The Daily News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 September 1907, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13.

The Post Office advised us nt 7.50 o'clock last night that Vancouver reported an Aurora very bad at Winnipeg, and the cables were moving very slowly. A "hospital contribution" box was opened in 'fimam the other day after hanging unopened in the courthouse for about 30 years, and yielded up the munificent sum of lis 7'/;d. It is said that a new company, composed of Maoris, has been registered, the object being the establishment of a new line of steamers on the Wnnganui River. The capital of the company is to be .£51)00, in 5000 shares of £1 each. i Major Sheets, speaking at the military dinner last night, said he liked the New /iealandcrs for their respect of England and the English people In that respect the were like Canadians. Alongside Canada were people who had « good deal to say against England, but "thank God, they /don't say it in oui country. There'd be music if tTiej did."

Tli -re was a fair attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening to witness the farewell performance of Mack's Pictures. An excellent and varied number of films were shown ami were well received. The ventrilo(|uial turn given by Mr. Jess Collier was exceptionally entertaining, his voice-throwing performance and his concluding item of singing in six different voices being particularly clever. Mr. Macdermott has always provided a good show, and bis present touring combination is even better than his former ones.

"I have lived in New Zealand for forty-three years and reared seven sons; that ought to be proof enough that I wasn't drunk," declared an old gentleman of seventy-three winters and a damaged physiognomy at the Auckland Police Court on Friday morning last. "He was in a helpless state of drunkenness," remarked the arresting constable. "He was so drunk that he couldn't stand." •'Well," retorted the ancient bibber, "if [ couldn't stand I could walk, so what's the odds?" and they let him oil upon payment of tin- fare for the cab, which lie'protested had been a totally unnecessary luxury.

A convict named Deborne, who has just been pardoned in Paris, after serving seven years' imprisonment, was so altered in appearance when he reached home that his wife refused to acknowledge him as her husband. The man had a long way to walk, and when he leached his native village he was barefooted, clothed in rags, and his hair—which had been black when he went to prison—was white as snow. His wife ordered him away from her door as an impostor. He had to go to the mayor, prove his identity, and take that official back to his wife's bouse before he could induce her to believe that her husband had really returned.

The following is taken from a private letter written by a civil servant in the Transvaal: "Everything went well until the present llet Volk Government came into power; but now, within the last six weeks, twelve of our magistrates and assistant magistrates who have come from over the sea have been summarily retrenched, and at present there is a reign of terror in the land, and the Civil Service is utterly demoralised. There is no guarantee that these 'retrenchments will not continue over the next twelve months at the shortest, as the Government declines to pass the Civil Service Pension Act this session, presumably for its own purposes. At present 1 have not received notice, but in any case I do not feel inclined to work with a sword hanging over my head."

Captain Bellringer, of the Taraaki Rifles, said last night that in his opinion volunteering did not receive its full measure of support from the public. He did not mean financial support, but moral support. The public were inclined to look on a volunteer as a man who had taken up a harmless hobby. They liked to sec the red-coat's on parade, and to hear martial music. But unjtil they took a jnorc serious view—until they looked with disfavor on the man who had not done his share in preparing himself for the defence of his country—volunteering would not be that important national movement that it should be.

A case in which a plucky action mot with a just reward occurred in Mastcrton a short time ago (says the Age). A lad named Charles Lytllc," while walking along the railway line, came across the form of a little girl lying on the rails with her foot caught in one of the rails. He had little time to act, as the evening train from Wellington was fast approaching. Alter some difficulty, however, the lad managed to get the girl clear, but he himself only escaped from the front of the train after receiving a rather nasty bump from the locomotive. The father of the girl became acquainted of the rescue, and the sequel to the affair happened on Monday last, when Master Lyttle received from Auckland, by post, a gold medal bearing the following inscription:—"ln recognition of an act of heroism in saving life, 1007." The strange part of the occurrence is that the youthful rescuer is unaware of the name of the girl whom he rescued.

