NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 59, 14 March 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Horough Council meet:- litis evening.

A new advertisement frtmi • Mr 1". n. Ilawke came to hand 100 late lor this issue.

Excellent nominat ions have been re-eei\i-d fur the Star CootUiill sports on Master .Monday. .Mr I lie Shannon will adjust the handicaps.

.Masters, chief ollicer of the Wniwera. at Timaru, was on Saturday night committed for trial in 'connection with the death of the boni-

A pair of \cr\ handy rulers has reached us from Air 0. Haines, of Wellington*, on behalf of the manufacturers of the favourite and fragrant. '' I lavelock" tobacco.

The Cardiff dairy factory will change from the manufacture of butter lo cheese. The necessary alterations and additions to the iibtiil will cost nearl\ JUliono.

.Mails via San Prancisco. despatched from Auckland on l-'eb. -lth, ami Sydney-Vancouver mails of February 12nd arrived in London on the 1 <»t h instant.

The missing money which was inquired al't.-r on Friday night at the Star Football Club's meeting has been accounted for. The money was spent on ground improvements, but was not put through the bank-book.

The Premier anticipates a surplus on .'list .March of half a million. There will also, without touching the consolidated fund, lie a :-uin of CSO.UUO available fur public works.

During the month of February the Stratlord Oairv Companv paid out CIIU2 (is |(>d to suppliers for 0.01i.5.:',72 pounds of milk. Over tons ol butler have been turned out this season.

The Premier has decided to pay school com mi t tees ext rn » api lation of *>d provided under the second schedule of the Public School Teachers' Salaries Act, which has been brought into operation by Ordcr-in-Council.

Oil .Saturday morning a claim for an order against a young man to show cause why he should not pav iowards the maintenance of an illegitimate child was to have come hi"fore the .Magistrate's Court, but as there was no appearance of the parties the case was struck out.

In till) report of the Star Football Club's annual meeting published on Saturday it was stated that Mr I''. T. IV'llringer presented the annual report and balance-sheet. Il should be understood that iu doing so Mr Hellringcr was obliging Mr Cullender, the secretarv. who felt unequal to the task.

Recent rains iu tin- Wairarapa and c-onse(|iient upspringing «f grass have resulted iu a greatly increased supply ol milk. At tin' l>aletield factory 2.51111 gallons of milk are being used daily—an increase of lit 1(1 gallons a day on the previous month, and at other factories there is an increase of 200, 2511, and "00 gallons on the lowest of last mouth's supplies. At u meeting of the Cabinet. th£ question of opening the State coal mine was considered. It was resolved that coal from the mine sliomd be supplied (!).to I lie colony for State purposes; (2) lo the Admiralty for national purposes, ami (.'l,l the surplus, to be used lo supply the householders of the colony at a price that would pay Hie colony, and at the same time he reasonable to purchasers. The recent shipment of mallard and widgeon received from Kugland were liberated at Luke Ohau, TaKe Alexandrian, and on some of the lakes on the West Coast, of the Souih Island. The birds have adapted themselves well to their new surroundings. Tile lapwing received at the same lime were distributed iu the Waikato. Wairarapu, Canterbury and Otago districts, and it is hoped will ill time furnish good sport. At a meeting of the Taijinaki Poultry, I'igcon and Canary Society on Friday evening it was decided to have a plucking .'oiupctition for amateurs and professionals at the forthcoming show. The committee hope shortly to secure the services of a poultry expert to give a course of lectures lo members of the .society on poultry inaniigcnii'n! find later on lectures with illustrations of poultry diseases.

As a result of enthusiastic meetings of .Messrs 11. Jh-own and Co's. employees at Xe)V Plymouth ami Inglewood, a united picnic is 1.0 bo held next Saturday at the latter place. The movement has Hit hearty support of the heads of I lie linn, .Mr Ahicr having donated JIH whilst iMr Hrown is also contributing freely. The committee to c.rry out the arrangements are less:> KuIT, sen. and jnn, A. Ladner and W. Kudkin. and it has been decided by them to provide hot water tea, sugar and miiU.

