NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 258, 4 November 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Liberals gained sixty seats at the English municipal elections. The Franco-American arbi trafcion treaty has been sig'ned ut Washings ton. To-day marl s the anniveisary of ihe arrest of Te Whitt at I'arihaka in 1881.1 A fatal caso of plague occurred at Cooper's Creek, eight miles from Brisbane, Queensland. The S.M. yesterday convicted aind discharged with a caution two first offenders in druniienness. Railway arrangements in connection with the Waverley-Waitotura race's, on November 9th, are advertised to-day. To-morrow afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock, Mr Nowton King will sell by auction an "on slied oil the toreshore at Moturoa. Engineers in the bituminous collieries in Illinois (U.S.A.) have struck against a reduction of 5J per cent., thus throwing 50,000 miners idle.

in the House Mi- Seddon stated that a scorching inquiry would be held into the gun accident at the forts in Wellington on Wednesday. The gun was of a new pattern, and had been obtaiiiod through tho War Ollice, and had passed the usual tests.

Owing to District Judge Ward being engaged on the Auckland Hospital Inquiry, the sessions of the District Court, set for to-day, will be formally adjourned till Tueyday next, at 2 p.m. District Judge Kennedy, of Nelson, will preside. A small boy, about .seven years ol age, dressed in a khaki suit, wan-d.-.vd away from a luiuse on the Veale Road yesterday afternoon. Anyone seeing the child is requested to communicate with Mr C. M. l.epper, at the Hospital Board office.

Compluint is made in Wellington that the sanalL boys amuse themselves by placing nails on Uw trani-Mn-cS at Newtown, with "Llu i object of 'getting) them flattened out by tins trams. The nails are aiterwards kit. on tho street to the danger of horses, and within the last Jew wei'ks a horse vaJuid at £OO has. been maimwl by getting one of them in its hoof.

As from the Ist Novemlx'r the summer time-table for the I'ipirikiTokaanu ser\ice has been resumed. Th« steamer leaving Wanganui on Tueuday, Thursday, and Saturday now connects on three days with the couch at Tipiriki on tho following Wednesday, Friday, and Monday, arriving at Tokaanu on the next days. On the return journey the coach leuv.es Tokaanu on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, connecting at Fipiriki with the steamer which ' arrives at Wanganui on the follow-m-g, Wednesday, Friday, and Monday. A common trait exhibited by the movers of votes of thanks, and tine chairmen ol meetings, is a wearisome tendency to recapitulate the points dvalt with by lecturers and others, seemingly as- the result of' an- impression that thoy alone ai. oapaUe of grasping the gist of the question-. This was rather forciblv exemplified at a meeting last night, When -the chairman delivered a lecturitte—admirable if in its right place, but rather exasperating to those Who realised that the next day was an ordinary work-a-dav I one.

The following interesting problem in arithmetic is given t 0 a young People s class m one of our Australuin exchanges :—A tradesman on his way home picked up a £r> note. When ne arrived at his house he told his Wile, and prodded to- take a mpmo of the number 011 the n O U,, for, said he, the loser will be sure to advertise Ins loss, before he left the housx; another tradesman's bill was presented to the-good lady, who asked her husband for money to pay i t the amount being Just £5 ; so he handed her the note he had found. F/ventually, after liquidating three oth.'r £f> debts, the note came back to the tradesman who had found it ■ thus ot hud cleared ofT £25 worth of accounts. Subsequently the note was found to be n clever counterfeit ; hence the loser had not advertised ior it. TWe question is, how much has been lost in the above transactionf'. and by whom ?

The Equitable iiuilding Society of New Plymouth offers through its' ballots special opportunities to its members to obtain money at a rate and on a scale of repayments which cannot be obtained from any other lender. Its appropriations by sale enable members who cannot wait their turn in the ballot to obtain loans at an extremely low rate of interest. One of its chief distinctions is that it lends its funds only to members. Share list for second group is n o w open at tho society's office, Curriestreet.* i

The secretary of tho Egniont A. and I'. Association forwards a complimentary ticket for the annual show, to l.e held oil the 23rd and 24th inst. To show that the young colonial is built on the same linesi as John Hull, junior, it may be mentioned (says the Guardian) that a Wairoa four-year-old youngster, hearing tli'e lialtic float outrage discussed, chipped in with : "Is 'Zealand going to [stand this?"

