LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 27, 26 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The woodwork class, at the New Tlymouth Technical school is becoming more popular each year. There are at. present twelve students, mostly adults, each Tuesday evening.

Messrs. Coleman and Son yesterday made a start with the alterations and additions to the local courthouse. The public office and the office of the clerk of the court are to be enlarged, a judge's room and a robing room erected, and the law library is to be enlarged. A Taranaki ■fa-nncr who. is at present on a visit to Melbourne had a valuable coat stolen from his lodgings. The police got on the track of the thieves, who were arrested and committed for trial, necessitating the stay of the Taranakite there for a longer period than he had arranged for.

A Taranaki horse-owner at present in Australia, writing to a friend, states that the market is flooded with good animajs, and that the sales, which commence this week, may he affected prejudically. lie adds that the Taranaki horse.s appear to lie as good as the very best that are offering. Disease, however, is very rife there just now, and it is no uncommon sight to see some of the finest horses die. Some of the stables are infected with disease, and it is dangerous to use them.

Mr. IT. Saxton, of Carrington road, had the misfortune to lose a valuable mare the oilier day. The animal had been .sleeping on the side of a hill overlooking a swamp, and evidently rolled into (he waiter, where it was discovered some time afterwards, and endeavors were made to extricate it. This was eventually accomplished by the assistance of golfers, bullocks, and horses', and the animal wis sledged to a stable, where, however, it expired a couple oi hours after admission.

There was a very large meeting at Hawera yesterday of directors and suppliers of dairy companies to meet Mr. R. Ellison, the Home representative appointed by the National Dairy Association, and hear bis views on tile luuidling and marketing of our produce in London and the Old Country generally. Mr. Ellison was given a. good reception, -and delivered a very interesting and valuable address. lie will moot those interested at Opunake on Thursday, at Stratford on Friday, and at New Plymouth on Saturday.

INFLUENZA RAGING. WET FEET Often result in a heavy cold, neglect of which means pneumonia or consumption. A positive preventative of these ills is Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds. Small dose. Pleasant to take. Prices, Is 6d and 3" r-rv where.

Parliament opens today. A poll of the electors, to decide for or against the merging (if,* the Fit/.roy town district into tlie borough will be taken on Wednesday, August 10th. Mr. If. Ellis, the county clerk, lias been gazetted as returning officer.

A first offending drunk was convicted and discharged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. William .Tames, who had been convicted on the previous day on a charge of drunkenness, wa.s fined 10s and costs for a recurrence of the offence.

The Maoris have already had one or two fine hauls of whitebait, says the Waitaiw Mail. The pakcha fishermen say they never remember seeing the kahuwai come into the river in such numbers as they are this July, which they say shows that the small fis>h are making for the fresh water. >

A party of llawera residents left on Saturday for Dawson's Falls, with the intention of making the ascent of Mount Egmont. A start was made from the Mountain House at 8.30 a.m. in pouring rain, but when the party got through the clouds', at an 1 elevation of 5000 ft., they found the summit bathed in sunshine. The crater was reached at 2 p.m. This is believed to be the first occasion that Mount Egmorit lias been climbed in winter.—Star.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr. H. S. Fitzherbwt, S.M., judgment was given by default in the case A.B.C. Boot Co. v. Watkin Eldridge Lewis, claim £1 4s 3d, and costs' ss. There was no appearance of the debtor in either of the judgment summonses called, Cook and Lister v. Geo. Kunmnd, and rf. A. Ooburn v. Wm. B. Cox. Orders were made for payment of the debts, £0 8s 2d and £2 2s 2d respectively, in default seven days' imprisonment.

Mr. W. A; Ballantyne, director of technical education, in the course of hi.s manual and technical report to the Education Board last night, said that during the recent visit of Mr, E. C. Isaac, the inspector, recently, the question of additional accommodation at the New Plymouth Technical school, was also brought up, and Mr. Ballantyne recommended that the room at present used for woodwork be divided, so as to form two extra class rooms, and that tion be made to the Department for the erection of an up-to-date room suitable for carrying on classes in woodwork, metal work, and engineering. Mr. A. Hooker, truant inspector under the Taronnki Education Board, in the course of his quarterly report to the Board, says: — <- I would again like to mention the fact of such an amount of sickness prevalent throughout the district, aaid I would advise teachers to use a little caution in granting exemptions for sickness without first making inquiries, as I have .known of cases myself where children are reported as sick and yet are well enough to run on the streets aill day and also late at night. Again, I have had certificates from doctors, and. yet the same children can go out to parties till the early hours of morning, which plainly show's the necessity for the appointment of medical officers throughout the Dominion, when, I am satisfied,. there would be a great deal less sickness reported and a much better average attendance."