The Daily News. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1905. LOCAL ADD GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7926, 15 September 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1905. LOCAL ADD GENERAL.

The Vancouver despatch of Aug. 8 arrived in London on the 13th inst. At the Police Court on Thursday, H. W. Bullot was fined Is and costs (or allowing a foal to stray. The excuse was thai the defendant was not at home at the fimc the animal got out ola paddock.

The case of Doyle v. Monlofiore, a claim lor the removal ol stone from the defendant\s land at Oakura, has be™ withdrawn. Mr Quilliaiu appeared for plaintiff and Mr T. .S. Weston for defendant. His Worship the Mayor will preside at Mr C. Iv Bcllringer's political meeting in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday evening next.

A Scotsman who was in the Christchurch Labour liureau has had a remarkable career since his arrival in New Zealand about fourtceu months ag(). He landed at Clirislc!,\nch from Glasgow with a very small stock of shillings, bul vilh'a-, large, fund of energy ami eanniness. He tackled the lirsl job that was offered to him, an appointment as roustabout in a livery-stable, and worked ,so hard that he had to retire with a strained Wrist afrer a week's'employment. lie had little knowledge oi driving, but undertook to pilot a jnilk-cart, but the length of the hours and Hie •shortness of Ijie pay somt sent lrmi looking) for new pastures.; He was engaged as a handyman by a resident of Papanui, and was fairly con ten lid till the housemaid left, ami he was asked to take over her duties. He was next seen hawking small parcels ol kindling wood on

The Education Act Amendment Bill, bsought down lo the House of representatives *>y Governor's message on Tuesday, makts provision tor ihe election of Education Boards by the parents of the children attending the public schools in the district. Each district is .to he- divided into five wards, each ward returning two members. Every person entitled to vote at election of members of School Committees is to be entitled to vote at election of members of the Board. The members in office oil the passing of this act are to retire from office on the fourth Monday in April, 19W,.and in April in every succeeding year one of the members for each ward thi'ii in office is to retire, but is to br eligible for re-election. The members to retire in J907 are 10 be decided by lot in such a manner as is determined by the Hoard, and thereafter shall be those who have served longest on tire Board without rt»-el-ec-'lkm. The bill proposes to rafce tire salaries of school tity-hm Vo Hie extent of as indicated by the Premier in introducing the Teachers' Superannuation Bill. Tim salaries' of pupil U«/iclicr.s are proposed to he lixed ?« follows First year i 25, with allowance of 120 if obliged to live awav from home ; second year, £35, with £l3 allowance; t/hird year, £ls, \v,',h ill) allowance; fourth or fifth year, £s:>, with £5 allowance.

A leading -Nil teller in Wellington states that the wholesale price of mutton is higher now 1 ha.ii at any lime during the past twenty jvatfc.i and at the ruling retail rates lie is losing at least a shilling on every carcase lie .sells. Me states that although Hie wholesale price of fore quarters of mutton has pone up to •ij.l per pountl, the huichers are only charging tlu>ir customers 3Ad. hoping that before long tho price of sheep will come down to such an extent as will enable Uiem to again make a profit. commission for a local firm, and lie proved to lie swell a good salesman tjti-al a liorsv atid cart wire provided for him. He thrived so well at this business that he aniassul snffic-Hlil caprttil ilo y L ap expires for himself, and sel up as a wood ami coal merchanl. lie has now five teams going, imploys f|j- e or six men.—l.yi telton Times.

During tlll' past three months half-a-million laWiils were sen! to Sydiiei hy rail from stations along the • iuiidugai-Cootamujidra ,inc. Tlie'Guudagiai .sin t ion lias averaged over ■K'W pairs p. i week for several stiecessne weeks.

