LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 81, 25 March 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I lie mail train last night. \v<i, an exceptionally heavy oik-, iuinging lar.-e crowds of visitors for to-day's races. ° The proposal of the Central School Gmnnittee to construct a swimming balk in the lien-ration firounds wiM mark a new and highly appreciable departure in connection with the school. A united meeting for prayer for th» success of the iter'. .). rlan'asm's. nii--xion iva- held on Jlondav eveiiiii" in tin I'rc-bylciait Cluii-,-1,. |,.,i |, v il„. n.-v s S. o-lwrue. -J'Ji.-t-,- »■;,. a ]:,,-.- and representative congregation. II wa- a -inking proof of the real miitv of fh" Cliristian ehurclie- and their desire, and a splendid sign for the success of the coming mission.

The Xortii Egamnt Mountain House Committee recommends the Mationnl Park Board to appoint Mr. A. R. Staiidisli to tlie vacancy on the committee caused l>y the resignation of Dr. Home. The appointment should be i good one, for Mr. Standish knows tlis mountain like a book, and. what is more to the point, is a frequent visitor, tit the present committee, two members visit the luium. often durine each s.jison, and the others seldom. In fiir-t, one memlier. who ha- lieen in publie' life in .New Plymouth fur very many years, has never yet been there. Mr. W. A. 1). Dank-. Deput v-Refjislmv ot the Supreme Court, vesicrdav delivered the liiisil judgment of His Honor Mr. Justice Dcnni-ton in the ca-o of tli ■ J'ublic Trustee v. W. Humphries, a claim for rent of Maori lands Mis Honor delivered an interim judgment in X.jveniljer last, j n uiiicli lio hold i!n dffendant liable for the payment of i« n.,. and directed the Registrar (Mr. 11. S. Fitzherhert. S.M.I to ascertain and r■• port the amount due. Knquiiv showed that the defendant had paid certain rents to the native owner, t hem-elves. and credit vva- given for tlic-o amount. The filial judgment wa- for plaintiff* lor Cl2 U- 2d and o-t- VJI ;'-.

In the Magistrates Court yesterday nniriiiii". before Mr. 11. S. l-'itzlierbc-;. S.M., judgment by default n- entered for plaintiffs in tho following debt oases:—Sanip-on i.Mr. Ifoieheni v. Hen jßewi. claim C> :(- ltd. and en-t- t\ :u | (id; Taranaki School Coiiiinis-kmeis (Mr. (JinTliaini v. Albert Xielson, claim CI 2s lid. costs CI 111-: -aim v. p. r„ : Kossiler, claim €lO 3- and cn-t.- vl 10- lib Judgment w : \s given in the ea-' Wright v. 'Waldic. heiird at Waiian. The claim \va< for V.27 Itis Id, and judgment wa- entered for t'lß 7- 4d an.l costs CI 12-, Mr. V. K. Wilson appeared fur the plaiiitilf, and Mr. A. R. Standi?]! (StnndMi and Kerr] for the defendant.

Burgesses are reminded of Mr. AV- A. Collis' meeting in tho Town Hall tonight, when he will place before them his claims to the Mayoralty and his views on local politics. The Borough Council has very little reason lo complain 0 f inefficiency in tho collecting of its accounts. Last j night £lO os was written off as bad.

the first, amount of its kind in six years. Wouldn't private business houses like to be in the same position? ■ There are two very important lessons iK'ing conveyed to Waikato farmers at the Riiakura experiment station this year. The first is an exemplification of the \alue of top-dressing, and the second a striking demonstration of the value of silage as a stand-by. As u result of the systematje,top-dressing of the farm pastures there has been more feed on the Pnakura lields this summer and autumn than in probably any part O! the North Island.

The Education Hoard last night passed a resolution appreciative of the action of the Stratford tlortieultur.il Society in providing a, banner as a challenge trophy for competition amongst the agricultural classes at the various schools in the district, aud congratulating the Norfolk school upon its sue- I cos? in the competition at the recent show. In moving to this effect, Mr. Kennedy said it was pleasing to notice that such good work was being done in the agriculture classes. iniien attended the meeting cailew for last evening to consider the question of forming a walking club, liic pro-

