The Daily News. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 104, 22 June 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Education Board hold a special meeting to-day. Miss Dcnneby, who has occupied the position of matron of the New Plymouth Gaol for some considerable time, has received notice of transfer to Wellington. Miss Dennehy during her stay here had made herself very popular in social circles, and her many friends will regret her departure. On the motion of Mr. Hughes, the Registrar of the Supreme Court granted probate of the will of the late Thomas Alexander Hempton, late of the Second New Zealand Contingent, who died in South Africa, to Mr. W. L. Newman, the executor. It may still further interest investors to know that the Maori Dredge—small, and only able to work at half speed—in ground near the Rangatira claim, washed up the last two weeks 33 and 30 ounces. Messrs. Bewley & Watt, local brokers, are now booking shares for the Rangatira Company. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as f0110w5.45 a.m., Rotoiti (from North); 7 a m., Takapuna (from South) ; 9.30 am., Rotoiti (for South); 9.30 p.m., Takapuna (fur North). A passenger-car will be attached to the goods train leaving about 3 p.m. j The many friends of Lieut.-Colonel Collins will be pleased to hear that his son Cyril, who has been laid aside with an attack of typhoid fever, is making satisfactory progress towards complete recovery. Mr. Cyril Collins, as a member of the Post and Telegraph Rifles, contracted the fever at Wan- '■ ganui Easter Camp. When partly convalescent from his iirst attack he got a severe relapse, from which he is now recovering. On Thursday afternoon several ladies and gentlemen were driving in a buggy from Waitara to New Plymouth, and when about 100 yards from the Henui hill a number of men i?) mounted on horses overtook the venicle, and, getting within about twenty yards, gave wild war-whoops and galloped past. The result was that the horses attached to the vehicle started off at a gallop, and, but for the norve and ability of the driver, a fatality would assuredly have occurred. As it was, the horses tolled until the brow of the hill was readied, when the driver managed to stop them. 'ihe occupants naturally received a severe fright. The action of these overgrown hoodlums is deseiving of the greatest censure, and if detected rigorous treatment should be meted out to them. It is probable that tbis paragraph may not reach the young " men," but we have been requested to state that had they waited after performing iheir "clever" act, several of the occupants of the buggy would have "reached" them in a manner that would have necessitated their using padded saddles when next starting out to frighten people, or have secured for their horses a well-earned rest. There were 129 applications for three vacant posts on th,e staif of the Auckland City Council that were filled last week. Mr. S. J. Brigham was appointed City Treasurer; Mr. J. Y. VVarren Collector; and Mr, A Sexton Assistant Town Clerk. A strange story comes from Trieste, in Austria. A lieutenant rejoicing in the name of Adalbert Zalay de Hagyros arrived at a station and wanted to buy a ticket in a hurry. There was a crowd of civilians outside the oilice window, and he ordered them to make way for him. Being also in a hurry, they refused, so the gallant lieutenant ordered a policeman to arrest them. The policeman objected, so the lieutenant ordered up a detachnent of troops, i which arrested crowd, policeman, and all, and formed a cordon round the station, while the lieutenant took his' ticket. The one wonder is that the young gentleman stooped to the indignity of taking a ticket at all. Considerable indignation is still being expressed by Anglo-New Zealanders in London, says the Star's correspondent, at the attacks made upon Mr. Reeves in consequence of his cables to the Government. Some of the Agent-General's friends sugguest that the properly sober, if not sombre, character of his despatches, contrasted with the extravagantly optimistic toLe of some of the Press Association's cablegrams, was not altogether favourable to the operations of the New Zealand Stock Exchanges. Hino illae lacrimae. It is certainly a coincidence that the most violent attack emanated from the chairman of the Dunediu Stock Exchange. The view of the attitude of the colonies in the matter of the war taken by Mr, lte.eyes ip his very moderate article in the Hj/aaher, whicli has been much criticised iu New Zealand, is corroborated hy a leading Australian statesman, who, >yl«:n asked by Lord nosebery, " Did your people gft into t e rights of tne quarrel, and examine them ypry pgrefully 1' replied: "No. I cannot say tli'at thpy 4id. What they went for was the Empire,'' Sir William Howard iiussell is one of the oldest of war concspondo:.!s living, he having been born on March 28, 182". Half' a century has passed since ho first represented the London 'limes on the held .of battle, bin best work having been done iu connection with the Crimean War, when his letters from the l'ront created a sensation at Home which has never since been equalled. Much has happened since then, and when Sir William compares present day methods with those of the fifties he must feel that the soldiers of the pen and peneil, exposed though they are to iua«y peiils, have much to be thankful I'or in the way of cables and other facilities which were non-existent in his time, Jlr. Lingard, the patentee of the '» Pneumatic Heel," left this district for Wellington yes'erday afternoon, from which port he hope* to be very shortly stalling for England, with the view of endeavouring to dispose of the patent riglils uf his invention to the 'British Army. Unless our shrewdest and longest-headed business men are all adrift in their ideas as to the ultimate result of the invention, an opportunity of makim; a really good spec, by inve-ting a few pound* at phenomenally long odds is now oll'ered to the public. We understand that there are still a few shares left in Mr. JJewley's hands i'or .-ale, ami we strongly advise those persons vvho have net already invested to seeure a Share or two bpfore it is tgo late,—Adyt.

