The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 30.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8168, 30 July 1906, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 30.

It is stilted that the Teachers' Superannuation Fund is already oyer £13,000 in credit. Mr Justice Cooper has ordered the preservation of the Colonial Bank books till a further order of the Court is made. The "Workers' houses which are being erected at I'etone are meeting with adverse criticism, both as regards construction and design. Several factories 111 the Stratford district have sold their season's output for IOJd. Fish is scarce around New Plymouth. A local fishmonger has decided to go in for trawling, in Auckland waters, and send fish to New Plymouth, A meeting of Cadet Officers was held 011 Saturday afternoon, but nothing definite was decided in connection with the dispute with the Taranaki Education Board.

At Tarata on Friday, Geo. Nicliolls, son of Mr B. H. Nicliolls, had his I finger blown away by tho accidental discharge of tho gun whilst getting through a fence. The work at the new Technical School buildings is proceeding very satisfactorily. The building operatiois are under the superyision of Mr Jas. Sanderson, the Education Board's architect.

" IE every member makes himself a working committee, and a canvassing committee, a lot can he done in the way of increasing our membership." Mr A. Gray at the Teachers' Institute on Saturday.

The hearing of the first charges of theft against George White, late secretary of the Starr-Bowkett Building Society, was completed at Napier on Saturday. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence. The report of the auditors who made a special investigation discloses defalcations totalling £IOO3 ts,

" I have been to a good many meetings, and I have always found ladies the best delegates. They have tho least to say, and always talk right to the point."—Mr Dempsey, in supporting the appointment of 'Mrs Dowling as a delegate from the Taranaki teachers to the New Zealand Educational Institute.

Discount stamps, as provided by the Government, have not yet achieved much popularity. During the June quarter the value of those sold was only £1)110, of which Wellington was responsible for £B6O, Auckland Christchurch, Napier, and Thames were the only other places which patronised the stamps.

The Taranaki Teachers' Institute has now a record membership, entitling it lo two delegates to the meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute*. It is pleasing to note that the teachers are alive to their interests, and it is hoped the present revival will be of a permanent nature.

Facetious folk sometimes come a cropper. At tile teachers' gathering on Saturday, whilst the member* were affirming the principle that teachers did not want relatives on school committees, a gentleman suggested the motion was unworkable, because, he smiled, " We are all descended from Adam, aren't we 'i " The words had hardly cleared his lips when another teacher whipped out: " So, you're not." In an interview wiOi a "Lyttelton Times'" representative, the Premier si,id: f;i connection with ihe imported " navvies," in view of the fact that (lumen were arriving in winter, the worst :;rl of the year from the industrial st i;r.l ; >"int, l!u- Government had decided cariy i.i J ine s-iwal the system, TJie i i:>• ii Commi-.-ioni r m London had, the.-, ii-re, been instructed io send n » i lrtii y uieii |w(l.im.{ further inslruei, -:ii i in- iiii ii ;ii present arriving --.'IT inen iv!i.( bad been shipped prior to the sending of the cable conveying that instruction. Section 4G of the Licensing Act of l!K)i provides that every person (whether a licensed person or not) who supplies liquor to any Maori for consumption oil the premises, within such parts of the colony as may be defined by the Governor- 111-Council and gazetted, is liable to a line not exceening £'so. The section is not to apply to any Maori who is married to a European, or to half-castesjliving as Europeans. The Government has had its attention drawn lo frequent cases of drunkenness amongst the natives in the King Country and the Taupo, Bay of Plenty, and Poverty Bay districts, and it has decided to bring the section in question into operation in those parts of the colony. A meeting of delegates from Hiverlea, Awatuna, Piliama, Oaonui, and Uptinake. was held m the Opunake Presbyterian Church on Wednesday (says the "Opunake Times") to consider the best means of consolidating the Presbyterian units. After discussing various phases of the question, it was decided to apply to the Taranaki Presbytery to sanction a district charge, and also to make an appeal to the Church Extension Executive, Practically speaking, this aims at securing a permanent minister tor this district, and also erecting a manse. The deleg; tes were of opinion that this was the soundest basis to build on, as the frequent changes aud stoppage ill the work had a detrimental effect on the Presbyterian interests. The erection of a manse is only a very small difficulty, as ample money can be borrowed from fne Church Extension Fund at lil to 3 per cent, In the Appeal Court, Wellington, on Saturday, judgment was given in tile case Gardner and Sons versus Mail-, engineer io the Pangitikei County Council. Appellants had been mulcted in Ihe cost of repairing a road over which they and carried timber. The Court held llial appellants could be made liable under sec Jon 13? of the I'ublie Works Act, 1 SIM, although they had paid license fees for heavy traffic to the County Council. The appeal was dismissed with cost. The case Baillie and Co. v. lieese, Pahiatu i, was dismissed. Defendant had, on (he Chief Justice's decision, been awarded t'Sii l'ls, aiui'iiiil sll-Irl of the award rate ii.-i |-;tid 11111j :ts an employee in the appellant's printing '.'Hire. The .pigment wiil h;ivo a i'arrearlmig ' iV'-vi •» N\-»- Zealand The eficcl of it ui!i lii- that all employees working under aw H' 1 • ul I hi- Arbitration Court iviio have been pud less wages than (he minimum lixed by an award can rcnm-i' Ir-mi llioir employers in a t Miirt ul law lin- difference belween 1 j! 'e award 1-aie and the wages ;;ehially paid llieni. This decision is likely lo in*L'lve niiu-ii litigation.

Aec U'diU'j; in the Loiid'Mi Times " ol the "ill Jim,., 111,-re <-oii!d I. : ,r.!|y 1);' ;i more >i!'i;nl;!v :;!:i:'kc,l contr.r-t lhan ill the results i| i In' lire in (i... While SUr liii.T C.xliir, .tu.l tlir .Ww /„•». land Shipping Co up my'-: steamer Waimate. Belli ve-so!s" were from .\'ew Zealand for home, ami j )„.i P cargoes were' of n similar nature. )r, both rihw lires broke out in the woo! nirgiH's, Imt Jiere Ihe similarity end-, iiie (oilliie after lmr!iiii<r several days had to lie beached at Plymouth. with enormous ioss to lier valuablecargo, [lie loss which niaypossibly exceed (:2l)o,noii The Wailiiate, in tins respect unlike ihe Gothic, was equipped with the Clayton sulphur dioxide lire extini.nn-.hinf; machine, and was by its use" able to keep the lire under for about ten tin vs. "\\ lien she reached I'iyinoulli the tonpei'atures in the holds were normal, and after taking on board (iewl. sulphur for tile machine she was able to leave in the afternoon for London. It is hardly possible, concludes ihe '• Tunes," to imagine n better lesson in theadvmita«es arising out of tiie equipment of a yessel with n sejent die lire extinquishing system. The .saving of money alone may in tiiis case be reckoned in hundreds of thousands of pounds.