The Daily News. SATURDAY, MARCH 9.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 9 March 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, MARCH 9.

The Sonoma left Ban Francisco on the (itli inst. at 5 p.m. for Auckla id. Sales of Taranaki Petroleum Co.'s paid-up shares were made on Friday at Ris lid. The Treasury lias .notified the Taranaki County Council that .C.'illi) of the Wniwakaiho bridge loan will be available by the Council in a few days. The Faster encampment of the West Coast Battalion is to be held at Ilimitangi, six miles from Foxton. About f four or live hundred men are likely to - go under canvas.

The School Commissioners' meeting, lixevt for the second Friday in the ' mouth, has been postponed tor a week I on account of the secretary's absence ia Wellington. " J The conference on Friday ram-ring' to rleal with the electric tram propo; ills was not open to the Press. A report will be presented at Monday night's meeting of the Council. The only fact elided in a round of enquiries was that the conference had sfaiied to advance the scheme beyond the preliminary stages. On Friday a man, Gladstone bag in hand, was seen leisurely making his way inwards the railway station. Guessing that he wanted to catch the 12.")U train, a well-known resident suggested hurrying a littie, as there was only a minute to spare. "Oh, 'that ballly clock." indicating the railway tower timepiece, "is never right. There's whips of tme yet." Hut there wasn't, and the train steamed out just as he linished talking. Moral: Don't stop to growl at the clock before vou reach the station. Do it aboard 'the train.

Air L. 11. Webster had a real treat at the Caledonian .Nursery sale the other day. The vendor, anxious to improve scling values, called out the names of the various plants as submitted to the auctioneer. 'I he auctioneer as in duty bound, repeated these highly technical high-sounding puzzling liomeacliittirc, bint soon got. tangled up, much to the amusement of those present. Tor the remainder of the afternoon he tackled 'only the easy ones, and frequently abbreviate,.! them, too. There were too many lots for one afternoon,-and the balance of the stock is to be brought under the hammer next week. Great bargains were the rule on Thursday. One of the Eitham school boy.s experienced what was probably the first reverse of his career on Thursday. He had been out exploring the rocks about i'aritiun, anil did not return to the wharf until the train had left some minutes. He was in an agtatcd state of mind, but plucked up courage when told by a bystander to hurry on to the station, where he night find the train delayed, and oil he set at a smarl run, but the „raiu had left and the boy was in a quandary. One of the porters, however, came to h's rescue, and. like a good fellow, took the boy home to tea wi.li him, and the aj'.erwards kindly put tlie boy on a train leaving about midnight." The liny will priibab.y remember his first visit to the seaside.

Splendid attendances are the rule at all the exercses of the mission being conducted bythellodeinption'sl Fathers Clunc and AlcDermott during the present week in Si. Josephs' Church. The seating capacity of the church has been Ihncil to it- iilmO't each evening and large congregation, have nlso ' been piv.-eut nl the six and nine oVloek. masses every morning. The nibsionnries teeing ilie iiiipns.-,;hili,y of coping Willi the work 'before t'beio in a week have decided to cmlim, • the mis-oo 111 l Wcdnsdnv evening next. Tims ample opportunity will be given to ail win. wish to avail themselves of .lie blessings and graces of the ni'ssiou. L.tliam folk are live, No sooner did that learn, by the, medium of mr Friday's issue, that the New Plymouth school commif.ee was in a dilemma concerning a place for the annual school picnic than they set to work. Karly on Friday morning Air W. A. Coliis, chairman of the Genral Committee, received the following telegram from lion. W , Carncross, AI.L.C chairman of the Eltham School Committcc:— "In recognition of njanv favors extended to the Eltham school by .New Plymouth, our Domain Board will be happy to place at your free disposal for the schools' picnic Taumatn Park, with grandstand and tea-rooms." At a meeting held later, it was decide 1 to accept the invitation and the picn'c will be field at Eltham on I'riday next.

Mr (i. A. Marchaut. chaiunau (if llu> Stratford Comity Council, told the IIU-lllbl-l-S of the COUllties Conference that iiu fuiin.l it advisable to allow Ihu members uf his council to smoke niter lunch, as the soothing powers of tliu fragrant \\oa[ 'sown to oil the wheels of Ijiisjiicss anil smooth out crinkled plates. Acting on the suggestion, Mr Joseph Brown granted "a .similar boon (m Monday to the Taranaki county councillors. This smoking concession is now becoming general. At the New Plymouth Borough Council meeting* nine o'clock is struck H-iili a match. The Jloa Koad Board members smoke right through the meeting, ami Ihe CI f lon representatives ilo likew-i-o. it's a moot point whether the concession is a good one. A supremely contented mind in a member of a local body often produces an undue amount of garrulous talk. Jiut then many of (hem talk twice as much as they .should do now, so it iloesii't much matter.