The s.s. Waikato is expected to arrive off Waitara next week.

An amusing story was told of Sir George White's little daughter. She went into a shop in Windsor and asked for a - dada." The sh™ aci Ked her to explain. She -tKen said she had washed Ilffl' father's portrait off her dolly, and desired another to replace it. The War Office authorities (says the Leeds Mercury) are quite discomposed by the tumultuous public reception given to Sir George White. In one way these demonstrations are satisfactory from the official point of view, proving that the country takes an indulgent view of the military mistakes committed in Natal; but in so far as Sir George White presents himself to their astonished gaze as a popular idol the distinguished gentlemen who run the British Army" from Pall Mall hate to confess that all their nice calculation* have been upset. Mr. A. G, Hales, in one of his letters to the London Daily News, says:—There are hundreds of stories going around concerning the man of the midnight marches, Roberts of Kandahar. Here is one of them, told me by a wounded soldier, who vowed that he had witnessed it: —Roberts, with an overwhelming force, was advancing upon a Boer position, when he came across a Boer commando only 250 strong. Roberts did not desire to slaughter these men, and to this end he sent a sergeant and one private forward to tell the Boer in command that he was at the mercy of the English General, and had better throw down his arms. When the two Britishers got within about a dozen yards of the Boers flying the white flag prominently, the Boer leaner gave an order, and his men promptly obeyed it; up went every rifle, and the two Britishers were literally blown out of the saddle. Lord Roberts, who was an eye-witness of the scene, at once rode towards a body of Lancers, and gave them a sharp order, pointing with hi* finger to the Boer commando. The Lancers dashed off at headlong pace, and when within a few horselengths, down dropped the dreaded steel points, and the horses rushed onward. A fearful shriek rose up from the Boer ranks as the terrible lances did their work of vengeance. When again they wheeled and trotted back to the British lines, there was not one solitary Boer saddle iu all that Boer commando that was not empty. 1 do not intend to voudh for any part of that story, I only tell the tale as " 'twas told to me." Pearsons Magazine gives descriptions of two new methods of abolishing distances. One is the invention of a young watchmaker of St, Paul's, Minnesota, named Hummell, by which pictures can be transmitted by electricity. In his telediagraph the portrait or sketch is first drawn in an alcoholic solution of shellac, which is a nonconductor, on tinfoil, and bent round a revolving cylinder. A platinum point is then so adjusted that it touches the cylinder, and when it comes into contact with the nonconducting shellac, a line is drawn on paper round a similar cylinder at the other end of the wire. At each revolution the point is shifted l-56th of an inch across the drawing, so that when it has traversed the whole width every line of the original appears in duplicate at the receiving end. The whole operation xnay take 20 to 30 minutes. The invention is in practical use in American newspaper offices, and was used to telegraph the counterfeit presentment of the priest who officiated at Admiral Dewey's wedding at Washington, to the Ncm l'orli Herald. The other invention is the " telephotographic lens," which enables a camera at a distance of as much as SO miles from the object to reproduce it as it would be seen through a powerful telescope. An instrument which enables an operator well out of range to make an absolutely accurate detailed picture of an enemy's position has obvious usefulness in war. It waa used in the conflict between Japan and Ohina, when the damage done to the Tei-Yen was made plainly visible in a-phStograph taken at two miles distance. 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