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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7725, 30 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL ADD GENERAL.

The Auckland Sugar Company has dvanced the prices of all grades of sugar 20s per ton. In N»w Zealand there are 404 dentists, whose names' and qualifications appeared in .last week's gazette. There are 442 dentists practising in New Zealand ander the Dentists Act, 1880. A list of names and qualifications appears in last week's Gazette. Strange requests sometimes* come to loqai bodies. The Welilington CSty Council was recently asked by a mother if it could find a lost son. The Mayor stated last that the oilicers had tried to trace the missing person, but so far without success. —Post. A new railway by-'law- has been made providing a penalty not. exceeding £lO for any person wilfully making a lal.se declaration or statement or giving a false certificate with the object oi obtaining n> concession of freight or a reduction of passenger-fare on the railways. Mr Murray, the chief ins|>eclor of roads, has lately completed a jii-oh longed trip through the back country. Travelling from Stratford through AVhangamomona, Tatu, Paori, and Mangaroa to Tongaporutu. Mr, Murray had a 'good opportunity of judging thj! progress of the district. At Mangaroa be l'onnd settlement developing rapidly and many new buildings in Keen competition for the business of the new Kcttlement has already set in though so far the bulk" o 'f the business goes to Auckland,; New Plymouth tradesmen are at a disaiN .vantage in seeming a share of the trade through want of a direct road. As far as Mi- Murray was able to judge thu country has a good appearance, and the settlement is svjid and permanent. • i-

Mr Newton King holds his cattle | sale at Waiwakaibo to-morrow. i The Town Band will give one of their enjoyable concerts on the Esplanade this evening, j Mr F. W. Furkert, assistant engi- I new to the Public Works Office, in- 1 vit.es tenders for certain works at ' opuuak"e. i At their mart on Wednesday Mes- 1 srs Bcwley and Griffiths will offer a | quantity of furniture and a piano for sale,. Mr J. R. Chabterton advertises a | line of specialties he is offering in ladies' and gentlemen's t joots and shoesj. Messrs Burgess, Eraser, and Co. have decided to rebuild in brick, aniJ Mr Sanderson, architect, is now inviting tenders for Hie work. The annual meeting of subscribers to the New Plymouth Public Library will be held in tilie Town Hall i at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening. I Messrs Baker and Co., house furnishers, Devon Street, have what they term an " alpha(jetkial absurdity " iin another colutfiii, to which attention is directed. A cab:!o states that there was a recurrence of intense heat in Melbourne on the thermometer registering .1.05 in the shade in the di'ty, Money-orders to the value of £3f>9231 were issued in the colony dinimg October, November,, ami Decetivl>er last, and the postu'l-notes sold, which numbered 200,817, rcpresen/ted £05,813. The Railway Department has granted the request of the -Stratford District High School Committee for an excursion train on tihe 23rd February, the dale of the annual picnic to the breakwater. A Press Association message from Auckland states that two applications Have been received by the I'rof»ssorial Board of the Auckland University College for nomination for the Rhodes Scholarship. At a book sale in London last month Robert Burns' Bible passed over to Mr Quaritch, the well-knoivn Bibliophile, at £ISOO. It has been privately sold to the trustees of the Burns' monument, and will lind a final resting-placo in Scotland. The ftfx-year-old son of Mr Thomas Mitchell, sawmill-owner, was drowned in tho Patea River on Friday evening by failing into a dam at the Stratford bacon factory. The body ■ was recovered in a few minutes, but life was extinct. On Friday next Mr Newton King will sell by auction at Smart Road the racehorsies Fall Cry and ' Hotoairo. Bdtihi are in active training, and entered for several races. This is a rare chance for anyonu wishing to purchase a lirst-class racehorse, as bhey must lie sold in order to wind up the estate. As illustrating the extent to which the credit system prevails in New Zealand, the case of a Tailiape tailor, who met his creditors in Wellington last week, is peculiarly instructive. According to his own evidence this venturesome individual started business eighteen months ago with less than £lO capital, and now winds up in the Bankruptcy Court witty liabilities of £507 and assets nominally worth £lso—book debts alone totalling £233. X unique spectacle was witnessed at Manaia yesterday afternoon. A Iheavy" shower of rain fell at about jl o'clock, after which the sun shone | brilliantly. The heat of tile sun's rays, coupled* with the heat in the I arched earth, had the effect of Clausing huge banks of steam clouds to | ascend. The clouds- were so thick ( at limes that it was scarcely possible to see from one s'ide of the ! ireet to the other.—Waimate Witness. iAt an old boys' dinner on December 3rd, the headmaster of St. Saviour's School, Southwark, amused the company 'with some examination answers : —One boy's answer as to the outward and visible sign of baptism [was, "Soap and water." A boy said pencils were so called because they came from Pennsylvania, in tho .U.S.A. Last Trafalgar Day the boys !were asked what Nelson did, and lone lad said he drove the French out 'of Trafalgar Square. To the query, |What is a dromedary ? came the .response, "A two-masted camel." Perhaps the happiest "howler" was it'.iat of the genus who thus defined tradition:—"What a boy wears—his Ifather's cut-downi' trousers, because hey are handed down from father to son." Bishop Xeligan arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday,, and is staying |with Archdeacon 1 Cole. Ye.tei-day •his Lordship preached at Ilenui, and also held a private confirmation .service there. In the afternoon he •held a continuation service at St. iMary's, and, gave an eloquent and I persuasive addretss to the lai-ge liumjber of young people who had presented themselves, taking for 'his subject a "motto" chosen from St. Paul's Epistle "to the Ephesians, and expounding the teaching contained in it. In the evening his Lordship preached an able anil touching sermon to a large congregation. This afternoon, as notified in another column, the Bishop will attend a garden party at the Vicarage, to which all the members of the church are invited.

