NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 210, 8 September 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A scheme to release thousands 01 acres o! waterlqgigud coal has been adopted by the Staffordshire Mini* Drainage Hoard. Samples of wheat of extraot'clinan size and weight have tan recoiveu irom the country which will be traversed by the Bagdad railway. Marking Town Council has purchased for £IOO the historic gim, Lord Nelson, which played such o conspicuous part during'tho Beige. The total number of British troop- 1 - in South Africa is 21,500 and their annual Cost amounts to £3,100,000, of which £4,000 is provided by Natal. The motor-car race for the Gor-don-Bennett Cup at Homburg gus resulted in a deficit of £7,202, and considerable litigation will thereby be occasioned. By grafting the sciatic nerve from a live spaniel into n man's lacerated wrist Dr. Peterson, has, says the Family Doctor, saved the luind from amputation. Sir Thomas Lipton has written to Mr A, S. Draper, New York Stato Commissioner for Education, that he has not given up hope of "lifting" the America Cup. Over three thousand, experiments on living animals were made for Government departments or public authorities in 1903, and 1,3.13 for the Tuberculosis Commission.

A copy of Shakespeare's works dated 1747, interleaved with notes by Dr William Dodd, who was hangaxl for forgery, was sold at Sothoby's, (London) recently for £l3l.

In place of the Austrian Exhibition which had been arranged for Earl's Court in l'JOfi, it is proposed to hold a purely British Naval Shipping and Fisheries Exhil ilition.

All his relations wiho smoke or drink are excluded from the will of a millionaire, Mr Samuel McCalmont (says the New York World), who died recently in Franklin, Penns.vlvannia.

A picture of Christ appearing to Mary after the Resurrection has been discovered at Grimsby. It is believed to be the work of Vnndyck, but this is as yet by no mo,ns assured. At Newport, Rhode Island, it has been determined by fashionable society to limit the 'exclusive set" to 200 persons, says the Herald. A committee of forty will make the selections.

On account of discord and lack of union, the l'opo has dissolved the general permanent committee of the ■association known as the "Work of the Italian Catholic Congresses nnd Committees."

After walking 6000 miles Mr Renaldo Walco, a British subject of San Jose, Costa Rica, has just reached the world's Fair at St, Louis only to find that he has been deluded by % myjyhical £BOO prize which lie had been informed the exhibition would give to the person walking the longest distance to attond the Fair.

A Melilmurne-Xaples mail despatch (if August 3rd arrived in London on the afternoon of tho sth inst.

The Tukapu Football CliLb'u annual social, to lie held on Thursday, September 22nd, is expected to be' one of tie most successful functions the chili lias held.

Tho prolit and loss account in the tyalanoe-sheet presented to the annual meeting of shareholders in the Kaupokonui Dairy Factory Company showed a loss of £223 9s 2d on last year's transactions.

The new borough of Waitara comprises 2080 acres. Nominations are now invited for the first Mayoral election, which takes place on the 20th inst. Councillors will be elected a week later.

On his recent visit to Wales tho King accepted a suit length of pure Welsh tweed, made by Messrs F.noch Rab'erts and Son, and Lord Knollys has now written to say that his Majesty is much pleased with it.

Attention is drawn to an announcement from Messrs Baker and Co., cabinet-makers in ordinary to the Commonwealth tlovernor-Oeneral. In it detalils are given of stocks of house furnishings which should well repay inspection. The total quantity of milk received at the Kaupokonui Dairy Factory during the year was 29,512,1911b5. The amount of butter-fat paid for was 1,143,9(i81b5, and tlie price per lb of fat was B.ot>fid, and the average test 3.87023.

A poll of Wellington ratepayers was taken yesterday afternoon on the proposal of the City Council to borrow £70,000 for tramways. The proposal was rejected by a large majority, the voting being—for, 980; against, 1817.

A telegram received from Dune-din yesterday regarding the appearance there of Mr Watkin Mills and M. Parlovitz on Tuesday night stated -.

