The Daily News SATURDAY, APRIL 28.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8096, 28 April 1906, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, APRIL 28.

Already the carting of soil from the Technical school site has made considerable impression on Lemon streofc, where the metal has been worn down in many places.

Tho New Plymouth Boxing Assoc 1 " ation will not appoint a salaried in" struetor this year, as there are several members fully qualified to give tuition in the " noble art" of self-defence,

A tangi is proceeding at the Smart road Kaianga, tho Maoris lamenting the death of a little child, a grandson* of William Sowrey, well-known m the district.

The funeral of the late Arthur Beals, who was killed on the railway iu tlie Wairarapa a few night's ago, will leave his parent's residence, Devon street, to-day at 1.15 p.m. for tho Te ilenui cemetery.

The wet weather is showing up the defects in Courtenay street, between Currie and Liardet streets, the mud showing deep in patches. This work is to be attended to by the staff when opportunity presents itself.

Upon the application of Mr Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam), probate of the will of the late Mrs Parris was granted by the Supreme Court-to Ellen Orley Morshead, the executrix named therein.

Whilst the Noxious Weeds Inspectors are suing farmers for neglecting to clear blackberry on their land, a straggling bush catches the flowing veils and exalted headgear of the fair sex who pass by a bank in one of the main streets of New Plymouth.

Fitzroy ladies connected with the Primitive Methodist Church have now completed their work for a bazaar to be held o* Thursday next to raise money as a nucleus of the fund for the building of a new church there. The llev. J. Nixon says that £SO is raised, a loan may bo obtained, probably, from the building fund of the church, and the work of erection will be put in hand almost at once.

The following choice metaphor appeared in the Wellington "Post" of Thursday last. After mentioning that the Premier had been rudely interrupted by a dos-fight in the course of an oration, the paragraph proceeds:— Then Mr Seddon deftly picked up the silken thread of his harangue just at the point where it had been broken from the skein, neatly spliced the ends, and resumed the unravelling smoothly.

Tke official opening of the Inglewood Water Works took place on Thursday. The total coat of the work is estimated at £7050, and the supply is equal to a draft 700,000 gallons a day, and the capacity ot the pipes equal to tho requirements of a population of 10,000. The sewerage system, on the septic tank principle, is also completed at an estimated cost of £2ool> At the opening ceremony the Mayor stated that he believed the works established a record iu municipal enterprise, and he had no hesitation in saying that it was entirely due to the skill and energy of the engineer, Mr Spencer.

Despite the soaking rain on Thursday night, the euchre party arranged by the choir of St. Joseph's Church was very well attended, and the affair was enjoyable, as usual. The ladies' prizes were won by Mrs H. Evans and Mrs Knowles. Mr P. Sanko won the men's first prize, and Mr P. Douglas was second. The music for a very enjoyable evening's dancing was supplied by members of the choir. Those who derived so much enjoyment and recreation from these euchre parties last winter will be pleased to learn that arrangements have been made to continue them at fortnightly intervals.

There are some young miscreants in New Plymouth, and nothing but a good birching will suffice to suppress their bent for mischief. The parents who allow these youngsters to fly about the streets when they should be home in bed have only themselves to blame, if the fruit of their neglect is brought home to them. On .Friday night a number of young larrikins congregated in the neighbourhood of the Central School, while the Technical classes were in operation, and directed their onergics to bombarding the building witli stones, to such good purpose that a skylight, which will cost at least 25s to replace, was broken. It is to be hoped, if the perpetrators are caught, that they will be taught a salutary lesson.

Mr Walker, Junction road foreman under the Taranaki County Council, had a startling and rather unpleasant experience a day or two ago, though the consequences were not nearly as serious as they might easily have been. He had driven along the road in his buggy to Petrie's corner, and tied up the horse, leaving him in the buggyshafts, his head in a nosebag, and the blinkers off. Mr Walker had a parcel of clothes in the vehicle. Something startled the animal, and soon the road was strewn with clothes, boots, and other articles dislodged by the bumping of the vehicle as he bolted as far as the High school hill, passing on the Henui hill a buggy driven by some ladies, and narrowly escaping a collision. The horse will not be left without blinkers any more, for this little omission will cost the owner somewhere about L 7.

