LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 17, 20 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is announced, that Mr. Mac Donald,' M.P., will conduct a speech-making cam- j n paign throughout the North Island on t< behalf of the Opposition party. b The editor of the Logan Banner, of Logan, Virginia, suspended the publica- b tion 'of- his paper for three weeks, to a hunt for his wife, who disappeared three ri days after their marriage. j The ruling passion. When three hearty S cheers had been called for the King, at ci a military function at Gisborne on Tues- b day, a Maori youth in the crowd, "And t another for the referee! He t' feller." ■The Government have purchased the V estate of Mr. Matthew Henry, of Waitoa, Ji near Morrinsville, containing an area of ii between 1400 and 1500 acres of land. It is is anticipated that the estate will cut 1: up into fourteen dairy farms. Mr. 11. Atmore, M.P. for Nelson, is 1: evidently a practical believer in the r * value of walking as an exercise. It is h said that lie left Nelson one morning and t walked to Havelock, a distance of 50 f miles, where he attended a dairy re-union at night. |. The curiosity of one of the Raliotu t school children on Tuesday was greater o than his prudence, for he over-balanced I himself and fell into one of the huge r tanks of petroleum. He was pulled out v only just in time. His clothes were s ruined. c

It is reported by the Hokitika 'Guardian that a well-known resident of Greymouth, who is intimately connected with a large industry, is likely to be one of the chosen ones when the "call" to the Upper House is made by Mr. Massey's Government.

Probably the only case of a Maori being a member of a Veterans' Association was to be seen on the wharf on Tuesday, when Hakaria, one of the Arawa tribe, was in the ranks of the Veteran. 1 ?. He served on the East Coast against Te Kooti, and was awarded the New Zealand War medal.

A suggestion in regard to unclean milk was offered during a discussion at the National Dairy Conference on Wednesday by a member. He suggested putting such milk in a separste vat, and a low price would be the result. "By touching their pockets, you will make them send clean milk," he concluded. A meteorite fell in New Plymouth at 12.25 o'clock this morning, in the neighborhood of the Fire Brigade station, illuminating the whole locality in its descent. The luminous body, from which thousands of sparks were emitted, appeared to be the size of a football. Efforts were made by some spectators to locate the aeorite, but without result.

There was a great boom in tlie sale of motor cars locally last week (says the Dunedin correspondent of the Lyttelton Times), one estimate being that at least £OOOO was spent by agricultural representatives on the vehicles altogether. It is estimated that the Dunedin Winter Show, and, to a certain extent, the visit of the battleship to Otago Heads, were responsible largely for the expenditure.

The Expansion and Tourist League is in receipt of the following offer from Mr. J. C. Davies:—"lt is my intention to exhibit a >vater colour of the mountain and ranges at the forthcoming Auckland Exhibition, and if it will save your League the expense of providing a picture, I am willing to hand it over to you for that purpose." The League is thanking Mr. Davies for his thought fill offer.

"What is the meaning of that term?' queried His Honor Mr. Justice Edwards, at the Supreme Court yesterday, when it was stated that one of the accused in n breaking and entering case had said: "You are stiff!" A police constable could not answer the • >ry, but eventually Mr. W. D. Anderson, counsel for the accused, came to the rescue. "I believe, your Honor," he said; "that it is an American slang term for 'you are unlucky.' "

A Wanganui resident, Mr. John Handley, on Monday presented to Captain Halsey, of the battleship New Zealand,

a cannon ball which was recovered from the wreck of the Guide, a merchant ship that traded between Australia and Nelson, and met her fate in the very early days on Pepin Island, near the cable station at Wakapuaka. The relic was given to Mr. Handlev by Julia Martin, New Zealand's "Grace Darling," who was born and buried on the island. An old Taranaki resident, while conversing with a Hawera Star reporter on Tuesday afternoon, said the passing along the coast of IT.M.S. New Zealand showing the searchlights on Monday night recalled to his mind the time when the Takapuna was first litted with electricity 30 years ago. She steamed off the coast, brilliantly illuminated. in honor of the event,' as she was the first in New Zealand waters to use the electric light. A Daimler 30-seater motor bus came down by tlie Rarawa on Tuesday. To get the machine safely over the various railway rails took some manoeuvring. The car has been imported by the ICaponga Carrying Company, and is to be used on the Eltham-Kaponga road. The car can do 25 miles an hour with ease, and the time taken to reach Kaponga from New Plymouth was 2'A hours, little more than train time. This type of car is being run in Auckland "with most satisfactory results. Returns now available show that the total cheese shipped from Patea this season has been 147,010 cases, together with 23,501 boxes of butter. Out of this quantity 112,538 eases of cheese were shipped' to London, and the balance to West of England ports. The figures for lust year were: 114.53G cases of cheese and 40,008 boxes of butter. Valuing the cheese at £4 per ease and the butter at £3 box, the figures work out at £000.007 for the present year's shipments, and £573.103 for last year, or an inciease of £G2,79fi for the present year. Thero will be a sitting of the Railway Appeal Board at the Magistrate's Court to-day, commencing at 10 o'clock, before Dr. A. McArthur (Wellington)! chairman, Messrs. C. P. Ryan (Wanga- ! mil),' representing first division, 1). Dwycr (Wanganui), representing second division (traffic). Mr. A. 11. Davidson represents the Department, and Mr. M. Dennehy (Wanganui) appears for the appellants, who are: ,T. Egan (stationmaster at Tariki). .J W. Curtis (stationmaster at Eltham), and A. 11. Hornblow (clerk at Eltham). All appeal on the grounds of being superseded on the classificatiou list. Proceeding's nre open to the Press.