NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 187, 12 August 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Allsopp's Hrewery Company (England) shows a loss for the year, of £25,257. In the wicket match Lancaster versus Sussex, Poidevin (the ex-Austru-lian) scored 153. There is every probability of a strong athletic association being formed on the coast. Six hundred pounds worth of gold dust and retorted gold was stolen from the strongroom of the Tuiuberumba (N.S.W.) police station. The annual meeting of the Felldtng Athletic Club, hu.s, decided to increase the prize lyoney for the next meeting to £»0. A Press Association telegram from Greymouth states that the demand for coal from the State Mine is increasing every day. At the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday Ceor.go Coyle, lor assault ing and injuring a police constable (Russell) at New, Plymouth was sent to gaol for three years. The Leeds iPhyftical Culture Society must really go slower. Up to the present they have (condemned corsets, hats, garters, boots and stockings. It is not without a certain apprehension that wo ask "What next ? " —Leeds Daily News. In answer to a communication from the Education Department, the Wellington Hospital Trustees have expressed their sympathy with the proposal to obtain for some of the Maori race a thorough training in hospital work, and have agreed that any such applications for vacancies on the nursing staff will receive equal consideration, with those of other applicants.

A man at Kaponga bought a prize rooster recently. Three days later he hail it stolen. He was at a banquet not long afterwards. In front of him was placed a very fine fowl, of which he ate heartily. Making reference to the excellence of the bird, he was given information which led to the discovery that It was 1 his own lost rooster ! He is going to make somebody sat up !—Witness, A Traders' Association has been formed in Waitara. Following are the ollicers :—President, Mr A. W. Ogle; Vici-Presld- lit, Mr W. P. Snell ; F.xecutive, Messrs Pockl>es.';;n gar, Caldwell, Joll, lllack, Klenner, Lawrence and Lcne-hnn. The appointment of a KTi'etar.v was held over Mr Jtoss to act pro teiu. Mr Pearce moved and Mr Rowe seconded that the half-holiday next week, on the occasion of the UritisJi-Taronaki football match, be kept on Wednesdav from noon.-Carried. The Chairman said there would be various matters to be dealf with by the executive and the credit system was a parties Jar thing that wanted going into. I here was a long discussion on the subject and it was decided to leave the rules in the bands 0 f the Executive, who will meet on Tuesday next.

The llunedin Star savs :_The dim culty of obtaining reasonable advunSettlers Ofl.ec is said to lK> s „. eason why many Crown tenants are becoming dissatisfied with their tc-nl lire Instances are q,,0t«l whore scttlcis have lately obtained doublo the JTStat'T th „ C PriVate •non.aMcnmonf t o(lered by the def""-t----ttistrict the holder of a- lease in perpetuity tt ppli«l for £250 to the 11 yances Office and was offered £,«? ... ° OO - Another settler who could ■•c-adjly get £BOO for his interest a, i'hed quite recently for £250 Z' ww offered £l5O. Apn ft ™iiv private money-lender has nm e f Uh » the State leasehold / /" vancos to Settlors Oflice

Referring to the improved prices for wool, the Hawke's Hay Herald slvs -In the two and a-half years which fo lowed NovomEer, 1901* n \S, advance was experienced in every line of crossbred wool, an advance which still continues, according to latest reports. The rise between November 1901-1, was 45 per cent, in greasy medium crofsbreds, 80 per cent. in greasy coarse bright crossbreds. 120 percent, in greasy coarse average crossbrals, 40 per cent in slipe halfbred, 80 per cent, in slipe Uirce-qtiarterbred, 110 per cent in slipe Lincoln, and 100 per cent, in greasy lambs' wool. This works out at an average rise of 85 per cent oil all sorts in the course of tho lust three years. If we take our output ol wool at about Ki0,000,00011, WL , have, in round numbers an ud'vunt*BC of £2.500,000 t„ ~|„. colonv owing to this advance in price This large sum of money is distributed hroiighout the colony and is a very large factor, in , dood> in th( , • prosperous condition of the country at large. ■> From the Hawera Star we loam • -Answering a question from George Lake, of Hawera, the Town Clerk oi Wellington (Mr J. n Pa" n!!'itLr TO !° " S foli, " vs "l"'n the d<0| a.«l.v in Australia: •■! 'egret that if is n ut e„sy to answer ir v^wskl^ «Kl«r«l. Within my knowl" , " " S " U> U , alt ' s have agitated f,„- ~ 'irgement to lhe .. c f tv „ J ' ••'- fil ! lod to attain the'prlv. «im' .h '""\' Slittlc doubt in' v """' that when the status of ~;.,. ««,, This is, „f counK . tho *«' £. h'" l! ', Victo na dties are p£ c aimed entirely upo* the population plan, and I think fiouth Australia follows the sanie rule."

