NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 237, 11 October 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A married woman named Emm a .Hanger, 47 years 0 S age, was found drowned in the Wellington harbour on Monday morning. A labourer named John O'Connor, aged no, hanged himself „t .Newmarket. The cause is unknown. fie leaves u wife al „d four children. I>r. Mason, Chief Health Officer, states that there is still room for doubt as to whether the suspect at Christehurch is suffering, from smallpox.

The Appeal Court opened yesterday. Only Justices Williams, Denniston and Edwards were present o n the Hench. The list contains seven cases, but is likely to be added t O .

The Borough Council last night decided to accept the tender of tin Hrucli F.lec.trical Engineering Company for the installation of the electric lighting system at a cost ol £5453 its lid.

The- coul trade ut Westport is reported to be very slack, (jast week's export was only 3">89 tons 12ewt. Granlty colliery has'been shut down all the week, and the Dennislton colliery part of the week.

The Daunevirke Advocate s a ys that the other day a train took three hours to run from Wo o dviile to Dannevirke, seventeen miles, and arrived there i u sections. Another train was side-tracked, and lost for eight hours.

A youthful Nuhaka native named Wi Pani was charged at Wuiroa (11.11.) with having stolen four »heep, the propeity of George Walker, Nuhaka, and was committed to the Supreme Court, Napier. Hail (£200) wasl procured.

The Midhirst dairy factory is now turning out a ton of butter daily. I'Uuming is .being put in position io carry water to a new 28 h.p. turbine, which, with new re/riger a ( ing plant, is! expected in the colonv about the end of the month.

To-morrow Messrs Mewlcy and Griffiths will seM without reseilie a large quantity of useful furniture at Sarnia House, opposite St. M a ry's Church. Many u f the articles have only been a short time in use, and will well repay the attention of householders.*

A fire at the premises of Wingate and Co., ironmoaygers, Queen-street Auckland, guttod the storeroom, containing a large quantity of earth, uware goods. The damage exceeds £IOOO, but is covered by insurance in the Unity office. The slock of Webster, fruiterer, underneath, sustained some damage by water.

'I he foundations are now being |, u t down for the Staircase Cully viaduct on the Midland railway 1i,„.. These will be very massive,' „nd at the base of the piers about 2iui(j cubic yards of concrete will be used. The contract for the construction of the viaduct was let early this ve a v to the Cleveland Bridge n n il Engineering Company, England.

At the Borough Council meeting last night the Mayor brought up thequestion of beautifying Bain's Terrace, which, he s u id, could be made one of the prettiest walks alongside the river that could possibly be imagined. Ho would bring the m a tter forward definitely before next planting season, but councillors could think' over the Suggestion in the meantime,

An Akaroa property now 0 n the market includes the Onevae Peninsula, the scene of the famous battle between the North Island and South Island Maoris in 1834. The fortifications constructed on the peninsula in those distant d a ys can stil. be traced, and there is a legend that a considerable quantity of greenstone weapons lie buried in some part of it.

The committee (Messrs Connett King and Dingle) appointed by the Harbour Board, met on Monda) morning to inquire into the working of the port, the inquiry being t | lc outcome of a dispute between the harbourmaster (Captain Hood) «nd ttoc master of the R a raw a (Captain Norbury). The committee met at 11 a.m., and at noon went to tin breakwater, where they were engaged all diiy taking the evidence of the offlcera of the Karawa. The proceedings were conducted in camera.

A little text-book on the Empire, recently published in Loudon, but \vhlch, as a patriotic New Zeakmder, 1 refuse to name (writes " Mercutio " in the New Zealand He-raid), says that before the proclamation of the colony there were i„ these islands about 2000 Europeans, who included among them " the w'uni of AngloSaxon rascaldom," and that they kept the tribes at war for the purpose of getting tattooed heads for exportation, which uppers to have been their chief industry.

