NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 21 March 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

There are several cases of virulent swine fever at Mount Gambier, S.A.

A meeting of justices of th« peace will lie held on April (ith, at tliu courthouse, to revise the jury list for the district.

It is understood that it in the intention of the Government to appoint a resident medical ollicer at the Chatham Islands.

A syndicate has been formed at Diiiiedin to take over the rights of a local patent for supplying hoots and shoes wilh removable, reversible and renewal)!-' heels and soles.

An inquest was held al Wai'ea on Wednesday on the body of the late All" .M ichael Aylward, when a verdict was returned that deceased was killtil by a bull running in his paddock.

A Maori woman and -a .Maori child were attacked by stingarees in the ltuy of I'lenty district last week. ?n each case the sling broke oIT in the flesh, which became poisonea for some days.

During the big flood In the south of the Maori pa at Jacob's Diver, near Jlokilika, was submerged, ami the natives had to be rescued in boats. One Maori woman swam some distance and saved her children, who had been cut off by the flood waters.

The military bazaar which comes ofl[ next month gives every promise of being a great success. The Mayoress (Airs It. Cock) aial the ladies' committee have their part of the business well in hand. The bazaar will be the first of its kind held in -iew I'lymouth.

On Wednesday last, March 1(5 Mr It. L. Stanford, K.M., heard an action brought at Inglewood bv Chas Oanstad against jJenry Wilson for £4B 7s, amount of a p.n. The plaintin was represented b,v Mr Claud.! 11. Weston (Weston and Weston), and the defendant by Mr W. G. Docket t (It. Spence). The defendant pleaded that the p.n. was given conditionally on a. house which the defendant was building for him being completed, mid counferclaimenl for £(ib damages for non-perforiu-jince of contract. On hearing evidence on both sides his Worship gave judgment for Mr Ganstad, with costs.

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Hides takes place this evening at the Drill I-lall.

The Borough Council notifies that any person riding or driving over Ih" Ilenui bridge nt other than a walking puce will he prosecuted. Ii is intended to strictly enforce this, *ind a man will be stationed at the bridge to take the names of offenders. There is a small length of street, known as the LVndarves-street deviation, the disposal of which the Borough Council desires to have settled. A meeting ot electors is culled to consider the question at 10.15 a.m. on Wednesday next.

The Tourist Department has placed an order with .Messrs Palmer and Co., of Wellington, for two oil launches lor the Hot Lakes district. Each boat will be 'loft overall, and be propelled by an engine of lf> housepower. One of the launches will be placed on Luke Uotonridlvaliia. a'nd the other on Lake Tarawera. Both 'are to lie ready for use in two months' time.

The water can get in, and the foul air can-t get out," is a police oUlcer's comment on the New Plymouth Courthouse. On Friday night the rain found its way in in fairly large quantities. Owing to some defect. in the ventilators these are useless, and the -elaborate arrangements for relieving the building of hot air might as well June been omitted from the plans.

A letter sent to Dunedin from an exploring camp on the Slvilka River, in Siberia, about 50 miles from the Manchurian frontier, states that oil Dec. "27 the thermometer showed 97 qvgrees of frost, or 05 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. This is the country to which the Russians are sending the Japanese ivsldviHs of Port Arthur and Vladivostok.

Mr Herbert Graves' line property, within half a mile of the Eltham post office, is to be offered for sale on Saturday next by Messrs W. 11. and A. McGarrv, auctioneers. There is a well-built twelve-roomed house, grounds laid out in lawns and gardens. and every convenience. The property will be offered in one lot, or in subdivisions. Mr Graves' reason for disposing of the land is that business requires his personal superision elsewhere

An impudent robbery was committed during the lunch hour in Dunedin lately. A thief unlocked the door of the office of Messrs Ueid ami Macussey, solicitors, during the absence of the two members of the firm and their clerks, and stole the cash-box and a brief bag. Both articles were found behind the railway station. The box was broken open, ami about £-2 IDs in money, blank cheque."? and scrip had been extracted.