There was a large ami representative meeting in the Town Hall ou Friday night, Mrs Doekrill presiding, to make detailed arrangements for the bazaar to be held at Christmas time in aid of the Eeereation sports ground. Several members of the general committee were present. It was reported that there were already many offers of assistance, the ladies recognising that this would be an exceptional opportunity of assisting towards the funds for making a sports grouud worthy of the town. It was decided to hold a working bee next Wednesday afternoon, in a room to be arranged, and work will probably be carried 011 regularly from that date, the ladies meeting fortnightly. It was decided to have six stalls: Fancywork, plain needlework, dolls, jumble, flowers and refreshments, and ladies were appointed to ,inake arrangements for each section, interviewing people and securing aid. The meeting was very enthusiastic, and this, coupled with the interest displayed in many circles, augurs well for the bazaar, which the committee intends to make the biggest and best yet held in the district.

COMPLETELY CUBED AFTER KTNETIvO YEAfIS, After nineteen years suffering from rheumatism, Uiimrjio brought- relief to Mr Clias. Dowsett, the well-known clumney-sweep, ot 51 Murphy-street, Wellington. .Read what Mr Dowsett writes: —" I thank you very much for the use of Khrouo. I have used nearly everything in existensefor rheumatics, but found 110 relief till I used your Ilheumo. After nineteen years suffering it is a great comfort to be free from pain." Give Kiieujio a fair trial, and it will cure you as it cured Mr Dowsett. Your grocer or chemist sells it at 2s (id and 4s 6d a bottle.

For Bronchial Coughs and Colds Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d per bottle,

There are 700 officers in the British Army who have won their commissions from the ranks.

R. T. Montague, for quitting the colony with money that should be divided among his creditors, was sentenced at Invercargill to imprisonment with hard labour for six months. Accused left the colony under an assumed name, and was arrested at Hobart.

A member of the Farmers' Union, at the meeting of the Mastorton branch recently, moved that it be discontinued " owing to tke laok of interest being taken in it by members." After a desultory discussion, it was decided to hang on.

A Palmerston North resident who recently visited Taranaki by motor, expresses tlio following opinions on the local roaisHawera County, disgraceful; Stratford County, splendid! ! New Plymouth County, like a gentleman's park! ! !

The Auckland Observer remarks that Miss Seddon is finding out how awfully hard it is to catch up to a taradiddle when it once gets a fair start. The silly yarn that she was engaged to the elderly fair John See, ex-Premier of New South Wales, was invented by au imaginative Australian gossiper last year, and although contradicted at the time, it is now going the rounds of the English prets.

The new House of Commons (says a London Liberal paper) no longer feels the mesmeric power of a great statesman when Mr Chamberlain tears a passion to tatters, and the great majority arc inclined to shrug their shoulders at th£ threadbare guise of patriotism in which he clothes mere party passions.

One of a recent picnic party at Dunedin lost a pound-note during the excursion. A photograph taken on the picnic site was seen somo days later, and clearly disclosed the missing note. The loser, remembering the wind that hid raged and the rain that had swept tlie locality since that day, was content to let it go at that.

Writing concerning the sad fatal railway accident at Waingawa on Wednesday, the "Wairasapa Daily Times" sa; s: — Arthur Frederick Beals, the victim of this sad fatality, was the third son of Mr William Beals, a respected resident of New Plymouth, and a brother of Mr G. W. Beals, the Cnrterton manager for Mr A. Stempa's butchery. He was a fine young fellow, 22 years of age, about six feet high, and one who had earned the esteem of all his mates. He had been in the service something over five years, aad some months ago had gained his certificate for competency as a fireman. For the past two years he had been a resident at Cross Creek, but before that time was on the New Plymouth section. On Saturnay last he visited his relations in Carterton. The accident is doubly sad owing to the present precarious state of health of his mother, who has been an invalid for some years.