The Daily News TUESDAY, MAY 7.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 7 May 1907, Page 2

The Daily News TUESDAY, MAY 7.

Two members of the lions' of Representatives have been widowed and Hurried again during tin- present ment. Tll , n . „■«< a ,Im.)- of i..m- from the ■•s„„th end" of the County Council table, the member, of the Onw.and,n|. speakin,, in the most coinplmicmai) "'nils Uic new foreman. Mr. 1). Ihosmui. Ill* report lo the Council. lon, was coneis, . vet useful.

There were rumours current y.ste.dav that a coimiiilteo enquiry was to keid into some oecuironc, at the loc hospital. A special meenng of the House, Committee, originally sumuroned I for last night, was postponed until Friday next.

We tried an interesting experiment the other dfiy. A newspaper was address ed to us with the word "dead" written on the wrapper. We sent tile wrapper )i an unstamped envelope to the same ad dress and it was properly deliyereit Moral : If you want to ensure deliver) of a letter' don't stamp it.—Feildinj "Star."

The Moturoa Lodge of Druids held its usual meciing last night. There was a good attendance, J. P. Arch. Drmd Bio. A. K. Standisii presiding. One member was initiated, and another- proposed. The, Lodge accepted the Eguiont Oddfellows'' Lodge challenge to a card lournainent to he held next Monday. In harmony, members enjoyed several games of cards.

Mr. J. Brown, chairman of the Tarsimiki Comity Council, is not complimentary in the" least to the people who arranged the recent meeting in Stratford to protest against the. Acting-Premier's stated intention of gazetting the Ohura road a county road, ile complained at the Council meeting yesterday that the meeting was very badly arranged. Nobody in Stru.tf.ml seemed to know the meeting was being held, and visitors had t» hunt round in the rain for half an hour before they found where it was Thus the Hawera "Star" : While awaiting the arival of the mail train on Thursday morning, the crowd at the station became interested in watching a man manipulating a team of bullocks His management of the team in the station yard was a treat. Everything was dune quietly, and so well were the animals under control that a mere wave of the hand sullieed in place of the customary laying on of the whip. The incident served to convince many, despite the popular conception, that bullock driving can be successfully accomplished without brutality or profanity. New Zealand readers cannot feel other than pleased at the complimentary references to Sir Joseph Ward which were made by Jlr Asquilh in his speech at the Premiers' Conference. The cables have been giving all the prominence to Mr Deakin—a fact that is accounted for by the cables Ijciiig filtered through Australia. But Jlr Asquitll's speech is a remarkably plain indication >ihat Sir Joseph Ward's utterances, which were of a conciliatory, broad-minded, pnctical character had carried considerably more weight than the "spread eagleism'' of other speakers—Eltham "Argus.''

General Botha (says a London correspondent) Is prulial.lv' immiigsl tie.si-win. have taken the precnilioii of ordering their clothes beforehand, for when he was last here as one of the Jioer generals, be anil bis colleagues were in a deperate predicament. Naturally, during the war they ii.nl little thought of clothes, and when they arrived'in London and found a host of invitations a wailing them, they discovert! that tliev laid no clothes suitable for the fashionable receptions and parties to which they hid been invited Twenty-four hour.-' notice was given to a linn of tailors who provided (lie necessary wear for them in time. ICven in that interval, General Botha had to explain'to an insistent duchess that he could not go to dinner at her house as he hid no dress clothe-. Her telegraphed reply was : "Come in a blanket or pyjamas, but you must come."

The Indies, who had such a narrow escape at the Henui railway works on Saturday evening, were Mrs. 0. V. Talc, ami Hiss Tad', iu unc vehicle: and Mrs. F. Goodacre in tho other. The horse driven by the former was startclcd, either by the shunting of the locomotive engine, or .(he array of soats. etc. on the temporary fence. Hearing on ils hind legs it swerved sharplv, and collied Willi the other vehiele. ' Mrs. Tate and Mrs. Goodacre both suffered very seriously from shuck, and sustained bail bruises. The matter was mentioued at | the County Council meeting on Monday, iliul several councillors spoke of the dangerous state of the road at this point, t'r. ilill said lie saw the accident, and thought tlie men in charge of (he engine were to lie commended for their promptness in bringing (lie engine to a standstill, lie considered tlie embankment ought to be fenced. This matter will be represented to the Fitzroy Town Board.

Councillor Ilill. at yesterday's meeting of the County Council, voiced the complaint of several people about neglect at the Waiwakaiho bridge works. One resident had complained In him that on a night hist week no light was shuwiug. and there w:is nothing "to prevent people driving to their death.' The chairman said that (he contractor was responsible, ami (lie comity engineer should see (hat proper precautions were taken. If the Council's servants did not do their work (heir was only one course left open. Cr. Tate said be had made enquiries, and found that the lights were always creeled, but larrikins amused themselves by breaking the lamps or putting (hem out. Now. if there are asses of'(hat calibre ill the Fitzroy district, hoodlums who are thoughtless enough to endanger life, (here's trouble in store for someoue. There's anv amount of water iu (he Waiwakaiho to give the

