The Daily News. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81879, 2 November 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2.

The next honiiu tutai shew in New ! Piymuutti will be neld on the sui 1 ebruary, Hjo?. '1 ■ e Xuv Z-alanJ Alliance Is con uuc'ing a big i.i«.n c n the lo\ :y Uai'dui- ~1, i„e KaigV lji;;ii- . u y. Acciocl :i; 0 iu Mi l.ew.s 1:" 1h; iv, wi.u "i i'enn-ylvauia, Mr J0.,11 IJ. l{o, tciiei control- cooc-rns capital sid .0 .he c .iossal aniuunt 01 In Nonh-West Briush Columbia a -urve;' party has di-covered a traet 1 count!)' in the valley of the Peace nver bearing' iicli gold depusiis, A iti-li is threat-ned to the valley, which lies along the ly unciary of'Alber'a and British Columbia.

Recently the natives at Waitaki, w„ile engaged in plough ng. unearihf.'d -rJiiie beautilu. greenstone tooland ornaments of splendid finish. I'iiey also found a number of nioa bones, but these were in a bad state it preservation.

Al the Manawatu Show on Thurs:av, Air F. A. Bn-mer, of "Armadale, ' Okaiawa, secured fiist and T.aminon nidi lu's Clydesdale mare G ennie, the >ame beast that scoied lirsi and oiainp on at tae Manawatu, Aanganui, Egmont and Taranaki Saows last year.

A new kind of surprise pany ha* be,ll introduced. Tile intended vie.'in receives an anonymous nm.ee dial a surprise party w.ll call 011 a iatcd ev. n;iig. The victim makes i 1! due p.rpaiations, and nn the appe.nti'd evetii.ig smilingly wai - *0 ;e sttrpr.scd. Nobody come*! that's tie- surprise.

A large se.i leopard, about uft long, has been washed ashore at the nnauh of the Waikawa River. It .s alive, bin apparent y sick. Several residents are caring for and iceding it. with a v.ew to having it sent to the Exhibition. Sir Joseph Ward ha* been communicated with concerning the matter.

Says the "i'elorus Guardian'':— During the past fortnight several reMems of Have.odk have severely ■ uffered through a visitation of hold's

u mo>quitoes which have proved to b ' bo;h ravenous and particular in their d et. Never before has there been such a number of the p:-v in the town, and a remedy against their ravages at night is eagerly desired.

The Post JIK I T c i t .g,aph levenue coLec.ed m the New Plymouth district for the quatter just ended was 16 io], made up as follow*; Private box and bag rents, £ U j 12/6 ■ money order commission, /JIOO iu'v * amps sold, £2275 ly ; postal gu des' 4 ; po*tal note commission, £SB 4/1 ■ miscellaneous posial receipt*, £j 15.10: postal revenue, /.Njrfj n'w, Telegraph rever.ue: Te egram-s, J J -\ r ; tel'phone exchanges, .<•35 1 - ; mi cell;.neou , £1 7 2ioai, i.1420 5. ot. l'lmc-.-o, L. L. l.ark, 11, of Lv.c Üb.-.'ivjioiy, tciio .Uoun.a.llJ joai.icin.a. beiij\es t.iat eieemciiy is l .e oa».c con-t.tueni u) tlie uiiiVeisc, , u ,ci tlie 111 .thcr 01 all tiie natuiai tore-.,. Soon it will iju admitted, he alhuii , •hat electricity e X .s.s 111 a praetical.v 'iiliiuie number i.f mode* and iouus, 01c.li.in 'c-.,neiiLS ' and "cua,.. c= ' Ijeing commoniiMie. in a lew u„r, ■ i v.lil be iasiuunable to sav th;u a cubic ine.i 01 in,ll and another of water contain equal quaiu.ties of matter, suice both aie nearly ineompressdj.e and that the rea-.on why iron tend* towards the 'centre of tne eartn with a lorce y.'o times that of water ir> because it contains 7.ti times a* much electricity.