According to a statement prepared by tjie secretary of the Tiniaru Harbour Board, tho rateable- value of the harbour district this year :« £-191,000 more than it was'last year (£7,U08,500, as against £<;,- 817,053). The increase has been very unequally distributed, £227«)1, or nearly l„,lf, | lc ,j ng „,„<,„ in the Tenmktt road district. Levels County conies next, with the increase of £98,8(17. Tlmaru borough, says the Herald, increased frnm £867,800 to £916,480-thut is by £49,280,

His Honour Mr Justice Edwards' judgment on the application by tho Sin nil' in the case 0 f Henderson and Co. v. Williamson and Co., heard during the Supreme Court sessions, was read to counsel engaged by the Deputy Registrar yesterday morning. His Honour was of opinion th a t the Sheriff was entitled to the fees claimed, £l7 Bs, and lixed them at that n inount, and directed them to lie had and received by the Sheriff, but stated that the Sheriffs Act did not givo liim power to order payment or allow the costs of the motion. Mr W. L. Fitzherbert appeared for the Sheriff, and Mr Claude Weston for the execution creditors. A party arranged by Mrs I.'niacke succeeded on Sunday, says the Stratford Post, in reaching the East. Mountain House from Stratford, and had a very enjoyable experience and a line view. Tho ladies of the party —Mrs Ifniacke, Miss Josephine Smith (Sydney), and Miss NoraJi Walker (Auckland)—have the honour of being the first: ladies this season to make the ascent from Stratford, Dr. Carbcry, Mr Uru'ackc and Mr Louis Kelly accompanying them. At Mr Mr McNab's survey camp bush hospitality w a s extended to the visitors, who rested and "y a rneJ" n s one usually does "while tho billy boils," The horses were left at tlie camp and the rest af the journey performed on foot. A short stay was mado at the Mountain House, ami the return was sniel.v effected, not without mild adventure, darkness having set in before the travellers got out of the bush. Tho many muddy chasms and pitfalls of Pombroke Rood were negotiated without mishap, although with plunging horses and a disappearing Waggonette there were moments when Sydney Harbour seemed very, very far away. Dr. Cartay drove the wagg<uiette—and his skill saved the lives; of everybody. A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINCTION.

The Western Medical Review, a medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a recent issue : 'Thousands of physicians in this and other countries .have attested that Sander and Sons' Kucalypti Extract is not only reliable, but Uiat it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations ot Eucalyptus." ypur health is too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products tainted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries, and insist upon getting Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician and the medical press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diarrhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. Wounds, ulcers, burns, sprains, etc., it heals without inflammation. As mouthwash (5 drops to a glass of water) it prevents decay of teeth, and destroys all disease germs.*

John Oaktey,, an old ago pensioner was found dead in ibed at Westpori,

The report ot the operations of the Public Trust Oiilce for the pant year is to hand from Mr T. W. Fisher, Tnranaki agent.

The speciul clearing sale of lw>ots and shoes at Mr J. H. Chattel-ton's will, it is announced, be positively closui on Monday next.

To-morrow (Wednesday) being Labour Day, tho banks will be closed. It may be as well to remind factory owners that this is one of the days scheduled as a holiday for which women employees and persons under eighteen (years of agio must bo paid. It is ulso a holiday for all trades working under an award of the Arbitration Court.

A cattle-drover n amed Archibald Stewart, attacked by a ferocious pig, bled to death at Glasgow recently. He wm i n charge of a consignment of piga which formed part of the cargo of the steamer Athejiiia. The pigs were placed in pens fixed on board 'he vessel, and\i n 'the afternoon ithe drover was startled by hearing a great commotion. Hushing to tht pens he found a furious fight in progress between two exceptionally fine pigs, which were charging and Tiling each other fiercely, And were covered with blood. With great daring, he entered the pen to separate them, when one of the maddened aniimals ut once made a savage rush at him. He was knocked down, and a second later the pig was on top of him, and was biting and mauling him. His agonisirugi cHcs attraictlcd the attention of workers in the vicinity, a nd, armed with stout sticks, they succeeded in boating off' the animal. They Carried Stewart o ut oftihopen, but he died within a lew moments ■of his rescue.

