The Daily News WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2

The Daily News WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23.

The Gear Company's opirations in the A T airarapa have grown to y.u !i ;;n extent :hat it U opening a branch at Masi-erton. An application is fo be made to the Education Department Tor a grant towards the cost of a building at Inglewood for manual and technical classes.

Mr. Stephen Dews Thaw, a nephew of Mr. llarry K. Thaw, has gone to Syria as a Presbyterian missionary. He is heir to his father, Mr. 'thaw, who is worth £3,000,01)1).

It is understood that the boarding-house-keepers at Ashburton euntempl.ite milking a rise in their tariff owing .to the high price of lircad, meat, and vegetables.

An heir to the Krupp millions has been born at Essen. According to his grandfather's will, this boy, on attaining his majority, will inherit the great Krupp works, the capital of which now .(mounts to £8,000,000. Mr. W. Diniock visited Ilawera last week (says the Star) and informed his local agent, Mr. C. Arnold, that the coining season for pigs was going to be a good one, and the company intends to pay not less than 4d per lb during the season.

The headquarters' companies attended the usual monthly battalion parade last night. There was a fair attendance. Owing to the darkness, outside work was out of the question, and the evening was spent in exercising in the new I drill in the Drill Hall.

"In New Zealand we are getting into the habit of squandering money on technical education, and it's time it was checked."—Mr. Monkhouse at, Just night's Education Board meeting. And some less demonstrative member murmured a scarcely audible '-hear, hear."

According to London newspapers, Scotland Yard detectives have been informed that the man suspected by the Melbourne police of the murder of Mr. Bernard Bauer, diamond merchant, in June last, has landed in Kngland. There is a reward of .-CIOOO for information that will lead to the murderer's arrest.

Remarkable contrasts in milk yields are quoted by the Kltliam Argus, which says that the yields from several dairies not far apart are as follows:—(1) A herd of 8(1 or DO cows is giving scarcely more than 9001b of milk per day; (2) a herd of 55 con s is giving between 10001b and 17001b: and (•'!) a herd of 25 eows is giving 70011). Last year a herd on the Fraser road gave *I4BOJb from 40 cows.

The Johannesburg correspondent of the Puncdin Star says:—"Generally the 'raw Kaffir/ the boy from the remote kraals, is lioncst and trustworthy, and possesses many other good qualities that claim our liking and esteem. The semicivilised Kaffir is an animal to be avoided, and more especially such as have become religious, their religion being in many instances a stoek-in-trade which enables them to get the better of their fellows. 1 '

Mr. Edgar Stead, who has just returned to Christehurch from a visit to America and England, states that when lie was coming out lie met on the vessel several representatives of large woolbuying firms of England and Europe, They said that very serious complaints were made in regard to false packing in wool bales from the Dominion. The complaints were directed against the small shccpowners, and not the large ones.- Two representatives of a German house and one representative of a Lancashire house said tlmt tliey would not buy small clips from New Zealand unless tliey o|>o!ied every bale. The Wellington Homing Pigeon Society ilew a race from New Plymouth last Wednesday for a trophy presented by Mr. P. W. Lamb. Twelve lofts, represented by thirty-eight birds, competed. The birds were liberated by the stationmaster, in fine weather, with a light head wind, similar conditions prevailing throughout. The following was the result:—W. Bailey's lien. Queen Bee, 723 yds per minute, 1; P. W. Lamb's hen, Trust, 721 yds, 2; J, .1. Elliott's hen, No. 18, 720 yds, 3. On Saturday the society Hew an interval race from Ilawera for -Mr. 11. Clark's trophy. Seven members competed. The birds were liberated at ten-minute intervals, with the following result:—'W. Bailey's cock, Golden Crown, 1053 yds pey minute, 1; W. Aider's hen, No. 43,'740yd5, 2; F, Williams's hen, No. 22, 724 yds, 3. 11l sympathy with Hour (says the Post) the price of potatoes is on the upward grade. During the winter local supplies have been augmented by heavy shipments from Tasmania and Victoria; but the prospects of a very dry season in the Commonwealth has practically stopped further shipments to New Zealand, and prices have accordingly advanced 30s a ton. There is another cause contributing to the advance—the condition of the potatoes contained in store pits; 'These have been attacked by disease, and pits from which sixty or seventy tons were expected are only turning out twenty or thirty tons of marketable potatoes. On Monday the price in New Zealand, at shipping port, was 00s to 65s per ton; to-day the price has gone up To 80s, with the prospect of another 10s rise st any moment.

