NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 154, 4 July 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

On Friday last the Opunalie Times celebrated its eleventh birthday. Advices lttive been received in Hunculm that the Flourmillers' Association has been reformed. The heaviest westerly gale for years was raging on the Sew South V. n lit', coast on Saturday. Snow lias fa lieu over the h-iigihlamds. At Ash'burton a line of 52.000 bushels of prime milling wheat (Tuseiiii velvet) sold at !5s per bushel (:,.;eks iu) on trucks al. Tinwald. A pi.viiiic meeting of burgesses of the .Ueiros.' ward of Wellington City uidopiod the City Council's proposals to borrow £(7<7,000 for tramway extensions and £:!!!,500 for street improvements in that ward. The proposals will lie sitbmilted to a poll of the ratepayers. Nominations for three vacancies on thq Rducation Board, caused by the retirement by ellluxio-n of time of Messrs 10. (I. Allswortli, Arthur Morion and 0. 11. McHonald. closed at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Only the three retiring member* were nominated umi consequently have been re-elect-ed unopposed. The secretary of the Master Bakers' Association informs the L'uuedin Evening Star that the following figures have been adopted as Hie basis (or the prices of the four-pound loaf: —With (lour at £7 per ton, 5d ; ut from £7 to £B, s}d ; at. from £8 to £9 (is ; at from £9 to £lO, 6jd ; at from £lO to *£ll, 7d—and so on in proportion. The Clarendon Hotel, a well and favourably known hostelry ill Auckland., has lately changed hands, Air Pat Quinlan, late of tho Edinburgh Castle Hotel, being now the proprietor. Travellers can rely upon receiving every attention, as Mr Quinlan will, as always in the past, lay himself out to make the comfort of Iris guests .his first consideration. Charles Frederick Smith, laliourer, ayvd about 27 years, was arrested at Wellington on Friday in connection with the robbery from a young lady near Kaiwarra on Wednesday jvecing. It is stated that part of the missing jewellery was found ia Smith's possession, and the remainder had been traced ; also that the i young lady who was rablbed has identified Smith as ner assailant. The annual meeting of the North Island Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Association was held at Wellington on Friday. G. Finn, Wellington, was re-elected president. Thero are still 14 affiliated societies. The association starts the year with a credit Balance of £BO. A proposal that the association should include A. and P. Associations was lost. The next annual meeting will be held at Eastings, but the heud<ju*rter.s of the association will remain in Wellington. In another column Mr Newton King notifies thu arrival of a shipment of Messrs Joseph Fison and Son's celebrated potato fertiliser. This manure has earned for itself such a reputation for promoting in-creased-yield of crop that it is coming into almost universal use by potato growers. Those who have-used it claim that it is more economical, easier of application, and gives better results than stable manure, and does not introduce weeds into the garden, « hich is such a drawback to the use of the latter manure. The Moa Road Hoard ut its last meeting appointed a committee to inquire into the matter of closing a part of the Suffolk Road from the Mnn-gar.ui Uiver to tho Kaimate Road, and decided to meet on the third Saturday in tlie month, commencing in August. Steps will be taken to raise a special loan of £BOO for the Mangaone lioad, and the board will strike a general rate of two-thirds of a penny and a special rate of one-tenth of a penny in tho £. Repairs to the Kaipi Road were authorised, and Mr Wilson's tender accepted for the Bristol Road contract. It. was also resolved to call for tenders for the supply of 23 yards of -boulders for Durham Road West, to inspect, the drain in Bedford Road recently dug, and that the work on the Tariki Razorbuck be 'held over for the preseit. t The editor Of the Opunuke Times grows dismal with regard to the dairy farmer's lot. Quoting from the Governor's speech "The slight fall in the price of butter • • • has given some concern to those particularly and directly interested, but his Ministers are of the opinion l that the 'general prospects of the colony were never -brighter." The paper remarks that if his Lordship or his Ministers were milking cows for a living instead of milking the taxpayers "we venture to say that a fall of a penny per pound in butter fat would receive a different name to a 'slight fall.' But then of courseduirymen should be thankful to be allowed to exist in the colony at alt Those delving in the soil, in tihe 'bush, in the mud, im- the wet, in tlie cold, sparsely led, sparsely clothed, sparsely comforted, overtired, overweariid, will be dWighted to hear that it is proposed to 'hold another pageant slliow to amuso towiwlwellers J f inviting Lord Rojberts to make a triumphant tour of the colony at their expense." The Borough Council met In secret conclave on 'Saturday night, and conferred with Mr Mestayer, engineer in charge of the loan works. The representatives of the press were told indirectly that the council could very well do without their presence, and tlie guardians of the 'burgesses' purse then discussed their liusiness. Resolutions were passed in committee, and not being affirmed in open council aro still official secrets as far as the press is concerned. It was decided, it is said, to defer consideration of the reservoirs tenders until to-day at 4 o'clock, to raise the pipe-bridges, and to accept u lender for the installation of the electric light, alternating current, Mr Mestayer expressing the opinion that for light and power combined this system held advantages over the direct or continuous current. The reservoir matter is causing- great dissatisfaction among tenderers, some of whom are unsparing in their criticisms of the council's action. Two of the lowest tenderers are to be asked to place mi amended tender before the council, and this . causes further difficulty, as niemlvers of the Master Huilders' Association are by their rules prevented from tendering uga'in unless tiho alterations amount to ten per cent, of the price lijiiotcd.

