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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 4 November 1907, Page 2

A proposal to fora a tennis court at VogWtoivn has fallen through. to-dav Taranilld Colm( J' Council meets

Potato blight is ruining many of the early crop of ••murphies."

fere's an appreciable drop in the pine *)1 sugar, consequent on Hie remo va. of the duty.

The rainfall at .New Plymouth for October I<JO7, was 7.305 inches on 24 days, the maximum in any 24 \ mKi being 1.10 inches on the 3rd.

A meeting of the Catholic Club was rcld yesterday. Oliieers were elected. 1 was decided to hold a debate on Education' on 13th November

borne railway porters are not very considerate in handling dogs. Visitors to the railway station on Saturday night could see samples of the treatment.

Ike Oari'iaon Band gave another of their popular concerts yesterday afternoon in Western Park. There was a good attendance, and the sum of £3 10s was collected towards the baud funds.

the lienui Tenuis Club has amalgamated with the Fitzroy Club, and" the court, ol the former, in Courtenaystreet, are to be sold. The Fitzroy dab will endeavor to secure sufficient ground lor the laynig-doivn of grass courts.

At a meeting of the Patea Electorate Picen-cil \ictualleis' Association held on Friday it was decided that owing to the high price of foodstulf at present prerailing, the minimum charge for board and lodging throughout the electorate be 0s per day, as from Ist November

I here were hundreds of visitors to the KecrcaUon lirounds yesterday atteriioou. Scores of wee mites visited the drinking-luuutam, hoping to assuage their thirst, but the water had been turned oil', and they went away thirsty. -Mr. Tribe, secretary to the Board, tried to remedy matters, hut found the supply had been cut oil' beyond his control.

Hie lale is being told that Hiss Marie U'reJli was asked (he other day why she does not marry, and replied: "No, I have three pets at home which together answer the same purpose. J J U ve a dog which gr o, v |s all [he morning, a parrot which swears all the afternoon, and a cat which ,iays out all night!"

Says a country paper:—-Mr. , Uiiderlakor, has just completed a new hearse lor use at funerals, and it was NM'd lor the liivt lime on Friday last. The hearse, which wa- made onlirely by *'■"• i* ii very handsome one, and rolled* the highest credit upon him as a coachbuilder. It is infinitely more convenient than the veliielcs ' which have hilhcrlo been used for ll». purpose in the district, and was greatly admired on Friday."

A -\cw Zi-ahinder recent l v back Irom an extended trip [o lhr Stales has revived the (|Uestion of Irani ear etiquette lie says that a New York journal recently sent a lady reporter mi H u , (nuns crossing Brooklyn Bridge with lift\- dollars t« be given to the first, man who (rave up Mb seat for her. She had to travel several days before she found someone to whom she could award the money, and he was an old laboring man. The Muhkans say that if women can coinpelc with men in business, li.ey are just, as able as men to stand in tramears. .lTJixrsu your house Willi a boltle of Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment, anil next time one of I'm family is injured your foresight will be commended. No household should be without, this great pain-relieving, healing liniment. It is the most useful medicine you could possibly keep for daily emergencies. Accept no substitute, Obtainable everywhere.

After courting for 42 years, a farmer named Watson and Miss Helen Weald, of Shaft, Pennsylvania, have just been married. Mr Lang, of jieattie, Lang and Co., remarked that a short time ago Mr Newton King was asked to lecture on "How to get rich," and he gave his advice in two words, "Keep pigs." The advice, Mr Lang says, proved'finaneially sound, and no doubt therein lies the reason for the slaughler of the calves, which during the past few years has been so extensively pursued. Colonel Henry Watterson, a promin-

ent American editor, addressing a convention of journalists, said quite the most interesting and oddest advertisement he had ever seen was in the London Times. It ran: "A young gentle man who is on the point of getting married, is most desirous of meeting a man of experience who will take the responsibility of dissuading him from this dangerous step."

After the conclusion of the SpanishAmerican War, Mr. James Carroll, a surgeon in the United States Army, was commissioned to make a report on the

origin and course of yellow fever. Being of opinion that the mosquito was the chief transmitter of the disease, Mr. Carroll, whilst in Cuba, allowed himself to be bitten by a fever-infected mosquito. By this means he was able to demonstrate conclusively that his theory as to the source of the disease was the correct one. He, however, contracted the fever himself, and has recently succumbed after prolonged suffering.

