LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 30 November 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ill. A. I\. Lcwlcy.s .Nellie was the winner lit lire ciasa ior pony unuer il.l at illti Snow, alia 1101 -Ml. rurkniau's irixy, as stated ycnterday. lne Lnglish mail despatched Iruni n L'lllll"LUIl via _\apics Ull UIC loin Uciuuer arrived in .Luiiiiuii un the morning jl the 2bTli nisi. i'aica neauea the polio of the Dunlin.on lur uuaiility ol cneese exported during Ucloucr, <Mucwl, valuta -al .ViM,-ji.l, being snipped. -\cw riymoulh, Willi 2Uy2 cases, vaiticd al J-iwu, tame ucxi, ana U cilinglun, Willi SlO cases, .allied al .1'2200, anru. -xew riyniuuui vMin sbiijcwt, valued ul exported lnu largest uuanliiy ul butler, lhcn loliowcd: Auckland, .Yi-Jcv.:-, value .'.2,,i25; i'alea, ijUlcwl, value .t,22,tiU;t; Wellington, IKuicwl, value Taran.iKi altogether exported lur me lnunlli butler ana cheese MiliK'U al 11)2,031, nir and away exceeding the production of any other province in the , Dominion.

There are 12Uo children under fourteen yearn ui age ill Hie care ui tile stale, either residing at or connected ivilh ludu-trial schools, industrial larms, deal-mule institutions, orphanages, or other institutions. '! lie return w Inch gives the inlormaiion was presented to i'arliaincnl a few days before the close ol ilie session. It indicates thai IW7 children incliidid ill the above total are boarded out. Uf tliese, 21 are under one year old, 127 bet wen one and two years. Ul bctucn two and three, S3 between three ami four, and thence in rapidly diminishing numbers as the ages increase, until there is only one child boarded utit between the age of thirteen and fourteen. The number of children placed ill homes under the provisions ol the infant Life .Protection Act is 120, while eighteen are in mental hospitals, and seventy-four are with friends.

.Mr. )'. C. Frcclh, of l'jlinci>luii. who=c people n-iilu ill -New Plymouth, nturned lu Wellington by tin; .Uocraki, ul'U'i' a trip abroad covering about nine inuullio. During thai period ho visited Australia, Fiji, Honolulu, Canada, United Slates, United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Luropeau Russia, Siberia, .Manchuria, Japan, China, and Philippine Islands. A topic remarked on most by colonials on travel, says -Mr. Frceth, is the hospitality ui the American people. 'l'hey seem to regard colonials with an extremely friendly eye, and whilst they take every opportunity of getting the most out of their visitors in the way of information as to what is going on in the world's all'airs, they readily reciprocate, and extend lavish hospitality. In comparison with that, it is very remarkable to a colonial going Home with warm I noughts towards the Motherland to liud I the almost chilly lack of cordiality of the people towards a stranger, and their want of curiosity regarding anything outside their own parochial all'airs. There are, says Mr. Freetli, a great number of New Zcalamlcrs visiting England just now. This, he thinks, is an oiil-lauiling advertisement of the prosperity of the Dominion.

Children's black or tan cashmere sock.-, rll sizes, CO; children's white lace cotton socks, all sizes, Cxi; tlirec-quiirtcr socks, tld to is pair, at the Melbourne.— That great clothing store "The Kash" is uuw oil'ering some very good lines in men's and boys' clothing. In men's suits all our readers have heard of "The Vrcstwell"; this brand is made specially for them and cut to their own special patterns. They have a very large range of patterns to Select from, and every suit is cut in the latest style, and every suit is examined before being taken into stock. Prices 4% Gd to 655. Their boys' clothing is always well worth looking nt. and the value rs always there! I They've boys' tunie suits from Ss lid, boys' Norfolk suits from 10s (id, boys' three-garment suits from 13s Gd, boys' j odd knickers from 2s Gd, hoys' caps from Gd. boys' stockings from Is. Hundreds of happy buyers visit "The Kash" every week; it's the place for honest, dependable poods. Where is the store? I Just follow the crowd.—Advt,

All schools under the Taranaki Education Board's jurisdiction will close for the summer recess at 3.30 p.m. on Friday, 2Dth December, and reopen at 0.30 a.m. ou Monday, 3rd February.

The Stratford school committee lias decided to ollicially open the school baths on Thursday afternoon, lffi.li December, and has invited the members of the Education Hoard to be present. Steps are to be taken by the Education Board for the institution of a second ] Taranaki scholarship from the minis of I lie Dpaku reserve, and tlie YYanganui Hoard is lo he asked to lend its cooperation. Sonic of ilie pupils at (lie Technical School arc anxiously asking when the results of the recent examinations arc to lie announced. Tim inspectors have not yet had an opportunity of going through all (he papers, but will do so as soon as possible.

The contract for the erection and complete equipment of the new cheese factory for the Bnhotu Co-operative Dairy Company has been secured by Messrs. .1. B. MacEwan and Co., at a price in the neighborhood of £2500. Mr. R. W. Bond is the subcontractor for the build-

A matrimonial coincidence was created by the marriage at liugby of 11a v Annie Bluemel, youngest daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bluemel, of Kugby, to Thomas Lofthouse, of London. On the same day the parents of the bride celebrated their silver wedding, while the grandparents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bluemel. of Forest (late, I celebrated their golden wedding.

