NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 208, 6 September 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The electorate of Wallace, Otagi is 112 miles in length by a brcadt of 108 niilesi and contains 4,458,9(5 acres.

Don Walker (Australian) won his heat, and rain third in the final ol tha two kilometres International Cycling Championship at the Crystal Palace.

Willoiighby (N.Z.) won the (iover nor-Generul's Prize at the Dominioi meeting at Ottawa, Clung (of Nel son. and New Zealand champion; being second.

On Sunday night thieves smashed a plate glass window in a jeweller's shop in George Street, Dune din, and took out a tray of rings valued at £l2O.

The Auckland City Council is accumulating information of the subject of motor waggons as a substitute to the present horses and carts employed on municipal works.

While pig-hunting in the hush neni Wlmngarei Arch. Ingram had hij thigh gored by a wild boar. ]|< was taken to the hospital in a serious condition, but is expected to recover.

Test matciies to choose axemen and sawyers to represent New Zealand at the World's Championslup.s in Tasmania in November will be held at Eltham on the 15th September. Good nominations have been received.

In one of the civil oases dealt with in Use Wellington Magistrate's Court judgment was given for sixpence and costs 19s. The defendant had Ixon sued for one guinea, ami had paid that amount less sixpence, and without costs, into Court.

Kuropatkin's failure as a prophet reminds a contemporary of n certain boastful man who went t 0 s>ho 0 t a beur. But the bear got tho better (jf the fight and a race ensued. When the man noared the camp with tho bear close at his heels he yelled ■Mt, "I'm bringing him homeailve."

The state o'f the road at Munro's Gully, Tuapeka County, is said to foe so bad that recently a

team of 17 horses was required to draw an ordinary waggon load up the hill, and a team of 13 horses got stuck pulling the Same load down tho hill.

The export of gold from the colony last month was 4G.773 ounces, valued at £178,624, as compared with 30,074 ounces, of tho value of £110,572, in tho corresponding month of last year. Tho export of silver last month was 88,444 ounces, valued at £8875.

Tho Astoburton Guarotan has been inquiring into the causes of the steady decline In the attendance at fully a dozen schools in the Ashburton County, and the conseaius of the opinions given by the teachers asked is that the decrease is due to tho aggregation of estates* and the decreasiag birth-rate.

Forty thousand tailors aro on the strike in New York. All the big tailors are affected and it is almost impossible to have tt Buit of cloths made in New York, except In the east-side sweat shops. The strike comes at am unfortunate time for New York Society people, who are just beginning to order their summer clothes preparatory to leaving town bef o re the not weather sets 1 in. The Cutters' Union is one of tlio strongest in the country.

In connection with tho recent purchase of the Tak'apau Estate at Tologa Bay for tho Government, it lues been ascertained thiat the Crown paid for 400 acres more than tho property .actually contained, the amount alleged to have been overpaid being £2974, The Crown is now seeking to recover this from Mr J. B. Davy, Registrar-General of Lands, with six per cent, added, alleging that tho overpaid amount was caused by a mistake of tho Land Transfer Department, on a plan of the land.

The beach, for miles south of Timara—and probably all the, way to Oamaru or further—hears broad whitey-brown bands of dead ascidians, or stalked sea-squirts. These curious vegetable-animals must grow in enormous profusion somewhere in tho South, to. have, furnished such a quantity of victims to recent storms. Those washed up at Timaru, says the Herald, have ovldentally grown in bunches on i a bottom of quartz gravel, as many of tho bunches have brought along pebbles embedded -among their root fibres.

The capital of Queensland, has one of the best tramway systems in the Commonwealth. It is of the electrical overhead principle of traction and is managed byMr.J. S. Badger', an up-to-date American. There are twenty-seven miles of street lengths, totalling 50 miles, and further extensions are in progress. Over one hundred cars are available for use, the number in actual daily service being from sixty-five to eighty-live. In 1903 tho tramways were patronised by eighteen million three hundred and' seventy-six thousand persons' The men employed by the company number 675, A very liberal timetable has been arranged. Curs start running at 5 a.m. and continue till 11.30 p.m. Then there aro what are called "owl" cars at intervals of ono hour till 3 a.m. In connection with tho servico there Is a very good musical band composed of tramway employees, who play every Thursday evening from 8 to 10 o'clock at the rotunda on the bank of the river at Hamilton,

