NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 72, 29 March 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Heavy weather was reported yesterday from Auckland coastal stations.

Mr Massey, Leader of the Opposition, has been Invited to go South and 'give a political address at Lawrence.

The South Australian Government has •decided to take the necessary action to purchase the Adelaide iramways.

King-strcet, between Uueen and Egiiiont-strcets, is now closed against I rathe during the construction of the Mangotuku divert. The Auckland Hospital Board yef» teixlav completed arrangements for leasing a "site at, Otahuhu to the Government for Hie projected bone sterilising plant, Mr Glover, acting secretary of the North Taruiiaki Caledonian Society, notifies that the society has no connection with the Easier rxcuwiiou to Hut Alokau by the Taiiiui.

Trains connecting Willi shipping at the breakwater will leave town as follows to-day :-7 a.m. Rotoili from South, 11.20 Tnkapuna for South, 8.20 p.m. Rotoili for Onchnngu, It has been arranged that the Maoris of Otago will lake an ollirial farewell of Lord Ranfurly at a demonstration on April Kith in aid of the Vetvruus' Home Fund.

Speaking to a 'deputation of unemployed recently io Sydney, Mr Wise, Acting-Premier, expressed his belief in the New Zealand system of u combined public works and laud .settlement policy. An appeal has been Mod iVgainsl the Magistrate's decision in the case against Mr Grylls, of the Inglewood Hotel, in a charge of exposing liquor for sale during prohibited hours.

The N'gnire Dairy Company has received an order to make a 'icwt cheese for the New Plymouth Poultry Association. The order is in connection with the next show of the association, which will be held at the end of July.

The Star sports meeting on Easter Monday promises to be lly? most successful ever held in New "Plymouth. Some of the best runners in New Zealand are to compete, ami the committee is leaving no stone unturned to sccaru a thorough success.

The Waimale Witness says Sunday is a day of recreation at Taihape,

"tennis, golf j cricket, and many other matches being played in all purU with considerable gusto. It is hardly necessary to go us far alield as Taihape for Sunday sport. Taranaki football clubs can throw a little light on thu matter.

At the Police Court on Monday morning, Robert Horn was lined os and 2s costs for drunkenness. Mr Stanford, S.M., refused to hear a sccoird charge against accused for obscene language, saying his attention had been drawn to a case in which it was laid down that a magistrate couM not hear two criminal charges against a man at the snmu time.

The Premier has been advised of the partition of the Rangitoto, a block comprising 108,000 acres, into upwards of sixty sections. Alahutu. (the King) and his brother am interested in Hie block. The hulk of the land will be offered for lease, and details connected therewith will be performed by -the Native Council. The land is stated to be well adapted for settlement.

On Saturday Mr W. Just, nurseryman, of Palnierston North, shipped the first instalment of n largv consignment of New Zealand tree ferns lo the noted ConliiieiiLul house of Wuidemai Nicolai, Saxony. Thirtyone trees, averaging six feet high, were sent, being valued nt £2O a piece, lauded in Saxony. There will Im farther shipments of piingas by following steamers. Thu handsome dolls (bride and bridegroom) which have been olituincd by the Taramtki Rifle's for the art union prizes, are now on view in Mr .Marks' window, Devon-street. The figures have -been very tastefully dressed, the groom at Mr Marks' establishment and the bride by Miss O'Connor, Tickets are going off well and the success of the art union should be hcyimd doubt. In bidding farewell on Sunday night to the congregation of the Scots' Church, Wellington, the Rev. William Thomson read a statement by the trustees explaining the reason for the sale of the church. This showed that an unsolvable linunciul problem was a compelling (actor in the transaction. The church was heavily mortgaged, and it was found impossible to raise the money to liquidate the debts by sale. All persons who were owed money by the church would receive twenty shillings iu the pound.