The Waiinato Witness gives vent to a psalm of triumph, as follows : —'The Waimato district has ever been noted for tho splendid class of footballers it has produced. Players they have been, it is no exuggoraI tioji to say, not surpassed anywhere jin the colony. Names like Good, , Latnbie, Hughes, Hayley and Glenn, are familiar to all from the -Vorfli I ('ape to the Jllufi, who know any i thing at all oi footJtall, and these 1 men aro t hey who have given the Waimato Club the reputation it enjoys. And tho players following thom, anxl doing service this season, havo not disgraced the club's escutcheon. On Saturday Hie seniors, whose chances of winning at tho end of the iirsl round were of the remotest, but who ever since have carried everything before them, met and defeated the Hawera representatives, and by doing so won the championship of tho southern division. Their performance 'is a particularly meritorious one, and we would be lacking in appreciation if we did not congratulate most heartily the club, the members, and the captain of the team, upon: the creditable result achieved. They have proved themselves capital sports, and carried to a successful issue what appeared to many to bo an impossibility. The district has reason to feel proud of its footballers this season, for not ! only havo the seniors won their contest, but the juniors have done the ! same, and there is some justification for believing- that the second juniors will l>o likewise successful ft feat falling but seldom to the lot of any one club.

A coursing club has been established in Palmer srtoii. . There are 115,713 landholders in New Zealand, of .whotn only 15,840 pay land tax. Wellington Technical School proposes to institute a system of teaching by corresnondena l . During the past throe weeks the value c;i" gold won from the mines of Auckland district amounted to 852. To-day is America's great "Foiirtoh," the annivorstiry oi the derla'rution of American Independence in 1770. The Garrison Band playod several selections in the streets on Saturday evening, to the enjoyment of promomdcrs. The cookery classes under Mrs Gardner's instruction will .be open to the public to-nijg'ht, Wednesday, and Friday, at seven o'clock. Arthur Rooke, a London solicitor, was killed through falling into ' a civvaKst in the Alps, near Zermatt, a hamlet in Switzerland nine miles north-east of the Atabtorhorn. He was climb'ing the mountains without a guide. Tlio Railway Department has arranged to take the whole of tihe output from the State coal mine at 1 Point Elrzu'both, amounting to uu'bout, 2000 tons weekly. I'p to tile present, the Seddonville mine has produced 18,000 tons, and the Point Elizabeth mino 4000 tonsThere was a very large attendance yesterday afternoon ol' friends of Mr and Mrs E. T. Petty, to pay tho last tri-bute of respect to their late daughter, Miw; -*\da C. Petty, who died on Friday laist after a long, illness. The interment took place at T-e Henm Cemetery, Rev. John Nixon conducting the service in a very iinpitessivo manner. There were, many floral tributes, and the family received a large number of letters and telegrams of condolence.