The Daily News THURSDAY, MAY 16.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8112, 17 May 1906, Page 2

The Daily News THURSDAY, MAY 16.

The inaugural social of the New Plymouth Gymnastic Club will beheld in the Whitelcy Hall this evening

Hie Melbourne-Naples despatchof She 11th April, arrived in London on 14th inst.

• Tbe Oddfellows at Kaponga are erecting a lodge-room, at a cost of £l3O, on a section bought for that purpose,

Mr G. £. Turner's orchestra has been engaged to supply the music for the Fitzroy Fire Brigade Ball on June 4th.

Messrs E. J. Carfcliew and Co. re. port having sold Mr Wm, Earp's fine [coast farm, situated at Oakura, and containing 208 acres,

Tho matter of the prize-distribution system at the New Plymouth High School is to bo fully considered at the inext meeting of the Board of Governors.

A record number of applicants will participate to-day in the ballet for land in the Ohura and Heao districts. The ballot opens in the Courthouse at 11 o'clock this morning.

The land at present used by the New Plymouth High School pupils a s a playground includes a closed streetThe Borough Council has decided to charge fivo shillings per annum for this "encroachment," and tho Board, rather than curtail the scholars' playing field, has authorised the paymont | of the fee.

Mr MacDiarmjd has given notice to move at the next meeting of tho New Plymouth High School Board "That the Board donate to the Technical School fund the sum of £SO, payable pn July Ist, 1906, and £25 payable on July Ist, 1907." Mr Arthur, manager of the New Plymouth gasworks, asks us to apologise for the poor lighting for a few minutes last night, the failure being due to the admission of air to the pipes, by the hydraulic becoming unsealed.

"Hobart Clipper," in remarking that another Maori prince has taken to the stage, says that " every Maori is born an actor; ho only ceases to be intensely and naturally dramatic when he clioibs into tailor-made pants and gets his hair cut with scissors instead of a tomahawk. He is still good comedy even then," The settlers resident in the northeastern portion of the Taranaki provincial district, comprising the Ohura valley and other recently settled districts, in the north-eastern portion of the County of Clifton, recently petitioned the County Council to allow ot their district being included in the Waitomo County area. Tho Clifton Council, acquiescing, instructed Messrs Roy and Wilson to prepare the necessary agreements between the County Councils. This has been done, and word was received on Wednesday that the altered boundary will bo gazetted in to-day's Gazette.

The Taranaki Poultry Society's annual show will take place on 29th and 30th June, which is a month

earlier than the date fixed last year. This should prove advantageous to exhibitors, and also the society, as breeders will, at about that time, be disposing of their poultry, and the show will afford an excellent opportunity of placing their birds before the public. The schedule is an extra attractive one this year, as the committee have donated a number of s raightfOut prizes to the various classes. All fanciers who have not received a schedule should at once write to the secretary, as all entries close on 16th June. An art union is again being run by the society, and excellent prizes are agaiu offered in the shape of gold nuggets.

The delegates of the executive of the Taranaki Farmers' Union were enter-

tained by His Wof ship, the Mayor of Eltliam (Mr G. W. Taylor), at a midday luncheon at the Silver Grid, yesterday. At the conclusion, Mr J. Boddie, Provincial President of the

Union, in a neat speech, proposed, on behalf of the delegates, a hearty vote of thanks to the Mayor for his thoughtful kindness. His Worship acknowledged the compliment, and in turn proposed the future prosperity and good health of the farmers, and expressed the hope that tho Union would continue to prosper. Mr Maxwell (Itahotu), and Mr Burgess replied on behalf of the farmers. The luncheon, it may be mentioned, was a most successful and happy function. In the evening the farmers held a smoke-con-cert at the Eltham Oddfellows Hall, at which the members of the Eltham Borough Council and the Tradesmen's Association were present by invitation. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr W. P. Massey), addressing a meeting in tho Auckland district a few nights ago, referred to the readiness with which the Premier appropriated the ideas of other people, The very latest was the prqposal to make a wife the legal partner of her husband in the family home. Mr Massey said he himself was the first in the colony to put this proposal forward, and quoted the following paragraph from a speech he delivered in Christchurch in May, 1905 :—'' What ho wanted was that a workman should be able to come along imd say,' I want to build a house costing, say, £3OO, and I want an advance on building society principles,' and such a man should be able to get an advance at a low rate of interest, and should be able by gradual repayment I to become the owner of the house he and his family occupied. He would go further, and adopt an American law, which provides that a wife is the legal partner of her husband if they own a house, and that the house cannot be sold without the wife's written consent. Such an Act was one they could copy with advantage, ana ho would be glad (o see it on the Statute Book of the colony. He had always held that the Advances to Settlers Act should be used chiefly in the interests of the smaller men; the bigger men could take care of themselves. But this was not the policy of the Government. He knew of an incident which happened last year where one of the Government departments lent £1(5,500 in one sum to a business firm in a certain centre of the colony. It would have been much better for the colony had that money I been lent in thirty-three sums of £SOO each."

Miss Eetford, of Do ran street, New Plymouth, is preparing a change advertiscment for Friday morning's issue, dealing principally with a choice assortment of ready-to-wear ladies' millincry.

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