LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 177, 17 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow's supplement will nc found replete with interesting reading matter. There will be. a, further instalment of the Jlaori legend, ■'Tutanekai ami Jliiieinua," as well as stories and articles to suit the tastes of afl classes of readers. Chief among tile stories ami articles arc: "Romances of Cnexpected Ji'orluiies," ".Mexico the .Marvellous," -'Ancient JJridcgrooms,'' "A Week of Wealth," "Facts about Famous Turf Gamblers, etc., etc."

The takings at the Rritish-Taranaki football match on Wednesday totalled rCliilu.

At the skating tournament, in the Theatre; lloyal on Tuesday, Miss Hill and Master Unwell were the winners of the prize Tor the best juvenile couple.

'flu' Wluikatika ladies' hockey team played ilt Wanganui yesterday. There was no M'ore at eall of time. hut. playing on, Wanganui secured a goal and won the niiUeh.

Supci'iutcndeni Hugo, -Con-rniin'ii! Superintendent of Fire ISrigudes, will hold an inspection parade i»f the i'nv Plymouth J'irt- lirigade xo niylif at the Central .Station at S o'clock.

A I'jnie—not a legislator- might cy. claim: "To what base use-.'' cte., when gazing at the (governor's chastely-tint-ed ballroom, eonvertetl inio a place for law-makers, ami the Parliamentarian's counterblast to a Anile might be: "We are come to this, iroratio." or words io that ciVoct. Here where tin- dancers whispered who know- what sweet for-get-me-nots, voices now on- out about roads and liridges: where once a jewei sparkled in perfumed tresses, a howler hat leans awry on the back of ,1 nnnApollouian head. The heavv boot has for ever ousted the twinkling feet--Wellington Tost.

The ipiiirlerly meeting of ihe executive of the Taranaki Friendlv Societies' Association was hehl mi Tuesday at Stratford. The number of members',p;i>'ing in to the as-ochilioii was shown 10 he 1(133, and the Stratford Druids and I'liftiiu Druids were considering the ipicstion of joining. The statement ->f liahilities of'the association showed Unit £212 was still owing, and that there was £122 in the hank ■mil I'-Ni owing hy the various Indg»s'. leaving a deficiency of til. This was a decided improvement on the la-l lunuter. when the deficiency was £7B. Accounls fir the amount of £10(1 had just come in from three lodges. The secrelary wis instructed to .pay all Waits;* when they came in as far as it was possible.

"If the lawyers of this country had only kept their savings in gill-edged securities," remarked tile AttorneyGenera) on AVcdncsdav. "tho.v would lie much happier and better oil' than thev are to-day. While 1 have succeeded in my profession, 1. certainly have gone down disastrously in my speculation." "There's a lot of ignorance among Europeans as to the conditions of the Maori race," said Mr. ,1. Thornton, president of the Tc Ante Association, at the Maori Congress the other night. "Peopio see one Maori loafing about, and think I that the whole race i s lazy. As a matI tcr of fact, instead of eating the bread i of idleness, the Maori is often eating the mutton of a sheep he himself has grown."

A few weeks ago soracluidv raised the question in tin- Press of the Ainukiiru s usefulness as a training-ship for boys. Evidently the Wellington branch of Hie Navy League have no doubts as to the schooling in seamanship given the hoys on the Government training-vessel. It has resolved to ask the Government to allow two years' service on the Amokiira lo count as one at sea, so that boys from the ship embracing the nautical profession will not have to spend a year brass-polishing. Landlords nowadays resort, to all sorts of contrivances in order to get "bad marks" out of their houses. Recently a Gisborne landlord, accompanied by Iwo men armed with n crowbar, screwdrivers, and chisels, proceeded to the residence of one of his tenants who he alleged had given him a great deal of trouble, ell'eeting an entrance by means of a key. ami removed all the doors, both inside ami out. '• [ have a good mind to take the windows out. too, but 1 won't do that just vet," remarked the landlord fo the 'local* Herald. A meeting of the New Plvnioulh llign School Hoard was held on Tuesday. Present: Messrs. Eraser (in the chair), 8. Percy Smith .Glasgow, McOiarmid, Wilson, and Dr. Eookes. A sub-committee was appointed, consisting of the chairman and Messrs. McDiarmid, Smith, and Glasgow, to interview Mr. Ballanlyue regarding the grant lo the Technical School. The secretary was instructed to write to the Public Trustee calling attention to the growth of furze on the native reserve adjoining. Iloneylield's section. Accounts amounting to £211!) t)s lid.were passed for payment.

