NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 13 May 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

As a result of tho Anglo-French entente the channel tunnel agitation has been revived.

The driving oi horses, loose, through certain of the borough streets is to be permitted between the hours of midnight and 7 a.m. At a meeting of the committee of the Presbyterian Synod in Dunedin yesterday to consider the sustentation fund, an equal dividend for the half-year of £1)8 ils 6d was declared.

Mr D, Buchanan, of ICakaramoa, had one of his cows shot by sonic unknown sportsman last week, says the Patea Press. He considers that sportsmen should bo aware that it is a close season for cows.

Mr Farrar, custodian of the Old People's Home, desires to thank the Rev. Nixon and "A Friend" for donations of periodicals ; Mrs Dickson for a contribution of old clothes tho inmates ; and another 'Friend" for an invalid chair. Tho inmates also wish to thank the Christian Endeavour Society for an enjoyable evening.

! It is a frequently expressed opinion it,hat Taranaki farmers (arc paying too much for their land when they give more than £ls or £.1(1 per acre for it. An Kltham resident who is in an excellent position to judge expresses the opinion that with butter selling as low as 8d per lb Taranaki farmers can safely pay £25 an aero for all good land and still make money. He makes the proviso, however, that the farmer must have tho necessary labour within his own family. If he has to pay for labour at the current rate of wages then his outlook is not a bright one.—Argus.

Parliament has been further prorogued till June 11th. A Sydney stevedores foreman was fined £4O for libelling the secretary of the Coal Lumpers' Union by calling him a blackleg. The Tasmanian Legislative Council rejected the Occupancy Tax Bill. It is understood the Government will ask for a dissolution.

In the case brought by Mr Sievier, the horse-owner, against Duke, an English trainer, 'for alleged slander, a Vel'dict was returned in favour of the defettdtUlt.

iCarangalmke is now lighted by gas. The installation has just been effected, the gas beiing pumped out to Karangaivakc from the Pavroa | gasworks

"Because they pay rates some people consider they should always be having something done outside their front door." —A member of the 11anawatu Drainage Board. A. L. Bellerby, a New Zealand exbarrister, who recently purchased a grazing property at Drouin (Queensland) has mysteriously disappeared. He left for Melbourne on the 3rd to purchase stock. The Queensland Premier informed a deputptioji asking for assistance to check rabbits that the Government had spent over a million and a quarter fighting the rabbits without success. Tho Crown loseß duty on Mr Winan's English and Scottish bequests, owing to tho House of Lords deciding that though he had been in residence in Great Britain his domicile was America. At Auckland yesterday James Sutherland, boot-importer, was committed for trial on nine charges of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, Including rash, hazardous speculations, and failing to keep proper bboks. The Post states that the AVhangainoinona branch of the Liberal Federation League has received a wire from Sir Joseph Ward statin;]; that he will pay his promised visit to Whangamomona at the end or U'. l present month. Trains leave New Plymouth station for the breakwater, connecting with steamers to-day as follows ;—6.15 a.m. Rotoiti from North; 8 a.m., from South ; 11.20 a.m., Rotoiti for South ; 8.20 p.m., Takapuna for North.

After thirty-eight years of married life Colonel William F. Cody, better known as "Butfalo Bill," has entered a suit in Wyoming for a divorce against his wife. The famous Indian lighter alleges cruelty on the part of Mrs Cody, and also asserts that four years ago she attempted to poison him, Mrß Cody will contest the suit. North-westward of Taihape is a place called Mataroa (familiarly known as "God Help Me.") Some day the north trunk railway will pass that way. In view of this possibility local speculators are on the alert, and at a sale of leases lield recently quarter-acre sections went at £35 per annum per quarter-acre —Manawatu Times.

Judge Edwards does not appear to be enamoured of prohibition orders as means of converting the tippler from the error of his ways. lit Auckland, when a prisoner charged with assaulting a policeman volunteered to submit to prohibition, the Judge, with an incredulous smile, remarked ; "No, no, my own experience of prohibition orders, and from what I have heard of them is that they don't prohibit." How Edison invented the phonograph is an interesting story. "I was ranging to the mouthpiece of a telephone," the inventor has recorded, ''when the vibration of the voice sent the line steel point into my finger. That set me thinking. If 1 could record the actions of the voice and send tho point over the same surface afterwards, I saw no reason why the thing should not talk. My assistants laughed. But I made them set to. The phonograph is the result of the pricking of a needle." Thus the Eltham Argus We wish the Wanganui journalist l who sends Press telegrams would give FelixTanner a rest. We are sick of advertising him, and paying for telegrams concerning his idiotic doings. It matters not, to ua Whether he fasts to death, hangs himself or gets drowned. Let him rest. We are tired of him and his ark. We don't care whether his ark floats or sinks , it is of no importance to mankind in general, and advertising the pranks of cranks is not what newspapers are principally run for, though tho Wanganui press agent appears to think so.

