The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81833, 28 August 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28.

The Auckland-San Francisco despatch of the 27th July arrived in London on the 25th inst Vesterdav morning Mr R. H. Bligb, the' White Cross League lecturer, addressed the prisoners in the New Plymouth Gaol, and received a very sympathetic hearing. The Greymouth Star says that a whale, estimated to be thirty feet in length, got stranded on the beach between the Seven Mile and Nine Mile Bluff on Friday afternoon. A correspondent writes a shooting gallery which is being erected in the very heart of the town, in one of the oldest and most inflammable buildings in the place, is a matter for the public inspector, being a menace to the public safety. Fitzroy people are likely in the near future to have an outward mail southwards by the morning express train, besides" the establishment of a money order office. Residents owe a debt of gratitude for Mr Tisch's assistance in forwarding the improvements.

At about a quarter-past n o'clock on Mondav evening the Borough Council adjourned to Wednesday night when the foreman's report on street works required and the proposals for the enlargement of the electric lighting scheme will be ccnsi >ercd.

The "Post" says that the Stratford Acclimatisation Society's experiment in hatching has proved very successful, the unfertile eggs being under five per cent. 20,000 Scotch burn, Loch Lvin and brown trout have now been successfully hatched. The best of the clover crops ir, the VYinchester-Orari districts, Can terbury, are yielding from a sack to a sack and a-half of seed to the acre. On- paddock of fourteen acri s return; d eighteen sacks of seed and anothet of six acres gave nine

New Plymouth Sunday School pupils gained honours in the recent examinations under the, Auckland Sun day Schools' Union. Miss Mabel Amburv secured first prize in the junior grade, and Miss Nellie Baque first in the primary. Mi.-s Amy liarle's name also appears among the prize-lakers. Their was little business at Mop clay's sitting of the H.M. Court Thro c iile-slon.s were entered, an judgments given by default in tin following ca.-cs : Omata Road Board t\jr Rov) v. James Griflin, 16/10 foi rates, and (1 costs; L. D. Nathan and Co. (Mr Weston) v. J. Lu< goods, £S y-'i, costs £1 8/0. After a lively debate the Borough Council decided on Monday to allow the W.C.T.U. to retain charge of the ladies' room at the Town Hall, provided the wails were not used for ad \eitising purpu.es, a proposal that the Council take oveitfiie. room am. iiiaintan it for it., present purpose i.elng defeated.

A most pathetic scene was wit-nes-ed on board the R. M. S. Aorangi. midway beeween Victoria ijncl Honolulu. It was the com'mittal to the deep of a loving wife and mother of six children. The de ceased lady was the wife of the Rev. P. Ilass, a Lutheran clergyman, win was journeying to Petersburg, North of Adelaide, to take over a pastorship in that neighbourhood. Tie deceased iady, being slightly unweli when she came on board, succumbed to heart failure.

The Egmont Lodge, No. 12, 1.0. G.T., held its weekly session in the Oiiceii-street shoolroom on Monday evening. Bro. J. C. Legg presided over a good attendance of members. One candidate was proposed and initiated. After general busness was dealt with the brethren held a naildriving competition for the sisters the result being Sister Ulmer first, Sister Beale second, and Sister I. Cock being third. Refreshments were handed round and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the brethren for their entertainment.

"No man," said Jerome K. Jerome, "should marry unless he is by nature a 'good provider'— unless without a twinge he can hand forth money right and left . Men who can't do this should remain single, other wise they will make such husbands and fathers a.s my old friend, Ciust. Crust's daughter said one afternoon in a tone of unutterable surprise; 'Papa went away quite gay and cheer ful this morning.' Mrs Crust made an exclamation of annoyance. 'That reminds me,' she s;iK |. '[ forgot to ask him for any money." "'

The following account of a remarkable accident is vouched for by the ttcstport Times :—The accident hap pence! on Friday last to W. Hill, a workman on the Maruia Caslani road. A charge of blasting powder exploded piein.iiurely and hurled him seveial feu in the air. I In was thrown over .1 ciiff 40ft in height and landed on his bead within six feet of a sheei descent into the Alaruja riyer. Although badly cut abc ut the head, face and neck, he does not sewn to have stilVered serious injury, His escape fiom detith is the more extraordinary because he is a heavy man.