The flax industry about Huntly (says the Auckland Star) is assuming considerable proportions. Not long ng'o a visitor from Dunedin was in the Waercnga district buying virgin swamp. His intention is to half drain- it. and then cultivate flax. Should the venture prove successful, much of the swamp that is at {iresent considered almost worthless will be made profitable. Already 50(1 acres of the big swamp at the lower end of Lake Waikare have been taken

A horse, with unerring instinct, drew up in front of the police station on Saturday evening and stubbornly refused to budge an inch, despite the repeated admonitions of its driver, who occupied a lowly seat in the bottom of the which!. The animal seemed to consider its driver unfit to safely negotiate the homeward trip, and so thought Constable Mcßae, who furnished the man with lodging at the lock-up and sent the horse and cart round to a livery stable until its owner was adjudged by the magistrate to have paid the penalty of his misbehaviour and to be in a lit state to proceed.

The mailman going to Mokau on Saturday hud rather a nasty experience in the Mirni valley. lie was fording the river where lie thought was the usual bottom, but the Hoods must have scoured it. The man got into the river with his horses, ami ue he could not turn back lie had to swim the horses. They were curried a considerable distance down the stream, but eventually got safely across. But the troubles did not cease there, its there were numerous landslips on Mount Messenger, mid had it not been for the assistance of Mr McCoy, the Tongaporutu telegraph lineman, the mailman would probably have had to spend the night on the mountain. ilowewr, the partv got through to Tungaporutu at 10 p.m.

At least one Chinaman has won a footing in Australia, despite an adverse judicial decision at the outset. Twelve months ago Ah Foo was sentenced at Melbmirno to live weeks' imprisonment for living a prohibited immigk'ailt. 'lie appealed on the grounds that ten words of the European language had been read to him from dictation, instead of fifty, and a case was stated for the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice of Victoria preferred to refer the points in dispute to the Full Court of Victoria, and this body (plashed the conviction against him that he was an undesirable immigrant. The Chief ./ustice said the section of the Act roquired that at. least 50 words in any European language should be submit ted, and it was not a sullicient answer to say that the person failed to write ten words submitted to him.

A brave act was performed last week by Mrs Mason, a Maori woman, who was going down the. Waikato ltiver in a canoe, the paddling required being done by a little girl of about eight years of age. Mrs Mason held a young infant in her anus, a second infant being in the bottom of Die canoe. When near the landing placo Die canoe fouled on Die punt rope ami capsized, all Die occupants being immersed. Clinging to the child ill her arms, Airs .Mason canoe, and then swam lor and rescued n second infant. .Making for the canoe they hung there, (he woman holding the two babies until rescued by the Woat Helon'ging to the punt. Hut for the pluck of Mrs Mason the three children would (says the Auckland Star) Inevitably have been drowned.

The Geelong Times, in reporting the win by New Zealauders of 111.' rescue event, said "When the lire--111011 'roin Now Zealand arrived to take part in the Jubilee demonstration, tile hope was expressed that they would ta.ke 'rack some luemeiiof tiieir visit. Those wishes have <>eeii realised, for by downright merit the Kealamlers won thelirst prize for the rescue event, in which all otiler brigades were i(uite outclassed by them. They worked on the ladder with wonderfpt uglily ami accuracy, and they I'ullv deserved tlie tremendous cheer which runout irom the enthusiastic spectators as soon as they had completed their task. 'J'lie wilole of the New y.valan.lers acknowledged the applause the public 'by giving u R . Alao| .j war chant, which they had to repent. Ohi patrons of lire hrigutli! demonstrations were unanimous in staj"g that the performance given bv /ralai ' <l, '''« Was the JilH'si. Ilu.\ had ever witnessed in Victoria New /en and s t,,„e V .- IIS ls lifelong West was iie\i with "•> ,\ sees, lieiidigo third, with 2f.svcs. J «on y-lour other brigades competed, their time running up in some cases to over 40sw<. liather curiously, the prize olfered-a pair 0 f Mlu-r-niounted plaques-was tlie gift or Mr J, A. Ewen, an old New Zenlander.