At the conclusion of the Loyal Excelsior Lodge, I.'U>.l-\, last evening, the lady triends attended and an enjoyable time was spent in progressive euchre. .Several of the members of the Egmont Lodge were present. At the conclusion of the games I'.P.G.M. W. ]?. Brooking thanked the ladies for their kind entertainment of the brethren, and hoped that the lodges would have many more such gatherings, and called on Mrs. W. Oliver to present the prizes to the winners, Mrs. 11. Tonks lieing successful in winning the ladies' prize and Bro. C. A. Matheson the gentlemen's. After supper had been discussed, the lloor was cleared and a few dances were indulged in. The supper was provided by the ladies, who also had the management of the evening's entertainment, in return for an evening provided by the members of the two lodges last week.

The report on the recent inspection of the Central School by the Jiducation Board's inspectors stated that the inauners, discipline, and general tone of the school were good, though closer supervision might be exercised when the children were entering and leaving the rooms. 'The headmaster referred to this in his monthly report to the committee on Monday night, and pointed out that the day on which the inspectors visited the school was one of the most severe they had had tliis season, and they consequently had not seen the school at its best. Rain was falling heavily, and the day was so rough that there was no dinner-hour, but only fifteen minutes' interval for lunch. During this time part of the children were inside and part outside. This would account for the remarks about the supervi&ion when children were entering and leaving the school. The committee was perfectly satisfied with the explanation.

I'll the course of his charge to the Anglican Synod at Auckland, Bishop mad:' tin; following reference to child labor:—''Last ymr I mentioned this subject and suggested it as a useful matter for investigation by the branches of the C.E.M.S. The replies to hand do not lend much support to the allegation that at present there is any very prevalent carelessness in dairying districts over the health of children. There are instances of very hard lives; but, so far as my informants have been able to ascertain, the instances are not sufficiently numerous to enable any sort of general conclusion to be arrived at. An inquiry of this sort is, of course, exceedingly delicate, and great care has to be exercised in arriving at statistical conclusions. Our investigations do not in any way contradict the theory I advanced last year of there being a leudemy to think more of the care and rcquiremfjits of urban lather than rural populations. At the same time there is no reliable evince villiin our reaclr ol any general erin-liy in 'he sense of child labor in dairying districts. It is, however, quite possible that a too vigorous and unsympathetic enforcement of the requirements of the syllabus may press cruelly not only on the children but also on the teachers in State schools in dairying districts. However, this trouble, if it be one. is growing less every year, for, T may perhaps be permitted to state here, in the inspectors ot the State sifionls this country possess es a band/, f pnl.lir- servants devoted to their work and nn-l self-denyin<r in the discharge of their duty," WHY GO HONfiRY?

Tf your stomach is weak and you are suffering from indigestion, don't sacrifice your health and comfort, Kat all the wholesome food you want. Then take one of Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules after each meal. They digest your food, and thus nourish and build you up, while the stomach is recovering ita natural tone, ObtainaK}. sveryvrtwre, *

The toiulcr of Mr. W. ITowson, at CllO7 10s, was accepted last night tor the erection of the Education Hoard's new oilices on St, Michael's >S*]iiarc.

The new berth at the irharf was used yesterday by th« Rotoiti, the lirst of :he larger coastal boats to be moored .here.

The average attendance at the Central School for the past four weeks was 4")'.)."), out of a roll number of «3!). The average attendance for the past quarter was 471.

