The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 1.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 1 July 1907, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 1.

Owing to the prospects of the iron ore at Parapara, it is stuteil that land has gone up from 10s to £3O and JMU an

Captain J'.dwin wired at noon oil Saturday; Westerly, moderate to strong winds; glass rise; probably very cold night; tides high; sea considerable. On tiie application ol ilr Quilliam (Oovett and tjuilliam), probate of the will of the late Jleien Koinaine Broliam iias l>een granted by the Supreme Court of A'ew Zealand to Clement William Covett, the executor named in the will.

The Suly meeting of the Hospital Hoard will be held on the second Honda} instead ol the third Monday, in order to suit the convenience ol Dr. Valentine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, with whom the board wishes to confer oil various matters.

By some oversight the animal meeting of the Teachers' Institute was not con° vened, as decided, for Saturday. The meeting will probably he held' towards the cud of rluiy. ilr A. Cray, secretary, lias stated his intention of relinquishing the secretaryship.

At an inquest on the body of i, leates, who died at the hospital ~n Saturday, evidence was given to show that death was due to jaundice and oilier causes resulting from injuries received in an accident at Kaholu. A verdict ol accidental death was returned.

It should lie noted that in tin; very successful marching item |,v the Central School pupils at Friday's concert Jliss TdacU assisted in tin- instruction and made most of the dresses, which become the properly of the School. The committee proposes to repeat the concert in about two months' time.

<>n Saturday night a man, who had not oeen content with admiring the Ihjuor when it gavo its color in the .r|a<s became noisy and bellicose, for which l H ' was, niter being K iven any amount of latitude, taken into custody. J|« appears before the Police Court" this morning to answer a charge of "drunk and disorderly."

I'l'.uiiien Maritsch was anxious to get rid ol a beard- and moustache, of which she was the unfortunate possessor. The Konlgen rays removed the moustache successfully, but when they were applied to the c-hin im d checks they took the hair away and left scars in its place, i'raniicn Alaritseh unsuccessfully sued Dr. Blum in the A ienna courts for iJ'J.jO

, Comment is made on the fact that the' Education Board, iu sending forward to the Cepperton school committee the names of applicants from which to select a head teacher, placed a "01" certificate holder below an "E3" and a "D 4." For what reason does a teacher strive to improve Ills status? It is understood that .Mr liice, the CI teacher, has witiidiawn his application as a protest.

Sonic information of general interest relating to the Argentine was given au Utago Daily Times reporter by Sir .). Weincr, ot Cromwell, ujio returned jcceutly from South Anieica. The u re j„. mg companies of South America, he said, are practically all ovel'-capitalisc'd. At present some twenty or thirty millions arc invested iu mining speculations that will never give any return, and it is a wonder how the country can >tand it. If this money had been invested iu agriculture or railways jt would have been highly reproductive. As it is, a large number of the mining concerns liuve already proven to be dulfcrs. Some have l.een deliberate swindles. In the pushing on of railways in Hie Argentine the policy pursued is totally ditl'creut to that followed in our own colony. In the Argentine the railways are urst extended iiito the unsettled country and the settlement follows speedily, in New Zealand it is Hie reverse, the land is settled 011 i.ile promise of a railway, and that lUilway does not follow until about, thirty Vears alter.

J" the course of his remarks oil "■lapan" last week at the !Sidney UuiH'lMty, l'lolessor Starr -Jordan astonished Jii-i hnirers by a- •; jim«iug m<u, if there wan ti be a cleavage between the white ami coloured rates I lie Japanese mu»t lie classed as white. At the present time one portion jf Japan was inhabil'i il '' lre tJiiiL «as pure white, these. the aboriginal inhabitants of .Ja[pan, who were despised by the Japanese, jWC-re urdonbtedly of Caucasian origin. [Among the Japanese generally there had ( certainly lieui an admixture'of Chinese and .Malay blood; hut, in the upper elates i( was slight, and they were of a much lighter color than tlie coolies. Inning his lecture Professor Jordan went 111 Home pains to defend the Japanese Irom (he charges commonly levelled against them, asserting that they were no more immoral or overbearing than other races, while, what appeared to 1,.. commercial dishonesty to Western eyes was ically an inability to realise that the Kuropoau would be so discourteous us-to demand the completion of a confraef which had noi. proved so profitable •is the Japanese p :n |y ( 0 it ], a( i ~x 'i'he audience was very eordinl (o ProlesMir Jordan personally, Imt apparently bail made up its niinil on thr suliject •a -lap; n. for tbe lecturer's praises were enldlv received, while his advice to Australia to preserve jieaee by preparing lor war was loudly applauded. \Mute and Sons have just opened a lie of handsome trimmed felt hats—no ! ivo alike—at less than half usual [trice. 'I lie shapes are in (he height of fashion. I' nothing Inter being obtainable in the | n arket. The prices are from 3s lid to I;i s 'id each. -Advt. DK.Vtll I!A'I'K DECKEASIiD., The "Chicago Tribune,'' in a recent article on what medical seieneeiiasbeen :Me to accomplish for the benefit of humanity, drew particular attention to t!ie one great fact that stands pre-eaii-ii'-nt in the light of reliable staiisties, viz., that the death-rate of the world bis. through its agency, been positivilv decreased- One of the chief factors iii inis decrease is the marvellous success | w'iit-li is nowadays attained in the treatment of that fatal type of disease el issified under the bending of "T.tmsr Troubles.This is accomplished by the u.-e of llr. Sheldon's New Discovery fir Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. Modem medicine can point to no more m.irvi lions achievement than the perfeeting of this grand, unfailing, specific care, which can be relied on to save the lives of all who take it in time, fluar.mteed t.o~-eurc,~ or money back. Price Is Cd anil 3s- Obtainable everywhere.