•M. Edouard Branly, wiio is cied'itu 111 l iaise ,uth having been tilt iwd y 1 ti{)jiy, nas patented tin impuriaiit mem by winch ml'l ception oi inessages wiii l,e miilen d mpos iljle, iscepi oy a special appaiatus. :\l. Blank as-eits thai ais new apparatus insu.es lor a given sn ol electric Waves coniple.e inimuiiity Hum accitlenta: interference of oilier wave-. If,. 1 says, however, thai no wireless tekgiapn s_\ -1' ni known is proof aga.nst mterierence if a special mechanism giving out waves uinnteriuptedly be U'.cd to that end. His hnal conclusion is thai for war purposes 011 land or at sea the "usefulness" ol wireless telegraphy would be il usory.

Inose who agitated so successfully fur the Government to acquire land lor workmen s homes at such a distance troni .Sew I'lyniouth as lo make the scheme ab-oiute y u-eless lo town woikers, did not look for the curt rcbuif conta lied in the letter from the Jim ster o Lands m answer to .Mr E. M. Smiih's support of the Taranaki County Cotinc.l s request fur assistance. it i- known taut the lands ale mostly unoccupied, and nut rateable, Hierefuie a dead loss to the ouniy. The letter suites: "The matter wil be inquired into as you request, but 1 am unable to see in v-hat way the Ceunty Counc.l can receive any assistance so long a- the Jaranaki public don't select the sections, after they have sent countless petitons to the Government and to Parliament a k'.ng that this estate should be purchased under the Lands lor Si'tt.ement Act."'

The Social st new-paper, "Volkswacln," publi-lied at Breslau. states ihat tile German ainiy manoeuvres in Sile-ia have been so realistic that theio is a long" list of kil cd and wotnidet: s"ldift's. During some ol" mi preliminary strategic marches beloie the actual opeiation- of the ii'iinie war began, tiie heat was so oppre-sivo ih,ll large numbers of soldieis collapsed on the load. Tile H'tio- followed by some of til:; regi--111 !':i~ \\ ;i s "• 11 >'U ]l witil J)IU-tiai'.' -()!- 1 -il" -:1 m; I. > I: ri pit: -a in tile ■v i'.L'i.i.- .li'd Duiiny

10-inaeuv II - ,11-11, | V e., a plivati"i y<i> K.-jf'iii' n. • 1 Dianiions v.aI- 1, n ' i'i e) t[i- indieatini;- iha= s:-!diei at |ea-t f in; oppii-i army was (irmjf leai 'ii'- ■ -a! ot blank 1,11 ti" d<;es. \ iiia.n. ef the ;-|.:ll (': ill, pa l,y ( ,f |-'i- I [ ~\l li]e.y i\a~ 1 hrown iiom his ti-tse and k lled in a Hiarg,.. l)tiie r fatal a-"-ehienti occured. and the 1 -1 ~f uound ed i- much lunger. I " Aveiv has -ir tired ;! H -

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Robbers who raided a bank in | i■ y, Minnesota. blew up the safe, : Mieiketi the bu.lding, and secured ; ~. :m;oo They missed, however. find - j >ng ,\il>,ooo in cash and ,£2,000 worth ; of diamonds. Tae heaviest flood! (mown for some t : me was experienced at the iMangatamoka Valley last weik, -ays 1 lie ICk<i:ili'una Exprei-a. Mo|t of the low-lying country was inundated, and the sheep were to lie seen .standing on lugs out of reach of the water. The load abutting the river was uncle; water in several places, and genet al damage and loss to property is reported.

