NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A movement is on foot to form a Clumber of Commerce in Elthaiu. In the list of additions to the Telephone Exchange list No. 270 is tiia City Fruit and Flower Co., IX'-voji-sfcreet, depot for Morshead Nursery Co, In view of tlw recent fire in the Jroquois Theatre, Chicago, the Lord Mayor of Sydney has called for a report on all theatres In that city, In connection with the i-ecent large seizure of uncustomed tobacco a-itd other goods, F. ilitrstwaite, a Sydney shipping provider, has been lined £IOO for smuggling and £SOO for having smu' b |y:o.l aou'ds in his possession. A man aflljicted with an unsteady guit and wearing a worried look appeared iu the Kolice Court yesterday morning under blue-coated protection, lie was remanded for a week for observation by a medical attendant. A Napier press wire states that at tho iiikruest on Elizabeth Connor, otio of the victims of the Petane drowning totality, a verdict of "no ciiJ-entully drowned' 1 was returned. Tho other two bodies havo not yet been discovered. Trains will leave New Plymouth station to-day for the breakwater, conneoUng- with steamers as follows: 6.15 a.m., Takapuna from north and 11.20 a.m. for south ; 1 p.m. Kotoi,ti i',(om south and 8,20 p.m. for north. Mr H, Julian, of Jngicwuod, who has purchased the interest of Mr Buckthought in the Tnranaki Hotu,' New Plymouth, will tnk-.i possession on Monday next. Mr Julian was formerly in business at the Railway Il«tel iu ingiewood, where ho was , well-known, Vl "'y H is fully ilnviclpatua that ~ Htunber of passengers carried ~,„■!■ our railways for tho present iinaiicial year will reach 8,U00,000 ,„■ 500,000 more than m the inx',uZ term. It will also be found Liua t e ™"f '«•<•"'«« '" tho sumo per od will exceed £2,000,000, en hicn'.f of between iiaco.oou ami £ ao o,o, u over that or U,« 1902-19oa period. As a result of exhaustive immiries maiie by the LyUeiton Times regarIs'n., ,T °>'T lion m ' '"'""•"itioit in opinion expressed is that C,less has mutenully decreased, )., t there has Ixvn Utile or no alteration m the volume of business 7he con.v,ct,on ; > for drunkenness dur „u mx. months were only nine p.. nod of «m previous year.

Some tinia ae o Mr H. Cock the Mayor. c».m„umcu U d with his' j,'" col ,net tlio Oovornor, asking umtj endeavour to srrango r or t V '£ * ol ono of JI.M. warships to Now i'K '"o'Hli (,„ t|, o occasion of "the „,, v«l.ne of U.u hatchments to , U £ ecUd m HI. Mary's Clu.n.l, to thy memory of t, W murines luld wur Jit r'" , "° Ta,a " ukl Mu «'i ««'■ ilm l.«elleiicy forwarded tlia Adu "™»''« command oi he Australian so-uadron, who ha" replied that neither of the two vessels now i„ Ne W 1-all|l be aviulaWe, but 11.M.5. Psyche thi newest »l„p ;„ Australian wate™ ««1 pro.i, u |,ly ~0 sent ht , re ■ ■n This reply has been conveyed to his Worship the Mayor 0} Lord Northland, on Iwhalf 0 f ft'S KSvfillenoy ti)o flevwwr.

The Aing-lican (ieneral Synod will meet at Aucklaifil <>u the 28th inst. t It is said that in two months two Tui'anak'l men made i'7ooo in land ' speculations iu the Waiknto district. '• Aticlilaud's gold return to date for tlvo year shows a -total of £897,1(20, wlvich is £9-1,232 more than for the whole of 1902. MrT. 11. Gill, M.A., L.L.8., of Well'i'iigUon, has been elecU:d President of the Educational Institute of New 'Zealand. It is estimated that over 1,000,000 feet of timber are IJeuig imported into Chris-tchurch each week, to meet the demand of imildei'.s, who are still very busy.