Speaking at I 111- Mayoral installation at Ileiidigo, Victoria, Mr 11. • s - V. liusst, mining registrar, gfive 11iliiii;; figuies regarding Hens gold pri/diiclioii. lie said thai tin- -NiUil yield of'jgohl from the iten- « il'.'Mim.es Horn JBSI to 1901 was '7 .or Mil ions of solvd KoW. |, ;IM year was one, of the best, ''in--: lor 21. years, it-s productionmt.'Woz. Now that. «err evleiidi|jg north and ! .t'"'" l lines 0/ country, lie hoti^hi iii,ii 11! prospects were even i.nigliicr,

A Napier divine at one of the the chincheH the other Sunday evening expressed himself trenchanvl)\ thus "The great multitude of thos'e | loniposwig Parliumeiit |)ire sheep, and silly sheep at that, led by a great shepherd.'-

TIIO Wellington correspondent of the Hawke's 1 Bay Herald stales that niter Mr Massey's amendment 011 the land question has been disposed of in the House "of Representatives, the Opposition will move another amendlnont to the effuct that a band Ilill should he brought down this session and passed into law. The amendment will probably be entrusted to Mr I lent tin Rhodes.

It is estimated that fl2,000,00011) of butter arc made annually in the colony. Of this amount. 35,000,000 lb are exported, and 17,000,0001b consumed in the country. Karl Selhornc, High Commissioner for Jlritish South Africa, has accepted the presidency of the Bible Society's auxiliary at Johannesburg.

The Stratford Post has been making public the ease of Ilenry Campbell, recently dismissed from the Egmont railway works, allegedly for liis political leanirvgs. When the man came from Australia last year he informed the bureau of the Labour Department that he was 11 married man, and work was obtained for him, on the Stratford Whangamomoivn line and since then he had been kept almost "continually employed. It appears that be was not. married, for he had since passlid for a |sing|o man, ami it was for that reason alone that lie was retired, in order to make way for a married man. The single mm who have been employed since arc men having people dependent on th<em.—N.Z. Times.

So pleased is the Auckland City Council at the work being accomplished by the Straker steam-wag-gon that l an order for two liiorq vehicles has been sanctioned. The steam-waggon in use at Auckland is similar to the one that is being imported by Mr. J. J. K. Powell, of Wellington, for the cartage of road metal, etc.

Up till Wednesday no word had been received, says the Post, by the Stratford District High School committee from the Taranaki Education Board regarding the erection of the rooms destroyed by Are some time ago. The continued delay will have an exceedingly bad effect on the school. The accommodation is very cramped, imposing excessive woA ami annoyance on the headmaster and staff. On Tires-day morning- the chairman wired Mr Syroes l , M.H.R., asking the reason why the necessary money was not voted. Mr Symes took the matter in hand and within two hours sent the following reply : " Inspector General of Schools informs me the whole matter rests will) the Education Board and your committee. No delay here." The Westlnnd branch of the New Zealand Alliance has decided not to nominate anyone in opposition to (he Premier in connection with lht coming election, on the grounds that the contest the Alliance is engaged in is not political, and, further,that any nomination by 'the branch would he misinu-rprelcd by a section of olec-l tors.

Amongst the steerage. passengt-rs by the French steamer La lire!agile,who. landed at Xew York recently, was a young malt describing hiniself as Prince Potemkin, son of the Prince after whom the battleship Ivniaz I'otemkin was named. He brought rich jewels ami £soo<> in money. Thrrugh an interpreter he explained that things were "pretty tod in Russia," and he had determined lo settle in America, where he intruded to buy land, ami live in the style of Count Tolstoi. As a good preparation for hi« new life in a democratic land, the Prince explained, he travelled in the steerage, and even refused the invitation of some friends in |_hc first - class' to dine with them on the voyage across the Atlantic. Before leaving Russia, says the New York Times, young Prince i'otemkin "sold his c» tales, and 'distributed the proceeds amongst Ihe peasants, excepting the amount that he hail brought with him."

An exchange states that nt n fcot ball match in Kawhia last Saturday one man had his collar-bone broken, another his nose, and a third rejideed in two lovely black eves.

