 and it will cure you as it cured Mr 1 1 >o\\sett. Vour grocer or cheinisi sells it at is lid and Is (id a but Lie, i

A meeting of tho Taranaki and West Coast dairy produce exchange i is to be hold in April. ' Tho harvest festival service at St. Mary's Church will be held noxt Sunday. Two fine specimens of albatross wero flying about near Moturoa on Sunday. The Hawera Hockey Club has decided to eiiter two teams for tho championship in the coming season, and will eommenco practice at once. The old Eltham Town Hall property has been sold to Mr Scrivener, of Eltham, for £225. The building lias outlived its usefulness as a place of entertainment. Mr W. T. Jennings, M.H.R., returned to town on Saturday evening from an extended tour of his electorate, having traversed the main trunk line. He expects to see the line put through in three years. Cr. Browne has given notice to move 1 at next Borough Council meeting that the sanitary arrangements at the electric light distributing station be brought up-to-date. They are not at present an example to ratepayers. A memorial to the Minister for Mines, asking that a depot for the sale of State conl be established at Masterton, which lias lately been in circulation, has been forwarded to Wellington, It bears 681 signatures. A Customs tariff is now imposed in the United Kingdom ou the following articles '—Beer, cards (playing), chicory, choral hydrate, chloroform, cocoa, coffee, collodion, ether, ethyl, fruit (dried), glucose molasses, saccharin, soap, spirits, sugar, tea, tobacco, and wine. Messrs Bewlcy and Griffiths will offer on Saturday next a first-class little property in Young-street, consisting of a foii.'-roonicd house, washhouse, and planted garden of one-eighth of an acre. From personal inspection the auctioneers can thoroughly recomm?nd this to intending buyers, and advise inspection. The late Private F. T. Gilbert, of the Taranaki Guards, whose death is recorded in another column, will be accorded a military funeral on Tuesday afternoon. The corps to which he belonged is making all arrangements for the interment. The case is doubly distressing ou account of deceased's widow being left in poor circumstances, with a family of live young children. lu another column of this issue may be seen an interesting business notice, telling how old and worn table wear | may be made to look and last like new, for about half the cost of new goods. Mr P. de la Haye's plant is replete ' with every necessity for turning out i the best work in the most economical . manner.

The warder's residence to be erected at the New Plymouth gaol will probably be in brick. The delay 111 proceeding with the work lias been caused by pressure of work in the departmental offices, over 300 plans having been authorised since Parliament rose, and, according to the Public Works Minister, all being wanted at oucc.

it is almost luvariably a mistake (savs tho " Mataura Ensign ") to imagine that because a man epines from tho country he is therefore inordinately unsophisticated. A stolid-looking farmer was peering cautiously at the uncanny-looking machinery utilised for the purpose of supplying electrical energy to Gore, at the Mataura Freezing Works the other day. Expecting that he would be partially dumbfounded at the unusual spectacle, a bystander asked him casually what he thought of it. " Well," he replied, with great deliberation, "I'm like the Irishman who was going to be hanged, but asked to look over the scaffold first. He did so, and said, "Well, mates, it's a mighty neat fixing.'"

hen the New Zealand footballers were embarking on the steamer New \ ork at Southampton, en route for home, they were serenaded by a party of Welsh students from the Hartley University School. At an interval in their singing, one youngster, acting as interlocutor, asked, " What's the mailer with the New Zcalanders ?" and the others responded with the American gag, " They're all right," with tremendous emphasis on the "they're." " Did I hev beat Scotland ! J " " Did they beat Ireland ?" " Did they beat England!'" were demanded in (urn, the chorus answering " Yes" to each. Then came the question, " Did they beat Walesand this was followed bv

"No-o-o-o!" deliverel with a longdrawn yell of triumph. " Who carried the leek?" shouted the leading juvenile, his companions replying, '■ Gwynu Nicholls." And then," Who ate the leekf" brought a resounding cry of " Gamaliel'!" The New Zcalanders took the chaff with . good humour, and sang their Maori war song as the steamer drew olf.

Noticing Hie latest issue of the "New Zealand Official Year Book," llie " British Australian " has the following remarks on the vices of our people:—" The Year Book naturally throws some light oil the vices of the people, The number of convictions for drunkenness is exceedingly small, amounting to only 107 per thousand of (he population. This compares very favourably with Australia, where the average is something like 15 per thousand: and Australia in its turn compares very favourably with older countries, It is pleasing to learn that among the New Zealand-born population of European descent there is evidence of less drunkenness than among persons ivho have gone to the colony from abroad. Gambling, however, is terribly on the increase, if one may judge from the figures published with regard to the totalisntor. In LStlo the total amount passing through the machine was not more than £700,000, ten years later £1,'137,131 passed through the betting machine, without any increase in tki! number of race meetings held. There is probably no country in the world where one is able to gauge so accurately the amount, of gambling on horse-racing which takes place in the course of a year. The figures, however, are rather depressing, and point to a very real danger in New Zealand,"