The Daily News. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 7 November 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7.

There will be no is<ue of U* aki Dailv New. „n Monday, which is being ~!„e'rved as King's l'.irlhday. In our summary of the "*>'>■* "' "j'' •rnrunaki Oil and Freehold Company, a» ,vid.m-.-a l-V the report and balaneeht it was omitted to include in the

,;„v Fawkes celebrations are supposed to have been responsible for a fire close bv Mr Dunn's dental chambers m Ila-w'er-i on Tuesday night. Prompt action |, v ~,-sers-bv had the effect of extin..uUh'ing the" llames before any great i.n.a"C could be done. 'At"a meeting of the Recreation! Grounds Hoard last night it was deeded, in accordance with the notice of motion uiven bv Mr Percv Smith to change the nunc of the grounds to ''l'ukck.ira I'ark " The Board also decided to bold a' display of fireworks in the grounds on Boxing night. Do-pite the warm weather, there was , ..nod attendance at the social held in S t ° Joseph' Schoolroom Inst night to rai-e funds for the Catholic bazaar. Everyone was grateful to the ladies for the dain'v supper provided, and to Mrs. tieorge for the excellent music. .Mr. J. Clarke officiated as M.C. in his usual capable style.

The "Old Judge" £IOO competition for the nearest estimate of the number of persons who attended the Interna-, tiontil Exhibition was won by Mr .lames Pearee. of Clifton, Southland. Mr Pearce estimated the number at i.!1.-|B,4oG—twelve more than the official calculation presented to Parliament the other day.

Mr W. T. Jennings M.U.R. for Egmout, has returned irom a visit to his constituents in the Ta-umarunui district. On Saturday he opened a new public school at Marunui, in Wellington province, four miles south of Taumarunui. Nearly louo settlers and others were present. Afterwards :i presentation was made to Sir Jennings by the settlers. Mr Jennings then, on behalf of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia, and at the request of the Hon. Dr. Findlay, presented a broiv.e certififcite \tx a" twelve-year-old .Maori girl, Kuril Bolan, lor saving a white schoolfellow, Eva Kilpin, from drowning in the Wanganui river. A feature of the day's proceedings was the unveiling of the Dominion Hag at the ne\v school by Kuril Bulan and Eva Kilpin. and the saluting of the flag by the children. The Rev. Egerton Ward delivered a stirring patriotic address.

"1 am more fixed than ever 'in my intention of doing all 1 can to keep the Chinese out of New Zealand," says Mill. F. Toogood, of Rangoon, in a letter to his brother, .Mr Geo. Toogood, of Wellington. "They would llourisll there beyond all idea once they obtained a footing. They can occupy almost, any position from a coolie to a shipowner, from a shop assistant to a bank accountant. They ate lionet and very

hard working, and they are cheap, and there is the rub. Tliey could under-, sell, outbid, and liiially exterminate any British enterprise/*or could out-do any British workiMifnT While the Chinese is the only piaii east of llangoon—that is, in the "Malay .States—he would be a curse ill New Zealand. He is too cllicient, he cats nothing to speak of, and can work hard and well on it.'' Mr Toogood is resident engineer at llangoon for a big firm of civil engineers and contractors, liefore he went to the Far East lie contested the Christehurch East election for a seat in the House. The l'atea I'ress gives particulars of the suicide of an old man named Samuel l'erkins, aged Ot), at Waitutara. I'erkms and a man named Deucke had been living in a whare. On Saturday week the latter went to Waitotara, and the old man said he would stay in bed all day, as he did not feel well. When Deucke returned on Monday l'erkins was missing. Search revealed the fact that a rifle and some cartridges had been taken from the whare. Two men

searched for two days without succcse, and on Thursday the police at Waverley were informed. Constable O'Brien organised a search, and himself found the body of the old man about half a mile from the wliare. The rifle rested between the knee* a few inches away from the head, and from a wound the centre of the forcheal the brains protruded. The body was in an advanced stage of decomposition. Perkins' conduct had not been thought peculiar, but he had been a little concerned about his age recently, saying that he was getting foo old for this life, and H he thought the Bible were true he would shoot himself.

