The Daily News. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 308, 3 January 1908, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3.

(it tin.' uUO-odd immigrants [liat arrival from llomv in t In- Alln-tiiv on Wednesday, 1!) wore i'>r New I'! vi:;"\Uli. Mr. liiirlihi, ill U;r.i: i'ii. ulio i>|>pniutuil arlntrator in t in- i ni,i to I'l.-iiu* |i;iri.-li iirstr»»t> <li.-|iu.'<-, Im.. giv«i his cli'tisinn in favor <ii Munaia, where a ;:romi'l mill vicar,i;y v. ill lie jiriiriii'i'<|.

The following estates of deceased perr»ous in Tarauaki were certified for Mainp (juiy during the month of December: - .lames C. George, t3:;..V ( 7i; A. M-Donahl, ClU'iii: Osborne J), G.-orge. .i)t>l>3: .lame-; Cheyuc, Cl'33.

The g.Ue takings at the Tbnvpj'a C.i.Vdonian sports on New \ear-s Day totailed L'7<t lis. ami the Maud takings U4 B<, whilst .0)0 was taken at the <nuecrt. Last year the takings were Gate CS."> Us. concert t!52 l)s.

Several of the veiling lawn tennis players have remarked that they have never attended any tournament better managed than the recent New Zealand and Taranaki tournaments conducted by the Taranaki Association.

The Custom* receipts at the port, of New Plymouth for J!M»7 were Cli,n.">2. an increase of C7SOU over Cl!!0(i. The imports were valie-d at C115.77S and th.» exports of NVw Plymouth at l'<;-2<U7<i: tho.-e of Waitara being C2sn.:»i;i.

There was a large attendance at the iunetion ua.- brought to a clow Dum.Jock was ib-ared. Owing to iiio.-i of her ]iuo : l- being away holiday-making, only iwo of Miss PulnamV dance:, were given.

After the cricket match yesterday Mr. S. Hill. President of the North Taranaki, Cricket Association, presented a bat to Mr. G. Gudgeon, who secured the best bowling average in tin' Taranaki team, and a picture of Mount Egiuonl !o Mr. Rose, the highest scorer on the Xew South Wales teachers' side.

The \>it of tue Australian team yesterday served to show that a very great improveinent is taking place in Taranaki cricket. Messrs. llill, Whittle, and Perlmm are deserving of the thanks of the cricketing community for having made the arrangements and for the excellent manner in which the visitors were entertained.

The Xew Plymouth Post Ollice was particularly bu*y during Christmas week. I'or the seven days -17 th to 21th December —142!) bags and hampers were despatched and 1-iui received. Stamps sold for the same period aniountcd to C 322 lis '2il. For the live days 20th to 24tii Deccml»er the telegrams forwarded munlieved 221!); those received were 2401. and 2381 were transmitted.

Mr. A. S. JJasell is a noted unfortunate oil the cricket liehl. Twice this .-('•'-on he has been injured. Yesterday in iii> over-anxiety in the liehl he rushed into !h'- deep ditch surrounding the new cricket-ground. Then in the second in niugs the first hall Mruek him oil the hand. JJut he had his revenge. The next ball he timed beautifully and landed it into the terraces for six, amidst, great applause.

.Mr. ■). D. Kockefeller. the Standard Oil King, in a recent interview at New York, ridiculed the idea that opportunities of making fortunes are all past. Let no man of spirit, he said, listen for a moment to the invertebrate, supine wail. Asked about Socialism. .Mr. Rockefeller said: *'We are all Socialists, in a >ein*e. 1 certainly am a Socialist, in a sense. Wo understand that all men are bound together in vital relationships from which there is no escape. No man liveth unto himself. The interests of one are those of all. Hut the error of Si.cialism is that you can create by formal enactment what must l>e a natural development, and carry on through the agency of men selected by some political method what imwt bo carried on hy men by nature. That is absurd. It i*ift business. If the busimof the Standard nil Company were to l»o taken over by the L'overnment and run by politicians I would be the first man to sell mv stock at any price,"

