The Daily News. TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 131, 7 June 1904, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Yesterday marked tlio anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1806.

The first Reform Bill was passed in England ninety-eight years ago today.

A co-operative concern in Inglewood is selling bread at fivepence per four-pound loaf to its shareholders. It has been decided to call for tenders for lighting Hawera. The Hawera Gas Company and the new Electric Lighting Company will probably compete for the work. The Wesleyans in Eltham intend erecting n church there. The mission has only been open about a couple of years, but the members arc a most enthusiastic set. The Christmas carnival executive and the exhibition committees meet this evening. Important business is to be transacted, and good attendances arc requested. Arrangements for tiro forthcoming annual ball of the Town Band are reported to bo progressing satisfactorily. Tickets are going off well, and tho success of the ball is looked upon as assured.

The Town Band, under Bandmaster Garry, played an excellent programme at the Government Buildings last evening. Two items specially worthy of note were an overture from the "Bohemian Girl," and a selection from the opera ''Sultan of Sulu." Mr Geo. Lauronson, M.H.R., has Intimated that he will be unable to address a meeting in New Plymouth on his way south this week, but hopes to bo a>blo to give New Plymouth the benefit of his views on the leasehold Vjjuestion during the coming session.

Addressing the Mayor as a member of tho Charitable Aid Hoard, Cr. McAneny at a meeting of tho Hawera Borough Council, regretted that tho Board should have seen lit to call for applications for a married' couple "without encumbrance," while at the same timo the Premier was crying out about the declining birth-rate.

As an outcome of tho prosecution of a Salvation Army oflicer in Eltham for street obstruction, there has been Home newspaper correspondence on the sobriety or otherwise of Eltham. The last contributor to the discussion says : "Without being desirous of libelling the town or tlie people, I wish to substantiate Adjutant Dixon's assertions that 'there are times' when both drunkenness and bud language are noticeable in Eltham."

The receipts at the Ilawera public baths for tho year ended March Jilst, 1908, totalled £43 IDs 2d, and for the last season £72 10s 2d. For the latter period, the working expenses wero £62, so that slightly over £lO is available towards paying tho interest on tho. £IOOO loan. The interest amounts to £SO per annum, from which it will bo seen that tho loss on the year's working was about £4O.

Mrs J. R. Hill received a severe shock and narrowly escaped a sen ous accident in Devon-street on Saturday afternoon. She was crossing on foot at the Devon-Brouklham-street corner, when an express drove rapidly around, and before the lady could get out of the way had passed over her foot. The express was going so fast that when in her fright Mrs Hilt grasped tho wheel it cut her glove o lf her hand. Bystanders wondered that she escaped without serious inquiry.

During the hearing of an application before tho Kgmont Licensing Committee in Waitara, says the local paper, the Stipendiary Magistrate said it appeared 'inglewood was a thirsty place. He was shocked to hear that tho settlers crowded round a hotel bar, as it was represented they did, for in a country overflowing with milk tie did not think there need bo so much call for alcohol. The licensee invited the Magistrate to test for himself the difficulty in getting a drink, but Mr Hutchison said "No t'nank you."

At the Kgmont Licensing meeting, last week at Waitara, tho following resolution was affirmed :—"That in the opinion of the Egmont Licensing Committee, the timo has arrived when it is both necessary and desirable that a courthouse be erected in Waitara, for tho purposo of properly and efficiently conducting meetings of tho committee and sittings of S.M. Court, the present arrangements being anything but convenient or satisfactory, and that this committee! co-operute with the italoigh Town Hoard asking the member for the district to urge on the Minister for Justice tho necessity and desirability of placing on the estimates a sum of money for the purpose mentioned." Mr Hutchison, S.M.. promised his assistance.

Mr Beauchamp, acting-chairman of the Wellington Harbour Hoard, is not in lovo with Mr Nathan's proposal for railing butter to Wellington. Interviewed by the New Zealand Times, he said :—"New I'lvmouth is, to my mind, the natural centre for the establishment of works and the storage of butter. This produco can bo tatter shipped to Wellington by steamer in large quantities, than despatched by a long train route to Wellington. The Now Plymouth people, have determimd to eroct new works as speedily as possible, to replace those desrt.ro>ed by tiro at Moturoa a short time ago, and I know that the majority of them have scouted the idea of entering upon any arrangement whereby their butter should be stored in Wellington or elsewhere awaiting shipment. Matemily hospitals, staffed by probationers from the general hospitals, superintended by competent, thoroughly trained maternity nurses with a lady doctor, cither resident or non-resident, should be established all over New Zealand, said Mrs Sievwright at a Christchurch meeting. These hospitals were much needed, would be largely patronised, and would very soon become self-support-ing. A beautiful oxamplc, she believed, of such an institution might be seen in Toronto. The very poor should be accommodated in the same way, rather than in their own miserable homes whenever practicable. She was opposed to grants being given to the Salvation Army or any other Wody, for maternity hospitals' should Ik! under State or local control and inspection, For various and obvious reasons she did not think the women of the Council would recommend the, establishment of foundling hospitals.