posal was warmly favored, and it was I I'ttfotyed that a club be formed to he called the New Plymouth Walking Club. Mr. C. 15. Webster was elected secretary, and Messrs. L. 11. Webster, \\. 1". (in!fiths and A. R. Staudish were appointed to the management committee. The opening walk is to lie held on Hie idiHh hist, to W'aitaru, starting from the l'ost Ollice at !l a.m. The outward journey will bo made via the beach, and the homeward ''trek" by road. An example of the value of young gorse as fodder for sheep is cited by Mr. E. Scott, of iliivclock. Mr. Scott has recently cleared a paddock of eight acres, part of wliich comprised an old orchard, and the whole very densely ' covered with gorse. He had a good burn, and after the young grass au.l gorse shoots began to show, forty sheep Here put into the paddock. None of ' the sheep weighed over 3.i ■pounds when = turned in, but after remaining there 'j during the whole of tho severe drought, ' feeding on nothing but gorse and mothinfected apples, there is hardly one of II the animals that does not tip the beam at 00 to Oj pounds.—Express.

Miss Tittell isruus returned to Australia from England the other day. She told a Sydney Telegraph representative; "1 have been away on a six months' holiday, during wliich time 1 have enjoyed a much-required rest. The only work I had to do was some preparation for 111 v appearance in Mellwurne on Easter Monthly. In England 1 met Mr. Barric. who was pleased with my work, and said he was entirelv satisfied that I -hoiild satisfactorily piace 'Peter Pan' befor.- Australian audiences. Speaking of audiences. I must say that those in Australia are the best in the world. 1 mean that Australians are the lea«t iirtiui-iiil and the most human people 11 have met. They laugh or weep more readily than either the English or ' American audiences. They take their theatres more solidly in England. People there wander in when the pcr-

fonnanee is half over, and lose the thread of the plot as well as disconce-t the performers. I am very glad to return to Australia." Australasian Life for March carries tliu most, interesting, as ivell as the most picturesque, cover-design we have seen on that magazine. Ju the fore-ground is a big old-man kangaroo, standing Straight up on his hind legs, with his tail acting as the third leg of a tripod. Ills chest is thrown oul, his shoulders braced, and his forcpaws shaped in the manner of a prize-lighter. Vet he is not a trained animal, bat a captive in ; the Melbourne Zoo, who threw himself into this defensive attitude—evidently the natural lighting position when driven to bay—when the camera man came to protograph him. ft is a striking piclure, cleverly used for the purposes ot the cover. A new serial begins with this issue, and there are the usual full and interesting reviews of all that is the best ill the world of literature, science, commerce, open air, travel, and sport. The Editor announces that from next month Life will be permanently enlarged ' by sixteen pages of literary matter. '. most of which will be devoted'to Austin ; lasian stories and original, illustrated ; articles, so tli.it writers in (lie Common--1 wealth and New Zealand will have an " opponmity of testing their abilities. The next race for the sculling chami pionship of the world will be between j two .New Zealamlci's. Webb and Arnsi. r and it is now probable that another ol , the Dominion's linest scullers will enter the professional arena. We refer to ~ George Whelch. who notched such .in easy victory iii the amateur championship singles at. Napier on Monda.". W heldi has about the linest record of ,j any amateur ill the Dominion, and has placed the New Zealand championship _ to his credit on no less than three difl ferent occasions. McDonald, the Wanganui aspirant for the championship. t was generally looked upon as something " t out of the common, and he is said to have hud pretty well his own way af the Wellington regatta a few days'ago. I lint lie has evidently a lot of room to , improve lxifnre he can catch the Akaroa , champion, who beat him by twenty , lengths, or over a hundred yards, over ; the Napier course. Having now secured for himself the valuable challenge ', trophy in Ihe champion singles, Whelch . has, we are informed, decided to cross ; over the dividing line and take part in professional contests. He is still a young man, and rows' fairly light, lie : and Weljjj have met twice'in amateur , contests. The victory of the Akaroa . man gives the lie to the statement so freely made that stump outrigger rowers , are spoiled for rowing in best-and-best boats. Whelch has rowed in stumps right through his career. Mr. McNub received a communication from a resident of. Levin asking him to statu (he nature and extent of ih-> buildings which it was proposed to erect on tho State Farm. Tire writer remarked that it might avert a lot of trouble if (he Minister gave the information. The Minister replied as follows:—"! regret I cannot see mv way to supply you with the nature and extent of the buildings to lie erected. Compliance with your wishes would suggest that the people of Levin would not press for the farm being sold if public money was to be expended in their district; that, 1 do not think, is their view. A number of residents of Levin hold the opinion, whether rightly or wrongly J do not say. that the farm is a white elephant unless associated with the

dairy school. That view is, there is no disguising tin- fact, held very largely »vcr \e\v Zealand. Under these eircumstances, therefore, if the residents :;.f f.e\in do not want it, people ask why slmiild ii remain there anv longer, j'f f 10 can be secured- to shift it auav from wlicrc the resident!, do not want il why should it not In- shifted'; I cnniioi sen my way to prejudice an e\'inessien «jf opinion liv tie peo|ile of Ix'vin that it should lie shifted l.v sending yon the information asked. The decision, of course, is not theirs. It is the .leci-ioii of the Department, bnt I do not anticipate any difficulty of the Department being able to give expression to the wishes of the people of Levin if that is their wish—to dose up the whole farm and let it go elsewhere.'