In a letter to the Wellington Times, ■]. }lackio, Si'crctiivy of the Xaranaki Dairy Kinployces' Union. sny- : "J believe 1 can get twelve factories within a radius of fourteen miles, to say nothing of t!ie creameries in the. same ana, where employees work over sevemy hours per week for at least four mouths in tile year, ami the average wage is not mure limn :C2. with allowances. Tint don't forget thai ipiitc a number nf IlleSe men are dismissed in early winter, i have never yel heard of any factory allowing its men one clear day per week nil' duly, and if there are any in Taranuki 1 wfiuld he pleased to see them make themselves conspicuous, hut the system is generally considered impracticable. Now, about those liberal holiilnys. What kind of enjoyment is one 'to indulge in in winter, at which lime holidays are given? And in a very I few instance* u (lie employee given two weeks or more as a holiday on full pay. This to be regarded as compensation for working; «!«>»( thirty- eight or forty Sundays ami all of the festive season."

For Children's flacking Cough at night Woods' Ureal. Peppermint Cure. ]/<! and 4/6. ',

Ladies and gentlemen' (as the political aspirant says), vie want you to see the sjielndid show of hoots 'and shoes at the Melbourne Clothing Co. You'll' find the. goods to be lip-top quality and marked at prices a lonjr way below' competitors'.—Advt.

Your cold? SYKES'S CUJU COVGII Is a soothing and healing halm, it stops the cough, allays soreness and makes expectoration easy and free, from effort. Fold everywhere- )/B and 2/(1 —Advt.

White and Sous landed their second shipment for the winter of Hon'oekse's flannelettes. These goods have had such a reaily sale that the first lot were practically sold out a week- before there opened up. Other goods in the same ship were dress goods, longeloths, corsets, and jvlute flannelette uiiderclotk'ng.—Advt,

Tin. Coriuna took 300-1- boxes of butler •md ttiS crates of cheese from the M«turoa Freezing Works yesterday, lor | transhipment to the I'apaipa at Welling- i ton. There will bo another shipment southwards on Thursday. | The s-ason is really too good (writes , tl,cc.mt.ilmtoroftheM.aiiawatunot«sm ; ,hc Farmers' Union Advocate). It «hin. to he exactly following that in Engl n a, Iso far. There a friend tells me that ;■ |,.ft last December, and (here hi. I 1„.,n a cold day. Hut of course late advices Ul us (here was a very cob snap, with continued snow. Will '» season be the same 1 Anyhow, it is the linest autumn 1 rememher, and tna. i*> cvi-r 30 years. Talking to older settlers, they say they remember seasons like it },, the sixties, but that was before m time. The grass is simply dlsgusl.nglj plentiful and as a dairy season we lane „,,(, since the industry started, had such a March and April for yields

The Mar s llcie de lEseaille. a .niMiiber of one of the most ancient ami illu-trious of French families, h ,s committed suicide after shootmg -Mile. Jn - ie lllanchais. who lived at a Hat won , 1„. in the lMcviml Perciie. lie . hid been speculating wildly m l.io Unto copper shares, and I lie sever, ■ liecliner, of the past weld; had i.moh , llim in enormous lo.sos, which he cOU;d not m-et. In de-pair he told Mile M.vie Hlanchais thai he a nuii.d man. and that he had decided to commit suicide Mile, lilancliais declared ihat .-he eiiulil not live without him, and wrote on a -lip of paper fond by the police : ••1 have ordered the Jlar<|iiis do I Kseaille to kill me. for I cannot bear to survive him.—Marie Blanchais " The Marquis shot the woman, and blew out his brains with tile same weapon.

'•tfir Joseph Ward," tuys a Loudon evening paper, "who ha 3 arrived in London to represent New Zealand at tne Colonial Conference, did not neglect his colony's interests on the I'. and O. liner on which he journeyed from Wellington to Marseilles. Not only was he president of the Spurts Committee on board, but the captained the New Zealand team which defeated the rest of the ship's passengers at deck cricket. Bir doseph made an invaluable organiser of tournaments and dances on the Mongolia and he was ably seconded in carrying out the social programme by Lady \\ ard and Miss Ward. At Port Said the Prime Minister landed and conducted a select party of passengers over the local school, where the little Arab scholars gave recitations in 1-liiglish and received prizes for their proficiency. Sir Joseph Ward, like his predecessor, Mr SedUon, is a famous speaker."

The arrest of Johann Fiedler, a tradesman, of Hermannstadt, in Transylvania, and his wife has revealed a barefaced swindle practised on a sim-ple-minded but wealthy land-owner of l'ounianian nationality named Konsantin llraleami. Fiedler, learning that it was iirateanu's ambition to marry a lady of title, introduced kihi to Frail Fielder, who posed as the Baroness Ida

Bebe ayol xla atedi o-t v bgsiir '! et ciuf Kim, who was unmarried, and possessed €20,000 in Iter own right. Fran

Fielder played her part with complete success, and on the day of her betrothal

her husband received £3OOO as a commission. Fiedler nest offered to oibtain for Jli'iiteauu the title of Baron from the Hungarian Government and a feat in flie Hungarian Parliament for another CloOO, and this, too, the simple laudowner paid. Then rieder and his wife vanished, and Brateanu realised that he had been victimised.