NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 262, 9 November 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Messrs W. H. and A. McGaitry, auctioneers, of Eltham, advertise 100 acres of land on the EMiam Rood for sale cheap. The Mount Egmont Masonic Lodge meets in the Robe Street tail this evening, when, the business will include the election of W.M.

"I send you fifty pancakes and wish you to enjoy them," wus one of the gems contained in a letter read ut the bankruptcy proceedings yesterday, which made even judicial gravity to be disturbed.

Owing to the serious illness ol Bishop Stonc-Wigg the lecture which was to have been given in St. Mary's Hall to-m*row evening on "New Guinea" has been postponed indefinitely.

The annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand opened at Wellington last cvoning. Proceedings were of an en» tirely devotional and preliminary character. The Assembly meets this morning for the transaction of business. Yesterday Mr N. K. MacDiarmid, chairman of tho High School Donrd of Governors, was ndvisud by wire from the Hon. T. Kelly that'a vote of £1499 has been authorised by Parliament as compensation to thai, body for losses sustained in reference to the leases of Messrs Newing and Hughes. The Hutt County Council finds itself face to face with a difficulty in levying increased rates over part of its rating area, consequent on a judgment delivered by the Chief Justice, nnd pending a settlement of the matter all employees gave been notili"d that their services wiH bo dispensed with. Farmors and others interested will note from our advertising columns the sale by auction on November 24th, at Wellington, by Messrs Macdonald, Wilson, and Co., in conjunction with Messrs Jenkins, Matthews and Pigott, of W«.itni'a, of H highlyimproved and valuable dairy farm

containing 292 acres, with house mid other outbuildings thereon, situated at Urenui, noar Waitara. The terms of sale are very easy, and full details appear. The inmates of the Old People's Home were on Tuesday night given a .treat by the members of St. Mary's choir, which was, it is needless to say, thoroughly enjoyed. The items included quartets by the boys vocal I numbers by Misses Crawford and (f floldsworth, duet by Misses Mead, a pianoforte selection by Miss Deacon songs by Messrs Boulton. Itarrv and Hrucc, and a chorus by the choir. Mr Fnrrar, custodian, desires to thank those who contributed so much to the enjoyment, of the evening. The party were entertained at supper by Mr and Mrs Farrar. Mr Whitaker lias received the following letter from Mr T. Honayne general managers of railways, in reference to a petition forwarded by Smart Itoad residents protesting ugainst the proposal to remove that station from its present position : With reference to your letter of the 17th lilt., forwarding memorial irom residents of Smart Road, urging that the railway station at that place be not removed. 1 have the honour by direction of the Minister tor Railways to inform you that so far as the Hallway department is concerned there is no intention to abolish cither that station or the Kliot-street station in order to provide a station at. Fitzrov, unless tJie residents come to a mutual understanding on the matter. The Equitahlo Huilding 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 whjch cannot be obtained from any other lend- i or. Its appropriations by salo en- '. able members who cannot wait their j turn in tho to obtain loans at an extremely loTv r n te of interest. Ono of its chief distinctions is t)>nt It lends its funds only to members. Share list for second group is n o w •pen at the society's office, Currio-11 street* l(

From the Ist proximo newspaper!) ,11111}' lm sen I to the Transvaal and Johore at. the penny rate for each paper, irrespective of weight,. A special delivery of correspondence by the San Francisco mail will be made over the public counter this morning between Hand 10 o'clock.

The first and second prizes in Tattersall's No. ,1 sweep on the Melbourne Cup went to Mr W. Uurnand, of drey Lynn, Auckland, and to Mr D'Arcy, ol Orepuki, respectively. In producing his old age pension book at Oeelong, n resident of Melbourne inadvertently pulled forth a bank book showing that he had over £IO,OOO in the Rank of England. In a lest case bruught by the Central Mission the Chief Justice at Wellington held that bodies registered under the I'nclassiliod Societies Act, 1895, have power to mortgt le ,_ /hei: property, Queensland is suffering from severe depression after a long period of public extravagance, and in Brisbane the sign "To Let" is conspicuous in business premises as well as in private houses. The New Zealand Athletic Association has received n message from the Agent-General, stating that Duffey ami Shrubb am willing to come to New Zealand providing their passage and hotel expenses are paid. The Waitaki river is taking considerable toll of the land along its banks. One of the Borough Council's tenants, with an area of some 20 odd acres, finds himself in possession of about only a quarter of an acre. During the recent heavy rain in Wellington, a bucket, which had been left on the roof of a house by a plumber, was filled to overflowing. This incident gives a fair idea of the amount of rain which must have fallen.