Interesting ' remarks oil potato Might njitl tomato diseases wore nuuio by Mr T. V. ICirk, F.L.S., nt the Wellington Philosophical Society's last mooting. The remarks were illu.strated by a series of lantern slides, and by reference to some of the numerous exhibits. The loss to the colony in a single year from the blights alone lie considered to be underestimated at £158,000. Bordeaux mixture, properly applied, he sivwi, was an infallible preventive, would save the entire crop in the earlier stages, ami in < lie instance where he had sprayed a field in which the disease had such a hold that in another twenty-four hours ' ho would not have touched it, he found afterwards that 70 per cent had been saved while the crops.all round were absolutely lost. The application of the mixture had 'also the effect of in. creasing the yickl. It was specially necessary that tho under-side of the leaves, which the fungus particularly affected, should be sprayed. Seven shillings Rn acre should be the outside cost of spraying, and if there were Infected Holds close at hand, a second application would probably be necessary when the blossoms appeared. 1 his was not a large Instance to pay on a crop worth, at a low estimate. £!."> per acre. Some farmers who had sprayed reported that the application was useless. No doubt it was—when they delayed il till the foliage was "as Mack as your hat."

Mr Robert Davie*, of Bangor, lias sent a (donation of £10,(K)<) towards the Centenary Fund of the British and Foreign Bible Society. This magnificent gift leaves only £7,000 now to be raised, in order to complete the needed cjuarter of n million guineas. The Kawhia Settler says that Mr lirougli, of Jlawera, Ims decided to commence fishing operations on a large scale in Kawhia Harbour.

Leading business linns in Auckland ore asking (ho Postmaster-General to giv«' rfCfipts for telegrams in tho shape u! small lag attached by perforation to (he top of the telegraph forms, thu object being to prevent misappropriation of money. The ('pinion of the deputation who went to Wellington in connection with the raii-jAay ia (says the Opunake Times) thai ib not much I hope of a vole being j>l mail .on the 'Estimates this session, but think there is every chance of !' Mug !done next sessio». t as the members re» alise the necessity for the line. When Mr Justice lOdwavd* had t-ft-konj his on the bench at (Jisborne last week, the Ufsilfll old-time proclamation. "Oye/ ! o\v/. ! " lvaving dropped oji t-his occasion, he was addressed by the Registrar, as follows : —'\Vo l ur 'J]hvru pjeovg no rriminal cases K>r triaj at this sittings, I have pleasure in prr?a»ent- j /mg you with a ]»air oi "white glove?. , 'This, I nmy remark, is a i-ecoixl in th<» history of the. sessions of tin | Court <»t (Jisborne.'--

To show ii'liat harm may result from the instinctive liabit among young children of putting f hijiga. in tlicir nnoutlis it may he mentioned, (says tin- Mataura linsign) tint six months ago a little boy, son of a well-known local fesiileoi, contracted', apparently what was a disease' of the lungs. The doctor who luul the case in hand could make little of it, had arisen from hydatids. The oth,er (lay, however, tile clii'd had an unusually severe coughing fit, #nd coughed up the fully developed head of a cocksfopl plant, which had appatenlly Uecn swallowed by lnm six months agif, The septic tank liatj boon brought into use, anil the tests show it to bp urnrking most satisfactorily. The effluent aftej: the sewage matte has passed through the filtering process Is almost clear and ilevpid of smell. The Borough Engineer kept some, of the fluid bottled for two or three, days, and it was then found quite free (com any offensive rising. The by-la-w providing for the completion ci ail services p te L»c eutwu-ti.