Employers throughout Australia are beginning to resent the demands of the men through the Arbitration Court there. At a conference of in-ter-State employers held at Sydney the other day, Air Cameron, M.L.A., of Queensland, in responding to the toast of the visitors, said the conference marked an occasion of great signißcance lo the future of Australia—namely, the banding together of those who had a stake in the country, and who intended to defend their rights. Mr Derham (Victoria), in proposing the toast of "The Federated Employers of New South Wales," said that public men in Auseralia had too long pandered to the ruling of minorities. "When I am in my best form, your Worship, I can repeat the whole of Lord's Prayer in one breath," lev marked a solicitor iu the Court yesterday. No one present was prepared to doubt the luurned gentleman's intimate familiarity with this prayer, but all smiled. He went on to say that (hough this feat was possible to him, ho felt It rather difficult to read a most verbose section of some 'OB legislation. Air Stanford saved him the trouble—he was perfectly familiar with the section. A few minutes later the suine advocate made reference lo a case in which a gentleman named Lazarus had been concerned. "Who ?" queried the Magistrate. "Lazarus, the same name us the beggar, your Worship. Lazarus evidently came for justice in the Common Pleas." The approaching iiiitiini-n show of the New Pl.t mouth Horticultural Society is likely to be it very interesting one, on account of the niimben of outside exhibits that will be on visw. Mr W. V. lliickland, the champion amateur chrysanthemum grower is shilling: a selection of blooms from Cambridge; A(r Morton, of Pnhiatua Nurseries, will forward mi exhibit of fruit ; and several other prominent exhibitors have nolilied their intention of being represented at. the show. The secretary, Mr A. Hooker, is undcavouring (o secure an exhibit from the State farm at. Momohaki., in which we hope he will be successful, ns something v.fy interesting should |„, the outcome. We may remind intending exhibitors that, entries will close at Mr Cult ley's on April fi, also that the special' prizelist may now be seen in that gentleman's window.

Considerable delay in coninrtioii with the constriction of the railway to Cheviot has arisen owing to a landslip on the surveyed route. The slip occurred on a slope which reaches the river bank back lo the hills, and the engineers, on going over I his locality recently, have found that pegs put in about ten years ago have shift.d 12ft nearer the river. 'Phis is taken lo indicate thai the whole formation iu the vicinity of the slip is of a rotten character, and Mr A. W. Rutherford. AI.H.R., speaking at a social gathering of the Settlers' Association on Thursday evening last, said he was informed on very good authority that it was now considered necessary to make a tunnel for u length of between (it) and 70 chains to pass under the slip. Mr Rutherford estimates that this will cause -a delay of two years at least before the line is completed to Cheviot.

A German hardware manufacturing firm have named a powerful looking spanner of their make "King Dick."

The population of South Australia at the end of February was 2:i2,!i'27, an increase over the corresponding month of last year of 1.1,000.

The Government has cabled Homo for six Shorthorn bulls of milking strains, to be out. here by next spring.

The Scottish Society of Otago has sent home £-10 for Hie General Sir Hector Alacdonald memorial. It is intended for a memorial to be erected in Edinburgh or Dingwall.

A circular has been 'distributed to all the bands in the colony by the secretary of the North Island Brass Hands Association, pointing out that a large debit balance exists, and suggesting Hint, the various bands assist to reduce this by holding entertainments and devoting a portion of the receipts to a liquidation fund, Jt is also hoped that any Utile misunderstanding of the past will be overlooked for the good of the association's contests in Uie future.

In a h-ttcr which he has sent to the Government Poultry Expert (Mr D. 1). Hyde), a Christchuj-ch resident who deals largely f«i poultry, predicts that in a short time New Zealand's linancial turnover for poultry will exceed that of any other commercial product. He recommends hutching by incubators, and says he considers that the industry will always be handicapped unless eggs are sold in public markets at uniform prices. The writer pays a compliment to Mr Hyde for thu manner in which he is discharging his duties.

At the Police Court on Monday morning, Joseph Irving, Patrick bl*~ Gahey, and Leslie Jury, employed at local livery stables, were charged on the information of Mr F. Stohr, borough inspector, with -driving horses loose through borough streets, contrary to lire by-laws. Mr Ouilliani (Messrs Govett and Quilliam) appeared for the plaintiff Council, and Mr Alnlono (Messrs Alalone, McVeagh and Anderson) for the defendants. As the summonses had only been served on Saturday, the defendants' counsel had not hail time to look into the -matter, and an adjournment was granted until Wednesday morning.