The Montreal Trade Bulletin savs:—Tltere is no doubt that New Zealand cheese has been a thorn in the side of the holders of Canadian cheese in England, as it has undersold the latter by Is to 2s ]wr cwt, and. prices being on a high level, price told more than quality. Last English mail advices stated that a considerable quantity of New Zealand cheese had then arrived, the quality showing considerable improvement upon its former hard texture, being softer

and more meaty. Until this is worke oil' Canadian goods will sell at a disai vantage, as the colonial chouse sells lo less money.

The returns of Hie Wollinglou-Napic New Plymouth section of the raihva. last year were: —Kevcuuc, C7W>,Si;i. n

inrreiiM' of .C(i2,2ii(i over the previous rear. Passengers numbered ;i,170,01i;i, returning £270.081, ;in increase of 1-17,-l-ll and CMi/wO over the previous year. Season tickets issued numbered si),S77 ( £2l.!H(i),. an increase of 10,0711 ( £380:1). Live stock and goods carried showed an increase representing a value of Sheep and pigs showed an increase, but there was a'slight falling-oil' in cattle. "The business in Ihe district shows rapid expansion geurrally. but particu-laj-ly on the Main Trunk Line," stales I he'.Minister for llailways in his annual report. Dr. Hubert Strong, of Melbourne, filed

his schedule in the Insolvency Court on Tuesday last. The insolvent stated that the cause of his insolvency'was an adverse judgment in the Supreme Court having been obtained against him on December 31, 1007. His liabilities amounted to £537-1 0s 7d. The unsecured creditors are:—Charles Duncklcy Wallace. £2720, lis 7d, judgment in the Su-

prenic Court in the divorce suit Wal-

lace v. Wallace and Strong; Messrs. Fink. Best and Hull, solicitors, .tfljO. amount of guaranti'c; William John

Strong, solicitor, ClKoll,'law costs; and .losepli Strong, genlli'inan. C2OO, money lent. The debts due to the insolvent in-clude:--Mrs. Wallace, .till Ids I'd; and Mrs. Parker, C 3 ss.

Tile papers contain frequent references to the inhuiiianilv of man lo man, but llie unselfish acts recorded are few ami far between, ••'nun New York conies (lie

story of a line ad mi the part of M.-. .Merrilt ill (lie intcreds of his race, lbhas voluntarily sUlnniUcd himself lo inoculation with tlw germs of tuberculosis, for the purpose of medical observation and treatment. llr. .Merrill is middle-aged, and was once a prosperous tradesman in western New York. Some time ago his wife and sou died of consumption, lie lost his business, and linnlly became a tramp, in which condition he drifted into ,011 c of the Salvition Army homes. It was while there that be expressed a willingness to die if he might thereby aid medical science in combating tuberculosis. The offer was accepted some days later by a medical man of New York. The doctor who inoculated Mr. Merritt (on 21st Mav) states that tulK-rculiisis had. eight days later, thoroughly entered the victim's system. The result of this self-sacri-ficing effort will be watched for with keenness by others besides medical men. Blulf now possesses a newspaper of its own. The "I'lulf Press and Stewart Island Gazette." which appeared for the first time on Tuesday of last week, is a well-printed little slieet of four pages, four columns to the page, and it has a patriotic purpose. "Somehow or other," it says, ■'Bluff 1-lnrbor—the key to the material progress and development of the district as a whole—has hitherio escaped the lynx-eye of the newspaper scribe, and the result is, little or no effort has been made to individualise it oil its own merits. On the contrary, tin daily record of the place is being incorporated with that of fnvercargill, and the Mull', as a seaport town separate and distinct, is in great danger of being lost sight of amidst the confusion of ideas awakened in the public mind. That is precisely the juncture at which the Bluff Press has stepped into the breach,and it is hardly necessary to add, dclinite and wcll-diiccled representations oil that behalf will he one of its primary objectives." The Press, which claim,, to be the most southerly paper in Ihe world, states that Sir' Joseph Ward was its iirst subscriber, and "to commemorate this his copy of the initial number has been printed on satin."

