NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 262, 4 December 1903, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

An endeavour is being made to get one of the life insurance companies to establish an office in New Plymouth,

Two men connected with the jewellery rolpory from KuUey, 'Frank and Co., London, have been sentenced to twelve, months. Two others were discharf?ed. A cable message states that Dr. Marmonek's serum for tuberculosis, tried in Paris, proved a failure, and was discontinued. Railway freights on unfinished export steel from Cleveland and other American centres to the aealxiqrd have been loweivd by one-third. Among the floral tributes presented to Miss Crossley last evening at the Theatre Royal, was one from Mrs R. Cock, )>earing the inscription : " Haero mai ka Wnanaki." Young New Plymouth has already been damaging the new rotunda, The police are to be asked to sift the matter. The New York Herald's Valpuriso correspondent asserts that Japan has purchased two Chilian warships building in England. A two-year-old daughter cf Mrs Herd, of Petone, died yesterday at the Wellington Hospital from hums sustained through her dress cat-hing fire at a lighted candle. Miss Crossley is very favourably impressed with the enthusiasm dis--played by the New Plymouth audience which greeted her on Thursday evening'.

" Our butter-making industry is as good as a gold mine to Taranaki, which is one of the best provinces in the colony." Mr N. ,). King, Mayor of Stratford, at the opening ceremony at the baths on Thursday.

■'■' Some wicked person" facetiously remarked a speaker at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on Wednesday, "has put a picture of Ihe 'Mountain House ' into Cooke's Tourist Guide ; just the very thing to influence people not to go to the mountain."

It will be seen by advertisement that the Feikling Athletic Club advises athletes not to 1« influenced by the threats which appear in the various advertisements inserted by the N.Z. Association of Caledcnia'n Societies. Competitors are reminded thttt nominations close on December 7th,

A circular has bean issued to the officers commanding public school cadet corps by the cadet brand) of the Education Department, calling attention to the fact that the firing for the North and South Island Challenge Shields is to take place on local ranges on or before Saturday the 12th inst. The target registers are to be signed bv the oflicer in charge, or some independent person, who, If possible, should bo an officer of another company. Competing teams are to consist of ten cadets, who must be the members of the same company or detachment The shields will be awarded to the two teams scoring the highest aggregate number of points, subject to the condition that if in i-iher island there is a tie for the highest, place, it will bo determined, if possible by leaving out of account the scores that only rank as third dass (less than 42). If this still leaves a tie the scores of the second class shots (Welow 63) ■will !j|e struck out. Tl.m if the sqores are actual, the tie will be decided by a match between the teams concerned.

Napier brickmakers have raised the price of b'ficks 5/ per 1000.

Mr F. Polland's afternoon tea and refreshments at the baths yesterday were voted tip-top.

Vessels have lieon chartered to bring 50,000 tons of American steel bars to Wales.

.•Tho largo, audience at. the Thoatie Royal on Thursday evening was a most representative one, visitors benoticeaible from Ingilowood, Stratford, and Elthaim.

A hull perpetrated 'by one of the speakers at the baths on Thursday afternoon : " Residents, both ladies and gentlemen, 'belonging to Now Plymouth or the country may now en'ioy a healthy bath without the fear' of being washed away by waves or sharks," Some well-bred stnd horses and cattle are being purchased in England by the agent of the Department of Agriculture, to supplement the stock at. present doing duty on the State farms liiroughont the colony. Special instructions have been issued lity the Minister 1o Iho ap«?nt to make a good selection of thor-ough-bred mares to mate with sires already imported by Ihr> Government. The sum of £IOOO is being spent in this direction.

At the annual meeting of the Council of the Churches on Wednesday Rev. S. R. Osiboiw was reelected President, and Rev. W. R. Woolley secretary. Tiiiterestinpr addresses "Were given- hy Revs. F. A. Bennett, J. N. Buttle, and F. G. Emms,, nn'd songs wwo contriibutod--1)y Miss E. K. Amibury, Mr. John Gray, and Rev. Bennett. The proceedings terminlated with the Dpxqlojgy.

Mr Goorgo Marsi'iall, of Balfour, lost the. Clydesdale stallion, Baton Balfour last week by blood-poison-ing under peculiar circumstances. The horse was suffering from a split hoof, and the wound was bat lied with sheep-dip. While unattended the animal licked the hoof, and soon after bit 'himself in the groin. Virulent Hood-poisoning at once set in, ending in death. The animal was recently purchased by Mr Marshall at Duned-in for £2OO.

A schoolboy, named James Har-"h-and, met with a strange accident in Sydney. The boy was haffgingi on to a tramcar going down' Brickfield Hill, and when near Liverpoolstreet, he jumped off. He was barefooted, and when he .alighted, a hat pin, 7in long, which was lying on the roadway, entered his foot at the toes, and penetrated to the heel. The hat pin was extracted by Dr. Robertson, at the Sydney Hospital.

Thq reeently-acqjiiirod reserve, formerly fcncjwn us " F.." was yesterday afternoon christened " Kn\var«Hi '"' ))y His Worship the Mayor, who opened tin.' Band Hotunda erected there In commemmoration.of K ng l Edward's Ooronutlon. There was a altfcondiance of the public. Immediateiy aftr>rwaji"ds the municipal swimming baths weic officially opened by the Mayor, Mr Tiseh taking 1 the first qfticjul "dip." The Swimming Club's, carnival was then held, and a good afternoon's sport ri'sultod, the finishes being good and fti|iir petition in every ease very keen, The Garrison Band played at the Rotunda and the Town Hand at the,!'laths. Particulars in to-morrow's issue.

