The Daily News FRIDAY, JANUARY 24.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 322, 24 January 1908, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, JANUARY 24.

Today is tlio seventh anniversary of '■ | he accession of His .Majesty King 13d-1 . vard VII. to the throne. * j A meeting of the general committee ' if the New Plymouth Horticultural Society will be In-11l in the secretary's oilice. ! l-S! iit-mivct. this ~veniu{r at 8 o'clock, j The Mai'sland Hill .Memorial Commit- i lee hav t . received Several gratuitous J plans for Ihe proposed monument to be i erected In the memory of the soldiers who fell in the Mnori 'war. There are ; further plans promised . i Our attention has been drawn to a typographical error in our report of the ! opening of the new cheese faclonv a I ' liahntu. the dimensions being wrongly | stated owing to the dropping of a numeral. The building has a frontage of '.).'! feet, with a depth of H:i feet. Kruiueiilcr- of the Ksphinndc complain that young men, who are old enough to know bfllei. arc in the habit ; of congregating there and insulting the ! atmosphere with t|„, most obscene and ' object able language. It is u fact ' that the youths of the town are beeoinI ing more and mure unable to express themselves in dean language, lillhy and : blasphemous epithets lieiitg imported into therr conversation to compensate fir their poor vocabulary.

The present insauiuiy, 4 irk anil j dank Deeds Ofliee is to be made to do further duty, hut a few holes are to be Iwred in the walls for the admission of fresh air! Puzzle: Kind the fresh air, for the Stamps and Deeds Olliccs open out on the past orlic« backyards. I'or the sake of common decency tin' (iovernment should do something more than this, foe the Deeds (Mlicc dungeon is more than a figure Of speech. Xo private employer would be allowed, nor would he attempt, to house his staff in such a place.

In a letter written from New Zealand to. hit wife in Sydney, Professor David, who went to the Antarctic with the Nimrod. said:—"lf our ship doesn't turn up in Alarcli or April please don't be anxious. A wealthy young New Zealinder has practically land actually 'jy financing it) undertaken to send a relief expedition at the end ol this car if there i> any need. Lieutenant Shaekletoi., however, says that the chances of (In Nimrod being detained in the ice during the year are extremely small, as it is his fixed intention to send her away with Captain England in good time ' before the sea is frozen."

The Manawatu A. and I'. Association's hunter's challenge cup, which was won liy the local horse Alpine, is now on view in .Mr G. G. Bonltou's window in Devon street. The cup is a very handsome one, valued at forty guineas, and must be won three times by one competitor before becoming his property. At present Mr W. D. Watson (.Masterton), Miss G. M. Lloyd (Auckland), and Mr W. H. ISoulton (New Plymouth) have a "leg in.'' Alpine U reckoned to lie one of the finest and most graceful junipers in the N'orth Islmd, and has won for his owner over £3O i n cash, besides Ihis nip and a gold medal, since la«t November, the winnings being: I'almerston, £2O aDd the cup; Wangntmi, CO; Hawera, Ci; Taranaki, £3; and at the Tnr.maki supplementary show, £3. The horse was not seen at his best at two of the shows, his illness giving Mr Roulton some concern just before the Palmerston show. One result of the new gambling laws that was nut anticipated by a big majority of the public, say* the 'Dunedin Star," has been the total altolition if trade in Tattersall's sweep in New Zealand. " Tatt's "' was known throughout I he. length ami breadth of the land, and many are the stories told of persons unexpectedly lifted from penury to afl'luj cine by a lucky ticket in one of the nig j consultations. A Dunedin man, who was | formerly an agenf, says that since the I passing of the Gaming Act he has had numberless applications for tickets, and bilter was the chagrin of the would-be "gamblers" on learning that their chance of a fortune was gone. It in slated (though on whose authority it is not known) that Tattersall's propose shortly to light out the legality or otherwise of their consultations in the New Zealand law courts, with a view to continuing in the Dominion the lucrative business they have so long carried on.

