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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8643, 2 December 1889, Page 2

The Rifles Band will give an open air concert on Thursday night, weather permitting. The public are reminded, that entries close to-morrow (Tuesday), at 4 o'clock, for the Horticultural Show, which will be held on Wednesday. In the Alexandra Hall on Saturday night Mr Garry conducted a final rehearsal of the cantata " Under the Palms." Everything passed off capitally. There is sure to be a large house to-night (Monday), when the cantata will be submitted to the public. <£An inebriate was fined 5s and costs 2s at the Police Court this (Monday) morning. Mr C. Rennell, J.P., presided. The s.s. Wanaka took away another large and valuable cargo on Saturday, consisting of 1300 packages of butter, and over 200 bales of flax. The R.M.S. Tongariro, from Plymouth, passed Farewell Spit at 7 a.m. to-day and was expected to reach Wellington at about 4 p.m. Our portion of the mail will be sent by the express train to-morrow. The following are the vital statistics for the Borough of New Plymouth for the month of November:— Births, 21; deaths, 4; marriages, 5. On Saturday evening last wo inspected Messrs Dingle & Corke's assortment of toys and fancy goods, imported for the Christmas and New Year holidays. From tho large and varied assortment all tastes can be satisfied, from the youngest to the oldest. Mr F. Stohr had no luck at Takapuna on Saturday with his pony Uno, as she ran nowhere in the pony race, which was won by Grace Darling. An accident to Mr F. Pepperell (manager of Messrs Read Bros. Opunake flaxmill) occurred near Inglewood on Sunday. He was riding along the Mountain Road, near Mr Brown's mill, when the mare he was riding stumbled and fell, throwing himj the ground. He received a break in his right arm near the elbow, and had to come to town to have the bone set by Dr O'Carroll. The mare — a pretty valuable one — was also considerably injured, so much so that Mr Pepperell does not thi nk she will recover. Before the Trust Commissioner, C. E. Rawson, Esq., on Saturday, Mr Samuel : applied for a certificate of alienation on behalf of Mr T. Bayly, in respect to allotment 25, Waitara West ; and he made a similar application in respect to a transfer of allotment 38, Waitara West, from I Karama and Tohia to John Purdic. The applications were granted. A heavy iron girder, weighing about fifteen tons, was being lifted on to the top of a new building in Sydney when it proved too heavy for the steam crane, tho machinery of which gave way. The girder, which had reached a height of 60ft, in its descent wrecked a quantity of scaffolding, and on reaching the ground buried itself to a depth of several feot in the street. In doing so it burst a water main, and the buildings in the adjoining street were at once flooded. One workman received a slight injury from a piece of falling timber, but fortunately very few people were in the vicinity at the time of the accident. A good story is told in connection with the last Ascot meeting. An American who was used to going into racing booths in his own country, ordering luncheon and paying a dollar, found himself hungry at the royal meeting, so ho walked into the first tent handy and told tho attendant to give him something to eat. The man put a sumptuous luncheon before him, to which, as well as to the champagne, the visitor did ample justice. He then handed the attendant five shillings, received his thanks and was bowed out of the tent, inwardly congratulating himself on the moderateness of the charge. An English friend whom he met outside said — " I did not know you were acquainted with Lord H." " Neither am I," replied the Bostonian. " Oh, I beg pardon," said his interrogator ; " I thought you were, as you came out of his tent !" Here is a conundrum in hydraulics for Standard VII. to work out, says the 2 imaru Herald. A contemporary published a story a few days ago entitled "A ghostly pump-handle." In brief the story ran that the cook and housemaid of their narrator's family were frightened out of their senses by the pump over the kitchen sink working of its own accord, the handle going up and down and water flowing from the spout. The story-teller saw it but instead of being frightened was only puzzled, and he sent for a plumber to inquire the cause. Mr Solder explained it in a very simple a ay. " Well sir, you sec, your house and tho next has but one well ; and when the water's low, and they pump much out of it, it makes the water rise and fall, and then that sets the sucker of your pump goin', sir, and that lifts and sinks as the water do, and in courso that makes the handlo go up and down. That is how it is, sir." Will some Standard VII. pupil point out the errors in Solder's explanation ; show why the whole story as it stands must bo a story ; and then describe an arrangement of tho pumps under which it might bo partly true ? Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns, the well-known Wellington photographers, have sent us a couplo of photographs representing with rare softness and delicacy, the one an old, the other a youthful face. One we recognise as a portrait of Judge Richmond, and have no hesitation in saying that a better presentation of his thought-worn, intellectual face it would be impossible to ask. The novel process by which these results aro gained is thus highly spoken of in the Catholic Times as follows:—" 'The Matt-Opal Type,' by which the new process is to be known, aims at giving a beautifully smooth but unpolished surface to albumeniscd hilver photographs, and certainly this aim has been most successfully accomplished. Such delightful and artistic results upon albumeniscd paper wo have never hitherto seen. It is absolutely a treat for tho eye to gaze upon the fine shell-like surface of these delicate pictures, possessing all tho softness of an opal photograph combined with the sharpness and vigour of an excellent albumenised silver print. The change from the vulgar glare of the highly-enamelled, rolled, varnished, or hot-pressed photograph, which wo have boeu accustomed to and ondured for years ps.st, to these delicate, artistic productions, with the appearance of an engraving splendidly executed upon a paper hitherto unknown for delicacy of surface, is almost enchanting by ita novelty and real artistio merit,"