When the sleeping King was awakened | last night and informed by "Plue bell that he had slept three hundred years, he asked, "Have they struck oil yet; The hit was a good one, and it was some minutes before the audience settled down again. The local Good Templars are in earnest in the matter of erecting a Tom-

plars' llall. Committees are now tak- , ing the initial steps in working up a , bazaar for March next. 'J-lie target is ( £IOO, and if that sum is secured, the site will be procured, and the erection of the hall put in hand without delay. In the Police Court vc.:tcrday George, Cock, junr., was fined 5s and costs, in , default 24 hours' imprisonment, on a charge of drunkenness, and £1 '""1 costs, with an alternative of 48 hours' , imprisonment, for obtaining liquor dur- j ing the currency of his prohibition or.l in -

In the S.M. Court yesterday, judgment was given in (lie ease of Granville v. Andrew, a claim for £33 damages (and £4 42s costs) for breach of con-

tract by defendant's f.iilurc to instal an electric motor in plaintiff's premises at Waitara. Mr Qu;l!iain appeared for piaiutill', and Jlr C. Weston for defendant. i

A dog was recently made the recipient oi a presentation for life-saving. A couple of years ago—perhaps a little more—a young man was successful in bringing to slore a couple of nearlydrowned people at Suinnor near Ciinstchurcli Tile newspapers chronicled his plucky action, and lie's never heard, a word from the rescued people or their friends. , j ..

An oratorical competition is to oc held by the New X'lymouth Catholic Ulub in about three weeks. The speeches are to be delivered oil subjects taken fruiu the lives of men and women of rank in history. The contest, the lirst of its kind in New Plymouth, is expected to create a deal of interest. A handsome diploma is to be awarded the successful competitor by the executive, in Wellington, of the federated clubs.

There were no judgments by default in the S.M. Court yesterday morning. Adjournments and confessions, with a couple of "no appearance" announcements disposed of all the cases but three, and these were defended. In a claim, Mrs Darling v. C. F. Atkinson, for £5 money lent, judgment was given lor plaintiff, with costs ifl 12s. Mr Hughes appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Wilson for defendant. , ;

-Married Americans are in fear lest the advice of Miss Clarke, of the Civil Sorvicu Commission of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, should be adopted generally throughout the United States, as it has been in Missouri, where the advice was given. Miss Clarke obtained a promise from the women she addressed that for an hour after every dinner time they would lecture their husbands 011 women's lights until tliey undertook to vote and work for the sulTragist cause. Mr William Styles Coke, o£ Melbourne, has petitioned the liing praying his Majesty to have it declared that lie is the Karl of Leicester. He is by profession a metallurgist, but his wife and daughter keep a confectionery shop at Prabran The Leicester estates yield £7U,UOI) a year. The eldest son of the holder of the re created earldom in 1837 was Coke's father. When Mr W. S. Coke was only eight years of age a violent quarrel took place between his father and grandfather. In 1842 the old earl died, and Mr W. S. Coke's father renounced the title and estates in favor of Edward Keppel, the present earl. Mr Coke's father died 17 years ago. As soon as possible after his father's death, Mr W. g. Coke took steps, us the deceased's eldest son, to assert his claim to the peerage. For that purpoes lie went to England about lOO.'i, with the result that after the lapse of about a year and a-half, his means failed, and he was obliged to return to Australia. Mr Coke says he has now letters from the carl admitting liis claim, aid the whole thing has been settled.

A £fish story," that will surpass rill world soon. A marine monster is to have his biography printed in a n'co little hook, all to himself. The finny individual to he so highly honored is, of course, "Pplorus .Tack."' The Tourist Department is bribing out a booklet n;bout this playful 'denizen of the deep. Enquiries about his habits, his birth, and whether ho is married, come from all parts of the world, and it is therefore considered advisable to print a full and faithful account of his career, as fur as it can he traced. The Department would, therefore, be glad to learn when ".Tack" first came under general observation. Mr T. K Donne says that as far as his recollection goes, the quaint fish began performing near' tho Round early in the eighties. The older captains who traded to Nelson in those remote dates are invited to furnish Mr Donne with the information desired. A sample of the vague ideas abroad about ".Tack's" personality r>peared in the New York World last month. "There's actually a shark over m New Zealand who is protected by law, _it was stated. "He pilots every ship m and out of the harbor which, he calls home."