Quite the latest and smartest doorswindle is being worked in some of the towns of this colony. A man calls with pieces or tweed suitings, and says he supplies them on the instalment system. The cloth is good, and the prices reasonable, and he has not much dllliculty in diS|»osiiig ol his wares, which he leaves on payment of the first instalment, usually five shillings. A few days Inter another man turns up, representing -himself as a traveller for a linn of tailors, whose speciality is tlie making up of customers' own material. His prices are also exceedingly reasonable, and a burgain is invariably struck. He measures the customer in the usual way, and takes away the doth. That is the last that is seen of it. and the same applies to the instalment man, who Is content with the first live shillings paid. The regulations Issued by the Defence Department regarding marriage among the members of the defence force have excited n good deal of Interest throughout the colony. A Wellington Post representative, on making inquiries into the subject at hendipiartcrs, was informed that the object of -the order "which limits marriage to .'lO per cent, among the gunners and to 'lO per cent, among the non-coinuiissioiied ollifers" was lo ensure greater discipline in the ranks by means of keeping the men together. The New Zealainl percentage of marriages -in the force is very high. In Hie British army the rate is from four to seven per cent. The Department stales that under the new regulations prevision is made fur special cases, such as granting permits to men who became engaged before the order Has issued, for good conduct men, etc. it is almost needless to add that there are an astonishing number of men "who became engaged before the order was lusued."

In connection with the release of Mrs Muyibrlck, referred to in recent cable messages, a pathetic story is told in the Kvening News. When' Airs Maybrick wns sentenced, the little girl was between two and three years old and the boy was six. The latter has now almost, reached man's estate, and the former is a girl of sixteen. Hut the name they bear is not Maybrick, and they are wholly in ignorance of their mother's terrible history. She on her side is unaware of their identity, and although it is to bo arranged that when (he nun her is released she shall meet them, it is on the understanding that she makes no attempt to disclose the fact that she is their mother. The lad and his sister are both living in London. After Airs May-brick's conviction Mrs Muybrick's brother, the well-known composer who is known as " Stephen Adams," ami another close friend of the minify, took the children away and eventually found a suitable family with whom to -board them under an assumed m«rne. The children were subsequently adopted by this family, who have never had the slightest cluit to their identity or to their association with the crime with which at that time all En-gland was ringing. FoI . tlll , (i ,. st gU ymn Mrs May-brick's imprisonment photographs of the children were sent onco a year. Then, for the sake of the children themselves, the despateh of the photographs was Slopped, and for the past seven and a half years Mrs Maybrick has been given no information concerning them save that they believe their mother to be dead When she is eventually allowed to s-eo them she must remain in the character of an unemotional and undemonstrative stranger. Uuyers ot overcoats, and all want, one about this time of the year should read Neal's advertisement. ' Messrs Ou-rthew, Pat-tie and Co land agents, report -having sold Mr Armstrong's pretty residence ■• The Sycamores/Mvith 1} acres of land, to Ale flavall, of Feiiding, Money is SC arce just now ana people are complaining thai the-y aie experiencing great difficulty j„ „i llc _ ">K their loans. The Provident »<»"">>* Society are offering excellent terms, and it, W( „,| ( | „„., j lending borrowers to cull on ' the Secretary, Air 11. A. Lennon, and see for themselves how easy things ore uuule for them by the so-

A great slaughter of human nrimals, such as Fleas, Flies, Lico on Plants, on Fowls, on Horses, e a Children's Heads ; Cockroaches, ,vc will be elfccted by using Hocks Afortein Insect Powder and Spreaders. Will kill within live minutes every fly in a closed room. Price, 1/ each. Dock's Mortem is world-rant-ed, but cunningly imitated. The public will kindly seo that the proprietors' naime, I'. Hock and Co, is on evei\y tin, as none is genuine ivlthnut it. All chemists and stoma.* ly and stimulate the stomach and liTer ln»o a healthy action.