The Daily News. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 235, 8 October 1904, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1904. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The lambing from the Wairarapa to the coast shows a high percentage this season, and in the Alfredton district considerably over .100 [ier cont. has .beta recorded. The frequent wet weather has interfeiid with tiho docking. The report of tho Public Trust. Office shows that tho net profit on the year's transactions was £7897, the total income of the office beiing £27,992, and the expenditure £20,095, Last year's income was £28,792, and the expenditure £19,567.

In the House the other afternoon the Premier said this was the most talkative House that any unfortunate country had ever been afflicted with. He added that '''They would talk, talk, talk, but as for work you could sot drag them with a team of bullocksi to face it." Timothy O'Connor was charged at Taihape yesterday with knocking Samuel Tysack over a bank at Tu-r-angurere on September 12th, since when the latter had been in the Wanganui Hospital with broken ribs. The Jjench, .however, dismissed the case.

The Coroner, Mr Hutchison, leaves this (Saturday) morning to conduct an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of a lady, 60 years of age, namud Mary Thompson, of Pukearuhe. Doath is attributed to carbolic poisoning. Further particulars aro not available at present.

" It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," and if Mr Meikle had not come into our midst to give out hid jjrievances, dt iis doubtful whether fclis residents- of New Plymouth would have realised that we have amongst us one man who is highly esteemed by the railer against the corruption of our law officersi. At his meeting last night Mr Meikle said he had U»e highest opinion of Mi O'Brien,, wiio, as jailer, treated the convicts under him with every consideration, anid who stornod to stoop to any mean and paltry action.

A large and orderly crowd assembled at tlie corner of Devon and Brougham Streets last evening to listen to Mr J. J. Meikle*S' address on a long series of ligitation and prosecution now known all over the colony as the " Meikle case." The address consisted of wholesale denunciation oi tlie present government and grave cluu'ges of corruption against the judges, magistrates and juries connected with his trial when he was. sentenced on a charge of sheepstealing based on the alleged perjured evidence of the chief witness of the Crown.

Considerable interest was evinced last night in tho display of meat arranged by Messrs Sola Bros, in connection with the opening of theii new premises at the corner of Devon and Carrie Streets. All the evening a continuous stream of onlookers was to be heard passing encomiums on the excellent quality of meat, as well aa on the taste shown in arrangement. Certainly it afforded flattering proof of the capabilities of tho district. The display consisted of beef from Air It. Turnbull's at Iluirangi, lamhs from ill- W. Brown's at Lepperton, calves from Mr Qus. Sole's at Waitara West, sheep from Mr G. V. Tate's at Woitara West, and Mr T. Western's at Mangaruka, and a line line of turkeys from Mrs Jennins' at Waitara West.

Parliament had an all-night sitting on Thursday over the vote for the Department of Lands and Survey. No progress h a d been made at 8.20 on Friday morning, and the committee refused the suggestion of the chairman to take an hour's adjournment for breakfast. At 8.40 Mr Remington urged tile Government to 'givo members ail hour's respite. He hoped the Minister would agree to give them as much consideration as was necessary for even a brute beast. Mr Ilall-Joaies suggested that tho committee should pass tho Lands and Survey Department estimates, and then udjourn till 2.30. Eventually, at live minutes to one o'clock the committee agreed on the votce.i to the item Compensation under the liotokare Domain Act, £290," and the woary legislators granted themselves a rest until 2.30.

At Idle Police Court on Friday morning the S.M. was called upon to adjudicate as to the damage sustained by a Koru settler named Thomas Smart, tluough Patrick JL'\ Haill not returning a bull belonging to the former in time for the prosent season. Mr C. 11. Weston (Weston and Weston) apjx-uivd f o r plaintiff anid Mr Quilliam ((Jovett and Quilliam) for tlie defendant. Plaintiff's statement was that he had lost tlio services of two cows during the early purt of next winter, his loss being estimated nt £!-!, which he claimo;!; also £7, the value of the bull* Kmart said lie had allowed Haill ihe use of the bull during the winter, and demanded its return by letter in August, but had made no personal application. Mr | Quilliam said defendant had never refused tp return the bull. W. A. Harrison, ft pgigtoour of plaintiff's, said the bull wp3 bought by Smart from him, and kept cpming -back. Tlio defendant gave evidence that he took the bull to graze for I Mr Smart, who complained that Harrison was trying to corner him ovet the bull. Though no charge ha 3 been fixed, he claimed 17s for graying. The bull had been no use to him, and had Mr Smart appli<fl lop if in gL neighbourly way he would have Juandod it pver. His Worship thought the claim afld counterclaim could bo settlod if he odjournad tfiw esse for a week.