As an indication of the " earth hunger," the Premier has received the following telegii'am from Tupanu. —" Five hundred applicants for fourteen sections. Kindly open more land." Merchants and shopkeepers who prefer to close their business premises on Saturday afternoons should make the necessary application to the Inspector of Factories as required by tho Shops and Shop Assistants Act. A number of schools in the Nelson ililitri'dl close only for a week or so at Christmas time. The children have their six weeks' vacation during tho hop-picking season, which is a very busy time for all. About 70,000 tons of coal have been sent to Hong Kong this year iby the Westport Coal Conipuny for the Admiralty. Tim carriage was done by thirteen steamer:!. The amount is the largest sent to China in any one year. Two additional veterinarians are to b» brought out from England by the Agricultural Department. They will be attached to the head office in Wellii:|gtan, but will be ready to visit any part of the colony where their services may be required. Tho Californiaji thistle is Incoming a perfect curse in some parts of the Ashley County (Middle Island). Certain farms will soon have to go out of cultivation altogether, as far as cereals are concerned, if something is not done. The Kaponjfa correspondent of the Bawern Star "says that visitors to the mountain are iK'gininiii'g to come in considerable numbers to form the oxxpiuintiaince of "The Great Silent Sentinel" of Tara.maki. To those who have even ascondtd to the Mountain Mouse the sigiht has bec-n a revelation. A Russian opera singer was travelling some, ti|:ne ago on the ,'l'rain.sCaucasi,an Railway, when the train ran off tho |i;ne, und five of her teeth wero knocked out. She brought an action claiming that as the loss of her five front teeth prevented her from singing, she was entitled to heavy 'damaged. The Civil Court in St. Petersburg recently awandud lier £IO,OOO compensation. The butter exports from New Zealand next month win far exceed any previous shipment sent to the Homo markets from the colony, as the season throughout New Zea.land has been very favourable. The output of l>irllf;r und cheese will lx- very largo. The ltimutaka, which left last week look away 4 7,048 boxes of butler and 5392 cases of cheese. Geo. Hall, bootmaker, suicided, in tho back room of his father's shop, Dee Street, Invercurgill, during New 1 ear's night, by inhaling coal gas. He had been in ill-health for a year. The act was done withgreat deliberation. He put the rubber pipe on the gas jut, pluced a bag over his head iintrdducad tho other end of the tube' tied tho bag, and lay down on the floor with, tho gas turned on. There was an unexpected supply of fish in an inland town a morning or two ago. Whilst a vendor of ' tho finny ocean crop was passing through the hamlet his trap came to grief and i the contents were spread over tho raadj.vay in a most prodigal manner. Residents who had perhaps never beforo caught a fish in thoi'r lj|ves might have been'-seen a little later carrying off unwonted prizes. Tho application of a liberal supply of fresh water soon rendered tho catch ready for culminary treatment again. Mr L. Johnstone, the managing: director oi tho N.Z.. Commercial Exchange Co., who has worked with Mr Flurscheim in the interests of land, currency, electoral, ti.id other re-' forms for the past four years, isfnow on a short visit to Tat'anaki. Mr Johnstone leaves with us a copy of Fhirsciwlm's latest book, * tho Cluo to the Economic -Labyrinth" which, by the way, has received splendid notices from leading newspapers. A review will appear at a later date. In connection with the visit of Sir A. J. (.'adman aid Mr Farmer King, who -have gone tq Panaipara on ironworks business, Mr T. W. Waldor Was shown the Nelson Mail specimens of lire-clay obtained at Motupipi, on am art-a bordering on tire coal iiieaaurcs.. Before subjected to heat the clay is sfatc-y white, aiud very spontancdjus. After being subjected to heat, however, it is extremely hard, awl it marked glass '(mite easily, fust «is a diamond would. Westport fireclay was smeltt-d in a furnace lined with this Motupipi fire-clav. The deposits cover an aroa fully sixty leet wide. ' Lawyers conversant with the ease say that Carl Bombast, a luror, who committed suicide in Madison Wis., U.S.A.) recently, was driven to insanity and the deed bv the talking of attorneys. His wife confirms this theory. Bomq,uist was a t.iilor s helper, and in an insurance case former. Senator E. P. .Wji„ «„«, j' M. Olm ai'gnwl points qf law f n rV weeks, producing gi-cnt voiu- -o evidence, llornquist bel^v-' ...es o" to commit the entur a *• .