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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8122, 30 May 1906, Page 2

A third milking machine is to bo exhibited at the Miinawatu Winter Show. It is the invention of 11 Scolsman now resident in this colony, and is said to have been in successful operation for the past four years. Ladies' evening shoes, 2s lid; felt slippers with carpet soles, Is pair; splendid feit slippers with cork soles, Is 9d; dressy glace kid shoes, button or lace, 9s 6d; splendid house slippers with leather soles, 2s lid; men's sizes, 3s lid; men's warm felt slippers, Is lid pair, at the Melbourne Clothing 'Co.—Ad vi.

The London " Dairy " doos not consider it probable that the Butter Eill will be passed this session. The complete census returns of the Waikato show a very gratifying and instructive increase, the population of the whole district having risen from 11,815 m 190), to 18,368 in 1906. This is an increase of very nearly 50 per cent.

, A start has been made with the erection of the new town hall at Manaia. The structure will cost about £1,400, and when finished should be one of the most up-to-date country halls on the coast.

A meeting of the Eecreation Sports Ground Committee will be held in the Town Hall this evening. The business will be to arrange for the election of trustees for the ground, and to adopt the conditions of lease imposed by the Eecreation Grounds Board.

The self sacrifices made by members of Volunteer Fire Brigades deserves practical recognition by the public. Especially is this the case with the Fitzroy Brigade, and it is hoped the public will take advantage of the opportunity on Monday next of helping the Brigade by attending their ball at the Theatre Eoyal.

The piaotices for the cantata, " The Whito Garland,"ihave been most successful, and the singers are now quite oonversant with their parts. The final rehearsal showed a degree of perfection not often reched in local musical circles. The cantata will be produced on Thursday evening at the Whiteley Hall.

There was ft large attendance of ladies at the' first ambulance class meeting in the Town Hall last night. Mrs Henry Gray was appointed secretary for the class, and fees were fixed at the low scale of 2s 6d for the season. Dr. Fookes delivered his first lecture on " The Bones and Their Formation," and those present evinced the keenest interest in the lecture, the subject being treated for "first aid" students only. About twelve other ladies have signified their intention of joining, bringing tho membership to nearly fifty. Some time ago there arrived in Wellington from Japan a consignment of handkerchiefs of a texture so fine and soft that the Customs officials took the material to be silk, and the matter took a humorous aspect when the Japaneso Consul brought evidence to provo tliat the raw matorial used was nothing moro nor less than New Zea-

land Has fibro. Of course the method of manufacture is a close trade secret.

All that is known of it is that the process is 11 chemical one, and that the fibre thus split into threads is so fine that one of thom, even when held in a strong bright light, is invisible. Mr C. Onyon tells a London correspondent that, with reference to the New Zealand Iron and Steel Company, the underwriting is nearly all assured. Mr Withe:ord is working in London, and Mr Onyon is working in tho north of England, and assisting m London. One thing, he says, must be done by the Government of New. Zealand. That is: Clause 14 of the Mining Act, which gives power to the Government to take over the works, mustbe either suspended or deleted, because tho public of England continually bring up the Neiv Zealand Midland railway case. The Government (says the Wellington correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald) have acquired three areas of land in the city belonging to Messrs H. D. Bell, Martin Chapman, and A. Abbott, behind the Prime Minister's residence, Molesworth street, and it is understood that a new Ministerial residence is to be built. The price of the land taken was settled by arbitration, and is, I understand, something about £3OOO.

"I am a teetotaller on the ship's books, sir, " a sailor told tho Christchurch S.M. recently, " and 1 very seldom touch liquor." " What on earth do you mean'( A teetotaller, and you have just admitted that you had drink a-horo. What is a teetotaller on the ship's books ?' asked Mr Bishop. " I never draw my rum, sir," was the reply. Counsel remarked, " Your Worhip will know that there are many kinds of teetotallers."

