The Daily News MONDAY, JUNE 3rd, 1907.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 3 June 1907, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, JUNE 3rd, 1907.

Milk's up. The lacteal lluid is no,v being retailed in New Plymouth at <U a quart, {he price having been increased by u penny. What's next in the raising business?

The .Minister for Labor says thai the Arbitration Act will be amended by the I creation of provincial boards of wages, consisting practically of experts medial numbers on both sides.

The Garrison Band gave a taste of its quality in Devon street in Saturday night, and again at the Esplanade on Sunday afternoon. Excellent programmes were submitted, and the conicevts much enjoyed.

As showing the value of the consumptive annex:; of the New Plymouth If *- pital, a patient woo had been there for several months was discharged fiomtti' itistiiuti.iii biSi week dcelnvd to be thoroughly cured.

Mr Harry suggested on Saturday that it would not be dillieiill to count the attendances of some of the Teachers' Institute meetings. Regular attendance is a splendid tiling for children who have to learn, but probably the rule does not apply to teachers. Births in the New Plymouth district were more numerous during .May than ill April. The registrar reports 34 births (22 in town and 12 in the country), If) deaths (II in the town. 4 in the country) and four marriages. The marriages were less prolific than usual, while deaths were normal.

William Perry, writing to the M'tsterton Times, attributes the blight in turnips to growing a second consecutive crop of turnips or Swedes. The remnant of the lirst crop being left rotting in the ground breeds a germ that attacks the second crop. The Agricultural Department has satislieditself that (he hides sent from New Zealand from which it is alleged a man in Melbourne has contracted anlhrtx, were not from animals suffering from that disease. Skins of cattle attacked by anthrax have never been sent out of New Zealand.

One year's trial of sub-dividing Taranaki into three districts for the purposes of the Teachers' Institute has proved a failure" the New Plymouth branch alone being alive. Previously there had been one branch, with meetings alternatly at New Plymouth and Stratford, but that failed, too, because the New Plymouth end was asleep. When will Taranaki teachers will be awake together V At the Carrington Road schoolroom on Friday night, Mr Okey. M.11.R. promised to do his best at (he seat of Government to have the Carrington road opened right through to Opunake. The residents on the road, who had turned out in large numbers to congratulate the new member, passed a resolution urging the need for harbor extension.

The traffic returns for the W'ellingto/i-Napier-Ncw Plymouth section of the New Zealand railways for the lourweekly period ending April 27th last show that 230,50!) tickets were issued as compared with a total of 274,!)1i2 .luring the corresponding period of ll)0(i. The revenue was .1:59,781, against £511,585.

A man named Leonard Jackquash was thrown from his horse near Kahotu on Friday night, and lay on the roadside some hours before help came. Next day Dr Morrison, of Opmiakc, was communicated with, and he ordered the removal of the injured man to the New Plymouth Hospital. Dr Pomare, Native Health Officer, arrived on the scene, and found the man was suffering from spinal injuries, and made him comfortable for the journey to the hospital. The Minister for Labor expresses the opinion that a Board of Commerce should he set up to report whenever undue prices are being charged for commodities of life, and the report presented to Parliament before being acl-.M upon; to deal immediately with disputes in any particular trade, awards to '.ie in existence for not less thm two 'ior more than three years, appeals 1o the Arbitration Court to be allowed in certain casts, and the Wages Board to lie similar to tlm.-e in Australia.

Considerable time of the .Stratford y.M. Court was taken up on Friday in hearing fresh evidence in the claim for €l7 Ills damages by New Zealand Loan anil Mercantile Agency Comp.iiy, Ltd.; against the Stratford Roroiigh Council for alleged damage to their store, in Broadway, through llood-witer coming from a stream which originally flowed in a roundabout course, and was deviated through the company's premises. Judgment was reserved.

Teachers ill Saturday's meeting were complaining that oilier districts would not give Taranaki teachers a chance of getting mi appointment, and home of (lie Taranaki-born remarked on the increasing tendency of (he local authorities to give outsiders a preference over their own servants. ''Never mind," said the President, ''wait till we get the oil. Everybody will be talking Taranaki and everyone will he trying for Taranaki teachers, and we won't go." The very idea of refusing an appointment outside of this district seemed to tickle the teachers immensely.

It is not generally known among farmers and those who have to do with thu killing of stock for their own consumption that it is a statutory olfeiice to remove the ears from the hides and siciiis of cattle and sheep. This fact was clearly demonstrated in the Wanganni Supreme Court during the hearing of the; cattle stealing case, several witnesses stating . that it was only lately that they became aware that a substantial penalty was provided for those who thus offended.

In InvercargiU last week there was a wedding that did not pass oil' without a hitch. The bridal party aud olliciaUng ministers were ready with the service, but the bridegroom was missing. He had gone, through a msiinderstanding, to the wrong church. When lie did not arrive aud all was going merrily, it was discovered that the marriage license was missing. The registrar's office being closed, a cab was despatched post haste to his residence. 'The official finished his dinner, while two nervously impatient people and several hungry ones waited in the church.

How quickly a triumphant entry may lie spoihd was exemplified in a country township not 100 miles from New Plymouth a few days ago. A member of a certain firm doing business in thu township decided to proceed thither per motor car. Everything went well on the journey, and the car entered the township at a good smart pace under the admiring eyes of the country folk. A graceful curve was made in order to negotiate a side road, when, io! in tne (winkling of an eye the car was pulling aimlessly with (wo front wheels up a slight bank. The steering stenr hail broken, aud the motor car had to be wheeled to a blacksmith's for repairs. It is very fortunate for the motorist that: the accident did not happen coming down any of the hills, or there niigat have been serious consequences.

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