Fine weather is reported from Sydney for the holidays. At I lie local Police Court yesterday two inebriates were convicted and discharged lor drunkenness.

The Tradesmen's Association's annual meeting and dinner takes place to. morrow evening.

It is understood that Klthani protested against Wuimato being awarded the match played against Eltham at Eltham on Saturday.

A Taranaki County Councillor is responsible for the statement that the four butchers in Jnglewood are cutting prices. Is it infectious?

There will be no mail despatched from New Plymouth for Auckland until Wednesday night, the Ngapuhi having been compelled by stress of weather to abandon her ordinary trip, A Loan Hill will r"»*'»Dly be infcrrtriiir-''. vj viie Timaru Harbour Hoard next session for the completion of the eastern mole and pcrmaI ncnt improvements inside the harbour.

At a pre-sessional address delivered at Am'berley last week by Mr 11. W. Kutherford, M.H.K., the speaker concluded his remarks on prohibition by taking a drink of milk, with the remark that it was a habit he had acquired in Wellington.

The highest rainfall recorded in the North Island during April was 13.67 in., at the Summit (Rimutaka) ; Mangorei.Karito road (Taranaki) being a good second with lO.Ooin. No heavy totals are recorded in the South Tslaml, the highest being Waikawa Valley 4.06 in.

A number of country sawmillers have met in Wellington for the purpose of discussing matters affecting the welfare of the timber industry. It is not intended to make any alteration in the present market rates for timber.

Tho Magistrate's Court takes civil business at 11 a.m. to-day. In future civil business will be taken on Fridays, the Court silting at 10 o'clock instead of 11 o'clock r.s heretofore.

At the breakwater on Sunday night one of the chains which were used in mooring tho Corinna to the wharf snapped, and struck a man named Inch a nasty blow on the leg, causing the bursting of a blood-vessel. A complaint is made by a passenger that tho wharf at Moturoa is difficult to negotiate at night. Ha does not complain of the intricacies of the rails, but of the large number of ropes and hawsers lying about. Until the wharf extension is completed this state of affairs can hardly be remedied.

Mr Gray suggested yesterday that the Taranaki County Council should hold over the construction of its steel bridges until the ironworks are established in New Ply-mouth. There was an Incredulous smilo on councillors' faces, and one member remarked that they would have to wait a long time.

One of the Moa riding members of the Taranaki County Council was complaining bitterly yesterday that the other .ridings were very lax in paying up the dog-tax, instancing the very large amount paid in during the month by the collector in his rkling. He was rather taken aback when informed that other collectors imid in regularly in small sums, but ids man had received a clerical "rap over the knuckles" for allowing the fees collected to accumulate to such a largo sum.

Sly grog-sclllng in the King Country must bo a lucrativo business!says an exchange) for at Te Awamutu recently a defendant was fined £75 and costs for the offence. There were nine convictions against him. lie. paid up forthwith, and presumably went back to recover the amount. Six other defendants wero each lined £25 and costs for similar offences, with the alternative of a month in Mount Eden. Three of them elected to take it out. A woman was fined £lO and costs, and informed the Court that there was more worry than prolil in the business. She paid up, however.

A young Arawa native, who had been instructed by the Arawa Council to mako a census of bis tribe, reported that the tribe numbered 2013. Children born in the years 1902-03 numbered 127, while the total deaths during the same period were 9.1, the excess of births over deaths being 3(5. The 1 greatest matter for regret is the abnormal number of children who die under the age of twelve. Above that age and among the old the mortality is very small indeed. The births for 1902 exceeded the deaths by 29, while the figures for 1903 were 71 and 137 respectively. »

An Illustration of "trying it on the dog" is recalled by recent cases of wild honey poisoning, saye the New Zealand Times. There is a tradition that the East Coast Maaris in tho old days had a primitive kind of test. Honey which from colour or odour fell under suspicion was set carefully aside. When a pakeha tramp next sought the hospitality of the kainga the dainty was produced, and the query propounded, "You liki honi V" 'You bet !" was tho usuul response. Next morning, if the visitor was none the worse, tho honey was duly entered for home consumption ; the alternative being a private funeral.

