The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 75, 2 April 1904, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The funeral of the late Mr Frederic Bullot, who died on Wednesday evening from paralysis, took place yesterday, and was largely attended by olxl settlers and residents.

The premises of L. Giorgi, tobacconist, Palmerston North, were entered on Wednesday night, and tobacco and cigarettes, valued at £OO, stolen. An entrance was effected through a window.

A garden party, the proceeds of which are to go towards the funds of the Victoria College for Maori girls, is to be held in-'the grounds at Overdale, the residence of the Mayor, Mr R. Cock, on tha 21st instant.

Mr 11. F. Russell, secretary of the Tradesmen's Association, has received a letter from the Premier, stating that the State Fire Insurance Department will not be prepared to undertake insurance business for a few months at least.

Yesterday (Good Friday) spocml services were held in all the churches. At St. Mary's and Te Henui (Anglican) services were held morning and evening, and ut the Wiiiteley Memorial Church and Primitive Methodist Church services were held in the evening.

Arrangements tor the Star jsports on Monday are now well uinier way. and it only remains for the weather to keep fine to render success assured. A committee of ladies will superintend arrangements lor a light luncheon and afternoon tea, so that the public may foe certain of every attention in this department.

The managers of the Heading Hailway have issued an order positively lorbk)ding the use of cigarettes by those employed in the passenger service of the New York division. The penalty for failure to obey this mandate is dismissal, and "the reason given is this "It is not safe to trust the lives of passengers in the hands of men who smoke cigarettes.

"Ihe mother of ten boys at.d girls" proposes a very practical remedy for declining birthrate. Writing to the Auckland Herald, she says : —''Let the Government oiTer to settle on every mother of live living children born in wedlock the sum of £IOO per annum for life if she needs it, the settlement to foe on herself, for her own use. I think the mat! ter rests entirely with the mother.

A few dimensions of viaducts constructed awl unconstructed -on iho Main Trunk line : Mnkohine. completed, 750 ft long, 210 ft high ; Mangaweka, completed last November, USOft long, 150 ft high ; Hapuawhenua, in Waimnrino Forest, not yet commenced, 070 ft long, 145 ft high ; Taonifi, in Waimarino Forest, not yet commenced, 480 ft long, 110 ft high; Makotote, also in the Waimarino and not commenced, ttO-lft long, and 257 ft high. Probably the following list of subjects, comprising the manual instruction given in the primary schools, will surprise many people .-—Sticklaying, paper-weaving and plaiting, drawing in chalk, free-arm drawing, brick-laying, paper-folding, designing in coloured paper, modelling in plasticcne, modelling in carton, brushdrawing, cane-weaving, iivimn i( nd black-Hoard drawing, elementary design and colour work, cottage gardening, swimming, elementary agriculture, sewing, mat-weaving, geometrical drawing, basket-weaving paper cutting and mounting, and cookery.

In a few re-marks on a puper read at the Teachers' Institute at Timuru, by Mr Ellis, on the benefits of travel as a means of education, Mr J. A. Johnson said his last trip to Nelson had convinced him of the futility of teaching geography from u map. For though he drew Cape Campbell very well on the map, he did not recognise it at all when lie saw it from a steamer. (Laughter.) Mr Valinline added some similar personal discoveries of the useh-ssness of map and book geography he had made in his travelling. Mr Johnson suid that geography (fuelling requires the maps to be liberally supplemented by pictures.

Apropos of Mrs Maybrick's release, it Is not generally known that Lord Chief Justice Russell, who defended her, was to the hour of his death a firm believer in her innocence. In 1895 he wrote to the then llome Secretary (Sir M. W. Kidley) : "If called on to advise in my capacity as head of the criminal judicature of this country, I should advise you that Florence Maybrick ought to' be allowed to go free." And in the year of his death the late Lord Chief Justice thus wrote to the Home Secretary : "Your predecessor, after inquiry, publicly staled that there was room for doubt whether any murder had been committed at all. Nor was this view other than most reasonable, because the ([uuntity of pois m revealed on analysis was infinitesimal, and such as might have been accounted for by the notorious arsenic eating habits of the man. This was strongly confirmed by the evidence of the local chemist, who for years hail been in the habit of supplying the deceased with arsenical drinks."

