LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 83, 27 March 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow h the forty-eighth anniversary of the Battle of Waireka. .Mi - . J-". T. liellringer (Town Clerk), not .Mr. C. E. Bellnnger. as stated in a recent issue, has been appoiutod secre* tary to tin- .New Plymouth I'ire Board. A race for the 100 yards swimming championship of Taranaki is to be held to-mbrrow at -3 p.m. at the municipal baths. Entries clom* with Mr. Ogilvie, at the baths, at 0 o'clock this evening.

During the examination of a Maori witness in the Hastings Court on Saturday last, counsel for defence asked whether witness understood the English language, to which the Mauri replied: "A little ltil ; 1 know all English swear word.-."

Japan: " Univ. I ir™»ni-o thai my advance- are di-tasteiiil in von: but I trust I may still regard myself an a friend of the family V" Canada: "If you'll promise to let 111 c see as little as possible Of you, 1 don't mind being a sister to you, for mother's sake."— Punch.

The llunterville Expre-s say* it has been reliably informed that two m-ni, after working four months in the back' block*. had a cheque of £U3 between them. The day after pay-day tliey sH forth for a town not a thousand miles from Taihape, and before the week was out they bad drunk, every- pcnnv of til l .* con. The Auckland Herald'- (Jisborne correspoiuieiil telegraphs an extraordinary >tory about a flight of a pigeon from New Zealand to Queensland. He says: j"\Yith regard to tin- recent Australasian record -aid to have been put up by a Jlight of pigeon,- from flick's Jiav to Tnvereargill. another mi" has been reported. A Brisbane boy :-onic months ago stayed with Air. \Y. A. O'Meara, and. before returning home, gave a pigeon to a son of bi> host. Tho bird was confined for a time, and was then released. It remained about th" bou-e for a day or two and then it disappeared. Subsequently a letter was received, from Brisbane asking when liie jiigeou had been ivlca-ed. a* it had returned home.'''

One often hears fanner?- complaining about the poor lv-ult- obtained from llieir dairy herd-. but did they ever pause to grumble about their own ea r »- as regard?- care of the animaVr A young Wairarapa farmer who was milking four cows up till a few wee':I ago told 1 lie Keatherston representative of the New> that he wa- taking an average of IfiSlb of milk from them, while another party milking ele\en eows was onlv getting 1 7(Hb — in other word-, K|l> more. The profit on these four eons ranged from C-"> t<» a month, an indication that there's money in eows if they are treated proixrly. According to the informant, the care given the animals accounted for the substantial return. '

A proposal iu afoot to start a motoi 'bus bervicc in New Plymouth.

Word has been received, says the Post, that the election of tho no« l,\ created Whanganiomona County Council will take place on April 22nd, and tliat the Council's first meeting will he held 11 week later. It in understood that Mr. James Sexton, of Stratford, will act as Returning Officer.

Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., is at present in Wellington on business in connection with his constituency. He waited on the .Minister for Railways on Wednesday morning regarding the Stratford- I Ou-garue line, and the Waipnku-Eginont branch railway. He also urged the necessity for erecting a station at old Sentry Ilill, the junction thcru Having been done away with. The matter of providing better facilities for railing cattle at Midhirst was also urged upon the Minister's attention. Mr. Kingsland, who arrived in W 'llington by the steamer Maitai, has had large interests in the Argentine frozen meat trade. The Argentine, he says, must always be a formidable rival of New Zealand in the Home market. The country is peaceful, no doubt owing to the enormous amount of British and foreign capital invested in its enterprises and industries, England having millions in the railways alone. Amcr icans are, however, making a big bill for the trade, and recently bought tin company with which Mr. Kingsland wib identified, retaining him until a fe\i ; months ago as advisory director. ! A financial authority, commenting . 1

the drop in the price of wool, told a Now Zealand Times reporter on Wednesday that North Island wool was now dowi to about .til per bale. Only a slwrt. time ago farmers ivere drawing as much as £ls a bale against wool sent for shipment to London, so that the returns had dropped by fully onehalf. The fall in the price of our staple products must contract' the spending power of the people. What would lie felt, most' severely would be the reclamations by the banks and stock and station agents against the advances that had l>een made on produce sent Home on consignment. These reclamations would come at a most/ inopportune time.

Dr. Findlay was much impressed with , the fruit-growing possibilities of tho | Cheviot. "The apples I saw in some ol , the orchards," lie said, "were the best | 1 have over seen or sampled, and the ' exhibit of fruit in the show was pro- | bably as fine as could lie shown any- , where in New Zealand. lam satisfied, from inquiries I have made, tlut fruit : could be made a most profitable industry. f saw grapes growing in the open, and everywhere it was stated that fruit did well. It would be wise to encourage the apple orchards, considering the quality of the fruit which is being produced.'' - "Younger Cheviot" also impressed the Minister more than favorablv. "If inducing population from tile city towards closer settlement of the land" did no more than produce the fine children who may be seen everywhere in Cheviot today, the policy of closer settlement would be. justified."

