LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 July 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a wooden letter receivingbox- on the Harrington road. An iron pillar box would look much more secure. The Fitzroy residents intend celebrating Arbor Day to-day by the planting of over 200 trees affile Fitzroy school. The Wellington News, the new morning paper, whl make its appearance at the end of next month.

Ihe annual meeting „f t | u , >[ ( , w p ly . moiill. High School (lid Buys' Club was to have been held last night, but lapsed for waul of sullieieut attendance.

Ca.pt. Edwin wired at 1.18 p.m. yes-terda,y:-:\h>d.rate to strong easterly winds; glas- Ji|||e movement; tides [good; sea considerable. . -..

Hie Will (.Hugo Times states that a scam of cial, considerably superior to anything vet found in the district, has been discovered in an accessible place in Waitaki County.

"'« earthwork to he carried out at Western Park will ~ivt.i vt . a f„!i. s j ze f„ nt . hall ground. The Jhwrd intends to hare he work put through -in a. fortnight':tune in order to secure, if possible tin l aranak,.Auckland representative foot hull match.

He have been requested to make " m ™ t" Wzroy residents an alteration .in the time for delivery of letters on Thursday afternoon at the FiUrov lost Ofhce. From to-day letters, etc may be. c,,110d for between 4 and 5 pan ] instead of from 7 to 8 as formerly.

It is understood that there will be no Assessment Court required for the Foment and Waitara West Bond District! J' 6 !?'! / ' lisln ' d Ulc nistrict Val « L 'r (Mr is. Hi I) revised this year. This is the second year in succession that an assessment court has not been required in county districts.

Dannevirkc, according to a witness in tlie Arbitration Court last week, is in u yeryb;id way commercially at the present time. -The district is now in a transition stage," said the witness. "The saw nulls have gone out, and the farmer! nave not yet come in and the result i, that business is suffering severely."

A rumor was current in town yesterday that the North Egiuont Mountain j House had been burned dowu on the previous night, jtfr (Jollis, chairman oil he House Committee, on hearing the rumor, secured a powerful telescope and searched for signs of smoke arising from the site. From Marshuid Hill he was able to discern quite plainly the two small rooms at the ends of the vera udah, and no trace of smoke, so he came to the conclusion that on this occasion rumor lied.

Vogeltown residents are not to have a local school. Their petition enjne before the Education Board yesterday. The Chairman said he had ascertained tluft the distance from the Central School to the proposed site Was 1% miles, and from the Upper Carrington road school to the Central 3% mibs. The* majority of the children who would attend the Vogeltown school were within easy distance of an established school. In njiswer to a question, he said the Central school was far from overcrowded. Mr Kennedy considered the Board could not recommend the erection of a school at Vogeltown whilst there was greater necessity in the back blocks. The Board eventually decided tha.t there were not sufficient grounds for the application. ''']'%