NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 184, 8 August 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

TheMoa Dairy Company has already paid out ad per pound -for butter iat lor last season, and the full return to suppliers should be about 9Jd. The bonks doing business in the colony have decided on and after Monday, August Bth, to give lour per cent, per annum on deposits 1 lixed for two years. There is a girl, in Christchurch who should make her way in the world. She cycled along the street the other day steering with one hand ; the other towed a four-wheeled pram. The case of James Barr, charged with the murder of Chorles Robertson was continued on Saturday in the Supreme Court at Wellington. The jury brought in aveulict of manslaughter, and sentence was deferred till to-day. At the Wellington Supreme Court witlings on Satuiday the Crowu entered a nollo prosequi in the case of Charles Burrowes, charged with breaking and entering a warehouse and stealing cigars, in wluich the jury disagiwd on Thursday. The Waitara Road Dairy Company will probably pay out BJd for lust' season's milk. The annual meeting of shareholders promises to be lively, the question of suppliers' versus nonsupplier,s' profits being expected to promote warm discussion. The burnt pumice, embers, and ashes, from the lire at the Waitura Freezing Works are now being carted away, (propenUy-o/wners eagerly securing them free for their paths! and drives. The strongest part of them is the odour thereof, which is anything but pleasant. On Saturday evening the New Plymouth printers and the Sash and Door Company's employees played a euchre and cribbagc tournament, the typo team winning in cribbage by twelve points to eight, and the wood workers in euchre by three games Id two. A return match is being arranged. The Uunod'in express was over two and a half hours late in reaching Chrislonurch on Friday night. Shortly after the train left Tumaru, an accident happened to the engine, and on arrival at Ashburton it was found unlit to proceed further, rendering it necessary to await the arrival 01 the uf'lernoon train from Christchurch. The Waitara Freezing Works fire is still burning. At present a man is engaged in clearing up the site, and burning the refuse matter. About eight miles of steel pipes were dragged out of the ruins, a traction engine being secured for the purpose. These snake-like, much curled and twisted tubes are now heaped in all directions. The annual meeting of the Stratford Co-opeiiativc Dairy Company decided unanimously to increase the capital of tlio company by creating three thousand additional shares of £1 each, making a total capital of £13,000. The exact average price for the year for the company's output of butter fat is 8.3d per pound. Owing to the purchase of a large quantity of new machinery, the year's transactions show a loss ol £4B, but the outlook for the present season is highly favourable. The liquor ordinance passed by the Haratonga Island Council in February last has received the Governor's assent. Under it only the Collector of Customs is authorised to import and wll spiritous liquors, and he takes poHspHsion of all other liquor in the plate, paying compensation to the owner. The commissioner will administer the law and report to the Minister annually regarding the profits made (luring the year, tr u M > accommodation house is erected for visitors, the manager or owner may lie authorised to sell liquor on behalf ol the Government. No native is to be supplied except on the written authority of the commissioner. M'- William A. ci nl . k „ „ u , n „ l|ti . millionaire ■'C,,,,,,,,. Killfi ,.. lim , w , u _ ;<jUoi lor Montana, whose approaching mai, -, nge , t0 a , miy oMo v(>ms lis junior h a s given fashionable New ,\ork something to talk about, is having what promises- to be the most ■inaginlicHK residence in the United Slates erected in Fifth Avenue, New Wk. Commenced in 1890, this'palatial structure is now within two years of completion, and the total cost will amount to over a million pounds. It is almost entirely constructed of marble, white'granite and bronze. The metal costinir 0100,000, comes from the senator's own foundry, while for the granite ne bought up an entire quarry in Maine, and is obtaining )■'-.,. niarble from his works in Long Island. In the interior a series of four picture galleries, witn a wall space of 4JIB feet, will contain a display of art treasures which will be unrivalled in the United Stales, with tho possible exception of Mr Pierpont Morgan's In the basement an elaborate Turkish bath, containing a large wliito marble piscina for swimming, will complete this fairy palace, worthy of the Arabian Nights.

A line occurred at ounit's timber yard, baunoeston, doing damuge to the extent of £IO,OOO. Mr Newton Ktogfs Stony River sale fixed [or Wednesday, 17th inst., is postponed till the following day. An examination in theory and practice for plumbers will be liold at Stratford on the IUUi and -Oth inst. There were twenty-seven visitors I at t e Mountain House yesterday. 'Pli--' day being beautifully line a j splendid view was obtainable. Hurlpyville Dairy Company's bal-ance-sheet showed that S.OSW had been paid out for tbullcr-fat, but there was nothing else to divide; in fncl. there was a shortage of about JSliii. To the Western mind death is a great and solemn thing. To meet it bravely in a high cause is the iinal test of manhood. To the Japanese life has sacrddness and death no solemnity. In the course of building' litigation before hiin in Wellington on Saturday the Chief Justice wus surprised to learn t'vat rimu doors were dearer than kauri. "It used to lie the other way abotiti," remarked His Honor ; "in llunedin rimu used to be half the price of kauri." "It is not so now," said the witness, an architect. The remarks arose out uf an objection lu the builder putting in "cheap kauri doors 1 ."

