The Daily News. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 14 December 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14.

TUeCorinna ™ *«»\m\ J* ireakwater last night until a lie. _t c ivill ,„■ ,be mail tvam and s.i 1 d "n after will, the Northern mail,.

Tl.o fine cnllfrtion 01 new I'UtooS fifteen varieties, winch won " ,st 'i \ v a Thurscky's show, and grownMr, 1!. Webster, is n"W «" uc '" ,lt Messrs Webster Bros.' mart. Lun'uaj'c building- *". L . lj ' 1 ." 0 D , ~.„,,„„. reuortiiii! upon »ome rVU-rrpd to a small FT a ••koi? 1 Wis word, of course,

>,,. \v Fvetts liavin" been iu>po.nu-a | of the Taranaki county. The Valuation Benarlmcnt . ul3 /"l warded lo the County 'Council ad wee of M«ly « I'""*" 11 a'"™ llo '"' t0 tl,e cou y Valuation roll. This * now u,.toclaa, for the Urst time in many years. U j, H uite on the card- that th.s yoa the- auctioneers and merchants o ; n Plymouth will follow Ihe exanpics »a in the larger centres, and will cl.im '» till the follows Mo. day.

~i USV night's ollWal mnrkoL icpo I ~,„„ UmdoU 6lat» thai <>»"<* » "'B 1 ; " v lirmcr, i-lmii-esL Australia btima IW, JJauish uiii-liiingwl- Cilice %uib 1u ,,,, X„w Zcalaml wl.iU quoted ut 01), to 01s.

The Karawa left Wellington at 3 iui, yesterday afternoon and arrived at I lie breakwater early this morning. Ita passengers for the -North went out by the breakwater this morning, and tie Harawa cleared for Oiiehunga shortly afterwards.

southern humorist sums up the new Gaining Act:-" Twenty-six yeai» ago Parliament legalised the fata e Gambling Machine to put down the bookmakc, the other d.y Parliament legalised the bookmaker to put down gambling! Yet people say there is no humour in Parliament."

According to an announcement made at the Congress of Surgeons m iaris the facial disfigurement known a* no wine stains" can be cured *• £± ha,„, visiting physician at St. Lazarc prison, and Dr. the fat. Lou.s Hospital stall, say that in a number o cases they have removed the stains with the aid of radium.

ill view of the sudden disappearances of the ducklings Horn lliu nucreaUon Urouuds it i» suggested mat Die Loam should oiler a reward to the boy wno ealcbes and despatches the giciuesi number of rats and eels. The=e latter have greedily devoured numbers of trout, and are now even turning their attention to the perch. The .Maoris engaged in draining the upper swamp are of course, making considerable inroads upon the eels, or tunas as the,)' call them.

An exhibit that attracted a good deal of attention at the hortieulural show on Thursday, and one which might well have ben shown to greater advantage, was a glass frame suitable for cottage garden purposes. The glass had been allixcd to the horizontal cross-bars by means of lead clips, without the use of putty. The chief points which commend it to the notice of the gardener are its cheapness, ell'cctiveness, and simplicity of manufacture, it is based on an old English patent, and was the work of the pupils of (he Technical School under Jlr. F. \V. Sandford's instruction.

People whose duties are to beueiit humanity in general and themselves incidentally somctiineti put strange inyeutiuus'on the market, Many of these are really required; others are only ingenious, lu a recent "liazeUe" of inventions letters patent are applied lor by 11. A. Stilt, of Wcslport, who has invented a means of assisting a child to walk. One more terror has been added to the diu.ing-la.blt! by a Napier man, who liar, designed a spoon 'having integral teeth around the end of its bowl, bevelled at their tips, and curved inwardly, and channels between tlie teeth for allowing the food to get away frcciy." Vet another inventor is 11. Cornse. who has put forth a device to enable men to carry their razor strops about them as an integral part of their braces.

_u:.-.s Muinerlliazeu, of ilawkcs ilay, wiiusc land transactions were lecenliy buioro Parliament, is related to the great uanking magnate, liulli, of Loudon, lucre were two brothels, and one, who is uu>v dead, was a collector of china. His art treasures were magnificent, .jue little ginger jar, to ordinary eyes .mile an iitoiginiicam piece of pottery, 1 etched recently ibUOU it was brought Hum China by a sailor many years ago, and sold by him for a trille to a dealer, Mr. lluth paying £2O lor it later on. Since that he uas been offered large sums, for it was discovered to be an antique jar belonging to a set. finally it was bought by an American millionaire, to complete a set, for XUUUO. Miss Meineitliazcu lias had it often in her hand-;, and describes it as nothing out of the common—simply a jar and cover with raised plum-blossoms upon it. A correspondent of a London paper makes a weird suggestion, lie writes: "11 in far 100 serious a mailer to try expuiiiiculs on a nation. It unsuccessful, the disaster would be irreparable. So J suggest that ail island—nay in Australasia—should be handed oevr to the Socialists to work out their harebrained scheme. Then, if it stood the test of, say, lil'ty years, and proved an impuiveiiieiil on the existing siate of affairs, we could adopt it perhaps at home. Socialists are so confident of success that they should certainty have a fair liehl and no favour, Uapital, of course, they would not require, nor any labour-saving machinery, so all that is necessary is for all the Socialists to emigrate—say, to the North Island, New Zealand—ami start right away. We could ily our best to put up with their absence. Personally, 1 would rather see the bloodiest civil war imaginable than that our country should be ruined by a craze lot of fanatics."

Kli.' was (i frctsli-eoloiired country girl, and it was her til'st attempt at sunbathing (says tin- •■Sydney .Morning Herald'j. She selected Manly at thu j busiest time to initiate herself into tin. 1 I delights of the sport. Wlien she hac! ' spent sinne time in llic water, she de ! eided to go out and get dressed. The.i 1 came llic most trying part of the linsi in—i. She was shy, and had to pas ! through llic crmvd to gel to the dross ing-runm. After a little wavering, sli ran 0111 of llit* surf, and, with a nervon little jogtrot, made fur tlie shed. I seemed as though she had miles to gc hut in a lew scenmlis she gained 111haven, ami darled through the openin of the -lied. Then she darted out agair for. much to her aslonishinenl, sir found herself in the men's dressing shed, where she was received with ■ cheer. Wu-hing liery red, she seootei nlnii". and made a dive into the nex openiug. Her had luck pursued her, fn she .truck another section of the men' shed. This was more than she coul stand, and, covering her face with lie I hand.-, she rushed for the opening t gain the lieach once more. . It wont have- been less embarrassing for lie had she not covered her face, for ii doing so she put. her hands over he eves? and humped right into a big fa man on liw wav in from the surf. Wliei she regained the beach, she stopped t. take lier hearings, and was finally di reefed to her proper shed by a lady liven when she reached the openin pointed out to her, she seemed duhiou about the matter, and. before ventuv ing in. poked her head round the coYnc. to make sure.

While's direct attention on our front page to their very excellent stock of all the latest wearables for the festive season. Their stock is thoroughly sorted to supply the. influx of visitors .for.!the