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| Sometimes one man's failure i< a lesson to the world. A certain lanvn farm, a few/tumbledown buildings, a mortgage that outlived life, are all tint remain to mark the failure of a dairyman through using his bauds in-lead ot his head. How about von? Are von Kweating. saving, standing losses to-ilav that yon don't need to stand? Don't

j try I" raise the mortgage with your J back, do it with your brain. Don't I tmsl to your skimming-pans—those dairy thieves that steal your protits—lut luy an "Alfa-Laval" Cream Separator. Its use marks the difference l.etween cow prods and cow losses. Don't lie put oil with a ••just-iis-goiid,-' I'mtt'r fat is too precious to waste. Cash or easy terms. Onler to-day; delay means so much money lost. Catalogue "T" mailed free. Sole New Zealand agents, Mason, Struthers and Co., Ltd., Maiuetreet, Palmerston North. E. Griffiths ami Co., New Plymouth, local ageafe

The "smart" woman in London this spring will buy her perfume to suit her kat. Floral toques composed of every kind of blossom in velvet, silk, and gauze are sprayed with their natural odors. An enterprising French milliner, who is making a speciality of floral I toques this year, will sell a tiny vial of perfume, with each confection. The flor-1 nl hats are made of lilies of the valley, shaded heliotrope, pink, crimson, white, or yellow roses, violets, carnations, walldowers, and all the flowers which exhale a fragrant odor. The secret of success

is to allow one drop of tho perfume, to | all in tho centre of the flowers. This is quite sufficient to make the whole, hat smell like a bouquet of real bloomsWe understand that the Wellington (las Company are willing to take their coal supplies, amounting to over 40,000 tons per annum, from the Urunner Coal .Mines Company, now being floated, being much dissatisfied with the coal they have been obtaining from other mines. Mr, Nathan, chairman of directors, at tile annual meeting in February

In.it, said: "The net proiits for the year exceed those of last year by the sum of .■Ui(io!», and 1 might add that had we received the quality of coal equal to 'llinl delivered ill 100.) and 100(i, the resuit would have been fully £2500 better. 1 am sorry to say that the quality of the coal used this year gave a less return of-gas per ton that the previous year, and the previous year a lesser return that tlie one preceding." The Tynesidc-Wallscnd coal, which is part of the property now in the market, gives over 2000 ft of gas more than any other coal in the Dominion.—Grey Even-

ing Star.—Ailvt. 'The Wellington stail' of the Department bt Agriculture has sent Mr. F. H. lirittaiu, the local stock inspector, t, I cample bee-hive. He is asKvd to give ix, nouse-rooui, so that bee-keepers or intending bee-keepers can sec it. If Mr. Driftam is a bee-keeper, he had bett-v waik right oil Home with that hive. The headquarters si all' seems to be unaware of me fact that the hive wouid lie just as well in cool store as in the local Stock Ollice which is so seldom open. Wo doiiot whether the office was open for eight hours all last wok. We Know that except on portions of two days ilu; place was empty, and the doors closed. Farmers who had come in from the liackblocks to register brands kicked their heels in ill-concealed impatience and went back home with their errands uuftillilled. One man who wanted to ship a consignment of hides to Sydney haunted the office for hours together, looking for au inspector who was to "pass" the hides for export and give the necessary certificate. Without such certificate the hides would be promptly

returned from the Australian side, the Government there declining to admit any hides from New Zealand without the New Zealand Agricultural Department's declaration that there is no danger from anthrax. At least that is the purport of the business. What is tli-; use of having an ollice in town if there is no one to keep it open? The work of the inspectors lies in the country, and they are more often absent from New Plymouth than not, so that they are unable to keep the ollice open. Cp till recently there was a clerk who answered enquiries, but he lias gone with the grading office to Moturoa. People j having business with the Stock Ollice j will greatly appreciate the appointment j of a clerk.