The English medical press is preaching the' new religion—cheerfulness. One paper says : "H is good to laugh. There] is probably not the remotest comer or little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the l(wly that does not feel some wavelet from the great convulsion produced by hearty laughter shaking the central man. The time may come when physicians shall iiresei'ibe to a torpid patient no many peals of laughter, to be undergone at such and such a time." The splendid patronage given to to Mr Spurr on his recent visit to New Plymouth, has been the means of Mr Fleming deciding to play a l'arewi'll night here. Mr Spurr will open in New Plymouth at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday next in an entirely new programme to that given on his previous visit. Intending patrons wishing to hear any particular item are 'united to intimate their desiie by letter to Mr Spurr, care Theatre Royal, or leave word at the I,ox ollice. The Standard states that Waikaia proplc got into a state of mild ex■ileimnt one day lust week through a ■century." The dredge in ques tion, the Duke of Gordon, has been getting will over 5()oz and dUo/.. almost since starting, but last week ol.'taiii'.'d lOOoz UMivt, the record return for Southland. The dredge is privately owned. The 1/ady Anne, another privately owned concern, yielded BL\>7. for the week. Tho achievement of the Uuke of Gordon was I'xcusabl.y celebrated by a conceit.

It is the poor that help tho poor. The saying has passed into the language. And it is a true saying. In kindliness of feeling, in fulness of compassion, in tender tolerance for the faults of those defeated ones who have gone astray, in ready forgiveness of injury, in generous abnegation of self impelling to deeds of nobleness, and in universal, ready sympathy born of a full experience of like woes and sorrows, the poor may be said to be not poor, but passing rich indeed.—Edwin Pugh, in the Daily Chronicle. A first-class, good commercial standing after many years is about the best test that can be applied to any concern, and suuh a one is the Dr. Langston Institute, of Collins-street, Melbourne. The people and press of Australasia speak of thein as Ivcing all that can be wished for, both in honesty, fair dealing, and skilled treatment. The representative will be at, the While Hart Hotel, New Plymouth, on Monday, August Sth to'loth—a stay of seven days, and invites the afflicted to call and have a free test of their combined treatments. The consultation is free of charge. I low a moderate capitalist misses becoming a inilliimiro. -In reviewing the rise of property in- New Plymouth during the doKciu 1890 to 190-1 it was possible for a £IO,OOO capitalist to be on a lair road of becoming a millionaire, and it causes 1 much study to-day before anyone can be in a position to say that the opportunity has now gone by ; when wo come to consider that the whole el the freehold in th<vbnrough of New Plymouth contains only about HIT aires—lol acies central ward, 89 acies western ward, 109 acres eust- ■; n ward—one-fourth of the total area, of which could have been purchased for about £17,000 unimprovvalue within the period mentioned, which has increased to a present saleable unimproved value of about £222,000. Many residents remember a few years ago sections in Hine-st. were looking for buyers at £ls ni section. Are there any sellers at £2.jo u section to-day ? We have no local'industries that the cause of this rise in value can be attributed to It is practically thn prosperity ol Taranaki which tho syndicate known a-i tho Crown Dairy Company was the means of starting. There are no enterprising capitalists in New Plymouth up to the present. It cannot be long before capitalists will turn their attention to what is the greatest colony in tho world. Labour will follow capital. The population will increase, and when wu consider that lihe total urea of our borough could bo held by about 300 persons with a little over an acre each, and rising in value as it has done with a population of 15000, what will be the value when the population reaches 20000, with large industries ? Property values in New Plymouth are "cast iron ; " depression can never affect them. Depression should cause unity, and with unity we can drivo Taranaki to prosperity. It is estimated that the lirzt direct steamer would cause an increase in value of Taranaki property of £500,000. Person, ally wo should say now is the time to acquire freehold, if only on a small scale. Callaghan and Co. can oiler opportunities of securing homes with small deposit, and in situations that the capitalists will want shortly. Again, in 11)08, what will be the value of sections in the Vealo Estate at tile expiration of the harbour loan.*