The Federal Full Court has dccit'l td that women are not entitled to ad- f mission to the Bar under the existing », law. The post office advises that the c Mel-bourne despatch .of July <Hhaa- t rived in London on the nught of tha ( «th inst. There being no lawyer in the West Australian Labour i'arty, Mr Hay-1 or, Ciown Solicitor, has 'been appointed to act as Attorney-General, ihe iukupti Football Club's eleventh annual social will be held in Jie Theatre Royal on. Thursday, September 22nd, not on biio Ist-, as previously arranged. The Friendly Societies' Picnic Committee met last might, it was resolved that the secretary luvite the various lodges to appoint a new committee to curry out the 11104 picnic. The committee recommended that, owing to the carnival functions monopolising tihe Christmas week, the picnic beheld on the King's Birthday, Dili November. J-u connection with the Colonial Bunk liquidation the JJunedin Star says the Companies Act, taut, put Mr lira-hum, Oilicial Assignee, in OS' liquidator. At that date bite whole of the assets were realised and the accounts duly presented to the Supreme Court and continued. Mr Graham had nothing to do except to act according to the Court, and distribute the assets among the shareholders. All accounts of the old liquidators were Wed and are available for inipection. Although goods trains carrying the mails have been running into Tailiape since the Ist inst., the new section of the Main Trunk line hus not been handed over to the Railway Department by the Public Works Department. The legal process entailed by the alteration in the conlrol- • ling body will not be effected until

Uie passenger service is instituted, and every detail of the work completed. This is expected to be early next month. Mr Parsons has been appointed Ntntionniaster at Taihape. The success of the torpedo in the bunds of the Japanese has given that weapon a rise in favour in our own navy (Buys the l'all Mall Gazette). Aotsolong ago it was a common thing' to hear officers—especially of the engineering branch— decry the Whitehead, declaring that it was too uncertain a weapon to be much relied upon in action ; in fact, the torpedoist has beeu held in email account as compared with the gunner, Now, however, mailers wear a new aspect. For one thing we are to have a better kind of torpedo—one that has an effective range of 3000 yards, a» against the 2000 yards of the to. pedo gem-rally in use. In order lo make provision for experiments i with this weapon, the Admiralty I some time ugo decided to lengthen • the testing tank at Horsea Island, and the contract for thin work was let recently.

Municipal todies are often experts in " how not to do it." The Duntdin Star gives an instance of this. It ways- that on Tuesday morning an interested and amused knot of people stood watching two Corporation employees, a horse, and a steam roller flatten out a newly-made tarred-shin-gle crossing. The question was asked, Why two men? The duty of one apparently was to unhook Uie roller and hook it on again when the horse turned. Of course it was recognised that any self-respecting trades and labour council would admit that there was ample work for two if not three mm. On Friday the same knot of business people watched a gang o'i men cut a two-feet deep by about thirty-inchcis wide trench clean across that newly-pressed, nicely-roll-ed, freshly-gravelled, or»amentallylinished crossing. And yet some natepayera complain that the streets are badly kept ! Tha Mahutuia Pope, Agamya ISuru Paramahansa, who hap returned to India after his visit to England, has a low opinion of us (says u London paper.) He finds fault particularly with our lore of luxury, our pursuit of idle pleasures l , the fondness of our women for dress and jewels, the artificial lives of the people as a whole and the fierce struggle for more wealth. Tho Mahatma found English people very eager to leam something of the mysteries associated with Theo.ophy and its Mahatmus, but it was mainly b. cause they thought they could inako money out ofjt. He also found many people posing as Theosoplusts, ur.A claiming to perform mir--I'iiclcs—sutiding their souls out of their bodies iato the "astral plane," causing flowers and letters and fruit to appear suddenly in mid-air, .and working other fantastic wonders. These things, he says, are all frauds. It is mere trickery, intended to impose on the credulous. "It's done for monet, he declares, and whenever things are done for money, in the name of iheosophy, you may be sure that they are lies. No truo teacher of Theosophy ever accepts money in naynant for his teaching."