A very successful "end of season" Baud of" Hope meeting was held in the South Koad Methodist Church on Wednesday evening last. There was a crowded audience. Mr E. Cliatterton occupied the chair, and a lengthy programme, was gone through in a very capable (manner. Several choruses by the children were well rendered. Novel items were: The Three Frogs, Japanese chorus, alphabet dialogue, hoop drill, a dialogue led by Miss Alice Howell, and a trio "The Social Glass." The following young people contributed songs c —Misses Nora Crozicr. Gladys Gilbert anji Vita Gilbert. Recitations were given by Ida Mills, May Christonscn, Elsie Biley, l!iU Hohson, Ida Russell, Douglas Cottier, Kathleen Mander, Jessie Mclsaac, Maude Burgess, Nita Yates, Ttoyee Nooßor, Dorothy BlancharJ, Jack Burgess, Nellie Burgess, Ken. Brokenshiie. Muriel Oliver. Elsie White, Mabel Mills, Audrey Tapt, Keg. Brokenshire, and Hazel Brokenshire. The committee, consisting of the liev. H. A Xi. Keck, Mesdamcs Bobin, nooker, Gilbert, Crozier and Burgess, and Misses Brokenshire, L. Howell and McWhinne.y are to be complimented on the admirable way tho children had been trained. Speakers at the military function last night had been lauding to the echo the pluck and endurance of our forefathers, and to that attributed the pluck and physique of our contingents who fought in South Africa. The good old cry was gradually gaining volume, when Lieutenant Humphries stepped into the breach, and stcm|niod the tide of man-worship. 11" held a brief for the fair sex, having devoolved upon him the important duty of proposing "The Ladies." What use to us, he askrtl, would be the pluck of our fathers, arid grandfathers if mothers and grand-, mothers had not been just as full of British pluck and endurance as the male creatures. He paid a warm tribute to the valor of those women who volunteered at the front as nurses, and then went on to speak of matters nearer home. The Taranaki Rides were the only company in the colony, In* thought, wdio possessed colors. These colors were presented to the company bv a lady on behalf of the ladies of New Plymouth. Right up to the present day they had the goodwill niul-as-sistance of the ladies, and he smilingly suggested that if sweethearts and wives visited the volunteers' rifle range and, say. provided afternoon tea. there would soon be a big boom in volunteering. A MYSTERIOUS EVENT. Many physicians seem to think it a mysterious event when their patients—whom they cannot cure—are quickly re- ,' lieved and restored to health by Dr:. , Shcldos New Discovery for Coughs, Cobb ind Consumption; but there i 3 nothing mysterious about it. Dr. Shel- ' don's New Discovery represents the lat- ' est knowledge of th" day in the practice of the science, of healing, and docs not ' follow any of tlicTSld-fashionod methods ' of the materia medica. Tt goes right ' to the point of infection in all eases of ; thrnrtt and lung trouble, and by means ■ that are nil its own drives out the ' disease and heals the affected parts, it is a safe, pleasant, positive cure for nil ' lung troubles. Try it. Obtainable i ■Everywhere, '

Whilst the Home butter-buyers are offering the butter companies only 10'/id per lb or thereabouts for the season's output, the local grocers are prepared to make, contracts for a regular supply all the year round at a figure more like lid, provided the butter is made into pound pats. Not many factories around here will cater for this trade, and the consequence is that much of the factory butter sold in New Plymouth hails from Southern Taranaki. A resident of Florida, United States, who wrote to Gisborue some time agu for information as to the stability of the district raising hogs, lemons, and poultry, in a letter of thanks for the information supplied, states that he has made up his mind to come to New Zen-! land, with Gisborne as his objective, and adds: ''lt is impossible for me here to say exactly what I shall try to do, as circumstances so much alter cases, and I have always found it better to adapt myself to the country than to make my plans and then try to adapt the country and conditions to them. . . We are not looking for a bonanza, and only want the privilege of living in God's I country in return for the equivalent iu toil."