The Daily News WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 25 August 1909, Page 2

The Daily News WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ON FIIiST AND FOUKTH P^GFS. Sliii>]>iiijr News. West Kml Seiiool. " Jnipj-ovi'ut.MiL ut I'tintnrca."

To-day is the forty-sixth anniversary of the lauding of the iirst military sottiers in _\'ew Plymouth. The members of Mr. -I. C. Williamson's "Jack and Jill" Pantomime Conipan,'. numbering lib, arrived from Auckland by the liarawa this morning. The skeletons of three Maoris K m recently discovered in the sand on Mr. i). S. Taylor's property, near the Waveriey beach. The bones were in a splendid state of preservation. The Recreation Crounds Board has iately bee„ attending vo the paths in the grounds. Instead of giving them a bit of camber to allow the water to drain oil' and prevent a recurrence of the slip-and-slide performances of t':e past winter the paths arc again being cade flat as the pioveribal pauea'

On Monday evening at Omal.. .ic Oinata-West hind return card match was played, the visitors winnimr bv !>!) games to SHI. Twenty-eight tables wee engaged in the tournament. During the evening Mr. .1. Lister, on behalf of Ihc local Kut-bre Club, presented Mrs. Alfred George, Miss Tcrrill and Mr. Cvi'tl George with the prizes won (hiring 'the club's season. Dancing followed, Miss Mace supplying the music.

Speaking at a banquet at Balelutha, the linn. .1. M-Kcnzic s'aid he had been told there \y.- - two thousand unemployed in Wellington. V ot when they had

been oll'ered work on Wcroroa State farm near Levin only live had applied. Unemployment was 'exaggerated, a lot of ncn preferring loafing about and mi-king political agitation to working. The eonalry was not going to pay for livo-e who would not' work for ihem-

At last night's meeting of the Agricultural Society and farmers. Mr. An'iburv. the Society's president, utioned the winter show. Taranaki, he said, bed been behind the .tin:' almost the only P'ovince.'without a winter show. But the Agricultural Society had taken up the matter heartily, and h<v felt sure that next winter, with the co-opeia-lion of the farmers, every one doing his part, Taranaki would have a winter ! :hnw that would be a credit to the d'sI irict,

Of nine candidates entered for the I local centre examinations in the rudi-j menu of music, Iwld in .lime last hv 1 the Associated Hoard of the K.A.il. and Ii.C.M.. London. fi>ven passed. The full marks obtainable were !l!l nn-.I .the successful candidates were: Kveivn L. Howling (teacher. Miss Pik>. L.A.15.), Sli: Kathleen I. (iilbcrt (Miss Pike). SO: Inez C„ A-ilbnrv (('„.,ve.n Stratford)..Bfi; Edith jr. Atkinson (Mrs Stanford. Chetwodc School I. 78; Vilelhiiir (Cnarcnl. Strat-ord). 7ll: Haze! Savwell (Convent, Stratford). 7-1- and I-.thel J. (,'oodwi,, (Convent, Ktrnll'ordl. hil Ihe number of marks required io pass was Of).

In the Magistrate's Court veslerd.iv .aoi-mig- judgment was ..riven bv defand in the following cases: -■ The Coniu-.-s-

'■- 7d. and 'T |.-,s ~,-u (i-edudin- CI ills miicage); aoveniui,.;,:' Advanc-s !,. ■t!.-. en I Ids eosi.;' MarkVloiiiil-lo', (■•'!■'■• Ch,ii!i,v; v. Phiiiio dam.-s. da,,: •fP< ■!< II- an! co..is l-I Id. ii:h H.-ir-b'V Poard v. P. .la:u- ; . claim t-s'-, „::,! 'os -.esi,; |-. 5i,,,,,,.,,,,, (■„..„,„!,,,,•„„,.;. „. <';;- •■■» i'-;'u's (M-. y-,-..-ion) v. t. in!7s ltd: Auckland 'chdiiim.' Comnauv 'Mr. Wriirhli v. R. .McDowell, claim •'■. PN.-aml Pis cost-; .11. U.Citttlcv v. dohn Ward, claim .CI as. and .V costs: W. M. Perry (Mr. Weston) v. Wiiliam Herbert claim f] 1.-,s. and 5s costs; Frankleigli .'ark Land Company (Mr. Qnilliam) Y 11. A. Xultall. claim x:> ds R,| ~,„] c\ :!s lid costs; same v.W. ,I.C. Bbieksto.w claim ,C 5 4s Sd, and ,i;l His lid costs. Mi--s Matthews. Ihe dau-hler of MW. Mai thews, a settler laYdin-r C W to the Hadlow estaic. rennrkable courage a few davs „j„ (savs fll , limaruPost). Mr. Mai thews wont iata a field in which a bull was kept. Tic

