Sympathy With Ireland.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 71, 29 March 1890, Page 3

Sympathy With Ireland.

|Bt Tbleqraph. I [united pbess association. | Invkrcahoill, This Dat. Itrreroargill sends nearly .£1.40 Home I towards tha Evicted Tenants' Fund. At a '. meeting' of the Home Rule Delegates* Be- < oeption Committee, it was decided that the ' flecrstary write on behalf of the committee < and the liboral-mindod of the district to Mr. ' Parnoll, oongratnlatin? him on the results of his aotion ftgainst The Times.

FBt Tblsgraph.J [tjnitbd fbxsb association. 1 Auckland, This Dat. Tho difficulty with the Kamo miners is ended, the omployors having accocded to tho men's demands. Tho Sowing Association's Regatta is postponed to-day owing to the lumpy wator. On making enquiry at the Hospital to-day, wa wore informed that Mrs. Cunningham, who charges her husband with having stabbed her daring a quarrel whioh oeourred in Haining-street the other night, is progressing favourably towards recovery. The annual Easter excursions of the Union Steamship Company appear in an advertisement elsewhere. They include cheap runs to Pioton and back by the a.s. Mawhera and Rotorua, to Nelson and back by the Eotorua and Graf ton, and to Lyttelton and back by the Penguin, Rotorua, and Takapona. All the members of tho Garrison. Band having now retnrnod from Dnnedin, they intend giving a grand promenade concert on the Basin Reserve on Tuesday evening next, on whioh occasion they will play the Exhibition test pieoes. It will bo remembered by the public the honourable position attained by tho band at the late band contest in Dunedin, so thoßO who attend can rely on spending a pleasant evening. A collection will be made at tho gates for the bond. The oaso of Stewart v. the Equitable Life Asauranoe Sooioty of tht United States waa concluded in the Banco Court to-day. In this oase the company moved that the verdiot of % Blenheim jury awarding plaintiff jSI6O damages for alleged malioious prosecution for obtaining a policy should bo ut aside, and jndguient entered on their behalf, or that plaintiff should be nonsuited. His Honour, after hearing argument , entered up judgment nonsniting the plaintiff, with costs. The s.b. Charles Edward is announoed to run an Easter excursion to Nelson, leaving here Thursday, 3rd April, and returning the following Monday evening. Mr. Charles Harris, of Carterton, has been appointed Seoretary of the Taratahi Dairy Company. The manager of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Co. advertiaps for women, boys, snd girls to fill vacancies at the Fetono faotory. A new method of flaxdressing, invented by Mr. Frod. Bnll, of Wellington, who has named it Bull'b Chemioo-Meohanical Prooess, was exhibited in operation at Seagar's foundry at noon to-day. Briefly stated, the mode of treatment is as follows : —The blades of flax are split, and then boiled in certain chemicals, after whioh they are passed through a soraping machine (instoad of the ordinary stripper) which cleans both sides of the half -blade. One of the advantages claimed for scraping as compared with stripping is that it saves a considerable quantity of fibre that is destroyed in the machines now in use, so that five tons of green flax will produce a ton of fibre, instead of the usual seven tons. The chemical treatment does away with the necessity for ontdoor bleaching, so that after the soraped fibre is washed and given a mild . Bontobing, it is ready for the market. A variation of the above prooess ia made by stripping the half-blades in their green state, and tfcen boiling the fibre, wJuQh, being thuj

reduced in quantity bofore being introduced to tho chemicals, is much more cheaply treated, while the product is whiter and finer than usual. Or, again, the half-blades oan be scraped without boiling, with a result somewhat similar to that of the ordinary process, but, it is claimed, in better quality and greater proportion of fibre. To-day's test took place in the presonce of large numbers of flaxmillors, heads of commercial firms, and also of the Colonial Secretary and Minister of Pnblic Works. Some very fino fibro treated by tho now process was on view, and a groat deal of interest was shown in tho operations. for continuation of reading matter tee fourth •pant.