NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 77, 5 April 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The weather yesterday was generally flno in the various centres of the colony.

Patea is Qontumplatinfi' fui'thea breakwater extension.

Agricultural classes are lo be iitarted in connection with the 1 lawera District High School.

A civil tribunal in Paris non-suited Colombia in a suit instituted to prevent the transfer of the Panama Canal to live United Stales.

The British quarterly revenue was i;r>3,l!:j4,yOO. Customs contributed za.nr.i.oou. excise £»,:Mo,iioo,stump .CI ,080,01)0. 'J'he gear's revcrum was Jt:i,72'l,oi)o below the estimates.

To-day is Hie niuiivcrtarv of the death of CaptaTu l,lovd, killed during the native troubles in Tarunaki in 18U4.

Trains connecting with steamers al the breakwater will leave town 118 follows 10-dny :—11.120 a.m. Hotoiti from south ; H.UO p.m. Hotoiti for Onehungu.

As some of the start are sniveling from mumps, the West End school will not re-open until Wednesday, the oth iivst.

Mr .J. 0. Smith, Registrar, supplies the following vital statistics for March :—Hirths 80, deaths 111, marriages 17. The district, extends from Pungarehu to Waiongona, and includes Now Plymouth.

The trallic returns on the Wclling-lon-i\apicr-\cw Plymouth section of railways for tlie four weeks ending i'eb. '27 amounted to ,L."j:i,n7o, as against .t-18,480 for tlie corresponding period of IfJOM. The revenue, omitting fractions, was made up as follows :—Passengers £18,770 ; parcels, lugguge and mails £.271'2; goods, £IIO,BBB ,' miscellaneous,JU7oß; rents and commissions, 1M27.

The insurance companies interested in the recent lire which destroyed Messrs Kempt home, Prosser and Co.'s Wellington store have applied lo ihe coroner for an inquirv into the cause of the outbreak, and the matter is now awaiting Mr Ashcroft's judgment. The secretary of the Eltham dun Club has received word from the manager of tlie Coloniul Ammunition Company, Auckland, intimating its intention of giving a special prize to the club. The trophy will take the form of a silver pencil case in the form of a .303 cartridge, the value of which is £-1 10s. Competitors in this event must use ammunition manufactured by the Colonial Ammunition Company.

Tlie following unclaimed lettl-rs are now lying u t the post olHce for the persons mentioned and from the countries named as follows :-J. Allen, Queensland ; A. J. Comb|e,Souih Australia; Harry Light and W. Skene, Esq., United Kingdom ; Hiss hi. Cautwell, Tasmania ; Mrs W Mathews, New South Wales ■ J \ Merril, Victoria; Jack. Canada>>

The Athenie, which arrhed at Wellington ou Thursday evening lrom London, brought the largest iihipment of purebred poultry yet imported by the (lovernment. There are eighty lArila, comprising Minorcns, Dorkings, Orpingtons, Wyandot tes, Plymouth Hocks, I.angsh'ims. niui Iloudans. The poultry are for use at the State poultry farms, Huakuru, Momohaki, ituruham, and Milton! Thu consignment has been specially selected from the puns of the principal English breeders by MY L. Verry, of The Warren, Oxsholt, Surrey.

According to police authority, there are more thieves i„ Johannesburg thun any other city of like size in the Empire. And it would appear that the burgling section of the rogues on the Kund scorn petty methods and go for big hauls, and proceed about the business, too, in mendacious fashion. Safe robbury is becoming very common, the latest cuse btdng the abstraction of the strong-box, containing £BOO, from the ollice of the Brick and Potteries Company, at Turlfontcin, about « couple of miles from the centre of the city. The safe was taken to a sluit close to one of the mines, the door blown oil, and cash to the value above stated got cleuu away with. The fact that so many of the perpetrators of these robberies go undiscovered makes for the continuance of the daring deeds. It is a lamentable fact thut the detective force seems quite unable to trace the criminals. Escapes from gaol uc c , quite common, and numbers of tno.se ! that have got away are now at large.

Mr Clement Wragge, the wellknown Australian weather prophet, gave an address on meteorology at Gore, tlio other day. With tlie aid of magic. lantern pictures he described the magnitude of the work of foretelling the weather, stating that his forecasts were the result of tlie most uccurate scientific information from the meteorological stations scattered throughout Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It was only by obtaining informal ion from this largo area that iiis forecasts were of value, and the cutting [down of monetary assistance by the j various States prevented him obtain,ing that wide range el' information [necessary to make his forecasts of impending disturbances accurate beyond question. Mr Wragge claimed that he could hav<i warnwl mariners of the late storm responsible for the wreck of the Aramac three weeks I before, and by advising them not to hug the shore, he could have prevented the disaster.

