The Daily News TUESDAY, JANUARY 12. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 321, 12 January 1909, Page 2

The Daily News TUESDAY, JANUARY 12.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ON THE FOURTH PAGE. HIS: athlete. iL'ummereial. AnuisciiK'iils. Flies. King of Koptiles. "Ice KiugV Kale. Chameleon Cornel. Interesting Hems. Fatal Street Duel. The lU'iil Tidibome. The '.Black Republic. An Historic Company.

Mr. .Newton King has received the following cable from his Sydney agent: 'Hides dinner." Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent, despatched from here on December 3rd, arrived in London on the Bth inst.

Cabmen are complaining of slow limes. The rough Heather in holiday wee]; cust them, so one driver says, from CI to .CI Ills a day. The alterations to the old Town Hall are now proceeding. The borough engineer's ollice is being fitted with a strong loom as a safe repository for plans and other valuable docui'nrits, which up to the present time have bad no protection from lire. Henry F. Callagliau was brought before ilr. E. Dockriil, ,1.1'., on Monday morning, and charged with having lieeii. found in a helpless slate of drunken-' "Jess near the hospital gates. He was remanded for seven days for medical treatment.

The borough by-law permitting the driving of loose horses within the borough lias been rescinded. One councillor informed a -News representative that a few mornings ago lie. saw fourteen of ii stahlckeepcr's horses trotting gaily down a footji-ath en route to the stables. The Taranaki Boxing Association intend holding a tournament in the Theatre ItoyaJUon March 2-1 th. Already there are indications that good entries wili be received for the Taranaki championship events, and New Plymouth boxers are in full training for the events.

The Kgiuonl Lodge, Xo. 112, 1.1Ui.T., ■held its usual weekly *essio.i on Monday night. Hro. J. C. U-gg, C.T., presided. There was a good attendance of •members ami visitors. During the evening the Hope of Egmont Juvenile Temple paid the adult lodge, a visit and enter-, lained flieui with aiv interesting pro-' gramme. After the. juveniles had retired the lodge disposed of its usual ■business. ■*

Thc hospitality .of our citizens, as extended to tin: incii-o'-warsuicn, hciii" •likely to got (mi: of the Cumbrian's petty ullieers into trouble for failing to ■board his vessel before she .sailed, his Worship the Mayor has promised to intercede this morning by lelcgraoli on the man's behalf. It is worth u'oliinr, that his Worship was rather surprised and pained when the police declined to allow him to take the offender borne, 'with him during his enforced stay in 'New Plymouth awaiting his despatch by, the. police to the ship at Wellington. The Hope of Jigiuont Juvenile Temple. Xo. •>:>. 1.0.C.T.. held its usual weekly meeting in St. Mary's Hall last niglii. The temple was opened in due form" lathe C.T.. l!ro. tins llandley, at Ml. There was a good attendance. After ■the usual business was linislied. the temple paid an ollieial visit In lh,. Kg. niont Lodge, and gave an interesting programme. liei-ilulioiis were given liv Sisters M. Hawse, J. Council, and l',. -Allan, and liros. W. (irnpea and Albert I'epperell. The members are reminded to be .present next .Mondav to receive i their tickets for the picnic on the ilsl. I The temple dosed at 5.15.

There is an increasing de-ire on the part of the people of \ew Plymouth to make this, town attractive and to maintain its "show places.'' For some years past Te Jlenui Omelery has been a. "show place," beautiful despite its mournful purpose. Jint its maim is. 'waning. The Mayor at last night's 'liorough Council meeting told his colleagues that his -lip ,eU" the other, 'morning when he saw for himself the state of the cemetery. He had never, he said, seen the place in such a h.id I state as now, overgrown with 'black fern, blackbevrv. and long grass, lie suggested that'the Reserves Committee ■should put on a few extra men to tidy up the place. Councillor flclliingcr followed, endorsing (he Mayor's remarks,

ami iuldinjr ox-eye daisy'in fix- IM »f pests rampant. Councillor I'nllis. an | chairman of the committee, explained Hint it was a cuicstion ul' funds. The treasury lu.it been depleted by the exI traordinary expenditure enlaiied in fell--j 11<i" .rad clearing invav a licit <if pinus insignia. Hut all these weeds ami grasses had lieen eut tliis season, and the eoininitlee was prepared to dci the work' again.

