The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 17 April 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17.

't'lie 'l'araiiaki Rilles an.l I luards will meet in a shooting niuu-ii. ten men aside, at llu- Kewa Rewa range on Thursday. Tin- Muncipal saltwater baths wi|] be "pen on Wednesday, and Saturdays uniy. until further notice. Scarlet fever is still very prevalent in Wellington, Forty-four eases in the city have liecn notified 10 the health aiilhorities. The Uuler of the (Jpiio.--iLi.iu (Mr Massoy) opens the Land Hill campaign at Xew Plyimnith on Mon.lav, (lie SJtli insl. lie will .speak at'other .cutres in file province during the same week. The editor of the Sydney Referee liaeahle.l to Hi" editor of llie Wanganni Herald:—'■ Charlie Tonus has acc'cplcd Webb's challenge to row for lie- champion.s.'iip of .he world. I has depositej 1 ,CloU''

A young man, slightly nn.h-r the inllnence of liquor, in ihe course of an altercation with :i .Maori put hi, head .hrough a carriage window on the train to liawera yesterday afternoon . liefusing (o pay (lie Ills demanded, he was taken in charge at Inglewood. A Wellington wire sla.es that a writ for ClUOil has been served on Allan .Ma-, guire. contractor for the Kiljbirnic tunnel, for coinpcnMition fur the death of Harrington, in the Kilbirnie tunnel accident. The mother of Eli, another of the victims of the aeeideni, is claiming vflHI. The old Mill road is at preseiu almost impassable owing \o the luxurious growth of furze, which lias spread from the hedges on either side of the roan, liy-and-hye there will be a whole countryside of fm'ze. Messrs Roy and Wilson, solicitors to 1 the Eliot Road Board, have written to the School Commissioners asking that a portion of Oilfield road between Wailath Place and Eliot Road, be opened, it having been occupied for some years by the Commissioners' tenants of'sections on the Town Belt. The matter has been referred to the secretary. Il is understood that file colony's revenue for the year to March ;ils't wi/l show a record surplus. The Acting-Pre-mer States that owing to the widespread nature of the accounts the figures will not be available till the end of the mouth. Railway and Customs revenues are expected to show exceptionally good results. Laud Board members had a puzzle to solve on Tueslay. j,n applicant, who slated his age was ;S2, also gave the inform;!.inn (hat he had ada lighter aged 21. Tun solution was simple; he bail married a widow, and the daughter was hers. A member remarked that this was ijuile a favorite plan now with intending young dairy farmers. Nothing like starting with a Jumily able to niilk ihe cows, it seems. A deputation fiom the Taranaki llilles recently wailed on the Taranaki (iuards relative to (lie condition of the rille range. It is common report that the whoU' of the "gear" at the range is the property of the Rilles, and the deputation attempted to persuade the G'uar.ls to make some endeavor to assist in putling the place in order. The (luards, fiowever, declined to no anything- for two mouths, during which time it is Imped the rille range trustees w j|l ell'ect some improvements.

There were oniy seven calls for the .Vow Plymouth Fire Brigade during 'llie pa's I year, none of winch, says Captain Uellringer in his annual report, were of any importance, bo far as damage by lire was concerned. On only two occasions was it necessary to turn the water into the. hose. This is the lowest number of calls received since ISOB-!!, when there were but live alarms. The record speaks significantly of the souml commercial slate of the town.

