The Daily News. SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7927, 16 September 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thero were 80 steamers lierlhlng at the breakwater wharf for the past month, tho aggregate gross tonnage amounting to 30,085 tons. The imports totalled 3386 tons, Including 326 tons of local coal. The exports amounted to (563 tons, making- a total of 1031 tons of cargo handled. Switzerland on Ist August last celebrated anniversary of Its inauguration under a Federal Government which stamps tho ccuntry as the oldest Republic in the world. Tho Swiss Confederation had Its origin in a league composed for purposes of defence by the men (If the three cantons of I'ci, Schwyz. ami I'nterwalden so far back as 1291. As years went on the other cantons joined the confederation sonic of the latest being the cantons of Oeneva, Valais, ami Xeuchatel.

Ilev. 11. 11. Anson, lato ivardcn of SI. John's College, Auckland, and for some time Anglican vicar in Hawcra, left for England on Monday. The Corinth-ic, which arrived nt Wellington from London on Wednesday, brought :iG9 passengers in all classes. The Government has imported n number of especially handy ambulance stretchers for distribution lit various tourist resorts and sanatorium*. There are now 48.j2 men engaged on co-operative works under |the Government. Of those 2777 are on railway construction, 1904 on roads and 111 on -buildings and public works generally. The directors of the Eltham factory have under considerat ion a scheme for generating -electricity on their newly-acquired situ on Grave's property, and asking the Horough Council to use the electricity at night for electric light for the town, whilst during the day it would bs transmitted as driving power at their present factory. By dividing the expense it is reckoned that the two objects could be attaiiK-d at half the usual cost. ,7

Last month the dredge worked 10 days, making 117 trips and removing 7020 cubic yards of sand. For six days the dredge uas employed in overhauling and re-laying moorings for her safety, and is now laid up for Government inspection. Any "spielers" who visit Tasmania from Australia are in future to be made to show authorities how they derive their livelihood, other wise they will be liable to imprisonment, without the option of a fine.

It. is estimated that in New South WaK'S there are over a thousand men, exclusive of fanners and owners, who live on horse ami pony rating, ami at the rate of JDfl per week per man, take annually from the public £300,000. A press message states that the) placing on the Estimates of only £IO,OOO for the Wcstport-Inangahua Junction railway is considered most disappointing in Westport, and a pulllic meeting is being called by the Railway League for the purpose of entering a strong protest against the "paltry" amount. The manager of the Hank of New Zealand advised the Harbour Hoard on Friday of an agreement having been arrived at by the associated banks, to discontinue allowing interest en current account balances. The Hoard was therefore, given the required twelve months' notice of the bank's intention to discontinue interest on the hint -account. The chairman and members of the Hoard thought the decision a rather hard one, but recognised that il would be useless to make representations on the subject.

We (Hawera Star) arc Informed ' that the Flthnin Co-operative Dairy Co. have agreed to send -their butter Home on open consignment this season, having refused an offer to buy at a small fraction under IOJd per lb. The opinions of the various 1 agents who have been about var> as to their estimate of the prospects for the Cuming season as much as from fair to excellent. H, is stated that winter dairying in Henmark has not paid. The price having been too low to recoup the expense of stall-feeding, the supply of - winter butter from Denmark is falling, and the best brands of Xew Zealand are wanti-d to take its place. Siberian butter arrives in summer time only, and if wanted for winter has to be stiuvd. and therefore cannot seriously compete with good Sew Zealand butter. The Whangamomona Dairy Factory comjmcnccs operations (for the season on .Monday next. The Xgaire Co-operative Dairy Company declined an offer cf ."ijd per lb for their team's output of cheese. The oiler equalled a pay-out of lid per lb for' butter-fat. Th<> Company preferred to consign on an advance of 4Jd per It), anticipating that'the cheese will realise fully .'id per. lb. The well-known Ta.vlor-C-arringjlon Company were greeted with a good sizeil audience, considering Hie inclemency of the. weather, on Friday evening, when they repealed their iiiniiv successes in the i.'UM'green drama " Frin-go-Krngh." The piece possesses some strong situations of Ihe thrilling- type, a popular ending-, and is enlivened throughout with broad humour. Miss Ella Carrington. in the name part, made, a pleasing heroine, and Mr Charlie Taylor, who acted as the rescuer o\ distressed femininity, was a great favourite with (he house. Ills character impersonations in the respect,ve roles of Dutchman, Irishman, and Chinaman were splendidly carried out, and he fiv.nicntly had the audience, in roars of laughter. Mr Ward Lyons earned great execration ns tho villain, a tribute to tho man-. Her in which -In' acted Hie p»rt. Miss Xellie Armitnge, as Erin's foster sister, was also well placed. The company will pivrbably pay ft return visit in two or three months'liiuc. 5