I Included in the lot of fine tailnr-im*' I suits now showing at The Melbourne I Clothing Company are some very choice I worsteds and coatings fa some of ti;newest tone slmdes of greens ami I browns. The man who wants a good | suit will appreciate these nobby fabric*. Those choice suits have been specially ' made to the (Ira's order by ikillcd 1 tailors, and are designed to equal the high-priced tailor-made suit for fit, style, material, and finish, the only difference being the price, which 's about 50 per cent, lower. You can satisfy yourself I by ceeing these suits at The Melbourne, dvt. .... -'

"Those who saw Burns for the first I time on Saturday (fighting Johnson) | • must have left the Stadium convinced i that he knew not even the rudiments | of pugilism at close ipiarlers, while af- | ter the contest with Squires 'everybody I looked upon him as the last word ia the art."—Sydney Morning Herald. ' In a letter to the Russian newspapers ' Count Leo Tolstoi declares that since he made over his entire property to his heira (eighteen years ago) he has beon absolutely penniless, and he is therefore unable to respond to the innumerable begging letters which he receives daily. A Chinaman, n former resident of Napier, who left New Zealand about thirteen months ago on a trip to his native land, returned to Wellington by the JHi ra ma. He hail married in China during his recent sojourn there, but on learning that there was a poll-tax on Chinese of either sex lie decided to leave | his spouse ill the East in the lncan- | while. Ho was perinillcd to land withit out payment or any education test, on j being able to establish his identity.

A rumor was current in Puten. on Saturday thai the I'aU'ii Shipping Company were about to discontinue the ruining of the ■Kapiti. and that in future the Kapibi and the Arapawa (the new boat) would only run between Wanganui and Wellington, but the local Press •understands that the report lacks confirmation. It is well known that the

drifting of s-.ind has interfered with the workiii" of the bar. but the clianne] is now ■•■! lir-Miss condition, and the ■Kapiti and Arapawa will arrive in Pates •by the spring tides of next week.

The vcar l'.)08 was not a very busy one in' New I'lvmouth borough for the building trad.-. The inspector of buildings issued SI permits for new buildings j and alterations and additions to exist- j ing ones, the total estimated value, be- I iin; CI3.SSI There were only two j buildings erected which cost CloOO or over, and these were the new offices for the Tnr.inaki Education Hoard and the Criterion Motor Oarage. Apart from these figures there lias been a considerable number of new buildings erected in the suburbs, and at the present time there are several under way. ■ Three young men from Stratford who •went to Wellington for their Christmas gained souh" expensive experience. Oil reachim; the Kinpire City the travellers put up'ill a hoslelrv noted as the resort of country people.'and on being shown to their bedrooms a.-ked for the keys, but were informed that these necessary articles had been lost. Nothing daunted, our friends in due course retired to bed, one of the number, however, taking the precaution of putting his money under tin- nillow. On awaking [next 'morning all three found that the)'

bad been rclicvcil of their valuables, even to railway return tickets, pipes, -and tobacco.-rost,

An unusual number of swaggers have been molicod on the country roads in various parts of' New Zealand. One station in Marlborough, on the main road to the south, has been visited lately by an average of between twenty and thirty "blueys" every night. The. average at this time of the year us'cdl to be ten (says the Marlborough Herald). A person tin veiling on the North Island railway the other day counted twenty swaggers on the read in the space of half an hour. The appearance of such a large number of swaggers is due not to real lack of work so much as a sudden migration from the large centres.

During file year just elided the importation of dried fruits into New Zealand showed .a considerable increase. There was certainly a slight falling off in currants and raisins, but in the line "other dried fruits" there was a ipiite remarkable increase following the removal of the duty of twopence per ■pound on dates, jigs, and prunes. In dates especially there has been greatly increased trade The figures for last year compared with those fur the previous twelve months, as giren in the "Trade Ucvicw." urc:—Curruuls. 2,070.4!>4lb. as against 2,74:1,113711'; raisins, 3,.-)20.0O!llb. as against 3,501.7331b: other dried fruits. :i.525.4G31b; as against 2.083.1721b.

