LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 56, 15 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The time in which the Ohinemuri Silt- ' ing Commission is to report has been extended for a month, states a Wellington Press wire. 1 At a Wairarapa hotel recently there were 1-38 footballers and others to tea. and amongst the delicacies consume;! were over 501bs of sausages. There was no "sausage one" about that party. [ At the adjourned annual meeting of the Agricultural Society on Mondiv I evening next the secretary will submit i an approximate balance-sheet of the recent winter show. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected. The meeting . was adjourned, it will be remembered, [ so as not to disturb the officers and comI mittee who were working up the winter j show. I In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning., before Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., judgment was given iby default in the following cases:—W. 'M. Perry (Mr. Wright) v. D. Roe, claim £2 8s Gd, and lfis costs; Webster Bros. (Mr. Standish) v. F. Corkin, claim £1 10s 3d, and (is costs; J. Pellew (Mr. Weston) v. K. Bolton, claim lis, and os costs; Weston and Weston v. Fred W. Fuller, claim 13s 3d, and 13s costs. Following is a list of the visitors to the North Mount Egmont house since the opening of the winter season:—E. Kirk, J. Johnstone, L. Reed, M. and C. Yates, McPaul, E. Edmonds, C. White, A. Adams, C. Carter, E. Nolan, J. Conole, C. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. FitzGibbon, Master FitzGibbon, E. Stuibbs, A., E., G., and M. Hiodges, L. and B. Burrows, M. Ellis, S. Davis, F. Fitzgibbon, B. and das. Mynott, 0. Soanes, F. Morsliead, S. Catran, W. Lewis, E. Swanston, G. and S. Kidrf, R. Swiinson, J. Williams, A. Waller, D. CresweU, E. Carter, F. Hogg, A. Nicholls, and A. Oreswell, The Dunedin correspondent of the Christchurch Press telegraphs: A salt ring exists here. The holders are pledged' to a common minimum price. The quotation on Thursday for butchers' salt was 75s per ton from the store. Another enquiry made at the same time leads to the opinion that the price of pepper is also under joint control, and that the Dunedin 'butchers are thereby at a disadvantage in the making of small goods. One ;butcher recently found it cheaper to purchase ground rice from a Christdiurch traveller than to get it locally. Pelonis -Tack, who is said to have guarded the French Pass for the last .sixty odd years, gave a frolicsome display last week to the passengers on the Anihura. The vessel had passed through the Pass, and was about eight miles on its way to Picton, when it picked up its piscatorial pilot. "Jack" seemed glad to meet the steamer. He came to meet it' [in leaps and Abounds. Arid as soon as ■ he reached the bows he snuggled into them, and stayed there. After a time | the livelier part of his exhibition began, i Time after time he threw himself clean I out of the water, then ne3tled into the | ship, and then began his gymnastics de i novo. Finally, he disappeared with his well-known grotesque flip of the tail. ■ A comparatively recent arrival in Gisiborne, from England, in conversation i with a Times' .reporter, deplored the exj istinj* abuses of the system of assisted immigration. He instanced the case of I one man who, with his wife and three children, travelled by the same steamer. , This man was fairly well-to-do at' Home, I and made no secret of the fact that hi' I was coming to the Dominion to enter into partnership in a lucrative sawmilling business. .Nevertheless, the united passage monev for himself, his wife and three children amounted to but £3S, while the gentleman who told the storv j was compelled to pay £24 for his single passage, although not by any means in the same financial position as the other more fortunate individual. The encroachment of women in man's domain of employment was exemplified in a report presented by the Appointments Committee to the Board of Governors of the Technical College on Friday evening, recommending that the request for a special class in carpentry and joinery for ladies should 'be declined (says the'Lyttelton Times). Mr. E. K. Mulgan said that a number of ladies held asked if they might join the present class, and there had been no objection to that; but they 'had then discovered that they could not attend owing to the time the class was held, and they had offered to pay the difference between I the ca.pitation' they earned and the cost of a special class'for ladies. The committee's recommendation was adopted. Two hundred and twenty-four passengers in the third class arrived by the Arawa from London on Monday. Of this number 95 were assisted immigrants—--64 women, 0 men, and 25 children. Fiftythree of the "assisted®" were nominated by relatives in New Zealand and have employment to go to immediately, these .including 31 adults and 22 children. Thirty-nine adults and three children were approved bv the High Commissioner. included in the total number were 44 domestic servants, 12 wives coming to rejoin their husbands in New Zealand, three farmers, and two farm hands. There is a considerable amount of capital among the new arrivals, two brothers 'having between them no less than £24.50, while two of the domestic servants have £2OO each,

He took hot whisky, sin, and rum, To cure a nasty cold! His home was Pandemonium For weeks and weeks, I'm told; He made a fearsome hullabaloo, lAnd smashed the furniture! But now he's well (and sober, too) Through Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 21 GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORN GROW. That dread disease, Consumption, ha its commencement in a cold on th chest. Don't leave it until it is too late You can promptly cure your cold wit Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery. Is fid an 3s, Obtainable everywhere.

It was reported at a late hour last evening that a man named Lawson ihad committed suicide in the Stratford district. St. Andrew's Church, was well filled last night with people anxious to hear the missionary, Mr. Paton. Mr. Paton showed that -Christianity was payable. He spoke of the beauty of home life, and showed that the home was the true genesis of Christian existence. The audience listened attrr.tively. The mission will be held until Friday night.

There should be little need to remind members of the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Horticultural Society tonight, for it is one of the most popular, progressive successful local institutions. Last year's show was the best in the history of the Society, and there were numerous new exhibitors, wno will doubtless again enter the lists in the fuming year. The finances of the Society are in a sound condition, and really there seems no reason why there should not be a large and enthusiastic meeting to-night.

A curious sequel to a mutiny at sea is reported from Prince Rupert, British (.olumbia. Several Chinese members of the crew of the ship Cap Breton gave trouble, sind in a fight resulting from the efforts of the officers to restore order a fireman had his hand nearly severed by a blow from an axe, wielded by a Chinaman. On arrival «t Prinoe Rupert, the latter was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and, in charge of a constable, was despatched to New Westminster to serve his sentence. Before the couple started, a Customs officer pounced upon them and demanded lOOdol. immigration tax. Telegraphic communication with Ottawa followed, but the Dominion Government declined to interfere, and the unfortunate ship's captain was compelled to pay lOOdol. for the privilege of getting rid of the mutineer.

The impression has been conveyed by recent telegrams recording a rise in the price of boots that the farmer .has chiefly benefited (writes the New Zealand Herald). This view is combatted by a Waikato grazier, who says that cattle have averaged lower prices during the past two years than were current four or five years ago, and it is safe to say that the farmer has not received an average return of more than IDs per NWlb of ilieef during the past twenty-four months. This prices means butchers' weight for the dressed carcase, and does not include the hide, which, of course, becomes the property of the butcher. In other words, the grazier still has to sell a fat four-year-old bullock for £7 or £B, and if the butcher is now able to sell the hide of the beast for double the price ruling a few .years ago the farmer does not get the benefit. It has ibeen stated that hides are selling at 8 l / 2 d per pound. It is true that a few picked hides do realise that price, but the great bulk of the hides sold in the Auckland markets fetch only about C'/jd per pound.