The Daily News MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 136, 13 June 1904, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

A lire police corps is being formed in l'almcrston North.

A fire brigade demonstration is to 'be held in JJunedin in March.

Ipswich (Queensland) reports another case of plague. The Methodist Conference has finished its sittings at Melbourne. The Borough Council meets this evening.

To-day is the anniversary of the acquisition of Malta bv the British in 1798.

"Spotted fever' i has caused several deaths in the Yorrawonga district, Victoria.

An Important meeting of the Exhibition, Committee is called for tomorrow evening.

A meeting on Saturday of those interested decided by a small majority in favour of a separate education board for Gisbornu district.

I'igeon fanciers will bo pleased to learn that tho .North Island championship for fantoil pigeons has been allotted to the Taranaki Poultry and Canary Society. We remind our leaders of the address to bo given by Mr W. W. Collins iu tho Theatre Koyal tills evening. The chair will be taken at 8 o'clock by Mr E. M. Smith, M. 1.1.11.

The Waihi mine began to yield Ibullion in 1890 with an output of £13,G2B, and every year since, for fourteen consecutive years, tho output haa boen increased, until in 1903, the figures wore £658,393.

"Gorso doesn't grow the iame in the South Island as it does hero," was an objector's plea in the Assessment Court proceedings at Opunake. "I suppose it grows in the air down there?" queried the president of tho Court.

The improved Laurence-Kennedy milking machine was exhibited at thu Dunedin Winter Show. Tho Star says that ''at last a perfect milking machine has boen placed upon the market."

A man (?) who owes a liquor bill to a publican not a h.indnd miles from New Plymouth, and who doesn't intend to pay, has been heard openly boasting that he can't be sued for tho money. His credit is now stopped at one hotel in this district.

Judge Murray (N.S.W.) declares that if the State stopped the sale of liquor there would booh be Aer.v little for the criminal courts to do. 1 'rink was the (source of Dourly all the crime in the community—at least, really serious crime.

Mr lluthie, thinks memliers of Parliament talk too much. His remedy for what Lord Salisbury termed "the weary drip of diluturv declamation" is to abolish Hansard', in. order that members may not he induced to talk what is u 'weariness to listen to in the hope that the ,prinU>d pagu may win them glory from their constituents.

Letters to hand from Yokohama (says the Auckland Star) indicate an on the part of two leading Japanese commercial firms to estalilish a branch business in New Zealand as soon as possible after the termination of the war. Their idea IS to cultivate and place on a jieniianent basis commercial relations between the two countries. It is also predicted that in (he course of time the Japanese mail steamers which weie trailing t0 Australia before the war will, on resuming their original running New stollantl in ti»< r

A funny incident is reported Iron, -Newtown. J;t is ~0 door of' tV''" 1 " ,h 0 hul hi« m ' )re ""W' s left open, terll BUS ' JICI ) O,IS "roused, and entern th 111 18010 With 0 d »rk lantern Tie occupant heard the intruder, concluded he was a burglar slipped out the bai:k way, ami, despite the cold night, started off for the Police, clad only in his virtue and n ( l i r, Sh,r , t - A 81,0011,1 constable was dub found, to whom the wildlv that foL'tl h 'v Slory ' 11 said that Constable V,. 2 then started < i - to circumvent Constable No 1 S plan of action being to deliver a "ght a,"I ett flank om , fron(ft 'i attack simultaneously, with a tuning inmenient thrown in. Fortmnti*. I.V the brethren in blue recognked each other in time, there was a triple explanation, and tho man in thu shirt returned to bed.-Post