Dr. James Gibb, writing from St. i John's Manse, Wellington, to the editor j of the British Weekly, says.—"A large number of people here were disgusted with the brag and bluster of the colonial Premiers at the recent Conference in London. Personally, I was filled with indignation. You will be pleased to learn that not the British Weekly itself reprobated more vigorously the demands of the 'Preferential Premiers,' especially Deakin, than didjhe Minister of Education here—the Hon. 'George Fowlds. He let go in lirst-rate style, and when a hubbub arose, stuck to his guns like a man."' A Marienbad message to a London paper says:—"An organ-grinder has taken up his position in the woods on the way to the golf links. He turns

the handle of his instrument with his left arm, his right being crippled. On passing the man yesterday the King noticed he was decorated with the Austrian silver medal for bravery, a rare distinction, which is similar to our Victorian Cross. The King had enquiries made, and finding out that the organgrinder had won-the medal in the war of 18G0 as a reward for saving his colonel's life, his Majesty had a sum of money handed to him."

The Australian Review of Reviews re- j ceutly offered a number of prizes to the j children and young people of the State schools for the best essays on ''lnternational Arbitration versus War." in announcing the results the editor somewhat pathetically says:—"in the secondary schools there were very few competitors, and the examiners cannot recommcut a prize to any of them, as each one, instead of being an essay on 'lnternational Arbitral ion versus War,' has been on 'War versus International Arbitration.' They each advocated war. Our aim in offering the prize was to ad-

vance the cause of arbitration, not war. One of the ideals of the Review of Reviews is to bring about a time when ■nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall there be war any more,' and with the idea of slightly helping that ideal along we offered the prizes." Still, the editor must pardon a smile over the rampant and unanimous iniquity of the youth in the secondary schools of Australia going solidly for war. Possibly there may be worse things than war. The Chief Justice appears to be responsible for Hie statement that "in Taranaki and other places the prices of land have gone up so that people make their children slaves. The price of hind is so high that they cannot pay for labor, and have to depend on their children, who are being worked to death." Sir Robert Stout, having gone so far, might reasonably be expected to cite some evidence in support of his statement. We have never known instances ourselves, during the past forty years, of any ehilrden being "worked to death." The State compels all children to spend a certain number of hours daily in school attendance, and it is difficult to see-how children under these circumstances can be killed by physical work. Of course, there may be exceptional cases, but before the statement of the Chief Justice can be accepted there should be a little more information given as to the actual life and work of the average child in the Taranaki district. Milking is by no means an unhealthy occupation, and it would be interesting to compare the physique of the boy who milks up country with that of the hoy in the city. We are told that boys up Taranaki way have a weary, averworn look. We can believe as much as this, but to declare that they are "worked to death" seems to lie an overstatement. —Masterton Times.

There is a dearth of doctors in the country towns oi the Dominion. The head of a professional agency informed one of the reporters of the Dominion the other day that in a little over si.e mouths he had a dozen applications for doctors to be sent to smaller towns in both islands, and in only two eases had it been possible to fulfil the request. -Most of the applications were from lodges, and had reference to townships in which the sole doctor at present was considered to be so overworked that prompt attention to lodge eases was not possible on his part. Practices worth £4OO to £SOO were generally assured, but doctors coming to New Zealand would not look at these. The whole tendency of the profession was to crowd into the cities, where practices of £IOOO to £ISOO a year were said to be quite common, and practices of over £2OOO not unknown, and there were even instances in which residential doctors I could not be obtained for large suburban districts. "If live hundred new doetors were to land hero to-morrow, in two months' time they might all be settled down in the Dominion and making comfortable livelihoods." According to this authority, dentists have the same strong preference for city life, with much less reason. Many young dentists, it is urged, arc waiting in vain for city clients, while they would be beset with applications for the ease of aching jaws if only they would move to country towns."

Writing in the Worlds Work magazine of the development of Africa Mr Samuel P. \ eruer thus summarises Africa's undeveloped wealth—l. Five million square miles oi wealth-producing land, absolutely undeveloped, in excess of what is or may be required for the natives, and exclusive of all desert or otherwise unproductive areas. 2. Known goldbearing reef, vein and placer deposits that will probably produce for scores of years after opening a total annual value of £o0,000;00(l. 3. Diamonds and precious stones to the value of £20,000,000 annually. 4. Coal beds covering SOO,OOO square miles. 5. Copper de> posits equal to those of North. America and Europe combined. 6. Beds of iron ore aggregating a probable quantity five times in excess of those known in North America. 7. A visible supply of hardwood and other hunber of the total quantity of at least 2000 billion cubic feet (solid dimensions). S. Waterpowers equal to at least 00 times that ot Niagara Falls, neglecting all powers less than 10,000. n. An available labor force, not yet ill use, of 15,000,000 ablebodied men., 10. Forty thousand miles of river and lake navigation, 11. Climatic, topographic, and meteorological conditions so varied as to present an environment, somewhere, within the bounds of the continent, suitable to every race.

A large quantity of indent shoes and slippers at a reduction of 10 to 30 per cent will be offered for the next four weeks at Dockrill's, to make room for shipments to arrive. A large assortment of ladies' evening shoes to hand at low prices; also in stock Ma 'Wei! known brand of men's, youth's and children's boots at bedrock prices-

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