The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 63, 4 March 1908, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4.

Mr. X. J. King lias detinitcly decided to contest the Stratford seat at the next general election afl an Independent Liberal. "1 don't think there is a mure beau'.iful spot in tlio Dominion or in Australasia." —Mr. Mel'ariaml on the New l'.>iHnut.li Recreation Grounds. The proposal of the Hawera ( ounly Council to raise a ,€<):[,000 rolling loan, i spread over the whole county, was subI mitti'd to the vote oi Uic ratepayers on Saturday, and was carried by J;tt to 54.

Tl„. delegate- io the Bakers' ConiVienit' will on Thuisday be given a tn] IO Ihe North Kgmom Mountain Hons a- the guvsts of Mr. Newton King, ii c.Hijiiiieiion with the directors of th Northi'in Uollev Mill*. "Tite "M-T.ul'inonthly nieei ing of tlie Tar, faaki Liberal ami L;ibor Federation w; held in the Town llall last night, whi there was a good attendance. The se retarv reported a accession to ll memi>ershi]) ; the strength of which )i. d<»nb|ed during the p.<-t month.

Tiie ceremony of opening the New Plymouth Ttchni«al School tor the 1 'AOS together with the presentation of fertili'-ate- gained in the elas-es la-d year, will take place this evening it 8 o'c-iock. Yesterday aftunoon the delegates co ihc Jiakers Conlcrence visited Hie Taranaki I'eti'oleum Company's oilwuiks. uic breakwater, and tne grading works at Moturoa, and afterwards the tion tirounds, many of the delegate j making highly eulogistic remarks con I cenmig this beauty-spot ot Taianaki.

11 is a peculiar tiling that tuc male rocah-i, itiougU peihap* amongst the ncluus of inal de luer should lie laiie i little sea trip, or perhaps the lirst to inil for shelter in tlie event of a bombardment of the town, nearly always iiilects the sea or the battlefield wle.n invited to warlde. Tiiis tact i-> lrcipiently noted at banquets and similar uuietioiis. Fully VHI per cent, of '.iio songs at the bakers' function last night smacked of the sea aud of patriotism. "Love," the lady's theme, was not. in toasting the New Plymouth iJ'.nougii Council last night Mr. 11. L\ Alle'i j was not quite at home with his Jac'.s. So long as he was oil the "broad footpath* and well-foriued streets,lie was fairly right. But when he .swilchod himself on to a "loan just raised for the installation of the electric light''; to the "other towns in Tarauaki following New Plymouth's lead in electric lighting"; to the fact that the "drainage is nearly completed"; to the foresight which prevailed upot early settlers to lay out the streets as they had don-.*; , he was plainly out of his latitude, and i tin; local people present had to wear a | quiet smile.

"Books are falsitied in all trades. A" a public auditor J can speak on t hii brad. . . To talk about checking the honesty or dishonesty of a uaker's carter merely beating the air. A T of a fidelity guarantee company Miid to me, 'When you can get a .-yMeni thai, will test the truthfulness oi tlie carter'* statement that he left a loaf at Mr. Brown's, and Mr. Brown was out, then we'll talk about giving a guarantee.'" Thiir Mr. Allen, secretary of tin 1 Mast *r Bake:-' Association, yesterday in speaking about llie question of procuring lideli4y bonds for employees uii delivery carls. Mr. M'Tarlanu took a hopeful view. I'.verv conference saw the trale further ahead and on a belter footing, leading, he hoped, to "a Paradise in the ! baking trade." Th:» conference had been nnsuccc-sful in this ami one or two | other minor matters; "were they downj hearted?" As the footballers cried,