The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 29.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 29 July 1907, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 29.

Captain Kduiu wired on Saturday: Modi-rate to strong south-easterly winds; grass rise; tides moderate. The Xew Plymouth Drivers and (frowns' Industrial Union of • Workers we* registered on Friday under the Conciliation and Arbitration Aw, 1000. Considerably over one hundred mem-

bers of the sterner sex attended tlii." Bnv ,1. B. Brocklehurst's second monthly service for men at St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth, yesterday afternoon. The rev. gentleman gave a very interesting and helpful address upon the subject of "Watching." ; 'IV Taranaki Poultry Show was brought to a close on Saliml i.y night, after a fair measure of public patronage. The, Art union was drawn during the evening, as follows:—lst, 11S3;

2nd, !>4.">; 3rd, 7oO: 4th, 25. The suee ssful ticket-holders may obtain the nuggets at the ollice of the secretary, Mr Clark, in Brougham street Mr George Pott and Mi-s Dixon tied in '.he guessing competition, with correct guesses. ■■•:?'s>■'

"Wireless" on a merchantman is now J making a first appearance, in 'sew Zea- i land waters. The vessel is the Kipping- j ham Grange, which has been lying at the Victoria wharf, Dunedin.. for a day or two. The captain states that on the voyage out he spoke Cape Town through 300 miles of fog, and aiso said "Good day" to the Leeuwin, although the steamer did not approach that point nearer than 450 miles. The installation which Houlder Bros, have fitted to this vessel is only an experimental one, but the meaning of the change is unmistakeable. Inside a year or two all our steamers will, no doubt, be similarly fitted. '•Dumniyism' was the subject of a discussion, according to the Times, at a recent meeting of the Gishorno Farmers Union. One speaker declarcdth.it in his opinion every applicant for land should swear before a Magistrate that he. wias a, bona fido settler, as nine ant of every ten who participated in ballots were dummies, in that th.'y had not the remotest idea of settling. In connection with one section submittal, it '-7 as freely stated that the successful drawer could obtiin £IOOO for his interest, in addition to receiving CI per week to look after the place until sufficient time had elapsed for a transfer to be cff.'et ?d. It was contended that Government 1 should do something to prvvent 'trafficking' in land, but no action was taken by the meeting.

The Taranaki Agricultural Society held its first winter lecture to farmers on Friday at Warca. .Mr James Burgess presided,'there being 40 settlers present. Messrs N. King, Ambury. and Kerr, spoke briefly of the society's endeavors to assist the farmer. Captain Young (Government Veterinarian), dealt principally with calving, diseases of tin udder, etc. At the conclusion of his ad dress Captain Young said if his hearers eared to arrange for a practical demon stratum in veterinary work he wouk be only too pleased to visit Warea foi the purpose c { giving a demonstration

lie said that, should lie arrange to give a demonstration, he would like the settlers to kill a beast twenty-four hours prior to the occasion, when he would kill another and bleed it, and then he would be able to give a practical demonstration that should he of great service to the farmers. Captain Young was accorded a heart v vote of thanks.

"Let them come home!" ejaculated one of the audience at the Anti-Chinese meeting, when Dr. Kirk mentioned there were 1000 New Zealand traders and missionaries in China. The speaker was incessantly interrupted iu endeavoring to move an amendment, and when the Rev. A. Don mounted the platform the interruptions came thicker still. Mr Don said that he did not expect to get a hearing, but he would tell those present that Sir Lloyd had made a •'hotchpotch" of things by placing the negro and the Chinaman in the same category. The last part of Mr Don's remarks read as follow*: Air. Don: "There are 000,1100 white people in New Zealand " (Voices: "Nonsense!" end "What si tale to pilch!") Mr Don: "And there is only one Chinaman to every 300 white --" (A Vow: "On., too * many!")) Mr Don: "And if 3(50 Britishers can't stand up against one Chinaman, they ought to go down." (Uproar).—Dunedin Star.

About twelve months ago the Taranaki District Educational Institute w:s torpid. A letter from a local teacher to the colonial secrotnry of the organisation set the Iblood one;' more flow-in;;, nnd the officials were given to understand that the Institute must be kept very much alive. To that end the district was divided into three sub-districts or centres each -with its own branch. Each centre was to have its representatives on the district executive The centres were. New Plymouth, Stratford, and Opunake. The first-mimed branch has been kept jogging along, but (if '.he others nought has boon heard. The date for the district annual meeting was fixed by the rules for the last Saturday in July. The secretary was asked by one of the vice-presidents to call the meeting formally. Receiving no reply the vifh-prosident called the meeting herself, not as vice-president but as secretary to the New Plymouth branch. Just before the. date fixed she received a letter from the secretary, who resides at Opunake, that the annual meeting would bo held on the last Saturday : n August, the. 3] s t prox. On Saturday afternoon, In answer to Mrs Dowlinj's advertisement, several members of f he New Plymouth branch attended a meeting at the Education Office. Mr O.Johnston presided. It was found the meeting had not bfeen properly convened, and the secretary (Mr A. Gray) had not attended with the books. The question, or puzzle, tint occupied the minds of the teachers present was, "How are we to get a meeting? Our president is in Auckland, our secretary in Opunake, and he won't call a meeting for olio proper time. \Yhat can we do?" They did what a backwoods road board would have done. They snt and discussed the matter for an hour or so. raking up all tli- possibilities and probabilities, and thy got '-'no forrader.'' The references made to the management were anything

