The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 21 August 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21.

The Kew Plymouth .Musical Society llias now a membership of sixty. Tenor 'voices arc needed.

I (Vvptiun Edwin wired yesterday: jModerate to strong southerly winds; glass rise; tides good; sea considerable; .weather colder.

Mr W. B. "Wilson has sold his interest in the Bridge Hotel, W'aitaia, to Mr .1. lli-vl'ie, of Wellington, who takes possession on September 2nd.

Almost every home in Sydney has suffered through influenza, and as many as llll) people have been absent in a day from one large business alone.

Miss .lessie MacEanehiaii. assisted by Mr .lolm Mi-Linden, Mr Hubert Buchanan, and Mr Douglas, a tenor vocalist, will give a concert at Xew Plymouth on Friday, September 13th.

The uminiial event of a cow giving birth to triplets occurred on Mr il. Walts' farm. Cambridge, a few days ago. The calves comprised one of the female and two of the male sex. but were dead iwhen Im)ii),

A shag was shot at Lake Hayes (Otago) the other day, and for the sake of curiosity, the marksman opened the bird and found no less than 57 young perch it it, to say nothing of the fish I digested.

Dr Kulm, of Vienna, has invented a compact motor ''kitchen" car, which will be adopted by the Austrian army, ft is possible to supply 830 soldiers from this car, and it can follow an army on the march. Food and hot water are always ready, and can '.e kept hot for 30 hours.

A witness in court yesterday morning, referring to the books of the old Xew Plymouth Co-operative Society, said he had about a ton of them, and Mr Roy probablv had not seen all of them. 'Mr Boy' said he had seen fully half-a-lon of them, at any rale, and he knew something of their condition/

A burglary was rommilted at Weitara between eleven on Saturday night and early on Sunday morning. The. Masonic Hotel was entered, and the cash register and safe containing about £3O Was taken. Tt appears that duplicate keys were kept in Ihe office next to the bar and that the thief used one of these to open the bar-door and the safe. The keys were afterwards carefully put back in their places, and nothing else was disturlird. The police are making enquiries.

We have seen men sit down quickly, slowly, deliberately, hastily, awkwardly, clumsily. We have read of the novelists' victims who sat down thoughtfully, j smilingly, drcamingly, laughingly, and the humorist's friends who sat down carefully—on a tin tack. There are those who have sat down musingly, wonderingly, rapturously, drearily. But it has remained for a barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, residing at New Plymouth, to sit down "technically." Mr J. C. Webster, agent of the Northern Steamship Company has beeu advised that a subscription list is now open in Auckland, with the object of raising funds for the erection of a suitable monument to the memory of the late Captain Blacklock, who was drowned in the Kia Ora wreck. At the time of the disaster several local people expressed their desire to see some suitable memorial erected. They may pay their subscriptions at the New Plymouth office of the company. The treasurer of the fund is Mr 11.' A. V. Bolloard. of Auckland.

At the monthly meeting of the Fitzroy Town Board on Monday night there were present—Messrs Cutfleld (chairman), Steele, Griffiths, .lackson and lllamson. It was decided to strike a general rate of in the £, and to call tenders for work in Noriuanby, Vogel and Itecord streets. A deputation was appointed to interview Mr Pikett With reference to repairs on a street in Chilman's Extended. Accounts amounting to £75 were passed for payment. The chairman gave notice of motion to alter the date of meetings from the third to the second Monday in each month.

|. A man, it is alleged, recently sold drugs to a Christchurch detective on the representation that they were for an illegal purpose, and the result»was that i the man was committed for trial on the charge. On Monday morning Mr. Justice Chapman defended the action of detectives in cases of the kind. He said that although morally it might be iwrong, it was often the only means of detecting crime. The detectives did not attempt to lead a man out of his way to commit a crime, but merely to get evidence of what the man was already 'prepared to do There was no attempt to draw a" man on to what he would not ordinarily do.