The following dairy produce was shipped by the .steamer' Turakina, which sailed from Wellington lor London on Friday last:—Auckland, SU7 cases of butter ami 111!) cases of cheese; New Plymouth, .jIKJ.") boxes of butter and !I!I2 cases of cheese; Patea, 328-1 ens.-s of cheese; Welington, IUSO boxes of butter and 1«!I2 cases of cheese; Dunedin. !Ki.-> ease, of erieese: I tin ll'. 1.1U7 cases of flu-cue. Totals, 7072 boxes of butter anil SO2II cases of cheese. The I'alea butler. .100(1 c,;ses, did not reach Wellington in lime for shipiueiu. owing to the coastal steamer being bar-bound. At the annual mooting of the .\»ri-cullui-.ii Society on .Monday it was slated the., the "show dinner'"' had co-l Lie Soehly IMb From a perusal of Ihe l>nhint-.'-■hect we are able lo i-ontnulict 1 lifs. The gross expenditure in connec Lion with tin- annual dinner was .C2O 2s 7d, and the receipts amounted to .LI 1 7s b'd. Large numbers of coinplimotary tickets were issued to visiting exhibitors, judges, and others, in addition to tickets sold; 'the annual dinner, despite the fact that it cost the Society over £l4, should materially aid in bringing the annual show into the lirst rank. At lnglewood on iitonday judgment went by default in the lollowing cases:— Spurdlc .Bros, and Allen v. B. AFMauus; claim .CI 18s and costs OS. 11. .Brown and Co. v. .Mrs K. licnuelt; judgment for <:3 17s 7d and costs lOs. In the defended case, A. M. -M. Ka-ou v. W. J. li. Paton, claim £lu (Mr Hughes for plaiiuill', and Mr Thomson for defendant) judgment was given for .110 and costs .C2 2s. Inspector of Noxious Weeds charged W. li. Messenger with tailing to clear ragwort from his lands. Mr Thomson (for defendant) raised a legal point which the magistrate upheld, and dismissed the information without prejudice. An application was made by Mr Ciombie, on behalf ot a lad named (.'. li. Kawlinson, to cancel an order made against him in the Auckland Court in which lie was ordered to pay 4s per week towards the support oi Ins mother. After hearing Mr Crombie, the magistrate cancelled the order.

11 appears that the cpioston, "Are \ou a single man, or arc you married?'' has sometimes a signilicance apart from that of the well-known niu-ic-liall song. It Mas a-ked last. \it.« in the Sydney Supremo Court of the plaintill' in an action against the Hallway Commissioners for compensation 101 the loss of an arm in a train ace dent, "1 'object to that question," interposed Mr Schoh--, who appeared for the defendants. "A man's earning cajacily is not greater if he happens to be married.'' His Honor took a different view, mid pointed out that the Full Court had laid it down that in the event of a claim of til's kind proving successful, the jury should take cognisance of the fact that in the case of a married man the anxiety of mind ' arising out of the loss of employment would be greater than if he were single. The ruling was produced, and counsel iiltimalely acknowledged the soundness of the contention. Fal'ucr ONcill, of Winton, has inveslted in a motor car, ami lells a Tablet representative that, given any thing like fair treatment and decent roads, he thinks lllcy should be "just the thing" for a scattered district, and they would wonderfully concenl rate parish work. Asked for an instance in point, Father O'Neill said: "Well, take last Sunday ll'iilm Sunday). / I covered seven miles between my two masses in Ule respectable time of twelve minutes. Racing, you savr Xot a bit. The road was clear and level, the surface good, and the car well up to it. Without the car the people would line been kept wailing Hourly an hour at the oilier end, on account id the length of tic previous ma-- and its allendaiil cercmoifies, etc Rut with the car I easily kept time."

"And sick calls';" -.lust turn the starting handle, let in the clutch, and you're on tli,. road—provided of cours.' (and this is a big proviso). (hat you keep vonr car in trim in vour spare moments." l-'alher (j'Xeill is well able to do this, as he is a skilled electrician ami mechanic.

Ymii- child's cough is no lii'Ui'i-? Comember 11-glec(cd cuius fill I ill COllSUIIlp(ion. T.ilUi! children like CIiKA CorCll 'because it is yr.ea-ant In fake. Sol.l evernvhcrc. 1/ii .-mil 2/<i. 'l'llO proprietor „f IVaillvsllilie v.'ishes i< --penally kraeni Ilia! lie'lias noe- :il iiny lime sciil mil samples. 'I Ins llnr.r |H)lisll IS gcllillg jlltc j.lll.lil' lilViJ' 11HI> everv ilnv. because it is easv. ijiiich. hcaiitiftll,' lasting and cheap, 'l';,.- a li-i. All stores and ironmongers sell j(._ Fur llronchial Coughs take Woods' Croat Peppermint Cure, Is (id and 2s Od. Alt-ivool blankets at loss than last last year's prices is anjimportant announcement made by the Melbourne nothing Co. lieatl these price-:—Three--liiarler lied size, 14/0 pair; double-bed siz". i\l pair: extra large d.h. size, 24/0 pair: heavy Ji?igli,sh blue-grey blankets, ■ 8/U pair.