animal had a reputation for being ,-,„. usually quiet, but on IMs- it mine I its reputation and very nearly killed its trustful owner. Xo sooaer had Mr M.lUvnvs entered 11 : - Held than Hie bull .•live chase. Mr. Matthews is bv ..o ii.-::e, „!,,.,,, of fool, hot before he can d gam •> ph.-- of rafeiv the hull ' overtook 1,;,-,,. , r .;.l ;.'-,.. Ma'ilhrws had the unp'easnn' -eiisiiion of (ivinc, skvvards. The hull awaited his rchirii. and then iinmrdialclv commenced to '■■ ore h'".i. The null was making si.e.n work of in- owner when Mi- r s MaUhrv.s. arouse 1 by (In- rush,,,] ,„,i of the Lous,.. Willi sreat promptness she armed her-elf with a pitchfork an! made a charge at the bull. She ,1,-oy. the pitchfork into its lies!,. With a bellow of pain it released ils victim and nude a rapid .•cln.il. ? ,|,. Matthews was cen-idera.bly hurt, but if is cNoect.ed thai lie will soon recover.

A traveller who has recently visited some of the places where the (iovornnient relief works arc being carried out staled to. a Wairnrana Times reporter that at some of the works thiii"„. are not by any means satisfactory. "Year Stratford, for instance, h ■ saw' two hundred men waitin- - ",'„.,„ ,■ .vi,.,„, ~.,„.„ „,, ' '-' "'a " » loin were encainpcu m a p.iduuck. while men were being brought liiroii-h Irom ih,. South Island and put strai'dil on, despite 11,,. fact Uint ninny of the olbers had been waiting there 'for some things were had. The men went' (here' i t f ;' , ;i' , 'V' 1 -' '■" ■■■• ! ■■'" hour, tciu ;1!1 ,| tOO.S ,]-,.(., ~,,,1 ;■;,;■ Ij, ~ u -, vk f(|l . Uj,,.. "tucker." Jusiead of that, howeur they were a-,1,,1 |„ „ :lv | ■;..',•„,. ..,,,,.; or," Is a wed, io? ;;;(.--,,,. „r „,,, ;.',,;.. Is a week for Ike u-c of "Timl-i: '.■■ ,-■! ! to buy an oilstone at is lid to carry with them to work. At tin best the'y lost at least „ne day e.lHl week Lllroi|..'h wet neither, an I after keying laeioselvcs Ml boots ;•.,,,; ,lollies. t {,.. |i|(K | they could make was about ''is ,-,,.'• «eek. They had to carr. their s'wags I in a distance of sonic twenty miles, ami many of them eanie slraiglii bik as I soon us (hey ,„,t there and di'-vovon d I the conditions." I