Mi : : ; ! > 11 • -i: 1 , * 1 ~, The Lowgarth Dairy Company's annual meeting was held on Thursday, ' and it was decided to increase the ■capital from £2OOO to £3OOO. The I question of amalgamating with the iMangatoki Company is to be considered at a special meeting on Monday. A party of local vocalists paid a visit to the hospital 011 Wednesday evening, and rendered a programme that was much appreciated 'by the patients and staff. Thanks are due to Mrs O'Driseoll tor arranging the visit, and to tlie performers :—Mrs" Black, Misses Dixon (3), Messss McIsaacs (2), Cooper, Schliciikc (banjo), and Delahayc.

An accident, in whicji a .woman known as Madame Ilard, a palmist\ was cut to, pieces, has occurred at the Boulder (West Australia) railway station. II appears that'a woman purchased a ticket, with the in-

tcntion of going to Kalgoorlie, and was not seen again until the driver of thc Kamballie train reported that he had experienced a hump on the line. When a search was made, it levealed a mangled 4iody with th4 1 head severed. Thc deceased was a native of Creswick, Victoria. Whilst oiling machinery at Munn's Maizena works, I'ambula, New South Wales, a man named, Colquhoun met with a terrible accident, having evidently been drawn in. On other employees going to work they found his mangled remains.

Devotees of boxing witnessed an interesting exhibition at the rooms -of the Taranaki Amateur Boxing Association, King Street, on Thursday evening, when a series ot three round, bouts under the Marquis of Queensbury rules were the attraction. The room was crowded with and the display, was an excellent preliminary to . the competitions which will probauly commence about the end ol October. Air Stagpoole officiated as referee. The most scientific bout was between Toohey and Andrews, the experienced instructor finding the latter a smart opponent. Other good displays were those beween Dufiin and Smith, Walters and Beadle, Taylor and Standish, Averyand Cook,, Gardiner and Williams, and Stagpoole and Riley. At the conclusion a number of new members joined the Association, which is Ocingj conducted on good lines.. The Mayor, who wag present % invitation, in some brief remarks expressed his pleasure at witnessing thc boxing, and commented upon the creditable form shown. He thought thc establishment of an association for amateurs a good move, and he wished it every success, promising to do all lie could to forward the Associa-" tion s interests. Another long night is to he arranged in a month's time.

The Daily News staff can speak in of praise of the supper provided for the Tuknpoi social, -as t 'rough the kindness of ?hc committee they had ample opportunity of enjoying the good things forwarded to. J hem.

.Householders will do well to note tno adverti.semont, in this issue by, Mr T. \V. Wolch, who is catering for (nu pabhc on up-to-date lines, his intention being to make New Plymouth the cheapest tewn for groceries in the colony,

Thc Taylor-Carrington Dramatic Company appear at (lie Theatre Royal to-night, when the new and very successful play of "Erin Go Brach" will he staged, and should meet with a most cordial reception. The company has a gooil reputation for acting, as well as for mounting their productions in Hie best style Wo understand that tlve scenery "in connection with to-night's play is highly lealistic, and thai the dramatic situations are most, effective, while the comedy is very mirth-provoking.

This afternoon at 3 o'clock, Jlr Newton King will hold u sale by auction of Messrs Watt and Lennon's cfHce furniture.

Good bushmen and milkers seeking employment should apply at Jlynott's Registry.

To-day Morey and Son are showing a most charming lot of summer muslins, prints, delainos, voiles, tat, fctas,! Mouses, (rimmed and untrim-, med hats, costumes (tweed and linen), jackets in cresm serge and light tweeds (silk lined), cream and blackvoile skirts, bolls, fichus, collars and | a magnificent lot of lace and silk capes and jackets suitable for elderly ladies, at;griccs that must make the *oods sell. The show is well worthy of inspection, and we advise all to call.*

Everyone is on tho lookout for bargains and bargains of the best kind in clocks, watches, jewellery, solid silver and electroplated goods of high quality, by best makers, may bo secured ~t J..11. Parker's 1 , next railway crossing, Devon Street, New Plymouth. Note carefully—Only a few Cases left of very fine American 8-day Striking clocks at 12s fid each.'