The Daily News. MONDAY, SEPT. 11, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7922, 11 September 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, SEPT. 11, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Shortly after 7 o'clock on Sunday night, several brilliant flashes of light, similar to lightning, were noticed on the eastern horizon. The flashes were preceded by a low rumbling noise like thunder. Probably an electric storm was in progress at a distant point, but what impressed some persons was the fact that the phenomena resembled what took place immediately after the Tanawera eruption. The Garrison Hand gave a sacred concert on the Esplanade rotunda on •Sunday afternoon under Bandmaster McConncll. A well arranged programme was rendered, and much appreciated by a good gathering. A satisfactory collection was taken up in aid of contest funds.

A Savoyard shepherd named Vachat entered a bam near Vartcluse and found a cow in the act of chewing up his savings, which, consisting of £7O in banknotes, had been hid- • len ill the corner.of the tern. (>nh two notes for £3 remained uneaten. Kays the Xapier Telegraph The equanimity of a young couple who were inJuried in one oi) the churches on Monday was rudely disturbed in an unusual fashion when the bonds oi matrimony hatVbcen tied and thev had adjourned to a photographer's studio to secure a memento of (he event. As they were leaving the place a young woman stepped forward and commenced toirail at the and only ceased when the principals of the party had been driven away. In order to avokl a scene when departing on their honeymoon, the newly-married couple drove to a country station and entrained ■without further ■disturbing elements.

The first locomotive to run on the Mount Kgmont branch railway travelled about 1£ miles up the new ltoe ion Thursday morning, and will now used lor conveying ballast and material. The line is now formed for a distance of about five miles. "A soap bubble," said Ur. Evans

at a lecture at Canterbury College, "presents during the short span ol its lif<4. i%ll tl*! colours[ to ||e ol> tained by interference. And," he continued, "perhaps it does not diflc! much from human beings. In its infancy it is white. As it arrives at youth tho colours become pronounced, whilst when iU reaches manhood—l ought, rather, I think, to say wom-

anhood—it displays all the gay tones of changing fashion. Then, us it advances in age the tones fade to a more sombre grey, until at last.

shrouded in black, it dies. On Saturday evening Mr Fletcher received an intimation that the Trinity College musical examim: ion will he held in New Plymouth on Saturday next (rom 3 to 6 p.m. During the past »'ew days Mr T. W. Fislier, Reserves Agent, has been busy paying the natives their rents. Over £IOOO has been paid last week, bringing the total payments for thi past five or six weeks to upwards of £II,OOO. The payments are somewhat heavier this half-year, because there are some accumulations which have now been disbursed on succession orders being obtained from the

Native Land Court. Mr Janrcs JTallam, of Shannon, has received a letter from his brother stating that n New Zealand meat shop has just been opened ut ABhton-under-Lyne, near Manchester. The meat is stated to be good and cheap and "the shop is doing! a roaring trade."

A Wellington firm has purchased

for £BOO the old "tram" that has lwen running at Takaka, Nelson, for tho past twenty-three years. The purchase includes eight and a quarter miles of rails.

A North Carolina girl of 11. named Nannie Oibson, has jus! realised her ctiief ambition through an act of bravery and presence of mind. She lived in a little hut with herfathei

and mother in the Mack Mountain** A big slide occurred on the mountain

while sh.» was at home alone. She ran down Ihp railway track, waving a red petticoat. A heavy train was stopped by her, lOi't from where tlu mountain had caved. Helow was an

abysji several thousand feet deep. She averted a terrible wreck, antl saved a score of lives.. She has since received a letter from the Southern Railway Company undertaking to give her a college education and see that she is well provided for. The Japanese have purchased quite

a numljer of vessels formerly in the Australian coastal trade. .Yet anoth

er—thi- Furiuihla —has l>ven acquired by .Japanese owners, ami is now to be known as the Mich' Mam. The vessel was built in 1881 lor ihe A.U . B.X. Company, Ljmited, and is of 10.")5 tons gross. Kor mai|,v years »he was a popular passenger steamer in the coastal trade.

An interesting plot of ground near Melbourne, appropriately called "All Xatfons" Reoerve, lies close to the Williamstown railway pier. U is coinp<&*4 of some thousanuls of tons ot iSZI brought from various parts of the world by vessels in the form of baJlast, and upon being landed was decently trimmed where it now stands. South Africa, America, New ftealaird, and other countries arc represented in the vast accumulation of earth, which is now covered with an excellent crop of wheat, the result of innumerable stray seeds of grain

; blown across its surface from the ad- ! joining wheat bheds or the piers, j On Thursday morning the Wellington Harbour Hoard's new 'illuminated buoy whs towvd by the l>uco down to thr I'iilcoiY shoal towards the entrants of the harbour.. Jt is moored to a JlOcwi block of cement, and tho following boaringfl will mark i its position : —iVncarrow lighthouse | south, !21-dog. east ; Hope Shoal buoy | north, lodeg. east ; Karaka Hay wharf south, HOdog. .west, distant 5 cables. The buoy is painted black with white horizontal stripes,and will carry a fixed ml light visible all round the horizon at a distance of live miles. IWp-draught vessels entering or leaving the harbour by day or night, and passing to the! westward or inshore of this buoy! will insure a passage having a depth! of not less than 33ft at low water, springs. Tho light will burn coutinu-j ! ouslv for over thirty day* without 1 i attention. Tho resoivoir hold* ten! ! gallons of kerosene. The buoy,which is of htigo bulk, floats with the belt-j juf»t annb,

The Outlook, one weckh reviews, - l-.it it' would in? a wise step to give the. Now Aaland High Coimmssioiier a st'ttt in the House of Lords, "if only tor Iho reason that we have at present no member of Parliament with a comprdhonsivc yet -detailed knowledge of greater and lesser problems of the Pacific." At this rate the Hun.

