The Daily News. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81878, 1 November 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1.

.Mr A. Kyngdon's account ol his ii-ivels, and lis impressions of the Argentine, appear oil cur fourth page, as well as some interesting farm and dairy botes.

Tue Wuitar.l Hotel, ncently des. trjjed by lire, will probably be reerected by the end of January. .-Sir John Had. Mayor of Christ - church, has (says a Press telegram) jis\n £225 to enable school children to attend the Exhibition.

The Mayor of Waitara lias forwarded a ciieipie of £ls lis lid to the treasurer of the Comniutee having in hand the representation of the district at the C.iristchurch Exhibition.—" Mail."

Anting the estates of deceased persons finally certified for stamp duly ,unug October were: New Plymouth, Jnarles McHay, £ldo7 ; Samuel Carleton, £188J; Elizabeth Samuel, £2BM.

There is some speculation as to vv.tere the Courthouse 111 VVanara will 10 erecte I. The Justice Department rill, lite " Mait" asserts, utilise the section ou «ui;h the police station nauds. A portion of the Post Oliiee ue would certainly be much more convenient.

At the inquest ou the body of George iironk, found dead in .the Mangaeliu liner on Sunday, the jury returned the ullowmg verdict: "That Edward leo. Krouk came by his death through jeing accidentally drowned in tiic viaugaehu river," and added a ridtr to ne tiled, " That they considered the pverumg power* responsible for me iccideut, through their negligence .1. ,ot having Uie river bridged or uk ord properly looked alter."

A ■.-keluum found in a Klqiulyke :an\oii ha* been .dwiUlied by iikmU' l j; ait' impression in tiie snow m:au j\- tiit* dead man's lace. Tiie sk<-i-K4i was that oi a man who furnv-Ti) ..vt-d near -New York. \\ hlc hun:ng on Sheep Creek 111 Decem'uet ;as>t was overtaken by a blizzaid. ill® isU'r -aw the miow mask, and sa:d hat it was a perfect imprint of iui jioth-r s features. K.ng Alfuiiiu apparently did not *scape uii«-.:thcd jroin tile boml; cli Moraii-s llung ai the Royal procession on h.s wectUing day. A voliiueei, recently in camp at Salisbury, gave the following account of an m- . cidtnt in thy visit of the King and of Spain to Buifurd King Alfonso, lie says, stated in conversation that there was one detail in connection with the bomb explosion on .us wedding day which did not find its way :nio the new=papeis. He ,\as struck by one ol Me living fragments of the shell, and bears a scar in his clu'.-t which he will probably cany to nis g.avc. The King re utteU how lie saw the bouquet thrown, but merely regarded it a* a wedding tavor. WlK'ti he recovered from the shock it was to see sixteen dead people lying on the ground and the ijueen's dress bespattered with blood.

The Pahiaiua "Eia" deals t.iu-ly with its n'pt.ie contemporary: — "j\ poor wcak-heacicd lliilotaie staivc'ling, a hall human smuca on a de ccni proiessioa. «au grossly iualirc.it> and butchci- tne K.ng's English, ana whose daily jibbei'Uig on polil.es and aher ilnugs proclaims mm to be aneai' an approach to the congenital .dot or the mental paiaiytic as it s possible in be, and yet be permitted ,0 go al large. He ; s ill every sens.' a human superfluity, som-'thng thai 1, nut waiii.d- that s.ivcs no known tisctul piupose 111 tne plan of creation out that niusi be provided for a moral excrescence, a Hl'null wan. an ugly protuberance on the intellectual face of Nature.''' The contemporary

"geis back" in this way:—"We have Lur lauhs, and many though iliey be our captious critics cannot irutfilully say mat they ever saw the journalist.c ,'we' under the table of the sanctum sanctorum with an empty whi-ky bottle clasped 10 his bieasi and the edilorial chair in the occupancy of the punter's devil.'' Sliike-breaking has now become on of the recognised proiessions iwiiies the New lork coirc-pondem oi the Sydney Morning lieiald) anu expuls have offices in big cities wita carefully kept books and a constant torce 01 detectivl.s, guaids arid labourers. The latest tactic is to draw men from ihe farihe-i point possible from ihe siiike, and recently, to break the San Francisco strike of the motor men 300 men were taken hum this city dear acres, the continent (3500 uuhs). The first contingent was 800 nun in two special tiains, wiih cooked food for ihe live days journey, ami bottles of beer. Eaciicarwas guarded by four detectives, and the doors were kept fasi locked against ihe outs.de world. All the men got a guarantee of a lcitain fixed sum and a lciurii passage if they want it. But most ot sueli advenluieis stay for good in ill'-' new habitat)—or un'il another sirske, wiih its excitements and recreations, tempts them else wneie.

Experiments are to be made in the basin of Devonpuit dockyard Wmi a new of detetnun ng tne practicability ui raising a subiuaiuie which nas been sunk by accident. Tnese testa aie the outcome uf a deci-.on on ihe part of the ...dniiiany 10 e=iablisa

' suljmaiine re,let snips at the porta where the undei water ciait are stationed. The boom defence lighters Mariner and Reindeer are being titled witn puwcitul lilting gear for the purposes of tne experiments. Aii submarines now ale to be equipped with shnging belts capable ol stand ing the siia.ii of raising them to the sulfate when flooded. it will only be neces-aiy, thcrclurc, 10 fend down a diver to hook on the wile rope by witich the sunken submarine is to be la.sed. One lit tl.e A cla-s is to be] u-ed in the expciim-nts. The deau weight ui ihis craft out uf the watei .s 220 tuns, and h'T live weight when afloat in diving trim i- about 115 tun-. T.ir "ilieme of one, u itons j.'■iu u:s toe lilting uf the sunken boat until lei cunning lower is ciear, so tint, ihe impr -oned ci'w may c.-capc. It will be nece-s.uy fui- the cn'w t-i be

uii buaid during tin' tests, so u- niterli.iidv to Hood and blow out the bal--1,1.1 tanks.

