NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 258, 30 November 1903, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

«. A poultry Association has been started in Dannevirke.

The revised railway time-tnjlrte will take effect as from to-morrow.

A new Freemason's Lodge is to bo opened Kaponga to-morrow evening. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening to consider the annual balance-sheet.

A hospital Sunday demonstration is to be held on Sunday next in ihe Basin Reserve, Wellington. Over a hundred bandsmen are to take part.

Between £10,000,000 and £12,000, 000 intended for investment in New York buildings has been withdrawn owing to ceaseless strikes in the building trade.

The Auckland electric tram cars had a busy time in carrying people to the A. and P, Society's show on Saturday, The takings were expected to reach £BOO. The Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union is co-operating with the Executive of the Otago Employers' Association with the object of joint future action in -regard to labour legislation.

'lhe hospital grounds are now lookling well, and the new artificial lake, with' its fountain playing in the. middle, will greatly enhance the general appearance when the water reaches its permanent level.

The Education Board has not yet received the departmental grant for payment of teachers' salaries foi the month, and consequently those who went on Saturday for their crhajues found they had to wait. At the ballot for two appropriations of £250 each in the first 'group of the New Plymouth Bojiitablo Building Society on Friday liight the drawling resulted in favour of No. 48S, held by Mr W. H. Loughlin, of Yogieltown.

Mr I-I. F. Russell, secretary of the New Plymouth Tradesmen's Association, has received intimation from the traffic manager (Mr G. F. Whitcombe) that it is proposed to run a late train from New Plymouth to Hawera on Christmas Eve, starting at about 10.15 p.m. The class of teachers who hava been attending the weekly course of instruction at the Central School, under Sergeant Armiitage, concluded on Saturday with a practical examination, in which both ladies and gentlemen acquitted themselves with credit. Befoie dispersing Mr Woodhead thanked thp Sergeant, on behalf of the other teachers, for the patient and thorough training he had given the class.

The pick of the teachers of Otago have left the service (says the Taieri Advoqaite)! There are mjanv things that tp|)(J tq drivp young men out of this profession—the uncertainty of promotion, the duplication of authorities, and last, but not least, the danger of the introduction of denominational ism and religious tests. Young men of spirit and backbone strike out fpr themselves, and try other and more independent professions.

An Edinburgh student who applied for payment of his university class fees by the Carnegie Trust has had a curious career. A little over 20< he served an apprenticeship of over five years in a lawyer's office, and passed the usual examinations, and has been at various times tutor, schoolmaster, clerk, debt collector, bailiff's assistant, advprtising agent, reporter, publisher, and "a. novplist. It is.not only in the colonies that one has to be versatile.

A lengthy telegraphic memo lias come to hand from the Premier containing the reasons for and correspondence relating to the vote of £15,000 recently passed l-y Parliament for the Queen Victoria Memorial Fund, Mr Seddon urges that after all the colonies and dependencies agreed to contribute—and especially remembering the high esteem in which her late Majesty was held—it was not too much to ask, for fourpence per head of the population lor such a worthy object.

Now that prohibition has been carried in Ashburtonr drunkenness in that district is to be visited by heavy penalties. A first offending inebriate was the other day fined 20s, or twenty-four hours' imprisonment. In passing sentence the pre? siding Justice said that it had been his practice, when temptation was in the people's way, to deal leniently with such cases, but now that the temptation had been removed ho intended to impose, heavier penalties.

It is not often that a drunken man acts- as his own policeman and puts himself into gaol. Such a rarity, a grey-headed old man, presented himself to the Blenheim police the other day, staggering round the station to the cells, contentedly wrapping himself up In the prison blankets, and giving it to i/'e understood that he knew he was in the right plnco for him and was going to stay there. The policeman's life would bo a much happier one if all inebriated had such a full sense of the fitness of things.

Hansard for 1903 will constitute n record for bulk. Up to three mouths ago Parliament talked two and a half miles of Hansard if the pages had been laid end to end. The iYemier in the first eighteen weeks of tho session filled 544" inches of Hansard. Sir Joseph Ward was an easy second, but he is laps behind his chief, having filled only 3204 in- | dies. The third man was quite out of sight, the seiviour member for ejvristchnrch (Mr Taylor) occupying but'ls-12 ijichus. Mr James Allen, with 1402 inches, comes just before the leader of the Opposition, • tii v M'assey, wiio spoke 1314 inches, and the only other men in the four-figure list were Sir W. R. Russcfl 1286 inches, the Hon Hall-Jones 1142, Mr Hurries 1022, and Mr T. Mackenzie llhs." The least talkative of the talkers was Mr : H«ll ; \vhd' managed to fill'4'B inches only, but he was beaten out of sight by Mr Hardy who had spoken pot a word in tbV eighteen weeks—another record in » I recpt'4 «ip}}t

The headquarters volunteer corps will parade to-morrow evening. Messrs Bewley and OrifTiths commenced business in their new miction rooms and oilices on Saturday.

A married American ladv, though only thirty years of age,' has hist started on her twenty-iirst tour round he globe.

A theatre is to be established in Paris where, no plays will be presented save those that have been refused at oilier places.

We have to acknowledge receipt ot useful wall calendars from the local branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company, ot which Mr J. l'aton is manager.

The Woorlvillc Council has decided to take a poll <-f the ratepayers on the question of raising a loan of between £B,OOO and £IO,OOO for the drainage of ihe Borough.

