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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13993, 26 August 1909, Page 2

A portion of the breakwater road in the vicinity of the oil works is being | dressed with refuse petroleum from No. 2 well. The Education Department has granted a subsidy of £70 towards the costt of the gymnasium at the West End School The Education Board's application for a grant for the enlargement of the Huiroa school had been acceded 4o by the department. An Auckland suburban property of 53 <acres, a portion of*the Main Estate, at the corner of Renmera Road and the Lady's Mile, has been purchased by a syndicate for, it is reported, £13,000, or £245 an acre. A draft Amending Bill to the Opunake Harbour Bill has been drawn up and a committee has been appointed to revise it and take the necessary steps to' place it before the coming session of On the 21st inst. Mr. Justice Edwards granted probate of the will of the late Miss Prudence Ann Smith, on the motion of Mr. J. JS. Wilson, to Mr. Stanley J. Smith, the executor named in the will. . | The victorious New Zealand amateur \ athletes left Brisbane for Sydney on Saturday night. As they will not leave for home until next Saturday, they will have a good opportunity to visit the principal places of interest in the New (South Wales capital. .On their arrival at Wellington on September 2 they will be entertained at the Town Hall. The TaranaaT Education Board has received an intimation from the Inspec-

tor-General of Schools that its proposal to erect a building for technical and school classes on section 2JJ6, town ot Ingiewood, has been approved, subject to an assurance being given that steps will be jtakento secure legislation providing for /the transfer, of the freehold ot the property to the board. The necessary assurance has been given.

Referring at Dunedin to the retrenchment policy of the Government, the Hon. J. A. Millar said the period ot depression was passing away, and the Government was to-day £5,0U0,000 better off than it was last year. He personally had hopes that in the future conditions would nave improved to that extent that the Government would be justified in taking back many of those who had been retrenched.

Rapid progress, the Post says, is now being made in restoring Parliament Buildings, so damaged by the fire or December, 1907. A plain structure, yet one not out of harmony with the rest of the edifice, has already reached its second storey in the rear of the main block. All that remains to be done now, so far as the exterior is concerned, is to add the roof. Thus the traces of the fire, in the old abbey-like appearance of the skeleton walls, will be finally removed, and a solid, substantial building left

Path© Freres, the celebrated firm of kinematograph film manufacturers of Paris, have submitted a scheme to thr Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, Minister for Health and Tourist Resorts, for advertising the industrial and scenic resources of the dominion per medium of the kinematograph. With characteristic enterprise, the- firm concludes its message with the following appeal: — Now that it is necessary for the colonies to live in closer spiritual touch with the Mother Country, it is to everybody's interest to know something of other countries by the best means possible, and each State owes it to its own welfare to see that it is not left behind in the storm of publicity which is about to burst around the colonies, which have hitherto been, we might also say, unknown, among the great nations of the world, and this through the medium of the greatest advertiser ever known — the kinematograph."

Marlborough is to celebrato its jubileo during the first week of November, and intends to do it in style. The celebrations will commence with an impressive thanksgiving service, to be held on Sunday, October 31, when it is intended that the military and friendly societies will march in procession to church. On Monday, November 1, the proceedings will be mostly ceremonial, the day having been sot down for the reception and entertainment of his Excellency the Governor, tho Prime Minister, and members of the Ministry. On Tuesday and Wednesday, November 2 and 3, the Mariborough Agricultural and Pastoral Society's show will be held, and on Thursday,' November 4, there is to be an aquatic carnival at Picton. Other events of importance will be an interprovincial cricket match between Marlborough and Nelson, a band contest, and a bowling tournament. Marlborough's jubilee promises to bo the biggest festivity seen in Blenheim since the exhibition,' and in some respects it is expected to eclipse that occasion.

The durability of kahikatea is often questioned, but an exemplification of its lasting powers is to be seen at Dargaville (says the New Zealand Herald's correspondent at that place). Some thirty-five years ago the late Mr, .1. M. Dargaville instituted a trade in baulk timber between the Wairoa and China, and some fine shipments of kauri and kahikatea spars were extorted by the barques Moss Glrn, Glimpse, and Ada Wisswell. On on<> occasion two white pine spars, each 40ft. long and 12in. square, were rafted down too late for shipment, and were then utilised in the construction ot n landing slip. To-day the slip is still extant, and the kahikatea spars at a recent investigation were found to be as solid and serviceable as ever. I'or thirty-five yearn they have been tidecovered twice daily, and although several times redecked, and punctured by various moans, their soundness is indisputable, probably this timber n as grown on a hillside, not in swamny around. Swamp pine is not durable, but that grown on the hill usually is.

Tho increase in the machine drawn milk will be a feature of this season's supply at the Riverdale Co-operative Factory, says the Witness. Last year the machine milk worked out at about '25 per cent, of the total supply, but this season, with another twelve suppliers putting in machines, something like 50 per cent, will he machine drawn.

The Mayor of Napier has given notice to move ah iollows at the next meeting ot the Borough Council: — "That iv future no plans of any dwelling house proposed to he erected in the Hoi-ou^h ot Napier he passed hy the council unless » hath at least 4tt. 6in. long by 2ft. 6in. broad, with water laid on, be erected in one of the rooms of the said house, or some room attached thereto."

Complaints reach us, says the Elth'ara Argus, that some dogs are causing trouble' in sheep paddocks. A few days a«o Mr. Turner, Mountain Road, obbeived a dog carrying something, and on investigating found that it had dropped a new-born lamb after eating the head and neck. Probably had the dog not been intercepted it would have devoured the whole lamb. It is rather extraordinary to notice dogs behaving like this, but the occurrence noticed is not an isolated one.