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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 207, 21 August 1908, Page 2

Tin; Harbor Board meets to-day. At the New Plymouth railway station it is necessary to obtain » platform or breakwater ticket ill order to secure admission to tlu» platform at the time of arrival of the express train. Judging bv tile; crowds which find their wav on tr\ the platform, the charge is needed, for if free access were permitted, pasneuters ali.vlilin;; would be greatly impeded in tlieiv movements. People wlio present- themselves but not their tickets at the outer door are informed Uv the doorkeeper that they must obtain liokris outside, but-there is nothing to indi'-alv' at night the whereabouts of ill,- lii-ket window. A projecting notiiv- I boai'il bearing Hie wonls '"Platform anil .bivakwater tickets here'- would save many a person much trouble.

(Quality is not based upon what you pay, but what you <;ot, fur what you pay. When you buy an, Alla-Laval" Separator you buy a niaehiue witli the endorsement of !)8 pi'i- oenl. of pra.r tieal ereaniery and separator experts, [f you were travelling in a strange land and came to a fork in the road and should enquire tin; way to your destination, 1)8 per eelit. toiling you to (al;o the right hand and ■> i>er cent, the left, ivbiih would you take? The man who buys nil imitation separator and thinks he is •roUiii" as good a maehine as the

"AllVLaval" is like (In- fellm.- wlio i I'iml ii> blow out tin. l elm-trie li^lit —lie didn't, know any better. Catalogue "T" ami all particulars from tlw solo Jfcw Zealand agents. Mason, Sfrulhers inid Co., Ltd., Main street, I'aliner.ston North. E. Griffiths and Co., New Plymouth, local agents.

The Taranaki Education Hoard's share of the Dominion Day medals is fii)()(), and the.se are at last being forwarded. The secretary of the Education Hoard has received a supply of entry forms for teachers' Cand D, and the junior and senior civil service examinations.

H is notified in t-lie Gazette that money orders and correspondence will not be transmitted for the following persons:--Will Alidade, Melbourne; J. A. liennie, Sydney; Viiviuie & Co., London. This action is taken under Section !) of the Post Oiliee Act, 1006, which empowers tlie Postmaster-General to impose restrictions.

The annual report of the liawke's Hay Fruitgrowers' Company states that the company handled packages of fruit this season, as against 11,25-i last season. The total turnover was as against ,C.">2(iS in the previous year. To meet increased -business the company decided to extend the premises. The director* of the Kaupokonui Cooperative Dairy Company have decided to consign their season's output through the same iirm as last year, iM(!>srs Wilier and Kiiey, of Manchester, and almost nearly on the same terms, the dillereni'e being a guaranteed advance this year. The company is at present making butler, but it is understood that it will turn to cheese before the .season advances very far. A girl .playing round the Miramar

golf links last week is reported by the Wellington Post to have met with an extraordinary experience. Anxious to make her tee higher, she took a handful of sand from a little heap close by, «-ud, to her horror, found her fingers caught in a rabbit trap that was buried below the surface. Fortunately she got free with not much injury, save a cut hand and a shock.

Latest advices from Otira are to the ell'eet that solid rock has again been struck, and that the rate ui progress has incw&sed to Oft per day. "Dry ground" is 'now being worked, and eigiit-houi shifts have been restored. There is no indication given oi active labor troubles, says the Press, and though tile union recently held a meeting to consider the position, no active trouble is anticipated. After being married a yuar, a young, man named Halm, living at Volosca, Dahnatia, discovered the other day that lie had not married the girJ he intended. When he proposed to her he mistook her for her twin sister, who so resembles her than they can scarcely be distinguished, and lie did not realise 'his error until he began calling her by her Christian name instead of by the terms of endearment lie, had hitherto used.

The Japanese are the most heavily taxed people in the world. The estimated tax levy for this year is £OI,OOO, 000, which means that the head of vcry family must pay iu taxes one-lifth of his income. ]u a comparison with the 20 per cent, of income paid iu taxes in Japan. England pays 8.1) per cent., France 12.2 per cent., Germany 7.!) per ceuL.. America tf.2 per cent., and in each of ihese countries the earning capacity of tlu 1 head of the family is from three to very many more times greater. ,

On Saturday information was received that ilr. Field, proprietor of the Apiti had been robbed of a sum of-about £IOO, says the Feildmg Star. The money was ia the hotel each-box, which ilr. Field kept in his room, and included cheques, notes, and silver; and so far as is known, it was takcoi on Friday 'night. Tlie thief or thieves must have' effected a burglarious entrance lo the room, and they were evidently no strangers to the place. So far, iio arrest has been made.