| In the Courthouse on Thursday, on j the application ol' Mr Claude Wi-slon | (Weston and Weston), instructed by !Mr R. T). Welsh, of Unwera, T. ; Hutchison, Es<|.. sitfctag as a Commissioner übder the Native Lurnd Court Acts, confirmed an alienation of certain lands in H;,wera by William Minhionick to E. A. Paeey. A fatal Masting accident liappenod on September 27tfe in the Clarence ; mine, at Eaigleltnwk (Victoria). Tw 0 | miners, George Simmons, and ThomaS' Kelly, were uf work drilling hok.\s in the face of a .drive, wlfun tho drill cams into contact with an unexplodod charge, tjie existence of which mas not knowa. A violent explosion t took place, killing Simmons out- . right and severely injuring Kelly. During lhe debate 011 the tliird reading of the Licensing Hill Mr Mck'enzie said the prohibition party had got everything and the trade nothing at all. The trade now was far worse of! than belore. If the trade wanted to get justice it would have to sover itself from both the Government and r the Opposition, and support the independent Labour party t hat was being formed mow. Ihe 'I haatrescope Conipanv put on another excellent hill-of-fare' nt the Theatre Koy a l last evening, when some splendid films were shown. Among the many interesting series pride of place may lie given to a succession of pictures depicting scenes witnessed during a trip through the • romantic and historic city of Venice. This afternoon a matinee will be given, and the programme is certainly well worth the attention of visitors to the town. A Victorian farmer has wanted the labour of a season by sowing seed oats tihe germinating power of which hn'd 'been practically destroyed by the use of formalin. Th o Director of Agriculture of that State explains that the department' recomnuindw the steeping of seed, in a .solution 01' lib of formalin to 40 gallons of water, as tt preventative or smut and other coreal pests. It is possible, he adds, tJnat, in the instance reported, the solution has twin too Strong., Mr Day, of Hokitika, is to be ' transferred to Dunedin to fill the vacancy on the magisterial bench caused by the death of Mr E. W, Carew, the late S.M. Mr Day was in the Auckland district, and In 1884 he passed as a barrister at Clisborne. He was for some time Depu-ty-Commissioner of Stamps a lid Registrar at Hokitika. He. was appointed a warden about eighteen months a.go, 011 the death () f 511 Warden McFnrlane, who wus about to retire.

At the Police Court on FritUiv, before Mr T. Ilutchisin. a.11., ; .J o hn Hi id, who has been before the court three limes during tlie last Fix months, was ihargid with being diunk in Egmont-street the day l:e lore ; also with ibeing illegally on licensed premises, the Criterion Jloeel, lie being a prohibited person. He was fined 10s in default 48 hours on the first charge, and £l, in default one week, on the Second. A first offender was convicted and discharge oil with a caution.

On Saturday, October loth, Mr Newton King will sell by auction at his mart on account of Mr Joftn Coxhoad that fino estate "Pencarrow," situated near Waitara. The property comprises about 000 acres, with two good dwellings and two lot? of stables, sheds, etc., well fenced ottd sutyLivSdod. It, is only half a mile from school and factory, and four miles from Waitara Freezing Works, on good metal road, and having been subdivided into four sections will be sold in one or more lots to suit purchasers. This is a splendid chance for anyone wonting lo purchase a good handy-sized farm. The land is good quality, level, well watered, and sown with bent English grasses. There are tw 0 nice patches of native bush, well preservod, and a large number of sheltn' trees about the homestead.

Some interesting statistics (says tiho Otatgo Daily Times) were quote*! by the acting-chairman of the Duneilin Harbour Hoard at the presentation to Oaplain Greenstreet on t-lue Rimutaka last week, in the form of a comparison of tonnage of vessels arriving in Otaga during every ten years from 3873. In 18711 tiu- total tonnage arriving at both Port Chalmers and Dunedin was 170,000, represented toy 1008 vessels. In 1883 there were 999 vessels, and the tonnage had gono up to 8:11,488. In 1893 817 vessels arrived at Port Chalmers and 499 at Dunedin, I'oit Chalmers receiving 29. 1 ).: i. r >9 tons' and Dunedin 290,688, or a tola! of 591047 for the two. In 1903, 341 vessels arrived att Port Chalmers and 478 came to Dunedin, the tonnmge being 5(19,234 and 531,109 respects iw-ly, or a t-otti* for the ye|ai' i!or(.he two places 0 f 1,100,343 tons.

"Your land laws ore excellent," said M. Zelenko, tho Russian journalist, to a Christchurch intumicwer.

"indeed, 1 will remark generally that in every direction Now Zealand seems to have adopted the best reforms f o r actual existing evils of which society complains mora or less everywhere. In educational matters, so far as I have been able to judge, you seem to be almost' cntlruly influenced by English itdoas. The systems which obtain in Germany and France do not' soem to have been studied. The intellectual dependency of the people here upon Europe, and especially England, is, as must be expected on the part of so small and young a nation, very great. It is inevitable that it should be Bo- By the bu', with reference to land legislation, it may interest, you to know that in Russia, us here, we have the system of advances to settlers in Siberia."