„t he l-.nd memory, and as 'd- -rgHiments to gradually thi- ays passed K rew I His suitski' -Mr and mom pale j ' ce.itlvT,';',-,'?' 1 i a Tlu ' annk i farm ron,n,Li , , c C "" 1 ' 1 '"ilk. His «'u ,omn r r. tcs "P«'''infr to manner L ■ hc bl '«iwss-likc. come ;J U : r''w"\ W ' liC " tlU ' """- if, „,n , work soon showed ave hS """ hwn "HOW." and to t to wo T" C '' t,dit tlu '' v ■"MI lo , L l 0 «ork in so wim eurncit—.ll tnZd e,^r iho " th^^-! snipped them by a couplo of ran "« hour. Next ti,„„ they aWo Lo milk "u little." The latest globe-trotting cra?e is round the world on foot'' Amoinr ho pas.sengers who arrived In C 1^ m November last from Bon,;bav - •»>jxnd Mis George O'Mullev, of San w«^Tof%^ 1 ara °" ll t"»" 'or a life Now Yi' r ' on ' C ' , Jo'WJy bv tit New \„,-k Herald, tl w San E,-.,i----cisco Uomrt, tl„. New York Pol, Wette, , tho Mi ,,. m . 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The remains of the late Ml' C. ]>. WliUcombo were laild to rest ill 'IV lletini Cemetery on Wdihic'iihy nfk-r-Moon, 'in I In' presence of n li'uiii'Uer of friends. The Iti-i'. A. M. ni'iiiiibiir.v iw.dnct.d Hi.' civmony at tin., giuvoside. Pivparntinins for tin- erection of til,' I It-imi bridge a.v proceeding apace. Meantime, owing to lh.' ninonnl of ImiiU'i- lyir|g. about, thi' spot is rather a trying oni' to drivers of vehicles, nervous liorses showing n disposition 1o shy at tli« unusual objects.

At the Horough Council meeting on Monday next the following resolution will lie .(I'lmlt willi :—Tl.'at the Aljatloir bye-laws of the liornugili of New I'lyuioiith a.s now submit I.id come into <Jperat'ii.'il on IVhruaiy ■M, 190-1, and t'hat a meeting of the Council be held at 7..'10 ji.m. on February la to coinlirm Unis resolution. While a 'bu* was proceed to I'ilzroy on: Tuesday afternoon a load of roiTid metal wJiddciily tippid an the roiwl frightenuil flie horses, hi the trouble which followed a boy named Harding wais thrown out. of the ' bus ai.'d swstainiod somewhat serious 'injuries. He wan attended by Dr. Ijeatham. It is not thought that any bones were broken. The Stratford Post says that Mr John Mackay, County Engineer, was busy on Wo.lnesd'ay at the railway yards unloading the steel girders for tine Stanley Rowd bridge over the Mtikinu stream. T'ljesv giid'ers nave ctwne all the way from New York, und are believed to be the first of the kii'nd imported into Tara'tilfk'i. They are 100 ft h-p-utm, anil are constructed oml the Howe-truss principle, and a Baft' load over the bridge will lw 100 His [kv qifUare foot of ■deck area. As l-ogiarids the cast, they are from 70 to 100 per cent, cheaper than those made in the colony. Will your suit stand inspection ? If looking around? Our 4os ami o9s (HI tailor mudo " Rough Rider IL-ane. ' suits are of the most fashionable tailoring materials. Ready to try on. They will please the hand to please kind.—Melbourne Clothing Co., the Money Saving Corner.* Engagement Rings, Wedding Rings, nr.d Keepers, certainly the finest stock on tho West Coast of New Zealand. A good present with each wedding ring at J. H. l'arker's, Jeweller, next Railway Crossing, Devonstreet, New Plymouth.—Advt. The best medicine known is Sander & Sons' Eucalypti Extract, and its eminent powerful effects In coughs, colds, and influenza make relief instantaneous. For serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, soaldings, bruises, or sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, dipthcria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs, swelling, etc., diarrhoea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys, and urinary organs. Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract is In use at hospitals und medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this apprqvod and reject all others;—Advt,