At the annual meeting of the Hawera Gas Company the profit and loss account showed a credit balance of £llß9, inclusive of £169 brought forward from the urevions year. A dividend of 10 per cent, was declared, and £314 carried forward. Tho Palmerston North Standard reports that a party of experienced gold miners are at present digging for gold in the Mount Bruce district, between Eketahuna and Masterton. Gold has been found, though whether in payable quantities is not stated. Efforts arc being mado to assist the Gertie Campion fund by holding a concert here on Tuesday evening next. A most attractive programme is being arranged, and this. together with the laudable object in view, should draw a bumper house. Loss of memory has been attributed to many causes, but it remained tor a Syrian witness nt, the District Court yesterday to advance a novel theory. He was being examined as to the cost of bringing his family from Auckland to New Plymouth, and he said he could not say whether it was £8 or £lO. Tiff interpreter informed the court that witness averred as the reason that he was sick on the trip. Francis Mulhollnnd, licensee of the Bower Hotel, near New Brighton, Christchurch, was lined £2O for permitting drunkenness, It was stated that tho defendant on the aftornoon of October 25th drove a wellrto-do farmer, while under the influence of liquor, to the hotel, and kept him there for the night. The farmer drew cheques totalling about £l5O, including one for £52, which was given to a bookmaker, and one I for £45 to defendant, both being cashed next morning. The endorsei ment of the license was held over until the Magistrate could ascertain whether the new Licensing Bill jbnubled him to withhold an endorsement.

The London Lodic*- Pictoral. mourns that English girls have learned to smoke cigarettes in public.. "H is a regrettable, but certainly undeniable fact," it sdys, "that smoking amongi women, and especially 'among young girls, Is becoming increasingly common. Though it lias 'been recognised as a practise in private life for some time past, to smoke openly in restaurants and other public places has not been looked upon as quite comme il faut. but during the last season or two it has grown more general at restaurants. This year a further stage has been reached, and at Goodwood many qtuite young girls were to be seen smoking in the luncheon pavilion. At a large East Coast hotel the same sight, is to be seen in the lounge after dinner, and one trusts it may not lw considered old-fashioned to express the opinion that it does not add to tho attractiveness of the English girl to see her thus engagvd."

lhe Timaru Harbour Board hits had beiore it for somo timo the question 0 f st |ll furth(!r lmproving the harbour. The board has just had presented to it by its resident engineer (Mr J. 11. naynus, a pl . o p oS fa al lor deepening the inner harbour to a depth of 20ft below lew-water ordinary spring tide. The engineer estimates that with the board's present plant the removal of tho 172 014 tons of sand, mud nnd silt would cost £7107, the removal of 377,256 tons of clay and conglomerate £75,•151, and the time occupied would bo twenty-nine years. His alternate scheme, which means obtaining a bucket-dredge, would cost £24 638 and take only . s jx years to carry out. Mr Ilaynes strongly recommends tho board (1) to obtain with us little delay as possible a self-pro-pelling hopper dredge, fitted with the strongest cast steel buckets and picks, to he capable of lifting 400,000 tons of mixed material of sand, mud and clay, and conglomerate per annum, and steaming to sea with same in all ordinary weather

.T-iiimru people have just "been celebrating tho twenty-first anniversary of the day on which the Unit vessel was brought alongside the breakwater. Says the Timaru Her. aid :-On Nov. 4, 1879, a ketch of 60 tons burden was, nmidst great rejoicings, moored to the first beginnings of our harbour works. Tho I mice Buport was th« forerunner of fleets of sailing vessels, which gradually gave place to steamers of over-Increasing «iz», unti i now wo Imve mammoth ocean liners of over 8000 tons trading regularly to our artificial -harbour. The sight of steamers like the Gothic, tho Tonganro, the Klmutaka, „nd tho other fine .boats that visit us, is so common that now it fails to ejtci-tc any astoiMiihmoi-t, |, u t if the young colonial who looks so unconcerned.while I they discharge and loaal at our wharves, could bo transplanted for a day to the pcri 0 d when the ' wind jammers lay in the oiling, and had their cargoes taken to urnd fr 0 in surf-boms, he might think that some magician had been at work for the last quarter of a century upon the uninviting, shtngly bench which was all the makers of the Timaru harbour had to work upon.

Read the following description of a Kentucky briide, penned—penned is the appropriate vvoixl—by the Lexington (Kentucky) correspondent of the Mansfield (Ohio) News. It certainly appears to us that the correspondent wrote m a genial glow from the internal application of aiiot-lul- Kentucky product ; "Again have radiant, Imgrmit young, maidens' eyes,

> ous- with love and joy, beamed through .bridal veils, the m o st ecstar t,- O, V. CVery " la '*n's heart. Miss Lottie Rule, of Lexington, is the maiden w,,th Mwutyvfcrlmann glo,w on- her cheeks, ma de hhupy by nuptm ntea She wa = a „ "» s " who ever arrived herself in bridal vestmenls here. She was radiant and lovely „ s - the roses „ ow o p om -„„ -„• petal,- t 0 the .Urn n. Her luxuriant, shining t ress es were S~rod ,Wth jewelsf aud s as all brides sil> o uld Ik- a radiant mieenof love.joy, sl has the (most feminine instincts ,n I tari, 0 * -•"'-■- «Ce l,,wL ? ame "«*rinwl as hs tanle, should cherish her as a frttant. deluwte flower. n rare exothnM from »» »"tl« »oa"'hnin Francisco Argonaut.