Jin drill papers demand llmt the Spanish Court physician should be asked to i resign for having liuulo ail error in eal- [ culaling tiiu date of the birth of the illoyal baby. On his authority the most jelaborate preparations were made weeks j before, and the country was keyed up to an extent never before equalled.

It is not often, in fact very seldom, that three deaths oeeuv within twentyfour hours iu the local hospital, but this occurred oil Friday ,'ind Saturd i.y. The tirst was tint of Mr T. Yeates, wlio bad hern in the institution for some weeks sull'ering from accidental injuries. On Saturday morning Miss Nancy Isabella Fawkner, wellknown in Stratford", and .Miss Muriel Corbelt, of Okalo. died almost siinultaneouslv at ton o'clock.

The Frankluy ltoail .Board met on Saturday, when Jhliing, AM":i, 1 looker, and Jewell attended. ill the absence of the chairman,. -Mr 11. Okey, M.U.K., .Mr Killing presided. The tender of T. Collins for carting out and spreading nieuU at la (id per yard was accepted. Accounts, amounting to .Uij lus Ud, were passed for payment. Mr Billing ; was appointed to supervise road work ill the upper end of the district, arid Mr Allen from Frankleigh Park townward*. The chairnim gave notice to move the striking and levying of a vale of %d in the 3C.

Word was received iu town or # Satin - day that -Mrs M. Woods, a widow, had died suddenly at her home just beyond Oakura. An inquest was held yesterday beiorc -Mr O. A. Adlam, Constable Mcivor representing the police. Percy Woods, *on of the ileccaved, gave evidence that his mother Jirst complained of a pain iu her back and side oil June l'J, and went to bed, where she remained on and oif unui her death, lie asked her if she wished to see a doctor, but she answered that it was unnecessary. On Saturday morning when he went to her room lie found his mother lying dead on the lloor. Dr. Home, who had made

a post mortem examination, stated that death was due to rupture of the heart, which was in an advanced stage of fatty degeneration. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimonv.

borne pertinent comments on the ipiestiun ot the Male advancing money to Aluon lai mers were made by Jlr ji. X. -\gata, .vi.11.i;., at a meeting ol natives neid at Ciisborue. last tveek. As to the scheme of assisting .Maoris iinancially to iarm their ianus, lie said lie had a suspicion, given the best possible Ulle, there would still be tunsiderable hesitation on the part of tile State lending departments in making advances to iiaoris, the hesitation would be due to want of faith in the capacity of the .Maori farmer. it was hard to Ijc faced uu the one hand with an argument that the Maori was not the equal of the pakelia, and therefore not entitled to be put on the same footing in the matter of working his lands, and to be told on the other hand thai he was so capable of looking after his own interests as to be at for ali piaetieal purposes to be declared a European. Personally, he was opposed to the present system of the Government purchase of native lands. It was detrimental to the best interests of the race, and speaking as a representative of the East Coast tribes in Parliament he would oppose the resumption of Government purchases on the East Coast. British Columbia has ,i woman's franchise trouble all its own. 1£ is of rather a different type from the English variety, for the suffragists have triumphed by a ruse, and the masculine community is diligently plotting to Mb them of the fruits of victory. By one of Hie clauses In the Municipalities Act of the province a. person who pays a two-dollar dog tax is entitled to a vote i'or the Mayor and aldermen, and at \ ietoria, B(J., there lias been a tremendous nm on jogs, s0 t)lat thcre not been enough to go round. Women with no other nualiliration for a vnV have hastened to the Kevenue authorities 1,0 iake out dog licenses, and wlure there were not enough dogs in a family half a dozen women have voted on the same dog. One lady who \va,s without " '""'i'"-' companion, and could not get one 111 time, took out a two-dollar J>'cense lor a china dog, which stood on a maiUeijiM'te, and voted on. that ijualitic.uioii. All this feminine' voting 'us (tealcd a feeling ot rebellion in the other sex in V ietoria, and the British Columbia Legislature is being petitioned for aid. Tlic demand is that ihe municipal franenise shall be taken away from women altogether. 'the late Cecil lthodes, when he was years old drew up his first will. In this will, Mr. ilhodes bequeathed everything he had to trustees, who wero insti ucted to apply his estate towards the establishment of the following objects: "The extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects, 0 f all lands wherein the means of livelihood colonisation by British subjects, of all lands wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labor, and enterprise, and especially the occupation •V J'Mish settlers of the entire contiuent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valh\v of Euphrates, the islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole oF South America, the islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole Ot tlm Malay Archipelago, the seaboard Of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of colonial representation in the Imperial 1 arliament which may weld together the disjointed members of the Empire, and, finally, the foundation of so great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity.