LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 210, 26 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Numerous cases of influenza are reported from I'atea. Dairy cows are .realising good prices in South Taranaki just now, the best average so far being £0 10s. The previous best was JJli 12s. Two whales measuring about 50 feet each were reported as having been seen from the Wiiingongoro beach near Hiwera on Sunday afternoon. "Now, what did you not see?" asked Mr. Wcsiton of a witness in Court yesterday. , "That's just what I don't know," was the witness' answer. "If the old lady hadn't been in the

road she wouldn't have got knocked over, and if the horse and cart hadn't been there it wouldn't have cleared oil!." —A witness on probabilities. Monday's I'atea Press says: —"There

is no change iu the Kapiti's position. The south-easterly winds have had the effect of cutting off the tides, though it is anticipated that the Kapiti will be floated oil to-morrow."

Recently Mr. E. C. Isaac, Inspector of Technical Education, spent a week in inspecting the technical classes in Stra'.ford and New Plymouth, and expressed the opinion that good work was being done in the majority of the classes. A series of evangelistic meetings lias been commenced by Mr. Stephens, win visited New Plymouth with the Rev.

James Flanagan recently, in the B-.tple l Church, (Jill-street, on Sunday last. The opening meetings :were very well attended. The weather interfered a littls with the meeting yesterday. The meetings will continue each evening for the next two weeks.

Agents representing the interests of two of the eandidales for the Kginoni seat. Messrs. Dive anil Wake, and t!i-> no-license and victuallers' parties w : eiit through the main roll 'at Eltham on .Monday afternoon, and objections were lodged to about four hundred names, which, if the objections are upheld by the Magistrate, will be struck oil. l'n some instances objections to the same name were lodged by more than one agent.

in the .Magistrate's Court yesterday morning judgment was given i'u the following undefended cases:—N. Kinj: '(Mr. Grey) v. T. I!. Harkness, claim C2 17s (id, and costs 10s; J. R. West (Mr. Grey) v. A. Ashley, claim ,CU His Hid, and costs .tl Ss (id; Public Trustee (Mr. Kerr) v. Joseph Preston, claim £0 7s 7d. and costs .tl Ss (id; D. Chartcris (Mr. Roy) v. R. Fantham, claim ;ClO, and costs ,C 1 3s Ud; R. C. Hughes (Mr. F. IC. Wilson) v. William Koch, claim £ls, and costs .€1 3s Cd.

Discussing the question of testing illdividual cows, Mr. Stanley Smith at Monday night's meeting of the Taranaki Agricultural Society complimented Mr. James Burgess upon his work in

testing his herd and handing the resuH.' to the Press for publication. Mr. Smith asked if there was anything the society could do to bring home to farmers the value of testing, and was advised that each member of the committee cou'l help materially by purchasing a tcstin,; apparatus and demonstrating its useful ne.-s to the farmers in his own neighborhood. Civiii;; evidence yesterday ill Hip Magistrate's Court, Dr. Lcii'thani r> ■ marked that when a patient was recovering it was customary for the medical attendant to make visits to see how I lie patient was gelling on, and not D charge for those visits. 'Then doctors do not," Mr. Weston remarked, "as law vers do, always eliargu [or attendance." Ills Worship remarked that there was more, satisfaction in a. lawyer's bill than in a doctor's. "A doctor's bill, you I knoiw, says, 'Medical attendance,' so much,' whilst with a lawyer's you have a long bill of costs to amuse yourself I with."