Vegetables from Japan are to arrive in Wellington'this week—a peaceful illustration (says the Post) of the longforetold Japanese invasion of Australasia. There is a shipment'of Japanese onions liuw on the water, and they are lo reach Wellington, via Australia, next week. The present wholesale price of oversea (Victorian) onions is from £l2 to £l2 10s per ton, and there is said to be nothing superior in quality, so it the Japencsc article proves as good as advaiuvi u ot;'s claim them to lie, tile 11vasion should prove prolitable for the brown man.

According to a Sydney paper Melbourne has discovered a, promising voice in a young girl—Clara- Kleinsclmiidt bv name—that in time may rival in quality ami volume that of Clara Butt, Miss Kleinselnuidt has been discovered in some out-of-the-way place among the hills, and has- now been sent to study at the Melbourne Conservatoire under .\li--s Hack. She made her debut at an oicliestral concert lately, anil created something of a furore, though her training has been very little as yet. She has temperament, a fine range, and splendid physique, and is very young. It will .be interesting to hear of her development.

Loiters have been received by their friends from two well-known Wellington girls who leave married nnil settled in Africa. They thoroughly enjoy life over there but say how curious it is to have all the work done by Kaffir "boys." If one is lucky enough to get an honest "boy," no better servant can be found anywhere. If not, then one has to put up with having many things stolen. Washing not done, at home has to be sent to Indian coolie laundries where much goes astray, and is never seen again. If a native gets 10s a month lie considers himself a lucky man, and his greatest ambition is to have a "boy" under him.

An authority on stock is not at all favourably impressed with the general appeaiance of dairy herds throughout this district (says the llawera Stan. Some herds—those on farms well sheltered and supplied witli hay, root crop*, etc.—are looking splendid; but others, particularly since the reyent week of very bad weather, are showing poor condition. Cows near to calving show the effects of bad weather and the absence of an abundant supply of feed very quickly, more so if the farm is 11 it well oil" lor shelter. The gentleman referred to considers that farmers would be. wise—especially in the Plains district —to provide more shelter for stock, as not only are they affected considerably by had weather, but are more susceptible to disease when- they are low in condition.

Recently the Education Hoard's inspectors issued a' circular le.tker to school commit!f-es recommending that spare areas or schoolgrounds might be planted with trees, having in view ttofc double object of beautifying the school I surroundings and affording tho. children !an object lesson in The committers generally have received the suggestion i'p a favorable light, but the Tinki committee has written to the Hoard stating its inability to fall in witli the proposal. Through the shortsightedness «j>f the School Commissioners, writes tlie secretary, thev have only sufficient ground for a marbles' pitcli, and the eom.mittee does not foci inclined to furtiiier curtaiMhc playground by tree-planting. Should the Commissioners, howdver, take a broader view of Tariki's necessities, the committee i> heartily willing to fall in with the beautifying scliemi l .

An amusing l , action lor damages has been <11 i c]t!■_■(l u ( 'l appeal before Mr. .1 uslire Grenk-r, of (Juylon. The plaintiff alleged 1 h it, iju view of liis daughter's forthcoming njurriago to a police constable, the defendant promised to get him two doublii-horse carriages to take tile bride and' the bridal party from tile 'lioiiso to tlie registrar's olHec. It was agreed tlu't JUIO (13s 4(1) aUoiil.l be paid. On tlie day of the wedding

tlie defendant wanted lts;io ( .CJ tls Hd) and plaintill' haid to secure a bulloeU

cart fur the. bride and pari of the bridal party. while ] others bad to go on foot. lie claimed lis2f>o ( Jjlti 13s 4cl) for pain of body and mind, and on ground that hej hart been lowered in tlie estimation and respect in which lie was held by his l/Cllow-inen. The defonee was that, there was no promise oil Wie part of the dofendant to get the carriages. Tlie Commissioner dismissed plaintiff's action, and Mr. Justice Grenier upheld th« decision. Australian jia.ner show tliat the cause

of the journalists' strike in Perth, of which intimation was cabled, was the condition of hvo rooms to which it was intended to relegate the Parliamentary reporters. One of these rooms was altogether impossible, being unhealthily constructed of cardboard lining, with iron walls and rooi'. With this room left out of account, there was only one writing-up mom available. If the committee's decision was to stand on certain days it would lie necessary for the 15 or 1G pressmen. representing two morning dailies to' sit and perforin their work in this rbom. The Speaker (Mr. Quinlan) indicated that his sym-

