The Daily News FRIDAY, MARCH 9.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 9 March 1906, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, MARCH 9.

At a meeting of the South Road Tennis Club on Wednesday evening, it was decided to inVitc the Te Henui Club to a friendly game. The South Road Club will entertain the visitors. The Garrison Band will give the second of their concerts at "The Pines," New Plymouth, to-night. The coucorts are worth going a long way to heal', and we expect to chronicle a big attendance at to-night's function. At the meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday evening, Mr Kerr moved that steps be taken to open up communication with Kawhia and Raglan, not Mokau, as reported. Already, of course, there is shipping communication with Mokau. Lovers of go/xl music and good instruments should call ou Mr Davidson at the Central Piano Works, next the lire station. A replace business notice iu this issue tolls of pianos, of interest to all who thiuk of purchasing a good instrument, or of exchanging an old one. A family from Waihola, Otago, the head of which, Mr J. Nicholas, secured a section in Flaxbourne, trekked up from Titri Valley to Marlborough. Four of them, travelling in a buggy, covered 280 miles to Christehurch in teu days, and they hoped to complete, the journey of 500 miles in seventeen days from Waihola. Rarely is seen such a vivacious little company as the Volatile Vaudevilles are reputed to be. Ou Tuesday next a programme containing items as pleasing as they arc new, and as catchy as they are bright, will be offered. We learn that seats are being rapidly filled in advance. The box plan may be seen at the Dresden rooms.

While bathing the other Sunday afternoon on Mercwethcr beach, Sydney, a couple of hundred yards south of the bar, two gentlemen saw a shark about fifteen yards from the shore. At the time one of the bathers was in the water, and not more than eight yards from the shark, but the aid of a timely wave restored him uninjured to the beach. "I remember going to the grader with u tale of woe about my butter. I wasn't satisfied with the grader a bit," said Mr Cuddie at Wednesday's meeting. "I notice Mr R. W. smiling. He was the grader then,' 1 he interpolated. Thou the speaker went on to show how he had learned the secret of his faults by having a good talk with the grader, and after that he always graded his own butler. A couple of young men who were out boating at Moturoa on Wednesday last had a rather exciting, not to say, anxious, t'iino. The 'boat got out a little too far, and the strong breeze that was blowing carried it out to sea. Luckily, the situation was observed from the breakwater, and assistance was sent out. After considerable diflicully, the boat was brought back to safety.

The members of a class of Sydney schoolboys were asked the other day to write essays ou what they would do when they grew up. Most of them said they would go on the laud. A fetf thought tliey would become clerks or shopmen. One wrote : " Women are pushing themselves in everywhere. 1 don't know 1 what is to beenno of us men. 1 intend to be a builder, because women are afraid to climb ladders."

Speaking at a meeting of milk vendors in the Foresters' Hall atiWclliuglon last week, a producer declared that he could make more money ten years ago than he could to-day. Land Values bail gone up, ami wages had greatly increased. A city retailer of milk said it was all very well to take notice of the articles appearing in the "Post" about child slavery. 11' milk producers had to pay Is per hour to those in their employ, tliey could not possibly sell under Id per quart if they were -to live. In view of the coming into force on '.) illy Ist of no-license in the lnvcrcargill electoral district, local brewers (says the '' Southland News ") intend to erect depots just outside the boundaries of the electorate. Already a permit has been granted in respect of a building a little over a mile and a half from the Invercargill Post Office, and application has been made to the Collector of Customs for another depot permit form. The minimum quantity of beer permitted to be removed from a brewery to a depot is 1800 gallons. According to the " Japan Times" of January Oth, the destitution in the famine stricken districts of that country is awful, and there is a great cry going up for relief. Shibata township, in Miyagi Province, is ouc of the worst allhcted districts, the crop being, only 5 per cent, of an average crop. Even with the help of the provincial authorities and the Central Government, all the needy cannot be helped. "This year's rice, nuts, roots, and bark," w.'ites the " Japan Times," " will not last three months Then the snow conies, and there is no work, so that many will die of starvation or of diseases brought oil by the poor food that no human being ouelit to eat." One of the best fountain pens we have had the pleasure of using has just come to hand from Mr T. Avery. Apart from the undoubted merit of the new pen, it is of interest owing to the fact that it was the invention ol a one time resident of New Plymouth— Mr Wall. Mr R. C. llughes interested lumself in the patent, the pens being manufactured in Kngland. The pens are in a number of grades, the Home prices ranging from 2s (id to £2 10s. Mr Avery has secured a consignment on special terms, and is retailing thorn at one half the printed catalogue prices. I'lie " Wall " should meet with a ready sale, as anyone who knows anything of fountain pens will recognise its virtues as soon as it is used:

Auckland's notoriously noisy tram, cars have again been the'subject under discussion at tlit' City Council ruble, and, as usual, the Tram Company cov;ld not say that they had yet lieeu able to discover means by which the noise could lie remedied (writes our Auckland correspondent). The suggestion from the Council that air brakes be lilted to the cars did not meet with the I'avor of the Tram Company, as it was contended thai at other places where they had been tried they were not altogether a success. The very hilly nature of the Auckland system, where (he wear and tear is so great, make it almost impossiblc to have the cars noiseless, but there i* room for a tremendous improvement. before they reach thai stage of perfection. At the present time, m many of the ollii-es, it is impossible for persons to carry on a conversation during the time a car is passing, while the same annoyance is experienced by users ol the telephone. Mr .Hansen, the Tramway Company's manager, stated llial the Company is diligenlly experimenting with a view of meeting the desire of the Council, and hopes within a short time to be able to report that success has attended their efforts.

