LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81897, 1 December 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Liie Taranuki J.C. meeting last ! night it wis ii'.olved nat to rraeivo any investments by wire at the Cluistma- meeting. Lady nu'inbt'ia of the United Gymnastic C ub cympckd for Mr Lint ' mtdals 011 Wednesday. Mi"S Col is won with 975 paint-, Miss Blanciwd funning a good second with 951 points, and Miss Howell was third.

Mr Newton King, local ageni f,r ihe Shaw, Savill, and A'biuii S.S. Co., has received atlvic): ti'at -Lin: R.M.s. Corinthic arrived ui liobart at. noon yesterday (Fiiday), and is du: i.i Wellington on Friday aftentjuii.

Thursday afternoon saw a nun peering here and tncie in eveiy iu ok and corner of the shoSv grounds. "Seen a little child anywheier' he all and sundiy. Subsequent y t.ie little mite of three years turned up at the police station. On the 27th November His Honor id'- Justice Edwards, on the application of Mr Claude 11. Wesiou

(Weston and Weston), granted probate of the wil of the late Mr Win. Guilford, of Tarata, to the executux and executor appointed thereby. The Chief Postma ter advi-es that, commencing the 7111 December, tiie

direct steamer fiom Wellington to Sydney will be despatched every ihrd Friday, instead of Saturday, so as to make close connection with the Suez mail leaving Sydney on Tuesday afternoon.

The New Plymouth Homing Solely he d a flock race from Auckland

City on Thin-day, eigiil members competing. The winner did he distance of 157 miles in uhrs lii-Jmin. Particulars :—G. A. Corney's Glengarry, velocity 742 yds oft 7m per nun; J. Spark's Regal, velocity 740 yds 2ft ioin per mm; J. Stagpoole's Boxer, velocity 738 yds li't 5111 pt-,r mill; \V. Hou ding's British (Jueen, velocity 730 yds 2ft 6in per minute. Next Tlmisday, if favourable, the Society holds a race from Christchureli City. Writes the Feiltling Star:—"For seven years the colony got on very

wel. without an Attorney-General, and it has been left to the present Government to recognise that it i= necessary to the existence of Parliamentary government that an addition should be made to ihe Ministry

of a man whose only excuision into the region of practical politics has been one solitary appearance as a defeated candidate in a general election, and (he promulgation of a

stries of intentionally witty philippics against the opponents of the Government. Not a siaglc instance of service on a local body— not an hour's experience in the work of practical government—is considered necessary in the selection of a mall t> fill the important positions of Leader of the Legislative Council and Colonial Secretary."

On Thursday afternoon, December ■6th, a Christmas-tree and picnic will be given to the childien of the par-t-lies of Moturoa, Omata, Westown, and Koru by Mr Ct/vie. Thiough the kindness of many wiping workets a happy time will be provided for the children of these parishes. Ciiildren and parents of all denomination* are invited. It is hoped that by having a sale of work during the afternoon and evening of the same day, sufficient money will be raised so as to pay off tiie sma I debt which at the jiiesent time is on the mission hall at Moturoa. If any kind friends are willing to help this worthy object by -upplyiiig vegetab.es, cakes, sweets, toys, etc., will they kind y let Mr Ccwie know at their carlie-t cunvevence, earo of the Rev. F. G. Evans, S'. Mary's vicaragCj New Plymouth. The Christma-tree will be given at the Moturoa Mission Hall.

The Minister of Agriculture 11formed a New 2'eii and Times reporter that he hopes to have tne School of Dairy Instruction ready for the coming season. Mr Singleton, one of the principal dairy graders 111 tiie eivice of the Department, who is stationed in W'e.linglun, is to nave charge of the school. It is the intention oi tiie Government to grant Mr Singleton, who has had considerable experience in the practical side of butler and cheese-making, leave of ab-ence to enabk him eo visit the dairying centres of America and Canada, and piobably Denmark, -0 that he may have the latest information at nis disposal for the benefit of the dairy f aimers in this country. Other dairy experts in the service of the Department will be utilised in the School of Instruction, which the Minister hopes to see become one of iliw finest institutions of it- kind south of the line. Coincident with ihis scheme is th c proposal for the training our own veterinarians.