Holiday-making Is becoming a perfect mania in New Zealand, and presently it will to necessary to reverse tho old order of things ami simply to differentiate the working days. Continual holidays are disorganising factors in the life of industrial communities, because once work is disturbed it is hard to get into the regular swing again, and it is not uncommon to find cases in which one day is practically spent in making preliminary arrangements, another enjoyed as a. holiday, and a third devoted to suffering a recovery. The innate conservatism of a section in our midst makes for the observation as holidays of a lot of allcgvd birthdays of alleged saints. Besides these, Labor Day, Arbor Day, and other loyal holidays and statutory halfholidays make a formidable list. This continual holiday-making sets a bad example to the rising generation whose studies are constantly interrupted thereby ; it encourages the working people to spend instead of to earn money; and it is, generally,' an agent for demoralisation and not for up-lifting. The thing ought to be taken in hand by our politicians and some statutory linality in holiday making agreed upon, but the great difficulty is to arrive at a common basis of action.—Manawatu Times. The best medicine known is Sanler & Sons' Eucalypti Extract, and its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, and influenza make relief Instantaneous. For serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, ,» sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflammation Like surprising effects prodtued in croup, diptheria, bronchitis, ltn Humiliation of lungs, swelling, etc., '.iarrhoea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys, and urinary organs. Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract is In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronia. Ed by His Majesty the King of Italy) crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved and rw lect all other.-).-Advt RHEUMATISM YIELDS TO RHEUMO. There is no escape from that. Rheumo conquers rheumatism, and conqiuers every time. Rheumo is a likjuid medicine, lo be taken internally, and it is pleasant to the palate. Rheumo seeks out the affected parts kills the pains and aches in the joints and muscles, removes the swelling, and eliminates the uricacid poison and the phosphntic sediments that occasion all the I rouble. Rheumo is a positive remedy for rheumatism, acute gout, suppressed gout, chronic gout, gouty skin complaints, gouty asthma, sciatica, lumbago, and urio acid poisoning. Sold by chemists and stores at 2s Gd and 4s 6d per bottle.—Wholesale agents, New Zealand Drug Co.«

National susceptibilites must bo a(fuiver in Western Australia. At a recent meeting of the Midland .1 unction Council Councillor .lainioson wanted to know why the German colours—red, white and black—had painted on the conspicuous chimney stack at the railway workshops. JTho Mayor explained that the colours, although constituting the Gel ■ i man flag, were not in the proper order, and were therefore neutral.

The returning ollicer at Wnngamii indignantly 'denies an allegation of the Itev, J'". IV. Isitt, made on the I authority of the Kev. J. Cocker, that ' a ballot box ivas left all night in a I shed at the flag station at Wanganui for the guard of the early morning I train to bring to town. The facts | are that the guard was do;"!'.., ,-,.. . turning oil'icer. Sri the box was new ' or out of his charge. Immediately the poll dosed the ballot papers were removed from the.box and placed in another, and at once taken l to the returning oilicer at the chief polling booth. The box seen by Mr Cocker had no ballot papers in it, and was in charge of the guard. The island of Kawau (says the New Zealand Herald of May '2l) has passed into the hands of a new proprietor, Mr A. J. Farmer, Mayor of Te Aroha, having taken over the property. Kawau bus for many years been to Auctlanders a spot around which pleasant members have- gathered. As the home of Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, the island came into historic prominence, for it was from his retirement there, after many years of service to the Empire, that Sir George Grey, at the unanimous request of the citizens of Auckland, became Superintendent of the Auckland province, and afterwards went to Wellington as one of the members for the city. For some years past Kawau has come into prominence as a resort for tourists, and during the past week tho I'remier has been sojourning on tho island, and, according to reports, has much improved in health by his stay there. The negotiations (or the purchase of the island were conducted through Mr E. W. Alison, M.H.K. for Waitemata. Latterly restrictions' have been in existence regarding the landing of visitors at the island, but it is understood that these restrictions will be removed, and any steamboat company will bo permitted to call at the island. The mansion house will continue to be utilised as a tourist resort for visitors, under tho management of Mr Couch, who has been in charge for some time past, .and has made the resort very popular with tourists. It has often been said that reductions in th« Customs tariff on foodstuffs do not prove a Weneiit to the consumer, as the retail prices of the goods are not reduced accordingly. It is therefore very pleasing to note that Messrs Nelson Moate and Co., the woll-known tea lirni, reduced the prices of their celebrated teas by twopence per pound immediately on the recent abolition of the twopence customs duty on tea. The public are now able to purchase any of this firm's well-known brands at twopence less than previously, and are consequently receiving the full benefit of the reduction. The fact that Messrs Nelson Moate and Co. have done this pro\es ,that the public do, in some instances at any rate, receive the aidvantages of tariff reductions.* Members of the Taranaki Guards are notified of the Government parade to-night ut 7.y0.* IIOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.

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