NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 118, 23 May 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Feilding Borough Council has accepted tho tender of Mr M. Fergusson, of Wnnganui, for the manufacture of ten miles of spiral riveted pipes.

A motor-car service between Lower Wairarapa townships is mooted. Such a means of transport should be admirably adapted to the line level roads of the valley.

Owing to Tuesday (Empire Day) not being observed as a public holiday the football match between the Town and Fitzroy Fire Brigades has |been postponed till later in the season.

Herbert Grainger, a settler at Kiriaki, Dannevirke. was convicted for ill-treating a boy named Willie Frost, from the Nelson Home, who was in his charge. He was lined £2O or two months' imprisonment. Felix Tanner has refitted his "ark" which went ashore to the northward of Tcrawhiti recently .whilst making the passage from Wanganui to Wellington. Ho will make another attempt to reach Wellington in a few days.

Two lads, about, twelve, pleaded guilty at Wanganui on Saturday to stealing a gold watch find chain from footballers' clothes at the Hecreation Ground. The magistrate (Mr R. L. Stanford) ordered them to bo wliiijiped—six strokes with the birch rod.

The people of Tauranga bad inane great preparations for the reception of Mr Seddon last Thursday, but Dr Valintine was adamant, so the Premier stayed on board the Hinemoa, and the people had to put otf their intended banquet and other functions.

Mr Boddie is the very man that thousands are looking for. In his presidential address at the Farmer's' Union Conference in Hawera the other day, he said a great deal in a short time, at least, that's how lie impressed the meeting. There are hundreds of public speakers who talk a long time and say no;'..ing. At the last meeting of the Stratford County Council a vote of £25 was passed ta aid of the Stratford Technical School. Messrs Astbury and Thomson expressed the opinion that whiie the roads were In debt the Council should not pass this vote, and Mr Astbury further remarked that it would be better to spend the money on the starved primary education system.

The following are tho oflicers of tho Taranaki Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union for the ensuing year: —President, Mr James Boddie f vice*president, Mr Forsyth ; auditor, Mr Parlane ; executive, Messrs Thomson, Davidson, Ibbotson, Maxwell, Limlirick, Allen, Voullaire, Baker and Martini; delegates to Colonial Conference, Messrs Burgess, Forsyth, and the Chairman (ex officio). When in Wellington Mr J. A. McKenna, chairman of the Patea Harbour Board, hivd a very satisfactory interview with Sir J. G. Ward in reference to the contemplated scheme of getting a Bill through the House to provide funds for the extension of tho breakwater. At the next meeting of the Patea Harbour Hoard the I chairman intends giving notice of [motion " That a Bill be submitted to Parliament to borrow an additional £5,000."-Pres*

In the S.Af. Court at Wairoa (11. B.), before Mr Barton, n case Police v. J. Somerville (a doctor) a charge of being on licensed premises (the Wuiroa Hotel) during a currency of a prohibition order was heard. Tho solicitor who appeared for accused stated that on the occasion in question, a traveller, a lady, became seriously ill, and there was no other doctor in the town at the time. His Worship dismissed the. Infoilnutioid under section 87 of the Justices of the Peace Act, which enables him to do so even when the case has been proved.

The offence of mnking false declarations in the registration or nirrns and marriages is becoming,so frequent in this colony that tho Registrars aro drawing attention to a recent case in Christchurch,, in which a man was fined £lO for a false declaration as to his marriage. The Judge said this offence was a serious one, and ho would be very sorry if it were taken for granted that a man committing it could get the advantage of ,the Probation Act, or receive only a light punishment. It is stated that false declarations in regard to births are not uncommon. There is a serious penalty for this offence.

The Methodist Times says of the present method of "making ministers" :—" Wo take men from the plough's tail, or from behind the counter, givo them a passablo elementary eaucation, with a smattering of theology and tag ends of Greek and Hebrew. Then we thrust them into the maelstrom of itinerancy, where they are made to rotate with the dizzy rapidity of a whirlpool, until exhausted Nature drives them at last into the backwater of siipernumerarydom, often at the age when their influence would he greatest. What sort of solicitors barristers, architects, and engineers would bo produced bv such a fatuous system ?"

_ A local paragraph in our issue of Saturday was somewhat misleading the item referred to was "The Hoard of School Commissioners is taking steps to facilitate the transfer of St Michael's Square to the Education Board, Mr Mackenzie having withdrawn his notice of motion regarding the proposal." As a matter of fact tho transfer was completed some time since, the Education Board's title to the sections was drawn on May 9th and forwarded to Mr Allswor'th on tho 10th inst. Since that date the deed has reposed in the Education Board's safe, awaiting the ordinary monthly meeting of the Hoard. The position must be very satisfactory to Mr Allsworth and those of his colleagues who fought so hard for the interests of education, insisting on tho sections being transferred to the Board in terms of a resolution passed by the Commissioners.

