The Daily News THUSDAY, DECEMBER 19.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 2

The Daily News THUSDAY, DECEMBER 19.

The Stratford school swimming baths are to be ollicially ojiened to-day. The timber to be used for chopping at Elthain at the Axemen's Carnival will cost over £77.

Xiie English mail despatched from Wellington on the Bth November, via llrindisi, arrived iu London on the 1314 inst.

The town schools will be dismissed today for the Christmas vacation. Prize distributions arc to be made at the High School and the \\ est End school. The Hawera County Council has declined to adopt the Taranaki Council's suggestion for provincial co-operation in coping with the small birds liuisauce. The secretary of the Xew Plymouth Caledonian Society desires us to acknowledge receipt of a donation of one guinea towards the funds from -Mr. iS. iv. MueDiannid, vice-president.

It lias been reported that a section of Tohu-ites were endeavoring to resurrect the "prophet"' faiee. A "JSews" reporter made enquiries. None of the leading natives know anything of the matter, and the report is evidently a canard. The Garrison gave the lirst. of their series of municipal concerts on the Esplanade last night. The well-selected programme of music was much appreciated by the large number of people present. The next concert will be held in the Kecreation Grounds on Sunday afternoon, December 29th. In reply to (lie request of the North Is-land Hand Contest executive, the Education Jioard lias passed a resolution that it has no objection to the West End and Fit/.roy schools being closed and used as practice rooms for contesting bands provided the committees interested are agreeable.

A movement is afoot amongst local footballers to raise a memorial to the late Mr Alfred Bayly, president of the Xew Zealand Rugby Union, for many yOars one of the liiiest of _\ew Zealand's representative footballers. The suggestion is that the memorial should be erected in the Recreation Sports Ground. The Telegraph Department informs us that business is likely to be considerably congested on Christmas Eve, and the public are recommended to present Christinas greeting telegrams a day or two before that date, in order to ensure delivery in goud time. Special forms arc now available and will be transmitted at the uniform charge of sixpence, provided the printed text is not varied, and the address aud signature together do not exceed eleven words. The Wellington Education Hoard is asking other Education Boards to support their ropiest that the public school cadet regulations be revised so that cadet corps be placed under the education boards in accordance with sub-sec-tion of section 17 of the Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900; that the Government be asked to subsidise the boards to an amount equal to the present expendituer on cadet corps; and that the Education Board be asked to appoint an inspecting officer. Messrs. K. Reynolds and Co. have generously increased their special prize, which has been added to the mile and a-lialf cycle race on the Caledonian Society's programme, to the value of £4 4s, making this race worth £lO. The Wheel Race, to which has been added the League of Wheelmen's donation of £5 as, is now worth £2O 5s cash. Willi a mile race worth £5 10s, and a novice of £2, the cyclists of the province arc offered special inducements to get into condition aud meet the cracks of th:i Dominion.

How quickly are Die Maori prophets' teachings being dropped! The Tohuites, wJioso principles forbade their ac-, ceptiug mils or in any way recognising the leases of their lands to Europeans, are now drawing their arrears of rents, satisfied to let the dead past- be buried with its dead. The oilier day an old man who during the lifetime of Toliu and To Whiti never lifted his rents drew a line cheque and (-ashed it at a local bank. He had great difficulty in stuffing the notes into his pockets, so lie pulled out liis great colored handkerchief and tied them in that. The removal of liability to "tribute'* ha« doubtless something to do with the Maoris' action. One man who drew £047 in accumulated rents a few years ago had to pay £SOO into Tohu's treasure chest. Whilst there was a groat deal of detail work to attend to in connection with the expenditure of the streets, water supply, drainage ami electric light loau>, the New Plymouth Borough Council found it advisable to meet fortnight- . ly inslead of monthly. Those busy days have passed. but istill our City lathers meet 111 solemn conclave on two Mondays in each month. The order-paper is very light, as a rule, and this gives scope for much verbosity, it its not out of place, we think, to suggest to the Borough Council that it should revert to the system of busy monthly meetings. It is rather too much to expect a business man to give up in each month two nights to Council meetings and several evenings and odd hours to committee meetings when half the time won lil suffice.

Never waa advantage gained without *ome compensating swing of the. pendulum. While we are congratulating ourselves upon the opening of the railway "deviation, housewives and the residents generally of*that portion of the town along the old railway route arc complaining of the removal of their own special timepieces. On both mornings of this week families have "slept in" because there was 110 mail train shriek to wake them. The ladies in charge of the culinary affairs have been surprised at the arrival of their lords and masters just after one o'clock, exclaiming that I '"the one o'clock train hasn't gone yet." I And hubby smilingly reminded the ab-sent-minded wife that there were no trains running along near the house now. Tea-time and the absence of the whistle of the 5.1/5 train brought about similar awkward happenings. There's now more need tltau ever for the improvement of the town clock's striking powers.

A meeting or the Jlarsland Jlill -Memorial Committee was held last night, the president (Capt. A. Standish) presiding. lucre were aiso present —-Messrs J. l'. Davics. !S. Percy Smith, Ji. Dockrill and liobt. Wells. The secretary reported receipt of a. donation of three guineas ironi the -iJJrd Regiment, now in 1-in know. rile chairman received a , letter mini .Mr \Y. T. Jennings, .M.l'., irom tile Hon. .Minister for .Defence, prolnismg u (lura-nincnt grant of tu- i winds the eost of the moiiunieui. Ii deeided to thank tlie members of | Pai lament who had assisted in this matter. \ otes of thanks were passed ! to A en. Archdeacon Walsh for his do- j sign or a ineinonal, and to -Mr Kerr for having obtained and forwarded a photograph and detailed description of the monument erected to the ineiuoiv of the late Sir Hector Alacdmiald at Dingwcll. It was decided to advertise for designs ot a suitable memorial, to cost UIiOII, tile committee expressing a preference tor a Solid masonry tower or. something of that- kind to aii ordinary monumental cross or tomh-like erection. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES. .! The famous SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EX-

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The Education Board lias merely "acknowledged" a letter drawing notice to penny books of nursery rhymes suggested as supplementary school readers. Must of the yoxmgstei'3 get their nursery rhymes presented to them about this season.