"The number of boys whose parents object to football has been in excess of the numbers in previous years," says the current issue of the New Plymouth High School Boys' Magazine. "We do not presume to dictate to parents with regard to such matters, hut we cannot help feeling that they are judging the game by the style of play seen In Cup fixtures. Accidents there are caused by unhealthy, club feeling, and also by tin: fact that those playing in such matclus arc. men. It is a rapidly growing opinion .1 hait- football is a game for boys, not men. It is a very rare thing indeed for boys to he hurt when playing against, other boys. . . . Moreover, there is no doubt whatever that the interest shown in the school games teaches a boy how to keep his temper, and strengthens his character for a stronger contest that awaits him after- j wards.'' '

A copy of "The Now Plymouth ltigh School Hoys' .Magazine" for the July term has reached us. The editorial note states that the original proposal was to publish twice a year, but now it was considered advisable to publish an edition each term. "It is hoped,'' the article continues, '-that besides furnishing interesting rending mailer to present pupils, the -Magazine will foster a spirit of loyalty, not only among boys actually attending the school, but among those who have gone out into tip world." The question of ;\ residential establishment is to be given prominence in the Magazine, the controllers express ing the opinion lhat if the school is to take its proper place among other similar institutions it must have a boardingschool. The Magazine gives full details of the. winter pastimes at the school, and the ''Old Boys' Column" should be of interest as intimating to the old boys where their crstwliilo schoolmate are lighting their life battles. Bulbs presented by several local people have been planted about the Recreation (irounds. What more tempting target for the swish of a dude's cane than a fine double yclloiw narcissus? That's how the generosity of our citizens and the labors of the Recreation (Irounds trustees a-e

appreciated by some of our cheerfully I idiotic youth. I! is no senseless youth, however, who removes the flowers,' leaves, Imllis. and nil, as is becoming only too common. Complaints are made, 100, that .young larrikins collect in (he grounds on Sunday and behave, objectionably towards young ladies who visit, the place. Any able-bodied man noticing such conduct would eani the thanks of nianv bv throwing one of the I'oid-inoulhcd vnutig cubs into I lie lake and kee|iillst llilll I here till lie anointed. 'l'herc is. the dilliciilfv. of course, that Hi- purifier of Hie -urro-.indin.'s woui-1 render himself liahlr In i,i-.i.-.«..-illi.ili. I:> SM'.-iioihiii.; of beii.e compelled (o follow I In- hooilliim if the latter i-iioulil be un able In -.wiiu.

When a man is in want of a »cw I ,:.;!. he uiilnvallv turns to the shoo | v.'i.'i-eiu ]: lo be fonn-l the create J. ■.-■' ..•'!,.!,. That is -i.l -The ' ,„., |h- n-...i1e.l "ki'0.1..-al..:i!" -nil at , to |l.-. smarl, sfvli-di "iii.st-as-v<,n.--I i!..r-\vni-ld-m:'ke-ii'' 'nil at lu* tini ri-i's Kilenrflil varielv embraces nl. 1V1! is food and be,4 in rcui!v-{n-\v«-.v eh.!hin I '. If von're not a euslnincr at "Tiie Melbourne." speedily become one.. It will he to your advantage—Advt. i For TCroTicWn.l Coughs take Wood's J Great Peppermint Curo. ■ 1/0 aarl 2/fi.

We understand there lias been a big douiand in Taranaki for the free sample tins of Hudson's Balloon Brand Baking Powder, the otter respecting which is being advertised in this paper, and universal satisfaction is expressed with the quality of this new baking ingredient. Those of our readers who have not availed themselves of the opportunity of sampling the powder at the makers' expense should lu»e no time in doing so, as the oiler may soon expire. The coupon to be sent to the linn requesting a free sample tin will be found on page i of this issue.

Tlie Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy Company paid out for milk during the past season (Ist .Inly to tlOth June) ,C73,(>79 17s, and has a surplus of £8001) still to deal with. This will enable it to pay out a bonus <>f one penny per pound of butter-fat over the whole year after allowing for depreciation of buildings and plant, and live per cent, interest on all paid-up capital, Milk suppliers holding shares in this company will have occasion to congratulate themselves on 20th September (when the bonus will be paid), as fifty of them j will receive over .-CoO each. Ten wii receive over .CIIIO each, and two will