Interviewed on the subject of education Professor Haslam, of Canterbury College, remarked that " the only share the modern parent took in tho education of the child was to wash its face before going to school and cut its lunch; having done that, parents fell back in comfortable assurance that no more could reasonably bo expected. In reality nowadays, a human being generally educated himself by merely collecting undigested and useless facts, just as a jackdaw collected spoons and a mole collected s.raws; what any of the three did it for, he did not profess to know."

Britain, says Sir Johu Forrest, has become the home of the alien. At the Hotel Cecil he was the only English guest, and he was a colonial, anyhow. All the others were. foreigners. And the alien keeps on flooding into Britain in hundreds and thousands and squeezing out the British workman and filling gaols with alien criminals and destroying the stamina and fibre of tho race, and stocking the cradles with nondescript infants. Thus Christehurch Truth, which apparently does not realise that the alien who can pay tho tariff charged at the Hotel Cecil can hardly be described as destitute.

An Eltham horse-owner had an annoying experience recently. He had bought a valuable horso in the South Island, and placed it m one of the blacksmiths' shops to bo attended to. From there the horse escaped, and all efforts to trace it wore fruitless for some months. Ultimately word was received that it had been taken south. A day or two ago the information was received that it had been sold out of the Masterton pound. Enquiries were made, iind the present holder of the horse was discovered, but he evidently knew that ho had a bargain and refused to part with it. A well-known and successful blood and skm purifier is advortised in today's issue. This is " lodised Sarsaparilla." prepared and sold by Messrs Teed aad Co., of New Plymouth. The qualities of the principal ingredients arc well known, Sarsaparilla as an alterative and diaphoretic, and iodine producing increased activity in most of the secreting and excreting organs, such as the kidneys, mucons membrane, and skin, and it also powerfully influences the glandular and absorbent systems. Messrs Teed and Co. have had great success with this preparation, and confidently recommend it.

One ot the most important meeting* ever liekl in New Plymouth will take place this evening in the Town Hallj aucl it is hoped the attendance will be large Every resident of New Plymouth and o£ Tarauaki, we might safely say every man and woman in tlie colony, is vitally ittsrested in the establishment of the proposed company to work our iron ore deposits. Flotation of this company is being hampered by the clause in the Parapara Lase which gives the Government the right to acquire the works at a valuation at any time, Under such conditions people are ehary of embarking capital in the venture, and to-i)ight's meeting is called by the Mayor, at the instance of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce, to pass a resolution strongly urging the Government to delete this objectionable clause. The very great interests which depend on the repeal of this clause make it certain that the Town Hall will be crowded to-night by those interested—the general public, Tell us not our days are numbered; That nothing on this earth can save. Us—'by coughs and colds encumbered Struggling for mastery o'er the grave To the rescue comes undaunted, Life's panacea, strong and pure, Striking home the truth that's vaunted Of tlie Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

[ For toilet sundries, and little neces saries for the toilet table, you cannot do better than inspect the show windows of the Arcadia Saloon, opposite ?he Coffee Palace. All the goods are so low in price you wonder how they can be "quality " at the price. You| tiu price aav article yourself,r-ADYTi

Miss Ectford annouces that she has now a splendid stock of trimmed millinery. Ladies should inspect. " Kapai! Kapai! " roared an enthusiastic Maori again and again last I night, in his exuberance of spirits caused by tho singing of Princess Te Eangi Pai. There were several Maoris scattered about the audience, and all seemed to delight in the performance, without altogether sharing the excitement of the gentleman who encouraged the cantatrice with exclamations in his native tongue.

On Tuesday evening the members of Mrs Connop's dancing class held an assembly and social evening in the Brougham street hall. There was a good number present, and the floor being in splendid order, dancing was thoroughly enjoyed During the evening Mr Erqest Carthew, on behalf of the class, presented Mr W, Hennersey, one of the members, with a handsome silver mounted wallet, on the eve of his departure for Auckland, where he intends opening business on his own aocount.