'.the Investors' Review of Mav 30 savs:—New Zealand trade lor fli"e"voar ended .March 111, I'.MS, looks flourishing from some points of view, although the exports fell uIV by over .C 1,1100.001) compared ivit.li I!JUIi-7 to a total of £17,SUO.li.'il. The great decrease was in wool ami sheepskins, tint value of which' in the past year was Uti,7!)l,:«« as compared with tH.'.W.l.lllt'i in the previous year, and wool, we fear, is not goin;; to he a particularly resourceful and prulilable article of trait- for some little time to come. The falling off in tic: exports, though, did not at all damp the ardor of the .New Zoalundcrs in buying, for the imports of the colony amounted to '.CI7,IIH,I>OS. or within about :C7.")(l,(l00 of the value of the exports. This figure was upwards of .CItiOO.OOO higher than that for the year ended March 111, t!)07, and we 'sh'ouid have thought better of immediate prospects out there had Here been greater disparity. That is to say. New Zealand being a debtor country miller an obligation to transmit' abroad interest and prolits to an amount approaching, if not exceeding'. 0.0011.n00 per annum, ought always to export goods to at least this amount higher in value than it imports. When, therefore, the Uvo sides of the that a sensible pari of the imports is not being paid for by the commodities exported. If, therefore. New Zealand continues in the present, vear to lmv almost as much as she sells »c mav 'look for a disturbance in I lie tinanc'ial equilibrium, or increased zeal hi raising loans in London.

Archdeacon Cole will hold services next Sunday at Okalo II a.m. (H.C.), Tataraimaka 2 p.m.. and Oakum 7 p.m.

'' W r e. have been catering too much for tile, big man and not enough for the small in;in."-~Mr. Witty, on the Government's land policy. '

-Mr. Okcy lias presented the mammoth petition of this session, signed by 2173 ratepayers of Tjiranaki in favor'of the New Plymouth Harbor Board Bill. The New Zealand 'Times of yesterday's date states that "Miss"'c. ;K Bellriiigor has been chosen the Government candidate for the Taranaki electorate at the coming election! What has been done in the way of improving the Recreation Ground' of late has been very wisely done by our friends at New Plymouth, and visitors were much struck with the spaciousness and beauty of the place, says the Stratford Post.

Through the Leader of the Opposition, .Mr. Samuel Vaile is again petitioning L'arliamcnt to make a trial of the or zune system of railway charges, lie submits Una the present system entails a most serious annual loss, and fails in oilier respects to meet the requirement* of the country.

In some of the country districts, and especially in the Wairarapa, there is Utile or no demand for labor at present. But this state of all'airs is nut expected to last. "No men wanted'at nil," was the report of a .MasterUm lalior agent to applicants for work on Monday. A Wairarapa Age reporter, on enquiry at various labor bureaux, found that the labor market was exceptionally slack just now. Contract scrub cutting is expected to start in the course of a week or wo, however, am! this will absorb a lair amount of unskilled labor.

