The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 25 November 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23.

Sewers arc now being lit id in Fulford anil Hulled streets. 'l'lic now water-cart for the Borough t'i>uiii.il has been coniiik'ti'il. Two men, two horses, and two farts will now bo engaged in the watering of our streets. Two big gang's of men were working yesterdav°a! the railway yards in coniiceliuu with (lie installation of the new signalling and interlocking apparatus.

Conns,! a>ked whether or not a man would lake a certain view of a certain mailer. "Ve*," said the witness, "if he knew nothing about his work, or was naturally a born fool." Counsel didn't proceed with that line of questioning.

"Life" for Xovember is to hand. Regular readers of this splendid niaga- v zine need not be informed that the 1 present number, like its predecessors, is I of the most entertaining and varied i order. The'judge's desk in the local courthouse is to be enlarged and altered some I day by the Public "Works Department. On* Friday .Mr. Judge llaselden complained of the insulliciency of its accommodation, and impressed the opinion that it was altogether lmsiuted for its

purpose. In reference to the rlitzroy Town Board's inquiry, the Electric Light Committee, of the Borough Council oilers to supply eleven 32-candle-power street lights at .O 15s each per annum, or twenty for £3 10s each, the lights not to be "switched on when not on in Xew Plymouth on moonlight nights. > "... ... .. • . -..-I, -i ,*

The Fire Brigades Bill was considered i in committee of the House on Friday night. Clause 5 was amended by substituting 2000 for 5000 being the required population to constitute a lire district. The Bill was then parsed with amendments. A whole batch of other Bills were read a third time, and the House adjourned at 4.5 after a sitting lasting from 11 a.m. the previous day. .Mrs. Kirkby's little son Harold, who is living with relatives in llawera, lost his left forearm in a very simple manner on Friday. He was playing with some other boys and fell, doubling his arm beneath him. It broke badly, the bone protruding from the llesh and severing an artery. Early on Saturday morning it was found necessary to amputate the arm at Ihe elbow. Friends will regret to hear of the little fellow's painful misfortune.

•■Russia will be a lovely place compared with this country," said Mr. Symes, the member for Patea, in the House of Representatives during the debate on the Gaining Bill. "Call this democratic Xew Zealand," he added with scorn. "You won't be able to find a word that will describe the tone in tliis country directly. We shall all have wings and jew's-liarps before very long, or if we don't it won't be the fault of the legislation. 1 hope when 1 get to the next country 1 won't meet a lot of the people 1 have to meet here."

Ken Tillett's farewell words to New Zealanders, spoken at the Mull': "The lie.it advice 1 call give the workers of New Zealand is to treat poverty as a disease; treat it seientiliciilly. as it ought to be treated, removing the causes if possible. I have seen the .State mines on the West Coast here, and they are. admirably equipped. If the bar at Westport was properly deepened, with the coal yuu have there you could easily compete with Newcastle. He gave a warning against the danger of monopolies, which lie said he saw creeping in everywhere in New Zealand, praised the working of the dominion railways, and concluded: ".My hopes for the colony i are very great, as I believe it has ideal chances."

Fanciers of prize Jersey stock will regret to hear of the serious loss sustained by the well-known breeder, Mr. Andrew Buchanan, of "Jersey Holme," Palmers-, ton North, in the death of the prize stud cow "Magnet's Gleam" yesterday. The; cow, with others, was sent from Palmerston North at 5 o'clock on- Saturday morning for New Plymouth to lie exhibited at this week's show. Owing to the breakdown of a train near Inglewood the truck containing the stock did not reach Smart -road till 9.30 on Saturday night. On being released from the truck, Magnet's Gleam fainted, but was eventually driven as far as the" old bacon factory, where she collapsed. Veterinary aid was summoned, but the animal died last night. It is thought that the cow, which only calved two days before the Pahiierstun show, got down in the truck and was trampled on. Magnet's Gleam was valued at £l5O.

The 12.511 train outwards from Xew Plymouth on Saturday was delayed for a couple of hours near Waioilgona by an accident to the engine. The breakdown was caused by the fracture -if the lefthand driving-crank, which liberated the driving-rods, and these ploughed up the permanent way when (hey fell. Brakes were promptly applied. It was some few minutes before the passengers knew anything was amiss. Thru Guard Richards went through the train, telling them there was no danger, after which he set oil' for Wniongona to telephone news of the smash. Fireman F. McDonald was despatched to lnglewood for another engine, and he covered the four and a-half miles in 37 minutes—a good performance. Driver F. McCalnan and olhcrs gut the engine ready for towing, and by the time this was done an engine arrived to lake the train on to Inglewoorl, where the two northward trains hail been held owing to the obstruction.

deep, anil loud were the execrations on Saturday night .if the candleusers. Candlesticks improvised from bottle-necks, three nails in sticks, and so forth were arranged in styles fantastic, reminiscent of the illumination of a Chinese shrine. But their numbers seemed only to make (lie darkness more dark. The situation was not without its humorous side, line up-to-da'e vendor considerately placed a row of penny glims along the sill of his -how-window, and the announcement "If yon want a tie, pick up a candle and find one." Anon the angry shopkeeper spilt great blots of grease here, (here, and everywhere in the vain effort to locate his goods and please the customer halfhidden in the gloom. Desks in ollices were gaily decorated with candles, and eyes smarted in consequence. One place of business was temporarily closed because there were neither candles nor laiup>. available. In private houses the position «ii» less awkward, for there substitutes for gas-j.-i- were more easily procurable. The whole of (he trouble was due lo (lie fact tbaf prcssim- of gas was short, owing to some defect of the retorts. I