CUMI'LETKIA" CUliiil) AFTER NINJiTIiO YUARS. Alter nineteen years' sulVering from rheumatism, iiiißi'iio brought relief to ■Mi' t.'lms. Dowsetl, tlio well-known .•liiiimeyMvcep, of 51 Jlurpby-slrccl, \\ ('lllusion, lirad what Mr jjowsctt uritcs: —"l thank you very much for 1 !'e use uf Jli! liciio. I have used nearly evrrylhing in existence for I'heuunities, Iml found no relief till [ used your Jilieuino. After nineteen years' sullcring it is n great- comfort to be free from pain." (Jive Iti|ui iio a fair trial, and it will eure viiii as it eured Air Dow .sett. Youp grqi'itr or chemist sells it at 2s tij and -Is lid a lioltlu.

One-liflh of ilie population of Ike I'olonv of !New Zealand use T. W, Welch's butter. This seems a " pretty (all yarn " but its true. Those who eat the " White Clover " buiter know why. It's good, pure, fresh butler, same quality always—the best. Try some. T. W. Welch, Brougham street jtvi'e, JNijm l'lyuioul.U. —Al>v I'.

Dr B. Burgess, M.D., F.R.G.S., Pli.S., is at present staying in New Plymouth. He is at present on a walking tour, encircling the globe. Anyone on the look out for good reliable jewellery at low prices should 1 not fail to attend the unreserved sale by Newton King at his mart this afternoon. Tlie stock comprises a large quantity of unredeemed pledges which must bo sold to the highest bidders. The sale will commence at 2 o'clock.

At last night's meeting of the Borough Works Committee, it is reported, a letter was received from Mr Black, Borough Electrical Engineer, asking for a testimonial, as lie was applying for a more lucrative position. He stated that if he were to remain in New Plymouth, he must be given full control of the electric lighting, instead of being nominally in charge, but really second in command.

Close on 1000 school-children, with their guardians, went to Stratford on Thursday for their annual outing. A very enjoyable day was spent at the School Sports aud Horticultural Show. The Stratford School Committee had made perfect arrangements, hot tea, milk, and sugar being provided gratis for tho picniccrs. Tho sports were very successful, a number of pupils from the northern schools competing. Tho Show was also well patronised by the visitors during the day, while a number engaged in a friendly contest with the Stratford players in "ye aucient game of bowls." The outing was voted a complete success.

One of the anomalies of the Customs Tariff. Cow drenches aud kindred remedies are admitted to the Colony free, yet there is a duty on the raw material used in manufacturing the drenches in the colony. Mr Sykes, the manufacturer of tho well-known Sykes' Drench, computes that on his last year's turnover, lie would have saved close oil £l5O on this article alone, had he manufactured it in Sydney, and then shipped it to New Zealand. As the demand for the drench is growing, it is not improbable that tho manufacturing works may, in the near future, be transferred from New Plymouth to Sydney. For sometime the police have had suspicions, bused on fairly reliable facts, that a few good-for-nothing individuals were making their living by obtaining liquor for Maoris iu New Plymouth, and tliey determined to put

a stop to tlie practice. An old offender before the New Plymouth Court was on Wednesday sentenced to six months imprisonment..on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond, and having no lawful means of support. There are two or three others yet, and these are warned that the town is going to be too hot to hold them—out of prison— if the practice is continued. The same offenders in regard to the Maoris, are suspected of procuring liquor for prohibited persons. Mr Cock, Mayor of New Plymouth, officially welcomed Messrs H. Mynott and Jf. Abbott back home from their football tour of the Old Country, at the Euchre Party last night. He referred to the prominent position these and other Taranaki reps, had occupied in the cabled reports, to the great advantages accruing to the players from such a trip, and to the great advertisement they had given the colony. On the call of Mr .14. M. Smith, M.H..H., three ringing cheers were given in honour of the two ''All Blacks," who occupied a prominent position on the stage. "Simon" faced the footlights, and thanked the people for the warm '■ welcome home," and said that they had been similarly treated everywhere. Cries of "Bunny," and "Come oil Star," failed to induce Mr Abbott to come forward, but he asked our representative to make a note of his gratitude, and' liis inability to tackle a speech, remarking that it would be hardor than playing forty or lifty football matches,