The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 18 November 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18.

The Chief Postmaster advises Unit tinselled postcards, posted without covers, will in future be destroyed. This notice is liual

The Bishop of Waiapu and family have offered to give a £ for £ subsidy up to £SOOO on contributions to the local bishopric endowment fund.

It's somewhat of a farce when a doctor lias to notify a, case of measles as an infectious disease. But this seems necessary. There's a chance of a vast quantity of ollicial paper being used, judging by the spread of tins infantile complaint.

The (ioveriiment intends to give a boils of £IOOO if 1000 tons of good marketable cupper are produced from ores mined and smelted in New Zealand on or before 311 th June, 1 !•()!). If a second 1000 tons are produced between Ist July, 1(10!), and JiOth June. 11)10, the bonus payable will be .Colli), and if a third 1000 tuns be produced in the following year a similar amount will be paid. The "crawl" lo Carnegie for an additional CSOO for the library has been unsuccessful, say* the Dannevirke Press. Andrew considers that the £2OOO already given should be enough for a building to suit such a town as Dannevirke. Further, he bluntlv tells the Council that if tlicy had found tin money insullicicnt. the plans shoulc have been recast. This is unpleasant but true. Two thousand pounds charitj was surely enough. The Council, how ever, is to make a further prayer fo: I crumbs from the rich man's table.

Perlia|w influenza is spread by filthy bank-notes (says the Napier Telegraph). In any event, bank-notes are as a. rule filthy, and, therefore, unpleasant to handle, even if not disseminators of disease germs. Why should not a banknote be withdrawn after one issue? This is not found dillicuh in regard to cheques, and no large question of cost is here involved between cheques and bank-notes, for the stamp on s, ehcoue is a tax imposed by the uoveriimcut on users. It is only too plain that banknotes now are customarily filthy and probably dangerous, and ought not to be either. Perhaps the. (loveriiment may see fit to take some steps in this matter.

We arc not altogether astonished that dairy-farmers, educationists, and others in the Tarauaki provincial district are warmly resenting the imputation that a system of child slavery is in existence there in connection with the dairy industry, says the Otago Daily Times. It would have been surprising, indeed, if they had admitted that the imputation was well founded. But we are afraid that their denials will not lead to the removal of the impression which has gained ground throughout the dominion that the employment of child labor on dairy farms of the district involves conditions that are decidedly harmful to the children engaged.