A most extraordinary error n-iu disclosed at the coal - u hluesday night, while coal loading as proceeding into the bunkers the kotuku, says the West port times. Jhe nien had removed the bottom Irom the hopper wair r„ ' !»'t the coal did not nln, a ,,d ' ■uatio;, Kl; owed rix c , '»>« bottom upon woik |*. mg , stopiKxl for >|,e nCiv " ,,K - i" ,ear that fTtJiof evPlosives might be about.. It that the gelignite had been sent om «,-o " V 'T! * " Utk " ,arkn > ■«">'- t "y KOWO means the truck fakOT fO TJ d " (> h " S fltU ' ml "< l these mislunns at Orunity. '

mJSKL 10 PUfTerei ' S r "»» itne„ Iti-IETfMATiM r °I ~lo^or s of Hock's Chemists or Storekeepers an. „,,yv, ■seel to refund the pr.ee paid to tho' i" not having beneUted by the use nf it. Close on 500 Cured Pases known to tb 9 proprietors, and the following are a few of those who have kindly consented to have their names mentioned to induce other suferers to also benefit by thn use of Bock s Rheumatic Powder—' 1; Webb, Makotuku ; Thos. A. Pruden. lJtham ; James Harvey, Mrs Hart and Mary Ann Hodder, Ashhnrst r' ' Pohangina ; .Joseph Cuinmerfield, Foxton ; Mat, race McCtiHam and Albert Burgss, Waihi • H, E. Dean, Patea : John Douglas' Hampden. Otago. AH chemists and stores.*

The municipalities of Dunedin and suburbs are considering the question of amalgamation and the formation oi a ''Greater Dunedin."

K Hardy, on a charge of misappropriation of moneys, was arrested en Friday and brought before the court <,n Saturday, when lie was remanded until to-day

AH ft meeting of tho Patea Harbour Board the on frozen meat, laml) and pigs were nniended to Ik for every 20 carcases, on ironsand 2s a ton, on iron manufactured from ironsand la per ton. on frozon or salted meat other than specified Is per ton.

'l'ho Town Hand's annual ball on Thursday evening, in the Theatre Royal, promises lo be a most successiul function in every respect. A special feature is being 1 made of the music, which will be supplied l),v Mr Garry's orchestra. Patrons may therefore rely upon ail enjoyable evening's entertainment.

A sup v.-/. ii n has been made to the Minister for Agriculture by (he Auckland branch of the Funnels' Union that lie should have experiments made at the State farm, Waikato, with the object of preventiug rust in grain. The Governmenl I'.iologist (Mr T. W. Kirk) has been directed lo report upon the matter.

St. Mary's Church was crowded lo excess last nighl, many being unable lo obtain seats. Mr Studd preached on the subject of the Second Advent ol Christ, and lie gave a fine exposition oi Hible teaching upon this momentous subject. The closing service of the mission will be hold this evening e.t 7.45, when memorial cards will be distributed.

Mr ,T. McCnllum's motor-waggon has been undergoing repair lately, and was expected to be in working order 10-dny. The accident was only a trivial matler, and had thi? waggon bren working for a year or so would have been classed as such,, but. as tlw affair is yel soinelh'n" of n novelty tho cry went up lb it "the motorcar's broken down."

AtOpunako on Thursday there was i re-union of noted exponents of tho '.ranio of Rugby as it was played in Taranaki's palmy days. Messrs G. I'\ C. Cumpl'"ll, now prominent, in N'ew /enlar.d Rugby Cuion aiVaiiF, and Mi-.vtk A If. Parly and .1. Lamhie met at Mid'dUton'fi lor dinner, and reminisnnccs were immediately forthcoming.

"Kinß, Georgp and Cock sold a lease tlio other day at a big price," said a witness in tho Opunake Assessment Court on Thursday. Air Hutchison, S.M., deceived by the quick utterance of the words, asked "Who is King Geoiige ?" and the crowd in court smiled as tho witness explained that it was the Crown Hairy Company who had done the business.

During tho month of May 74 unemployed wero assisted by the Labour Department lo get work, (i(i being sent to privato employment and eight to Government works. In the Auckland district tho number assisted was 98, while in Dunedin it was 257. In tho Wellington South district during May fifteen domestic servants were assisted to obtain employment by the Women's Jirnncli of the I.abour Department.

Brithh postal orders can now l;e obtained at all tho principal money order cilliccN in tho colony. These orders will no doul<t find favour with the public, as by their means sin ill sums can bo forwarded to the Lulled Kingdom at a trilling cost. The orders range iu value from Cid to 2<is, the commission charged being Id for orders up to 2s, 2d from 2s to 10s (id, and fid from 10s (id to 20s.