Messrs Coleman & Sons, contractors for the exhibition buildings, are making good headway with the erection, uaid hope to liave the work s«> far -forward as to allow the committee to turf the inner court next week. The erect-ion of the fence around the Square is also being pushed forward. An explorer who has just returned from Africa reports Lh'e lindiug of ext'Uisive ruins in IlhodeSiia, which are supposed to have belonged to Arabian gold purveyor;* who lived aibout IMOO years ago. He say 9 the evidence is increasing that Rhodesia was the biblical Ophar whence Solomon obtuined his gold.

One of the peculiarities of last week's rainfall (the North Otago '1 imes s-ays) was a fierce crack of thunder, which proceeded from a small cloud over the town. The cloud was probably not large enough to have room -for the usual reverberal.on that accompanies thunder, and instead there was only a terrifying loud crack as if a heavy piece of artillery had been fired with a high explosite. Haratonga news states that Frank Ryder Davies and Harry Lyons were convicted under the Undesirable Immigrants Act, and arrangements have been made to shipj theni back to New Zealand,, where both had served sentences in giaol. Davies and Lyons were also charged, with James Glover, with burglarising the Itaratonga post ollice, and stealing £l6. The Couit found there was evidence of grave suspicion, buit not suilictient to convict.

A doctor in Silesia has come to the conclusion th-at coal dust is bc.ieticial in lu<ng diseases. His curiosity was aroused from the l'act that among the many illnesses prevalent in his district lun® idisoaf«es occupy a prominent place, and that consumptive persons on coming to reside near the c.-val mines recovered their health. He attributes the cures to the coal dust contained in ' the atmosphere, whiich, he allegies-, has a drying and disinfecting influence on ull'ected lu;Qgs.

A return presented to Parliament shows that the total amount of money remaining secured by mortgage under the Land Transfer Act on March 31, 1908, was £42,906,771. On March 31 of this year the amount had increased to £45,493,551. 'I-he amounts s cured ia the clilferent districts in 11)03 wtere : Auckla-pd £3,626,695, Taranaki £3,125,947, Wellington £11,538,503, llawke's Bay £5,039,252, Poverty May £702,060, Nelson £1,101,126, Marlborough £491,260, Canterbury £9,214,923, Otag'o £3,298,925, Southland £4,331,214, Westland £136,86.1. The amounts at March 31 last were Auckland £3,950,548, Tai'anak'i £3,806,679, , Wellington £12,523,148, Hawke's Bay £5,299,681, Poverty Bay £663.111, Nelson £1,147,928, Marlborough £515,923, Canterbury £9,611,786, Otago £3,376,894, Southland £4,44-5,293, Westland £152,554.

According to the Wairarapa Daily Times, the Shops and Offices Bill seems to l.e an ingonius arrangement in favour of the peripatetic pedlar. Says our contemporary : All sorts of obstacles aro placed in the way of ordinary buying and selling, so that it is almost penal to be either a seller or a buyer. Tho übiquitous pedlar becomes the saving clause, for this itine-rant merchant only is the free man, and will come round to a settler's back door at any hour of the day oi' night, unfettered by any time limit. His little shop will be always open, and lie will not lie restricted by a Labour Department from studying the convenience of his customers. The efforts of our Parliamentarians to crush legitimate trude and to stimulate the illegitimate traffic of the pedlar a re worthy o( the highest admiration, The wise men of Gotham, of whom we have read, were as -babes and sucklings when compared with the bright and shining legislators of New Zealand.

Mr J. Davies, of Maxwel-ftown, jsupplies the Wanganui Herald with 'some interesting information concerning t.he manner in which he, in a very short tiime, cured one of his cows of milk fever, which should be re>ad with, great interest by dairymen. At 5 o'clock on Tuesday morn-lug, Mr Davies found tlio cow, an animal -in good condition and heavy milk, at her last gasp from milk fever. Remembering a cure ho had read in a fanning paper, which consisted of forcing air Into tho udeler by means of a bicycle pump, he determinod to try it, as he realism that it was a case of kill or curij," the beast being almost beyond help. Procuring a bicycle pump, lie inserted a small quill in the end of the rubber tube, of sufficient size to easily enter the teats, and applying iL to each teat in turn, he pumped the udder a** full- of air as he Could. The cow at this tlmo was laid out with scarcely a sign of lite in her, but at 9 o'clock she had so far recovered as to' V>e 'able to pull herself up to a natural position, and at 1 o'clock Mr Davies wafv gratified by seeing her feeding about. Next niomin:r the cow was almost as well as ever, and to all intents ami purposes cured. Mr Davies states that this is tho first case that, he hasi|any personal knowledge of where tho airpump euro has been used successfully and after seeing its effects bo amply demonstrated, he is epiite satisfied of its elliicacy, and he bel'ioves that a knowledge of it would lead to the saving of many valuable animals..