The scheme which the Governor has initiated for the better instruction of thd rising generation of the colony on Imperial matters saw a successful beginning at Auckland on Friday when a sample lecture was given to a large audience at Government House. His Excellency presided, and made an opening speech, in which he explained his scheme, and referred to the similar movement in the Old Country mentioned in the cable news. The lecture which was given bv Dr. H. Dean Bamford, LL.D., dealt with tho history of the Virginian and New England colonies, and was illustrated by numerous lantern slides. Several speakers expressed 'approval of tho scheme and thanked the Governor for inviting them to bo present. The Governor said he would do his best to keep tlnj 'scheme going when he got to England. At the last meeting of the Porihnka Road Board, Mr Jacob Itotlieiy was appointed chairman for the ensuing year. It was decided to instruct the foreman to put. In a six-foot wooden culvert, that the same oflicial report on fencing oil' the approach to the bridge on the Xewall road. The Hoard was unable to accede to the surfacemen's request for an increase of wages. It was resolved that Mr A. Lusk be allowed to do metalling on Kina road, provided the work is completed to the foreman's satisfaction. The Board decided to cull lenders for formation work on Nguriki road and draining on Opua road. The chairman and Messrs Wright and Chapman were authorised to sign cheques ; the chairman, Mr Sorrensen and the clerk will interview the bank manager re the board accounts, and tho chairman and Messrs Wright, Revell and Bimn, as a financo committee, report on uccounts at the Board's next meeting. Outstanding rates will be sued for. Mr Wright gavd notice that at the noxt meeting of the board ho will move that tho boundaries of the district bo altered, making tho Oaonui river the southern boundary.

It is stated that Lloyd's underwriters (London) will lose about £4OOO under their open policies covering butter which was desl ro.ved in tho lire at Moturoa freezing works.

As a result of complaints as to the undue slaughter of ducks this year, the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has decided to ask the Government to frame a regulation making it illegal to use any device in duck hunting oilier than a cylinder 2ft (Sin, without a bottom.

The Tuihupe News records thai capital progress is being made with the Taihape tunnel. The lining is practically completed, and the trimming of the floor is likely to be finished in a few days' time. It is confidently hoped that a locomotive will enter Taihape station in the course of a I'orLnight.

Householders and others should note the unreserved sale of groceries to be held on Saturday next by Mr Newton King on account of Mr W. 1-1, Pillar. The stock, which comprises all the leading lines of a general grocery business, is new and of firstclass quality. This sale oilers a splendid opportunity for families to procure a supply of groceries at cheap prices.

At a meeting, held on Friday [night, of the committee in charge of arrangements for the military ball to be held on June 3rd, it was reported that everything was proceeding satisfactorily. The decorations are intended ta eclipse anything previously seen in the Brill Hall, and the arrangements for supper are to ■be considerably extended as compared with former years. Another meeting of the ladies' committee will be held on Wednesday afternoon.

Speaking on land valuation at Hawera the other day, Mr E. Maxwell, of Rahotu, said that just when a man, after spending his years and substance in converting rank land into sweet, expected to reap his reward, the valuer came along, and up went the taxation. In allowing for improvements only houses and other improvements in sight were taken ■notice of (and not the labour which had furnished material improvement), which was grossly unfair.

New Zealand has lower police than any State in Australia. The official figures, based on last census, give one police constable to every 1388 persons in this colony. In Victoria there is a policeman to every 795 inhabitants ; in Now South Wales, one to 627 ; South Australia, one to 1013 ; Queensland, one to 580 ; Wast Australia, ono to 416 ; Tasmania, one to 747. Thus tho New Zealand policeman has to protect or "keep his eye on" a larger bulk of population than the man in blue of Australia.

A horse belonging to a traveller for Mr Gorxlacre,' of the Egmont Boot Factory, Now Plymouth, who was in Manaia recently, Uroke its leg on Thursday morning, or the previous evening, and had to be destroyed. The animal wus paddocked near tho Union Yards, and must have got its oil hind leg twisted by some means and tlieii fractured above the the fetlock joint, for when discovered the limb was in u terrible condition. The loss is a considerable one, as the boast was a fine upstanding harness horse.—Witness,

Speaking at the smoke social tendered to the delegatec of the Farmers' Union Conference in Hawera, Mr Boddie remarked that probably of all the questions that were occupying public attention at the present lime the most important was that of land tenure. Farmers were now contending for '■' their own patch," and he did not think that professional and business men were opposed to it. If those had so much to say about the land belonging to the people were to take the places of the farmers ho did not know how they would get on. The freehold tenure and that alone would satisfy those who had to do the pioneering on the ]und.

Owing to the misapprehension that nan m.. invu respecting Uenerul Booths emigration sehonie, the Commissioner for Australia sent a cable message to London for information. In reply he received the following :—Authoritv given to announce to States that General Booth's emigration scheme is in no way connected with the submerged classes of England. It is not contemplated to uccept emigrants except they aro approved by t Instates, for which they are intended, or the agents of those States iii London." According to the British War Cry, no fewer than 2000 persons are on the books, and it i» added :—" It is no exaggeration to say that thousands of honest, industrious, and stalwart men and women who are in dire distress hero through want of work, could find employment and haapy homes in Canada if they could be helped to get over the water. Some of them could raise part of the means necessary." The Social Gazette says :-" Twentv men irom our Farm Colony will be leaving there in the early days of April. Having taken advantage of the opportunity afforded them there, they are now about to be given a fresh start in a new land. Bightoen aro 'being emigrated to Canada and two to Now Zealand."

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