NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 31 March 1909, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fourteen tons of fruit left Hastings one day last week by railway. It is reported at Reefton that a new find of exceptional promise has been made at the Keep-it-Dark niine. The Waiau river, one of the most dangerous in New Zealand, is to be bridged fit last (says the "Pos-t"). The Government lias decided to call for tenders for the erection of a bridge immediately. The cost will probably amount to .something like £20,000. It is intended to make the structure a combined road and railway bridge. About fifty-four 42ft spans will be required. Lord Glanricarde, the most execrated man in Ireland, is about to lose his property there. His enor-mous-estate of &0,000 aCMS is to 06 taken from him by the Irish . Land Commissioners and distributed among the Gal way peasantry, of course, at a fair valuation. Regarding the Dreadnought offer the "Lytelton Times" says: — Interest on £2,000,000 must be provided, and at the same time a sinking fund must be created to extinguish the debt. The public appear to be agreed that_ the money should be provided by special taxation, and we trust that when Sir Joseph Ward delivers his promised address in the course of the next few weeks he will be -prepared to 'suggest a practical scheme for raising the Dreadnought fund. Our own preference is for a graduated" income tax and "an increase of the death duties.. It may bo possible to arrange exceptionally easy terms for the loan, but it is evident that we shall have to find an extra £100,000 a year for a considerable period. The burden is not a very serious one. It might he borne by the Consolidated Fund very comfortably.. But half the value of the incident would be lost if the Dreadnought debt was merged in the general debt of the country. : When our educational, authorities throw off the veil of false modesty and include in the curriculum of work for the elder girls instruction in the duties that they will sooner or later be called upon to perform, then, and not till then, will the baby bo saved. from the murderous, treatment to which it is too often subjected through sheer ignOrance. — Wanganui "Herald." Tho people who talk as if "the bottom had dropped out of the country" only accentuate difficulties by frightening others, while they are so purblind, either of intention or inability to see, that they overlook the universality of the financial stringency.— Palmerston "Times." The Premier has boasted again and again that "all our eggs aro not in one basket," but the happenings of the last eighteen months have demonstrated as plainly as can be that our eggs are just as much in one basket as. ever they were.. A sharp decline in wool, and this country is immediately threatened with slump.— -Masterton "Age." We have the Kaiser's own authority for tho statement that the majority of the German people are antagonistic to England, and it is matter of common knowledge that a declaration of war with England would, be immensely popular in Germany, only the prospects were favorable for German success. Under the" conditions, therefore, the attitude of. those Englishmen who would impede British preparations can only be regarded as so unpatriotic as to brand them as the realenimies of their country. — Auckland "Herald." To-day, at 1.30 p.m., Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. will hold a clearing sale of Bye and dead stock, furniture and effects, at Clifton Downs, on account of Mr Q. King; on 27th April, clearing sale at Tahuna, on account of Mi G. Green. You will be interested in a seasonable announcement in R. Snodgrass arid Sons' space on the first page.* To-day, at- 1.30 p.m., Mr Lock will hold a sale of horses, cows, farm implements, etc., at Hopo, on account of Mr W. Smith. The "Temperature.— At three o'clock' this' morning the thermometer outsid'6his office registers J 46 degrees •> _ Best Summer Drinks: Kops English Ale and Stout, non alcoholic, and Kop's Concentrated Ginger Beer. All Storekeepers.* Ladies I Wfey pay a price for 'a slop costuma when you can get a first-class cut costume and materials for a little more, at Harford . and Daly's, Trafalgar Street. The Victory Cutter is made from whole milk cream, the cream being reduced in temperature by the latest and most up-to-date scrantifio^ appliances. The public- are guar-^ anteed that this butter is free from all germs, is sweet and wholesome and can be had at the same price as other branda.* Mr William Lock had 1 a very fine display of the wonderful Sun Lamps and -everyone was pleased with the brilliant steady light. Regarding these lights, an American scientist writes: "The Coal Oil Lamp" has taken a back seat and bows submissively to the triumphant advance of the " Sun" Incandescent Light. As soon as that great Luminary which gives light to the Universe by day, gracefully drops out of sight, below the-- western horizion, its namesake the "Sun" Lamp, follows in its orbit, turning night into day, and shedding forth its beautiful incadescent radiance, not alone in the palatial residences of the affluent, but just as bright, on the unpretentious and happy domicile of the rustic. ■With the !'Stm" Kgtt the citizens of small towns and villages are enabled to enjoy the same privileges as far as brilliant artificial illumination is concerned, as their brethren in the large cities, and at the same time have no exorbitant gas bills to' pay for inferior service but have a beautiful white hydro carbon light of much greater brilliancy than any other kind of illumination. It is not injurious to the eyes, but on the contrary is a relief to the visionary.organs and enables all to read with perfect comfort and ease as, though it were broad daylight." Lock is sole agent for these lamps.