receive over C2OO in addition to the interest on their shares. To maintain that it is always wise to adhere to the first railway surveys it ucterly absurd (says the Stratford Post), and nothing gives emphasis to this more forcibly than the costly and suicidal construction of the ltimutaka

line when by a little judicious exploration a more suitable and less costly route along the seashore ought to have been selected. Those who know anything of the Forty-Mile Bush will remember that three-chain road was laid out almost from Eketahuna to NgaAwapuma for the express purpose of accommodating the iron horse as well as ordinary trallie. Sir Julius Vogel, in a handbook be wrote to induce immigration in the days when he shone as a New Zealand statesman, took the trouble to show iu a map the railway line along this three-chain road, and t people took up land on tho strength of such an unimpeachable authority; yet years later, alter settlement bad gone on apace, the line was diverted altogether from the road, and Pahiatuil had the pleasure of seeing its station located at Scarborough, some mile and a half away. The argument used in defence to this diversion was that it would benellt a larger number of settlers. (So with the Opunnkc railway. A route selected before settlement commenced lias been found quite out of keeping with the requirements of the district, and it is now sought to rectify that

1)1 under by constructing the line contiguous to the most important centres of population, thus ensuring a speedy and lasting return. The Palmerston Times writes of the New Plymouth Recreation Ground:—"it is certainly a charming place and deserves its fame, and New Plymouth has the more reason to be proud of it in view of the public spirit which the citizens are showing. Going over the ground with the late I'almerslon curator, one first sees.one of the finest football and. sports grounds in the world cut right in the bills with terraced slopes alternating with glimpses of delightful fern gullies and placid lake, yet so arranged that it can be cut oil' from the rest f

the park while mutches arc being played. Then, passing on, a lake is shown wh'uh was the gift of one resident. Other features are proudly exhibited from this man or that man identified with Taranaki settlement, and men like Mr. Corkill (the chairman of the trustees); Mr. Percy .Smith, the late Surveyor(Joncral (who originally surveyed the reserve); and Mi.'Newton King, lead pcpular movements in aid, while th-i ladies of the town hold regular 'wort ill;; bees' to assist the curator, and ad

contribute trees, plants, funds,.or work. Xo matter where a New Plyinouthile goes, he remembers 'the Tier.' and sends plants or what not to it, and only the other day came a parcel of WcsUnnd forest trees, shrubs, and ferns, sent by a medical man now at. Greyinouth. it is good to see suck a spirit of civic pri.le in the public possession, and to find its counterpart in New Zealand we have to recall the benefactions to Auckland by its citizens from Sir Logan Campbell and Sir George (trey down. The "bete noir" of the Taranaki Education Board and its architect is that Cardiff school chimney. From the. start it smoked. Chimney-tops and all sorts of expedients were tried. Still it smoked. Then it was shifted. It smoked aga -i. Then the ceilings were renewed, the position of doors altered, and the chimney pulled down and the flue zig-zagged. It was becoming an expensive sort of a smoke exit. And now it smokes again. Mr. Rogers, a member of the Education Board, was urgently sent for the other day, and he has described the conditions iis painful to the children and the teacher and absolutely impossible to conduct school so long as the fire was burning. >So the lire had to be put out, the teacher electing to freeze the children's lingers and toes rather than continue to extract a stream of moisture from their eyes. Mr. Morison said at the Board meeting last night that the chimney was worse than ever. Formerly it used to draw in certain winds—now the smoke will ascend only when there is no wind at all —and there is always wind at Cardiff. The architect said it would lie as well to agree with Mr. Morison's suggestion to pull it down. II" bad exhausted bis own brain and "-.I of half the liricklayers in the district. .Strangely enough, the cniiimiUe.' had not yet reported the latest defects of tbi' cbinmev. Mr. Kennedy reckoned it would be useless In pull down the chimney and re-erect it in the Winn' mwition. lie sueiri'sled placing it on the other side of the school building for n change. It was decided to await a cmnDlaint' from the Piinimittee.