Owing to the prevalence of heavy logs in London the opening of the wool sale was postponed.

Between the Ural Mountains and Lake Baikal in Siberia, there are thousands of miles of country us flat as a billiard table, ami thousands of •miles of pleasantly undulating wooded lantl— suitable for agriculture. Uood land can be bought for from (is to 12s a verst., about two-thirds of a mile.

One of the rising towns in Siberia is Omsk, with 5o,00<) inhabitants, one-fourth being soldiers. It is the centre of 201 H) square miles of the Driest pasture land in the world. In 11)01, 150U Deering reaping machines were imported, and in the next year 4UOO. The Government ■buy the machines and resell them to immigrants on time payments.

The heavy rain on Friday night had the clTeet oi' swelling all the rivers in the district considerably. Dwellers by the sea were particularly busy on Saturday gathering driftwood, of which a considerable quantity came ashore, especially in tin* vicinity of tlie llenui and the Waiwakaiho. The contractor (Mr Pikott) Jo} 1 the bridge over the flenui in Devon-stivel will bo a considerable loser through serious subsidences of earth into tin* excavations made, by the expenditure of much time and labour, for the western pier of the new structure. The fresh in the ■ Waitara River on Saturday is said to have been as high as any experienced for many years.

A startling discovery of national importance has been made, says a London paper. The British army, after withstanding the hardships of war, is actually vanishing by the simple process of dissolution. As soon as possible men take their discharges from the ranks and create great gaps, which the rising generation steadfastly refuse to fill, and thus the thin red line is almost daily becoming thinner and thinner. Infantry battalions are seriously under strength, foreign stations are under garrisoned, and, indeed, the army to-da.v, is merely the skeleton of what should be a sound body of national land defence. That is why the War Office has issued somewaat frantically-worded notices to all recruiting officers urging them henceforth to plead still more eloquently an behalf of a poor dwindling army.

Thirty-five Italian labourers have been burned to death and thirty-two more or less seu»rely injured by burns, at Lily, Pennsylvania. A large number of Italians are at present employed in the work of improving the Pennsylvania vaiLviy system by the construction of 'oop lines and reducing ihc iiadieios and enlarging the curves, and 1.25 of these men were quartered in a large shanty. In the course of the night the shanty caught tire, and in a few minutes was entirely turned down. The flames aroused the sleepers, and there was a tierce struggle for lite, the shanty having only one door. Many who had almost reached the door lost their lives In a vain endeavour to rescue their hoarded treasures. The bodies of several men were found covered with melled geld and silver, showing that they had I perished with tlieir treasures in their ! arms.

Shareholders of the Equitable Building Society will nolo the next pay day is Monday next. Subscriptions will lie payable at. the Society's office. Can ie-street, between the hours of 9 n.m. and 12..'J0 p.m. ; 1.'.10 p.m. to 5 j).m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.*

For reliable Boots, Shoes and Slippers at a low price go to Dockrill's, Devon-street- Central, where you will I'tnd the largest assortment in the district of Colonial. English, American, and Continental Manufactured Boots, Shoes and Slippers.*

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OX THE FOLKTU PAGE. Mail Notices. Cricket Notes. Country News, Charge of Assault, l'aranakl Agricultural Society

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Borough Council-Warns persons against driving er riding over the llemii bridge at other than walking pace. Horough Council—lnvites a meetnig of electors to decide on disposal of I'cudarves-strcet deviation. W. A. I). Banks, .Jury Ollicer-Xoti-des date of meeting of justices to revise jury list. W. 11. and A. JfcGarr.v, Kltlmm.— Sale of ]\fr il. oraves' fine property of ;">:■!} acres near Eltham, 011 Saturdaj text. Harding and Hilling, Auckland.— Want a bacon-cuivr for a North Island factory.