The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 August 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27.

ofl Miss Maud lliklyard, supported b) Meynell and tiunn's Uramatic Company, 0 f will appear at New Plymouth on 15th to November. tic Iu these days of New Zealand records Sp it is interesting to note that the th 'New Plymouth Borough Council eon- wi eluded la»t night's meeting at ten mlu- gi utes past nine o'clock. of Capt. Edwin wired at 1.10 yesterday afternoon:— Northerly strong winds to wi gale after 20 hours; glass fall; tides G< high; sea heavy; indications for r.iin. w Scarlet fever is still very prevalent in j'J Wellington. Since the beginning of April 318 C-ises have been reported in w the city. Seven cases were fatal. cc The Feilding Show Association intends to offer £714 in prize money for "j tho annual show to be held or. February 4 and 5. 1908. 01 The Taranaki Agricultural Society in n tends to experiment at Bell Block with a a view to affording to f.irmers some e . reliable information concerning the S( growth of winter feed for stock. n Frankley and Carrington l'o-id 0 draughts players played a match at Mrs B. Gilbert's house, Frankley Road, d on Saturday night, the former winning i: by eleven games to ten. v The march of the motor: There are I 25,000 motors in London and 2000 fewer 1 hansom cabs than there were a year ago. c The hansom, says a London paper, will 1 be a matter of history In ten years' 1 tone. ' s 1 The street lecturer on Saturday 1 nearly lost His stand. It was a butter- ' box. He planted it near the middle of Currie street, and then went away for a moment. Returning, with a view of starting his lecture, he saw a man pick up his box and make off with it. Ex- 1 planations followed. The purloiner said he was removing the box merely out ot consideration for the safety of the public. A large native gathering, with festivities on an elaborate scale, is now being held at Te Ore Ore pah, two jniles from Mastertou, the occasion being a trio of baptisms of native children. A large number of Europeans are present. A prominent figure is a female tohunga of the Arawa tribe, whose incantations and supposed powers have a great hold over the Maoris. Order and decorum are enforced, and no liquor is allowed to be brought.into tiie pah. Natives from all parts of the island are present. The Telegraph office has received the following from Bamlield: "Strike position in the United States remains about the same, lo San Francisco, ChicagoJ New York, and Boston the delay is very little, as direct wires exist between Canadi and these offices, with exception of San Franciseo, to which Seattle relays. The companies claim to be handling ordinary traffic successfully, and cables have special attention. The removal of all restrictions across Canada makes the position favorable to our business."

The following team lias been chosen to represent the Taranaki Riiles in a return shooting match against the Mangorei Rifle Club on the Rewa Rewa range on Thrusday next: Lieut.-Col. Okev, Captain Bellringer, Lieut. Humphries, C'ol-Sergt. Lister, Corporals Armitage and Bruce, Private Banks, Hon. Member 11. Willis. Emergencies: Hon. Member Buchanan and Private Bacon.

A vehicle and an old gentleman narrowly escaped collision in one of tho by-streets yesterday afternoon. The driver of a spring-cart had his attention fixed in the wrong direction, and it was only at the very hist second that he pulled hard on one rein and whizzed by the old man, who was walking slowly across tho road. There was not even time for apologies. The cow is a useful animal. She supplies the milk for the porridge, and makes the cheese and butter industries possible. She makes the fortunes of tho larnicrs and butter-men, but she breaEs the heart of the gardener. The cow is an absolute failure as a horticulturist. A oow iu a garden is a line producer—of bad language. Two or three Vogeltown residents were loud in their complaints yesterday morning. Somebody's cow had strayed from ''the long paddock." She had found all the new seedbeds and plots of young cabbage plants, and enjoyed herself.

A cable from New York says:—"Tho marriage will shortly take place of a i man aged 101 years and a woman who recently celebrated her hundredth birthday. They were friends in their youth, but drifted apart, and recently met, after not having seen each other for 85 years." Tnis probably refers to the engagement of Mr. John B. Bundren, of Tatcsvilie, Tennessee, and Miss Rose M'Guire, of Preston, England. The couple were engaged in their youth, but Miss M'Guire's parents objected, and Mr. Bundren went to America. He learned recently that his former sweetheart was still alive, and letters passed which led to a renewal oi the courtship.

Ihe charge against nine Opunake residents lor causing and taking pan in tin uiilawiul assembly, the outcome of liie recent "tar-and-ieather'' incident will come before the Magistrate at the local Court on Friday next for the preliminary hearing, ihe charge is laid under the Criminal Code Act. Mr Speiice (Speuee and Stanford), of Stratford has been retained to act as counsel for all accused. Mr Spencc applied to the S.AI. on Saturday last to have the case heard at Opunake. Sergeant Haddrell opposed the application, and his Worship, in view of the allegedly strong public feeling of the Opunake and Kahotu districts against the alleged victim declined ' o take the responsibility of directing the case to be heard at Opunake. A veteran who fought fur the United States in the war with Mexico died at nis residence, i'Yanklin-road, Auckland, last week, at the advanced age of eighty years, lie «vas an linglishman named James (jrakam Percy, and as tlie war with Mexico commenced on 24th April, 1840, and lasted until 4th July, 1848, it Is evident he went across to the States while a very young man. Mr. Percy came to Auckland very many years ago (says the Star), and fur a long time carried on saddlery business in Durhamstreet. Advancing age compelled him to retire, and for a lung while he has resided with his wife in Franklin-road. Heath was due to senile decay. He leaves a wife, but no family. An illustration of the care taken by the Government of the United States of those who fought the country's battles is shown by the fact that a guod many years ago the then United States Consul in Auckland sent lor Mr. Percy, and, after having satisfied himself that he had found the right man, stated that the War Department had been hunting for him in order to pay him a pension. Mr. Percy was then paid £IOO, and afterwards received £2O per annum from the United States Government.

