The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 23 February 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23.

The Sierra left Honolulu on the H'.li inst.

The Telegraph Department intimites that the Mexican Telegraph Co. that messages for Costa Rica aivl Nicaragua are accepted entirely at the sender/5' r-ak.

Over 1200 visitors have signed llio book at the North Egmout Mountain House this season. The figures arc expected to reach a record in the history of the house.

A Press Association message stales that direct telephonic commumcat.on between Mastertou aud Wellington was inaugurated yesterday m,,r°iii" and proyed eminently satisfactory* sounds being conveyed with exceptional clearness.

Over forty persons have avaiVd themselves of the lie* track from the North Egmonl Mountain Hoicc lo visit the Dawson's Falls House, e.-ijo-. ing magnificent scenery on the way As yet nj one from Daw-ou's Palls his made the trip to the north house, the southern visitors evidently disregarding the joys of extended mountain travel

The sp?cial committees arc making great preparations for the fiftieth anniversary of the Loyal Egiuont Lo.lge of Oddfellows in JN\'w Plymouth next April. As this is also ihe jubilee of Oddfcllowship in the province the interest taken is more than local, and there will probably be a large influx ot influential members of the order fr >m all parts of the colony. A committee meeting of the New Plymouth Caledonian Society was held last night. A rough' draft of the programme was submitted and examined, and will be presented for adoption at a general meeting of the t'ocicty in the Town Hall on Monday night at s o'clock. It is eyident lhat the Sonet y finds favor with the public, already over 120 names having been handed in by intending members.

An English mail (via Suez), also Australian and South African mails close here at 7 this evening. 'litis, mail, which now ail'ords the quickest despatch, is due in London on Ulii April,

In the Supremo Court on Monday. William Henry Wood, of Oakum, a bankrupt, applied for lus discharge, Mr Claude Weston supporting the application. The D.0.A., Mr J. S. S. MeJlev, said that 20s in tlte ,C had been pad, and the discharge was granted The chairimiu of the Kducat'on Board se.zcd the opportunity presented yesterday of demonstrating personally t» the Minister for Lduealion the absolute need for enlargement of the West End school, his to 1)5 hoped that the Department will recognise the urgency ol the work.

"Jt is a perfect treat to take the evidence in tins case," said Ihu District Judge yesterday. "It is just a model for what an examination should be."— The barristers who had earned this flattering compliment were Messia T. S. and C. 11. Weston and Mr J. 11. Qu |- liam.

Docs the local mail-room need enlarging? Apparently so. Un Thm-,,-day, Morcy and Son received an urgent request to go up to the post ollice anil clear some parcels, as the postal officials had no room (o move about. On enquiry, he found US boxes of' millinery which had arrived by mail from Home. This is .somewhat unusual way of receiving goods from Home, and perhaps it is equally unusual for three cab-loads of the latest season's millinery to be deposited at the door of a local shop.

On Friday morning. Mr Di.striei Judge Haselden commented unfavorably on the fact that the Distrct Court was not opened until eleven o'clock, and wis'icl it to be understood Ihni; the hour for taking business was ten o'clock. Lleven o'clock start ng meant a great los„ i.ft me. Mr Weston concurred, saying that the opciii'ng of court at 1! o'clock meant an abominable waste of tune. i| j a wortliy of note that th-; court ,-al "to the tick.'' a marked contrast to the usual practice of our local S.M. Court for the |ia.>l several months.

Ihcre :s on show :1 ( (irosfiit ul Mcssis Okey, Son and Arnold, a. very line •xliibit of potatoes grown by .Mr E S Allen, of l-'i-iinjrk-y l'ark. ' This crop lias been systematically sprayed right through the season and is 'pronounced to lit' us line a sample as ever ,-eeu in New i'ly nth. Tile grower wII have ii))out two tons of these sortstwelve iri all-out of a iremarkably small plot of ground, proving beyond nil doubt .that vary beneficial results can be obtained when spraying i s carried out in a proper manner. Mr Allen was an exhibitor at Thursday's show, and came out on top with even' exhibit.

J lie appeal of Albert Champion and l'atnek Flanagan, bookmakers, a"a n-t I he decision of Mr T. ilutcliison.°N.M ill convicling and fining u,,.,,, I( „. |„, t ; tmg on a pubiie reserve in Xeu J'lvniouth contrary to tin; borough bylaws, was mentioned at the District Court on Friday morning. An adjournment, was 'granted till next siting of tin. Court, but in the meanwhile a a application has been made to have the proceedings moved into the Supreme rtJotirt, Should th!,s be, granted, the hearing should eome on at the New Plymouth sessions in March. Mr Spenee appeared for the appellants and Mr Quilliam for respondent. l

Under the Teachers' .Superannuation Act a new regulation is gazetted relating to the allowance to be paid- to teauhcr, retiring on account of illhealth. Under th* regulat'on the total annual allowance is to be computed as follows:-!,, ease the contributor, alt hough medically unlit forfurtaev duty, is shown by the certificate of two medical practitioners, approved by th Hoard, U> be otherwise in Kuo d health, then the present value of the .otal annual allowance shall he deemed io be the present value of the annual allowances at 4 per cent per annum on the basrs of Ul Fan's life table of the healthy districts of Kngland, for males or female* according to sex „-f contributor, or by such other tables as are used from time to tune by the actuary in valuing liabiities under the Act'but m all other cases the present value Ml he hotal,annual allowance v.1,a1l ■e deemed to be the total amount of In-, contr.butions without interest