LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Fifteen per cent, of the running coat of a motor-car depends on the driver." said Mr. L. S. Drake, Wellington City Council Motor Inspector, at the last meeting of the Petone Borough Council. The Petone Borough Council has Ueculk'd to procure three mutor 'buses from service in that town—two thirty-pas-senger 'buses at a cost of £777 Us for each chassis and a brake horse-power of 30.1, and a third 'bus to carry twentytwo passengers at £440, with a brake horse-power of 20 r.a.e. rating. The bodies are to be built in the Dominion. Formation work in connection with the Kaetihi railway has advanced about three miles from Oliakune, and that .section is practically ready for plate-laying. Numerous culverts have been found necessary, and these have been substam ially constructed of concrete and steel. It is reported that a contract has been let for the construction of a bridge over the Mangawnero River." A statement issued yesterday by the Agricultural Department shows the quantity of butter in cool store at the various ports throughout the Dominion on June Ist as follow.—Auckland. .'!!,UIS boxes; Xew Plymouth, 11,3711; Patea, 1C72; Wanganui, 2129; Wellington, 32,282; Lyttellon, 4124; Duucdin. .|:sosi: total. 5i).89:5 boxes. At tin? beginuin'.r of June last year the qmiutity in cool store was boxes, and oil the Sf.me date ill IUI2 it was 04,-11,'.1 boxes. A distressing ease of unappreciated genius is reported from Iliitnert. South Africa. A young "nut" engaged in a Government department at a monthly salary of .-CIS Jflo, found it hard to roa!;e both ends meet, lie bit upon the following brilliant idea. Ife raflled liisniouthlv pay. During the three montlis that his little game mid been proceeding the ingenious youth netted a clear profit of thirty-one pounds by the sale of live shilling tickets he had issued as shares

Tlie Government lias .sanctioned v 'the expenditure of £BOO oil additions to Seaclill' Mental Hospital.—Press Association.

The meeting of- tho Liberal League will be held tvt 8 o'clock to-night, not at 3 pjn., sis inadvertently stated. In view of the impending selection of a candidate for the Taranaki scat, Liberals arc asked to muster in force. The mail trains, 'both inwards and outwards, were crowdled yesterday to the various holiday engagements, and despite the fact that extra carriages' were put on, it was extremely difficult at 'times to obtain, seating accommodation.

Despite the inclemency of the weather there was a fair muster of the XI. Regiment yesterday morning in honor of the King's Birthday. Nothing elaborate was undertaken, and after a brief ceremonial parade and the customary presentation of arms, tho men were dismissed. '*•

A commencement was made early vesterdlay with the building of a Sunday School at Vogeltown. About thirty or forty hejpers were present, and under the direction of Messrs S. Lush and F. W. Sandford, made good progress. The ladlies of the .place Supplied refreshments during the day. The school is bein" erected near the back of Mr G Neal'." > "A curious feature of the. present outbreak of infantile paralysis," says the Nurses' journal, «i s that many adult patients have been attacked. In a country hospital we recently saw two cases—one of a little boy about <5 years of age, crying bitterly with abdominal pains, the other a woman of 33. The acute stago was past, and the patient was sitting on a verandah in a wheelchair, both legs completely paralysed. Sc far there have been few deaths, and many cases of recovery. After the acute stage is over, massage has been largely employed, with very good results." Owing to rumors tliat have been in circulation, Mr Cummins at Tuesday night's_ practice of ithe band' tendered his resignation as its conductor. Strong exception was taken by the members' of the band to the cause of the resignation, and the following resolution was unanimously passed 1 , "That the members of tho 11th Regimental Band have every confidence in Mr Cummins- as thei r conductor, and they strongly resent the un warranted reporfjs now Ibeing circulated by irresponsible persons, and pointing out. the excellent progress made under ■his able tuition during the four years ask him to reconsider his resignation." asks him to reconsider his resignation." At this expression of continued confidence Mr Cummins has consented to still Continue as tllie band's conductor.