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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10139, 27 August 1904, Page 1

• The Christchurch. Cathedral is to be heated and its organ blown by electrical power from t\\& city destructor. •The Napier schools sent a cheque for £41 as their contribution to the battleship New Zealand pence fund. The pence fund .now stands at £270, and' the adults fund has reached £400. ' .. "I look upon the alienation .of native lands by will as the most .dangerous form of alienation. There is absolutely no protection at present." — Mr Hone fieke on the impeaolunent of wills. "There is no question that the quality of meat being served m the Borough is twice as good since we have liad compulsory inspection." Cr. France at the Pulmeraton Borough Council. In consequence of the increase m the exports tho Agricultural Department has decided to station a dairy produce grader 'at Palea. The position will be tilled by Mr Wright, who is on the headquarters staff m Wellington. Mr Moss, M.H.R., lias given notice m the House lliat on the Payment to Members Bill he will) move a eiause, "Tliat when a member or Minister ap Iplies for a special train he must pay tUe usual charges provided m the railway regulations." Speaking at Levin, Mr •Field, M.H.R.. said we could not expect leaseholders to take the same care of their leasehold land as they would! if it were their own. He himself had, planted 6000 trees s on his freehold land at Waikanae this season, but. had' not put a single one m his leasehold property. As giving some idea of the rapid increase m tlie trade from the West of England, ports, Glasgow, Manchester, and Liverpool, it may be mentioned that the steamer Ayrshire, which will load at these ports next month, will come to New Zealand direct, cutting out the Australian ports, usually visited' by the outward steamers of this line. Au inventor m Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., lias perfected a substitute for ' glass bottles, which will shortly be' placed on the market. The bottle is pressed from paper pulp into the form of a beer bottle, dried, and thoroughly impregnated m <i waterproofing substance compounded of ingredients entirely harmless and sanitary m every 'particular. The bottle, which is made to stand a lieavy pressure; will cost less than the ordinary ' bottles m use to-day. A Christchurch doctor, lecturing before a large audience, m pointing out the injurious effect of drug treatment m general, remarked that it might be said that the doctors prescribed drugs. "Our reply," he added, "is that you compel us to prescribe drugs, for if we treated you rationally, you would! go to another dloetor andi get a prescription." "Sponge yourself to the waist every day," tit remarked later m the evening, "and you will never catch cold. That as a tip that is worth a good many guineas." Comparatively few. women- know the art of walking, and many therefore fail to obtain its fullest benefits (says the Delineator). Observe the gait of the average woman m the street. How does she walk? Possibly with a slouch, or at an awkward, inelegant a/iigle, or a stiff, unpliant motion. Another ploughs along as jf walking were a laborious 'necessity ivthie.' mosb natural m -is^tner consequence ? lire brought into undue action, ultimately resulting m angular, distorted development. I Negotiations for the establishment of a steam cargo service between Canada and tins' colony are m progress, bub si> tax have not resulted m anything tangible. The Canadian Government have been approaiched with a view to find the balance of subsidy required, and at the present preferential tariff, if assisted by good opportunities of direct shipment, will greatly develop trade 'between Canada and Naw Zealand, there is reason Ho hope that the Canadian Government will join hi finding the subsidy required to establish a valuable connection, which would bo of immense service to the further development of the trade of both countries. The Right Hon. Joseph Chainberlaiu, writing to a Victorian friend, says he has no doubt he will ultimately liave complete commercial union m. the shape of a zallyerein,. It will be tho beit thing both for the colonies and Britain, bub it is necessary to proceed gradually. He will be perfectly satisfied m the first instance with such preferential arrangements as bile colonies are likely to accept, and adds : "We can assist you to fill up your waste lands, and, while nob m any way interfering with your progress m manufacture, we shall always find opportunities for the change, each part ot the Empire producing for th« rest.' . He expresses confidence m. tha .Empire ultimately adopting preferential proposals, but whether he wall live to see it is uncertain. Tlie Colonial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union met on Thursday at Palmerston North. Communications were received from tho Premier, Sir Joseph Ward, and the Hon. T. Y. Duncan promising full consideration of the various matters which had been brought under their notice. The Secretary lor Ag. multure wrote that the resolutions of the Union m regard to sheep tax and exposing diseased bulls for sale would be dealt with m the new Stock Act. Sir Joseph Ward wrote, promising to reiiitroducethe Bill dealing with mixed cloth. The same Minister notified the Union that he could not postpone the coming into operation 1 of the by-law penalising tliose who sacked their grain to an extent of over 2001 b per sack. He considered that ample notice had been given to farmers to enable them to meet the requirements of the Act. The meeting went into committee on the subject of mutual insurance. Evidently the Governor's attendants think it necessary to counteract the extreme gracioasiiess, of his manner by alittle haughty exclusiveness on their own account. On a recent railway tour of our new Governor, the shorthand and pictorial reporters of two influential daily and weekly journals obtained permission to accompany the vice-regal party. They were most respectably dressed, and might easily have been mistaken for Ministers' private secretaries, but for their necessary impedimenta. They were detailed into a carriage, m which they found themselves m the society of ,the attendants upon the vice-regal party. . Their presence was strongly objected to, and just as the traiu was about to move off the newspaper men were politely asked bo shift their quarters, wliich they did with promptitude. They subsequently learned that the attendants liad 1 persisted' m their carriage being reserved for themselves. Tlie genial Premier, -with his customary kindness, came to the rescue of the newspapers. The representatives were most comfortably accommodated m his special carriage, where they liad no cause to mourn the loss of company tliat evidently did not consider itself "caste" enough to associate with journalistic scribes aud press photographers. Major Taylor, the negro cyclist, evidtiitly forgot during his lengthy stay m Australia- the disabilities to which his color subjects him when on his native soil, writes the American correspondent of a Melbourne paper. The other day he landed iv Sau Francisco from the mail eteamer, aud had not been five minutes ashore before he was pointedly reminded tliat m America a very .strict and undeviating line divides the ; negro from the white man. As he left the wharf he climbed into an hotel bus. He was at once invited to step down. The same result awaited his entry into a second bus. The hotel runner m each case informed Taylor that even if lie were driven up town the hotel would! have no room for him. A sergeant of police gave the cyclist the names of several hotels where colored people are received. "Not my kind of hotel," haughtily replied Taylor. Not only did the better class hotels refuse to receive Taylor and his wife, but at none of' the restaurants where he would! care to eat would tlie waiters take his order. Disgustedly he left for the Eastern States by ' the overland train the same evening. It is liot at all likely that he mis treated with aaiy greater consideration m the Eastern cities than m ban Francisco. These ■ newspapers gave the incident all the piquancy that vivid contrast would kud it by picturing Taylor as a suqial lion m Australia. He was, 1 jso they saiflj extensively entertained, .■■.■^d'-.v^.tbe;-t.gii^tibfi'pebpte-s-'W!h<>..Btand-