An eloping curato in London the other day tried to evade his pursuers by dodging through a departmental store, and has recalled to the Daily Chronicle that it is just forty years since Mr Chaplin, M.P., was betrothed to Lady Florence, daughter of tho Marquis of Anglesey. One morning shortly before the appointed marriago he accompanied her on a shopping expedition to Swan & Edgar's. She entered from Regent-street, and while Mr Chaplin awaited her return she had left the shop at the Picadilly door, there met the Marquis of Hastings, as secretly arranged, and was driven oft' with him to be married. Two years later fate accorded Mr Chaplin his revenge. His horse Hermit won the Derby at tho odds of 66 to 1 against, and Lord Hustings was a ruined man. The Government statistician of New South Wales now reports that the harvest has yielded .'55..569,'j0(1 bushels of grain, wheat representing 27,334,000. The Railway Commissioners recently put forward an estimate of only 19,276,000 bushels, but the discrepancy is explained by their not making adequate allowance for wheat taken by country mills nor for the quantities which found their way to Victoria and still remain on farms. Mr Coghlan estimated that there are some live million bushels of grain available for export or conversion into flour locally. The value of the crops this year is put down at £8,300,000, being £8,400,000 more than the average for the past ten years. Regarding the pastoral industry, an abundance of breeding ewes is reported, and the. lambing this year promises to be exceedingly large. Some comparisons have beeL made to show how the Poverty Bay district has progressed in a very short time. Land about three miies from Gisborno tliut thirteen years ago was purchased for £3 12s per aero has lately been sold at £B6 per acre ; laud about three-quarters of a mile from tho Gisborno Post Oflice that twelve years ago was purchased tor £2O per acre has been sold at £6OO per acre. Thirteen years ago Messrs Nelson- Bros., started a freezing works oil a guarantee of 6000 carcases of sheep, but the first year they put through about 36,000 carcases. This year tile two freezing will in,t lhl ' oll Kh about ' „ Carcases of sheep and about, 10,000 carcases of beef Five thousand! bales of wool were exported " K0 : tWs ■ vcar *' lbout 9.P. will lie exported. In addition the dairy industry has made enormous strides.

hree prizes of £.'! and £2 rcSjiectuely are being offered bv the .over,,,,, cut for designs for a seal to be used by the Slate Fire Insurance Oll.ce onder the Stale Fire Insurance Act, 1 !)():■!. The sea I is to be circular in shape, and not to exceed ■iin in diameter, and the words Mute tire Insurance Otlice, New Zealand,' must be part of the, design. A circulnr which lias been sent to the (iovennneni „Miees in Ihe tlifterent centres suites that oulv (!u----vcrnment. employees, permanent ,or temporary, nuiy compete. Ilesigns must, he marked with a motto, and must be accompanied bv a sealed envelope with the motto marked outside containing the name ai d address of the designer, and must be forwarded to the Right Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, Wellington, in time to reach Wellington not, later than Friday, the 3 'sl h inst. Tho circular states that all designs submitted are to become tho property of the Government.

The San Francisco mail despatched from Auckland on April Bth reached London on tho 9th inst. All cases set down for hearing at the Courthouse on Monday next have been postponed till the following Friday, A concert will be given by the Henui Church Guild in Henui school on Thursday evening, May 26. The programme will appear later.

The Government has cabled to Alu.i'lca and England for the necessary plant for sterilising works at Auckland and the Bluff. The erection of buildings at both places is to be proceeded with at once.

The Agjcultural Department has sanctioned the grading of all butter and choose intended for the New Zealand market, whenever application is made by purchasers or sellers. 'Die department will not, however, pay any charges for handling of produce graded for tho New Zealand market. The vital statistics for Greater Melbourne, embracing a ten-jnile radius, show that at tile end of 3903 the population was 501,460, as compared with r,02,000 in Ihe middle of that year, being a decrease of 000. Tho births (luring that year numbered 12.012, and the deaths 721T, giving an excess of births over deaths of 4795. The. illegitimate children born in 1903 numbered 1031.

Farmers and others will have a rare opportunity of securing some purebred birds for mating with their present stock ol- crossing with their bam-doors, it Uewlcy and Griffiths' sale on Saturday. A special prize winning Piymbut'h Rock cock figures amongst the entries, and there are also a pair of Pekin ducks—the heaviest pair in Taranaki outside of the ; breeder's yards. About 250 birds [ will be penned.

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