The Daily News TUESDAY, MARCH 10. ON THE FOURTH PAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 68, 10 March 1908, Page 2

The Daily News TUESDAY, MARCH 10. ON THE FOURTH PAGE.

N|>iirliu;r. New J'lunoiitli Uorougli Council. foot Kill'. I'n.viii.'iiil Nfvvs. I'niiimi'iviiil. l'liiin Mr. liiglil.

I Sir Joseph Ward hajuillin^m—. should a suitable date be I arranged. U> \isii Klthain and perform I tin- ecji-)non,\ oi opening ihe new eourt- | | hoiw and lbe technical school. ! The prevailing unnM in Berlin is i>-lu-lruled by the fail that tlie limperor".-, palace, in the centre oj the city, i* continuously guarded by a Hundred policcmen, who are held in readiness* lor cmcrgvucies iu courtyards invisible tro'n the streets. The Kmperor has ordered that the police on duty at the palace shall lie well fed from his own kitchen. These precautionary measures are due more to fear of anarchists than of Socialist riots. Ihe anarchists have been recently extremely active, and are known to have concocted variou- plans of open violence against the Kaiser. | The Belgian (.Government has furnish- j ed the following information concerning tin* future of the Congo to the Colonial Committee, iu the Katanga domain 10(1 mines of copper and malachite have been discovered. Borings have revealed the existence of *2,000,000 tons of copper, valued, roughly, at .€120,000,000. Ihe King Sovereign desires no personal advantage from the forests of the C rown domain, which at present yield £200,000 yearly, and may produce three or four times as much when the rubber plantations become productive in eighteen years time. At the expiration of this period it will be possible to hand over £-180,000 for public work?.

An incident which has given rise to a good deal of excitement and alarm has occurred at a Chilian village lying near the railway. According to the account of the affair in the Cfcilian newspapers, the villagers, owing to a series of attacks by robbers in the neighbourhood, provided themselves with arms as a protection. Lour Oe-:-inans who were making an excursion in the country near this village were taken to be brigands by the rustics. It was dark at the time, and the peasants going out to encounter the supposed robbers opened lire. One of the Oermans was killed, and the other three were severely wounded.

An interesting old lady has died in the per>on of .Mrs. Maynard, of tham. a centenarian. The deceased lady oil February IS last held a reception of her near relatives to celebrate her looth birthday, and received through Lord Hyllon a letter of congratulation from the Queen. .Mrs. Maynard wa* married at Croydon HO years ago. and passing through Merstham on her honeymoon wa- -o charmed with the pietui'e>«pie village that >he induced her husband to take up bis residence ther**. She ha< lived upon Lord Tlylton's e>lat.» >ince. Seven of her -ou.s and daughters married seven brothers and sNtei> liamed King, members of a -family of well-known Surrey farmers.

The limestone country in the (ilad-htoue-Wairarapa district is responsible for a curious geological phenomenon (writes the Wairarapa correspondent of the Dominion i. There lias been no rain in the district tor practically five months, but- creeks which were dry a month ago had running streams in them three weeks later. Jt may be explained that there was no rain in the interval. Tlie explanation given is interesting. The winter of 100(1 was a dry winter in the Gladstone district, but last winter was very wet. The result is thai Hie moi»ture of last winter is just percolating through the dry strata, which feed the creek-. Cases of this nature do not OL-cur in papa country, which is all surface.

Mr, Kudyard Kipling lias told us m the- ship that found herself, and some Frenchman will doubtless tound a stury oil the train 1 hat recently lost itself near Senlis. It was an express hound from Paris to Amiens. By the mistake of a pointsman outside Creil, the train lost its way. and went olf towards Conipeigne instead of to Amiens. Tic engine-driver realised that he was no' on the right track, but. knowing that there was another exprc?3 behind him. dared not go back, and he raced along the line !o find the nearest siding. The guard and a number of the passengers had by this time realised that something was wrong, and heads were thrust out of all windows, whilst the passengers >houted to the driver that he was taking them away from Amiens. The train dashed through several stations, and eventually took refuge in a siding outside Ponte Saintc Mayeuce. Two minutes after it got in the other express dashed pa-t like a meteor. The lost train thereupon returned to Creil, was .shunted on to the Amiens line, and reached its destination two hours late.