" Most enthusiastic audience cvei seen in Dunedin. Over twelve hundred present. Tremendous bookings for to-morrow night's Messiah."

According to the New York Times, Mr Fierpont Morgan leased a palatial residence at Boston, Massachesetts, for tho purpose of entertaining the ArchWshop of Canterbury, who is expected to visit America to visit America for the purpose of attending the general convention of the Episcopal Church some tame this month.

A well-arranged and neatly printed publication, "Tho Coronation Cookery B 0 ok," issued in aid 0 f the'building funds of the Hawera Presbyterian Church, is to hand. The little book contains a well-selected lot of iseful and practicalr.' household recipes, and reflects credit alike on the editors and the publisher,, Mr C. 0. Kkdahl, of tlie Caxton Printing Works, Hawera.

The box plan for the Watkin .Mills concert will foe opened o»» Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at Mr 11. McKininon Bain's new piano warehouse in the Theatre Royal buildings. At ChrdsUhurch the seats booked numjberad 2700 a week before the concert there, and similar reports come from oilier places. Intending patrons should note tils fact, and secure seats earty.

The directors of tlie Kaponga Cooperative Dairy Company, in theii report to the sixth annual meeting of shareholders, on Monday, said : "In presenting the sixth annual re port and balance-sheet your directors have much pleasure in congratulating! tlie shareholders on results of the season's operations. The output oi butter this season exceeded that ol the previous year by 76,0001bs (over 30 tons),"—Star.

At a meeting to bo held to-day at Hawera to discuss the proposed establishment of the Dairy ProductExchange the Mayor (Mr HobbinM). the chairman of the Chamber o:' Commerce (Mr Wilson), the chairman of the Hawera Farmers' I'nion (Mr Davidson), and other representative citizens will be present. The convention will (begin aibout 11 o'clock. Latest indications are that the fullest expectations of tlkpromoters will Ik realised.—Star.

While a woman was gatliering seaweed at a fishing village in th> north of Portugal recently she was attacked, writes a Lisbon correspondent, by a serpent Oft. in length, which rose from a heap of weed, liaising its crest, the reptile coiled itself round the woman's body and neck, but on the arrival of some labourers armed with spades from a neighbouring field, it unwound itsell and disappeared into the sea before it could be killed. The event has caused considerable interest, as snakes of such size have (been hitherto unknown in Portugal.

Tn a memorandum explaining the English Wireless Telogirapjiy Hill, it is pointed out that the chief reason for legislation is the extreme importance in time of war or emergency of exercising control and supervision of all means by which information could be conveyed to an enemy. Licenses are to be granted by the Post-master-General, with the consent of the Admiralty, the War. OHice, and Board of Trade, and the Government is to have tho power of absolutely stopping the use of wireless telegraphy in private hands, when it would interfere with Communication with tho fleet in war time.

Felix Tanner's Ark 111., which has been 0 n exhibition for the past few days at Wellington, was to be put into tho water yesterday, the Times reports, providing tho weather was favourable. An inspection of tho craft will bo made by the officers of the Marino Department during the week, und it will bo towed to sea by one of tho Miramar Stoam Ferry Company's steamers on Sunday afternoon. Tho 'barrel-boat will make for Lyttelton, so that a thorough test will 100 made before she leaves tho coast. Auckland will be the final port of departure for the Ark, whon she leaves New Zoalond for Australia.

The end of a remarkable case of swindling was reached at Orleans recently. A man named Fergusson, described as a German baron, and the "Marquis de Mannerville," his. confederate, were charged with swindling Mr It. H. Harris and a younger man named Blrk-bccfc",' ibafch Englishmen, out of large sums of money In connection with tho sale of alleged State documents. Fergus-son, who was ''wanted" by the Swiss and English police, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, awl Do Mannerville to one year. Tho judge said that, in his opinion, Mr Harris had acted throughout in perfectly ood faith.

