NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 8 December 1903, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

—. —^. A slaughter license has been granted to Mr W. J. Lyall, of Inglewood, for section 12"), block -i. Messrs Bewley and Griffiths will sell a quantity of stock in the bankrupt estate of Am in Burke on Saturday next. Bishop Neligan, while agreeing f .h«l. Taranaki is the hub of the universe, asks us to remember that the universe mostly lies outside TaraInaki.

An enquiry was maide at the County Council meeting on Monday as to what was being done in connection with the small bird nuisance. The Lyttelton Times says that the Duneilin express was timed between Rakaia and Dunsandel to run three miles in three and a half minutes.

The County Council offices will l>e closed from Dec. 24 to Jan 3, for the Christmas vacation, and' the usual holidays will be granted to the road stain;.

/Y member of the New Plymouth Ambulance Brigade informs us that the brigade did not go out to Te Henui on Sunday morning, the litter being taken out by some unauthorised persons.

TUso various steamers Jn port today will be served by trains leaving the New Plymouth station as under :

Takapuna, from North, G a.m. ; Rotofti, from south, 9 p.m. i Takapuna, for south, 11,20 a.m. ; awl Rotoiti, for north, 8.20 p.m.

Thero is a youthful operator in the Palmerston Telegraph Department who is' not too fast at taking Press messages, and this delays the senior operators provided here. For such business surely Palmerston can .supply a senior man. It is expected that there will be an exceptionally gxiod crop of apples in Canterbury this .season. There is almost certain to be a surplus, and probably ain attempt will be made to send shipments to England, where good prices will be obtained. The County Clerk says that rates are not drilling in as they should. Only aTAiut £3OO was paid last month. Councillors expressed the vpiiiion on Monday that rf,e ratepayers would not pay until they were obliged, to. The Education Department notifies that the examinations for national scholarships will take place on Jan. 5 ami <j. Taranaki candidates will be "examined in New Plymouth, and all information can be. obtained from Mr Whitcombe, Secretary to the Education Board, with whom those intending to sit for examination are requircl to leave their entries by Dec. 19.

The lix'ing of the ne,w scarifier to the. county traction engine cost £lB 18s. Owing to the. error of the manufacturers certain parts bud to be altered and it has been decided to request payment of half the cost of this work.

While discussing the question of the number of boys to be employed to every journeyman, at the Conciliation Board to-day a slight difference of opinion existed, and the Chairman of the Board asked, "What are you going to do with our boys ; are you going to marry them to the girls ?" Mr Iletts replied in the negative, and* added, " Put them on the land."—Nelson M'ail.

Through a defective plank in the middle Ngatoro bridge, near Tnglewood, a horse belonging to Mr Edmunds, a settler, received .101110 injury to one of its legs the other day. In mentioning the matter at the Council meeting on Monday Cr. Hopson inquired as to the Council's responsibility. The matter was left for further developments. Bishop Neligan suggested last evening that Mr Govett would like to call the Auckland Standing Committee a Sleeping Committee, But it was worth while to know that they had got a bedfellow who slept often on the pillow and was often awake. IViat bedfellow was the Bishop. One of the county officials has been taking .the names of those people who offended against the bylaws by driving at a fast pace across the county bridges. At the meeting of the County Council on Won Jay it was pointed out that where bridges were of a less span than 30 feet people could drive as long as thej( liked. The sequel to' a case heard in May last in which P. Raill, of Koru, sued F. Lyail for dunnages for killing- a calf, was heard on Monday by Mr Stanford, S.M. On the former occasion Lyall was oi-dered to pay the value oi' the beast, and Raill, for whom Mr tJujlHam (Messrs Govett and Qui II lam) appeared, now sued for £5, and asked for an oixler, for immediate execution, as defendant bad maintained an attitude of deliance. Judgment was given accordingly, with the order for execution.

At the S.M. Court yesterday a case was called in which the parties hailed from Waitara, and Mr Roy, who represented 'the defendant, applied for a change of venue to Waitara. Mr Stanford said be made it a practice! to do this where a case was defended, Mr Hutohen, for the plai'ntilJ, urged that it was somewhat unjust to delay nrnWora w long, as the Court would not sit at Waitara till February. The Magistrate said he recognised that aspect <>l the caw, hut it could not be helped, and the change of venue was granted.

Uiehard Kiei-nan, a prisoner, died in the hospital on Sunday. He was a married man. aged 7(5 years and his widow resides in Wangunui. A native of England, and a carpenter by trade, Kiernnn came to the colony in 18oH. lie resided in Nelson for some tiiite m* then settled down in Wangamii. At a sitting of the District Court in the latter town on the 2()lh April, 19(18. he was charged with indecent assault, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. He was transferred to Ne W Plymouth prison from Wunganul on the i: : (th October last, and removed to the hospital on 28th November. An in(|;uest was held in the Courthouse on Monday afternoon, when a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony Unit Kiernan was suffering from a general break-up of tj le svs _ tern, was returned by the'jury.

Tlve Melbourne Clothing Company nnno'imco in this issue that they have been appointed sole agents I'qr t'he "Rmigiii Rider" brand of ready-to-wear suits,*

Hyland's circus will not, visit Now Plymouth this week.