In his "Seven Years Hard" tho Rev, Richard Free tells many storliiis of his experiences nt Millwall. He was teaching his choir-boys muie, a'ifil, being rather proud og his voice, gave an illustration. '' I tood erect, threw out my chest, lopened my mouth wide, and sai-i, Look at me, lads ; sing ljke ifcis,' Sit the same time producing, as I upposed, a musical note. M-isretis, Mn intelligent lad of twelve, begun ito speak, but seemed to change his mind. ' Yes I said encouragingly. 'We had plenty of that kind o:- thing from father.' 'Really! So| yo-jr father sings, does he ?' ' I don't 1.n.-w about' singing,' said the boy, with perfect .seriousness, 'but 1,« uni,u-.s that sort of noise when lie. >awns.' " The qiiestiio-n of making proper provision for the-treatment of consumptive# is exercising the minds of the members of the South Canterbury Hospital Board, Finding it impossible for want of room to erect a consumptive annex to tije Tiniaru hospital, the board, on tho inst., sent a deputation to the trus. tees pf the Wiaimate hospital to ask if they »piild consent to an annex bui'ng attached to their institution. Mr Manches-ter, Mayor Pf Waimate, wrote protesting against ihe proposal in the name of the inhabitants .of Waimate. Aile? considerable discussion it was resolved to ask tinMayor to call a meeting of ratepayers to consider the proposal and afterwards to advise the Hospital Board of 1 lie decision.

An Auckland paper, commenting on the glut in the local potato market, remarks, that the Government restriction against (shipping outside the Auckland district on account of the blight shuts out the markets of New Plymouth and elsewhere, where a ready market, could be found for .the surplus. This throws all the potatoes, on the local market, which, cannot absorb anything like the quantity sent in at present. Prices rangft from £5 to £7 per ton, but the latter figure is only obtainable for really lirsf-cjass samples. The crop in the Auckland district has so far turned out vpi-y ,satisfactorily. A number of diseased po{alOfjii still find their way to market, 'aiid those that are sound when setit. appear to develop the disease in store, which is a serious matter for buyers. ■ Probably owing to the remarkably wej season, even [iotalocs that are free from disea.se rlo not keep so well as usual this ypny. Some instances of good at.tendanjw nt school by individual children have recently been chronicled in the newspapers throughout thp. colony, but both as an individual and family record the following will be haivl to beat. At Thames Uio children (six in number) of Mr A. Carrie, bootmaker, have iust completed a school attendanifp covering a peniod of exactly lil years, commencing' with the s"ear 1886, and during the whole of that period pniy one half-day wa.s missed by one of the children, the others being, present ttti every school day. Tho record of each child is as folilows : —Alex. Currie, attended school seven years, never missed a day,, and gained eight first-class attendance certificates ; Duncan Currie, attended school so.ven years, misled 1 one half-day, ami gained six firstclass and one second-class' attendance certificates ; Maggie Currie attended school eight, years, never missed a day, and ; ,gained eight first-class certificates ; Daniel Currie, attended school eight years, never missed a day, and gained eight first-class a Honda nee certificates • Elizabeth Currie, attended school eight years, gained eight first-class attendance certificates. It may be stated that the above records were at the Kouaeranga, Bnllie-street mid Parawui public schools.