The "yellow peril" should no longer alarm New Plymouth folk. The recent inrush of Celestial fruiterers and grocers 11111-t have ended disasquieili <|. sec] i|„'.„- doors. The ■"'" ' i'i" 1 cttis.ide wiil piobablv ""' alfeel ll„. litll,- ,-!,;,,,, who-r claim t" suppoii is thai lie is rearing a lainily he,,., ~„,| ili,. [minclii, s still seem 10 puisue the even tenor of 1 "1:1 way, although business protie laundry establishment ' of' M, Xicholls in GUI street is gaining business every week. Dreams of a "while Xew Plymouth" show some indications of realisation.

"I went into a Wellington boot shop" says a ii-ci'iit arrival from Austha la. ■■an-J asked l|„. price ~f a pa i r "I 1;,.. ;,- like those- that 1 had on, I hey io:d me :(,- (,<!.' '\\i,v.' I asked, do you know wlial I ran gel tlnm l-.i 111 .Sydney.' 'Yes.' iliey answered s«cul\\ 'lor us 6.' And that is a lact. The people in the shop said He-difference waseau-ed by the duty. ' veil' iiho lie- next shop and bought a giey iclt hat [or ids; i| would cost aie i' sod in .Sydney. | he; w.uit £.,u •" .'>> a !.-.i,| lor hmd near where I live in Island l'.ay. You can get land in ihe best pan of IV.ldingion, on the tramway line, for yj,X a foot. And this is ■Clod's Own Cotintrv."I'imes.

I' 1 - 'en davs ,„!-,-, Mr A. Green. D.5.A.0.. rye.ieln and spectacle spceia'isi ~( Amklancl, niav now be

iiMilic-J at his in;;?)]', adioinini;- Mill'. IVwVv's auction mart. His hour- i.f consultation will Ik- fm„, 10 i" i. ami :to .| clailv. Mr Croon's '.vnik is favourahk known in this provide, and In- is here {,, deal with ;inv m;i..|. nr kind i.f eve troubln. Sufferers would do well to remember that where the eye rfqnin s attention de'av is dann'cfons. and that an opportunity doo-n'l often occur of eonnoting- a first class sDcria'ist.—Advt. For Colds in the Ifcad and Influenza Woods' Groat Peppermint Cure, Is Oil uuJ 2s Ud per bot f le,

A copy of the photograph of the. ii:..:iic4V'.! erected by the Colonial Troops' Memorial Committee in London in memory of the colonial troops, who fell in the recent South African war has been fonvarded to the New ' Plymouth Borough Cuncil by the Defence Department. It will be flamed and placed in the Town Hall. A Southern branch of the Farmers' Union has resoived to ask the Government to contnue the scheme of assisted immigration from the Old Country. It was stated at the meeting that there was a great scarcity of agricultural labour in Otago, and plenty of work could be found at good wages for all such. A jolly, rubicund stock dealer, well known in the North Otago district, who was a passenger by the 'bus one afternoon lately, told the passengers in one and the same breath that Oamaru under no-liccnse was not. .a pleasant experience, but that it would save him quite ,£IOO a year in ' shouting." He would have/liked to have been able to get a drink all the same. -North Otago "Times." After the recent scene in the Victorian Parliament, when Mr Murray resigned his portfolio of Minister of Lands, he and the Premier (Mr Bent) met for five minutes. When the meeting was over Mr Bent came out of the room loudly singing "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, as his corpse to the rampart we hurried. Oh ! fol de rol, de rol de ndo!'' Questioned as to the result of the meeting, he said, ' In statu quo ante bellum. Fol de rol, fol 10l de rido !"• The Agricultural Department has written to the New Plymouth Borough Council that Messrs Sole Bros.' establishment for Iboilmg down the stock condemned at the municipal abattoir was ample to meet present requirements, and therefore did not favour the granting of permission to Mr Riddcll to erect further works. As regards the slaughter of all stock condemned throughout the district at a site within the abattoir :irea, the Department was of opinion that this would lead to adverse comment. The arrangements now made at Barret road should meet the case. The Clutha branch of the Farmers' Union resolved to ask the representatives of the district to bring before the Ministry the desirability of appointing a practical farmer to represent the farming interest in the Upper House. There is an impression in many quarters that Mr J. G. W'ils.n, President of the Colonial Executive of the Union, may be amongst those "cailed" shortly. Such an appointment would undoubtedly bo a popular one, and do much to secure for Sir Joseph Ward's Government the good wishes of the farming community.