To New Zcalanders it is difficult to realise what is meant by a temperature of Dl'/ideg. in the shade, the record at Adelaide one day last week. The eri dieters who were playing there may lie able to tell something about it when the matches are over, und also say what it felt like to run about in the open glare. Meantime some idea of Hie heat intensity is obtainable from recorded facts. The mean of the highest slwde reading in Adelaide for the past four years in ■l.muary is 108. The highest rca'ding r.-. corded at Adelaide is 114, in .January of I*Bl. The highest recorded in South Australia is 11(1.3, on January 'itlth, 18.18. Taking the world at large, the greatest heat recorded was l;(3 in the shade at Monrzuk (India); but Professor Wrcde's observation in Central Arabia was 37V» O'litigradc. euual to 135</ 2 Fahrenheit iii the shade, whilst the heat in the su-i was 1!M Fahrenheit. Alcohol boils i<t 174 and water boils at 212 Fahrenheit.

Some of the timber required for the erection of the toll-gates on the Main South road is already on the site, and to soon as legal difficulties have been disposed of the work will be proceeded with by the contractor. A bonus is beiu» ollered for the early completion of the gates on all roads. At Saturday's meeting of the Hawera Countv Council a discussion arose as to the best method ot managing the gates. Some councillors were hi favour ot the council appointing toll-gate keepers and running the gates for the first year so as to ascertain the exact revenue derived, while others were inclined to sell the right to a contractor, lb' chairman stated that it was his inteution, before the next meeting of the Council, to spend several davs on the road and make a note of the'traffic on it, so as to determine what the gates were likely to bring in. It would help, he thought, to arrive at a decision on the point.—"Waimate Witness."

Every man and every woman has his and her own sphere of action. Some men shine m commerce; some in sportsome live like princes whilst others, with equal opportunities starve. Some women shine in the nursery; .some in the kitchen; some on the tennis courts. -Most men and most women can eniov themselves; but the percentage of people who can provide enjoyment and delight in keeping people enjoying themselves is a very small one. ' But some people can do it. They arrange games, races, contests, laughter-producers all as if by magic. These people are in demand just now. for the Sunday School, are holding their annual' picnics Amongst other genii \ cw Vlvmoiith possesses some past masters in 'the art ol amusing ami entertaining the voung. stei;s. and inducing prim twenty-five and pert sixteen to backward bridge the gap that separates them f rom their infant |ticiue days. So that yesterday iflernooii. when M,c Wlmeley Memorial MctliodLt and St. Mary'- Anglican Sunday Schools held their annual outings, there was a continuous round of i»aielies. The teachers and friends in each instance worked like Britons, and. with the perfect weather prevailing, the enjoyment was keen and general The tea-table laid in sheltered places, emptied without appreciable effort, such wa* ' the ellcct ol the open-air enjoyment upon the appetites.

■■What I lie Lamplighter s.iw " is the title of a good story told bv the Me]--ourne "Age." A lamplighter named "-borne, whilst on liis rounds about 5 A.m., had occasion to cross the dam in Marsdcn street. When alinut midwav In- attention was arrested liv tlie appearance of the body of a female in tlie water, dose lo the edge of the (lam. To make sure. ], e gave the object a poke with a stick which he carried for the purpose of turning down the lights in the street lamps, and being salisfied i„ us own mind that a dreadful I railed v hud taken place, hurried oh" with all dc "patch to the notice -tutlon a few hit 1drcd yards away to report (],, „ 111U ,,, A short iftVraiicc Irom the supposed bo.lv I on Hie ,i,Je of the dam. lie had seen a' j woman's ha I and some clothing. In the I course of a few minutes the police were on the spot, along with the lamplight..,hut no dead body could Ik- seen nor liat ! nor clothes. It took the police five hours lo confirm the story. The "body'' was that of a young woman who was merely taking a n ~.l r| y morning bath, and seeing the lamplighter Approaching she lav down in the water face downwards an'l remained -till ,o that she might not ),, observed. The prod in the ribs with the

'.'a- man', -tvk nearly made her "gice the -how miai." tmt as -omi as the man with the -tick had departed for Ihc police station she quietly got out ~f the water, donned her clothes, and was far a way by (he time the constables arrived on the s,.,.|ie with their grappling imis. According to bakers, people eat 20 per cent, more bread when the weather is (Old than when it is mild.

Santa T?o-e. California, has a church capable or -eating 200, all built out nf Hie timber saivii from a single redwood tree.