I lie experienced Parliamentarian is rarely at a loss for something to say. and Mr. Massey, M.P., can speak when called upon as readily, and to the point, as any member Ml the present Parliament. .Still, it was somewhat disconcerting, even for Mr. Massey, to discover, when he reached Hamilton on Monday, that his bag had been left behind at Otahuhu, and iu the bag were all the notes lie had prepared ready for his speech on Monday night. To the sympathetic remarks of friends upjn | the position, Mr. Massey responded in his breu/.y style, " Oh, it doesn't matter, ITI think oi something to say all right." 1 The big audteuw which gave him ro cordial a welcome that night was unaware of the circumstance of the lo=t hag. Inn il nevertheless listened to a remarkably iiiie. clear, and decisive speech which evidently found much favour, being applauded to the echo. Subsequently Mr. Mhsm'v was warmly congratulated by a number of those present, the "pinion being expressed by several win have known him for many years thai lie wit* never in belter "lighting form." and that- the speech was o ne of the best I hey had heard him deliver.

Judge Cnitpcr. at Napier <>u Tuesday, deitHun. :' 1 in -cathing terms the class of literature found in the possession of John Hughes and Clerkiin, the boys arraigned on numerous charges of burglary. ' i should like.'' he said, "to have Ihe pov,< r to call before me the man who .-old ihe-e hook*, and ! woui! j like to ha'.e the power in *cnd tint I man to gaol. We have mad ( > provision I iu our l""i-! • :: ; - pioli :>i: t !:e -aie of !■!!• aii.'i ilJiJeceil! literature. Suit J this r|a-- <>l literature i- iu-1 a-> bad. | This i <« m:nany desires to oe ! pilloried, and i -<•<• mat it publishes t-lia J)iek Tin pin library. :he Ja»*k Shepherd I library, and the Claud'' Duval library.: J These were three highwaymen ami lorioit- ei-iiniri.il- uho-e careers have [ been interpreted iu the-e books as men 1 whom boy- are de-tired to emulate. I regret that the law at the present time does not bung the-:- publisher* within iU mc-di"-. I wish (bat if did. and that thi- literature cmihl be stopped. I wish I knew the men who -old this literature to ih.» bos-. I would say something io them that, if they had *ense of shame at all would prevent further inlluenre of thU ehts* of literature for the *ake of a few paltry pence. .

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j Slightly damaged l>v water arc some ot the goods advertised in "The Kasli" great .sale bill accompanying this issue, lint in the clothing the lining only is affected. This sale of theirs is a great opportunity to procure your men's and hoys' clothing at greatly reduced prices, as in many instances you get a rcducion of fis 8d in the pound. This will not lie a prolonged sale, lmt will only last fnuvteon day?, as they have to make alterations in their premises on the 20th lint., and the sale will cense on that daio. so he sure you secure softie of the bargains before that date.

Mr. Xewton King- has received a cable from his Sydney agents re hides, advising "lights farthing lower; heaviest . firm."

At a recent mooting at Manchester, Sir W. Holland, M.l\, told this story A nurse, on visiting the home of a woman in humble circumstances. found her feeding her young child on turnips instead of milk. Mot unnaturally, the nurse remonstrated with the woman, who replied: "Bless you, nmm, I've bad ten kids ami brought 'em all up on i turnips.'' The Druids' Lodge met last evening.: a large number of members being pre-, | sent. TImJ. (Jranil President, Bro. Oil- I belt, was received with Druidie lire and a musical welcome. PJ). Orand Presii dent'Bro. Jennings visited the lodge, I and eighteen brothers from the Ingle- ' wood Lodg'e' attended. District President. Bro. 11. J. Holibs installed the new District President, Hro. I\ Spurdle. The Orand President- unveiled the photo graph of the late Orand Secretary. Hro. J. Mickay. ami gave utterance to a few words regarding the high esteem in which the late brother was held by rvery brother in Iho Order. P.D.O.P. Hn>. Jennings, M.l\, also eulogised the work of the late Secretary. A banquet was subsequently held- in the lodgei ooiik fifty-four member* attending. A number of speeches wW'o given. Past Dis-

triet President Hro. 11. J. Ilobbs wis presented with a P.D.P. collar by I\D., Orand President Bro. .runnings. P.D.P. Hro. llamerton, of Inglewood Lodg-?, presented Hro. L. Hullot with a silver matchbox as a token of the esteem in which he was held ny the Druids of the District.

