Home Notes.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12343, 27 August 1903, Page 2

Home Notes.

(By W.G.)

London, July 21.

No wonder Engli&h'mon talk so nwoh about the weather, they have 8,11 en contrasts. Early J.une was tropical in its heat; middle Jm'ne was wet anti cold: the last wee-k in that month anH the first two in July were simlply jvlorioUsr— three weeks without a drop of rain, and now we 'are "back again in the cold aawl wet.

LIFE ON THE THAMES.

Daring 1 tiie lovely three weeks life on tho rivor was jnsi perfect. " La&t week we went clown to Hampton Cc-urt and found the river season in full swing. The lock could hardly, emjo'ty and fill fast enotagii to accommodate the large assortment of river craft. The scene in the ecvening, when all the gaily dressed people were wending their way homewarHs was intensely interesting. Hie gardens of tiie Palace were magnificent, the show of oM fashioned English flowers being perhaps tihe finest to be found in E^laitd. It is simjjjly woivc?erful how the old vine "keeps its vitality. It stilJ bears' its thousand bunches of grapes, which,' when ripe, will go to' the table of Edwai'd V'll.", as their p^reiclecessors clk3to the table of Edward VL^-if "the boy Jikefcl grapes.

ROYAL ACADEMY.

The other day, we spent the afternoon looking at the pictures of • the year and did not get."the'luslual "Academy heatfaahe." Pesjhsips the" ■ mbst popular picture is that by John H>. " i :F* Bacon representing the Coronation at Westminster Abbey, Attest 9th. "Tihe' artist has partioularj^ 1 emphasised- the incident of . .the aged' Archbishop of panterbury stumbling. as he jdoes Jio,niaere to the King".

We noticed -in gallery ,N.o. ,B a.-.Roir-' trait oi Captain* B, £Tu£en.t Ssiaw cfone by Sydney \V. " "Whits," a h<?P qVMt John H. 'White ol Eabotu. The picture is rfplei/dirily done and has a ivery prominent position on ifoe line.

GEOMETRICAL BOARDING.

Perhaps some of your readers may: be interested in tiie, following .thougih not interested either*' in' Eliiclid , or boardinghouses as distinct subjects. It seems to . me --very clever and is found in the Bookman J s- Magazine: — .

DEFINITIONS.

1. All boaming-houses are the .same boarll ing-hous es. 2. Boarders in the feame boarcHngliouse and on the same flat are eq,tial to one another.

3. A single room is that wnich hath no parts aiTcT bo magmituide. l 4V4 V The landlady of the boardinghouse is a parallelogram — that isV an oblong- angfular figure that cannot be described, and is eqlual to anything. 5. A wrangle is the disinclination to each other of two boarders that meet together but are not on the Boor.

6. All the other rooms being taken, a single room is sard to be a Uo'u'ble room. POSTULATES AND PROPOSITIONS.

1. A pie may be produced any mmx : her of times!

2. The landlady joiay be reduced to her lowest tecnis by a series of propositions. 3. A bee-line may be made from any boartiine--!hcmse.

4. The clothes of a boaMding-Bbtise bed, stretched ever so far both ways) will not meet.

5. Any two meals at a boawUiigho.use are togethes less than one sqiuare feeH. 6. On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be ' two charges for the same thing, 7. If there be two boanclers on the same floor, and tihe amount of side of the one* be eq^ual to the amount of side of the other, anid the -vvx'angle i:fsiween the one boarder anti the lanfcU laidy be equal to the wrangle 'between the landlady .and the other boarder, then shall the weekly bills of the two boarders be equal. For if not, let one bill be the greater, tihen the other bill is less than it might have been, which is absurd. ' PREFERENTIAL TARIFFS.

Wlien Mr Chamfcerlain said fr we are in for a big fight" he hail evftlemtly counteel the cost of going into this question. It is still a long way the question of the hotur. Of the malting of Leagues there \ appears to be no enjd. Siiice the Coblclen Clula, with its "foreigpi members," rashecl Jn where angels fear to tread, N>r ought to have feared, many orgamisations haVe sprung into existence. Tho latent of all is The Tarift Reform Lcagup, with a great- array of influential supporters. . The main, plank is "the development ami defence .of the Industrial interests of the British Empire; the main obiects being adtyocate»the examination of the tariff with n view to its employment to consolidate and "dovolope the resources of the ■Rm.pl ro an,cl to defencl tihe i&ctustries of the United Kingdom.

One would imagine .that all Britisih•rs would subscribe ,to .tihfat, but no, the average Liberal will nave nothing whatever to do with "Joe" at. any price. Poor Mr Qhairiberlain has in ilio eyes of Liberals committed the ntipaiTlonablo sin — >he has left the Liberal Party— and he must be cfush-

od—if it can be dojae. That is a very- big- "if." To a cas^ »,al observer it does not seem possible "that tjae Liberal . Party couftl' 'Crush: aln^thing. ' Its Haily papers, can anap and snarl and baric but tihat is all. It' has put itself, out of practical politics" by its insane . objection ,to this fiscal en'q(uiry ar«J by its foolisfh hatred of Mr Chamberlain. ' The question is being foug-ht in the Barnard Castle division and that Northern .^pnstituency will give its answer to<lay.' The Liberals avid ■ Labourites have made < tihe irijost of the absolutely silly 'snrall loaf' story, and they have had the aid- . vantage seeing that the results of tho . enquiry could not be p^ut forward, by the " Qhamfoerlain candidate. If • theTarilT Reform oamdi'date should . win in spite of this it will be a .glorious victory. Anyway one thing, iseepis.certainr—Cha'm'berlam. means to s%iclc >t to his guns." , ... - ; Poor New Zealand and her. XQ. \con J tihgents. I was.talking-'^itn^a.meaiSi tbe other day (an /'iai&ane" "Liberal); and he actually asike'd "What Tjatve the . colonies ever done for us?" Such; ( is gratitude!-! - MOKAU ESTATE. l "\ T ; * . Ainother, act in > .the-'Moikau Jori^sf' •estate drama toojc # place on 'WetLne^day . ,at the Mart, TokenhoMse Yeocii/-^fhbo. the 54,000 acres were offered afe-auc-tion. They were being sold iunder.iaa order by Mr J ustice . Wright , in. ' the , Banikcujptcy' Court re , HopldnsOns. When Mr Fox, -the auctioneer, proceeded to open tfie r sale -he was inter-, rupted by Mr Jones: who read a letterlaying claim -to the estate. Fihially Mr Fox said: "I 'am selling the property by order ottthe Court, but with.out airy 'registered title".' Are t^fere any; 'bids?" ' "Yes;" - came a y.oice, /*one t farthing." ' (Loud latfgjvter) " " Inhere ' were no bids so the property; was withdrawn and Wx Jones was greeted with^chc^rs. ' .. ' By the way J see nothing- in the ' 'BuclgeV-VT just to-- harM ;of the ironTsand business. *fe' there any prospect of the wor,ks being started at^rNew' Plyzmouth, of are they to gp : XgY^h& Nelson district? s .t *' ■■-. f-*-'- ,-" -iI was amjused^^cr see o'ne^bf the pafperg ./describe v Mo3cau, coal .re Jones' estate", - as equal to TDest Welsih. coal. , ' / * ■ Distance certainly lends endhantmenti to H the \ r iew!