The Daily News. FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7808, 28 April 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho total collections at tlic two organ recitals given by Mr J. Maughan Harnett in St. Mary's Church amounted to £23. Mr Jennings, M.H.R., on Kis tour round the King Country, was much struck by the spread of ragwort and the Increase of weasels.

There were more than 500 men employed on the northern end of the Main Trunk Railway before Easter, and it is intended to put on 200 additional very shortly.

Tho work of clearing away the obstruction on the Breakwater Road caused by the slip on Wednesday, was carried out on Thursday by tho County Council employees. The Union Steam Ship Company is Claiming £I3OO salvage fro;n the owners of the barque Helen, which' the Haupiri towed from a dangerous position at Hick's Bay to Auckland. Mr Newton King reports having sold, on be-half of Mr Hugh Baily, as assignee of Messrs Fraser and Lang>inan, of Opunake, 408 acres situated on the Jvgarlki Road, to Mr Paul Willcox, of Rahotu.

At a co»fercnse of delegates from the Wellington Rugby Union and tho Wellington Referees' Association, held on Tuesday nigiht a scheme was propounded for the members of the Management 'Committee of tho union and of the association to act conjointly to take precautions against ajiy rough play creeping into tho saa>e this sea soul

In connection with tho oflitfui evening of the consumjitive i n'iexe at the hospital, a meeting of ladies' and gentlemen has been c.imohud for ? o'clock this ai'uriiHin nt die Counc'l Chambers, to fix a date and make arrangements for i!ie opening ceremony. It is proposed to mark the event by a garden party, and a ball in the evening. .VI interestw are cordially invited !•> attend the meeting.

On Thursday evening at Xew Plymouth Detective iienjaiuin arrested

a young man named Charles K. Clark, on a charge of stealing' £3 10s from the firm of Messrs Taylor and Oakley,, wholesale plumbers, of ChrisTchurch, who employed him in the capacity of canvasser. Clark, a young man oil about '2a, will be brought up at the Police Court this morning, and remanded on warrant to Christdiurch.

A practice match was playoJ on the Recreation Ground on Thursday afternoon, in which a fair number of members of the local football clutfe participated. The play showed that the majority of die men; wero in good form for the ollicial opening of the season on Thursday next. May 4th, when the match set down for decision is Slar v. .St,ratford, q.t New Plymouth, play cummendm B nt ] .45. Tukapa has tho bye on the opening day.

The MacMahon-Darrell Company concluded their four nights' season at the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening with' un admirable presentation of the drama "Transported I'or Life." The audience made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers, and the performance reflected gren'il credit 0 n Mr George DSrrelUn tile principal role, while the cast was a good ono all rqund. The company appear at Gtn.fotd on Monday night in the Iramatisaiion of Marie Corelli's novel " The Sorrows of Satan," one of tho best pieces in the company's strong r®. pertoire.

The Stratford PoM ifbduetsands f,he land Commission will hold sittings to take evidence at Stratford and Whlangamomona. As far as possible, tho Commissiomers will meet the wiahes of settlers In- titling at any place where evidence is available. Jt would b# well, therefore, for .settlers in baclc country districts, who wish to lay befor» the Commission their particular conditions of life, to arrange for evidence and communicate witfi the secretary of tin Commission before the Taranaki itinerarv is Arranged.

| At the Poiico Court on Thursday, before Mr Hutchison, S.M., a man named ""IViUiain Preston was charged with" drunken n css and with having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibitlion o rdeiv A conviction was recorded on both char ges, but the S. M. imposed a lin< o»> ' -■ - -

mly on llio second charge, of 40s, ivjth 7s costs, in default fourteen tfa.vimprisonment;. Piestoo appeared in the (><>« with the slide of h.s face and forehead badly lacepatfid, a® if by a fall. In pleading guilly he asserted that ho did not

Messrs Morty and Moore are ad- | vertteing attractive lines of ladies' apparel, which are going very cheap. ' Ladies willing to assist in the arrangements for the ball to be held about June Bth in aid of the 'funds of the Fitzroy Fire Brigade, are invited to attend a meeting convened for 3 p.m. on Saturday, at the I Fitzroy Hull.