Pawls and packages from all centres in New Zoalnnd to New Plymouth or vice versa at (bed through rates.-The New Zealand Express Company, Ltd. j;

Among the Salvation Army's officers nt Home and abroad are, says the Scotsman, a .Russian princess, the daughter of an English earl, the cousin of a Scottish duke, and the daughter of a New York millionaire, who, discarding the society of that city, is happy in working amid the slums of London. All these ladies have long been active and useful members of the organisation in various branches of its beneficent operations.

In the House on Tuesday Mr Seddon moved that the report of the second conference on the Shops and Offices Kill be agreed to. He explained that the hours of closing inserted by the Legislative Council were made to apply only to the four jlarge centres of the colony. Clause 120, struck out. by the Council, has .been restored with the alteration I that, a bare majority of shopkeepers shall fix the hour of closing instead | of a three-fifths majority. The report was agreed to.

The "no-hat" movement seems to be having a considerable vogue in England. In F.astbourne during the past summer it is said that the appearance of girls and women without hats or any headgear at nil has ceased to be the occasion for any surprise or remark. F.ven the street boy has ceased to take an interest in what only a few weeks ago was an unwonted sight, to be regarded with curiosity if not with condemnation or a ribald remark. Now no one even dreams of turning the head or smiling as members of the hatless brigade go by. What is- to become of the Anturotic ship Discovery is l>eing asked in scientilic circles here (says a London writer), for she is the only vessel that was uuer built in litis country for scientific purposes, anil cost close upon £'lß,ooo. it is suggested that the Govemmcnjt ought to buy her for use as a survey ship, and I believe that the Joint Committee of the Antarctic expedition will prouaibly offer her to the Admiralty at a figure considerably below cost, tho#gh Captain Scott avers that the staunch Discovery is a bottePvessel now thorn when she wasi launched four years ago. Eviduntly the study of Arabic is not included in the course prescribed for qualifying for the bonch, as a witness in the bankruptcy case yes- | terday found that a bundle of letters hamded to him by counsel were fastened together without reference to whether they were upside down, cornerwise, or anyhow. When he explained to hit Honour the difficulty he had in immediately finding certain dates delivered in rapid local tyle, te learned judge nt once grasped the situation, and perhaps feeling a brotherly sympathy for the disabilities of counsel, said, "1 understand."

What would the average Britisher think of a business letter which called upon the Deity to protect mutual interests ? But this is apparently the usual method of Syrian traders, for at the Sapreme Court yesterdaj Mr Samuel read translations of several letters, the originals of which were written in Arabic, in which the writer frequently used such expressions as "thanks to God the business Is increasing," and "God will bless you." One extra fervid letter drew a graphic account of what would happen at the Final Bar if certain proposals wore not carried out as submitted 'by a debtor to his creditor. Hie Honour said the letters were delightful in their simple piety, yet they were told that the "Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold."

It is reported from Liao-yang that owing to the heat tho soldiers often tight in their underclothes. The most remarkable instance of fighting "en deshabille" is the famous battle of the Shirts, which took place in 1544 on the shores of Loch Lochy, in tho Highlands of Scotland, between a baud of Fi'asers and Macdonalds. The nay was so hot that the combatants threw oir not only their plaids but the rest of their clothes, and went at it in their shirts. Even then the hoai was unbearable, und_, many, wearied with their big two-handed swords, rushed into the cool waters of the loch and fought there with their dirks. Lord Lovat, whose desperate valour earned for him the name of "Cruaidh Choscar" (the hardy slaughterer), and his son were killed. In fact, it is said that only tour of tho Frasers came out of tho fight .alive, and not many more of the Macdonalds, who, however, secured the victory.

