The Daily News. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81854, 1 October 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1.

Up to date New Zealand has turned out "21,701,411) tons of all classes o( coal, last year's record being 1,585,75(5 tons. The Garrison Band played a splendid programme of music in the principal streets on fa'urday evening, attracting big crowds of people.

The one hundred and fiftieth newcomer to this world at the St. Helens Maternity Hospital (Dunedin) liss made its appearance. The hospital was opened 011 September 30th last year by the late Mr Seddon. In nine weeks the Waimate County Council paid ono man £52 5s as bonus tor killmg small birds, chielly larks, goldfinches, and linnets. This beats the record of the two business-like Timaru boys who invested in an incubator.

There is very keen interest being taken in the School Relay Race which takes place at the Garden Party on October 10th. Several of the schools are putting in 3 or 4 teams, and each is confident of securing the four handsome medals which are to be given to the winning team.

The Reserves Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council has accepted the tender of Mr R. Johnson at £ls per year for the grazing rights over the south paddock, and that of Mr T. White at £lO per year for the central paddock of the racecourse reserve.

It is said that in .Christchurch dressmakers refuse further orders until the Exhibition is over. All over the colony dresstnakers are very busy, and the Exhibition is largely responsible for the boom in this particular industry.

The Taranaki Agricultural Society's schedule for the annual show will be

issued at the end of the present week.

Mr' Webster, the secretary, informs us that excellent special prizes arc offered ia the classes for pigs, the awards being of such value as to be considerable encouragement to breeders. It is understood that the following teams will compete in the l'ug-of-War at the Recreation Ground on the luth

October: —Opunake, Akc Ake (Rahotn), \Yarea, Pungarehu, Okato, Browns Mill, New Plymouth Fire Brigade, Coal Merchants, Moturoa Sand Crabs, ijarrison Band (Sec. Allen), Auctioneers, Fitzroy Fire Brigade, Star Pootoall Club, lutapa Football Club, Sash and Door Factory, Volunteers, 'l'.ko Rowing Club. , The New Plymouth harbour will probably be as well advertised as auy oilier part of the district at the Ne« Zealand Exhibition. Besides the photo.

graphs of the harbour works to be placed in llie laranaki court, the local brau;h of the WC.T.U. is procuiing Minilar pictures, which will be exhibited by the 11 iu the. 1.0-lieense courl, •villi, ot course, a moral. The moral will be conyCje L in a tabulated statement showing that New Zealand's annual drink bill would, if spent in narbour extension, add a certain length to the work, and so on. Killing twu oirds with one camera.

Mr li Woodhouse, formerly assistant in the Neu Plymouth municipal oitices, and now town clerk at Maru.n, has just passed through the ordeal of uis first court case. The case was a somewhat peculiar one. Among the candidates for the Mayoralty was tin custodian of the town hall, an employee of the Council. Mr Woodhouse accepted the nomination, and the deposit, at the same time notifying hnn that he •vas ineligible. The candidate withdrew before the election, bul the town clerk refused to return his deposit ol fill. Court proceedings were iusti tuted, and the tovyn clerk's action upHeld by the court. iNotice of appeal •vas given.

it is reported that tho executors ol • lie iate Air liussell Sage have been amazed at discovering oO,ODO,i)uiUoi north of high-class securities, the existence ot nluck was not suspected, it is stated that the estate is already valued at 150,000,0U0d01, and this may oe exceeded when the inventory is completed. Papers also state that another amazing discovery has been made in the erasure of a date in the will, which has been changed from i'JOO to 1901. t'his may involye the estate in years ol litigation, and reinforce the case of the dissatisfied legatees, who are threatening to contest the validity of the will, under which practically everything is left to the widow,

Several complaints have been made .eeently of sacrilegious vandalism perpetrated in the llenui cemetery. iNot content with stealing the cut blooms placed by loyiiiil hands on the graves of relatives, these thieyos have now commenced up-rooting choice llowers ivhieh have been planted upon the last resting-places of ttie dead. Suck conduct is hardly worthy of the most depraved criminal, but when the charge of theft is sheeted home the perpetrator will probably be found to be some supposedly-respectable resident. It is, of course, impossible for the cemetery authorities, or the caretaker, to watch the whole of our beautiful cemetery, and the Ik-serves Committee are prepared to act on the receipt of iutormatron that will lead to the conviction o£ the thief or thieyes,