The tents at the Waiwakaiho encampment site, whi<;h were left pitched \vlie;i the troops departed, were s track mi Wednesday by a party un r [der Quartermaster-Sergeant Lister. [The equipment was taken to the .Smart Road Station, to be for- . warded by rail to Wellington.

ilr Donne, head of the Tourist Department in New Zealand, while at St. Louis offered a prize at a school | containing-'several thousand children, for the best essay on New Zealand. I There wasn't a .'-ingle "Yank" among j the thousands who knew where New Zealand was. I Air E. M. Smith, M.H.R., des

patched tho following telegram to the .Minister for I'ublic Works 0 n Thursday :—"Are plans and speuu cations ready for Mew Plymouth Post Oitice ? If so, when will t.n 1 ,der.i be called .' Townspeople verj anxious and wrathful at length* delay. Kindly wire me a reply." A report containing the results of analyses of samples of food collected in Woollahra, Sydney, contains some startling statements. Sausage meat was found to contain sulphurous acid, cream of tartar was adulterated with calcium sulphate and calcium lartarte, and cotton-sei*l oil was substituted for salad oil. To-day 31r Newton King will hold a clearing sale of contractor's plant at Mangorei, on account of Messrs McWilliams and Andrews. In addition to the ordinary plant there are about 10, tons of nearly new steel rails and 20,000 feet timber which will well repay attention. Tho sale will commence at 1.30 o'clock.

Mr W. T. Jennings, M.H.R., has written to the Chairman of the Land Commission, suggesting that sittings be held at Waitara, Inglew o od, Te Kuiti, and Ongarue, so that the Ohura settlers may give evidence. Mr Jennings thinks the Inglewood evidence would lie largely in favour of the deferred payment system, of which he is a strong supporter. The death occurred at the Hospital on Wednesday of Mr Samuel F. Jones, a sawmillcr of Warea. He haid been '.admitted to the institution the previous day suffering oj serious abcesses, and was operated upon. Very little hope was held out from the first, and the patient succumbed! at 7.30 on Wednesday evening. Tho deceased was a married man, and forty years of age. Operations in connection with the new company that has aciifuired the petroleum boring enterprise 'at Moturoa, will bii commenced early in May; It is intended to carry the bore down several hundred feet, and Mr Fair, tho company's manager, is sanguine about ultimate success being achieved. An order has been sent away for a c»»inig required for tho additional boring work.

Touching the rumours of Cabinet reconstruction, tho Minister of Public Works, when asked by the Lyttelton Times representative;, when passing through Christtehurch, consenting the tumour ol his indention to resign simultaneously with t"ho Premier ann Si? Joseph Ward, stated that the paragraph in Iguestion was the first intimation he had had of any such intention on his own part, and he thought that its atacurncy, so far as his colleagues wore concerned, bad

Bo better foundation. On Thursday the Hon. Hall-JenesV wired to Mr Jennings, M.H.R., the following :—" Will it suit you if I lea ve here Monday or Tuesday for al flying run through district as indicated by your letter some tlmofego. Tuesday will suit me best." Mr Jennings has intimated that this would full in with his arrangements ; and on receipt of further advice from

the Ministpr, will notify the Clifton County Council and settlers along the line to To Kuitl accordingly. Mr Jennings' proposal is to drive the Minister from Waitara to Te Kuiti. This' will enable Mr HallJones to see what sot tilers have to put up with, for the road is, not in the best of 'Condition just now. Mr George Robertson's letters en New Zealand, which appeared from timo to time in tho columns of the lndepentiewse llelge, aro drawing favourable attention to this colony, and, in fact, the latest enquiry about us is from the 'distant lalnnd of Cyprus (saya the Auckland Star>« One of the head merchants in Larni aca, the capital of Uio island, hag written for full information about New Zealand, and the possibility of opening up trade with the Levant. The writer expressed tho pleasure ho has derived from perusing the letters wli'ich appear in the Independence Beige, and mentions being specially struck with tho marked progress of the colony as indicated by trade statistics which Mi' Robertson freely quoted in a recent issue of the Belgian newspaper. The authorities at Monte Carlo, says tho St. James' Budget, forbid the use of water from a certain reservoir, despite the alarming water famine from which they are suffering, Monte Carlo is the Capital of Suicide, and those who destroy their lives are not particular where they taTEe their rest, l'erhaps the suspected reservoir, were its waters drawn off, could tell tales. Still, water is a wonderful preservative of the human body. There exists an entry in the parish register of St. Andrew s, Newcastle, bearing upon the point : "April 2, 1695, were buried, James Archer and his son Stephen, who in the month of May, 1658] were 'drowned in a coal pit in the Gala Flat, by the breaking of water from an old waste. "The bodies were found entire, after they hud lain in tho water for 30 years and 11 months."