The policeman's lot is not a hajipy one, we are told. In New Plymouth it is not a very exciting lot, either, - although on Wednesday night there Manned a jiossibility of "making a liitle , variation In the monotonous rounds. One of the constables on duty was nj>prised of the fact that some su-picuiis .noises bad been heard in the 1).1.e. Pr iscs In Devon street, the noisehaving been heard by a neighbor. A. watch was set on the place, and Mr Cocker, one of the jiroprictors was scut, for. The door was opened, and the minion of the law, the nigluwalchinan, and Air Cocker peered in. They advanced, breathless. Tip-toe, Ihc'v reached the door between the shop anil the ollicc and pecjicd round the dom . 'lherc in the corner wa- a ligure ol a man -or womau— jioorlv concealed behind a curtain. The leader of ■ lie expedition took all the rosponsiblily. Disdaining to hold a council ol war, lie rushed the robber, /ind eni-bra.-ed it, arrested it— easily; it was a -land or shape, used lo'displav a rainproof coat. Fancy all that energy espended on an inaninunc creature! Then a screen fell, scaring seven I bells out of another of the expedition- [ Hut. no. lie iniulit lie in vomlcr cupir.l. which was opened in a gingerlv fa-hioii—for nolh'ng. How com.! lie have col. muu • One of the huntsmen now remembered linn the window had been lint when lie tried jt from the oul-ide. Now the latch had silp|ied. Surely the intruder must have escaped bv Ibis means. A curtain siring ami numerous photographs still standing on the sill set d to upset that theory, but olhers are in course of evolution. No very great harm was done, and nothing stolen, in the midnight scare, which clearly jiroves that no one was alone in the shop for any length of time. i

A conference of the Tara reiki Trudesmeiis' Associations will be he:d at, Eltliiim on Thursday, the 2!si; March. for tlie purpose of forming a Taranaki Provincial Association. (Jood progress is made with ' the extension at the breakwater. A iurthcr section of lift ha* just been completed. The foreman in charge ,(ilr Jlendorson) linds that the water is deepening materially, requring much more stone than formerly was jieces surf.

.By Fr.day night's express a couple oi' Celestials in prison garb landed at. the railway station, in charge of Chief Warder Code, of Wellington. It is the intention of the authorities to keep the almond-eyed gentlemen at work in the gaol garden, to provide the institution with "ilcah veg'ables, callotee, cabbagee," and so .forth. The Alexandra will land 1200 bheep at the Breakwater to-day fur Mr Newton King, from the- Piclon district. Tne Gertie will brrtii this morning will) li) 8 lons »f coji 1 fo In mi, and the Kittawa brings 40U tons of coal. On Monday the ilawea will land a big consignment of sheep from Marlborough. Mv Fookes, solicitor, Stratford, who aell'd fur Dr. Paget in the recent legal I proceedings for damages against a Mid- I Jurst settler, was in Eltliam on Wednesday, says the Argus and in the course oi his visit here and to other from which jurymen were summoned, gathered certain information wiheh, if considered sullicicntly defi- . nito, may lead to a startling sequel. ; Speaking on the question <of road- ' ing the lion. Air McNab said "Prom my knowledge of Taranaki and what , is called the "iioadlcss North," X think Taranaki labours under far greater dilliculties. And that is borne out bv men X have met ami who are competent to pass an opinion. Taranaki is a wild country—the north of Auck--5 land is not of the same wild, broken natiire. Jn Taranaki, again, the traiJic , on the roads is very heavy—in the North one sees long stretches of roads " which have to bear only light trailiu.

The funeral of the late Mr J. 0. George, which took place yeste,rtlay, was attended by all the prominent and representative men of the town and district, and of the different lodges arid local and other bodies with which •deceased had been connected. The cortege was a very long one. The pall-bearers were Messrs Newton King, W. Newman, Richard Cock, L. Morrison, M. J. Maeßeynolds and Win McAllinn. The impressive Church of Fngland liuriitl service was .read by I the Rev. Rrocklchurst.