Messrs Morey and Son notify that they have dissolved partnership as from Septemlier Ist. The Horough Council invites alternative lenders for the erection of the East End fire station. Mr It. Todid, Queen Strc-.'t, announces the arrival of a shipment of coal from the State mine. Tho great Sale of hoots and shoes continues at C'hatterton's, mil attention is drawn to some special ibargains obtainable thereat. Messrs Kelsey and Lennon, v. ho 'have for some time past carried on -business os accountants, etc., in New Plymouth, have dissolved partnership. Mr Kelsey continues the .business, and Mr Lennon has joined Mr Edgar Watt in his land agency. Mr (!. A. Acllani, a well-known settler, ol Oakura, had the niisf 0 r-

tune to break lii 9 leg yesterday morning. Ho was bringing in a cow at the time, and was having some trouble with the animal, when he slipped on » siding and sustained

the injury referred to. Mr Adlam was brought into .New Plymouth hospital, where his injury was attended to.

The Stratford Scho 0 l Committee is (the Post reports) somewhat at a loss to know how to deal with truant children without dealing too harshly with parents, while at the same time it considers it necessary to be firm in the stand taken. In future children who are continually playing/truant' will be 'brought before the magistrate and dealt with under the clause of the Act which gives power to the magistrate to c o minit tho child to an industrial ground on the grounds that it is beyond the control of parents. A well-known Tai'aaaki town (the Eltham Argus remarks) is not unknown to fame as the abode ol Jeremiahs, hence when "Jeremiah Land" is spoken of people have no difficulty in locating a town whereto the inhabitants not long, ago ap pcared to be haunted with a dread that the bottom was falling out of everything and that their town was on the ibroad way to ruin. Now the Jeremiahs have taken a back seat and the " Bluffers" have com» to the front, and they are greedily demanding a railway terminus that nevei - can bo theirs.

A clean motliod of attack is agj'eat thing in all conceited music (says tho Duiiediii Star), and wftifli the Austral Guards' Band were here it was a noticeable point 'about their playing. When they got to Woodville, however, they seem to have let their attacking powers stray beyond the region ol music into the domain of fisticuffs. The Salvation Army are always engaged in active warfare, hut it is popularly believed to bo with powers unseen rather than with any visiblo enemy. Even should the martial spirit of the army overflow from abstract to the concrete onsla|uiglrt, the band of an urmy ought always to be noncomlmtant. On this occasion their motto seems to have been like the reputed order of the Iron Duke at Waterloo : "I'p Guards, and at 'em." Says the Post:—The members of the Houso of Representatives of this colony do not scruple to carry on animated' conversations when some notorious bore is unburdening himself of his views, but it would appear from tho following paragraph in a Sydney contemporary that political manners are better on this sido 0 f the Tasman Sea than on the other :—Few things strikle a visitor 't« the House of Representatives more than the downright bad manners of a good half of the members. N 0 mutter who may bo speaking, an almost continuous 'buzz of Conversation goes on,. If tlie talkers were similarly interrupted in private life the chances are the politicians would eminent acridly on tho ignorance of tho offender. Yet these persons act in the House like the worst kind of uncultured animal, and send the average visitor away with the conviction that a worse mannered set of men was never gathered together in one legislative chamber.

Mr Holland, the inventor of the submarine, says that liis new flyingniuchine will ibo In as general use as bicycles »u five years. It consists of four wings, each ten feet long. Two are fixed to the shoulders and hips, and they are worked by handles and pedals. The machine weighs about 2011)'. The frame is of aluminium and steel wire, and the covering of the win s will probably be silk. The start has to be made from a slight elevation, and Mr Holland says that violent exercise will only be necessary during a few flaps of the wiings. Then the wearer will sail along as easily and gracefully as a bird, and may attain a speed of 40 or 50 miles an hour with not much more effort than i g necessary to ride a bi;ycle. Should the mechanism get deranged during flights, Mr Holland soys tho macliino will come gradualally and lightly to earth. Ho proposes to mako a trial of his invention sh o rtly. For over 40 years he hns been experimenting in aerial flights.The co-mstruction of a tremoMdous Ijarra-ge, rivalling oven tho recentlycomplotod Assouan dam on the Nile, is shortly to be commenced upon the Tuniga liarda River, ne;ar Hospet, in the extreme western corner of the Madras Presidency, British India. Tho sources ot the Turaga Barda are in the Western Ghats, and the course of Hie river is eastward across India, flowing 400 miles to the sea. 'fllve scope of this project is to construct a dam some! mile's long by about 150 ft. in height, thereby forming a huge reservoir approximately 40 miles in length, and covering an area of 150 square miles. By means of this project some 200,000,000,000 cubic feet of water—about five times tho capacity of the Assouan reservior, and equal in area to about three times that of tho Nile,—will he available! for irrigation, line cost is estimated at three and a half crores of rupees ; but, owing to the extent of country it will be able to irrigate it is anticipated that the ichemc will lie a most paying one.