- piitliies were, with th<f pressmen. Short- . ly afterwards the leaders of the stall's I were informed verbijlly by the usher ! that tlie ooumilltco Had decided not lo grant the pressmen] better facilities. When, the oommunicjition of this deciiion was officially inarte the reporters were instructed Tjy the leaders of the stall's to leave Jthe precincts of the llouse forthwith.-' IT DAZZLES THE WORLD. No discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter the interest that has been caused- by Dr. Sheldon's New I Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Gon- ! I Consumption, ft has trough relief in | tlie most, hopeless eases, when all elese has failed. Obtainable evcrywiure. (

Among tire veterans who received free passes over the railways to Auckland during Fleet week was one 1)5 years of age, who claims to be the only .surviving member of the iirst China war.

It is authoritatively staled (says the Masterton Age) that one person in the Dominion who received grass seed to the value of CIBO from the Government to re-sow his land has property valued at .eao.ooo.

Work has been started two miles' north-west of Houston, Texas, by a syndicate wiiii a. preliminary capital of to unearth buried cities, believed to be 4fi Harris County. Professor Hraissons, who is interested iu the syndicate, declares that the work will prove that Texas was peopled, like Mexico, with Aztecs and Toltees.

Apparently the -Standard Oil Trust have been somewhat, slow in paying the record line of six million dollars imposed by the American Courts for their action in granting illegal rebates. The authorities have very oll'eclively jogged the memory of Ilie Trust by seizing almo'it 'the whole of their property in Trxa-. The step appears to indicate the beginning of a new regime in America, where millionaire combines could always find loop-holes through which they might escape the penalties of illegal enterprises.

Herewith the latest story about Tommy Burns, pugilist, who is to meet .Squires, the Australian heavy weight, at Sydney during Fleet week; "Burns is having a tremendous time in the French capital. He is the man of the hour. He lias had the gloves on with Baron de Rothschild; been photographed with the baron, and, at a private theatrical entertainment at the baron's place, Burns was feted and introduced to the company as the 'champion du Monde."' No boxer of recent times has had such a holiday as the remarkable Canadian, says a writer in the Standard of Empire. After his contest with Squires in I'aris he complained of an old injury to his left arm which threatened to give him trouble, and so Baron de Rothschild's own medical adviser was callod in', and treated the champion pugilist, who says that a couple of week's rest will put him all right again. "1 wonder whether the visit of the American lleet to Sydney will, obscure the presence of Bums. It seems impossible. Burns will not be shut out."

1 hail the pleasure of a long evening with Mr. Tuft last week, writes tin; American correspondent of the Olago Daily Times. If he is a his man politically, he is nothing less physically. Ho weighs more than 3001b., and stands lift, in his stockings. But do not uppose that, because the Secretary of War is fat, he is lazy, lie has a marvellous capacity for hard work and the Mastering of infinite details. He is not brilliant, but capable of learning and retaining —much. lie was known as a worker in his college days at Yale. They called him Bill then, some of his intimates even calling him Bull Taft. He was popular, and well liked by his fellows. A good deal of the informality that perinilteil liini to be called Bill and Bull in his schooldays still sticks to him. Of course, as Secretary of War, a jurist of distinction and candidate for the Presidency, he has forgotten such nicknames as these. .-There is nothing of the common or of the vulgar about Taft. There is much of affability, much of cordiality, much of that misnamed thing called democracy, of which we Americans are inclined to prate a good bit.

The last has not yet been heard of the now historic Blackball strike. Some two months ago an attempt was made to collect the £75 fine from the individual members of the union. In accordance with the order of the Arbitration Court, a distress warrant was issued against the men, but after payment of the costs of the execution the line wsa reduced by only £l7 14s. Further proceedings on the order were slopped pending the appeal against the Arbitration Court's order brought by the union to Hie Supreme Court, and afterwards removed into the Court of Appeal. About a fortnight ago the

Appeal Court gave its decision dismissing the appeal against the union with costs. As a result of this the Crown Solicitor (ilr. lliinnan) was instructed to proceed to collect the balance of the line. Attachment orders have been issued against sixty-nine members of the union, and were served at the Blackball Company's office. In consequence of ihis, the company will have to keep in hand all wages over £2 per week due to these men. Two weeks' wages are due in some individual cases amounting to over £lO.