A young man had a somewhat exciting half-minute at the raihviy station on Thursday evening, lie had ignored the gentle invitation to intending passengers conveyed in the well-known formula "All seats, please," and remained on the platform, chatting to friends, until the train started. Then when he tried to board a carriage a couple of porters endeavoured to stop him, and f:he young mail in the'sctilllu slipped out ui' his coat and boarded the train, leaving the astonished porters without so much us a "lly your leave," with the garment, in their hands. Their astonishment was only momentary, however, and one of the porters with practised ease swung himself into tile guard's van as it passed. Meantime the young man, having evidently thought the situation over, had decided it was no use going on without his coat, and got, out of the train again, to see the porter ppssing in the von and waving the articlu of clothing amid much laughter from all beholders. The young man looked round ;n an undecided manner and then did probably his record sprint along thu platform nnd managed to swßig himself on to an engine giving the train a push up the hill. No doubt he will heed future warnings.

Messrs Hooker and Scott, printhave dissolved partnership. The business will bo carried on by Mr Hooker.

While dancing with her brother at ft social at Seymour. Victoria, a young woman named Nellie Shea fell and expired shortly afterwards, heart disease being the cause.

A -'"'city of celibates," within whose walls tio female foot shall be allowed to tread, is shortly to be tounded ill I'tah. Deliver is greatly excited over a band of mysterious misogynists who have settled in the country with this object.

"Preliminaries regarding Mr P. N. llussell's giift of £50,00(> for the extension of the School of Engin»'<*r.mg at Sydney University have been finally settled, and the money paid over, 'hie condition that the Government should expend £23,000 in necessary buildings within the next three yars has been agreed to.

The London Salvage Company has )een compelled to abandon the attempt to recover tin- bullion in the sunken wreck oi the Elingamile. The deamer, Young Dungaree, chartered by the company, has returned to Auckland, after an absence of about iifty days. The diver was unable to make a descent, owing to stormy weather.

At the Magistrates Court on Thursday morning, Mr Stanford, K.M., who had decided to commit, Sydney Ross to the Burnham Industrial School, was addressed at some length by Mr Weston, for the lad's parents, who objected to the decision. In order that the boy s character may be the matter of magisterial enquiry the re-hearing was adjourned for a week, to enable Mr Hutchison to take the case.

New Zealanders are fond of singing "Sons of the Sea," -and of "Boys of the Bull-dog Breed," but, says Mr Seddon, they have no right to sing these things at all, for they have no sons on the sea. He hopes the obtaining of a drill ship and manning a new cruiser with Australians and New Zealanders will soon make a change in this matter.

The ways of the house-hunter in Waihi art* peculiar. The other day a lady noticed a family leaving a house in one of tike streets in the west part of the borough, and she asked the furniture remover if the house was taki»n. lie didn't know, but advised her to "dump her furniture in quick and lively." She sent to her husband, telling him to iind out the owner, and meanwhile had her furniture conveyed to the empty house, whore she remains, no one with a prior claim having as yet turned up. The rush for houses just now is verging on the frantic. In respect to the present anti-cor-i set agitation it will he displeasing j news to the ladies to hear that in 1 recent experiments to show the daw- | gerous ett'ects of wearing tight corJ sets monkeys were the animals chosen to experiment on. Hitherto it has been the poor little guinea pig that has -had to suiter in this way by the doctors and scientists, but in the matter of wearing corsets Lady Arabella Kenealy evidently puts women and monkeys on the same footing.