The Victorian Boxing Bill, Mr Bent says, will be one framed on lu:es to encourage clean sport and to provide that persons should not be allowed to engage in boxing compe.iti' ns for money. If amateurs lke.i to hit one another in the nose for the fun of the tiling, they would be al owed to do so, but anyth'ng in the nature of prizefighting would be iig-orou-ly dealt with. It has not yet been decided where t.ie sevai chamois waicli tiie Emperoi A'U-ti a is sending' to New Zea- | lauu w.tl be locatitl. The Tourist iJ-p.,,uneiH 11a- been kcpl posted conU: :n.,'.g the de.ai s of the shipment, 1 vwi-eu is being- made through tiie |litgh Cummissioner. It i s proposed I io send me Austrian Emperor a ntim|or of New Zealand h.rds and tuai.iias. Two little boys at Blackpool (England), aged Seven and three respect veiy, wno had been given pennies v.itn which to buy sweets, invested .11 cigarettes and matches instead, and railed to a barrel filled with shavings io enjoy a smoke Suon the barrel wa- 111 flames, and while the elder boy managed to scramb.e uuc and escape, w.tii a scorching, the younger was binned to death. An old Maori expre-sed his opinion about doctors and lawyers the otaei cay. "Taey no good," he said, "because they win every time. You get the lawyer tu go 10 Court. You io-e your ea-e, lawyer he w in; you win your case lawyer lie win too. Vow gei doctor for your wife or child, fhey get better, doctor he win; they me, doctor he win all the same. Get h,s money every time.'' And yet mere arc those who tcil us that the Maori is a poor, simple, unsophisticated child of nature I

ft is claimed that the difficulty of .-urveying deep bo;e-noles has been overcome by photography. The appal atus consists of a long brass ey--1 ■ ■ cl< r which contains a small watch, a dry ba:tery. two miniature electric .amps opei at.ng in connection with a compass supported on g mbal bearings. and a suspended plumb bob. At a predetermined time the watch makes a contact, lighting the lamps, by means of which the positions of the plumb bob and ihe magnetic needle are photographed on a small disc of sensitised paper.

All the woild knows that while tae Japanese modelled their navy on the Jjritish navy, it was Germany lrom which tncy obtained their military model. They have recognised th.s debt 10 Germany in a veiy curiou* and poetical was*. The .'aid General Meckel, who was the ps in - opal foreign instructor of the Japanese army, recently received the honoui oi being elevated to the rank of a deny. The ceremony took place m the great hall of the military academy at l'okio, and was attended by about fifty-officers of high rank, wiio had been pupils of General Meckel.

In its excitement, consequent upon au enlargement of its size, tae. \Vaikato fillies lushes the lolloping into punt:—"A newspaper like ours is, in n; far-fc\ched sense, eyes to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, and feet to the lame. Through its efforts, its readers look beyond tne bounds of unassisted sight into other lands and t mes; jluy hear more of what is happening aiound them than the keenest go*sip s or tne 1110*1 persi tent eavesdropper; they have a widespieading utterance g.ven to their thoughts; and the information they would convey to other people is earned about the countty without ex-i-rt on of theirs.'' Gee whiz!

ihe great Tasmania potato, the Gem of the South, the result of sev-

*'al ••xpcrimcnul work by an investigator oi that Stale has, a correspondent states, been imported lo tlrt co.uny, several of the still highlypneed seed tubers—they are selling al 5/ each—being now in the ground at one of the State Experimental 1' aim-. The potato was developed m the first place from the seed ui die putato apple, and in its present ioim has given the highest record yield, not only from a iir-t tuberation, but from any lubeiatien, the actual yeld being 43 tons to the acre, the ratio of crop to the seed planted being as 70 to 1. In co.our it resemble., ■lie i>nwn!, and 111 >hupe a l\:dney. f he cuukmg quality el the Gem 01 the South is said to be excellent, and the ket-ping quality peifeet. Di. Scaachner, a professor of llcv delberg Lniv-rsity, wno is iituyin 0 nustialian institutions, occupied a seat oil the Bench beside Mi Justice Gordon during the opening ot the trial of iSotalte flabibtilla, who was lound gu..ty of rnurdeung his wile at Adelaide. I'herv is a strong leeiiiig 111 Gel many 111 favour of adopting British methods of auministering the criminal law. According to me "Law i imes ' of September 15th last, Geiman scientific cr.nuna<i»ts, at the.r annual congress, expressed intense admiration for the iSlltl-.il criminal procedure, especially lor tlie absence of ail preliminary 111 question and exam iiiatiou of a prisoner prior to Ins trial, wmch is such a blot on the criminal law of Germany and iranee. Tae Gongiess ha- decided to send a commission ol well-known criminalists to lmglatid and Scotland 10 study the Uiitish sy-tem and to report wiiether the German system will admit of alteration on British lilies.

