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The Daily News SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22.

•'This cannon ball passing through a 4ft bore receives its direction for the whole range. So tlio mind in childhood receives ils direction for eternity"— MacDiarmid, chairman of the Now Plymouth Jligh School Board of Governors, yesterday. Two suctions of the New Plymouth breakwater extension have been added this month, making l&J it for the year, the total length of new work being now 2311 ft. the ilarboui Jioard learned with gratitieation; at Friday's meeting, that despite the large expenditure oil the breakwatei and wharf duiing the year, the over draft is less than at the beginning ol the year. During the live weeks emleu Dec ember lUth there were bo steamer hei tilings, and one of .-ailing al the New Plymouth breakwater. The aggregate gross tonnage amount ed to .VU4f> tons. Imports (melud i n .f |IO tons of railway coal and <>;>! tons of coal for private use) totalled 4(128 tons, and exports amounted to tons, making a total of oStKJ tonul' cargo handled. Tlie old .Maori seer lias a happy way of of times being most original. Ai a certain pah in Southern Taranaki influenza has held undisputed swa\ for some little time. The natives unable to diagnose the disease ap sealed to the wise man of the kianga This individual an old time warrior after appealing to the gods of hi: fathers and muttering a wierd lot o incantations, pronounced the disea.-< as "ti pright o ti taiwa! ' (the biigl: uf the potato!).

Mrs Henry llomeyer, of New Ply- 1 mouth, who acted as mounted orderly to Colonel Gold during the whole oi his command, was an eye of the death of trooper Sarter., the iir.-t man killed in the war. He tells us that Sarten, who was as oluekey a he was reckless, rode straight for the Maori position from the L. pah io cap ture a lost flag, but met a volley from the enemy and was bowled over. f I he trooper was not acting under onbrat the time.

Tl-.e Theatre Royal, will be lighted up with electric light during the fotn nights of the Hoe Sports Committee' < It-ami Carnival, .Mr Trask, Uie ui-.ii:-n«iT fur Messrs liobcrU and Stokehaving kindly oilcred to )mt in tin installation free of cost and the Eor ongli Council is giving the cm-rent f'ei of charge. This will be the first oc easion on which the theatre l:;is bee: lighted with electricity anil as .Mi Trask is sparing no pains with ihi work the effect should be very bean tiful indeed.

Captain Hood, the Harbourmaster, utilised the n-w berth at the wharf for accommodating the schooner Kerern, on the 15th iiist. This berth will he of great convenience to vessels of this class requiring the use of th.* Harbour Board's cranes for ing, and the extra line of rails a great improvement from a railway stand point. On Captain Hood's suggestion the Board decided that the diver be employed to remove all rock> and boulders around the new berth, thus allowing vessels of somewhat larger draught to make use of it.

"The only way to get full vain.' for the money the colony spends on education .is to knock on the head Uie nonsensical idea that education eeaM-s at 14 years of age/' said Mr MacDiarmid at Uie New I'lymouth ltigh School yesterday. "Instruction ends in lie schoolroom, but education ends only with life. ... 1 hope you will n«u in leaving follow the example of th" busy bee, and pas* from Uower to llower. The domain of knowledge itoo wide to be compassed in a lifetime. Stick to one subject tilt you have mastered it. And keep this l'aci ever before you: nothing great i* easily won/' Sound advice.

The presence of mind of a cabdrivcr, while driving a cab in Devon si i ci yesterday afternoon, averted what probabl would have been a seryious accident. The drivel', F. Jury, wa proceeding down the hill, and aL the Currie-otreet intersection a girl, in charge of a gig, drove across Devon street, at a fust pace. A collision .seemed una voidable, but Mr Jury applied the brake so promptly, turning his hor>es right round at the same moment. that the oll'ciidiug v.-hide crossed without inllicling the injury that onlookers were dreading. The ladies in the cab have reason to be grateful that they had ail experienced jchu on tiic box.

Councillor V.ellringor, as Sup:-rin tendent of tin; Now Plymouth l-'ire Jlrigade. is looking forward to "a new era in lire brigade work" when tinArt passed last session comes into force in April. Under its provi-hm--t!k* Iturough Council, insurance companies ami the (iovernmeut jointly provide the maintenance. J!ut ! e colliders tlie present state of the Central J'ire station '"disgraceful." so lie stated on Thursday, and den're.the Council to spend at least or Coo on painting and renovations. "The building lias not had a penny spent on it for ten and it is going to absolute ruin. it is llie bound en duty of the Council to put it in repair before tlie new Jiounl as sumes control/' The .Mayor wanted to know where tin* money wax coining from, but the irate Superintendent induced the Council to have an inspection made by ti;e Works Committee with a view (o soniethinir being done. I

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81910, 22 December 1906, Page 2

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The Daily News SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81910, 22 December 1906, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81910, 22 December 1906, Page 2

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