On Saturday evening the dills at (>»-. gee were thick with people, gathered lo 'watch a shark and a porpoise light <iuilu close lo land, says ll'e Sydney •Morning lb-raid of December ' 2Stli. •There must have been at least a dozen porpoises, and they siirriuinded the shark, worrying him, and gradually edging him in towards the beach, so lh.it ■there was a clear view of tlic struggle. •Bv the end of about ten minutes there was an audience of 4,000 or s,ooo—picnic parties, surf-bathers, casual strollers, ail running up from everywhere about lo sec the light. But the porpoises were too many. Towards the last round the shark leapt clean out of the water, and a moment, or two afterwards the light was over.

In rct'iirinjr tn the liade done during h-ccnilier la'sl. in Now Zealand, tin; 'raile Kcvicw says lli.it wholesale miscs jifiicrally reported Unit during lie. t-arlifv imrt' ol' December trade w.'.s erv quiet, though iiniii'uri'iiiciit was oticcahlc Inter on. It was stated Unit n tin; whole, llie month's turnover w.b nite equal to expectations, though fall ng. to some extent, short of the usiia 'liristnias I null-. A considerable pro lortiun of tlie retail dealers, hmvevi-i cportcd thill tin- .season's Iraile ha ■oi-ti dei-idedly -lack and disappointhiL ■ I'mler existing ciri- stances," add lie journal, " we cannot regard a shrink igo of trade as a thing to lie regrottci is wo .lire, convinced Hint a period o !conomy and restriction would prov icneificinl to the body politic."' The New York newspapers are infill; lie police to exterminate the gang n.iiiitnined liy various Tiiuiiiiany poli Lician-s for the purpose of inlimidalitij rulers on election day.s. The Dnil; fcli-graph ipiote.s the price-list for scr rices by the gangs, iwhich may be re taincd bv others thaa Tammany poli ticians. 'The details are copied from 111 original and accepted tariff oE the Kelt and .lUnnpty .laekson gangs, the tw< chief gangs of New York:—A suii'n luinehing, 8s; both eyes blacked, 16s: nose and jaw cracked, .CI; black-jacke, nut, Cil 15s; leg or arm broken, ,C 4 ear chewed oil', ,C» 15s; shot in the li-.t '.fa; stab wound, U5; doing the hi, job, .fill. The last item spells miil'doi "Money down'' is always stipulated foi -and there is no reduction on big order; (J inhume, contributes the lnstest sc: serpent slory. While a well-know: local resident was visiting his brother Iho second mate of the steamer Mono wai. he noticed something resembling.* rock about 300 yards off the steamer'; starboard quarter, and he drew tlr mate's attention to the object. Thi ollicer, at the lirst glance, thought i was a wlmle, but bringing tlie glassc into operation, he discovered what h declared was the most peculiar nionste he had ever seen. The lirst mate als. saw the object, and was of the sane opinion. The portion of the inonstp which could bo seen lumberiiif on 111 water was from 15ft to 20ft long. I'ron what could be seen it appeared In b covered with an inflated bladder. I had a very long snout with long nos trils. It would remain on lop of lb ■water for about three minutes, an then disappear for ten minutes. Thre times it came up, bu|, on going dowi the third time it disappeared ahogelhei A local tradesman, who is also an el thiMu-lic deep-sea lislicrmnn, re"ret that lie was not articled either to th legal profession or the ,I'rcss. At leasl so he says. The nlher day lie rigalc a number of companions with a li-mrlh list of hi, fishing ex its. The ■• picl of (he basket " was one that occurrc just n fortnight before Christmas. T! 'was a member of a parte of six. an they were fishing about n mile oil' th shore. There hud been a fair run o luck, and then an hour slipped liv with out even ;i '-bite'' lieiug registered Then our Munchausen coinnira-ed I' pull in his line with „ view of inspectin the bait, but found an iinacciniutahl weight to haul in. lie summoned th rest of the party-some he had io wak