On May 2(ilh, at Potlsville, Pennsylvania, a man named Felix l!adzius was to have been hanged for the murder of a comrade in a brawl. The murder ] was of a piirlicnhirly brutal character, and in order lo inculcate self-restraint "amoug the foreign workers in the coallields and to teach them respect for the law the authorities at Pottsvjlhr issued tickets to some, live hundred workmen to be present at the execution. Pnttsville is the centre of the great anthracite coal legion, and some seven or eight thousand Hungarians, Poles, and Slavs are employed in the. coal mines in and about the place. intauthorities believe that by admitting so large a number of these men to sec the hanging of one of their fellows, their recital of the scene to the otners will act as a deterrent to lawlessness. It -wai shown by some of the speakers at tlie .Maori Congress on Wednesday that the. native boys readily adapted' themselves to trades, though it was U u"«cslcd that in order to give them some fixity iu their avocations they should be apprenticed, so as to get tho lull benefit of the instruction in tie, 1.,-artas tlley took up. Mr. Ileke M.I ~ held that trades were beneficial lor Maori boys, especially in regard to bov» whose parents wepj not .» possession of land. There were, however, sour, trades not fitted to the Maori. Preference should, be given to placing t.|,em on the land. Commercial and profc'sienal pursuits were, ol course, iuitablc, if tlie intellectual capacity ot 11,., loss was such as to enable them to ~;,"ss'tiie necessary examinations. lie Uioicht (hat earnest consideration should be "iven to those interested in be trades aspect of the; Maori lite, or there were injuiy Maoris who d d no possess land, and, therefore, could not place their boys on the soil. \ cruel and bare-faced deception was practised on Miss Julia Churcl.ouse, reiidiii" at Bournemouth (Lnglnnd) ; whose lover (Thomas Owen), giving her to understand she was signing a mar-riu-e settlement by which she would receive .£l5O a year, obtained from her■ « deed of conveyance of her prope l>, b) means of which he obtained advance. don, and eventually mortgaged the o- . nerty. The Bank afterward., brough . iuacaiou against Miss Cl".rchou S ea,uJ Owen. She counter-claimed that th< : Z,X of conveyance should be set its. ami the mortgage cancelled, and liti l,,ce brought to light the cruel dc !,.,-.> been i«iiorant. of the fact that mi . I i " n„. convevauce gave Owor ri; there Cave judgment for the Bank an the young woman must sulUi loi lover's wnmg-doing and deception. Kvery paper devotes space to In'' !U,yal visit \o the fclnbi.jo.!i ro,H | tie Paris correspondent ol the lall y-,11 ta/etle. T'licrc are no Anglo ~ ~,s l.Hbiv- thevhave become lihobe organs io-u,i.\, u«..> !^f u, '^:::,,t"' I :'bt.,is™n^-d lofXehms aau-Fnglisisms m the past, has become positively g< ma I, L pictorial elfort toi represent M 1£ licr i cs iu Loudon I.e sc ,=,. j|,,,1,1K' llll ''f -,, K. u.l 'President picture, showing Wing ■»'" , ~,,n.-iie.- "arh after the manner -.1 ' '"" uur'Arviel. on a London bank ho ihv The worthy chief magistrate TX whu-U unenlightened *,» c «- lm> „ slin ,„, k .vc ,s he ,Iml W . II ' S ,! „■ sUu salt of the earth, but in after-dinner speeches. All soils oi ■v vtne- are attributed to h.m, some of to bear. ' \ trial of the Simplex ;»' lkil, !5 ™" chine took place at utakeko on VHancsday (reports the Star) lUose p c sent witnessed a severe test of the a chine and were well instructed s to its working, etc., by Mu lihlcc The engine used wa= a uuu. ' • i ~,„i i,,, n lB ma in vacuum pipe arc connected by inc. 'in m , \ •verliead. These pulsating va.lv-.. ait *m ,o!ed of only two m ts nam ly lhe Valve and the race. The upha p reduced to praclicaUy ml. Il.c ual cups on the bucket are Ml. B-. owl invention, and are really aled, r,s V to clean as a milk ran. » th K writer's opinion the whole machine :a I simple that little space ,s needed to , describe it. It has one grea, . U. im,—it cutirelv does away with tlu atllavoml milk, as no milk or spray Is taken up into tlie pipes, ovc.h , this iicin" stopped by a simple bailie plate iu tho top Of the bucket. Alter r«ood lecture -Air. Blake commenced mining, the result being that were milked at the rate ol two to inc minutes. The cows were a terwan . stripped by an onlooker, and those piescnt wero satisfied that the farmer will vet have his milking done without manual labor, and done well. The machine is well worth inspection, if only to see the simplicity of it. j