Many people are under the impression that the shooting seaaon for native and imported game opened yesterday. For their information it should be stated that the season during which native and imported g'ame may be taken will open on the "Ist JUay next and close on :;ist .July, except as to deer and godwits, for which a separate season is lixed. As this year will be a close season for native pigeon, Uukas, and pukekos, the native game to be shot will probably only include wild duck, teal, wild geese, and swan. The blue or mountain duck is divclared to be protected, also the Paradise duck in most -districts.

General Booth made a novel appeal in a speech at Exeter llall recently. The Salvation Army, he says, is doing good work, but cannot get along without.- the sinews of war. Therefore, let every person in the Brilisli Empire—and, indeed, outside of ii—bequeath something at death to the Salvation Army. There are lots gf things—wedding rings, false teeth,fo'r instance—that people do not l.now what to do with at llieir death, l.et them send them to the Salvation Army, who will gratefully uccefit them. American false teeth are what the army want, says the General, because a large proportion of them are good. General Booth intends to propound his false feelli scheme in the United States. Air A. W. Huthcrford, M.H.H., whose remarkable speech in moving the Address-in-Keply last session caused him to be regarded as an unconscious humorist, has a high opinion of the Premier. In replying at Cheviot, which is part of' his own electorate, on Thursday night for the Parliament of New Zealand, Mr Rutherford said:—There was only one man in the House besides the Speaker who was up to all the rules, lorms and usages of Parliament, and that man was the Hon. 1(. J. Scddon. 'Phe Ministers were, after all, only gloriiictl members. He had watched the Ministers very closelv, aiid ho could see very clearly that there was room only for I{. ,J. Sedtlon, and he would have his way. He dictated the policy of this country, and no one could do it better ■ therefore he (Mr Huthcrford) intended to slick to the Premier.

The Glasgow Evening Times of Monday, Feb. 15, contains the following "A sensational occurrence took place in Honhill yesterdav forenoon. The Kev. Walter Smith, of Clasgow, who was to conduct the services, committed suicide in the bathroom of the U.F. Church manse by cutting his throat. Mr Smith, who stayed with his widowed mother and sisters at 77, Oxford Drive, ' OI Kel\inside, Glasgow, was an unplaced minister, but hud been pleaching in different churches everv •Sunday, lie left Glasgow on Friday evening for Bonhill, where he had a pieachmg engagement to fullil in the n ed Free Church there. Mr Smith was in good spirits when he • left home on Friduy, and no reason can be assigned (or his act, lie was between '6O and 40 years of age, was a promising pivacher, and lor some lime acted as assistant in a church ill Xtoss-shire. 'He had also spent some years in New Zealand, where he had a church in Auckland. Jio came home about three veurs a«'o and fulti'led preaching engagements ill ■different parts of the countrv." Mr bmith spent some fuur years' in the Auckland province, lie' was in charge oi the Ngaruuwuhia Presbyterian Church for a few months and was atlerwurds stationed at Te Awamulu Jroin February 1898 tn October, l W ,i, w)len he' relinquished he (-l arge antl went H o me.-.\ / Herald.

Wh.teley Memorial Church, Easter Sunday, April lird. Preacher : i(ev. i'liing 0 * mi,, 'ning and ev-

The New Zealand Express Co., jW., have to let a commodious ofce or shop on the ground floor of street. building, BrougfcamMoney is scarce just now and I cople are complaining thai tlu-v nio great dilliculty in'placluiir « • , "" S - J'l-ovi.lont 11 Society are offering excellent terms, and it. would p ;ly j„, tending borrowers lo cull on ' the Kecielary, Jlr JI. Lennoii, and see lor themselves how easy things are made for them bv the society.* Soniet liing worth muling.—To boarding-housekeepers and heads of lamilies : Large warm lied rugs seven feel long •1/11, white blankets 7/11 per pair, larger size 1 <)/(> per pair. Heavy twilled .New 'Zealand blankets direct from the mill purchased under exceptionally advantages before the rise occasioned by the increased price of wool in the Home markets at our usual bedrock cash prices. Neal, cash clothier.*