The dust nu -anre, which has late ly been causing considerable tumble in Christchurch, i- al-o engaging alo'litiun at Home. lixperini' nls are in prognss :n various parts ot England with a view to cl.scow-ring tinbest moans of preventing the du-t , nii-cii by motor traffic. The results, so f.ii, a;-p-.o- (o -ugge t that tai :'iom gas«o,ks is !ik,!y to |-e found cheap, ;il'ccii\v, and m no way ob j-ci enable to the ii-ei- of ihe roads. Mr 11. . Maybury, Kent county surveyor., who has 750 miles of main roads under his supervision, in a communication to Ih- "Gas World.'-

-MPs thai "1.,r, piopeily applied on a good hatd granite sin face, makes a perfect road, du-tl-ss and siriable for all kinds of traffic." As to the many other diist-prevnting materials fur mads which have been placed on ill- market, Mr Maybury declares hat n-ne of ,1 em can compare wbh ■ t in 1 I'licirrcy and co-l, while seme i ill ii ai- Miurr-s of nu sauce to b-'ut /:»n a mile. Hv, eoai's -t"'tar o''i'>V J'.' '-en 11 he --a-on. The cost ,:tn ,1 :e, b' ie.lu(,d. and'wi'lh a " s l "t /-l'i 'I- .{i s o per m ile, Mr Maybury bcli-v- that all the main roads : n Kent woti'd be treated w'th tar.

Tbc Garrison Band starts at once ■.villi its practising for the test selection "1. Lombardie," specially urraug.l for the International Exhibition . ollUst.

Dtanbury, ex-sculling champion of the world, commences training at once in Wanganui for his single-sculling contest with Webb, the Wanganui crack.

County and Borough Council deleaves discuss to-day the County Council's application for a borough grant of JfclUUO towards the cost of the new AViiHvakaiho bridge.

Tuesday's euchre party in St. Joseph's schoolroom was one of the most enjoyable of Ihe year. Mrs Wallath and Hiss Pedro, Messrs Jl. Eva and luniss, wsre the prizi- ; w.uners.

Karaitaini te Eupo, an elderly W.iihi native, will come up to-morrow, on remand, on a charge of having ibtaiued from Mr M. Jones an advance of £l, by falsely representing lie had for sale 50 tous of oaten chaff, 20 of which he agreed to sell to Mr Jones at £3 per ton.

A great portion of the State forest ■it Dusky Sound. Outgo, was destroyed by lire on Saturday afternoon. "A iiM re wind prevailed, and the fire swept thu forest frum end to end. Rain stopped the fire at niglu. The tire .s supposed to have been caused through fishermen boiling their billies oj the banks of the river.

An energetic member of the Housi h.is been mquirng as to the birth places of the n'prescntatives of tin various constituencies. Native boil

A'ew Zealanders predominate with a total of 38. The other figured aro as follows :—England. 16; Scotland, tj; Ireland, 8; Wales. 1; Australian c»Ion es, 4 ; India, 3 ; Channel Islands, 1; total, 80. All interesting- announcement was neenllv made by Mr Edison, the great inventor, to the effect that he has discovered a means whereby electric power can bo stored in a metal conta ner of such exceptional lightness ihat it will be possible to fit all kinds of vehicles, which hitherto have

ni.-t been so fined 011 accounT of the weight and cost, with their own motive power. It is considered extrcmly piobable that the existing system o: electric traction will be revolutionised by this discovery if it can be made commercially workable.

On Friday a party of ladies and gentlemen from Manakau proceeded io ihe Waikawa beach for the purpose • f sea fishing. On arrival there they found a very large seal stranded on ihe beach, appaienily washed above high water mark by the tremendous sea which was running". Seagulls were picking a hole in the seal's head, from which blood was running. Seine of the party put ropes around it, and with the aid of a horse dragged it to the Waikawa river. The seal made a bound and plunged into deep Water. It appealed none the worse for its experience, and when the party left it seemed able to take lo the sea again when tho tide was favourable. It measured 12ft long, and had tremendous fins.

In 180.6, barely 10 years ago. Japan had one merchant steamer of over 5000 tons; now she has 24. Ten years ago if a firm wanted a steamer of over 1000 tons it had to be built abioad. The Shipbuilding- Encouragement Act of lijyG altered all that. It established a bounty system, with the result that in eight years' time Japan possessed 205 private shipyards and 32 private dock'. Japanese shipbuilders have proved themselves successful in building' large merchant st<amors of 6000 tons and upwards. What has hitherto, however, been tho fly in the ointment was ihe necessity of importing the shipbuilding material from abroad, Great hopes are entertained at present that before long Japanese shipbuilders will have an ample supply of the necessary maerials from ihe Government Steel Foundry at Wak.imalsu. Patriotic Japane-e look forward eageily to the day when they will no longer be dependent on the West for their iron. Still notwithsianding the drawback, their industrial progress is marvellous.