The Daily News. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 5 November 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5.

__ | We acknowledge receipt from the ltailway Department of a copy of the revised railway time-table. "I think it is only right that every owner of every dog should have the collar on," said a County Councillor yesterday.

On the application of Mr Govett (Govett and Qu.lliam) probate of the will of William Blake, deceased, was granted to Mrs Maria Blake, the widow, by his Honor Mr Justice Denniston in the Supreme Court on the first day of November.

A little previous. A Taribi Bettler has written to the Taranaki County Council: "1 consider you have a right to refund money collected from us in connection with the Tar.ki ro.id special rate, as the case was lost by the (juuncd." As yet the case Has not Deen decided by the Supreme Court.

A rumor is in circulation that tho county funds were used in connection with the function at th» opening of the VVaiwakaiho br.dge. This is an error, for the cost was borne by subscribers to a special fund The law makes no provision of paying "junketing expenses" out pf ,tne public funds of a. county. . |

The President's Cup to be given the exhibitor who scores the most points (collectively) in horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs at the forthcoming show ol the Egmont A. and P. Association was shown to members at Hawera, says the Star, on Saturday afternoon. The cup, which is of solid silver, and standing about 12 to 18 inches high, wasg reatly admired.

The hn; weather of the past week has had a good enect en the pastures, ieed, nuwetcr, is still not a a lorwurd as usual in some pans. U.i the Waimate Plains and around Hawera grass is abundant. It is anticipated that the li.y ai.d ensilage crops wul be light owing to tlie lateness of the glass starting away. A few hours' soft rain Wuold be welcomed by larniers.

Conversing wnh a sheep judge at the Paluierston Snow a 'Daily .News" representative- was informed that the sheep classes at the show v. ere the finest he n.itl ever oeen an the Dominion. Especially was this the case in tne. Itoiiineys and Lmcolus, our informant stating emphatically mat he considered no huer showing could be seen in any part of the world. An advertiser in a city paper ad-

dress himself to "Men witli brains," He wants two departmental managers, one for drapery, and the other lor a grocery and general department. The conditions are that the applicants "must be total abstainers, and men of brains." Both arc positions of responsibility in a large business. As a further inducement it is stated that the salary is £3 lUs a week to begin with. Whew!

The advertiser lives at Taihape. There's a complaint from the Sentry Hill district that dogs are causing great damage by worrying sheep. These trespassers are usually without collars, and under the crcuinsumces it was impossible, to locate the owneis of the worriers. It has further been reported to the County Council that the dog-ownej-s had not all been applied to lor the tax. A suggestion is made that collarless dogs will be shot. Waiwakaiho reminiscences were on the boards again yesterday. Mr Xhos. Humphries, Surveyor-General, was anxious to attend the opening of the bridge, but was unable to do so. In a letter to the County Council ho explained that he tallied tue stone for the first bridge. Mr John Skinner addetl that Mr S. Percy Smith, late Surveyor-General, and Mr Hursthouse, Chief Engineer of Roads, were fellow cadets with Mr Humphries on this work. Ine Criterion Hotel has changed hands, the new proprietor bjiug Mr Aicllvrale, laie proprietor ol the Federal Hotel, at Wanganui. The places of Mr and Mrs O linen, who have conducted the Giilcriou Hotel lor six years past, wid be hard to fill, particularly as regards their interest in and assistance cheerfully given in sport and athletics. New Plymouth will learn with regret their approaching departure. The new licensee takes charge on the 18th inst. J.he members of the Catuolic Club met on (Sunday alter Mass witn a view to taking slips to place the dub on a sounder'b.isis. n was dec.ued to hold debates fortnightly, ihv next will be held on the ISiii mst. on •■Education." Olhcers were elected as follows:— Matron, Itev. Dean Meltenna; tpTruual director, Itcv. Father Macwanus; president, Mr W. U. Malone; Vice-pres.dents, Messrs M. Jones, F. A. Cullen, Britain, Parker, G. Grey, and Mctiardy; secretary, Mr .V. U'Brion; treasurer, Mr J. Bennett; auditors, Messrs llouan and L. &\m caretakers, Me,srs \V. Jones and J. Clarke; correspondent Mr Sullivan; debate committee, Rev. Father Macmanus, Messrs G. Grey and Sullivan. The Egmont Lodge, No. 112, 1.0 G X held its quarterly session on' Monday evening i u at. Mary's Hall. llro. Hart neJI l-.c.X., presided over a good attendance of members. The secretary Bro. B. J. Clark, presented his report lor the past quarter, and stated tlierc had been an average attendance of 38 and that there was now a membership ot JJ. Several other olhcers also presenteJ their reports, which were adopt- * II B r- 1{ - . L.D.G.C.X., then installed the lollowing officers-—CT Bio G. W. Hartnell; V.T., Sister "i! M lute; secretary, Bro. C. E. Pepperillhnancal secretary, Sis. Mrs LeggV trea-wi-I* J ; Hlggsj Cha i'- «*• a Uhite; Marshall, Bro. D. Wiley; D.M. Sis. O. Coek; assistant secretary' Sis' a' Jeans; Guard, Bro. R. Pcpprill; Sentinel, Bro. A. Wiley; Registrar, Sis. Mrs Il.ggs; pianist, Sis. Kuight. Several of the oilieers then thanked the Lodge for electing them to their positions, and the Lodge closed.

ihe slaughter of calves and the loss of sheep has recently thrown a great number of skins, and hides on the market, many of them indifferently prepared, and consequently fetching poor prices. At the largest market in New ZcaahrJ, at Dunedm, complaints have been raised about the quality the skins, and the manner in which they are flayed and dressed. At the request of the Wellington and Tarannki Wool, Skin, and Hide Buyers' Association, an object lesson in the preparation of hides for the market was provided at the llanawatu Show lust week. Side by side were properly flayed hides and the rough handiwork of the untutored husbandmen. Sheepskins and calfskins were treated in the same way, and comparative prices wore appended to drive the lesson home. Thus one hide was tagged with a card which read:

"This cow-hide, weighing 451bs, properly flayed and cured, is worth el." while its neighbor was thus criticised and condemned: "This cow-hide, weighing 451bs, badly flayed and cured, is worth 7s fid." A calfskin, weighing 81bs, properly dressed, was marked at '4s fid, "and a calfskin, of simliar weight, but carelessly treated, stood pilloried at fid. Sheepskins met the same fate. The error of their ways should thus lie slriTply brought home to the happy-go-lucky pastoralists.—Exchange. NEW LEASE FOR WEAK LONGS. I Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption cures Influenza and all Lung Troubles. Obtainable everywhere. A SUCCESSFUL STRIKE

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The Stratford Poet reports a narrow escape from accident on the Dawson's Falls track. A vehicle containing seven persons and drawn by two horses got entirely out of control, and the horses were kept at full gallop to the gate at the entrance to the reserve. When the mad gallop ceased only one lad remained in the shattered vehicle, clinging to the reins, all the passengers having been deposited at various stages along the track. No one was severely injred.