The Daily News MONDAY MARCH 18.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 March 1907, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY MARCH 18.

Tin' Supreme Cm/, open.-; a/t |Xir«-; Plymouih this moiuiny, before Mr ,luslice Cooper. There are. six criminal cases, four divorce cases. ;ind six civil suit* ami appeals 1.0 In' hoavil. Chief Inspector Scienter :iml Inspect"!(lardiucr. of llip Public Health Department arc nt present engaged in milking an ins]H'ctioii of flip F.gmont Licensing District hotels.. They give 1111 absolute denial to the reported outbreak of an infectious disease in tlic district. Tnglcwnod footballers are nslir, an I I lie annual meeting of tlie cluli is fhc.l for Thursday. It is lio]icd So get one voiind of the local Shield mulches complete before the cup fixtures open, an.] the practice thus gained should he ill valuable to the club lif ns. 1., New Plymouth to be the list to nioveV The editor of Hie Kcci'lon '1 l.i;»i<l' ; was lined CI on Saturday on a cliargi' (if publishing mailer calculated to interfere with ii dispute before the Arliuration Court. The .Indue said the casi was the first under the Act, and as de fendunt had pleaded guil.'y, slating tliaf lie hail published the matter under tin idea that the case was concluded, In would inllict only a nominal penatty.

A copy of the ollicial analysis of Taranaki soils, as supplied to the Afrilcultural rjoeiflv. is reproduced on our fourth page to-day. The report in parts is, we are afraid, of too highly technical a nature to lie of much practical use in its present form. If slum authority would reduce the resultant .vrowths to tons or bushels to the acre Ft would bo of much more value.

"It's downright disgraceful the way the foreman and that man put in l.niiv time,-' said a Moa lioail Hoard member on Saturday. Another mcinber suggested that an employee ol t lie Lnari; indulged his fancy lor l/.aak Walton -. sport during working hours, and another complained of the invisibility <>l a certain workmen if sought unexpectedly. This paragraph is published to let I lie men know of the vigilance of members and the impending trouble.

lteplying to a deputation urging the (.loveriiinent to inaugurate a scheme of ncricuittiral education in I lie Auckland lUstricl, the Hon. C. Fowlds said that he was in svmpathy with any reasonable proposal to extend the henelils of ■iTic-ullui-iil education. Mr McNah 'had also taken a keen interest in 'the subject. Whatever was Mono should be by the co-operation of the two departments, to prevent overlapping, lie would consult Mr McNab, and see what could be done.

A nine-vcar-old child of Mi to Flvnn. of Pukengahn-froad, \\a» \ei. seriously injured by falling from a hom when on his way home from tee Ag: ». school on Thursday alter,,™,,,. jh track lav bet wee, logs and stomps an,, in a sudden swerving movement the I-.v. children who ■■double-hanked' daily I. and from school were thrown oil. 0m escaped unhurt, but the others hcadtei on a stump, severely lacerating the sue, n „d causing a fracture to the llawera Hospital, and on Satm day had not regained consciousness. A start will be made with se-cval o the technical and continuation ehisso; in the Central School mi the Blh o April no.t. The session will cons-it '■ two terms extending I rem Ihe hth 0 April to the 28th of June, and fr in th ifith Ju'.v to the Ist \m«mber. Call didates intending to sit for the City an; Guilds examinations must soil in the, application to the InspeotiW'.ieiieral (> Schools, Wellington not If.ter I .MP. T.i lllth April, a.d for the South Reusing ton examinations not later lian lb 11th May. Form of application and par tieulars 'may be 1 ad at the Taranak Educational Board's oflice.

Three pedigree Downs rams, recently imported bv Mr Stuckey, and now in quarantine'on Somes Island, have been purchased by the Department of Agriculture for use on the Stale farms. Thev are considered by experts to be some of the finest rams ever imported to lbe colony. The department is also importing three bulls from 'the best shoithorn ilairv herds at Home, in connection with the 'building up of a high-class dairy herd at Wcraroa experimental station. The svstem adopted at present, of leasing out the State bulls, is to lie discontinued. In future, young bulls with a milking pedigree will be sold to farmers. '■The milking results at Lcvm, I am advised," says the Minister ,f Agriculture, "are even better than they were last season."

At a. meeting at Taihape on Friday of clubs affiliated with the Axemen's Association and Athletic Union a resolution was carried unanimously '-'That this meeting of delegates representing clubs in the" liangitikei 'district affiliated to the New Zealand Axemen's Association, and holding running events under the rides of the New Zealand Athletic Union, has every conlidence in the management of the New Zealand Axemen's Association as at present constituted. This meeting considers the New Zealand Athletic Union did not act in the best interests of clubs holding a woodcutting contest in passing a resolution suggesting thai, the union should assume control of axemen's sports in New Zealand. Further, that ibis meeting requests the executive of the New Zealand Athletic Union not to take further action in the matter until the question lias been further considered at the annual meeting of delegates 1o lire Union."

It was in a country school down south. There had been no change of teachers for vears. and the committee which had appointed the reigning master had long since dropped out of the work-. The new committee had never made an appointment, and were completely Ilabbergasted by the applications'and the accompanying testimonials and certificates which followed an advertisement for a mistress. So the old secretary methodically laid out lieapplications in state upon the desks, and awaited developments. The committee were dumb. Thev were confronted with the biggest difficulty of their lives, and none would own up that lawns baffled, until at last one hoaryheaded gentleman addressed the chimin something like these terms: "Mr. Chairman, "eiitlcnien, I see yon know aniuch about this here business as 1 do. and that's—well, nothing. But one of them girls is named Daisy somebody, and this is all I know. Daisy's the best cow in my yard, and this 'ere •Daisy's" bound to be a good 'on. And I votes for Daisy, straight. "Daisy" got the job.