Many of our older readers will remember that after tile ltusso-Turkish war it was claimed by our Hibernian friends that one of the heroes fighting on tho Turkish side, "Sulieman Pasha," was none other than Tim Sullivan, a well-known citizen of the Groen Isle. It now turns out that tho Frenuh are claiming General Ivuroki as being of French descent, but, according to Mr Yosake Osliimo, a medical student and a nephew of the great general, the latter's father was a Polish noble, who fled from Russia in 1831, and after serving some timo with tho Dutch in 'he East, finally settled in Japan, where he married a Japanese lady. His real name was Kurowski, and on his death-bed—like David or old—ho left one or two items for his son to attend to, one being vengeance on Russia for its treatment of Poland. How w<4l ho is carrying out tills injunction is now a master of history.

Once a year the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders issue a report detailing the results of their negotiations with various States on behalf of investors who have lent those States money for various objects and who hava failed to get all thoy were promised in tho way of interest. Among the States with whom the Corporation have had trouble in the past year, as well as in previous years, are Greece, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Colombia, Costa Rica, Buenos Ayros and Honduras, and, sandwiched between. Costa Rica and Buenos Avros Cedillas, we find Now Zealand. Of course the colony owes its aasociation with such neighbours to tile unfortunate Midland Railway s'rjuabble, concerning which the Financial Times, in the course of its comment on the Committee's import, Bays —"Wc regret that the review cannot bo brought to a close without mentioning a British colony whose behaviour tas.been unworthy of its parentage. Thlo New Zealand Midland Railway settlement had made some progress, and the Committee in charge have obtained a considerable improvement in the terms originally offered by tho Government. But 'the Council regret that tho New Zealand Govternment have not recognised tho claims of tho dobontiirc'lioklors in a liberal and equitable spirit, and believe that, in the long run, it would have been for their own pecuniary advantage to have acted more generously.' It is not pleasant to And New Zteal-and sandwiched between Guatemala a»d Buenos Ayres Cedillas in thp Corporation's Black List." —London Correspondent,

At Westport yesterday an application by a pensioner who hail Imon cofcvictcd for drunkenness was refused, on the grounds ti'wt he hud not led a sober aavd respectable life.

A meeting of unemployed at Dunedin, numbering about 5100, was held yesterday. They complained about the delay of the local works committee. A. committee was appointed to wait on Sir Joseph Ward.

The Mayor invites the public, and ■ particularly ladies, to a meeting on Monday afternoon to consider the form of recognising thta many good works performed by Mrs Copeland during her residence in the town. As the lady is leaving shortly for England it is desirod also to accord ■her a suitable farewell. Oenlis Moyiiilian, licensee of the Hoy a) Hotel at Golds<borougl>, was charged wlih exposing liquor l'oi sale on Sunday. It came out in evidence 'that the window-slide opening on to the passage was broken, and a view of the liquor j'ould be obtained. The Magistrate deferred his decision for a month. He said the breach was only a technical one, caused by the licensee not repairing tho window, and ho would await the result of tho present licensing bill to ascertain if discretionary power was given regarding endorsements.

In Taihape a few daysi ago a prohibition order was defeated by a dog—a huge mastiff. The owner handed the dog a kit containig a shilling. In about five minutes' time tho dog tirotted back with a bottle of beer where the shilling used to lie. There are a lot of interesting points about this (solo|ijuises a local papen) which would probably give unlimited scope to an imaginative lawyer. For instaneo the limn never asked the dog to bring him beerhe merely handed him the kit. The dog never asked for beer, and the publican nover served the drink to a prohibited person. The dog can hardly be accused of knowingly serving a prohibited person, because he gave the parcel back without looking at its contents. Also, the only way t,llo huge dog could bo arrested would be with' a fishhook on tho end of a tether-line.

In connection with a cablegram published yesterday regarding a dispute between the Victorian and South Australian Governments, tho conflicting claims of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia to the wators of the Murray River have been the cause of innumerable disputes. The river derives the bulk of its waters from New South Wales, flows along the Vdctoriafi Border, and has iit» outlet in South Australia. The river steamers are mostly owned by South Australians and their Government consequently considers navigation first and' irrigation afterwards. Tho other two States regard irrigation as the most; important, and have been inclined to pay little attention to South Australia's protest that their irrigation works were absorbing so much water as to render the river channel Ujmavigaible. In May, 1903, an agreement! was signed in Sydney by the Premiers of tlie three States, by which New South Wales and Victoria agreed not to divert water from (he river unless 150,000 cubic feet per minute were flowing i n the channel on the ' South Australian Border. This agreement was highly unpopular in the two States, as a previous Commission, after exhaustive surveys, hod recommended a limit of 70,000 cubic feet, por minute. The agreement has not collie into force, as it has never been presented to the Stato Parliaments for ratification.

Whiteley Church, Sunday, October 9th.—Preachers : Morning, Mr R. F. Williams ; evening, Rov. J, Newman Buttle.*

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