The Daily News. SATURDAY, JULY 6.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 July 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, JULY 6.

The proposed Xcw l'lymouth Harbor Mmpoworing Hill, proviiling for a loan of C'iOIUIOO to pay oil' the present loan, to complete the breakwater, wharf,' ete., aceordiuj; to the plans of the late Jir Napier Tiell, notice of motion in connection with which was j;ivcn by Mr I Xewlon King at the last meetiny of the Harbor Hoard, cannot be introduced this session, owing (o insnilicicncy of time preventing tumplianco with the "Parliamentary standing Orders. The Hill, if sanctioned by the Harbor Hoard, will be introduced next session, and, in Che meantime, steps will be taken to explain and discuss the provisions of the Hill and thresh out evcrytlsng in connettion with the proposals. Captain lalwin wired at 1.27 p.m. yes terday:— Westerly strong winds to gale, after Hi hours; ghiss fall soon; tides high; sea heavy, rain probable. A special meeting of the Clifton County Council will be hold to-day at N'aitara to discuss the proposed Local" <lo\ eminent Hill and the Model Hy-laws Hill. Jn consequence of the Harbor loan proposals being dropped, the meetings to have been held by Mr Maxwell' on (he Coast in connection with the matter, have been abandoned for the present. W'hitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch, forward us a sample box of a new pen just brought out in England. These peas do the work of gold-nibbed pens, and travel over paper of juy surface marvellously ijuickly. The following team will represent the present High School boys against Old Hoys to-day, at 2.30 p.m.; —Hridger, ilurle, Sinclair, i'ott, Osborne, Laing, MeAllum, Grey, Ambury, Kibliy, Coker, I .Monk, Clarke, Mclsaac and Thompson. ! Who says the Maori is not up-to-date '! i I)u Monday night a cottage belonging to j the Clifton County Council was destroyed lat Crenui. On Wednesday a Maori j named Philip te Alio wrote to the Conn

I cil oll'ering ten shillings for the old iron from the roof. Two or three other settlers in the locality had spoken to councillors comeruing the iron, but as | the native was the only one who had ap- ■ plied in a business-like manner his offer was accepted right away. ; Mr 11. D. Atkinson, secretary of the j Counties Association, in reply to a letj ter from the clerk of the Clifton Comity i Council, dealing with local bodies' lin- | ance, wrote: "We have been given to I understand, that the provisions re finj ance contained in the 'Local Covern- ; incut Hill, 11KRI,' which is to be considered by the House during this session of ; I'arilament. are to be enacted in lieu of the provisions contained iu the 'Local Hodies Finance ami Powers Act, 1855,' and all other proposals, but. it is, of course, impossible to state what action Parliament will take in the matter. We have been led to believe that it is the intention of the Government to abolish all subsidies on rates." A Taranaki delegate told the Farmers' Union Conference iu Wellington a striking story of the hardship causad by the disparity of the rating of native and European lands. He states that lands oeupicd by Europeans were assessed at oO per cent more than those occupied by natives, and even on these valuations the Varihaka Road Hoard was last year only able to collect 10 per cent of rates on native lands, ami that after very gre.it trouble. He urged the Conferonce to make some representation in the matter. it was resolved—"That the present system of valuation put npoa lands adjoining occupied by Europeans is most unfair." Miss Mtircutt, who lectures here tomorrow evening, is truly a remarkable woman. She was born in Melbourne, never knew a father's care, but was brought up by her mother, a highly educated woman, and a musician. Mis., .Murcutt graduated al Melborune University with honors in literature. From her childhood days she had an intense desire to travel—and she has travelled, for her jiHiriieyings aggregate about ;ioo,ooll miles. Mis Murcutt, howc\ei\ is no mere globe-trotter. She is on lire with the zeal for social reform. So, while n.vniug a beautiful home in lite suburbs of London, she is still on her travels and coming to our quiet town. Un Thursday another conference of delegates was held to endeavor to come to a .sclUenicnt of the dairy-factory employees' demands lor increased wages and altered conditions of labor, it will be remembered that u recent came to a settlement, but the Employees' Union declined to ratify the agreement entered into by their representatives. Amendments were suggested in almost every clause, and the employers' delegates agreed in most instances. Hut they absolutely declined to give preference to unionists as now requested. Preference was waived at the previous conference. Now the employees go further still, and want not only preference given to members of the Union, but that it should be made compulsory that within lib days of the award coming into opeiution every employee in the Taranaki dairy factories working under the agreement must join the Union. Employers considered that this was an unjustly coercive measuie, but the Union representatives said it would not be coercion but merely a condition of employment. Each side remains firm m its opinion on tlus point, it is stated that the employers have now reached the limit of their concessions, and will not budge from the agreement provisionally drawn between them and the delegates from the Union.