Within a short time two of New York* cilice buildings will have a con* bined population of 30.1)00. These are the Singer building (forty-one stories) and the City Investing buildings (thirtylive stories high). It has Iwen pointed out that unless more caution i* shown in the construction of office buildings in New York, the danger of a conflagration w'll in- rea>e. The tire underwriters, as a result, h>ve made a formal re»puM th;it the Luilding Code I'ovision Coninvt**hm >hou]d limit the height of fireproof building* to 125 ft, or eleven -tones. It is e.-ltmafed that New York ha* more than 2,Ouo.<iun,ooo dollar* { cmn.mm.iHim invoked in its (all o/liee building- and ei»»tenls. The majority of th«'~e are jn (tie congested financial districts of the city. Another danger cited iti life increasing numlter of skyscrapers is that if this conditio]] is allowed to prevail, (lie streets will not accommodate the groat concourse of people who Hock to the buildings in the morning and out of them in the afternoon. Tribune's correspondent. "Old Opunako President" writes to the opunake Times suggesting that those settler> interested should advance the money for the Lltham-Opunake railway, lie writes: "If ihe delegates would set j to work, get the people to lake up (lovcnimeni debentures for I'lOlu.HM), and a>k Hie Coverumcnt to undertake the vvoik, liicy should st.md a good show oi 'he thing being noon done and having lh< ; r money returned to them in the coi:r.-e of u>n. fifteen, or twenty year*, as may be agreed upon. Kven if they did noi receive t \ penny of interest on ilit* debentures, the i (t > s would be far more than recouped to them by means ot upkeep of road* and consequent les-er amount of rates. What 1 would Mtg:»es[ is (he formation of an KilliaiuOptniake Railway league, and the holding of meetings at every creamery, sawmili. and school along the route, and that a canvass should !«• made as ya-flv a* possible to ascertain what amount of debentures are likely lo be taken up, ano then send down a deputation to Wellington, memlx*)'* of the league to subscribe one shilling a month to defray expenses, and as many possible to be enrolled."

''l'he loneliness of a captain," writes .Mr Kipling, '"is society lieside the isolation of an admiral, lie gets up on the aflerbridge anil moves .onic Cll>,000,l>ill) worth of iron and steel at his pleasure. Xo one can stop Jiiin, fen dale even suggest. . . . One never connett., a clergyman with St. Paul: but one nnnot look at an admiral without speci}nliuy on our apostolic succession of t'tc sea.' If Channel Fleet manoeuvres (en veais ago inspired tliis, what would jfr. Kipling have written liad he witnessed .secret manoeuvre-, in the Ten millions would cover of under speech on o i i to of

The ilaoris engaged oil the work of making lhe new pond at the .Recreation (irouml made a line haul from the swamp yesterday iu the shape of an eel which turncd'tbe scale ut over 251bs.

On Saturday the record sum taken on the Wellington electric ear*, since the system was installed, way registered. The cash proceeds reached .Col?, excluding coupons, assessed at about Uf>o. The previous best cash total was ClB7. on Christmas Eve last year.

The following is a copy of a Maori's will, recently proven in the Auckland Supreme Court: 'i" (here follows name of testator) "perfectly sane. Leave horses and land, ami all that belongs to uie to" (here follows name o'f beneficiary). At the foot of the document there appears, over the signature of the witnesses, the following: "I eee

putting him name over the stamp." | A heat wave passed over Blenheim the other day, and one result, says the Express, was the baking of the gooseberries on the trees. Many people who had large crops looking well the previous ! day have nothing now but a few prc- | maturely ripened berries hanging to the j under branches. People wlio had made I their gooseberry jam before the iieat wave came are indulging in pardon ibie gratulation.

Matenga, the Maori "Wild Man," who was captured so tamely, was rewarded with an approved Chirstmas dinner as some compensation for his loss of liberty. A, number of Napier ladies, think-

hig that Detective Broberg and Constable Skinner would have to spend Christinas in the bush, forwarded a plum j pudding to Gisborne with the request j tint. it. be sent to the police officials. The pudding was left with the Gisborne police to cook for Matcnga's dinner on Christmas Bay. An Auckland Press message states that volcanic activity still continues intermittently in the neighborhood of the Tongan and ttamoan groups. The natives at Nukualofa reported to the ollieers of the Alua, on the vessel's call there, that submarine eruptions arc of frequent occurrence, but are now looked upon quite as iu the ordinary daily course of events. At Savaii the volcano in active rriiptiou alien the Alua arrived, and the passengers oh-