liy means of a gentle application of life fishing hoots-itnd together they pulled in the line. -Speculation was rife as In the nature \,f the leviathan believed to la" dangling from the end of tlie line, hut. leaning over the side of |lie dinghy. I the. narrator says he distinctly saw tho

h'ainbiian's anchor, which gave a vicious kick anil rclnrncd. to the bottom. The essence of the joke which caused all the ■laughter lay in the fad that at llrar, ■particular time 11.M.5. Cambrian had never been within leagues of New Plymouth. Keeping up Christmas with a ■vengeance! well" suits arc already the best knowni suit in Tarauaki. Made in New Plymouth by experienced workmen they have the style and fit of Hie best tailor made suit. You'll be wanting a Ch'.istmas suit, better call at "The Kash" and ask one of the salesmen to show you a Prestwell suit and you'll be more than pleased with tlie etvlo an (it.—Advt.

After all's said and done "The Prcat-

Those in want of new suits foi Christmas cannot do bHter than see "The Proshweir' suits now being shown by ,: Thc. Ktisli," that leauiag" men's store in Devon street, New Plymouth.

[Made on their own premises'by an experienced staff of workmen, they are superior to any other ready-made suits We have seen. rriec3 40s '(ld ;o (!5s ~ Advt.

'•ln view of the substantial benefits secured by recent legislation, your executive 'feel tliat, us citizens, the leathers of the Dominion will be wise in making no further dcnnimlti on the public J'uiiils for some time to come.''. So ran one clause of the report prosun led to the New Zealand Educational Institute, now sitting in Dunedin, but by 30 votes to 25 the clause was struck out.

Bishop Anderson, of Riverina, who attended the I'an-Anglicaii Conference and the l.ambelh Conference, speaking] at Hay. New South Wales, last week, said that churcligoing in England was not what it might be. He attributed this to the fact that the people were* •living in a frivolous age of week-cud parties. This evil was not only in England; it was in Australia, too. If such | frivolity of materialism continued the nation was bound to suiter.

■' iSlcns. have been taken li.y n niiinbi '«f people interested iu land scttlemen all'airs in tl»' Oranjre -Uiver Culony I obtain from the Imperial Govoiiinu'U certain iiiiiililiwitimis oS the existin, liMins upon which fiinns arc now heh in tli,. Orange liivcv Colony. Tin.' mail contention of the settlers is that the; should be placed on a sound and blisi :iesslikc footing with regard to tin .enus on which they hold their farms

I'lii' majority of these farms, represent lie a tolai of about U'ull.HUll acres new aecpiired duriiij; the period of in i-iinl value of land immediately follow ii" thi' »av. ami tin- settlers liold (hrr lure should lie iiTCailjustriiral of lam

.•aim's. Tlk-v fui-l tliiit unites oomi itciii of this iiiii-l. !u> taken i.l"\v will !>■ .ninpelliMl t» rcliiiqiiisli Oioir h»l'l»>K

it foiisicli'i-iiblv l»". Ui'ivlismj! lliu -grea. value that cx|ii'rii'in't'(l men. of tin ...otllcr 1-hi.s.s wimlil lit' 1" Ulioui'sUi. til' 'iliiirti'ruil Comiiiiiiy have nlf'™ l t(

n-iiiit fntilitiiw iii tin- slmpo of <>> P rac [k'ullv free transport frnm Hipir liimiof L„ Kl'iiHli-sia, ami (*>.? riHIU " f ,!: u !'!..^

favorable terms. A-s a ]>reliminar\ measure, tlie (Miarti-rod Company havi nviteil three delegates from the Oranp

liver Colony to visit Khortesia at tin. •onipanv'-s expense, in order to select mill, arrange terms of settlement, etc. t appears." however, that tlio ease of he settlers has-lieen received very sym, ,athotically by His Majesty's Govern-, nent.

Faced cloth costumes at 10s <id; tray cloths at Is; trimmed hats at 5s lid, are all nibbles at, White and Sons' summer sale, and prominent among to-day's bargain lines.—Ailvt.

Anibury Bros.' windows anil store an now full of dainty holiday apparel an-j seasonable furnishings, men's and boys' holiduv suits, hats, etc. Customers are invited to inspect sail?".. Style and value right.—Advt.