A man named C, Wooding, an express 'driver,. was brought in from his residence at Woodlands on Saturday ni-vht by the police. He is at present under treatment in the Hospital for mental aberration.

The incautious small boy who had made a leap at the. tail of a passing cow and got kicked for his pains, picked himself up and limped slowly away. " It never pays, he said, "to jump to conclusions."

Formers and others owning bulls should be careful how they trespass on the public highways. Yesterday morning an unusually savage specimen of the Jersey breed had possession of the road near the Waiwa:kaiho for awhile, but. eventually betook himself to other parts. Had ladies or children been about it is possible some serious accident might have occurred . Residents of Rahotu and coastal districts will sympathise with Mr and Mrs Morrow, of Rahotu, who lost their daughter Lizzie, aged 14 on Friday last. The girl 'had been ailing for a few days. Death was caused by brain fever, and occurred at the New Plymouth Hospital. The funeral took place yesterday at Rahotu.

Rumour hath it that a forman of works, in an argument with ft workman as to how be should curry out certain work on a job within a hundred miles of town, souffht to pi-ess his ideas on the man by the exercise of a little gentle persuasion. The scheme did not work, however, and t'he foreman —no small man, by tfoxf way—decided to Jiet the other have his own way.

At the first general meeting of creditors in the estate of Amin Rurk, Eastern merchant, a bankrupt, called for Saturday last at the D.O.A.'s offices, there was not a quorum present. The debtor's statement was, however, taken. This showed the principal creditor to be 0. Hannah, Eastern merchant, of Auckland (for whom Mr Quilliam —of Govett and QuilViain—appeared) £445 for goods supplied. Other creditors are Shewry, £l3 for fruit, and Bellrim'gier, £1 for rent. Mr F. E. Wilson (Roy and Wilson) represented the bankrupt, who was present. Burk, detailed his dealings with Hannah, and also said his wife had bougiht a farm since coming to New Plymouth, but this was with her own money. Further action was postponed,, The points prize given in the different classes at the recent horticultural show, were awarded as follows :—Pot plants : W. Nicholls, . 66 points, 1 ; H. IX. Cattley, 19, 2, Cut blooms : Mrs Ple-ukley, aa, 1 : L. W, Alexander, 86, 2 : H. R. Goldwater, 24, 8. Bow, lets, etc. : Miss J. C. McKellar, 11, 1 ; Miss Hawken, 10, 2. Vegetalbk* ' Dr. Leatham, 34, 1 ; J, Vicuery, 33, 3, Homemade preserves : Mrs C. B. Lever and Mrs Roy, 12 each', 1. Homemade bread ' Mrs McGahey, u, 1 ; Miss Skinner, 10, 2 ; Mrs H. Goodacre and Miss K, Ambury, 9 each,

A .particularly happy thought occurred to Miss Ada Crossley ou the occasion of her farewell concert in Dunedin. Hundreds had been unable to obtain admjssipii, and a great crowd"was' obliged to find accommodation on the stage, directly at the back of the singer, and the very worst place to her her to advantage. Recognising this. Miss Crossley, near the close of the performance, turned her back on the ordinary auditorium, and sang one song direct to the less happily placed section of her hearers. This nice consideration was appreciated by ail parts of the house, and she received a storm of applause. At the Baptist Union meeting at Melbourne recently, the Rev. H. Collins, of Fitzroy, said that, internally, their churches were often dreary, dirty nnd depressing, and they pught to begin to cultivate more artistic tasto. Was there not, also, something in the statement that there was a want of reverence in their congregations ? The greater decorum of the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, when compared with their own, was absolutely startling. He knew he was treading on thin ice ; trut was the singing of hymns set to dreary tunes and accompanied by a wheezy harmonium calculated to keep the attention of the young ? Such a state of things might be amended by at} advisory Board for each church, but the best remedy was the federation of the churches. There is excitement in the Vahiatuu Herald Office, and the editor has his say :—This week the proprietors are to enjoy another twist of the Tammany screw. We have in our employ four young lady compositors, and on attempt is to be made to fire them out into the street, Female compositors are allowed to earn their living in other parts of the colony, and hundreds are so employed today, but the Wellington Typographical Union is hauling us before the Arbitration Court, charging us with committing a breach of the award governing the employment of compositors j It is fqliite right, of course, that such compositors shall be employed on any staff save ours. No doujMt, were wet to get down into the mud, and grovel in genuine Tammany fashion, "everything in the garden would be lovely." We cannot further deal with the business just now. When tho matter is dealt with by the Court, we shall have something more to say. In the meantime wo claim to be living under tho British flag-, and our contented staff will only bo removed at tho point of the bayonet, Tammany or no Tammany.

Shareholders of tho Equitable I Building Society will note the next pay day is to-day (Monday). Subscriptions will be payable at the Society's office, Currie-street, between tho hours of 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.—Advt. TROUBLED WITH SCIATICA. Let Rheumo cure you ! It has cured others. The positive assurance of James A. Capper, Lyell Bay, should convince you. Mr Capper, writing on Feb. 1, says :■—" I was much troubled with sciatica pains, and at times I could get no sleep. Following tho advice of a friend 1 tried a bottle of Rheumo, and that bottle drove away the sciatica pains. That has been three months ago,and they have not returned since. If thpy do, Rheumo is the medicine 3 shall go for," Mr Capper's confidence comes from' expoi-,oiico. Sold by chemists and stores at 2s Od and 4s 6d per bottle.—Advt.