A more gruesome experience than that of Israel Voronolt has seldom fallen to the lot of mortal man. Voronoir is a fashionable photographer in Snrivtoff, East Russia, and the strange tragedy in which ho played the part of a silent witness is thus told in his ' own words ;— *•• I had just finished an appointment when my assistant announced the *riv«l of a young lady. When she was shown in I felt that at lawt I nad a subject t 0 which no camera «ould do justice. I had photographed half the professional -beauties of Russia, but my new client w a », beyond comparison, the most boautiful woman I had over Seen. As none of my first four negatives pleased me, I asked the lady to he seated once mora She turned her face to the light and siiiiiled, and, at lust, I thought, ' I have got the right expression.' 'Just, a la-o-tic to the left,' I said. But mv sitter did not turn, and thinking' that perhaps she was tho heal judgo 0 f how to Do taken, I movad and replaced the cap, and said, "Phut will do.' My sitter did not move. I repeated, 1 have demo, thanks.' She remained frigidly stall. Frightened, and thmking possibly she had fatatof l rum the heat, I went over and touched her, nnpl to my horror and consternation found that she was dead." Tho name of the unfortunate young lady was not known, but prints from tho negative takon us s'h;e sat dead ,in- the chair ware, circti'latod with a view to discovering her identity. In a recent issuo of tho London Daily Mail tho following list of advuntisling rates per page per day of some of tho printipal London newsnapero is given, and should be of interest to local advertisers:—Daily Mall, £B3O ; Tho Times, £l5O mid £2OO (according to position); The Standard, £l5O block, £l2O type ■ Morning Post, £150; Daily Telel graph, £2OO block, £IOO type; Daily News, £l3O ; Daily Chronicle £l2O £l2O block, £IOO ty|je ; Daily Mirror, £4O ; Daily Graphic, £SO ; and Morning Leader, £IOO. It i 8 a striking illustration of the value of advertising that even at these heavy char** the newspapers are in ! «tion t0 llick umi choose thoJr i vcitiscmouts, so numerous are the applications f Ol . Bpace- At fil . st s t would appear that in London newspapers at least there to a v" " ' able SOU mine. While this is 0 a sense, many fortunes have been rit ored away in vain attempts to abhs, journals i„ the lop-olis-as well as elsewhere-antl k« ?s on' . rUn ' ninff LoM ™ »™s,?aIhis is enormous. Sonic iA.,, ™r ;. <WP and maintain these is 1 expense. I n , addition he oalile,'" "' some cases n ,n into 2?™" »«kl.v, and it is n 0 - „? ' , " g "'™ «'<>n ■occurrence L a " unCo,nhu«"^o:°z,L°d rtxrr worthless when received „ l ,,act "-' n| ly ™ t-.,ough 'szi&sr*™* Caution to Fai-mers. has sliuitoa letters of ... • '' cnch a" Paruof the colonvt '""" to obtain nJ co '°"y- In order of the highest quality are uZt s manufacture. Shun the deal r ' uho ln anlr ., tQ JpUn hts tells you he has something bet- ; tor. Beware ! His advice may cost < you he life of a most valuable < animal. For cows, horsos, sheep ' and pigs. Price, Is 6d. Each ' packet contains a drenches, •'

A writer in To-day says he witnessed an amusing scene the other day in Dublin. An English tourist, over for the horse show, was carrying a bag along the street, and a street urchin accosted him and offered to relieve him of the weight for twopence. The tender was not accepted. "I'll take it for a penny, then," said the lad. "No, thank you," iras the reply. Whereupon the .\oung rulTiaii got mto Hie miiddle of the roud, and shouted several times at the top of his voice : "Get along wid you. You ought, to be ashamed of yourself asking me to cwr.y that great heavy bag for a ha'penny." The face of thai Englishman under the scornful glances of the crowd was a study.

An unexpected visitor to this port yesterday (Says the Sydney Morning Herald of Oct. 2ti) wns the barque Onyx, a well-known vessel employed in the New 'Zealand timber trade. She had sailed from K&ipara 26 days before with a cargo of 307,026 feet of kauri pine, and on account of the prolonged passage caused byt heavy weather conditions, run short of provisions. Captain Duncan therefore resolved to make for Sydney to replenish the exhausted stores before attempting to continue llAs passage. Captain Duncan states that for a couple of idays after leaving Kaipui'a lie met with light westerly winds, but from Oct. 1 to Oct. 13 a succession of strong westerly gales was experienced. During the greater part of this time the Oynx ran under lower topsails only. For the next week of the voyage moderate weather conditions and variable winds prevailed, but on Oct. 20 a strong north-wosterfy to south-westerly gale was encountered, lasting for two days. So violent was the tempest Hint the fore-topsail and the foresail were torn into shreds and carried aw-ay. Jervis Hay was sighted on Oct. 23, and the Onyx entered Sydney Heads at 7 a.m. oni Oct. 25.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. MnedonaUl, Wilson, and C».—Sale of dairy farm at Urenul, noar Waitaru. Moijnt >-Egitiont Masonic Lodge.— Meeting to.night. W. H. and A. McGnrry.—loo ac»ea Eltham Road land for sale. Guinness and Le Crcn.—Station Peak estate sale. A.D.C. Hoot Co.—Offers solution to problem. Mason, hairdresser.—Open to-day,