Miscellaneous News.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 5 December 1903, Page 4

Miscellaneous News.

A n<*v dietany scheme came into operafcioH ih the British Xavy on Oct. 1-. The bluejaekets and marinas will for the first Dime be pror Tided with jam and milk, and they also henceforward are to have five nasals a day. Under tho former regime the country supplied them with only three meals i» twenty-four hours. In order to supply each maui with 2oz of jam and |oz of unsweetened milk, about 15,000 pounds of the former and 600 tins of the latter will ije inquired riaily. Tlii! ii;otoi-car is not to be tiie f&i.U I'n ans of locomotion, so far is luwn olid women arc concerned, predicts lie Builders' Journal. The mcioi-iur will be suitersiiled in a lai'yi! measure by the motor -skate. "The city man of tire future," prophesies that journal, "will carry rolle:' skates on his boots, each tbiven by a small rlectro-mokov. Pie will ri.sli along the pavwuients (or w:ll u special track be providwd for him ?' with his lingvr on a button cetitrcJling Ihn ciirrait from a very comjacl generator." "<;i\en jierfect apparatus," says an electrical expert, a Hjiotid of from twelve to iiltuen miles an hour eouiid l»e attaiiu.il. it would, of coui»o, vary according to the 'tonnage' of the traveller. One supposes that when a halt is made the motor-skater will balance on a walking stick, lean against the wall, or squat on th« pavement. You cunt dismount from skates. 'lhe Australian [tapers report an

action brought by a reporter named SVlcl.ulloi*h, t»n the Melbourne Age, against, the proprietors of that journal lor wrungfrfl dismissal aivd libel. Tlie journalist had reported Sir • lolvn Madden, the Chief .Jukiice, a* in a speech on "Tin.* Gospel o; Jieauiy," that all intelligent foreigners who visited Austral* were struck with the vulgar and uninl"lligiitle (halter <»' the women and their gsateless earriage. Sir J,Wm wrote to tin* Age, repudiating the statement, and that journal, in p«|)-, limbing l.is letter, abided a footno-v tipressing their regret that their porter had misapprehended his re-: marks. They also dismissed the lej'Oi t<'r. Hence his action. Sir .lohn Madden w.us himself oalled for I'ne defence, and subject*! to a Mfif (i'oi;a-cy a initiation. | m t stuok 11 h s repudiation. A liiiuifx'r of journ.iipa*«? evirate Mia*. it was a ■'.tnitiuim pim tiee among public nu it ts jii'cge nirsnrporling whenever tlier har! said anything they had reason to regret, intimately "the >epoiiwi- was nwardt'd .Is damages Icr 'ho iiKel aird JL'l for wrongful tot|ltl»*i«l.