The following teams have been selected for the big tug-of-var in the Iterivation Sports Ground on New Year's Day: Fire JJrigade—Lieutenant Boon, Foremen Clarke and Partington, and Firemen •). AVay, Prior, Inch, llardwiek, and Moon; Taranaki liilles- bun.-c-Corporal \VjU'd, Privates Coates, Whitmore, King, Lolc, Furze, and Hanks.

A miose with an apparently abnormal annctitc was killed for table by a local resident yesterday. Inside its gizzard w-H found embedded a miscellaneous assortment of ironwork, including a ,lar.le and about a dozen nails ami tacks,. '.Notwithstanding this unusual tare, >• goose ap]iarcntly enjoyed perfect h . U —indeed, was thriving on its m<l food The interesting organ is I>UU 0 preserved by a local medico.

Discoveries continue to be made o our mineral wealth. An «xt'« L posit of whctstoßß is reported to . Ln discovered on Crown huul i«i a deeii-water harbor m tin- ) • • | Magnetic iron ore, said to be sunda'- to ( the ore from which the 11 on . , i steel 19 made, is also reported> to lia e been found oil Grown lands in the Sout

IS '" n jiovel means of collecting iunds I UI the lniuidation of a church debt fcta Seen adopted by Si. Johns AuglUM \ Church, Waihi, the chain principle lw in« been decided upon at the last \li>uj meeting. Iwelve church oiucers « undertake to obtaui lu uicuboi. caU to guarantee as quarter vho=t 1J in tneir turn to outam two othcis, who 111 their turn obUin one .thus complc - ing the chain.

in Older to «vi> the Wo of his sister (ilrs F. 11. Welch), iur John S. wok, a, well-known Chicago millionaire, and president o£ the Cook Brewing Company, submitted to an operation whai.uy five pints ol biood were transtcrrcd from an articry in his wrist into Mis Welch's arm. Sirs Welch, who was at the point of death, rallied immediately and recovered, while Air Cook sullercd no luitlier ill ell'ects than a slight faintness lor several (lays after the operation.

ijie cincuuitogi'aph to be taken down lo the Antarctic by the Xiinrod is one of the latest improved pattern, aud it is estimated thai good results will follow upon Us use. A large supply of liliu is included in the equipment, and living pictures will be taken illustrating the movement of seals and penguins, sledge parties on the trail, the motor ear in use, icebergs "calving," the oncoming of blizzards, etc. ilie oidin.iry cameras are also of a most up-to-date description, and tele-photo lenses have been provided by means of which mountains and other objects twenty miles distant may Ce pictured. UunsLcnurcii Arutli on -Miss i'.mkliurst and the mice: "Xiie case was certainly one lor a heroic resistance of uatuial impulses, in the full glare of tUe linieignt, ana with, the public eye upon her, it would liave been iutal lo tue cause of women's sutlrage to gjltiier up her skirts aud lice., But it is nuile another matter when a lierce and militant mouse emerges Ironi the kitchen cupboard, and gives Jiary Ann a pretext of raising an alarm and llcciug for refuge to llio manly arms of the admirer who lias dropped in for supper. Circumstances alter cases, and it does not follow that tile courage exhibited on the public platform would be repeated in private."

a. writer in Luc Diiau.aic courier recently reniaikcU apropos 01 Uic cuarges against D.nizuiu: —Mi, may Oe oi unci" cot to your leaders lo lvuon mat mis cnicl cannot oe termed paramount cinei oi tue uiu nation. lwa

man is a graduate oi Lamiji'iuge university, anu enjoys a salary oi &JUO per year, paiu uy the Imperial Government. ire is a son oi tlie lainous Cetewayo, -iUid_in tlie rebellion wlucli arose in iNatal and Zuluiand last year apparently took no part. The chief wlio lust deUeil tlie Government was uy name ilainbaata (an lndiviuual wnoje staLus uas suen tnat luuizuiu wouid refuse to recognise him). When the writer of tins was in X'lelerniantzburg (.Nauil) in jb'ejwuary last mere were persistent rumors tnat a body of military were to proceed to Ijtangor (about 100 miles distant), which is tile place where liinizulu Jives, lor tlie purpose of escorting liiui to tue capital, but tlie famous old warrior pleaded illness as an excuse, aud the subpoena was withdrawn. Tlie cioled reference to JJwizulu controlling oUO followers is au error. lie has immediate control of natives living in 500,000 square miles of territory (probable population 20,000,000), and snould he declare for rebellion undoubtedly Africa from the Zambesi to Uic Uupe wuiud be set aoiuzc, il

may not be generally known that since natives were arnica to sustain British cause m tile campaign of ISU'J-ii)o2, large IJU .unties ox i-ce-iueiioiii riues and iUaxim anu Aordenfclt guns are in the possession of tlie natives, more espeeiady in Xlasutoland. Trouule was bound to arise at an early date alter the conclusion of the suujugation of the republics, but it was hastened on by the action of the .Natal (Jo\eminent (when beginning to ieel the loss of the uig pionts earned during uic occupation oi the Transvaal by tlie British troops) in imposing a pell tax of £1 per head on each adult (including the native population) living in territory under the jurisdiction of the Government, The campaign last year is estimated to have cost mole money than the receipts uf the poll-tax will bring in iu a period of ten years."