LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7897, 12 August 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Sonoma left San Francisco o; tlu 10th lust, at 2 p.m. liossrs Atkinson and Atkinson re I.oit the lease oi 118 acres on th t\uimate I'lains. They now advertise for lease a good dairy faru .ind sonic vc.y cheap sheep country. \icaiher permitting, the Now Ply .noiitli Military Band will give pi », n-air concert in the Western Pari ..n Sunday afternoon. A collcctioi i ill he taken up in aid of tic fundi >f tho Board. Jiere was a moderate attendapci <ji shp.i'eholders in the first o ,iw Equitable Building Society at tta i own Hall on Friday evening, whei au appropriation of £3OO was sol< by tender, realising £3(5. Mr D H.-rry occupied the chjair. The Stratford Mounted Rifles, wh< tarted on a route march rouiK .'.lo'int Egmonl on Thursday, arc ex i-ected to reach New Plymouth oi jionday evening. Th»y will camp ii the vicinity of Moturoa for tw< nights, and will return home b; Ihursday. A further meeting in connectioi .. i,h the scheme to erect a Hall-hy the-Sea, for which a guarantee o •-(!1 has been subscribed for p.elim ■nary expenses for advertising l am issuing properties', was :held tit thi Council Chambers on Friday evening Mr J. Wrigley was vioted to tin clvair, and there were also prcsen MessrsFFt. t Roberts, J. A. Jlaisey Mcliin'non Bain, T. Avery, and W V. Collis. The principal object of thi was to elect directors one irr'ango what further, steps should bi taken to,initiate the scheme, but in • iew of the small attendance it was oniidcred ndvisnljle, after somo informal Idiscussion, to adjourn the meeting till Tuesday evening next at 7.30, when the guarantors are asked to be present.

-It is no unusual thing in theso avs to hear complaints relative to he high rents of shops in New Plymouth, but we have just seen a lease dated in April, 1864, which show> that in the early times of tho settlement rents were far higher than at. presont. The property in question was a barber's shop in Brougham Street, on the Site of a similar establishment now carried on by Mr Mason, adjoining Wiss.'Oottier's. The buildiig had only a frontage of eight feet witb a depth of thirteen feet, ind the rent was £2 per week, to be aid in advance. This sum included ■he uso of the business equipments, consisting of a s o>»> arroch'air, framd looking-glass, two' feet by thnv feet nine inches*, shampooing ma-i chine, two large tiasins, eight razors, five hair brushes, two combs, two oil lamps, and matting on the floor. A provision had been inserted in th(« lease that the business s Iron Id be conducted in a quiet and orderly manner, but it was struck out, ptoimWy tor good reason.

WhiteU-y Hall was fairly well Mliyf n Friday evening, when Mr Herbert 11. Smith gave his biogruph entertainment, which proved of a, Varied and interesting character. The still pictures were largo and clear, niwtj splendidly represented beautiful and historic scenery in England, Scotland ,tnd Ireland. A splendid series of London views gave a striking illustration of t'.'ic niagnilicen.ee of th. •npitnl of the world. America was ,ilso pictorially reprcsenU'.l, the views if Niagara Fa<Ms Jin summer «Sid winter deserving the applause which ,'reeted their appearance. New Z.ealind scencrv was not oVorl-.VoKt-'d. the views of the. hot lakes ami terraces, both before and after eruption, nnd the Waimaraju (leysen in eruption -btv ing on admirable contribution to Inlist. The animated pictures sudered by conipa.-ison both in ">''« anll clearn.-ss, but apparently the collection was one to suit «11 tastes. Among tho best were views of the whirlpool rapids of Niagara, the I'aris carnival, boys skating, snowballing, dances, switchback railway scenes, horse manoeuvres, eto.. the scenes covering a wido range of sub. jects intereseirig to the public, whilethere was a good' shViw of highly amusing slides. A number of voce I and instrumental selections on llngrnmaphoC* interspersed the panofaniu.

To New Zealand (says the Sydney doming Herald's London curresponl«nt) 'Vlongs the credit of' elaborating iu the fullest and most expert nanner the syslen of Lomlon rcjorts on colonial produce ; with the 'argc arrivals of frozen meat and jujHer at our ports it is very na■,ural that the colony should institute skilled! inspection. Three officers,n the High Commissioner's tafliec devote themselves to this work and the collateral duties connected with it. One of them is now in charge 01 the very fine New Zealand stand/ at ihe Crystal Palace. An Important ,>art of Mr .Cameron's (Produce Commissioner) work is the prosecution of nioab rctajlfcrs who are .found flo re selling inferior meat as New Zeaanil. The range of duties taken up n the New Zjealaml office of this Jepartmcnt is very wide ; the work .s well organised, well performed, aud, I think, must be of great service to producers and shippers in the colony.