[ An eminent lawyer, whose wife had eloped with the 'butler, has) taken 'her back to his home and reinstated lior in her full marital rights. And this is his reason :-"If I ever failed to I comprehend tho utterly desolate position of an ofteudmgi though penitent woman—the hopeless future, with its dark possibilities of danger, to which 'ilie as doomed when prescribed an outcast—l can now see plainly, in tile, almost Universal howl of denunciation with which she is followed 1.0 iu.V: threshold, the misery nn d peril from which 1 have rescued the mother of my child. And although it is very sad f o r me to incur the M a mo of friends, and the reproaches' of many w.iso and good people;. 1 shall strive P prove t 0 all who m n y" feel an interest in me that if I n m the first '"an who has ventured to say to tiho world an erring wife and mother may Ivo forgiven an d redeemed, in spite ol all the-obstacles in mv path, the cjoort results- of thi** example shall entitle it to t-lie imitation! of the and the commendation of ho just."

Marriage promotion gets more ironkiy economical every year in | Knglanrl. The "Matrimonial Club, i Limited," which Was recently registered under the Companies Act, has 1 t made a successful start with its operations, and another new enterprise 's the e'staljlishmenti of a newsp n per, "•Inch is being run, independently of »!! agencies, a s an advertising, medi'im for persons in search 0 f matrimonial bargains 0 f various kinds. Meanwhile a Paris newspaper has published some Agues, "prepared by a momibcr of Parliament," which proless to, :give an indication of how matters Stand with! married people n London. It is alleged that the wives who have left their husbands number 2428, and the husbands who have run away from their wives 2371 ; that there are 4T. r iO divorced lamilies; 191,023 famlles who live in a state of perpetual war, and 510,510 married couples' who live in ii state of absolute indifference towards each other ; 1550 families happy in appearance, 1102 families relatively happy, grid Six families really happy". 'Hut last item in the joke'eontaiiis a typically French comment on Ejic*. lish domesticity. °

'the Dominion Government (writes n Canadian correspondent) is taking steps to kill off American trusts by amended- Customs laws, which put 'ln rates so high as to l>c almost prohibitory when American goods come into competition with a likt Canadian product. The latest, contest on thp» line was the American Tolvacco ..Trust, ; one "Of the most greedy a nd. ruthless in its methods of trying to estaUish monopoly a nd to kill competition. In the United States this Tobacco Trust has been fairly successful, kit in Canada| it encountered obstruction that promises to bet 'invincible. In oretcr to do business in Canada hereafter, the trust must pay a license that is so much beyond that of local manufacturers a." to render the latter practically independent of them, and without danger from American com-IM'til-ion. Though- this action may not bo t 0 the advantage of the consumer, it is the policy of protecting the hornet industry, to which no American who believes in that fiscal policy can reasonably object. The Canadian method of dealing with arrogant and! monopolistic Amcricn n trusts is -worthy of attention am!|imil'ftUoit. The results nre certainly exceedingly interesting.

Mr. A. P. Sinnett, in llrond Views, m, nl ions that in three dilTerent plnces Dr. Le Ploagcon, the American explorer of Yucatan, has come upon direct written molds of the tremendous cataclysm by which the last remnant of tho Atkantean continent—itself a huge island as big, at all events, us all Central Europe—was swallowed up by the ocean about eleven thousand years ago. One of these records is in the form of a munmrript known u s the 'JVoano MS., a document which survived the destructive habits of the Spanish con. querora in Mexico, aixd is EMU tp be seen ut some nniseum in Madrid. The all-important passage in this MS is translated by Le Plongcon as follows :-" In the year 0 Kan, on tho 11th Haluc, in the month Zncm, there occurred terrible earthquakes, which continued without interruption until the 13th Chuen. The country of the hills of mud, the land of Mu, was sacrificed ; being twice upheaved, it disappeared during the Mght, the basin being continually shaken by volcanic forces. Being confined, these caused the land to sink a nd rise several times in various places. At last the surface gave way, and ten countries were torn asunder and scattered. Unable to withstand the force of the seismic convulsions, they sank with' their 0-1,000,000 of inhabitants 8060 years before the writing of this book "