Judging by the report in a Shanghai newspaper, the Chinese sipiatter can "give puiiits" to his Australian brother when it comes to preparing his cattle lor the market. The journal in uuestion, iu an issue just to hand, reports that another case of cruelty to animals was heard at the local police court. The night before a cattle sale a dealer poured salt water dowu a bullock's throat with the aid of a large bamboo, and kept the animal tethered till morning, so that il. could not get water. Just before the sale he allowed a plentiful supply of water, hoping thus to increase its weight. The trick was discovered, however, and the dealer ordered to pay a line of 50 dollars.

A remarkable series ot coincidences has happened iu connection with vessels owned by Stuart iiros., of Glasgow, who owned ilie' ship Melville islaud, on which au explosion occurred at Wellington lately. The .Norfolk and Pilcaiiii island belong to the same proprietary. The .Norfolk island tailed How Leila iioada for Capetown oil lith July, WOT, with a cargo of coal. The cargo became heatcu, and there followed an explosion, the vessel being burnt out., bile was sighted on the lull .November, IUUI, by the Lriu's Uk; and was dually driven ashore on the rocks at the Island of Tristan d'Acunna, The crew was picked up. lu'July of last year the Pitcairn Island caught lire, the -Naval Court at Valparaiso being of opinion that the outbreak was caused by spontaneous combustion among tow shipped at Dunedin.

The Wairarapa Daily Times says;— "Some of our contemporaries seem to think that the time is arriving when tho Labor Department! should be abolished, it costs £20,000 per annum, and the value which it gives in return is a little doubtful. We spend £20,000 in New Zealand on au organised effort to prevent people doing too much work. 'file time may come when the £20,000 may be better employed iu making people do more, instead of less, labor. There will be a danger of the pendulum swinging in the opposite direction some day, and thousands of men, who now enjoy fairly easy times, may be confronted with j conditions which, will compel them to seek longer, rather than shorter, hours. Tile agitation which is now commencing iu different parts of the colony against the Labor Department is significant. Tho Labor Department has, iu some direction, accomplished useful work, and it will survive for some time yet; but the moment that hard times set in—and sooner or later they must do this, even in New Zealand—superfluous Departments will necessarily be cut down and done away with. At the present time too large a proportion of the adult population of New Zealand is employed by the Government Jf a thousand and one Inspectors were placed out on farms by the Minister of Lands, and became producers, their value to New Zealand would be increased a hundred-fold. The land is starved for the labor wliieh is congregated in State billets."

A HANDY SEPAKATOK, The Baltic Household Cream Ncpaiator lias caught on. Since its introduction a few months ago., the sales have ! exceeded nil expectations. As im ex- | ample, one user states that formerly lie four pounds of butter per week froin| [his single cow, and now, with the sepa-j rator, lie makes seven pounds of butter) ir ointlic tame quantity of milk, file] Household Separator does away wi'.ll all the labor and inconvenience cif selling milk in pans, and nukes nearlyi twice as much butter into the bargain.! Price £3 flu each, from all leading ironmongers, or MacEwans (Ltd.), Egmont! st-ect, New Plymouth. For Children's Hacking Cough, at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.[

The Egmont Box Company (Eltham) lias secured hvj areas of white pine, buali at Tuihapo. One contains aliout Soli acres of cutting. A sawmill in full working order is on the ground and il is I intended to cut out the bush "first, and afterwards commence, operation* on 251) acres of bush, also at Taihape, which the company has acquired.

Ideas of the conditions of colonial life are. still somewhat hazy in Europe. A lady in Paris, in writing to a relative who at present is farming in the Fortymile. Bush, asks if he has an electric siove in his tent, and whether he has to ride througli the bush and over mountains at night for the purpose of tending his sheep. She hoped he had a good supply of furs and bearskins, which she considered necessary to withstand the rigorous climate. '