A discovery in the land of the Pharaohs will interest those whose heads Time has ravaged. A French Kgyptologist has recently unearthed a papyrus giving a recipe for what must in those times have been a

Uoyal remedy against baldness, since it was concocted for no less a personage than King Chata, the second sovereign of the lirst <rynasty, about •iUOU B.C. 1 . The remedy was employed by the king's mother. It consisted o)' a salve oi dogs' paws, dales, and asses' hoofs, pounded up and then boiled in oil. Willi this salve the Royal head was anointed. As to the result the papyrus is regrettably silent. A complaint has been made to tho Horough Council that the express stand outside the Imperial Hotel is an inconvenience to the licensee of the hotel and to the public, since the vehicles are drawn right across the t.urrie-slivi'l cut ranee. The drivers will be asked to keep a clear space of about thirty feet in front of this door, and a committee consisting of the .Mayor and Crs Ahier, Cartel" and ClifT will make inquiries as to any other suitable localities for the expresses. The general opinion is that Carrie-street is too narrow for the purpose, and that these licensed vehicles should stand near (lie railway station, opposite the \ew Zealand Kxpress Company's buildings. The street there is of ample width, but there is the drawback that no shel- *''' (an be obtained in the viciuitv. It has been suggested that the Borough Council might erect a covered stand, and reimburse the municipal in-usuiv chest by raising (he license, lees. A carriers telephone would be doubt eii boon to business peo-

. I! " v , of 1 law era, I'un- \ 'V»'fv.Twiry servile at St. Amln.UK t'lmrch yeslerdiv. IIKMf Were Congregations, el'll- >-'«<■>" seating iiccoinmo.l.ition being luri'ssiUT in ||„. evening, Tl u . l-iLurli.-t- selected a .s a text lor Ins " u,| "i'K 1 li.scour.st_' thy Apostle • i umes genera! ,-h. 1., v.-rs,. "lessed is the man iia.i temptation : r<„- when 1„. is | ri-L-i-ivc I In. l crown of which 111,. Son hall, promised |„ thai love Hi,,,." n,, deliverI'.', 1 ., "" sen.ion classing MM . | alions under ihree heads . jj,. sl jH _ weaknesses; second tempiath.nis iii'.'t in di,.. various lh '' : which arose dilleivut surroundings j n which people w ,. n . ],|ac,.,|. •ivm-.ia-tion, sail! Ale Iterlruui. is i In- ii;;l----11.-ground of ami In- went on to slum, quol/im beau I i I'ul passages as proceeded. dial I ■ -illl11;11 inn mis "" si ". l"!l an essential in mural ■i' l '. A \ er\ useful lesson was drawn from I h.- text. A sji.-i-ial nlilllvln was- sung by the choir. The day's roilivtiont. were in aid if the Sunday School funds.

Important to young ladles and gentlemen. .7. If. Parker's ttock of' ■ngagement rings, wedding tings, vatchcH, chains and ull kinds 'of ewi'llery is the finest on (he West Coast of New /.i-nUmd, and prices LO per cent, lower than in the larger lentrefi. Cuvetully iiulb the (nJilrpss -J. 11. Parker, Jeweller, etc., next "allwny crossing, Devon-street Cental, New Plymouth,*

A London cable notes a /all in the English butter market. Danish is now selling at 11.1s, and New Zealand from 98k lo iuOs. The cheese market is hardening. As showing the growth of tl-e eoal mining industry in the e.dony il is interesting lo note that in 18U2 the output was (>715,4 15 tons, and in IV)U2 the amount wus 1,an.j.o lo tons. During tliat period the number of miners increased by 120.0U0.

A special reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald lias been imfking a tour through the dairying districts along the north coast of New South Wales. Dairying is one of the youngest industries in the State, and fairly reckoned, is only a few \enrs old. The developments in the south coastal districts have been described as remarkable, and in the north the story is that dairying has transformed the country. " When we remember," says thi- Herald, "that about Jhirleen or fourteen years ago we | had lo import butler, we get an idea of the comparative infancy of the business. Our farmers made a valuable discovery when they found that heavily grassed country and heavy rainfall are not indispensable requirements. It took some time to realise that lightly grassed pastures of wider extent met the demand quite as well, and that the milk-producing properties of most of our native \qrasses were of value/ Then c'.tme the co-operative system, followed by the central buller factories fed by creameries. Year by year the (x----port figures wvnt up. sometimes with a break, it is [rue. but it was always more than made up again. Progress has been chequered by bad seasons since then, but of late years, since the business was taken in hand in earnest.the record has been mosl encouraging. "