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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144421, 8 July 1914, Page 2

,fwo lioys on bicycles collidctl near the Theatre Royal on Tuesday afternoon, one of the lads, a telegraph mtwsengcr named dark, receiving painful injuries tQ.his face.

On the application of the Wellington District Law Society, the Appeal Court on Tuesday made an order absolute striking Oliver Noel Gillespie off the roil of barristers and solicitors of tho Supremo Court. Costs wore allowed to the District Law Society.

The Pahiatua Borough Council has decided to take a poll of tho ratepayers on a proposal'to raise a loan of £IO,OOO for an electric light and power scheme. A poll will also be taken on-a proposal to build the new post office i/i one of the garden squares in tho centre of tho town.

During tho last few nights a number of young larrikins have been busy at Vogeltown causing considerable annoyance to residents. Whilst some of thoir jokes have been quite harmless they have carried others too far, and it is to be hoped tlicy will take warning before they get themselves into serious trouble.

While the role of tho road is to keep to tho loft, the rule of the footpath is to keep to tho right. When the coming municipal conference sits at W'cllington it will consider an Invercargill proposal that municipal councils should adopt the “keep to the left” rule for pedestrians, and thus bring all street traffic under one rule. Whilst Mr. D. Buick (Palmerston) was speaking on Friday, the question of lhe. fast Grey Lynn election was mentioned. I: TVe have got Payne,” interjected a member. '“Yes, wo have got Payne,” said Mr, Buick, “because it was found impossible to bill Fowlds without Payne.” The House laughed considerably. ■ Captain W, H. Fletcher, A Company Taranaki Pities, desires to thank, on behalf of his company, Air. W. F. Gordon for a series of views, nicely framed, taken on the IVaireka battlefield on March 28, 1900, the fortieth anniversary of tho engagement, and also for the original order, issued by Colonel vvarre, following on tho reverse at Ahuahu, in which Captain Lloyd and a number of his men were killed. The railway regulation excluding women from riding in smokmg-cars was successfully contested by a woman at the Sydney railway station last week. As she was about to enter a smoker she was stopped by an official, who drew her attention to the regulation. She, however, declared that she wanted to have a smoko on her journey, and, after lighting a cigarette, was allowed to enter the car.

A Dunedin wire states that in response to a telegram from Captain Fleming suggesting a donation of £3 each to two men from the boow Pakihi, which sank at Auckland, the secretary of the Now Zealand Shipwreck Relief Society, under instructions, telegraphed his assent to draw on the society for the sum suggested for the assistance of the sailors who had lost all their clothes.

The financial position of the Auckland Exhibition Amusements, Limited, is explained by the reports and balancesheet prepared for tho general meeting of shareholders. They show that the result from the operations of “Wonderland” during the period of the exhibition was a net loss of £3820, and among tho business of the meeting will be the consideration of a proposal that the company should go into liquidation. Tho Invercargill Competitions Society has again an excellent entry for the forthcoming festival. Details show keen competition in tho leading classes. The aggregate figures are; Music 982, elocution 393, literature, drawing, writing, spelling and sewing 371, physical drill, dancing, half-hour entertainments 368; tot;d, 3114. Tho judges this year are Messrs Montague (elocution) and Gregson (music), of Auckland. Just over two years ago a Samoan was knocked down at tho Auckland races by a motor-car. He was removed to tho hospital with a broken back, his death being considered to bo a matter of a few days. The man did not die, however, until Sunday, having lingered on with the lower part of his body completely paralysed. Immediately after his admission to tho hospital the man’s depositions were taken by Mr. B. C. Outten, S.M., the Samoan stating that the accident was entirely his own fault. Tt is not considered that an inquest will bo necessary.

The Best Club social and dance will bo hold on Thursday evening next in the West End Gymnasium. Mr. J. Hart has just returned from a visit to Auckland, where his firm were tho successful tenderers for the stock in the assigned estate of W. 3. Whelan, of Goodsoa’s Arcade. A very largo shipment of this stock is to arrive m New Plymouth in a few days, and wonderful bargains will be offered in all lines of useful fancy goods. Watch this paper for further announcements.*