NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 11, 14 January 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The mail steamer Sonoma arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on tli« 11th inst.

The match Ijelween the Tarunaki Uilles '"i-V" team awd Eltham Hides vill not take place to-day, tho sou.liern corps having withdrawn from U.e llilie Union.

The three t'lainese isolated at S omits lsluiiri, Wellington, milder of sulTering' from a tonttth'io"us disease, uie still detained there.

The old problem of "What are we to do with our boys ?" seems to haw 'been »olvo:l in New Plymouth. The new somiw oi trou'Me to employers is l.uw to secure boys for ti ados and oilice work.

We tender our symj.Vitliry to Mr sud His iCdwin Ohattei'tun whose infant .;on, a.g0.1 ton ar.d a Ivalf int/jitlis, diivi ye: teu'.!ia,\' niorr.iing. Jl'ueh sympathy has been exjjn'esseJ with tho ticieaved parents. An especially pleasing itein at the conceit at the hospital last night was a whistling solo contributed 1.5 Miss iloylan, of (J isoorne. inis young lady fairly excelled horself, and certainly iecci\ed a most appreciative hearing and hearty applause for her item.

The Town Hand on Tuesiay e'.vni'i y ga\,' »u open-air concert in front of tile (Joverniuellt Huilding.s, when au attractive programme was listenu.l to Ivy a laege is;miner or people. Farther conceits will bo given duriiiy the summer, to qualify for the subsidy vii'UjJ 'by the liot'oug.li Council.

Last ewning a number of laidies anijd gentlemen visited the aul gave a comcert which was very much aj/jiieciatud 'by live ixitPents, tihe nurwes, ami some viiaitors, all of tiw items Lfing coiiitally reihJeixid. The performern weie Mrs Dr. Westtrnra, Misses Nixoins OaiKjuion, Boy llain, Cameron', awd Messrs J. W. Ryan ai.U O. W. ltai|de,rsan'. Dr. Liaat'h'a'ni sent an apology for iais a;b* staiL'e, caused by piv-stnire of monts. The concert was organised hy Sir Henderson, who, we iijrulers'tamd, will arrange for anuUliL-r one to tnike jilacc tihortly.

On Monday lius-t a pi'gieon race was flown from Christelmrch to New Plymouth, the airline distance being 817 miles 1 . The race resulted Mill. W. Dixon's llriyhUire Ist, "Jlu-s 11 lain. ; Mr 0, A. C-orney's Waimea -md, Dhrs lilmin. To-day the Napier Flying Club, Hastings Homing Club, Wiaiiig'an'ji an!d West Coast Homing Cl'utb, and the New Plymouth Homing Clu!o, which constitute the North Istaiid Federation, will fly a eon| jinr ed race from Russell, the airline distsmce being 2«; i miles to New Plymouth.

Caterpillars are playing sad havoc with t'ho crops in the Hastings district, states a correspondent of the Hawke s Bay Herald. In a 00-acre paddock o[ oats-, 15 acres ha\c been completely stripped, ami the estimated yield from the whole lield has dumdk'd from 80 bushels to about 20. Agriculturists in parts of the South Island have been troubled by tho same post. In the neighbourhood of Spotswood, according to a correspondent. of the Cheviot News, the prospects of a heavy yield of hny are somewhat discounted bj tho ravages of caterpillars.

The now bridge over the Manuwatu Gorgo near t'ho first railway tunnel at the Wo«dl>ille end is constructed on the hooded perambulator principle, a huge framework on the tunnel aide forming the skeleton for the hood. When this is property covered with tarpaulins and the bridge is furnished with a wliter-wheel to gonorate electricity for lighting up the tunnels, the whole will present the appearance of a giant baby carriage worthy of St. Exhibition. Tl>e bridge is said to be well built, and is a credit to tho contractor, but as tho traffic is small the structure ia not likely to suffer much from wear and tear.

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