According to a Consular report just issued the total foreign trade of Japan during 11)07 amounted to £114,500,000, of which £50,400,000 was imports and £44,100,000 exports. The total figures showed an increase over that of the previous year of 10 per cent. The United Kingdom is the chief exporter to Japan, her share in the imports amounting to nearly 12 millions sterling, 01- 2:t per cent. As a customer of

Japan, however, she takes a low place, the United States being the lirst on the list. The chief British export articles to Japan are textiles and machinery, of which the latter made during the past year a very large advance. The report devotes a few pages to the muchdebated question as to Japan's future as a manufacturing country, and arrives at a somewhat pessimistic conclusion, based chielly on the view that Japan is losing what has been hitherto her main advantage, namely, cheap labour. The Japanese workmen are. organising and evincing symptoms of considerable restlessness under the stress of the increasing cost of living. There were in 1007 a number of strikes, accompanied by much violence, and the report expresses the belief that "should the cost,of living continue to increase, employers of labour must be prepared for a repetition of the same things in a perhaps aggravated form, if they do not meet their men half-way by giving them a living wage."

A characteristic difference between. John Bull and Cousin Jonathan (says tho Wellington 'Post) is that the American "plays the races" and the Briton " works the races," When gallops were proposed for the entertainment of the American visitors, a few commentators pleaded that the totalizator should not Ik- used at the meeting, but the machine Ha* installed. • The event, however, ]>rovi ,, l thiit very little American monev Into British pockets via the f'iialisutor. Some of the officers, pos-1 sibly because they believed it was eti-1 -tpicite, dropped some gold into the maw ot the 'tote," but to the vast majority of the sailors the machine was meroiv an interesting side-show, worth only a few minutes' observation. There were other sights more entrancing—the horses, the landscapes, the people surging to and iro. They had done their work on their shipsj they were nf, EHerrdiu to play, to get a maximum' of enjoyment for a minimum of money. By their ability to get plenty of amusement, without bcltiug, lhey gave the roloiiinl youth an excellent example.

uie jjnion goes to a racecourse ostensibly to escape for a time from working care*. to get away from the drudgery of money-grubbing, and many a on'.' grubs more on the turf than' ever lie does in his shop or oJlice. .He docs more sums in addition, subtraction, and multiplication, more puz/Jing, more pondering on an alleged holiday afterpoon than he does on an ordinary working day. The ■excitement is like alcohol, it carries him through, but how Hat it is nil at the finish to the great majority who* have staked—and lost. Is it not bettor to "play the races."

Mr. C. L. TomlinSon, secretary Meehanies Institute, Northampton, W.A., snyj: "I would not he without u boltfc of your Grand Cough Remedy at any tinie. I use the word "grand" fearlessly and with confidence that if any one will take Chamberlain's Cough Eem«dy according to directions, the result wiil greatly Surprise the most sceptical. I myself found it wonderful in its speedy action and curative properties, and never lose an opportunity of recommending it to anyone who is troubled with a cough or cold." Fc, sale by a'.'i chemists and storekeepers.

Mrs. T. Burton, Albert road, Epsom, N.Z., writes: "We all use.Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and think a lot o' it. My husband, who is a conductor on Hie Auckland trams, takes it when he has (lie least symptom of a cold, and it "lways lessens the attack. Have given it to our children many times for coughs or croup, and it has n?ver failed to cure." For sale by all chemists and storekeepers. _

Give me, a stoup of sparkling ivine, Give, me a song, a trusty friend, Give me the wiles of beauty's smiles, And I'll be happy to the end. Tint when the head with fever burns. And higher creeps the temperature, When chest is sore, and rest is o'er. Give me Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Hundreds of delighted shoppers v'l! visit "The Knsh" this next week during their sale, and when you see the bargains showing at their doorway you'll have a job to ' pass without biivimr. They've mev.'s (is (id soft felt hats 2s' lid. men's ail-wool colonial ribbed sox three pairs 2s (id, men's all-wool flannel sing- j lets 2s 3d, men's cashmere singlets !>-. lid. men's dungarees 2s lid, and lots of I other bargains.—AiM. j For Bronchial Coughs take Wood's Great Pepaermint Ouro. 1/0 and 2/,0.