Perhaps, on the whole |j„, iin,, s |, ~1.,;., Id g.'l absolul.-ly 1„M, in i. I He inii-l i.> of South America, where :iuil,ii(ii) si|ii!iri miles or snarl' still wailim; fur |l„. lirs while nam'-' foot l„ iiitrii.it- cm am- on. of I!"-mi. Most „v this lies around Hi, f mil,,-,;],,,! ~l'ti,,, Upper Amazon ;„„| ,|, I tributaries. Mniiv of then-urns polite!-, ascribe! l.y Oh- alias In 11,, rivris ,-c inounmins her,, are. efforts „f ima-iiia--1 li'-:i. Only a small number liav.i r'calh jbecn reached or surveyed. As two-third. "I Hi,- whole region is iinjM-Jiotrnl.lc fi,n--'i, il in ini|. u place In take casual jsti-nlh in : 11,1,1 over a doze,, cxpedilio,,s linvi- either l'iiik-,1, been lost complete].. »r wiped out by accidents of travel, in Hi" p'.-d forty years. Tlie principal i'ovs I'-ial await forthcoming expeditions'are /ever of a very malignant sort, armies of niii- Unit can decimate a. baggage-train, and even overwhelm and eat'its proprietors, impassable cypress swamps' and snal.el.ile. The laiier coniniodity cannot I,- quailed anywhere olse-thcro is no ],!,„■ oa tin- globe where ueaiilv im-ab , swarm to such an extent, anil liar.;)-.- any of ilien, permit (.]„, least '"-I 1 ' life, after a bite. The red-.le-tance. wafer moccasin, and a dozen olhers arc particularly plentiful; and, l, v rav "'■ va-icis. lb- amaconda. c-liumpioii ni iiie world in tin- constricting and honeI A-iiifisliiiij» line, is abundant in tlie. forests. Kven the natives—niaiulv harmless im- ■ est .Indians—have, no notion of the wav I [about, but all place, are alike to theni. They have been known to bring gold 1 1!ii-d- down from places which they cannot or do not want to describe. ' I

An Australian sportsman (says the Referee) who lias' seen a good den! oX the world writes to a Svduey friend to the effect that the English Press (with exceptions) is the must unfair in the English-speaking world. ''The strange thing about it," lie adds, ■■]-, that the English people themselves arc such good sports. Their views arc not rellocted in the Press. The Australian cricketers have found it so this year. The .\us-l tralian adds thai if England were beaten .u Pugbv football bv a team of angels captained iiv Si. Peter, tbe Press of liasland would lay charges of foul play against them.'''

For Ihe lirsV ■time in Auicri-.ai a he'ocoptre, a hcavior-tltan-air type of flyir.g in-- its lifting power, has successfully lifted itself with an operator. A ma-

chine built bv .1. Xew.on Williams; o' Derby, Conn.', and Kuiile Berliner, of

Washington, lifted Mr. Williams from 1 the ground on three occasions. The experiment »as made at the cud of dune in -Mr. Berliner's laboratory at Brightwood, a .suburb of Washington. The only machine that is known to have made a similar performance is that of M. Coniu, a French inventor. A Weilingtoii inventor has a similar type of machine in hand.

in an interesting article summing up his impressions of the Imperial Press Conference. .Mr. .Mark Cohen; editor of the Dttnedin Star, complain- that tlic conference was "nobbled'' bv the naval I cople. lb.' adds: "While 1 yield to nolle in the desire to sec the naval paraniuuutcy of Britain maintained, 1 decline to lie led goodness knows where at the call of .politicians who prefer to spend untold millions an naval programmes rather than do their duty by this great country in f.mcliorating itsocial conditions and increasing the standard of comfort of its wage-earners-, whether of the artisan <. r the agricultural classes. The erv for social reform is heart-piercing, hut it- will never be listened to so long as' millions are wanted (vide Lard Charles lieresford's speech) for more Dreadnoughts and for other classes of ships. And mention of Lord Charles' name reminds me that some of 'us got. a shock when we heard him declare in open conference that the Navy 'was not prepared for war. Those of us who witnessed the great naval review at Spithead were otherwise impressed."

We arc told that times are had and that money is scarce for carrying on the legitimate' business of the community (says the Wellington Times). Tradesmen may have dilliculty in getting their accounts settled, but there is no indication of a lack of ready cash amongst the pleasure-lovers who "constitute such a large proportion of our citizens.' The tailor and the milkman may lind money hard to obtain, but the theatrical man-

agers, picture-show- organisers, skating riuk proprietors, and boxing contest promoters are playing to full houses all the time. Those who give credit for the necessaries of life arc having a worried existence just now, but tboae who extort hard cash, and plentv of it, for the elite", tainineut they provide' are having a

splendid time. Wellington is a recklcss,v spendthrift community, and yet if a census were taken it would be found that oven',second person was living from ha :■! Io inoiith. Until the trading com•ininitv devises means 'for mutual p-o----tcction this sort of thing will continue, with improvidence and dishonesty the prevailing features of our social and civic life.