Locturlng at the Y.M.C.A. Hall in Sydney to an r.'.niicncc of young men, Dr. Lyman B. Sperry laid stress on the responsibility of the individual living the life which would qualify liiin for healthful and potential fatherhood. Freaks and deformities of birth were, he said, generally the result of bad living at some time in the life of one or both of the parents; and the sowing of wild oats by parents almost invariably Brought a harvest of defective children. How njany of the young men of the present day, he asked, spent most of their leisure in helving what they called a good time? A good time was getting around hotels, swilling liquor, the best of which was slow poison. A man after a few yearß of this life generally looked around for a wife, and managed sometimes to be smitten with the charms of some nohipped, narrow-chested, wasp-waisted woman, a bundle of finger-rings, bracelets, and padding, a skimmed-milk sort of creature, and—well, they were a good match! He had a fool for a wife, and she had nothing better for a husband. They would bring fools into the world, to be cared for by the public. While on the subject of dissipation, Dr. Sperry indulged in a little straight talk. What was required to combat its seductive influence, he said, was more attractiveness in the home life, and it was upon the head of (lie family that this responsibility devolved.

There have been about fifteen butter | buyers, representing different firms, in j Taranaki during the past few days. So far no business has been done, factories | hanging off for better prices than those j offering. | A proposal is afoot to lower the level of Liardet street at the main entrance to the Recreation Grounds. Tho Recreation Grounds Board and the Recreation Sports Ground Committee have given their consent, seeing that the attention will be a great improvement to the grounds. The matter is now in the hands of the borough works committee. There's a probability of another little wooden addition being tacked on to the Government buildings in New Plyiniu.;li. within the "brick area." This is contrary lo the borough buliding by-laws. The Borough Council will remonstrate with the Public WorEs Department concerning the matter.

The Minister in charge of the Post . nd Telegraphs is to be asked to have 1 lie New Plymouth telegraph office open- c id two hours earlier in the morning. The ifiice now opens at eight o'clock. It is lot intended, as originally proposed, 10, 1 isk the Department to close the office 1 :arlier than midnight, as now. That 1 section of Mr F. Bellringer's proposal I net with very strong opposition in vari- > jus quarters. Mr Clias. Fairbanks, the Vice-Presi-lent of the United States, who is staying at an hotel in Yellowstone Park, was the hero of a gallant act of rescue. A waitress from the hotel fell into a lake near by, and Mr Fairbanks, who is over fifty years of age, plunged into the water fully dressed and succeeded in holding up the woman until help came. Ho afterwards assisted in carrying the waitress to the hotel, where she recovered from the effects of her immersion. Tho new Canadian Paciiic railway Trans-Canada service of 90 hours across the continent cuts down tile journey round the world to forty and a half days. It will be the fastest route at present around the globe. Colonel H. Burnley-Campbell, who recently travelled round, the world in 40 (lays lO'/i hours, took less than 90 hours, not more than 84 in fact, in getting from Quebec to Vancouver. Some discussion took place in the Borough Council last night concerning' infectious diseases and the alleged failure of the doctors to report cases to the local authority. The Mayor stated tint the Health Department was instituting inquiries concerning the ease recently reported, iu which the bedding used by a consumptive patient had becu sold by auction without disinfection—and there was a probability that proceedings would be taken against some person implica ted. On the motion of Cr. Collis, seconded by Cr. Coleman, it was decided to bring under the notice of tho District Health Officer the fact that a case of ■ infectious disease had been removed . from premises in the borough to the . New Plymouth Hospital, but no notice • of it had been sent to the council.

The new regulations for the registration oi Asiatics in the Transvaal came into force in July. The fuuians are excitedly protesting against the establishment of tiie linger-print system, which is one of the main points of the new regulations, and it is predicted (says a message in a London paper) that (3000, or fully hall the Indian community, will become passive registers. Registration by iinger-prints is to prevent tho illicit use of passports, Indians who wish to enter the Transvaal having a way of impersonating Indians who have already been registered. .Last year there were nearly 1)00 of these unauthorised arrivals from Natal, and between May, 1003, and December, 1000, there were over 8000, who came in and swamped flic small Boer and English traders. For the last four years thumb prints have been used as a means of registration, but this having proved to be useless, the prints of all the fingers and thumbs are now required by tho ordinance passed last September. Against this must be set Ihe removal of the registration tax of £3,. The Indians, besides objecting to the more stringent regulations, regard the application of the methods to their women as offensirc to Mohammedan scruples. The United States is beginning to apply the same system to intending immigrants. In May it was applied in Sweden.

A French scientist, Dr. Marage, has constructed what may be described as a talking siren—that is, a siren which produces sounds that accurately imitate those of the various vowels both when sung and spoken, in constructing his device, of which an elaborate description by Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz appeared in the Scientific American of 11th May, Dr. Marage intended primarily to design an apparatus for gauging the sharj* ness of the sense of hearing in different individuals. But it seems he has done much more than this, "While," writes I)r. Grademvitz, "the siren can be used for diagnostical purposes, it will lie found useful also in curing ear trouble. In fact, a systematic treatment consisting in the repeated production of given sounds before the tympanum of the car has been found to be a most efficient

'massage,' which in some cases restores the ear to normal hearing capacity, while nearly always effecting some improvement. This process has also been used with much success in the treatment of deaf mutes, many of whom have been taught to liear by its means. In this case the ear is taught according to a method which from the most simple elements of speech, that is, the vowels, proceeds to the more complicated, the deaf mute learning how to liear in exactly the same way as a child Is taught how to read by beginning with the alphabet."