\V. I'. will soon be Lord Heeves, of Hakaia, or something else alliterativelv and picturesquely gikled. The same journal, referring to the Colonial Conference, remarks : "It is absolutely certain that Mr Seddon will refuse to attend next year's Colonial Conference if the question of preferential trading is not to be openly discussed.

Allhough progress is being niado ill the cut through the mud flats ill the Waiiganui river, the dredg© is still in the deeper water, and there is yet no difference ill the flats. The Taranaki Chamber of Commerce will hold Its quarterly general meeting this evening at 7.30.

The Taranaki A. and P. Society's annual parade of stallions will lift held on Saturday, Sept. 16, at 11.30 a.m., starting from Egmont Street. A reminder is given of the Society's meeting to be held in the Town Hall jat 7.30 to-morrow evening, to hear a report from Mr Tate concerning proceedings at conference. All interested are invited to attend.

The annual meetings of two Cricket Clubs will he held this evening. The (Vest Enders meet at Mr J. C. Davies' office, Devon Street, at 7.30, and the Carrington Road Cltfh at the Red House Hotel at 8 o'clock. There has Itteen a total to dale of 105 cases of i cholera in Prussia, and 32 deaths. Advices from New Britain announce the death of Herr Englehardt, founder and only surviving member o, the sect of Sun Worshippers. He fell ill and died during, removal from tho island of Kabakon, which be had purchased, to the hospital. In Queensland wheat is suffering! 10111 want of rain, audi; is feared .hat unless; rain falls shortly a considerable area will be a failure.

Strikers at Rossath (Germany) alosi demolished a foundry, owing to .he importation of Alsatian black-, egs. Troops restored order.

British imports during August in••reased by £4,423,000, while exports ncreased by £3,158,000, compared ivith the previous August.

Russia is expending four million U'rling in cereals for the faminetiicken provinces.

-\'e«S has been received that 11.M.5. i 'yramus, 2tons, twin-screw prouTted cruiser, third-class, ComjnanVr St. ii S. dive, now in reserve t Chatham; is to be commissioned II Oct. •! at Devonport, in order to elievp lI.M.S| Phoebe, asfthe drillhip for New Xt-nland. The P.vramus vas constructed at Jarrow in 18<J8— at a total expc-ntlituro'of £141,•'OB. She is .'lOOft in length, with n cam of Illlft Gin, her draught being Hit Rjiii. The indicated horse-power f her engines, which were built by I'alnxT's Shipbuilding and Iron Co Ltd., at Jarrow, is officially given t 7(XH>, and the vessel is capable of Maintaining a high rate of speed. The Pyramus Is a sister ship to the \syche, Prometheus, and Pegasus, al'eady on this station, and also of lie Pioneer, which is to be commisiioncd on Oct. 3 at Chatham, to relieve the Mildura on the Australian •tation as the drill-ship for Queensand, Xew South Wales, and Tasnania. Five of the nine vessels of his class will, therefore, be attached to this station.

Four anarchists have just been arrested in Spain for placing boulders on i road at Osla, along which Queen Wargucrita of Italy was about to pass on an automobile. Householders in need of a supply of reliable coal should note Mr I!. Todd's advertisement in this issue.

The question of securing' seed and table .potatoes free from hfißhi is becoming a serious one. Mr Newton K n« ■\pects a shipment from Tasmania on •Vednesday, and he advises a prompt booking of orders before a further rise.

Mr James Sanderson invites tcn i?rs for latrines at the Central and Jourtenay Street schools.

In order not to clash with the Tukapa social on Thursday next, the St. Joseph's euchre party will be held to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. An agent is wanted for the sale of Oanmu stone in this district.

To-day Morcy and Son are showing a most charming lot of summer muslins, prints, delaines, voiles, tafj fetas, .blouses, trimmed and untrimmed hats, costumes (tweed and lin->-n), jackets in cream serge and light tweeds (silk lined), cream and black voile skirts, belts, fichus, collars and a magnificent lot of lace and silk rapes and jackets suitable for elderly ladies, at•, prices that must make the ;oods sell. The show is well worthy of inspection, and we advise all to call.*

Everyone is on the lookout for bargains and bargains or ths best kind in clocks, watches, jewellery, solid silver and electroplated goods of high quality, by best makers, may bo secured a t J. IT. Parker's, next railwav crossing, Devon Street, New Plymouth. Xote carefully—Only a lew Cases left of very tine American 8-day striking clocks at 12s fid each.*