NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 142, 20 June 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Ventura, v, iHi the 'Frisco mail, leli San Francisco on the Willi insi. At the last meeting of the Mokau Ilarljotir Hoard the tender of W. llolloway was accepted for the supplying of pil.s for the lieu wharf, the price being £L' Ids each. Other tenders wore from H. Cockburn ami K,gl|inton and Suynpstjn at lis and :is Ud ]ier running foot respectively. The .Junction Hoad beyond .\talau sultered very severely during flic r<cent heavy rain.':, several hail slips fifing reported. Mr Jennings has communicated with the Koads I).--partniont, asking that Hie road be re-opened without delay, ns the b'Jock is causing a griJnX. deal of inconvenience to settlers and drovers. For Children's Hack ug Cough el Night, Woods' Grout Peppermint Cure. Is 6d.»

The. I'atea Press says there is no Inn h in Iho report that Constable O'Hricn. dl' l'« 1 en, is- lo exchange stations with Constable .Simpson, of Elilxiin.

'Hi.' Post reports that the Inspector of Weights and Measures was engaged yesterday testing the correctness of loaves offered (or sale by the Iocs) lakers.

A peculiar case wtis- brought up at Whang'uinumona the other day before Ihe local iusliccs, when a lad was

i luirgid with stealing wild honey in in the bush, on a man's property. •ihe I'.-nch held Hint, wild honey could n ,t be stolen.—l'ost.

New South Wales weather reports on Saturday gave the temperature as the lowest' lor forty-live years. At fifty-four stations the IherinuinrW (leading was ibelow zero. A heavy sea was also running on Hie New South Wales coast.

The output from the Seddonville Stale mine is steadily increasing, and there is a decided improvement in live quality of the coal, X large area of both steam and household coal will very shortly Ho opened up, and supplies ready ior the market. An election will take place on July I lth lo (ill a va.:aucy in the representation of education boards on the Victoria College Council. The roll will close on June i!7th, and nominations clom. at noon on !MU bfr-Ctitnined from Mr C. ]'. I'owles. returning ollicer, Phoenix Chambers, Wellington.

" Although married only leu years." says a London paper, "Lord and Lady I'luiikct are taking six children out, to New Zealand two boys and four girls. In view of the discussion now going on at. Ihe Antipodes on (lie population question, Ihe new Viceregal party will be welcomed as the exponents of a good example."

The warrant authorising the constitution of the Taranaki Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association is now in the hands of the ad interim Hcrrelnry. It has been decided, however, not to call the first general meeting until .after the N.Z.F.C. Colonial Conference, which meets in Wellington on July iJth.—Hawcra Star.

In Admiral Makaroll's house at Kronstadt there hung over the inantlcpiecc a portrait of his grandfather. Captain Basil MakarolT, who commanded a famous Russian line-of-baltleship, the Viestnik, in the eighteenth century. 'Phis Basil .MakarolT had three brothers, all of whom were drowned ; so the fate of the lute, commander of tlie Pacific squadron was not unfque in the family.

At Inglewood Messrs Henry Drown and Co. were charged with having allowed sawdust from their mill to fall into the Wnioitgona-iti Diver. Defendants pleaded guilty to allowing sawdust fall into an nflluent of I hut river, but since they had had notice they v.v>\- taking steps to pie-

icnl it lor the future. The court indicted Ihe minimum penalty of £2 uud costs 7s.

The handsome overmantel carved by Mr Andrews, of Wung-anui, for the Now Plymouth Poultry Society has attracted considerable attention during the week. Messrs linker and Co. have placed it on view, and u ' giiui[:s,e at the line workmanship inould lie sufficient to prompt the jUircliaM.' of a ticket in the society's art union, for which the overmantel is the l'u sf prize. .News has been received at Wairoa (11.11.) that Maori repudiation casus in conuietion with the Mutiipiro, Kuh'iutara, and Tiikiniokihi blocks, involving a principle relating to the administration of nearly one million pounds' worth of property, were called before the I'rivy Council. Messrs W. Shriinpton (Hastings), and A. It. nun' and J. Hunter Drown (Wairoa) were represented by counsel. No one appeared for the Maoris. The cases were all struck out with costs.

A clerical gentleman who was perambulating one of New Plymouth's •badly-lighted streets the other evening at u very lute hour, wandered oil the footpath, not into the gutter but into a vucunt section. 11 was bounded, however, by a division fence, nnd ere long the wanderer wus brought up standing thereliK-, theforce of the impact leaving ample yvidence on his nose. In justice to him it should be mentioned that he is a prominent prohiUition advocate. M is priM/iihle that the return of Mr ■!. A. Ivin.-'ella to New Zealand will be delayed by reason of his illness. When he arrived in England from tin- Argentine he was not in ■good health, and he therefore consulted two London specialists, who informed him that he was still suffering from the elfccts of malarial fever in his system. In a letter rcceiied in Wellington. .Mr Kinselln stales that ut the time of wrilin(May -Jib) he had turn in bed lor two weeks, and though his health was improving, a visit to the seaside would be necessarv to enable him to regain his health.

In his speech oi Friday evening at Wellington Lord lianfurly said that luring his seven years' residence in New Zalamci the people had experienced unexampled prosperity, mid looking at ollicial figures lie winsurprised to see the advancement that had In en made. The population had gone up by 121,000, ami the annual railway revenue luwl increased from £1.000,000 to £1 - 1200,000. Hegurding his scheme ol Imperial education for the younger generation, he had received n ' vast number of letters on the subject all criticising the scheme in some way or other, hut everyone was in favour of it as a whole. In time lie hoped to work out this scheme, not only lor New Zealand, hut for the whole Kmpire.

u e (Hutt and JVtone Chronicle) are so accustomed to the languaee ol exag;gvrnlion from the mouths of politicians nowadays that a fairy tale by one of them now and again is looked upon as a sort of spice with which to season theplain dishes available. It is, therefore, not surprising that the statement made 1/v the Minister of Railways at the laying of the foundation stone of the I'etone railway station, that, there were seventy trains a day running in and out ol I'etone, should not have excited much comment. 'Puking 11 1( , lime-table, anil allowing for"extra goods trains, specials, etc.. we cannot luul more than forty-two trains and inquiries from ollicial quarters only elicit n smile which is re suggestive than informative. Still, with I lie exercise of a considerable amount of ingenuity, an infinity of patience and some perspicacity, we believe we have solved the problem (.'lose observers will have observed that a ballast-train is engaged in shilling spoil from the hill below Korokoro to (he new station site—a distance of some six chains, and to gvljhc t„ia| aiunber of trains up lo Ml a day. each trip „( t| H , ballast tram is counted as, an extra Ham ! Jt is a very extraordinary thing lor a Minister lo use the language or ion in such a simple matte,-, but we suppose it is one of those habits ol' association which develop will, time and undoubtedly become almost second nature.