A New Zealander recently back from an extended trip to the States has revived the question of tramcar etiquette. He says that a New' York journal recently sent a lady reporter on the trains crossing Brooklyn Bridge with 50 dollars, to be given to the iirst man who gave up Ills seat for her. She bad to travel several days before she found someone to whom she could award the money, and he was an old labouring man. The "Muvkans" say that if women can compete with men in. business, tliey are just as well able to stand in tramcars as men.

The Xgaire school committee passed

(he following resolution at its last meeting:—"That tlie Board of Education for Taranaki be requested to ask the Minister of Education to base his calculations for 1008 upon the average attendance for 11)00 ill the case of Xgaire and of those schools the average attendance of which tor 1007 has decreased, for (he following reasons—(a) That many of the schools in Taranaki have sull'ered through continual epidemics of measles, iulluonza, and whooping cough; (b) that if the Act

regarding the stalling and salaries be adhered to, a grave injustice will be done to some of the schools; and (e) that the scholars, teachers, and committees should not be penalised for circumstances, over which they have no control.'' Tlie resolution was forwarded to the Education Board, who have already communicated with the Department on the matter, and received a reply that the Department will consider the position when all the returns for the year have been received and the ell'ect of" the existing regulation has been ascertained.

In tlie course of his lecture at the Town Hall on Thursday evening, Air. J. A. Uilruth, Chief Uovcnimcnt Veterinarian, referred to the pronouncement by Professor Koch a lew years ago tliat the microbe of tuberculosis in cows was different from the microbe in man. This statement, of course, was hailed with delight by the people who had diseased cattle, for, as it wan now proved to their satisfaction that tuberculosis could not be transmitted from the bovine to the I human species, thev could keep as many ! diseased cattle as*they liked. It had been known that tlie bacillus of tuber- | culosis in fowls was dill'ereut to that i found in bullocks, but it had also Wen J proved that fowls kept around hospitals contracted the disease with great readiness. The Pasteur Institute, as the result of investigation, found that the microbe taken from a man and inoculated into a fowl soon became changed, l'roiessor Koch's pronouncement had done good by starling scientists out on a new line of investigation, which ultimately proved that Koch was wrong. A [lippant contributor to" the Wellington Post writes as follows: —"Wanganui still clings to the merits of the fasting mania, in spite of the critics' scolling, and Wanganui is quite right in keeping a grip on the glory. The following message amply justifies Wanganui in its pride:—Milihiim, this day.—A fanner here has applied the fasting test to his cows. A fortnight ago his star milker, Daisy, was weighed, in the presence of the Alayor, representatives of the press, and the gasman, and she scaled 5001b. In the meantime all the witnesses remained in the paddock while Daisy, closely muzzled, was cut oil' from all food. She was then put on the weighbridge, and notched 20U01b. Each day that she was minus food her output of milk steadily increased, and the butterfat percentage rose amazingly. It is computed that with another month's lasting, Daisy will shed butter straight out, at the rate of a ton a day or moro, Daisy has been patented, but already there is a rival notion on the market. A man has come forward with an idea for compound lasting. ,lie says Unit if a cow can be induced to Relieve that she is doing u double fast, she will double the yield of milk, and quadruple the richness, it only needs a few handpasses, lly this scheme he claims that one cow could provide all the cheese and butter required for the wide world, and ilars and Venus thrown in. A local syndicate has been formed to exploit the project.'" rue mini h becoming a rare bird in lias country, owing lu indiscriminate snooting, nis sauaraeiory to note Unit in tlie -iniimus I'roLcclioii Act, passed Uis session, provision is made lor protecting, amongst oilier native birds, me iasi-uisappoiuing lima. Any person ,wij wiiiuily destroys the eggs ol the lima is iiaoie to a line not e.vcccding J.IU. "Ul laic years," says tlie lion.

J. Larroll, "Lucre lias been a growing business done in the auk of hunt leathers, and, ol cuur.se,' one cannot get liuia learners lo sell without destroying Hie birds; and if there is any bird in -New Zciuaud thai snuuid be prolecled it is the liuia. TTiilherinore, i think there uugiil to be a sum placed on Hie Estimates lor the capture of liuias alive, ill urder tliat they may be transported tu otker sancUianes where it is believed they would breed—say, fur instance,

Hie Little Harrier, or the Urewera country—or they might be sent lo other forests that wc have preserved. 1 believe the liuia would thrive ill these places just as well as lie does in his own recognised habitat. Even now lie is extending ever the Ttuahine Kange Lo I'alea, and that in itself is evidence thai lie can live in oilier localities."

At the public meeting held at Patca ill connection with beautifying "The Heads,'' Kev. I. 0. Hammond mentioned that it was proposed lo erect a building at i'alea to wliich sick ilaoris up aud down the coast could go to receive treatment by the local doctor, lie thought the big shed at the. Heads would suit the iv([uircnicitls if it could be purchased cheap enough.