tanicd from the deck a very line view of (he mountain, which was vomiting lava freely. Tin' sight of (he vast cauldron forth its contents of mud. allies, and molten lava is said hy eye-witnesses to have boon :i very fine spectacle. Australia's manimonth cattle herd is that running on the Victoria river station. Northern Territory, ;}2O miles south of Port Darwin. ' It numbers 00,U00 head. The year's branding lias just been completed, and 10/200 calves were handled, This great property belongs to Cattle King Kidman. in con-, junction with Messrs Emanuel and Troup. Mr Kidman goes to Knglaud shortly for a trip, and intends to be present at the great Islington Horse Show. A few months ago an estimate was made of his stock possessions, and it Wits calculated that there "were On the twenty stations he controls 200,000 head of cattle, without reckoning the score or more small stations close to Adelaide. The properties under his control represent 25,000,000 acres. .Most of tlie increase on the progress of work on the Main Trunk railway is due, says the Wanganui Herald, to the enginer in charge, Mr Furkcrt, who h is succeeded in impressing the men under him with his own enthusiasm and enorgy, and the spirit of work on the line is now vastly more in evidence than it was prior to the time he took charge. A characteristic example of the way in which Mr Furkert does things is the present line running into Ohakune. A Yankee navvy working on the line did not approve of the delay in constructing the permanent way there, and "allowed" that, if he were engineer, he would put in "a gol-darned deviation." The enheard the remark hut, unlike some who are above accepting advice from those under them, he saw the idea was a good one and adopted it, and further promoted the Yankee to be one of his foremen.

A remarkable story is related, in a communication from Jiuda Pest. A young actor, named Yiszary, -who was fulfilling an engagement at the National Theatre in the Hungarian capital, suddenly awoke from sleep, and as he had to rise very eirly, he consulted his watch, only to discover that *it had stopped at 2 o'clock. Fearing that he might be late for his appointment, he roused his housekeeper and asked her the time, hut learned that her watch had stopped also at 2 o'clock. Three other clocks placed in diil'erent rooms hid also stopped at precisely the same hour. Yiszary was much surprised at this strange simultaneous stopping of no fewer than five timekeepers, and fold several friends of the occurrence. Later on lie learned that at 2 o'clock his wife fiaft died at a hotel in Venice, where she had been st iying for several days.

Professor David, the Sydney geologist who has juiued the Shackletou expedition, is a linn believer in the former existence uf a vast Antirctic contiueiit, with a good climate and much better conditions of life than prevail Uiero now. lie says that probably, while ihe warm climate prevailed, annuals allied to tile Tasmanian tiger Nourished in Antarctica. Fossil remains of those animals have not yet been found in Antarctica, but they have been brought from the southern end of South America, and that, together with the fact that a closely allied animal is still living in Tasmania implies a former land connection between South America and Australia by ivay of the Antarctic regions. If land communication was resumed between the two distant countries, professor David states, it would be obviously impossible for the Tasmanian tiger to migrate from one to the other unless ihe climate was so much warmer as to bring about and almost complete disap- ' pea ranee of snow and fee. j The evidence at the inquest on the

body of Alleu Maxwell Wright, aged l(i years, who was found shot in ltoviil Park, Melbourne, showed that he was the victim of remorse. The following letter, addressed to the boy's late employers, the Trustees and Kxecutors and Agency Company, was discovered in one of his pockets:—"l am writing this letter to remove all doubts about the heavy postage stamp bill this half-year. I confess that I embezzled small sums of money different times during this half-year. Xo one could be more sorry than J am doing it, but I could not resist the temptation at tile time. Hoping this letter will save further trouble and investigation. I would like to warn my fellow-clerks who should take my position." The assistant manager of the company stated that evidently deceased had lieen suffering from hallucin-

ation. as the shortage amounted to only a shilling or two. The coroner found that deceased took his own life whilst suffering from remorse. A gruesome ''exhibit" was shown in the South Australian Assembly the other day. Speaking oil the (.laming Bill (reports the .Melbourne Argus), 111' Dunkcl said he would like to see a State lottery in Australia and a Government "tote." Mr Roberts was proceeding to east doubt on the statement, of Brigadier Veal, of the Salvation Army, Lhat a mob of gamblers had nipp of a companion who had .' ' i- i Salvation Army and sought »i (the when tin stretched out his in it, and exclaimed finger, the,