In a loader on the Minister of Lands, the Lyttpltpn Times remarks —"ln truth the Hon, Thomas Di'ncan was pitchl'orkwl Into n position for which Nature never intended him. Nature made him a ."low-speaking, slow-thinkingl slow-moving, but withal shrewd and hard-headed Scotchman. His pai'ents and circumstances made him a fanner, Ho far his lilt! has been 'tolerably well managed, Hut in an unhappy day Mr Seddon made him Minister of Lands, a step which Nature and Mr Duncan's parents would never have dreamed of taking."

A peculiar feature in connection with the practice of recording the minutes of public bod iocs was referred to at a local meeting the other uven'i'tlg. It was pointed out by a gentleman whose opinion is deserving' of notice, that bv had, notonce, but often, observed that secretaries in writing up their minutes failed to add to rcsulutio'iis "proposed and seconded" the definite information as to whether such propositions were "carried" or not. As the speaker indicated, this omission rendered such •decisions of public bodies of no legal value, and he mentioned the matter is order that trouble from such a cause—so easily remediable—might be avoided in future.

The placid waters of the swimming 'baths, watched by a plucid public, who were wearily waiting for the equally placid remarks of the public men who were to open the new addition to muni equal arcl lecture, were disturbed yesterday by a wee poodle who found himself floundering t'hezefii.i his plunge was due to a friendly shove from the foot of one of the youthful spectators, but at any rate he very cleverly alluded for some time the efforts of several well-meaning gentlemen, who tried to rescue him from the water. Walking-sticks and umbrella handles were brought into use, but the canine paddler evaded them all until Mr P, O'Brien secured him by the neck and placed on to terrafirma, amidst the laughter and applause of tlhn publi".

Letters froin a South African correspondent received in Christchurch advise (says the Press) that the poultry business has been monopolised by the Americans, whose prices are much lower and whose grading is mucih better than in the case of New Zealand and Australian poultry. Regarding eggs, the. same correspondent states that South African supplies are mainly drawn from Madeira, Denmark and London. .It is only a 12 or 13 days' passage from Madeira, the. eg'gs come in long cases packed with oat hulls and rice husks, ami there is not the expense of refrigerating freights. Recent ndvices from London regarding the poultry market stated that a very heavy crop of chickens from Russia had come to hand.

The London correspondent of the Australasian stales thai. Sir Thomas Upton's offer of a £SOO cup for a yacht race across the Atlantic has brought forth supplementary offers from the Atlantic Yacht Club (U.S. A.), wliiich promises an additional cup worth £I.OO to the 'yacht finishing first, a £OO cup tu the <-eeond, and a £4O cup to the third. The course is to be from Sandy Hook to the Needles, and there will be no time allowances of any kind.

The neai'est and most accurate description of Mr Sc.ldon that we have yet come across is to be found in that delightful book. " Letters from a Sejf-inaide Merchant to his Sou." Mr John Graham, the self-maile merchant, in trying' to illustrate a point, says ;—" I've heard a good deal in my time a'!>out the foolishness of hens, but if it comes to rig'ht down plum foolishness give me a rooster every time. He's always strutting- and stretching' and crowing and bragging about things with which he had nothing- to do. When the sun rises, you'd think that he was making all the light, instead of all the noise ; when the farmers wife throws the scraps in the henyard' he crows as if he were the provider for the whole furnuard and was asking a blessing on I iie food ; when he meets another rooster, he crows, and when' the other rooster lids !him he crows ; and sio ho keeps it up stilaiiglht thiiou,gjh the day. ll u even wakes up through the night and crows a lit tie on general principles." Isn't Mr Scddon the human counterpart of the i<ooster so nicely described ?—Pahiatua, Herald,

The Stratford Farners' Co-opera-tive Society is considering the* advisafileness. of a change of lame.

One of the competitors in the neat diving competition yesterday seemed to l*e inUbjued witli the idea that the way to enter the water neatly was to curl himself into the smallest possible: space. He didn't win. The public of Now Plymouth are invited to attend the reception, which takes the form of a garden party, to be given at '•' Overdale " this afternoon in honor of Miss Ada Crossley. Given a fine afternoon there should be a brilliant assemblage. The reception will occupy from 3.30 till 5.30 p.m. Lovers of the artistic, have an opportunity of inspect inn some lino painting's at Al'ujsr.s Hewley and Griffiths' auction mart. Those are from the brush of Mr T. K. Allwood, of t'almorsfon North. A sale of 30 canvases will be hold on Wednesday next.

1 'like (says an essayist on "Salutations") the Irish peasant's benediction on entering a place where people are busily working, " God bless your work." It is like Boaz's ginoting to his harvest labourers,

"The Lord be with you," and they replied, "'J he Lord bless thee." An-' glo-Saxons, always in a hurry, have/ only time for the hideous "How d'ye do '.'" seldom waiting for or wanting a reply, but I know a man who, as it were, "goes one better," for he greets his friends with " Quite well, thank you," so sure is he of their solicitude for his health, and so little inquisitive a'lxnit theirs. I prefer the use a little boy made o[ the. phrase, answering cheerfully, even in the depths of measles, to all kind inquiries, "quite well, thank yon,"

Mr Newton King, agent for the McCormick harvest machines, has just received the following telegram from Messrs Morrow, Bass,ett and Co., the New Zealand representatives :—"McCormick for third year wins highest award for binders, Christchurch Show, silver medal."* TROUBLED WITH SCIATICA.

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