NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 6, 8 January 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In order to keep the rat on llistrict High School going the I'ntea Boroug'h Council has agreed to give a grant of £lo.

One efl'ect in New Zealand of the prospects of war between Russia and Japan is that the price of lice has hat-denial.

Cabin (.'ommmvH'ution between Levuka and Suva, Fiji, was opened yesterday afternoon by I/ady .lackson, wil'o of tho (iovwnor.

A married man name.! -John McKay attempted suicide at lJevonpoi't (Auckland) by cuttOng his throat with a chisel. His condition being serious ho was taken to the hospital.

The Ilorongh Council is in possession of facts which niiftht show that tho Borough Roller has been lost. 11l future the workmen are to retu.nn all tools awl materia', to the council yards immediately on completing a job. Tho (larrison llancl Intend to give a sacrod concert in tho Theatre Hoyal on Sunday evening next, after church. 'J'iio programme will include the " Ijost Chord," quartette 0 Father wiiose nJmigihty power " (Handel), and test selections" by Wagner and Meyerbeer.

Business must be l.\ a bail way nt thu Thames district. A loc:il paper, referring to the .statement made by a Wellington minister, that a period of adversity was needed to bring back people to piety, ,says Uhat, the Thames community should bo in a hoavenly .state of mind.

At a meeting of the Finance Committee of tho Borough Council last evening it was declilcd to recommend the Council to vote a sum of £2fl as a bonus to Mr Bushutn, late assistant engineer.

The report that District Jutlgo Kettle is to be removed from Uie district is causing disappointment in Hawera, where, us the Star remarks, his fearless and impartial administration has won for him the est win of all who have been ill « position to watch t his judicial career. Representations are to be made to the Justice Department to allow Judge Kettln to remain.

Tho municipal saltwater baths did not givo the greatest satisfaction during tho holidays. Members of the Borough Council said lust night that at Christmas time there was very often only about live feet of water at tho deep end. In one or two cases men wlw> pnid for admission stopped on seeing this, and wheeling round, demanded t'heir money back, and left. As a result of lllis ivtosei'vation. it was decided, ou the recommendation of tho Baths Committee', to procure a centrifugal pump to raise salt water, for tho bath.:.'. The pumps will lie worked by a water motor, power being obtained through tho mains which are now l»id almost if the baths,

The-tender of Mr -R. 1). Hart, for grurtUing *>n llu* racecourse reserve was accepted last n-igih't t>y the Dorough Council, sitting as a Works Coiimiillt''.

The Newtown, Victoria, and Wellington iUywttng Cliffs* wtams will proceed to Auckland this evening' by the Rarawa to take part in the tournament commencing there on Monday.

The baths construction account is an eye-opener. The amount, voted wa« £3OOO. Of this £21121 lma been spent, and !inhiHties are £lll-1, a total of £M2.'ls. The engineer, however, nay. 1 : that d-'.'durtiionN u'rom the ront ractur's puree will ullage this by m arly £JUK>.

A well-kno-.v'n 1 paper-makers (says the Star) is sending machinery showing 1.h«» whole process from wood pulp to cream laid note paper, for the exhibition at llawera in February. At the close iif the exhibition the machinery will be sent to one of the Australian States to be set up permanently.

Borough (riiiip.hu nod last nigih't thai the appointment, of clTcct in iiKTcaf-ing reports of dam-, age to streets or fo-oi paths caused 'by breaches of bylaws in outlying of the (Phe i|n:spec"for wijl ho asked to attend all Council and Works Committee meetings.