cigarette tobacco and papers, cigarettes, scented soap, cat bulic tooliipastc, and various other forbidddcn delicacies w<>uid probably have been enjoyed ere now by a number of the pnsonets in the -New Plymouth C ;iU ' but for the timely, or untimely intervention of Detective lioddam, who. accompanied by Constable Cjlien, captured the whole of tile "plant" of de.icacies hidden in the Western Park lor the prisoners working there. There was for the cook a paicel, and several other inmates ol His Majesty s bcaidingliouse had ih'.'ir share specially car-marked. Lioin information received, the detective kept watch 011 the park duting lunch-hour, when the prisoners were absent, and saw two men, Grus Wilson, alias John Rex, and William Hoggard, deposit the luxuries in. a convenient spot for the prisoners on their leturn. Coilstable Culleii collared Wilson and put the ''darbies" nn, whilst t hp detective gathered up the "plant.Hoggard nas afterwards arretted at his house, l ie' ni<-n into-t have been actuated by ■mine l'ei lingo oi phy lor the inmates nf ;lie gaol. seeing thai Wilson had

. ,iil v brrn sc. al lib; it y that day ;i I - I. i seiving a sentence of two ye;" s occupied ,l ' ''; 1 llu'lT (or sis lllKi.ll>--prior to February last, when lie was looked up for using- obscene !,in::n age. On Ihc. charge of seeming ihe «outls in a place frequented by Suite

iJiisnm-K. fc".U IUVU pl'-ailrd guilty, and wen fined /J5, i" default a iii'iiirhimprisiiiiin' ni. \\ i i"n made a stioiig ;111]a'a! fur leniency, "li tin: KKllllul ilia, Ill' \V"lll(l 1U Ml (iver a now I'af "if Ik: were aiiotler > lianoc." li> then charg-j>>■!-<>ii. habitually cuiim.ii ting with ihievos. T'l" police gave evidence 'li.it Mir :k MiM'fl's liotist- was the "KiiiM-d ir,vJo/v..us f'»r ill! the :11 and bad characters sat at

1 1 > l ' 11 :"ti >m ill- 1 ,g .nil. and that I l"g----'4ai cl iisua'U me 1 any sii' li and conducted ilifiii In his house. The ac-ru-i'd p''ad''d that lie was in uiuic. bill iliv Ma:-.'.U'ralo b id him thai cnn--unlng Vli<h ihinvj. made him liable la ill' 1 "idle and disorde:!y" di'si^>nation. ric was convicted and d rd. Thi' two iiii'ii are at present "taking "ut the month" in gaol. Members of thi' Kipiitable Building Soi'it'ly of Xew l.^lymouiJi (First and Second Groups), are nolilied I hat subMi'ipiions will be due and piynblo to-

day (Monday) til Ihe Seei'el iry's Ollice, Currie-street, from it a.m. io 12.H0. from 1 p.m. lo 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 0 p.m.—Advt. Since the Melbourne Cloth'ng Company inaugurated their system of suUing tailor-made suits ready to put on at about half the price the average custom tailor charges, their sa'es in this department have increased enormously. The public quick in finding out the benefit of the new svstem, —i« displaying keen appreciation of the new season's models and the firm is haviijj- a busy time,'

Some very interesting communications from Lionel Terry appear on the fourth page of tins issue.

It is stated that the necessary money has been subscribed fur the establishment of a new morning" newspaper in Wellington, and that the company has been registered. The promoters consist ut Wedinglon and Christchurch commeicial men. including Mr John Duthie, and Mr G. G. Stead, and a leading plank in the new paper's platform will be the freehold tenure. The new paper will be independent politically. At the general election Sir William Russell was deposed in favor of a Mr Di'lon, whoso only contribution to debate in the House this session is as follows: —"The member f r Christchurch —(cries of 'No, Lyttleton')— wants lights and books and all this. If a man breaks the law don't nambypamby him. Why, there was a man came out of Napier gaol, and as soon as lie got out he picked up a stone ■and broke a window just to get back again. I don't call that prison. Why the member for Timaru —(laughter)— Lyttleton, wants to namby-pamby them. When a man breaks the law

he wants punishing. It makes me angry. I can't bear it. It's what I call bosh."

At the next meting of the Wellington Education Board, the Chairman intends to move: (1) That the at-

tention of the Minister of Defence bo called to the overstrain in schoolwork now existing and the injury to the physique of our population likely to result therefrom; (2) that the Wellington Education Board is of opinion that the plan of working for pass examinations is largely answerable for this overstrain; (3- that this Board is also of opinion that it is desirable

in the best interests of true education that pupils after classification in Standard V. and all pupi's in Secondary Schools should be graded as *o their several abilities, and that their after education should be in few subjects suited to their special faculties, tastes and environment.