The Otago Witness says :~A creat deal of interest is takes from one end of the colony to the obhor jn the ; chain-letter which Mrs James Mills kindly undertook to manage m aid of the Veterans' Home Fund and repeated requests have been uiado, especially by resident* In out-of-the-way districts, that the progress 0 f the good work should bo made public through tho press. In compliance with these requests Mr Mills Informs us that up to tho preM ? Mi " 3 !las received between 8000 and 9000 replies, thc| contrilmJ?nn to „ lmn<i sUffhtly over £IOO. Most of the replies have been very sympathetic in tone, and full of good wishes lor th« success of the project. The contributions have ' not bicn limited to the modest threepence fixed upon. Some replies have contained value I'or 6d, others tor Is, and, i n a f ew instances, up to 2s <id. In a. Comparatively few cases, on tho other hand, the contribution was not sent on with the reply, but evidently the omission was discovered and eho amount sent on later with apologies, The chain was not to be broken until the number 50 was reached. S G far the replies received border on the number 30, ■»nd it is therefore probable that another £IOO may bo received for the fund when ull replies are to hand. It is doubtful if Mrs Mills realised the amount of time sho voluntarily undertook to devote to assisting a good causo when she sent out her chain-letters, as it has frequently happened that 100 letters per day required attention. Mr Mills desires us to say that Mrs Mills regrets being unable to reply to the many sympathetic letters she has received, and takes this opportunity of thanking her innumerable correspondents. A good reputation ie a fine thing in business. If a man of a firm, conscientiously mid consistently carries out all that is promised or guaranteed to the public, ultimate success is assured. This has 'been "the case with the Dr. Langston Institute, a representative o[ which may now be consulted at tho YVWito Hart Hotel, New Plymouth. The successful treatment of rupture necessitates lengjthy experience, and the fact that this firm has stood ami extended its Australasian business for many years, receiving grateful testimonials in all parts from patients who haw i.rai siiccess'lully treated, gives proof of the v a lue of the system. Consultations are given free, and charge made for treatment only. In roferense to the present visit of the representative ol the Lamgsi|<on Institute the following extract from a letter received yeskmlay will l ;c i-ead with interesit, ami needs no comment :—" The agent for the New Zoaluml Times, who is travelling up horc for it, told mo yisiteixlny of a case in your hands, oi one of tho wealthiest men in Wellington, an officer in tho volunteers, who told him that after trying everything and all the doctors he has at last found relief from your treat- ,"' t '" t ' { n 'act he has. so far recovered that ho has got married. He would not tell me tho name, but as he i> of! his way south ho will call'on ' ymT afc New Plymouth, and you can get all the Information! in confidence from htiri, as ho told mo tho party objocfrtU to baviny his nam? mentioned,"

No girl ever learns much at school after she begins to press in her book* the flowers the boys give her. I Tho Wellington City Council has leaded to have the organ for the new Town Hall built by and Beard, of London. I

The directors of the Westport Coal Company have declared ft dividend of three sttillings and sixpence per wharc for the half year ending 80th , June. Tile indications at .the Moturoa oilboring works yesterday were most favourable, largo (quantities of heavygas rising from the bore. Mr Fair expects to atriko a " gusher," and that ibeforo long. The depth now is about 1200 feet. At the Bawera Poultry Show yesterday Captain Hood's team of birds did remarkably well. With his Golden Wyandotte he took local and provincial championships', and in Duff Orpingtons tho Society's prize and a social fell to his lot. In the points prize competition Captain Hood's runner'sMip were Messrs If. W. Mills of Hawoi'a (second), and G. ISoulton Kthird), The salo of work organised by the Ladies' Guild in Fitzroy took place yesterday in To Henui Church Sun-day-schoolroom, and was well-at-tended during the day. A very attractive display of goods was placed in a tempting manner before buyers, and the result of the sales, from a financial point of view, was highly satisfactory to the ladies, who had worked so earnestly in making preparations. \voods' Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds never fails, Is iid.« ? How a moderate capitalist misses becoming a niillioniro.—ln review—ing the rise of property in New Plymouth during tho dcriod 1890 to 1904 it was possible for a £IO,OOO capitalist to be on a fair road of becoming a millionaire, and it causes much study to-day before anyone can be in a position to say that the opportunity has now gone by ; when we come to consider that the whole of the freehold in the borough of New Plymouth contains only about 347 acres—lo4 acres central ward, 89 acres western ward, 159 acres eastern ward—one-fourth of the total area of which could have been purchased for about £17,000 unimprdvvalue within the period mentionedy which has incrensod to a present saleable ..unimproved value of about £222,0p0. Many residents remember a few years ago sections in Hine-st. were looking for buyers at £ls a section. Are there any sellers at £250 a section to-day ? Wo have no local industries that the cause of this rise in value can be to. It is practically tho prosperity of Taranaki which tho syndicate known as 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 whit is tho greatest colony in tho world. Labour will follow capital. Tho population will increase, and when wq consider that the total area 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 (5000, what will be the valne when tho population reaches 20.000, with largo industries ? Property values in New Plymouth are "cus l iron ; " depression can never after! them. Depression should cause unit and with unity we can.drive Tarnn ak ! to prosperity. It is estimated that the firzt 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. Callnghan and Co. can oiler opportunities of securing homes with small deposit, and in situations that tlie capitalists will want shortly. Again, in 1908, what will be the value of sections in the Venle Estate at the expiration of the harbour loan.* For Children's Hacking Cough at Bight, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, ll 6d.» i'