At a meeting of the Sew Plymouth Fire Brigade at the Central Station last night, Messrs A. C'ourney and Pi. 3. Marsh were elected members, and Mr Wallace :m auxiliary. Tt was decided to erect the old East ward hell on [Tie shed next Captain llellringoi's residence. Fireman Inch was presented with a service bar, marking tIV completion of eleven years' service. The members were in-

structed in rope-splicing and general work at the lire station. A .Icrciuiah among the teachers of South Canterbbmy mote to the South Canterbury Institute : "The schools t are becoming more difficult to teach : every year. Honesty, obedience, and truth arc sadly on the wane, and parental control more lax. The teacher is expected to cope with it all. How can it be expected that young men will undertake the work under the conditions? How many teachers would allow their sous to become teachers? I don't know of many. I am quite hopeless of the profession." In the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning Mr Fitzherbert, S.M., gave judgment in the following undefended cases:— D. Hutclien. (Mr llutehen) v. R. Darling, claim £li !)s 2d, costs £1 3s (id; D. Laing (Mr Wright) v. J. Terrill. claim ,C 3 (is KM, costs 10s; E. F. Roe-, buck (Mr Quilliam) v. M. D. Poynton, claim ,C3-lSs, costs 10s. D. Laing sued I'. W. Oldham fur os (id (as for bushel of wheat, and (id for the sack). Mr Wright apneared for plaintiff and Mr Boy jlV.i- defendant. Mr Wright explained that Mr Laing was suing as the assignee

of the New l'lymmiHi Co-operative Society, and produced the hooks. The defendant denied ever having purchased

the goods, and the S.M. non-suited the plaintiff. Mr Fitzherbert remarked, in answer to Mr Wright, that it was no doubt a difficult matter to prove the sale and delivery of the goods, which were said to have been sold in 1903. But the assignee had to take this into consideration when buying book debts. No attempt bad ever been made to prove delivery of the goods. Br Paget and Mr Gardiner (of the Health Department's stall) journeyed to Whaugaiuoiuona on Sunday to attend a serious diphtheria case. The patient is now making good progress. One remarkable incident of the journey, says the Post,, was the breakdown of the buggy Dr Paget was driving. While it was standing outside Mr Gill's residence, one of the wheels suddenly collapsed, falling to pieces in a manner not unlike that recorded in Die history of the Deacon's historical "one horse shay." Dr Paget and Mr Gardner, in consequence, had to ride the buggy horses (with harness on) back to Whangainoniona, a distance of five miles, where a fresh vehicle was procured. Had the accident occurred to the buggy on the road, the consequences might have been serious. The Texts Court of Appeal has been asked to determine the validity of "telephone" marriages, and if File adverse! decision of the lower court is supported hundreds of couples who have been married in this manner will have to go through the marriage ceremony agan. The question arises through the settlement of an estate wolh £50,000, left by a iie\rly-marriod ranchman named Wcinberley to his widow. As the bride's house was twenty miles from the nearest magistrate, Wemberley rang up a justice of the peace on the telephone, and the ceremony was performed in this manner. Wemberlcy's relatives now claim his estate on the ground Hint the marriage is invalid, and that the magistrate or minister must lie in the actual presence of the contracting parties. In the sparsely settled districts of the south-western States, where it U difficult to make long journeys to a magistrate's office, marriages by telephone have been very popular.

Tlie whirligig of time brings ninny changes—none .stranger, perhaps, than the entirely altered relatione of Canada with the United States. Fifteen years ago Canada seemed to have no future outside absorption by the United States; she was u suppliant for fiscal favours which would give her an entrance to the magnificent market on her southern bonier. But the United States was an overhard bargainer,-, and the tariff wall from Oregon to -Maine grow higher and higher, it was shai'p medicine, but gave Canada just the tonic that was needed to brace up her national spirit and develop her resources, instead of to the easy market of the 8011 th, Canada diverted her energies to the East and to the West. She is now in the position of granting fiscal favours rather than soliciting them.. In her trade with England and the Pacific she liuds abundant outlet for the illimitable resources that have scarcely been drawn upon. Here is the opportunity of the century—if the Imperial Government can rise to the height of it. If a laddie gets a wetting Coining thro' the rye, if he has a cold upon him Need the laddie die! He can laugh at all chest troubles if he can procure The proper stuff, and plain enough, It's Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.