NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 33, 9 February 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bastings proposes to 9Stablish municipal gasworks. A special meeting of the Boroug-h Council will be held nex-t Monday to deal with abattoir matters. To-day is the anniversary of the introduction of the iirst printing press into England, in 1471. As the result of the new regulations Mo new pupils have joined the Tima.ru High School this year. Several improvements at the baths are being carriod out in accondanco with the suggestions of Mr Kejiiuall, sanitary inspector. Messrs Bewley and (Jrifntihs report having sold a splendid residential site of 1J acres in Ch'ilman's Extended to an outside investor. The three principal foundation stones for the new Primitive Methodist Church are to be laid by Messrs liassett, .Jenkinson amid the Rev. E, Drake, president of'the conference. A complaint lvo* been made that horses are a,(towed to wander in the local cemetery. Or. L'ollis, chairman of the lx>rougl» reserves committee, will make, iniqjuiries. A lady who recently cut her foot on some tools left lying about the cemetery sent in a complaint to the Borough Council last evening. "She. doesn't talk of comj>ensatio'ft, I hope," remarked the Mayor. As it has been estimated Unit it would cost £BOOO or £9OOO to get a luigth-pressiure water supply for Patea, the Borough Council does not at present see its way to"promote such a project. Work at the borough abattoirs is proceed i nig apace, and the buildings now present a businesslike aspect. The painit work is well in hand, and yards, races, and concreting' are under way. At Maiiaia a man named John Prior was fined £2O for using obscene language, with 21 days' imprisonment as the option. The bench said that but for a plea of guilty it wonild 'have made the option six months. The centrifugal pump installed ljy M«ssrs Okey and Hol'lo at the baths is working satisfactorily, and Is capable of pumping- 25,000 gallons per hotiß'. A'li injector is also being placed in position to Obviate the present laborious pumping for hot saltwater baths. In connection with the Christmas Carnival, iMr 11. B. Jtoss has written to the Australasian swimming authorities, asking that one or more of the Australasian ch'any.jVionships 'lxi allotted to the swimming carnival to be held here during Christmas l week. The bailiS committee must I'are been studying the wrappers on pate ■+. medicine bottles. Here is a part of their report .-—4' The delicious sense produced by Wat/aing in the (hotwater) baths must be felt to be appreciated. In sciatica, and ull forms of fheu'injatism this is one of the most popular and efficacious remedies." Receipts at the baths are sure to increase now.

The cargo of the Coriwthic which sailed on Friday morning, for London, included the following :—44,370 boxes butter, 08,711 carcases lamib, 23,904 carcases mutton, 9G78 bales wool, 56; i casks tallow, SIS quarters beef, 09 bales sheepskins, 0189cases cheese, 336 casks pelts, 80 casks premier jus., 487 sacks cocksfoot, 204 sacks wheat, 002 boxes kauri gum, 500 boxes kidneys, 4 boxes gold (£l>l,0OO), .137 sacks grass seed.

Mbw Plymouth is evidently not the only port which suffers from defective wharfage accommodation,though happily we laavo not the same experience af> Oamaru. The Chairman of the Haiibour Bourd there said a few days ago that for the want of suita'ble wllnarf the boaixl Iras been losing largo sums of money every year. Last year £IOOO was lost from frozen mutton atone, which was railed away to other ports for shipment, and a similar loss is expected this season.

There was a very short sitting of. thy Magistrate's Court oil Monday morning'. A nmn named Bnyley, arrested for drunkamies nt an "early iiour on- Sunday moraiing Wl]s r( l mandud for medical attention, In the cast. King v . CaHngltait, claim £8(1 2s, Mr tirey for plaintiff, judgment was given for flie full amount and £6 costs. Frank Houerts mechanical engineer, of Kew Plymouth siiiwl Alex Mutch, plumber, of Carterton, for £9 i.() s fo,- door-licUs « lm >lie.l Mr QullHui... instructed U.v Mr Kobnison, defendant's .solicitor, u|< p|i w l for a change of venne on the grounds that the cause of action intended to lie alleged arose at , ,i a V'r"\ U,at Uk defendant residat New Plymouth was not the Court at wfvich the plaint should ,",, been lodged, and thai the acth, could be more fairly, properly, and conveniently tried at Carterton. The application was granted.

Yesterday I).-. Gordon, the famous strong man of Fitzgerald's circus Wive on open-air exhibition' 0 f hd murwllous .strength j,„ llrouwham"tieet. IHspita the uncertainly S* P'-evaikd as U) ~, exa / t \" h ''^ ,t>oi,ts„f, l ,s |I crft>r,„ Ml ce,tLre a lai'»e crowd, who cim,.,l„i blocked the thorough no, <ows, tatlconies, and roo s „ ~"" "«'* »'ere called info rem,isi tio '"s fo,' tht, ,„ iol . t , „,„.„." s ous .spectator*. ,„, (ioW was les Wtowee,, four strong W^„™J edasa^nnrn^S^r" 1 ,^ 1 : three hunUred owing and cheering m camv , h . il( , \ . tor Ins feat had been concUAd, i Cordon mounted otue „f iUa n ''': and gave a short address, pohffi out that a ..null m„„ could T "s ■strong « s the WgesWrunied H c tIK-n, by a strong steady pull, snappod one of the trace-chains wHehiuad been used in the' performance,

