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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 164, 5 August 1909, Page 1

GtNfcKAL NE.Wb,

A telegram to tlie Xeiv York Herald iroui Peking last mouth says it is reported that live Court oilicia.s were i*oceeuuig to Hunan carrying with tiiom the Imperial "yellow turn" fur Yuan bin l\ai, whu was dismissed iu Jaauaii last from the dillerent posU held by nun., The receipt ui uc co rd is equivalent to an order Jrom the Throne to commit suieide.

i'he Hand Daily .Mail publishes a message from Kapiti Mains, British East Alnea, regarding .Mr. Looscvelfs shooting trip. The message states that ma"nilieeni sport has been enjoyed Air lioosevelt is espeeiall.y delighted -with ins success with lions, lie. shot seven and secured four in one day. There have been many exciting incictents during the hunting. "Our impressions of New Zealand so lar as we have seen it have all hee:i most pleasant. We think it's a Hue little country, and, as we believe, produciii" a line people.'' It was with these words that Sir Charles Lucas, who, with Mr. A. A. Pearson, is at present engaged oii a tour of the Dominion on behalf of the Colonial OHiec, answered the questions' put to Jiiin by a reporter in Wellington. The Otago Daily Times, writing on the death duties proposals of the Hon. I)r. Imdlay, says: "We cordially agree that there is an overwhelming case in lavor ot an increase of some extent iu the duties, it is somewhat remarkable that the Government has not ere this conceived the idea of helping its revenues by further attacking so obvious an object of taxation as the swollen estates ot the wealthy dead."

, A New Zealander in Singapore, writing to a brother in .\Jasterton, states that he saw a glowing account of the Aorth Island Alain Trunk line iu a Singapore paper, written by two ladies from I'cnang who had been travelliu* through .Maoriland. They spoke in ap° preciative terms about the trip but what surprised them most was the refusal of the guard* on the train to accept tips!

•'Millions of our people never go into the country or to the sea coast. Milions of our people,'- says, a writer in the London Clarion, •■never see the sky, or the sea, or the beautiful pageant of the seasons. There are men and women who have never been in a wood, or bathed in a stream, or climbed a hill -ilillions of our people never read a book, or see a beautiful picture, or enjoy the delights of good music and sinmg." " AVe have it on good authority (sayt the Oainaru .Mail) that a number of butter factories in the .North Island are t'o substitute the making of cheese for 1 utter this season. .Not only are they altering their butter factories, but some are also jutting a cheese plant in their creameries. As there is only a limited number of cheese-makers in the Dominion this means that there will oe plenty of .work for those available while the conversion of creameries into' cheese factories must considerably enhance the value of butter, not only in the North Island, but also down her" tor during the winter particularly we' have in the past drawn largely on the North for our butter supplies. About twelve months ago (say« the Wanganui Herald) we made mention in these columns of certain very distressin" and painful circumstances connected with the outbreak of disease at several of the .Maori settlements on the Parapara road. A well-known half-caste woman within a period of about a month lost by death a daughter (8 vears of ««i'), a nephew (14), her husband, her sitter; and the latter's husband \ couple of days ago the unfortunate woman brought her baby (born s j„ ct the deaths above referred to) to town tor medical assistance, but it succumbed to the same complaint that carried off mostr-of the other victim*. The babyup to within the last week or two, was an exceptionally line, strong child. '

Victoria College is in urgent need of I increased accommodation, The (jovcrnment has promised to give £201)0 towards the erection of a wing contamin" classrooms if a sum of JLTOUO is raised by subscriptions. This sum the Council i» anxious to raise, and tliev are appealing to the people of the district which is served by the College for assistance. 11ns district comprises the provincial districts of Wellington, .Nelson, Westland. .Marlborough, llawke's Hay, aiid Tnranaki. .Students attend the College li-Niii all part< of the district, M nd the I ollegc examines exempted students at various centres suiting the convenience of these students. Last year examinations were held in ten centres outside Wellington, from Napier and New Plymouth in the .North to Wcstport and llrcyniouth and Iteeflon on the West Coast. Jt is therefore hoped that all , parts of the district will contribute and enable the much-needed extension of th" building to be carried out.