_ Advocates of the construction in Xew /calami of light line, of railway in backwoods districts will be interested by the observations of Mr. E. O. Lower, or Karori, who recently travelled through America with an observant eye on the country. "From Buffalo to Xew Vork,' he says, "was the best line of railway X ever travelled on, but 1 may say that America is not overdone with first-class railway lines. They seem to put American railways down'anywhere and anyhow, and improve them afterwards. The trams to their suburbs, they seem to be constructed on the sajine principle. They put their sleepers down roughly, run their trams and passengers over them ai ,i liver-jolting rate, and «s population increases they improve the line." In the course of Mr. Lower's travels in Croat Britain he met a prejudiced couple from the Isle of Man who were afraid to eat .New Zealand frozen mutton, because it died of disease and was frozen instead ofbeing buried. He succeeded in convincing these doubters that our froz-n moat was all butchered, and that both man and l>ea-t in Now Zealand was entitled to burial when death came by disease.

Mr. Jennings, M.H.K., who has just returned from a trip to the King Country, states that Ihere is now a considerable town-hip at Mammui, four miles this side of f'auinaruuui. A Wellington linu has a large sawmill there, and there are ten others in the vicinity. A

serious drawback to business in the township is the want of a bank. This is felt all the more as wages in the bush are usually paid by cheque, and the nearest available bank is at Te Awamutu, nearly eighty miles away. Mr. Jennings found that great progress had been made with the Main Trunk Hailway works since he was there three month- ago with the Parliamentary party. The contractors for the Jl'aka"tote viaduct have been getting on rapidly witli tin' work. Another viaduct which is being constructed by the Public Work- Department,"two miles to the south of Mak.-.tolc, is nearly completed, though it was only begun at Easter. The coach road between Uauriiuu and Hangitaua (thirty miles) was in fairly gooil order. Mr. Jennings was impressed by (ho busy aspect of the country, caused by the activity of the sawmilling and Max industries and the railway construction works. —"Dominion."

ill rebutting a, statement by Jlr J log}!, i1.J1.14., that, tlm price of wheat and Hour is higher now than at liny V'riHtl in the country's history, Sir Xoah Wood, in the Auckland Herald, saw Hour ruled once as high as ClO per ton, aad stood for some time at from £2O to *.'25 per ton. The writer has sold scores <>l tons at these figures. On one oi-t-.isioii ibssr.s Thornton Smith and firth were the only Loldnrs of wheat in any quantity in the city. The old mill »:i. running night and day to keep the people from starving. It is just as well that those who are crying out about comparatively trivial things should learn something of the trouble, ' the early m-itiers had to con. ml with. I ' notice th it now it is the fashion to advance (l»nr at the rate of IDs or 2Us per ton. so there may now be half a dozen advances before the baker puts the halfpenny on the 21h loaf, and as many pretty falls before lie takes it off. A reference to the files of the early days will show that we. boldly advanced or reduced the prices at the rate of £2 per lon, so that bakers had a legitimate ground for a rise at once, and in case' of a fall the public demanded an instant reduction." • . Yor OAXYOT FEEL- fIOOD When vour dige-tion is out of order. T)r. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules digest what you eat. thereby curiii-r the cause of your indigestion. Obtainable everywhere.

ln«lcwood mc.it prices are as follows: Undercut steak, sd; beef steak, 4dj sirloin, prime ribs, Id; other roasts, 2V,d, Sd and 3</ 3 dj boiling beet, Id, 2d, and 2i/oJ; corned beef, 4d. These arc tor spot cash on the block. A plague of slugs is reported by the Wairarapa Times to have completely demolished a seven-acre oat crop in the vicinity of Kuripvmi railway station. The ravages of the slugs when they arc on the warpath are .veil known, and the spread of the scourge would bo a serious matter for farmers.