11l Wellington city at the present timo a list is awaiting the attention of the Arbitration Court which comprises lour disputes, s-isty-two applications for enforcements, four claims for compensation under the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, I'JOO, and six other applications ; while nlYecting the country included in the Wellington industrial district are one dispute, fiftythree applications for enforcements, live claims under the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act., 19no, and one other application. When this congestion of work will he dealt with is unknown.

Lord Kanfurly addressed n meeting at Wellington on Friday of persons interested in education, with the object of explaining still further the scheme of Empire history teaching that, he had placed before the public in variouß parts of the rolony. emphasising (he wisdom o! instructing the rising'generation more than at present in the history of the rice and the expansion of tho Empire. In a succeeding discussion of tho scheme the opinion was expressed that extempore addresses by teachers would be more valuable as a method of instruction than a cut-and-dried system of lectures written by people in England.

Those on hoard the ketch Kcern, which has arrived nt, Cooktown from New Guinea, ha*l n curious experience off the South Cape of that island. During the night of the 12th inst., a fire ball-descended from the sky and exploded within six yards of the vessel's bow on the water. It was followed immediately by a rivid flash of lightnng blinding nil hands (.'ii deck lor two or three minutes.nr.d succeded by the heaviest thunderclap the captain e\vr heard in his fifty-live years' experience. The ketch was filled with sulphurous fumes, the sensation being as if the men were imprisoned in a room full of sulphur. The sensation remained for some hours.

At the annual meeung of tTie National Dairy Association on the 21st at Tnlmerston Aorth, a rrhcnie will he discm*;ed whereby it is hoped N'ew Zealand dairy produce may ], O distributed ij\ England under a better system than at present. The association will also be asked to consider the question of erecting a cooperative freezing works at th<« port <>f Wellington. It is sug M e S trd that the association should become the medium of exchange between buyer and seller, ami that, factory companies joining the combine should be freo to consign or to sell at a fixed puce, that in case of consignment the commission charges should not exceed per cent, and that the association should have the right to inspect all hooks and accounts in connection with consignments.

Mr Campbell, who represented the! Valuation Department, in the Taranaki Assessment Couils, went into elaborate calculat ions at dpunike on Thursday to elucidate the manhit (it apportioning tin- owners' and lessees interests in naiiva holds. After tnanipulnt ing tallies and decimals, reversions, interest, find capital, for Bonn: ten minutes he. concluded triumphantly, much to' th<» relief of perspiring tenants and lessees. who had endeavoured to accompany him in his calculations. I luir perplexity was evidently no less pronounced than Hint of thu Magistrate, who, in thanking Mr Campbell, remarked that " it. was i just about as clear as mud now." Mr Campbell said there was one nuin in Warea who profess,-d to tiwlorsland and the purport of the ontaiiLrleiiuMit.

SorTIIEKX I'IIAISE KOK miKriio. llheiimo, tile great rheumatic medicine, has only just been iirtrodnced into the South Island, and already its praises are lieinw sung. .Mr \V. Newton, carrier, Sydcnliaui. writis Ist (Jetoiier, lilOH "A few ilavs ago I had a very bad attack of rheumatic gout, and on tlio recommendation ot a friend, purchased a bottle of Kheumo from Mr AfcKerran, chemist, of Christchurch. The effect was magical, and before 1 had taken the contents of one -bottle the excruciating pains had entirely left ine, und I am pleased to to say 1 have had no return of them. Your remedy is a splendid ono, and I shall not hesitate to induce any sufferers to use it." Sold by chemists nnd stores nt 2s fid and 4g (3d per bottle. Wholesalo agents, New Zealand Drug

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Agricultural Society—Applications invited for position of secretary. F. !\leshenger—Tenders for building a residence. Harbour Hoard—'Tenders for build>inft' a crane. Suratura Ten—Reason for its superiority. Young man wants board and lodging.