The Daily News. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 14 February 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14.

To iiav i c the last dav on wliicli in(ax may l, c paid witnuul tin* ex tra charge imposition. The secundgrade ei - cket mutch, (\ir l'ington lload v. New I'iyinoiiUi, lixed for Thursday I-ltii. has been postponed. On the application of Mr yuiiliam (Messrs llovett and Qudliain). proliaie liiis been granted In His Honor Mr Justice JJeiiinsUm to Jolm l'erc/ Johnston. tliu cxecuiyr named in the will of I'eter Eva, demised. The departure of tlie Ventura from Auckland Willi the Trsco mail lias been postponed from the 22nd inst. to Friday, the Ist llarcli. Mails close at New Plymouth on Thursday, the 28th inst., at 7 p.m. On Wednesday morning A. P. Ross, a bus driver, was charged at the Magistrate's Court wit in having supp ied liquor to a .Maori woman. lie pleaded guilty, and that lie was ignorant uf the law. iwied XJ, and XI 12/ COS if!. To Wliiti. who is 7<i years oi age, .said, when lie heard of i'nhu's deatli 3 '•His is done.'' lie then placed in* hand on his head as though linking. It ;s said thai, the old man, who is now Momewiiat appears to i'eel the death of his viva'. Maybe he thinks his time is not far oil'.—Opunake TTmes. " ,

The. 1 contest for tin' Clifton war 1 of ilie Xcw llarhiy Board on .Monday resulted us follows:—-J. 11. iline 27J, James Lindsay 42. Jlr lline, gained n majority at every jidlliiiy booth, but one. lie was the retiring nieinli'T,and has done very good work on the Board, a fact ratepayers seem lo have re cognised by the big majority given liiin in this instance. The executive of the Waikalo Farm ers' Cooperative Austionceriug Company, wi.-o have lately taken over .Messrs McXiehol and Co.'s auctioneering company, are evidently detenu n: eil to extend the bii-iness of the new company into the Taranaki provincial district. We nolo that .Mr Allen Hell, of vile lirm ot Bell and McGuire. who have lately floated the lirm of Me.Xichol and Co. into the Fanners' Co opcra.tive Auctioneering Company, lias been holding meetings in t?ie King Country anil Ohura Valley. and proposes go:ng right into Taranaki's hinteriand. A little girl named Kennery, whose parents reside in :had a narrow escape from a serious accident on Monday. She tried to cross the road near the Coffee Palace buildings, and in getting out of the way of"a cyclist she ran into a mounted horseman who was coming in the opposite direction, yhe was knocked over and got under the horse's legs, but beyond being severely shaken she sustained no injury. Parents should enjoin on children the necessity of exercising care in crossing the bu-y street's of a town. It is a wonder, when one sees Ilie risks unconsciously taken by children, lii.it there are not more accidents than there are. Ilie ladies in charge of Jhe arrangement- for He- Western I'ark bazaar, met on Wednesday evening, wn.'n I lie a.t";;da nee was augmented' by seveial Iresh volunteers who came forward to as.sisi. The various duties ami stations were allotted, and everything set in trim for a smooth, running bazaar next week, 11 'ports showed thai several sale-attractions had been arranged, and that a great success humi,), iairly be expected. It was a-m:■ineeil that tile I'ire Brigade intend; l !! i : iaiing a monster procession, headed by the Carrison Hand, on the nig.it of the lirst (lav's races, in aid of the bazaar. Mr Browne, chairman of the Jioaid, says the comni7tti'e art- making a lug bid for a record function,

It is understood tl m t no less a sum than C.3000 is to be expended on the tangi over the late J'arihaka prophet. Tohn. The monev is |, ; . paid from the lute Chief'.,' hoard al l'ariliaka. It is staled that in the strong room in the marae over c^7. 000 is stored i M gold. This room is guarded by a eoniiuit'iee of twenty liavives' some half dozen being tied Oir ejleh week for t liM work. Tie lork of the strong room i,s fiorke.l wit:. Hire., keys Ml that the three kevholder,, have to be present when liic ; ln " 1 ' is "pelleil. Cp lo lhe time of his death Tohu iield one y f the lie vs. 1 lie money is stored in jars, each jar ■'WOO sovereigns. It. i., ,tated tea, when tiie money was being collected eai'li CIOO was changed into gold hefore being placed in the jars. for many years ihe levy fur each native entering I'arihaka was .CI per h"ad.