GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 83, 27 March 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

From America there comes the doleful intelligence (says a London correspondent) that the American Woollen Cotnpam. which is a big textile tru-t comprising >e\oral large mills, have temporarily down and curtailed production in order to sive the situation. The fact of Mich a huge concern having to -hut down at all i» imi *»y any nu-an- a good -ign. It is knovn t hat thou-iinds of hands in all bnittclie> have been stopped, and ill the competition <>| the indie vet-Mis back, the former a> a jiile At the same time I don't think there i< any room for pesMiuiMti. Trade in l-inglaud is very good, •»iurk-. are low. and wool will be wanted at all jjltoiil to-day > rates, with a possibility of a >lighi improvement wilh ih" full r<'>torat ioji ot conlidenee. .Many who have received the -matlor- . ing of •cl;i>-ical" education given in ! New Zealand secondary schools find it of no value to them in after life. The experience of Knglislmien scents to U'. >iniilar. Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, the London magazine jiroprietor, expresses the poorest opinion of the training he received at Winchester Collego. "Xo boy is mi badly equipped for the future," he declares, "as tlr English public Nchool buy. When I was at Winchester, thive-ipiarlers <if an hour a week was all that was given to modem languages wherea* two-thirds of my time had to be devoted to getting a superficial knowledge of Latin ami <Jreek. The Knglish public school boy is taught almost nothing that !:e needs to know, and a rich assortment of things that he doesn't need to know." A gentleman wlufis greatly interested in the flax industry, ami who, when j the l)ld Country and the Cnited Slates, studied the hemp market, expressed the opinion to a Shannon correspondent of the Dominion that manufacturers abroad couhl no more i[o without the New Zealand product than they could do without Manila. A great quantity of Ko-called Manila rope contains 20 per cent, of phormium tonax ill its composition, as the presence of our iibre gives the rope greater pliability. A larger percentage would be employed were the colour of Xew Zealand hemp better. Several manufacturers «o the Iniled States inlormcd thi> eentlenian that Manila was hard that it verv

soou wore out cliafl'-cutting machines, and when cut up among the chaff, tho fragments. I>eing ver\ brittle, very frequently injured the throats of horses. The London correspondent of the N . i, v Zealand Ileralu writes that the P.id

Mall Gazette, referring to a speech

lately made by Sir Joseph Ward, the gist of which was cabled to Englan l, observes:—"We are inclined to inter from a defiant speech just made by the

Prime Minister of Xew Zealand that

that colony has had almost enough ot socialism. The declaration he made

was that the Government neither disired nor expected the support of thu socialists but preferred a policy'''legitimately enabling all classes to build up. not to de-troy.' Cnder 'Dick' Sodd-in, fcew Zealand m-1. the pace in >ociali "ie

e\perimenl 10 an extent which had h

gun to shake tne conlidenee of capitil and to endanger the future of the Dominion. Th c . advanced >ection> increased their demands after each concession that was made to them, and there has been the inevitable reaction, which the Prime Mini-ler has now frankly ex-pve-M-d. It remains to lie -ecu. however. whether it will be possible for the Government to put a check upon th.' forces that have been let loose. The Labor and Socialist influences will not easily be overthrown after having gained si much.'' The intimation by cable thai the Turin Academy of Sicence has honored Professor Krnest Kutherford by awarding him the Urcssa Prize draw's further attention lo places that New Zealamiei> are winning abroad. Professor lUithcrfovd has won the praise of the highest seieliliiie aflt hul'itie., through, his discnveiie> in the realm of radio-

iiclivity. and his name is intimately -otialt'll with radium. It is <mly a tow weeks cilice that In: lectured <m "Krci'iit. Uescarohc., mi Uadiu-Aetivily" in the li'i.val Institute. Loudon, before a distinguished audience. »ith Lord L!ay-

as chairman. J'our year- previously the ,voting New Zeaiamlei' hid jjivon a lecture oil the sum,, -uhject in. the >aiiH' place. In tin- realms o'l literature and art i'c|>ro,cntativc, o! our Dominion are al-u making name, for them,elves. Ainon«,t leading arti-U in l.ondon are Harry Kountree. .if Auckland. and Sam. |!,.w. ~f X..|»|.-r; it v..1- a N.l|>icrile. |)r. Child inning. a!->n. whom till' .\ nil I 111 Queen of S|i.,in ch.-c ''e one .it her leading medical alien.l--a 111 -: and in literature, the names oi

11. li. -Marriott Watson. Hairv Vowl • Alien" (Mrs. liakcrl. •(;. li. I,anca,{cr'

(Arthur Adanisl. ;tn<l l'Vr«ti- Hume., ea.-ily come to mill.!. Now Z-uliiti>! is luarchine -teadily forward to that tint", foreseen by Sir lieorpe lirey. \\ln-n will be ,•» iiiition 01 ()(,,.Is anil nin-ieiai'-, itnil of inventors and di-eoverers in ;!ie field of scientific re-eareh.- FeiMiii" Star.

A lin mi >u ~ interlude occur ret I in Hi c w carving length oi the farm la boureiv di-pute at Kaiijtini'a tin- ntlicr liay. \ wit lie--. w ho-c evidence had alroadv e.v Icii'lcil over ten in tin's, was jnterrupr l :! by a dnjr I liat liail lain peacefully itmil (lien between I lie witne-- ami tlio member- ol tin l Unit I'll. h. commenced lu feratch it-ell' vi»nrotislv. uith an nc(■ompaiiiinenl „f violent rapping on the lloor. which brought the proeoodin-s to a stand-till. - You see," remained Ihe witness, ■•even ibe ilofr takes ),i( v on im'. and j.iv.- in.- a rest." '• | should NIV,' observed one of the cniploVel3, "(hat he i- troubled with agitator-'." Xi'Ws reeeiveil by mail shows that archaeologists are excited over ;i irci'iil find of <»rcal importance in the Vall"v of the Tombs of the Kind's at Thebes, viler,. the jewels of thu wife of Soli IT. have been brought to JiyJit, She wis a royal lady of tile nineteenth dvna-tv who Inv,l about j;«H) lU'„ and it is stated was probably no less a person than l lie wile of tlie. 'l'liaraoli of Kxoilns. j! mi id there arc bracelet- of hoavv pdd. oar-rines several inches in length! bearing the cartouche of the royal wearer, ring's o felaboralo workmanship, and lillets of „„i,| which the Queen wore round her head; but no one but the. fortunate tinders and experts have vet viewed the treasure, with the exception ot Sir v.hloii anil La.lv lioist. The tomb it-elf proved empty, the jowols beinlounil a few- days later embedded in mud. where they had probablv been "'row n by mbbcr- of liy-o'uo- a "v. "I"| plundered the tomb of the ro\ il dead.