The story of a young lady's propensity for meeting with personal accidents of a serious nature is thus told in a New York paper —Miya Carrie Sears, a young lady whose home is in Hornbrook, had not been in Kennet last week thirty minures when she stepped off a back porch, and, falling ten feet, broke her right leg. This is the fourth time within a short period the young woman has met with a like misfortune. There is tvo physician a.t Kennet.. mul she had to bo brought to this city. She is cheerful under her allliction, saying that she is getting u:;ed to such mishaps, ami now looks upon breaking a leg as in the natural o.rd-.»r of events in her caree/

(The editor and publiVhxT of the New Ztealand Times have each he-n served with three separate sum-* mouses calling upon them to appear at the Magistrate's Court on Friday, 15th instant, to answer inlaid again.-Jt Miem charging them with committing acts calculated to pervert the course of justice. The "head and front of our offending," says that journal, appears to consist in having' zealously catered for thu public information in promptly publishing details of the live arrests made on the 29th of December last on charges of broaching* cargo, and in obtaining interviewe with merchants on the subject of cargo broaching, the losses suffering from it, and the punishments inflicted for the offence. An extensive and increasing industry lui« recently become established in France to furnish an artificial substitute for natural ivory. Olid honies are for this purpose macerated and bleached for a perioi.l of two weeks in chloride of lime, then heated by steam along with waste pieces of sikin, so as to form a liui.d mass, and to this latter are afd'.led smalllquantities of alum. After having Iwn subjected to these processes, the treatment consists in filtering the nmss, drying- it in the air, uitd allowing H to harden in a bath of alum, tlve result H'ing white tough plates, which are more easily worked for various objects than is the natural ivory.

steam yuoht in which the King tunid Queen spend so much of their time is a -handsome boat in its way, \!ii't Ms glory pales beside that of some of the European monarchs' ya/ihts. The C/>ar and Kaiser heavi the li'wt in extravagance. Their yachts arc certainly built for ornamental as well as useful purposes, Take, /or example, the Folar Star of Nicliolas 11, It cost exactly £1,000,000 in construction. 'J'his vessel has now been superseded b\' t;h»e Standard, a \'essel of tons, lighted througihout by electricity! It is manned by a crew of tfOO odicers and men, aind contains a chapel, drmtig room to hotd 80 guests, two royal nurseries, and suites of compartments galore. The most easily royal yacht in existence liowever, bo longs to the Kin* of Siam,

riw amount of foul language (savs tho Now Zealand Times) heard in Uw streets of this tcit.v calls for suppression. It is now almost impossible to Avalk a hundred yards wijtliotit the , ea,lx>:iiiigi ,a«-.'faili.-d by Homo disgusting t»hnas.- or coarso oatli. This tboug'htlessness thoiild be heavily punished. The fault is not confined to hoodlums ; men who know 'hotter nro often just us much to blame. In muny of the large cities in England the evil lias become so acute that in.s|>ectors have bc»n appointed to deal with it. In Wellington the regrettable leniency shown by the Ikwii in punishing suc'h oftenders is the present reason for the present deplorable state of affairs. Instances occasionally crop up in the streets of New Plymouth which are tir reveise of creditable to a certain class of loungers, and render matters particularly unpleasant to tho oars of laidies passing by,

| 'Piie San Francisco Chronicle speaks rather regretfully of the fact that in the world's production of gold the In i ted States has changed places wit'.i Australia, tho latter having attained the first position with 81,r.t,/8,800 dollars worth to its credit, against 80,000,000 dollars as America's output for a year. Tho paper says •" bast year's Australian output was materially increased throu'gih the new developments and increased operations • I the Cuol'giardie district in Western Australia. Moreover, the Australian Oovernment is more precise than ours in the collection of mineral statistics, and while much of the output of American mines may have escaped oflicial not ire. nothingcan escape in the Australian system of compilation. (Mir output may, therefore, have exceeded that oi Australia, in fact. 'I he South African mines turned out only ;!U,019.700 dollars worth, which is less than one-half of the output of the Kanfl districts during the liine months mouths immediately preceding tho opening of the ISoer War. j The Hand is, however, rapidly recovering its former produL-t ivuiess, as the labour difficulty is being gradually overcome."

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