The Council of the Art Society in Ohristchurcb has decided to open the Art Gallery on Sundays. There is something: interesting in the new advertisement of Messrs A miliary Bros, im the front page of this issue.

The jubilee of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, wns celebrated on Sunday.

'•lf we don't get the bridge loan wooli from the Treasury we'll he in ■queer street." So says a member of tiie Taranaki County Council. Messrs VV. E. Spencer and W. A. Dalhmtync commenced the annual inspection of the Ceirlial School yesterday.

" Timber is like gold nowadays," was the eoiiiment af a County Councillor oil | Monday when <li.s"ussing the price of bridge-building timber.

Bishop Neligan suggested last evening LhaL an effort might be made, in enlarging St. Mary's Church, to extend the east end wall to the trees in the churchyard, so that the high altar of the cathedral of the future might be erected over the graves of the founders of the Church in Taranaki.

In reply] to an inquiry from the Department of Industries and Commerce the Agent-General has cabled that the prospects of the market in the United Kingdom for plum and peach pulp is not encouraging. The demand for plum is very moderate, and the estimated value 15/ per cwt. (duty 1 free). There is a greater demand for green gage at 25/ to 30/. The quotations for fruit pulp are more or less no-mjnaV)

The funeral of the late Mi- Thomas Carter will take place this afternoon, leaving Sarnia House, Vivian Street, at 2 o'clock for Te llenui Cemetery. The Taranaki Guards and Taranaki Rifle Volunteers will parade at the Drill Hall»at 1..80 and attend the funeral, the Rifles furnishing a firing party. Members of the Moturoa Lodge, U.A.O.D. and the Star and Tukapa Football Cluhs are requested to join in the procession as a mark of respect for the r old comrade. The want of uniformity in the amount of dog-tax levied in adjoining districts seems to create a certain anomaly. For instance, . the New Plymouth Borough Council registers sporting dogs at five shillings a head, and the Taranaki County Council charges double that amount. Mr Hill stated yesterday that some New Plymouth business people, who roided ia the country, registered their dogs in the town to siave expense, and in many rases evaded the tax altogether, A largo number of cases were dealt with, either by being heard, adjourned, or struck out, by Mr Stanford in the S.M. Court on Monday in a few minutes. Judgment by default was given in the following cases :—Ondidy Bros. v. Wm, Brain, £3 12s ; P. Berry and Co. (Mr Grey) v. C. J. Bolstaid, £6 5s and 15s 6d costs ; Scrivener (Mr Grey) v. H, Rennells, £3 4s 4d and 10s eo*ts ;■ I>. Berry (Mr Grey) v. W. Bayly (native of Waitara), £5 5s 4d and £1 8s 6d costs ; Sash and Door Co. v. F. P. Ebbs, £8 12s 8d and 8s costs ; same v. C. Henriekson, £]| lis and 5s costs ; T. S. Weston (Mr T. S. Weston, sen.) v. J. ]). and. E, Hooker, £9 15s and 1 6s 6d costs. As a result of the representations made by the local branch of tno IV'--mers' Union the County Council has decided to request the Government to provide telophono communication for Egmont Village. The settlers are piepared to provide the usual guarantee. At Whiteley Memorial Church last Sunday morning the Rev. J.N. Buttle, in making announcements in connection with the Church Anniversary services next Sunday, stated that the Rev. John Whiteley landed in New Zealand o« May 21st 1833 just seventy years ago last May. The Rev. 11. H. Turton was the first Wesleyan Minister appointed to labour amongst the European settlers of Taranaki, and combined therewith mission work among the Maoris. He succeeded the Rev. Dr. Creed in 1&43 and was instrumental in securing the erectile of a-ch-iil-eh isectiion now occupied by Miss Crocker in Courtenay Street, about fifty yards from the site of the present church. A small raupo building had,' however, been previously erected in another part of tilio infant township and used for worship. Whilst the Anglicans were that day celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of St. Mary's, the Whiteley Church congregation would very fittingly commemorate their Diamond Jubilee next Sunday, and no doubt they would anticipate the services of that day with special interest, as giving opportunity for renewed consecration to' the work of God in which they wero engaged. In an interview with a liawera Star representative, Mr Harry Good, who has just returned from a trip round the, world, is reported to have said that so far as he could ji.dge whatever may be the ultimate outcome of Siberian competition—and he confessed ho was afraid of It—at the present time the Siberian enterprise has considerable difficulty to contend with. For instance, he learned it cost 12s 6d per cwt. tq get butter on to the London market, as against 7s (id from New Zealand. The railway freight is very expensive and the great Siberian line has been so badly constructed, and will need so much expenditure upon it, that ho thinks the charges are not likely to be reduced in the immediate future. But when, the line is improved and freights are reduced, as no doubt they must be, then the elements of cheap land and cheap labour will come In, tvud competition will be keener. On enquiry he received confirmation of the report that Danish dairymen, attracted by cheap hind, are transferring their energies to Siberian soil, and their intensity in work is sure to make itself felt, directly and indirectly, to the furtherance of the development of the but-ter-making industry jn Siberia. Bargains in footwear, bargains in neckwear, bargains in hats, caps, shirts. The Melbourne offers elegance to the man spending money freely, and the best economy to the man spending money carefully. To botlv it gives the largest value received. The Melbourne is the bargain corner, the home of little prices.*

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