Says 'Woomera " In the Australasian :—I don't thinE there is any

truth in tho rumour that Lord Milnen is to bo the next Governor-Gen-eral of Australia. And for why ? Well, in his reply to „ deputation of miners who waited on him recently —and who, strange enough, are in favour of Chinese cheap labour—Lord Milnor said : " They acknowledged the right of the Imperial Government to interfere with their concerns, .but tlioy did not admit the right of every pettifogging little State, of every little lamb of the Empire, to be interfering. (Cheers.) Thej had New Zealand poking her long m'u>isitivo nose into their affairs, and they had Australia do-

ing the same thing. (Laughter.) What did either of them know about it ? (Cheers.) We hat! just as much right to interfere with their notorious legislation as they had to interfere with ours." (Laughter and cheers.) " Long, inquisitive noso !" "Notorious legislation!" And, oh, unkindesit cut of all, " Laughtei and cheers !" As though a ooimtO' like Australia, which has managed its affairs so wisely, which has made the land prosperous and the people happy a/nd plentiful, has not a perfect right to insist upon other nations /becoming happy and prosperous also. Wait till I wave a flag for another contingent.

ACHES THAT ACHE. The aches of rheumatism, sciatica, gtout, and lunjbago are a»hesthat ache. They aro the kind of aelien that toi-turo ami torment one. Those aches a re caused chiefly by an excess of uric acid in the system, and tjio only antidote is that marvellously successful remedy Hheumo. It is unequalled fqr prompt results. Rhon-

mo is neither a lifdment nor a pill, but a likjjultl medicine to be tak;n ia prescribed doses. Rheumo expels tke excess uric acid, steps tho ache, and reduces the swelling. Even '■n chronic cases a cure is effected m»stly witW> 48 hours. It is peasant to take, and is guaranteed free 'rom all hurtful ingredients. Chemiflts and stores, 2s (id and 4s Gd per bottle. Ketnpthorne, Prosser and Go., Wholesale Agents,* i

Tho British India steamer Suradn, now at Wellington, has on board a flock of 21 Indian sheep. A Nelson press telegram reports that a discovery of Epsomile, or puro Epsom salt, has been made near the head of the Buller River. Both the oil launches built in Auckland for the tourist traffic on Lakes Tautwera and Rotomahana have now been launched, and will be i used during the approaching season for passenger traffic, which is expected to be heavy. A correspondent who signs himself '■' Spouseless," writes to the Post expressing his opinion as to the women who now All so many positions in offices, shops and factories, while men in the same linesare idle. " They would," he nays, be doing themselves and their country a 'better turn if they accepted the more appropriate and natural position that would enable them to fulfil their duties as housewives, If this sort of thing is to continue Wc are to be deprived of employment and also of competent wives. Mi Soddon seems to be very much aistressed over the declining birthrate. If lie could find some means of stopping the excessive employment ol young women, we young men could procure companions capable of managing a house and rearing children in a proper manner, and would have more inducement to marry."

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Morey and Son.—Dissolution of partnership notice. Kelsey and Lennon.—Have dissolved partnership. Edgar Watt.—Has admitted Mr H. A. Lennon as a partner in hisi land agency business. Borough Council.—Tenders erection East End fire station.

Provident Investment and Building Society.—Office removed to Coffee Palace buildings.

R. Todd.—Arrival of coal from State mine. J. R. Chatterton.—Bargains at boot Sale continued. Watkin Mills.—Appearance at the Theatre Royal on September 15th. A lady help requires a situation. '•' Snowflakcs " at St. Joseph's schoolroom Friday next. K young spring dray horso is required.