but oomplimcntnry.onc member remarking that though they might, generally speaking, have to dance to the tune called by one man, they wanted the instruments themselves sometimes. This feeling found vent in the following r-'-solntion, which was carried nem. con.: That thin meeting of teachers expresses its strong dissatisfaction with the un-business-like conduct of the Taran.nki Institute, and that copies of this resolution he forwarded lo the President, vicepresident, and the secretary." It is important to have the annual meeting before the date fised by the secretary, for August 31et is the last day for the reception of nominations, etc., by the secretary of the, N.Z.E.T., whose lieidqnnirtws are, wc believe, at Dnncdin.

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Brigadier Albiston, iu the course of bis remarks at a meeting of the Salvation Army at Wellington on Thursday evening, said that, while in Taranalii recently, he met a man who was so (harmed with a visit to the Girls' Home iu Owen street that he made the generous offer to build and et|iiip a Boys' Home and present it aud twenty acres of laud to the Army. Something like a bombshell fell among those present at a temperance conference of the Manchester District United Methodist Free Churches at Blackburn, when the Rev. W. i'auikuer, of Black-

burn, declared that trade unionism had done more for working men in the way of cleaner lives and creating a true temperance sentiment than all the Bands of Hope and temperance societies put together. In this respect the work of the best Labor leaders was better than the 'preaching of nine out of every ten mini i-ders. , The ivpi.rt. of the Under-Secretary for ■ Lands on the limber industry of the ■lcolony shows that approximately there ; are about lH,(iiS(>,3()o,lißl superficial feel

of milling Umber on the Crown land. Half of this is' rinm or red pine, mul piartcr is birch. Tim totara is ostium! •d at ■111,103,!>!)8 iVet, and kauri 270,57." 77 ii'ct. Auckland, it is believed, \vi! io destitute of timber in liftecn years n four years it is estimated there wil 0 few, if any, mills working inllawke'; lay; the number of mills in Taranak i diminishing, and in Canterbury tin crests are almost cut out. According to the Hawke's B.iy lfcrali lie estate of the late Mr John Close Drmerly a grocer and draper in tin own, has been proved by the executor* 1 share in the White Swan Brewer; !ouipany, and one hundred and twent; hares in Nenl and Close, Ltd-, are U uieathed as legacies to relatives am rinds. Seven shares in- the compan; ro to (be transferred to the Napier Cor toration, in trust to maintain the gray f the late Mrs Close, the balance to 1; xpended in a yearly gift of a ham *m , bottle of ale to as many old people a lOssible on December 24th in nach veil brother five skims are invested in th anie Corporation to provide a hundred reight of coal to as many poor peop! ls ]wssiblls on .Tune 21st each year, i ommemoration of the birthday of Mr Jlosei. Tho rest of the estate goes t ,liss Hobba, an adopted daughter. Speaking to a deputation ol W aiersid. Yorkers al Wellington last week, lli< dimster for Labo) said tl at the Us cay tu regulate rent was by the erce ion of workers' homes. lie hat wehe going up in Wellington, and hi vuul'i be a.,l'j to slu..> them such ai ibjett lesson as to rentals in tne tilj a to prove what some people w..'re get ing out of, because he would be ai)l< o give a six-roomed house, lilted U[ villi all conveniences, with land value: it .CIU a loot, at 14s Id per week, aui i live-roomed house at less. That \ca.vhat ire hoped to ue able to do in tin owns. Also he pointed out that i)( ould not give cheap houses unless tin naxiinuin value for the section \ca; £BO. If he expended £350 on tin muse, that, witli fencing, etc., ran tilt apital value up to iC46O. Since Ik anie into ollice he had only bought S'/ a icres of land, and he had sullicient lanii eft to gi on building. Ai a matter ol act be had handed over 230 acres ol and at the Upper Hutt to the Land foi Settlements Board as he saw in- chance >t utilising it for worKmen's homes foi wenty years. He was going in less or ornamentation in the dwellings, and ie believed that the pro.ie:u„.on of tin, f ! eiiij ivould do more to make rent air than anything else. If the workrs demanded them he would build thiry or lorty or fifty liousei every year; mt he could not build in more than one Jifee at a time, because he now had an .rchitect for the scheme who drew plans, aid out the grounds, and supervised he erection of the buildings.