NEWS OF THE DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 127, 2 June 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

Parliament is summoned to meet or the despatch of business on the !Bth inst., at 2 p.m. 1 < There will be no sitting of the Magistrate's Court in New Plymouth m tho 17th inst., owing to IheSu- i ireme Court sitting here during that iVeek. The police raided a Chinese laundry 1 in the Avenue, Wanganui, on Tuesday evening, and seized a (iluantity of opium, pipes, etc. Two Chinamen were on tiie premises, and tliey will appear before the Magistrate. Arrivals in the colony in April totailed 2H(>S, as compared with -.VI "> in Hie corresponding month of last year. The number of persons who loft the colony lust April was 275)1, or 841 more .than in April, 1903. Tho Town Hand's open-air concert at the (iovernment HuildingH, which was postponed from Tuesday evening on account of the bad weather, will, if conditions are favourable, be held this evening. The Railway Department has been advised that the first of ten locomotives which .Messrs Price Bros., of the Thames, contracted' to build, will be delivered about the Ist August. The firm hopes to be able to supply tho others at the rate of one or two a month. An inguest was held by Mr T. Hutchison yesterday touching the death of a male child, five weeks old, the son of Albert Richard ileiford, of the Bolt Road. Death resulted from a stoppage of the windpipe while the child was taking food. A veitlict of accidental death was returned. lUessrs Fovvlds and Laurens™, who are conducting a land campaign in tho north, addressed a large meeting at Darguville on Tuesday. At the conclusion of the addresses a resolution was carried protesting against further alienation of Crown lands and demanding an increase in tho present land tax.

English is spoken everywhere in .lapan. The children team it in the schools. On the railway stations notices are printed in English above and Japaneese below, and in the trains the tickets carry Japanese on one s-ide and English 011 the other. An Englishman can get about everywhere without any difficulty. Ihe Education Board held a special meeting yesterday afternoon. It was decided to instruct the architect to take steps towards repairing the Central Kchool, to make arrangements for carrying on instruction, and to make application to the Government for financial assistance in repairing the school buildings damaged in the recent fire. The borough council has a gang of men at work removing the spoil from a slip which blocked the ham-street extension during the recent rains. Viewed from Carringlon Koad, the new street, which gives access to the prison quarry, seems to have suffered considerable depletion by the floods in the adjacent stream. Mr Samuel, chairman of the genI eral committee of the Taranaki A. and P. Society, has received a com[municntion from the.jßjljpler for ! Agriculture, deelinmgjß? i*Wow tho society to the I Moturoa Pi agricultural show purposes.; Tlie committees -are to meet on. Saturday to , further discuss matters. '".Japan is run on English linesfreed oih for everyone," .Mr C. Mack .Jnsfraold n Christchurch reporter. Where is more freedom then in NewZealand or Australia. Anyone who is decent can come in without let or hindrance, whereas a .1 apanese can't enter the colonies without producing credentials -or paying an indemnity. When Japan joined the Heine Convention, the country was thrown aljsolutely open to all nations, and any person can go about as freely and as safely as in his own country, if not more so." .According to advices from London received by mail the following five steamers have, been chartered as transports for tlie conveyance of 8000 to 10,000 coolies from Shanghai to Durban The ISrinkburn (2565 tons net), the CourUield (287-1 tons net), and the Cranley (25)03 tons net), owned by Messrs Harris and Dixon, London; the Indravelli (3125 tons net), owned by the Indru line, Liverpool ; and the T'weedale (2490 tons net), owned by jjessrs li. Mackill and Co., Glasgow/ 'The passage money has been fixed at per head.

At the conflagration in rnhnerston North oA Friday night (says tho Manawatu Daily Times) the firemen had an unpleasant task fixing the hose to the plugs. The latter wwe buried in sloppy mud, and could not be located easily. Most of the men \vei;e resplendent in theii# "•brst clothes" in honour of the brigade's social,., and those who attended • the fire without their uniform got sadly be-' draggled and splashed. However,they! soon forgot their troubles. Immediately on their return to the station the music struck up, partners were claimed, and the heroes of the evening, with their damsels fair, were again tripping it gaily. The dairying industry in the Auckland district is making great progress. The Acting Dairy Commissioner has just returned from a visit lo that part of the colony, and he reports that lie was much phased at the strides which the industry has made thero of late. During the past tinancial year the export of butter from Auckland was -10.000 packages greater than in the previous: twelve months. Mr Cuddie states that some of the butler factories in Auckland are as well equipped as any in the colony. In the Commissioner's opinion the price of butter at Home is not likely to be lower tban it is now. In fact he looks forward lo an increase in the market rates. ■> The doubling of the hands on the Toko line has already mused an influx into the town of Stratford. The Stratford labour agent says that the opening for employment is not sufficient to attract outside labour as the local unemployed labour is more than sullicient to fulfil any wani in that line, and men coming to Stratford will most probably be disappointed. The Stratford Post says that it. would be a great boon to the men if tiie work were commenced at once uk there are a large number unemployed. In this connection the llawera Star is responsible for the statement that owing to tho closing down of fiaxmills in the l'almerslon and "Foxton district a considerable' number of men have been thrown out of work. Mr Xatban does not relish the opposition by tho Taranaki papers to his little .scheme for centralising on." butter trade at Wellington, and hus informed the Wellington Kveni ig I'ost "that there are two things, to choose from, namely, the improvement and betterment of control of Ihe dairy industry, which is a national concern. ryid the desires and aims of a port that never was intended by nature to be a port at all. He holds thut the concentration of the industry at Wellington, while improving the industry, would benefit the dairy factories and the farmers, inasmuch as there would be only one freezing works required. The opposition of the 'Taranaki press he puts down to a desire to benefit New I'lymouth at the expense of the farmers. Further, he pointed out, the quantity of butter and cheese available for shipment here would then be so large as to invite, competition for I he freight, and so lead to a more advantageous arrangement with the shipping companies in the future. Ho also stated that if all the grading were done in Wellington there would be less expense in the employment of graders." The winter season 1s with us again with its accompanying rough wet weather. It will l>e necessary to protect yourself from the cold ami reliable overcoat.

The metalling of Devon-street is bo ing pushed on. It was badly needed in several places. The junior civil service examinations in future are to be held in December in each yoar. An inquiry into the lire, which caused so much damage at the Central School on Monday night, will l;e held by Mr T. Hutchison, S.M., ! at ten o'clock on Saturday next. A London cable states that betting . on tire Derby is as follows 7to 4 ) Clouvernant, So to 20 St. Amnnt and | Henry I, 11 to 2 John o' Gaunt, j 100 to 8 Andover. "We lost a good man when we lost i Mr Mackenzie"—a complimentary remark regarding the late Commissioner of Crown Lands in Taranaki, uttered by Mr Cock, the Mayor, -at the Chamber of Commerce meeting last night. The directors of Router's Telegram Company, Limited, have declared the usual dividend, at the rate of five per cent, per annum, for the half year ended iilst December, 1903. The cash balance in hand at that date was £82,245, and Iho com- - pany's reserve fund now stands at I £35,000. 1 _ NKW ADVERTISEMENTS, i Football—Star fixtures for to-mor-row. Education Hoard—Applications in- , vited for positions of instructors in technical classes. Moturoa Mission Room—Opening | service 3.15 p.m. to-morrow. 1 Borough Council—Tenders wanted for grazifig rights over abattoir reserve. Smart hoy, used to horses, wanted.: 3 Boy for shop wanted, l Boy, with horse, required for dei livering papers. e A reward is offered for a lost col- - lie uup.