' In what tongue will the peace negotiations now tin progress in America be conducted—Russian, Japan, .•"tench ? Dismarck employed French when dictating terms to France,, exept when he became angry. Treat.es between various Powers exist in I ill the tongues, Uvj&ties made- in lays even when Latin or French was !he language of diplomacy. The Gernan .States used Jo make their realies l.ictween themselves in ■'rcneh. It may seem a little mater (says an English paper) ; but here is a good deal of jealousy ovr the point, aud treaties contain pucial references to the language niployed. How keen is the jealousy .pon this point as lo the language ..ay bejudged from this clause in I lie final act of the Congress of Vienna '—"The French language having iieen exclusively employed for all the -opies oi the present treaty, it is reogniscd by the Powers who have taken part in this Act that the emloymenl of that language is to pio.uce no consequences in the i'ulurs ; each Pliwer reserves to itself the light of adopting, in future negotiations aud conventions, the language which it has previously used for 'its diplomatic relations, and the present, treaty cannot be cited as an example contrary lo established usages." The utmost s-ccrccy is to be observed, and only one authentic announcement will l,e made at the conclusion of the proceedings.

Ldison, America's greatest inventor, told an interviewer last month I'lial, in his opinion, radium was' likely to be as cheap as coal one of these days, and its possibilities defied ftuaginaition. Asked what he considered t«hc most wonderful tiling in the scientific world now being developed, Kdison replied : '-'Wireless telegraphy, beyond doubt." He said the British companies were absolutely right in adopting Marconi's system, ami the feat of the Atlantic liners, equipped with his apparatus in keeping up communication wiih ilie shore throughout their journey was very remarkable. He Wievwt that wireless telegraphy was still in its -infancy, and that Marconi WordPerfect it within a few years. In a short time he considered thai there would He no more difficulty in using a wireless system between New York and London, than in using the cable. V should lie just as casv to send : twenty biessages at once over wireless | as, it is now to s«ind one ojret cable, and (at (a rjate of lOpn words a minute. At the same time Edison did not think the cables would be superseded by the wireless system. Business, lie considers, will only be increased for both wireless and cable companies, just as the telegiaph and telephone now .supplement, each other. A most appetising bill of rare, is advertised by the New Trgcadero for to-day s dinner,

Colanel Bruce, who has been making extensive investigation on the subject in Uganda and elsewhere, recently addressed a meeting at the Royal Institute of Health on 'Sleeping Sickness in Uganda.' Sleeping sickness, he said, was a curious disease, aiid was essentially a disturbance of the functions of the train. It was caused by the entrance into tire blood ol a protozoal parasite,, anil tlie infection was carried from the sick to the healthy by a species of tsetse fly. The distribution of that Hy corresponded certainly with the distribution of the disease. Where t/herc t was no fly there was no sleeping sickness—in other words, they were dealing with a human tsetse fly disease. Sleeping sickness was restiScted to the numerous islands that dot the northern part of the Victoria Nyanza, and to a narrow bell o! country a few miles wide skirting the shores ol the lake, but only in such localities where there was forest, with Jrrgh trees and dense undergrowth.

The annual report of the liltlvani Co-operative Dairy Factory Company to be presented to the annual meeting on Saturday next, states : During the year we rcccivtd 33,782,1441b of milk, and manufactured 1,418,1311b of butter, or in other words, f/33 tons lewt Sqrslolb, bt*ing 23.821b of milk to make lib of butter. The increase of the output of butter over, previous year was 62 tons 2cwt 121b. The average test was 3.71,, and the over-run of the butter over the testi was 12.95 pelcent. Tlie net cost of manufacture was £lO 19s 3d per ton, or 1.17! d per lb. The average price paid to suppliers for butter-fat Was 8.97 d Per lb, and the balance in hand on realisation will make & further payment possible of 0.27 d per lb. The total payment, therefore for, butterfat for rtihe season will f0e,9.24d per lb. Trie retiring, directors are Messrs Boddic, Lloyd, and Parlano.

Carpenters and others wanting timbor or bricks shlould note tho sale by Mr Newton King bo-day on account of the contractor for the septic tank. The sale will mmmenco at 11.30 a.m. Particulars are advertised in another column. tthitclcy Church, Sunday, August 13th. Preachers : Morning, Rev. J. X. Buttle ; evening, Rev. R. F. Williams. Strangers' heartily wel coined.* j Shareholders'in the Provident divestment and Building Society are reminded that subscriptions are gayable to-day,. On Wednesday next, on the occasion of the Taranaki-H'awke's Bay football match, excursion tickets will be issued by the morning train from New Plymouth to Hawera ; not available for mail The train timed to leave Hawera for New Plymouth at 4.10 p.m. will be delayed till -1.51; p.m. Among the entries for Mr Newton Kling's cattle sale at Stony River on Wednesday are 150 -mixed yearlings, 4018 to 20 months mixed, 50 18 months to 2 year heifers, springing cows and heifers, store .cows, 3 year old bull and many; other lines.

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