"In a sense there can !*> no s[)oedy accomplishment of (he objects for (which I liave laboured since I eamc to South Africa, ajul for which I am still labouring," says Lord Milner. "My work hue been constantly directed to n grcali and distant end—the establishment in South Africa of a great and civrSnod and progresnive community one fsom Capetown to the Zambesi, independent in the management of its own alTairfl, but still remaining from its own limit dosim a mdmlier of the ijrcnt commuuiPy of fr«e nations gathered together undor the British Hag. That lifts been the object of my efforts. It is my object still—but I so not consider that it is an object, which can be accomplished in a short tfone. It may take years longer thai, it is generally supposed. In any case I am not sanguine enough to anticipate that, il can possibly come in my time, when vou consider all the dillieulfics which have to be got over, while there is no reason to despair of the ultimate attainment of that end."

I According to t-ho Hun-don Daily Chronicle, smok-i-tig is undoubtedly a lhahilf now with large numbers of women. Jt is not a utotv passing fciney to wlu'll a cigarette now and | njraiii when they are in the coiuj>any of men. Enquiries among the tobacconists of the West End reveal the fact that, they number many women as regular customers. The proprietor, for instance, of a small shop at the far end of Oxford-street, states tliat he has over a hundred women on his list, who send liini frequent orders. Another tobacconist, who has an even largvr connection among women, says that one of his customers is a well known society leader, who smokes on an average twenty-live cigarettes a day, full-siz-ed and full-flavoured Egyptians. This man tells an amusing tali- of a lady who came into his shop a few days ago and said Dial she wanted to try some of his best kinds of cigarc(tcs : . He submitted live dilferenl brands, ami she sat down there ami then and spent a quarter of an hour sampling their ipmlities. finally giving a substantial order for tnosc she liked best. Another proof of the prevalence of this habit among women is that tliere is -hardly a women's club in London which does not have its smoking-room. Tin- Empress Club, in Dover-street, has several smoking-rooms, ami it is a sight which somewhat impresses a male visitor to watch thirty or forty of lite smartest women in London enveloped in quite u naze of tobacco smoke, us fliey recline in various attitudes of ease upon the luxurious lounges with which l-heir "den" is provided.

AitJiougJi He for McKenzie—who it is Mieved can give some information concerning the murder ut To Awaite—is being vigilantly kept up, no trace am be found of liiin. i TJie police are satlslied that tlte | man is not in jjhc district.

As there ie still n ccrt-ain amount of doubt regarding the opening of the- shooting season, sportsmen should note that the dates for the opening and closing of the season are now nxuti by Act of Parliament, and nro :—Opening of the season, May 1, closing July 1. These dates cannot be altered except by legislation, and ho acclimatisation society can fix any other dates. It should also be noted that this year native pigeons, kakus, and pukukis (swamp hens) mast not bo. taken, and that bittern are absolutely protected.

Among the erriug cyclists haled before the Ucncli of .Justices at Clin.sLcluirch last week, Truth re* poi'ts, was a brother .J.P., who was charged with having ridden his bicycle along tlie West. Uelt footpath. Defendant said he hud been compelled to ride on the footpath lo pass a flock of sheep. The constalMle said the defendant hail ridden four hundred yards along the footpath to his knowledge, and personally he saw no sheep at all. Defendant explained that the sheep had turned into a yard before the constable hove in j sight, and that, utter having) got on th« footpath, defendant could not get ot! without riding into a ditch, till he had traversed the four hundred yards alleged. The liench raised, the line, which had been started at oh per head, to 10s, defendant informing the liench in a load whisper that he considered such treatment a "shume."

Probably the rashesl man on record (says the Tost), is the old age pensioner whose application for relief cani9 boforu the Benevolent Trustees lust week. lie has a daughter with four children, who have been receiving assistance from the Trustees. Tlie old man, whose pension amounts to 7s (id per week, embarked the other day on the stormy seas of matrimony, in spite of his grnndfathcrly status and his in.dequute resources. "I am fond of children," he mid to ilie astonished Trustees, ''and I thought 1 had better get a little home with a mother thrown in." The result is that his wife, who keeps a little shop in Newtown, cannot make both ends meet, with the assistance her husband can give her, and the old man is afraid he will very soon have to apply for assistance for himself.

Many New Plymouth dancers will bo inclined to agree with the crusade that has been started by a Liverpool paper against one of the most popular dances of the ballroom, viz., the lancers. indignant correspondents huvo b»en protesting against what one writer calls "the indecency and indecorum of the modem lancers." Every mother, it is asserted, must feci ashamed of scenes now witnessed in every ballroom,

"where instead of pretty frocks—which ore almost torn oil the backs of girls in the mad grip of rough young men—golf cloth or sacking will need to be worn. It is an insult to girls to bang them about and whirl them often off their feot," says another cowespondeut. Long years ago tlie correct obsei'Tunce of the rules of "square dances," and tin! lancers in particular, made the set agret-ablc to watch, and the figures brought out all the grace of the dancers. Now—least said, soonest mended.

Money is scarce Just now awl people are complaining that they are experiencing great dilliculty in placing their leans. The Provident Building Society are ottering excellent terms, and it would pay intending borrowers to call on the Secretary, Mr 11. A. Leiinon, and see for themselves how easy things are made for them by the societ.v.•

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