A letter has been received from the Mayor of Wellington, asking the Xew Plvmouth Borough Council to take steps in raising funds for the erection cf a national memorial to

.he late Right Hon. R. ]. Seddon. At tast night's meeting the Mayor said there was a feeling abroad that the national memorial should be found by the Government, and that local cntres should erect their own. Cr

Ilreoking considered the best suggestion made was to erect a Colonial I'c clinical Institute f»r the. benefit of .he whole colony. Frittering money away on local tributes would be of iittlc benefit, except to-the monumental masons. On the motion of Cr. Wilson, the Mayor was authorised to call a public meeting to consider the whole question. The ijalest, and it is claimed, the simplest mode of voting at e'ections el put forward is the system evolved ■'. Sir Win. Steward, and which is aow (says a Wellington paper) being lemonslra.cd to legislators at Parliamentary Buildings. Separate ballotaixes are provided bearing the. names of candidates and (at the option of the returning officer) their photographs. The elector goes to the returning officer, who writes the lector's number on a card, inserts die card in an envelope, which is sealed and stamped officially with a -lamp bearing the name of ilie elec.orate, and then handed to the elector. The hitler goes into the usual ,cress and drops his card into the j' x bearing the name of the candi!ite for whom be. desires to vote. At the close of the poll the boxes are unlooked, and every envelope taken nit is stamped with the number the candidate bears upon the list. Thus no informal voting- can take place, lor the vote is counted according to the number stamped upon the en velopo found in the respective boxes.

The secrecy of the ballot is maintained, the problem of informal voting is overcome, and polling is re. duced to the utmost simplicity.

Yesterday a "News" representative inspected a very fine model of the New Plymouth Gaol, which has been made by Acting-Principal Warder W. Downs for exhibition in the Prison Department's court at the Christchurch Exhibition. The ground plan of the model measures 10ft x 7ft, and throughout is true, to scale, onehalf inch to the foot. In every particular indeed the exhibit will be an exact replica of the. prison walls, tower, pediments, offices, cells, doors, locks—almost indeed a working model. Down to the minutest constructional detail, nothing has been overlooked. The offices and dome are lighted by electricity, showing up the attention to detail of the internal fittings. The walls of the whole of the structure are composed uf plaster of paris, which is almost exact in appearance to the dull grey stone used in the structure. The plaster "stones" of the front and ornamental portions of the building were made separately and fitted together, but the main portions were carved to represent the individual blocks of stone. The guard bridge and tower overlooking the courtyards is an especially fine piece of work, representing manv weeks of patient labour. The whole work is unique and decidedly a credit to Warder Downs who, by the way, is a stonemason by tradej and was rcsponsib'c for the building of the huge walls which now surround the gaol. Other exhjblts being prepared are all trying their best to'get'out of "Inch is not unlike a tafooed Maori 'lead, and some especially beautiful inlaid work in native woods, of Mr Downs' construction. Some very creditable paintings by a one-armed prisoner, one time an inmate of the gaol, are also to be sent. The model of the gaol will shortly be sawn into convenient length? for transporting to Christchuich, where it will be re-erected urobably by its designer.