TheiO was 'but a small attendance at the old Freemasons' Hall last evening:, when Mr J. M. Widsoin, the Socialist and New 'thought advocate, delivered an address on the nature and aims of Socialism. As a lecturer Mr Wilson stands- in the forefront, his terse manner of dealing: witlv the subject matter, with lus free use of telling epigram and striking illustration, rivetting the attention ovi*n of those who may not agree with his views. In the course of his address tho speaker maintained that socialism had always) been a force in the world, as man wasi a sociable being ; all our actions were founded on this principle. Bero in New Zealand, though we pr-idad ourselves on our advancement in economic thought, yet the true end of socialism had not been attai'nod. As for example, our railways were kept running by borrowed money, whereas they Should be maintained without this adventitious aid. The resources of the colony could U; marvellously develoi«.'d without going to the foreign capitalist, tile speaker stating that the floating of loans in the London market did not benefit this community ■lit all. Socialism would revolutionise the manwTacturing' system, as commodities would he made for use, not for profit, 'lhe principle of co-operation, as carried out in our dairy industry, was akin to that of socialism. The educational system wonkl be revised. Tlie present system was useless, as it crummed men instead of drawing out their inmate Qualities. Education was the foundation- of the whole question-. America led the industrial world because of her technical schools. Great stress was laid on the inequality of the sexes us regiu.ds wages, the lecturer urging that true progress could not be made until woman was placed on a full equality with man. Kptakinfr 0 f th e prohibition qwution Mr Wilson said moi.e good would be achieved by the systematic placing ol suggestive placards in public places than by all the schemes of. Ifohibitiowists. Several questions were aaswered at the close of the lecture, a vote of thanks to the speaker, closing the meeting. On Sunday evening Mr Wilson will deliver an eddness at the Theatre on "Russia's Plight, Britain's Might, and tlw QftUfW ol Bight,"

Following upon the wreck of the mail steamer Australia, the Port Phillip pilots w!>ro called upon to have -their eyesight tested, and throe of the pilots Jailed to pass the test,, and were at once grunted leave of abs-encp. The case has been further considered by the Marine Board, and tlu> majority of members are agreed -that, the -test wasi unduly sev- | ere, and that tin' pilots should be reinstated.

To mark the actual passing of midnight at Washington during the eighth International Geographical Congress in the Naval Observatory there, a special sot of signals were sent to ISngland for tr&nsmirsion to observatories in various parts of the world. Greetings were sent -with the signals, and complimentary responses wore received immediately from many places. It is hoped that the signals will help the movement to secure standard time throughout the world, based on the meridian of Greenwich.

The Sydney Morning Herald of Oct. 26 states -.—The railway authorities state that this season's wool clij). is arriving 'in considerable quantities at the seaboard from inland stations. During the last two days 80,000 bales were received at Darling Island, Newcastle and Morpeth. The arrivals ait those places last week amounted to 20,000 bales. Up to date, 204,000 bales of this season's wool have come to hand, boing an increase of 70,000 bales as Compared with the like peiiiod of last year. Grain is also arriving in fair quantities, 18,000 bags having been ivceived at the Darling Island grainshed lasft week. Dp to date 2,750,000 bags hiave been received at Darling Island, and nearly 2,000,000 bags have been shipped for export. Engagement rings, wedding rings, gold bands, and spectacles to suit all sights at J. H. Parker's, next Railway crossing, Devon Street Central, New Plymouth.*

WHAT KHEUMO DOES. Mr W. WEARINU, Miner, Mataura, states as follows :—"I an 79 years old, and have lived in Mataura 40 years. For seven months I was a great auKerer from rheumatism, so bad that at times I cetiUl not leave my bed. It was told of Rheumo, and took four bottles. The result was that I was completely curod of rheumatism. Mr Mac Gibbon, who is a .J.P., and a well-known merchant here, can verify my statement. 1 shall always be glad to tell sufferers what your wonderful medicine Rheumo did for me." Sold everywhere, 2s 6d and 4s fid. Kempthorne, Prosset' and Co.. Wholesale A cents.• 1