The Taraiuaki Poultry Society sdvertiso for a slecretary. A million people could comforatbly ttnd standing-room in a lield with an area of one square mile. v Tn our day," says tho Waipawa Wail, in a spasm of candour, "lying has become a fashion, a habit, and even a necessity. In short, mendacity is reduced to a line art, and he /ho lies largest lies last. Imagine for a moment the dire consequences that would ensue if the world became truthful. . . . The husband lies in big things and the wife returns th» compliment in a hundred and one little ways." Then, with a shudder, the Mail concludes : " One it.-embles to think of the state of many households if husbands and wives fell to speaking the unvarnished truth to one another." Are they really as bad as all that in Waipawa ? Then- was a gleam of humour in and a happy ending' to sin affiliation case which came before tho Court at Napier on Saturday morning. A young man a few days ago was bound over to appear on Saturday to state what provision lie could make lor the maintenance of his admitted uniborn child. Wilieii asked whether be had anything to say he replied, " No, 1 have nothing to say," but after a moment's hesitation he added, as an afterthought, "Except that we got married yes- j terday." His Worship, smiling, remarked that tho latter statement seemed to be somewhat important, and on learning from the mother of the prosecutrix that it was correct-, he discharged the defendant, expressing the hope that his matrimonial venture would be attended with happiness.—Tek-graph. " The boys of the present generation have a much better time than they dill in my day," remarked his jWorship the Mayor of Uisborne last : .week when the question of a vote Ito assist the technical classes was | un'der consideration, "1 served seven years at my trade, and at the end |of that term, when 21 years of age, I was only getting 9s (id a week, jand was then making i'ur-n'iture equal to anything I have ever made. jNowadays the legislature provides for a boy to have a certain wage and | a yearly increase in his wages whether he deserves it or not. As boys are so well paid they ought to be ,able to coutnlbuto something toward j lie instruction given at the technicjal school^." Cr. Somervell went one better than the Mayor, remarktag that {luring the iii-st three years ,0)' his apprenticeship he did not revive any salary. He thought boys .of the present day Jiad a great deal to be thankful for. Lecturing in the Centennial llall at Brisbane on the subject of tho wur. Captain 1 iarxlen (who had been serving as war correspondent for the London Chronicle and Daily Graphic) dealt with the history of the siege of Port Arthur, from notes' diclItated by the editor of the Novy Krai. The most important item | was a statement ol tho practical supercession of General Stoessel. The | lecturer alleged that so great was jthe failure of the General to whom the greater credit of the' defence is attributed, that the ollicers held a private meeting, and despatched one of their number to Cbifu with a specia'l message ty the Czail, asking that General Sminjoll should be given doiiimand. General Stoossed, it was stated, had shown incapacity in organisation, and lind not the confidence of the garrison. The result ,wa» that General Smirnofl was- entrusted with the bulk of the work ; which kept tho Russian flag flying for so long-. Many stories were fold of Russiian corruption, wtyth left the garrison with much less in the way of supplies and provisions than orirginaliy intended, and the responsibility of that was attributed to Admiral Alexieff.

I Sir 11. Broadlient, the ehairjman of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, and ]the secretary of that organisation jhave just directed to the. heads of the great steamship companies a l joint letter in which they invite the of managers of the companies to the great danger of the spread of the infection of tuberculosis from diseased persons to the healthy on board ship. The points .to which they more particularly desire to direct attention are :—(1) I c danger to healthy persons who are placed in cabins shared bv con- | uniptives ; (2) tjie wa nt of' any administrative measure calculated to discover the existence of the disease among the .passengers before the vessel departs from port; and (3) the necessity of effective disinfection of bunks occupied by consumptives nt the end of the voyage. They are mindful of thc'dilliculties'with which tho steamship companies have to contend. Persons suffering from consumption may have to make vovages, and phthisical patients are often sent by medical men to Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. The companies cannot very well demand a certificate of health from every passenger, and have no ready means of ascertaining wfro among them are uffering from consumption before they are admitted on board. Tho National Society, however, suggpst a notification might be issued requiting that information should be given of cases of advanced consumption, and further suggest that the toamship companies, in their contracts with passengers, reserve powr to remove consumptlveu from abins in which they arc a source of danger to healthy persons, special ccommodation being provided for the segregation of sufferers. A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINC* TION. The Western Medical Review,- « medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a recent issue 'Thousands of physicians in thi9 and other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Exi tract in not only reliable, but that it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus." Yqui- )iealtl> Is too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries, And insist upon getting' Sanlir and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician . and t&c medical Press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diar-< rhoea, kidney diseases, the relief ia instantaneous. WouniSs, ulcere, burns, sprains, etc., it heals without inflammation. As mouthwash (9 1 drops to g glass of water) it pro vents decay of teeth, and destroys all disease germs.* WJIY IT SELLS. If SyiCE.S' DRENpH were not backed by t'fial merit it would have been dead long agg. pp ypn want to know why it sells ? WORD OF MOUTH ADVERTISING, A farmer 'buys it, perhaps through chance, maybe a friend recommends it to hini. However, he gives it a trial. A valuable cow's life is saved ; next time Keveral of his pigs arc sick ; he tries It again; and so it goes on ntil after two or three more trials he finds it can be depended ujion, When his neighbours- cows are sick he says : "Why don't you use SYKES' Drench ? Best thing I over struck. Get a packrtt, old chap, and just use it according tothe directions, and it will do the rest." ; This friend tries -it wiLh similar results und recommends it to another, nd no i.t grows constantly because it faithfully does its work. Each Packet of SYKEii' DRENCH contains two drenches. PriPM 6d.—■ Advt. ' Do you dread washing day ? Then : buy a tin of Washine and cheer up. See a list of storekeepers who stock it. 4 6:} tin sufficient for a week's i washing.*