M. K. Champion, the winner of the 1(1(1. 220, and 880 yards and mile at the Napier swimming championship meeting, is twenty-six years of age and turns the. scale at Hist 121b. He was born at Norfolk Island, and is employed as a stoker in the Auckland gasworks. During the present season (Savs a contemporary) he practically swept, the board at I lie Auckland provincial championships. He won the 100 yds in ti» 1-Ssoc. the 440 vds in (imin Msec, the 880 yds in Mmin 2sec, and the mile in 27miu K1 l-ssec. He was sent to the present meeting by the Waitemata Club, of which he is captain. He has a record of being the only swimmer to win five championships in one year, this feat having been accomplished in 1001i-02 at Christchurch. In 11)02 Champion was disqualified by the Wellington centre for life, On a petition from tho Waitemata I'luli he was reinstated in August of last year, and this is his first reappearance at a championship meeting. The record time for the 100 yds is liosec., held by H. C'leaghe, of Dunedin.

The early suppression of Tattersall's .sweeps is now regarded as a certainty. At the recent .Methodist Conference in Melbourne it was alleged that one member of the Federal Parliament had an interest in the sweeps. Mr. Johnathan West, a member of the Tnsmanian House of Assembly, said that tile position m Tasmania was largely a matter of revenue, but it was not to the credit "t the State that it should lie *o, | JU £ nevertheless it was a fact that t(iOOOI) a year obt lined from Tattersall's operated with the Tasmania!! Government; and hence any tiling ivhich tended to uamnjje that revenue was looked .it with opposition. Every well-wisher for good even outside the Conference, should look upon the matter from a moral standpoint. Tasmanian business men were liionever, waking up to the fact that lalteisaHs was an evil, and seriouslv fleeting business. He Imped the tim'e Via* not far distant when tho Tasmanian (louses ol Parliament would s, v "Away With him!" Whilst there was only one member of the Federal l'arlia-Tatter-I'ir's P" , ' BOn " ll . v ' from lattusalls. (here were Jour members of he lasmanian Parliament who shared he profits of the institution. The a«tion of the Deakm Government in taking advantage of the Postal Act to mil down Tattersall's deserved the heartiest commendation.

- iTS * Has a good and ne'imvii.i, ' 1 eft atone so enthusiastically that his : ;tefc me POWCrf " 1 ' before Te of siiili- for ■, „r„J i - d llceu resl'onbcen a h'u°el m-"' tr,,ublc . iln <l hud went Th t . st " rablm S Wook to settleh 'J R CX J rtI * V ,Vi " result •.ittkSssrx sions into ridicule. The VX? V™!" 1 ' retu tu tVritv"lJ-r ly '° r tlU »' llml sehen , o „ '• V " ""dl-elaborated »t an\^v , rn,°r fo ''.f^""«ont in the t're'wera co'rmtix aV ' Ulablo tand

eorrespoadeub of the q,.i t°!' f gmplO. In 18U2 i * " we Id I if ,lrst hvo J**« of the,, (d ied life was an unintemipld h-'ppinessi th,.„ „ till' ,„4„-,d. ami 111-' unpleasantness was tak<-u su <ori"»sly by the ,-oiing husband that he i'eT,'r r Miul I |, ; it nu v?™ to wi,er 0 for li'- v i'"'' r and hoping oi his eturu m vain, Mrs. Caisworthv obliged to return to her former occupation as a domestic servant order to ear,, 1V livelihood. Subsequent of Xer Caijienter, and, believiii" aln U ,mV ' Oa| swortliy "?1 dn P .'"V*™ -Airs. Carpenter. The hmlvver if '' ei ! th " f tl,e lirst llus '" uu '> e • T' out t0 le «ntn.c, for M v" l w ° i ", HI SOUIIII in « eelOT 2 ' .i» shocked to hnd that his wife, tMnkiid th'it Ti ' W(I mi,ni( ' d anotlra ' and that 1 lie woman was then in the | leeeiving ward „t the hospital, sulfe:--ing some tem]iorary mental dera.memeut. Hi, allection for her had, how,,ot ''"'ji'ushed, and he called to Si« liet at the hospital on Tlmrsdiv. Mie at once recognised him. and, strange I" say her condition of health improved immediately She is still i n H.^pit a!, ' M , r ' is determined to lot "ill) Jake her back to his new home, b"t he also says lie will keep the t«o "'"Mien born since she became Mm. ■"pen er J lie second Inislwnd deni»s right „t the first husbnnd to either woman or children, and threatens he "ill have tho ease teited.

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