With reference to a report of an experiment of sending dogs by pneumatic ■tu'be, Mr A. R. llcnnctt writes to tho Daily Mai} to recall that at the British Association meeting of 1001 ho proposed an underground electric tube system for London through which parcels could be delivered into promises by means of a central station. It was supjiyestal ut the time that a mother could' maul her baiby to the doctor, and receive it back with a bottle of medicine in its fist, and perhaps a mustard lenf on its chest. Mr Bennett thinks thai tl>e claims of electricity as compared with compressed air should |>o very I carefully investigated. I

Fifteen th o iisund pounds, it is estimated, will be required 'for the alterations to lie commenced shortly in the interior of the Hnymarkel Thetre, London. This serves as a reminder of the large sums that are spent yearly in altering and redecororatmg tho fashionable places of amusement in the West End. At tlie Lyric Theatre, for instance, Messrs Lreet and Englebbch are now incurring an expenditure of over £IO,OOO l'he improvements completed at Daly's Theatre this year cost Mr George EtlH'andes upwards of £14,000 ; Mr Tree's improvements a t His Majesty's finished this spring, involved , ln outlay of quite £6,000 ; and tho directors of Drury Lano are not unlikely to spend £12,000 on their theatre between now and December.

Tho half-yearly horse fair conducted in Hawera liy Messrs Fantham Bros, and Co. is fixed lor Septenftilor 27th and 28th.

A (ireymouth press telegram states that the Boatman's Creek dredge and claims were sold at auction yesterday for £550.

The Crown law offices have advised the Wellington Land Hoard that lessees of native township holdings cannot lie compelled to build or reside on their sections, awl that there is also no power to ennllile the board to define the improvements' which such lessees must make.

No fewer than 28,854 summonses have lieen heard in various parts of the United Kingdom in connection with the passive resistance movement, and tliero have been 1035 soles of goods seized under distress warrants. There are 031 passive, rosistance leagues in the kingdom. Dr. Chalmers I'rentice, a prominent Chicago oculist, addressing the National Opticians' Convention In Milwaukee (Wiscons(iiiii), deloared that alcoholism can bo cured by properly titted eye-glasses. The doctor found after a long series of examinations that imi'niates generally suffer from certain deviations in the accommodation ami convengenco of the eyes, lie noticed in many cases that eyeglasses which remedy these derangements of vision .have also the ellect of decreasing tho patients' appetite for liquor. Dr. I'rentice described a case of nn inebriate Ix'ing fitted with eye-'glasses and losing all desire for strong <drink after thirty days. A meeting was advertised to take place nt the Town Hall last nJglit, reports the Sydney Daily Telegraph of a recent date, at which an address was to he delivered on "The Heconciliation of Labour and Capital." Arrangements liaid been made for a gathering of some dimensions, the large main auditorium liavig boon secured. The full 'Pawn Hall staff who do duty nt the doors on occasions when crowds surge through the various avenues of ingress were also 'bespoken, together with a well-known musician to reaider selections on the big organ. Tlie gathering was advertised as being "under the patronage of representatives from labour, religion and capital." Tho advertisement also contained a '' ne *° t'' lo <-'ffeet that a charge for admission would lie made as follows : Employees fid, employers 2s fid. The proceeds, Iras expenses, were to be devoted to the unemployed relief fund. At 8 o'clock tho hall was brightly illuminated, the Town Hall attendants In liicir liveries were at the various doors, tho organist was there, and, last, but not least, the lecturer. But tho public was non est, or nearly so, only a dozen ladies and gentlemen presenting themselves at tho doors. Owjng to the paucity of the gathering the idea of holding the meeting was abandoned.

It ifl understood that Walter Mor>y, senr., has placed his valuable consisting of his private residence and six valuable -building al lotments situated in Vivian and Fulford Streets in the hands of Messrs Callaghan and Co. for disposal.* Tlie operations in the Far East have prompted a local firm to drav. up a most attractive advertisement. In anouher part of this issuu will be found a notice from Mr C. Carter who wishes to impress on tke pub lie that for special lines of tasty conserves, potted and gakantinei meats, 'The Peoples' Grocer" car, hold his own with any firm in tin district.*