A* about noon on Friday some commotion was Caused by another vehicular accident through a bolting horse. Mrs L. O, Andrews, juu., of , Huirangi, accompanied by her two children, awl her mother, Mrs" Batch, were driving into town in a two-wheeled trap. When noaring the Te Hcnui bridge the horso was startled by a dog rushing out into the road, and becoming uncon,trollablo dashed down Devon Street at top speed. By th<o cfiorts of Mr l'ridhtwi, l the frightened animal's pace was slightly checked at tho corner of Liardet Street, and its course turned, but the inevitable occurred as the horse brought the trap into violent collision with tho kerb and lamp post a few yards from tho in-

tersection. Tho occupants were precipitated on to tha footpath, and, when picked up, were conveyed into Mr \V. Heals' shop close by. Drs. Ix-atham and Fookes wero ojulckly on the set-no, and attended to tho sufferers. Mrs Batch received a severe shock from the foil, besides sustaining nn injury to one of her legs, but Mrs Andrews escaped with severe contusions and bruises. The younger child, a baby in arms, received a nasty blow on the.brad, but the injury is not considered sell ous. The second) child, under two years of ago, fared badly in th» fall, sustaining a wound In the head and a fractured' collarbone. Tho children and Mrs Batch were afterwards treated at a private hospital In Hine Street. On inquiry dhriirg tho evening wo were pleased to leant

that, though painful, the Injuries sustained in each caso are not doenv ed serious. Those who witnessed the impact wcro astonished that the occupants of the vehicle escaped so lightly. On tho runaway being secured it was found that tho turn* out was practically undamaged.. Tho treasurer of tho Western Park Board desires to acknowledge tho following donations to the funds >— Mrs Dowling, £1; Mr Barry, £1 ; Mr Ab. (roldwator, 10s (id.

"Tho moro far-sighted among the Lancashire manufacturers are beginning to nsk themselves what will happen at tho closo of tho RussoJapaneso war. There can bo littlo doubt that Japan will net only invado Lancashire's dwindling share of the Chinese markets, but will push her manufactures among tho vast population of British India. There can bo little doubt that when Lancashire 'begins to feel the contest of a now and highly efficient rival in its markets of tho British East Indies, it will insist with quito remarkable emphasis upon the principle of Imperial preference. It will ask why Britain, who has conquered India, should not be entitled to secure for herself that vast clientele of 400,000,000 people ?"—Tho Globe.

Nautical similics were the order of the day in the House of Representatives n low days back. Mr Taylor referral to the ship of Statons a vessel covered with barnacles, in need of docking and scraping. The Premier : "There is an animal that requires scraping, and when scraped it squeals." Mr Taylor ; "Somo times I have 'beard you squeal." The Premier ! "The honourable gentleman is squealing before he is hurt." A little later the Premier had a. dig at tho New Liberal Party. "Thero is a class of warship," he said, "made to bo suUmerged sometimes. Those vessels never rise to the top. I think the New Liberal Party Is suUmerged, and T think it jvill take 60ine time diving to bring it to the surface again. It has gone down for ever, and the crew with it." Mr Buchanan : "To Davy Jones' locker.''

At Ernst bourne, Sussex, a man has just died who worked for seventy years on the same estate. His brother completed sixty-four years nnd his,father thirty years in a similar service. The Harbour Board on Friday considered in committee the correspondence with the IVpartment on the sirlyject of the proposed by-law providing for an increase'in the berthage fees, by means of raising the tax pei head on passengers from Is to 2s. The Chairman (Mr J. H. Connett) explained what he had done on bin visit to Wellington with respect to the threatened difficulty! in getting the' by-law confirmed, his efforts, however, proving unsuccessful. After discussion the Hoard pns.svd a resolution regretting tho decision of the Mar;ne IVpartment in disallowing the by-law. Ah the new charge' means a revenue of something like £6 per tiny to tho Board, it is possible that the matter will be revived later on.

At tho civil sitting of the S.M: Court on Friday, judgment by default was entered in the case of E. A. Walker v. Thomas Synip, claim £ll 9s (id, costs £1 lis (id. In the judgment summons case Margaret Young v. William Patison, claim £2 3s, tho order previously made was varied, debtor to pay the balance at the rate of 20s per month. A number of ether cases listed were adjourned.