JJaronuss von Schwitzer, a millionairess, and once n famous Koumanian beauty, has committed suicide at Crajora, because she realised that she was | beginning to look old. The Baroness was the daughter of a small shopkeeper, but her extraordinary beauty captivated the heart of a wealthy Hussiaii, Count Taliewiteh, who married her when she was sixteen years old. When her husband died, lie left l^' l ' ;L J° l '" tune of over £1,000,000. Shortly afterwards she married Baron von Schwitzer, an Austrian nobleman. The Baroness, who recently passed her iifticth year, had always been very proud of her remarkable beauty, and of late had boconn? very melancholy, owing to the fact that the ravages of time were becoming more and more evident. So she later on Attempted to poison herself. The effort failed, but she was determined on self-destruction, and, obtaining a revolver, she blew out her brains. She left a letter stating trtiat site could not bear to survive Iter good looks.

Arrangements luive almost been com- j pleted for the erection in Taranaki of a big* condensed milk factory. -A representative of Messrs. Preston and Co., who are the managing agents in New Zealand and Australia for the wellknown Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, informed tlie West Coast Times that the company's enterprise in building a factory of this kind large enough to supply the whole of Xew Zealand, and lilted with modern condensing machinery, means investing no less a sum than C7<),OU(). The company manufacture the well - known brands of "Nestles/' "Milkmaid Condensed Milk/ "Meal" unsweetened cream, and are also large manufacturers |of cocoa and chocolates. It is the opin- | ion of experts that it is only a matter ,ot a lew years when Australia and New j Zealand will l>c supplying nearly the | whole world with milk condensed in these countries, and with the trade in j the hands of a wealthy company like I "Xeslle's, 1 New Zealand with its abun- [ dant, supply of milk would be in a posi- | tion to compete witli other countries ; The Taieri County Council had adver- | tised for a sanitary inspector, and (says the Advocate) one out of many applicants. by way of testifying to" his fitness for the, position, enclosed a cabinet photograph of himself and his bride, arrayed in wedding garments. The pretty portrait was handed round, but the contrast between orange blossoms and white ties and the nature of a sanitary inspector's duties was so ludicrous j that the councillors' gravity was quite j upset—so was tire application, j The river at Foxton lias been inspected by Trosidder. Arnst, Fogwell, j and ]• loyd as to its suitability for row- ; ing. and it is stated to be within the 1 bounds <if possibility that Arnst will ; undergo his preparation for his match (with Webb ]<>r tne world's champion- ! ship on its readies.

liok's stor.v gf Lucy tiray and the onnito out ill' his clement has bc-11 SO often told wrongly that the accurate version ot it is now given in the Uenn's J/Mters - Allen & Son») as follows: —•• A young curate, a mod f,.|. low, Imt very sliy and bashful, caiue into a parish wliich was occupied by Yorkshire y<>omen, who bred horses and rode them— and soiiK'tiines had steeplechases, lie did not get on, ami was very much depressed. ()„ 0 day Uu . t . K , rk ' sajd )(J Ml you please, sir, the prayers of the church are desired for ' Uicy'Cray.' "\tTy well,' said (he curate; and at overv .service at which the prayer for all sorts and conditions of men was offered the church was asked to pray for Uicy Gray, till one morning the clerk rushed into the vestry amTsaid, 'You m*edn fc pray for Lucy Gray any more. -- shos won the steeplechase!' •'ilnve I been praying for a horse?' asked the curate; 'i shall leave the place! 3 tint tke clerk said, 'You'll do nowt of sort; 1 thought little of ye when ye tame, hot now ye'vo got the hearts of them all, and ye can do what ye like in this parish, since yuu took to imivim* for that horse.' *

An illustration of Otago shrcuTlness comes irom the Daily Times. A large number of scall'cld-poles were wanted in connection with tin- erection of the late International Exhibition, and it was thought that a supply would have to be obtained from Tasmania. A shrewd Otago business man discovered that one of the early settlers had planted a belt of iir trees on a worthless strip of his land too sour for cultivation. The remainder of the farm was not in the best of heart after having been cropped lor a good many years. Negotiations tor pun-huso were entered into, with the tempting bait of cash down, and a sale efleeted. The scaffold-poles sold to Exhibition contactors more than paid the whole purchase-money of the farm. Lawyers occasionally must iind themselves in awkward positions (says the I'eilding Star), Certainly the positions at times seem peculiar lo the eyes of mere laymen. The latest example is Jprnished by Dr. Findlav. That gentleman is leading counsel against the FeiidJng Uorough Council in its case against the I'eilding Gas Company, Now. it happens that the Palmerston North Borough Council intends taking exactly the same steps legally as the FeiUling Council, and it has been advised to do so by—Dr. l'indlay! And this same advisor happen* to he the Al lorncv-< ieiieral, whose functions it is to watch over the interests of local bodies as against those oi the individual or the private corporation.