One of the mose singular ferries in tite world is lound 111 India, and wa-. started under vc-iy pecu.iar circumstances. A certain native, wiiu lived near a branch of the Ganges, rescued lrorn a t ger a rajah, and 'll a trail port of gratitude the latter nearly impoverished the man uy presenting hull with one of the largest alio, finest elephants in his stud. Only a rich man could support an elephant, and the rescuer was threatened wiih absolute ruin, as the animal would eat him out of house and home 111 a month. There was 110 way out of the difficulty, as, according to the unwritten :aw, a gift of this kind could not lie given away or sold witlij out subjecting the giver lo punishment. and so the poor owner ot the eiepiiani saw himself staring' ruin ill ilie lace, tin creatine keeping him engaged ;tli day hauling food for it. 11 s In ;ti!se stood by a turn in the rivci where many persons crossed, "He. as the stream was at times a raging Hood boats were often carried town ,1 iitl tiavelh'i's put to great annoyance. '['| u . elephant was batnn"ig n ii'.e i.-.ei Mie day, when it suddenly oeeui retl 10 1 ,te despairing owner 1., use uas a feinhoal. There wa - no liiiie w hen it could not go ov« 1 in satety, and the pan was at ' i;e-' put into execution. A li,u.n - ■a.is made tor ilr-■ eiepltant with a J> l' v ,: a ti, iv e.hi h was fast -ti u 1 . ,1 heavy Ua.. i'.-.e Sai.cr v,'j- 1--a J .1 w.t'i passengers, and ticCcS fli'l; tuwd ' V.'l" tile r.Vt'i", ttl the ,L-,i-at del ght oi t:c native, wi;o raw '.iv,- in the eli-pj.ar- with th.' uli'.jU, tppnit. a si'tiKc 01 re-.enu'-. ■

SYKES S DKKNCII IN AUSTRALIA -Vji ■!' !■ i!■' ilnughout Xew Zealand i i-Jii'- •: i ib name and fam-' 'h Si S i; l\ ] Cll, but tli s sui I ccs'-ia! _V-. 1 . /.i-aia,,d uieparaiiun ha l'va A 1 a:. ■ ,i ~ U.' 1 ';i ili 1 iai, ■ daily ]>i'>du fi e m i«ha"t- in Avtra :a w.iu-s: '-JLiv *'o- ' K i " : g i'y i' 1 d tin; virtues ol SVivi'.ss iJki-'.XCIi aui! fuli'v.! ir 1 'j- 1 m > t r-.lin kable and valuable an nial ind cii;e \\e hay-' iVT known ■" l.f_ !» •'! In .V.. I.on:-"-, shop, and i) g- v.e ! ;iv<: completed ih'ran.'-.i!-v, a.i-iib. ii.-:- : !iV cnab'cd tci turnisit the a-iaiaiy in ( ,y r p-tions and lor- k' 1 ;j -: - throughou! a-': v: Sanib Wales. raiun and Rusho! 1 , 34 and Market siraet Svdney. 1 ' Thi- conclusively proves that the medicine ha- more than ordinaiy ti- 1 1 1 Over a thousand farmers ia \'< u* /--aland have writlen expressing r tin' _ nigh value they place (in ti S\ KI-.S S DRENCH. Try it [or v yourself. but i,i~ : -1 on ' having ii SYKF.S S DKEXCIf. Your store- j, keeper sells it at i/G pet packet.— i c a

James Deve.in, of Michigan, a locomotive fireman, earning £3 a month, has just signed a contract sellington lis patent of a method for making rotary engines reversible for .4195.000.

Wall street lias contracted a bad habit of washing and re-selling tax transfer stamp*. The habit has beet me bo pronounced, that the State o f New York had lost ,£50,000 before ii started a Special Secret Service Department and made a number of airests.

A Home paper tells a storv of a lady who on leaving the Old Country for New Zealand with her family sold up everything, even to her clocks and watches. On being asked why she sold the watches she said : ''Everybody td.d us that the time was entiiely different in New Zealand, so the watches woud have been no good out there."