Speaking at tho conference of Rdu. cation Hoard delegates, Mr I*. Goyen (chief inspector, Otago) expressed the opinion that no female teachers should be employed in the backcountry schools. He said he had often left these schools quite depressed the wretched conditions under which young lady teachers had to work. The Boards had frequently to keep them four or five yours in the backl|locks. Male teachers should only be employed in the country schools, 110 also urged that thesni. Aries of those teachers who went to the out-districts should bo raised. The chairman (Mr (!. W. Kussell) supported Mr Goyen's remarks. Ho hoped the conference would pass a resolution recommending that salaries should be raised to such nn amount that male teachers could be employed in country districts instead of females. To his mind, it was a dishonour to the colony that the present salaries' for country school teachers only permitted of young women accepting the positions.

When the Shah was In Paris last year, he was accompanied by an official named Mahmoud Khan, who is , not with him now. A French journalist who remciiibercd Mahmoud well put some questions about him the other 'day to a) member' of the Shah's retinue (says the Chronicle). "What has 'become of Mahmoud Khan ?'- inquired the journalist. "He dead, monsieur,'- was the answer. "Poor fellow ! But surely he was young, and seemed to enjoy excellent health?" "It was excellent," asserted the Persian functionary. "Was he ill yui'y long? " "No. monsieur. Ho was not ill at nil. 110 died quite suddenly." "Indeed ! How did it happen ! "• The Persian functionary explained (with a slightly embarrassed air) : "He was not sympathetic, to the Grand Vizier.'-' The harbourmaster reports a marked imprftvemnn't' "oT the depths throughout the harbour. The Takapuna, ltotoiti, and Barawa can now arrive ami depart at lowwator spring tides in smooth weather, and moor wither side of the wharf.

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The plan eubtoittcd by tho harbourmaster to the Board on Friday in addition to Showing the depths! indicated tho position oi anchors and mooring cables recovered after being dowm for twenty-ono years. Hie dredga got a grip of ono of theso cables with her small anchor, and Captain Head then sent tho diveri down to get ft. wei! wcured, with tho result that about 300 fathoms of cable and two 35ewt. slnglefluko anchors, all in excellent condition, wcro recovered, the harbourmaster estimating; the valuo at about £IOO. These anchors were, it appears, buried in 10 feet of water at low water spring tide on June 23, 1881. "Youl will note," said Captain Hood, "thati'by the dredge removing the deposit of sand airij exposing tho anchors ami cables, the) harbour is in tho same condition, with regard to depth of water, as it was 21 years ago, and proves tho excellent work douo by such a small dredge during tho last few days.'! Stott and Bromley, charged with the Topanui murder, wcro committed for trial.

The annual rennlon of the Taranaki Rifle Volunteers will bo held next Thursday evening at tho Trocadcro. The Egmont National Park Board's action In asking for legislative power to shoot cattle straying within the reserve Is likely to have a good effect. Tho Board has been informed that a mustering of stock that have wintered in! the rescrva is taking place in ono neighbourhood. A special featura Id tho servlco itt Whlteley Church ! to-morrow evening will bo the sacred solo, "O Divine Redeemer," by Miss Winnie Birch, of Wellington. ', Miss Birch Is a most popular singer) from tho Empire City, and is making a dhort visit to Now Plymouth, and lias kindly consented to assist in tbfc musical por-. Hon of the service.

A final reminder is given of the stallion parade to be held this morning at 11.30. I All horses from around the district will bo present, to enable owners to raako their choico of sires for the season. Tho Hawera. district will bo represented, by tho imported thoroughbred horso Obligado (Orvillo—Flirt). Mr C. E. Bellringer announces that ho will oddresa the doctors at the Theatre Royal o« Tu>«sday evening. At the Salvation Army Barracke on Sunday a memorial service to tho lato Sister Jenkins will be held,

Tha bill of fare to Ira 6orved to diners at the Trocadero tiMloy. 'will be found in this issue. Whlteley Church, Sunday, Sept., 17th. Treacher, morning and evening, Rev. J. X, Buttle, Evening solo. "O Divine Redeemer,'! Miss Winnis Birch, of Wellington. Bvcryono made welcome,.*

To-day Morey and Sen are showing a most charming lot of summer muslins, prints, delaines, voiles, taf* fctas,. Mouses, trimmed and untrimmed hats, costumes (tweed and linen), jackets In cream serge and light tweeds (silk lined), cream and black voile skirts, belts, nclius, collars and a magnificent lot ot lace and silk capes and jackets suitable lor elderly ladies, at prices that must make the goods sell. The show is well worthy of inspection, and we advise all to call.*

Bvcryono fs on the lookout for ba,rgains nnd bargains of the bust kind in clocks, -wjitchcs, jewellery, solid silver and electroplated goods of high quality, by best makers, may be scoured at J. 11. Farker's, neit railway crossing, Devon Street, New Plymouth. Note carefully—Only a few Cases left of very fine American 8-day striking clocks at 12s Bd each."