MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7956, 29 August 1887, Page 2

MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

Nomination of candidates to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement through lapse of time of Messrs. W. T. Small (East Ward), W. Cottier (Central Wnrd), and Gr. J. Newman (West,- Ward), were receivable np to 12 o'clock 10-day, at the Town Clerk's office. Not much interest Beems to be manifested by the bnrgesseß ia the elections, or else they thiak that they are well suited ■with the retiring councillors, as those gentlemen were the only nominees, and ■were therefore returned for their respective wards unopposed.

A football match between the United fifteen and twenty-two others took place on tbe racecourse on Saturday, the result being a win for the latter by two points. The scores were: United, 1; twenty-two, 3. Two players met with injury during the early part of the game, and were compelled to knock off. Of the large number of people who have visited Paritutu since the zigzag has enabled this eminence to be so easily reached, many will have noticed the injury occasioned to the lower portion of the pathways by wandering cattle. During last week a capital fonr- wired barbed fence has been erected around Paritutu, thus effectively precluding cattle from further damaging the useful work which Mr. A. Hood set himself the task of accomplishing. The total amount spent (including fencing) is ft trifle over £18. Public Bubscription, and about £1 12 b proceeda from the Maori legend " Oronoa " which have gone in aid, total between £13 and £14. The fencing and labor done, at a cost of about £4, is the only portion which remains to be provided for, and doubtless further subscriptions will be volunteered in redaction of this amount. To a worthy Sergeant of Police in Melbourne is given the credit of the invention of the word "larrikin,", and to the credit of the people of the German Settlement mußt be placed the corruption of the word to " radical." A complainant, while giving evidence in the Police Court on Monday, said that he saw "three radicals in the road," u.oaning three youths, and then explained that the people of the settlement whence he came called sportive youths "radicals." On hearing thjs Mr. Samuel said that it was to be hoped that the word a 8 used by the settlers bore no rela.tion lo tbe term applied to political reformers. The deponent did not know if the term bore any political significance in the thoughts of the settlers. A private telegram from Blenheim States that Mr- Winter, the editor of the Marlbofough Times, whose leg waa broken in tbe fire at Blenheim on Saturday, is in a very dangerous condition. Tbere are now on view in the shop window of Mr. C< Callaghan, baker, jaoine citrons and lemons grown in Mr. Andrews' orchard at Huirangi. The fruits are fine specimens, and' amply show what the climate and soil of Taranaki are capable of raising. The Shooting Committee of the Taranaki Rifles met in the Militia Office on Saturday night, when it was decided to bold the next competitive matoh for Oamaru on September 14th. There was no other business. Is it possible to identify a person by his voice ? On the answer to this question hinged the decision in a Police Court case this morning, in which a youth had to answer a charge of damaging property find using threatening language towards i

the ownw thereof. The time the aots were committed was night, and consequently the complainant could not swear he recognised the defendent except by his voice. Mr. Samuel, the counsel for the defence, was minutely cross-questioning a witness for the complninant anent the matter of identifying a person by his voice, when tho witness said "I recognised the defendant by' his voice, as I should recognise you (counsel) or Sergeant Duffin by yours-" Whereupon Mr. Samuel retorted^ " I don't think there is any great resemblance between our voices," and then looked at the sergeant, who by the blushing way he took the facial query seemed to think there was not.