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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 9 July 1909, Page 2

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I Football, j lVtroleum. Commercial. Amusements. District News. Correspondence. Kami and Dairy. Diamond Faking. Higher Premiums. Boxing in America. local and general. After yesterday's thunder storm several subscribers tlo tlie telephone exchange found their instruments ineU'ective. ( For the year ended the Slat nit. the kgmont Co-operative Box Factory turn,ed out I!)4,<iS;i butter boxes and'l2s,4BU cheese cases. A horse died at Patea recently under peculiar circumstances. On being opened up the animal's stomach was found to contain over IOOIbs of sand. We are informed 011 reliable authority that a plasterer, ••■■ fsual rate of wages is fourteen a day, refused to accept work at anything Ics's than that figure. Twelve 'shillings a day would not slillice. '1 lie card ledger system which was lately installed at the chief Post Office, New Plymouth, has justified its adoption inasmuch as it made possible the completion of the preparatory work of tile dune (|uartcrly balance in some thirty hours less than that of the March riimrtor.

The Dairy Commissioner reports that there ai o 35,592 boxes of butter in eoid s'tore at present. At the end of June last year there were 40,170 boxes and a great scarcity of butter ensued 'before Ihe new reason's butter came in about the end of August, List winter, however, there was a large demand from outside "which is not expected to occur this season, and therefore the butter in stock will probably put the Dominion safely through the winter without any rise in price. ' "i

[ More "Davenport'' showers foil yesterday, to the accompaniment of several sharp crashes of thunder. During tne morning the rainfall oil the lower levels was exceptionally heavy, and on tI)P foothills there was a fierce hailstorm. As tlie. storm lessened and tic hail melted, every little rill became a creek, and the Huatoki and Mangaotuku streams miming through the town were in high flood. The path recently opened by the lieantifvin^ l Association a/long Bailies' Terrace was submerged to a depth of n couple of feet or more. The Mangaobuku swept into the brewery premises and made things merry for the nonce. Amongst debris which was washed to the sea was the body of a pure-bred poodle, the property 'of a well-known' resident, which ventured rashly .into the swollen stream.

Savs.' till' Anvkla-.id Herald Mr. ■Tamos Carroll. Acting-Primp Minister of the Dominion, telegraphed (o the town clerk of Auckland:— £ '\\'e are trying onr host io provide work in different parts of the Dominion to relieve any congestion.'' Tn other words, we are to have relief works offered to mechanics, artisans, farm laborers, bush workers, and other able-bodied men 'whose callings are largely specialised. and who can only hope to obtain full pay when tlicy are employing their acquired skill and knowledge, while the land settlement which would speedily give to every man work in his olwn trade or calling is deliberately and administratively blocked. Oiks anv man of ordinary intelligence doubt that .if five thousand men were 'pitied Uiion the lopkeil-un lands of the comitrv l.lie prompt result would lie to provide other permanent work in town ami country for at least an 'equal number?"

There arc pills that are called LaxoTonic, For diseases both urgent and chronic, They're the best to lie had, Be T 'ou ever so bad, Am! their nitrons are never sardonic. LAXO-TOXIC PILLS. ]oy,d and Is BdBullock and .Tohnston, Agents, New Plymouth. For Inflmnsa take WxsaSf Oreat P»npem?nt Snre. New Cifis. 1/flMd ?/#. .

There are prospects' of a shortage of teachers in England, and in order to nvert such an eventuality, the Board of Education intends to (bring into the teaching profession 14,000 hoys and girls—or 50 per cent, more than were brought forward last year. It seems that education is gradually approaching a point at which every man will teach his fellows. That would be the perfection of the enlightening process. The demand for the chca.p beds provided by the Salvation Army at the Auckland People's Palace is invariably i an indication of the distress in the city I (says the Herald). Whenever money is J scarce the authorities receive nil in-1 (Teasing number of applications for' thcap or free beds. During the last. few months this demand has* been unparalleled, and for four months there has rarely been a vacant bed, while on some occasions a, number of men have had to be turned away. A Wanganui resident wants his fel-low-townsmen to declare war against Germany at once by boycott. Writing to the Chronicle, lie asks: "What do we find the conditions are in this town of YVanganui in respect to goods made in Germany, and, mark this, 'on which Germans have received, and are, for continued orders, receiving a profit'? Wo use here German electroplated ware, German glassware, German toys, lamps, tools, fencing wire, postcards, and, in machinery, lithograph, bookbinding, ruling machines, and many of other descriptions. Tlien "in clothing and such like, ladies 5 underwear in all descriptions, fancy combs', feather-stitch braid, men's fancy vests, and even such articles i ii 6 oilcloth, dog-chains, musical instru- • ments, all 'made in Germany.' All unconsciously, women are great offenders ' in respect to buying and using German* ! made goods." 1 In combating the view that the Chin- . ese are an inferior race, the new Consul, , Mr. Ping Nam, speaking at a dinner at . Sydney, gave those assembled a few facts concerning the way in which his ' country had "got in early" in the race I for civilisation (says the Sydney Morui ing Herald). The cry that the Chinese B were inferior was, he said, untenable. ''Such a cry is historically untenable The examination of our records as a v nation, the fact that our ancestors in t vented the compass shortly after ,thc

death of Aristotle, discovered the manufacture of porcelain,''lacquer ware, silk, printed their classics' five centuries an* terior to the time of Caxton, established the coinage and square-holed copper cash several hundred years before the Christian era, used carrier pigeons for bringing home news from ships before Vasca de CJania flourished, the fact that we are a nation which represents a fourth of the human race, a nation that claims 1 to have a history extant tor over 41)00 years, which ha 6 witnessed '.he rise to glory and the decay of | KjO'-pt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, 1 Greece, and Home all these things show it to be untrue that the Chinese are an inferior race. China alone lias survived her contemporaries. Since the accession of Emperor Yao in Ping Yang, about 4250 years, memorable for their unbroken chain of history, have imperceptibly rolled by, making our people the greatest nation on the face of JhC globe."