Spain holds the record for cheap railway working. Only 18 per cent, of the gross earnings is spent on management. Concreting of the tunnel al the waterworks is now proceeding, the contractor htaMing linud nearly 3.1 chains up to Monday. The revenue at the municipal baths since Deceihbcr 3rd totals .CIO7 ITs, of which £53 Hs lOd comes from single baths. Mr James McLcltun has been elected a member of the Wellington Hur- j hour Hoard, as a representative of | payers of tlues ainid shipowners. The borough councillors got through their business smartly last night, '''lights out" l/eing sounded j before a quarter to ten o'clock. There iff a growing demand for the New Plymouth boiough debentures. Over a tliiousaml pounds' worth was placed locally cm Monday, antl there are still further inlqnirics. At the school inspectors' conference at Wellington yestenduy the syllabus was furtiher considered, a number of minor ■ameml'iimuts being suggested. The |w»iit'i<»i of the baths building account is rather a startler. T'he £3OOO •authorised has been used up, aawl ah««t i>3oo will "rave to be drawn from the general account. Miss Nixon's solo "The Better Land" mis very much appreciated at the Primitive Metluxdist 'social last night ; also the solo by Miss Florrie Ward, a little girl with a promising voice. The lists of applicants for the position of borough engineer is not available (or publication. Forty-six applications will be considered on Muii'.luy next at the special meeting of the Council. Two cases of poisoning through eating bush honey occurred in an East Coast native settlement some (toys ago. A .Maori man succumbed, niu'.l a woman, wun very seriously ill. The waterworks tunnel is now milking fair progress, one chain and fourteen links having been driven during the past fortnight. The total length driven up to yesterday was 125 chains 2 links. The horse-jumpilng at the circus last night was a notable performance, bit Din being cleared, It is stated that these animals have registered up to seven feet on the public showground ami two Inches higher in the circus tent. Cr. ClilT says that whilst the Borough Council is taking steps to advertise the beauties of the district Obey are allowing Eliot-street, along wlhich all tourists to Mount Egmiont litivc to travel, to remain in a bud and very dangerous state. As tlie 'Frisco mail Iwkl not arrived al Auckland ycs-tei'day afternoon the Rotoiti left at <1 p.m. and will not sail from Now Plymouth for Wellington till noon to-xluy. A train at 11.20 a.m. will connect from the town station. The receipts at the public pound are evidently m> criterion as to the number of stray animals in the streets. Complaints on this head are growing moie frequent, yet the New Plymouth pound receipts for the last three months have only been £2 2s (id.

At last night's meeting of the Primitive Methodist Church Mr Bellringer, chairman of the meeting, said tllnat it would be (>0 years on the 4Ui of September since the connexion had laid meetings in New Plymouth* and it was proposed to open the new church as near as possible to that date.

When the subject of street lighting came before the Borough Council last night, Cr. Carter suggested that the matter of a petition for lamps in Lemon street be deferred. Until the electric light system was inaugurated. Cr. Tisch :-That's too far away. Cr. Collis : It oughtn't to be if wo get a move on. Cr. Carter : That's so.

The last social in. tire old Primitive Methodist Church was held on Monday evening. There was a larjje attendance, ami lihe various items were much appl'ivudud. Addresses were given by the llevs. Nixon, Woolloxnli and Southern, and Messrs Hell ringer ami Birttimore. Several unthems were rendered by the choir, with Miss W. Nixon at the organ, and solos were given by Misses Nixon, Coninett, and Ward in good style. A violin solo by Muster lOric Wand was also very good. At the clow of the social supper was bandid round, und was done full justice, to. The attennance at the llawara Inhibition increases daily. The more the people see of it the more they woiHlvr that such an exhibition should luave lieen promoted and brought to a successful issue in a provincial town. The schools lliTougivout the Taranaki ami Wanganui provinces are attending in thousands. Two thousand attended on Monday, uiiid twenty schools will ■follow this week. To ( (at,. ovlM - 20,000 have passed the turnstiles, and before Saturday the number will be doubled. Tito exhibition, when it closes, will always be remembered as one of Taranaki's successful efforts. If the authorities of the New Plymouth and neighbouring schools would organise an excursion to the exh»liHipii, it is utmost certain it would he well patronised, and the visit wouJd prove of great educational value to the youngsters. TROUBLED WITH SCIATICA. Let Ivheumo cure you ! It has cured others. The positive assurance of James A. Capper, Lycll Bay, should convince you. Mr Capper, writing on Feb. 1, says :—" I was much troubled irtth sciatica pains, and at times. 1 could get no sleep', following the adivjee of a friend i tried a bottle of Kheuino, and that bottle drove away the sciatica pains. That has been three months ago and they have not returned since. If j 'they do, iUieumo is the medicine I ! shall go for." Mr Oapper's confidence conies from experience. Sold by chemists and stores at 2s fid and ■ls (id per bottle. Wholesale agents N.Z. Drug Co.»