Theie Was a i allg - c attcndancc ot ladies and gentlemen a t the public meetingcalled on Monday afternoon uy his Worship the Mayor, to consider the proposial to make a suitable recognition of lira Copland's many services to the philanthropic mstituttons of.the town. His Worship, who presided-, said Mrs Copland wa;i about to leave for England, and as they all knew she had done a great deal more gooA than many 0 f them, perhaps better able '? f O, ' d "'<"•<>• It hoid been suggested to him that s o me recognition of her services should Me made, and •ho proposed to present Mrs Copland with nn autograph album, silvermountul and illuminated, with the autographs of the M a vor, councillors and 180 other contributors. The presentation- to his mind should be public, but Mrs Copland was- averse I to publicity, and he had great difliculty m wetting her to agree to a semi-puU!ic function, and he suggested holding a garden paitv, for which he would gladly n, row olwn his grounds. Mr Samuel, in a few remarks, dwelt on the many good qualities of Mrs- Copland. He said only those comforted and solaced by her know one tithe of her gopd works. He moved that the Mayor he asked to c a rry out bis suggestion. Air IlocMll as-one of the, Nuiaieclre of i;h» Patriotic Funds, in seconding the motion, said that the public lish in connection "with that movement did not convey anything like the helf afforded. The Rev. Woolley spoke to the motion, which w ltt s carried unanimously. The garden party was arranged for Thursday week from 3.:150 p.m. to 5 p.m. Mr MacDiarmid thought the public would like to provide tho refreshments, the sentiment being: readily endorsed,

Mr Newton King sells slock at Stony Hiver to-morrow. Tho price of tho 41b loaf of bread was ycsteiday raised to Od in Melbourne,, ' Mr F. McGuire, of Okaiawa, was a passenger, for Onehunga, by tho Harawa last evening. The services of the Urenui Defence Rifle Club have teen accepted In' the Minister for Defence. The Han Francisco mail steamer '■ Sierra left Sydney at 2 p.m. yesterday for Auckland. She curried £2lO- - in specie. There were no further developments last might regarding the suspected case of smallpox now tt t Bottle Ui,ke hospital, Christchurch. I

The directors of the Kaponga Dairy Company met a number of merchant's on Friday who were desirous of handling the season's butter. F.ventuaily it was decided without recourse to consign through Messrs J. li. MacEwan and Co. The Journal of the Labour Department for October, just published, contains some particulars concerning unskilled labour in all parts of the colony, from which it is is clear that unskilled labourers are every-' where considerably in excess of the! demand.

At the inquest yesterday 0 n John James Uruce, run over by a tr a m on Saturday evening im Christchurch, evident showed that the' deceased jumped oil the first car of the tram, which was going slowly round the comer of High and Colombo Streets'. He fell, apparently striking the end of the second car, the rear wheel of which went over his head. The jury returned a verdict of accidental deith.

The Canterbury Times Christmas Annual for tfllrt keeps its place among the special eil u rts of the

bigger newspapers of the colony to mark tho .approach of the Christmas season. The number this year is devoted, under the heading of " The Snow Queen," to an interesting allegorical story, specially written, and illustrated by reproductions of photographs taken during the sojourn of the members of the Discovery scientific expedition in the Frozen South. The. number is excellently printed, and should lorm a very acceptable memento for friends across the sea.

The first of a series of Government guide books to "the mineral w a lera and health resorts of New Ze n l a nd " lias just been issued. Part 1 de.ls with liotorua, ami is written by Dr. A. S. Wohlmann, Government Ualnoologjsit. It is proposed that the. books shall be issued in small sections year by year, each volume dealing with one district or group oi districts at a time. Dr. Wohlm„nn opens with the medical aspect of the use of mineral waters, and passes on to tte essentials of a health re■ort awl the course of treatment. He then gives a description of Rotorua, the climate, rainfall, soil and season, and adds an exhaustive account oi the various springs a t liotorua, and the constituents of their waters. The bo 0 k is illustrated, and is published by the Government Tourist Department,

T-ngngcment rings, wedding rings gold bands, and spectacles to suit all sights at J, H. Parker's, next Hallway Crossing, Devon-street Central, New Plymouth.*

Equitable Building Society (Starr-ltowketti) can neither receive money as deposits nor borrow ii. any way. Their rules expressly state 'hat they will not avail themselves of the borrowing powers permitted under the Building Societies Act. It will therefore readily be seen that thistis a great source; W; strength, as such ,« society can have absolutely no creditor outside its own members. The appropriations by sale enable members who cannot wait their turn in the ballot to obtau'n loans at an extremely low rate. The share list for the swioaid group is now open at tho society's office, Currie-street. 4