The Daily News WEDNESDAY, JULY 14.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 August 1907, Page 2

The Daily News WEDNESDAY, JULY 14.

An outbreak ol' measles is all'oeUng tlic attendance at tin' Eltham school. | During the past year the Kaktiramoa 1 Dairy Company paid out X.iiifiia Is ad to milk suppliers. The Unworn Dairy Company will wake cheese this year, and is eroding a curing store near the railway station. Captain Kdwin advises:—Easterly Uroiig winds to gale; glass fall; tides good; sea considerable; rain probably heavy. The District Court sits at New I'lyliiouth on Friday. The only business is an appeal in the case Hook v. Sliiel, in connection with the disputed paternity of a child.

The local fust Oilice advises that telegrants for Eastern America are subject to indelinite delay owing to strikes of telegraph operators in the principal cities.

-What editors of newspapers know in their own estimation and what they dun'? know would make a book.'—liev. Drake at the welcome to liev. Harding at (juecn street church last evening.

Sonic of the schoolboys who eat their lunch in the Kecreation Grounds ire developing a little too much fro.it. Visitors to the grounds will one .d' these days resent the interference, .uid the boys will have an unexpected bath in the pond.

The local draghts club intend holding a social evening on Monday evening next, when the prizes won iu the recent tournament will be presented. The tournament was keenly contested, and as a result a large number of young players have become interested in chess and draglns.

The Taranaki Killcs company was formed ill 18j8, proclaimed iu 185!), aud saw active service at Waireka (not I'arihakaj in lSliu. The Parihaka incident, of course, occured iu 1881. These iigures should be read with the article in yesterday's issue concerning the Taranaki I Killed orderly room.

llawera borough is discussing a proposal to revert to rating on the annual value. Bating on the unimproved value has been tried for three years, and, according to the Star, the theory that the exclusive taxation of unimproved values would promote building and other improvements has received but little exemplification.

At one point on tlte fine between New Plymouth and Wellington on Tuesday, a worthy legislator hurrying to attend his duties iu parliament House was accosted by so many constituents on the road, all anxious to have a word with him, that he cut it rather line and almost missed his passage. A fast quarter mile sprint brought hiin within hailing distance of the railway, and, despite the handicap of overcoat and a big porinanteau, he lasted long enough to reach the moving train, which a considerate official had steadied up on his behalf.—Stratford Post.

The other dly we referred to the tendency of local people to go outside ihe town in search of cheap drapery, and (|iioted figures to show that they would have been infinitely better served hud they given their patronage to loc.il dr.ipevy firms, who deserved the Ir.iJe and fully catered for the requirements of the people of the district. That's apart altogether from the inconvenience of awaiting the arrival of the goons. Another instance, which his a laugh-

able side, has been brought under ouv notice. A young niiin look unto himself a wife, having ordered the furniture from one of 1 ]n- cities, wliero they do things "so nmeli better, donehoruo." At the (.(inclusion of the honeymoon tour the ]«ir arrived at their cottage hoiue. liut tlie furniture \\<t\ not come. A kindly neighbor accommodated thorn with a lied. The moral is plain. Mr li. A. Flunks, .Mr Carnegie's cashier, has written to the Town (Jlcrk in answer to his ciepiiry concerning payments on account 01 .Mr Carnegie's grant of :Ci.3W lor erection of library building at New Plymouth. "l>ur method in sucii cases," he writes, "is to make payments in amounts of about .C3UU each on the certiiiciite of the architect, but In this instance, owing to tlie very great distance, there is no objection to remitting the entire amount in two payments. In order to avoid delay in making payments to contractors, architect's certificates can he forwarded to us with your receipt for payments received from us on account of the Tmilding. Please notify mo by letter or cable when funds on Ihis account are required and I will at once remit by draft to you direct, or, if you prefer, to any bank in New Plymouth which you may suggest."

There was a short list of civil business before the S.M. Court yesterday j morning, when .Mr l'iilzherbert gave judgment in the following undefended eases:— Taranaki County Council (Mr -Nicholson.) v.E. J. Baker, claim £7 7s 7d, costs il 3s (id; .New Zealand Express Co. {ih Nicholson) v. W. Andrews and Co., claim £3 Is 3d, costs 10s; Miller (Mr Weston) v. 11. Burke, claim £3 10s, costs 10s; M. Shivnan (Mr Jolm-

stone), v. J. W. Stewart, claim £3l 10s.

costs £2 14s. Wilson and Solan sued T. Stephens for £2 os, amount of purchase money of a set of platform scales bought by defendant at an auction sale held by the plaintiffs. Mr Nicholson (Hoy and Wilson) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Johnstone (Malone, Johnstone and Anderson) for the defendant. The evidence of the plaintiffs was that the usual conditions of sale had been read prior to the sale, nnd that no guarantee as to condition had been given. It was not the custom to give a warranty unless specially instructed l>.v the vendor. The scales were returned the same afternoon. The defence was that when the scales were put up both the defendant and Mr Chew Chong, another bidder, asked if the scales were iu good order, and the auctioneer assured them that they were. There was one weight short, and the auctioneers promised (o replace it. Defendant

declined to take delivery unless the -ealcs were in good order. That same afternoon he. found the scale; were useless ami declined to lake them, saving he wuuhl do so if they were put in order. _ He was still ready to do that. Each side called one witness, the plaintiff's witness (\V. ,r. Ilonevfield) bavin" witnessed, the sale and heard no war" ranty given. I'or th ( . defence E. A. McCoy, then in the employ of Livingston, the vendor, swore that the scales were useless, being rusty inside and out from exposure to the weather. lie had hud („ | ia i nl tlioiii for the auclion sale. The S.M. dispensed with counsel's address, and non-suited the plaintiff, holding there had been no sale.