A lad of nine, named George Cooper, Diet his death at liayswutgr, Victoria in a terrible manner. lie was a ward of the State, living with \Y. Chandler, agriculturist-, and he was instructed to lead a horse to drink 'it a water-hole in one of the paddocks on the farm. To get to this water-hole lie hod to take down some slip-rails, and, in order to keep ihe horse with him, he tied a sopo attached to the halter round his own body. The noise and movement of taking down the rails frightened the horse, which was a powerful animal. It- boiled away, throwing the boydown and dragging him along. The boy was dragged round and round .the, paddock by tho horse, his little body being bouncod about on the end of the rope I k'e a football. He was slammed against obstructions and kicked by the maddened animal, which continued its progress, trailing tlwj boy's mangled corpse after it, till it broke its own leg and fell exhausted. Practically every bont in the boy's body was broken and his skull fractured.

A remarkable gang of burglars has recently been arrasted at Amiens i France). Marius Jacob, a modern Ali Baba, il th.e chief of the gang which comprisnd twenty-nine of the best-trained thieves; and burglars. Th# whole band (says tho Paris correspondent of the London Itaily Telegraph) was organised in the most businesslike manner. Ali Baba Jacob was a most careful criminal, and worked on commercial lines. He kept a ledger, in which every operation or transaction of the band and the prolits accruing l therefrom wer« entered. He had a cypher for corresponding with his confederates, lis had ■' chief office in a I'aris district beyond tho Sprbpnjte and the I'antheon. Then lis employed spouts, whp went from town to town looking out (or housed to be, burgled. These fellows sent despatches to tho chief signed "Oeorges" when they found » good place in whiph to operate. Whejl tho telegrams were signed, " Joseph '' Of " Jortjbpani," il was to Indicate that there was no business to be done. The thieves worked all over France, from Abbeville and "Amiens to distant Tfiev rdbbod villas, clvui-ches, liospitals, and officers' quarters. The;, were wanted In all the large towns, and detectives were looking for them l in Paris, Houen, Lyons, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and MarseiTlcSs. At last the chief and two of Ms band were stopped by a police official' amd his assistant at the Abbeville railway station, as they were getting nway af(/->r having plundered a lopal villa. The ofticlait and his assistant were fireil at and hit, the latter with fatal results. The three thieves then

ran away, but one of them was caught soon afterwards, and gave information which i«l to the capture of .Jacoti and most of his confederates. There are four women among the prisoners, one of them being tho mother «nd the other the mistress of Jacob. ( Woods?

A Scarborough girl of nineteen was comnrit/tod for trial to York Assizes on a charge of bigamy. She lived with her first husband after she " married " her second-.

Jabez Spencer Balfour had been released on " ticket of-leave." lluiing his incarceration im has obtained tho lull number of good conduct marks —eight per day-iand in prison language ha turns out " without a stain on his character." He has boon 'ln prison eleven years. In Paris, recently, a husband appeared to demand a divorce froiu his wife. He based his- demand on tho fact that his wile was accu.-toniod tu play the piano all day. This Ire considered as a l't'ivilous pastime, tuikl incompatible with her .siliurtton. Ti.« husband's application failed.

Only on her death-bed in a Cincinnati hospital did Frances Lainonche, ,vho dressed in male attire, had been admittied under the name of Frank .ViUian-.s, confess that she was a girl, ■nice she was five yc-irs old she had sen weusing boy's and doing boy's work. With her mother's .ensent. and approval she attended says the Tclegrapli) several boye' schools in America, and when her | »x was discovered iter mother lock .or away. Her mother wis under : tie impression that buys s-ucceedul iu life better than girls. In Chicago she was a newsboy for a time, then a bookkeeper. Then she went to England and learned to ride, afterwards visiting Paris', where she asserts she secured a jockey's license. A French nobleman became her sponsor, and as Frank Lamonche she carried the colours of her benefactor for several months. Finally she returned to America with her mother, a French woman by birth and a music-hall dancer. Four years ago her mother died ##d Fi'iabc-H became a homeless wanderer;, sleeping in barns and porches. She seldom remained longer than aweek in one place, and was last employed. in a public-house terrine drink's.

There are two things which are continually impressing themselves on me. One is the persistent depression of spirits which characterises the minor poet of the period. Tho second is the insatiable desire of the young artist of the day, who " wishes to be in the movement," as he calls it, to paint what is ugly in its most unsympathetic form.—Truth.

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Is illness itself not a trouble Sufliciont wilhout all M.D. ? Are worry anil pain not made doubts By thought of the consequent fee ? Let sickness not make you uneasy, When health is so cfieap to procure, For coughs and colds, sneezy and wheezy. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

There are as good fish in tho sea as ever caino out of it," but I question if the billiard world will ever see another John Roberts, the cricket world another W. G. Grace, or the Association football world another W, D, Coblbald.—Vanity Fair.