Page 2 Advertisements Column 4

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9666, 7 April 1893, Page 2

The members of tbe Breakwater Protection Committee are remindod of the meeting to be held- in Mr R.G. Bauchope's office at 7.45 o'clock to night. Tho as. Gairloch will leave the breakwater to-night on arrival of the expresi train. Mr W. S. Moldrum has a business notioo in this issue. Mr C. O'Hara Smith, receiver of Lan 1 Revenue, arrived from the South by triiu on Thursday evening, Mr Samuel, who successfully oppoßel the application for a-change of venue in the cases against Mossra Hendy and Pease, returned from Auckland this (Friday) morning. In addition to being an enemy to a'l flowers, a Southern contemporary sayp, the humble bee has now turned its attcn tion to pears, the ripe sorts of which it devours greedily. Like the rabbit, it seems more likely to prove a curse than a blossing. The hull of the Northern S'a-, wh'cb went ashore at the Kaipara, had tha bow knocked out. Portions of the missing bow havo since come ashore near tho Kaipara Pilot Station. The circumstances have given rise to the theory which is being discissed amongst nautical men in Auckland a3 to whether the disaster to tbi i vossel nnd fieGowanburn was not caused by collision batweon the two. The New Plymouth Gymnasium Club opened their second season on Thursday night, in the Bide room of tho Alexandra Hall. There was an excellent muster of members, who went through a number of the exercises. There ia every indication that the club has a prosperous season before it. It ia related of a selector in the Auckland district that he once stripped ten acres of land of its manuka, and the improvement was paused by the Ranger. Tho next time that official visited the place ho found a Becond ten acres felled, but the manuka on tho other ten acroiij had grown up aga : n. " Well,' said the selector, " I've cleared twenty acres now " '• I don't see ir," said ihe Ranger ; " what about that big manuka patch ovor there ?" " Oh," was tho reply, " you passed thac last time." There was only a moderate attendance in the Weobjan^ schoolroom on Thursday night to hoar Mr C. J. Millis recite portions of Buliver Lytton's drama '"The Lady of Lyons.'*'- Mr H. J. Goodman presided. Mr Millis re. itod soma difficult paEsag3i in the drama, being especially gooit .v Claude Melnotte's descriptiou or an ideal homo On tbe conclusion of the recital, Mr Millia was accorded a vote of thanks, on the motion of the chairman. Mr Eara Brook presided at the piano, and played during tho intervals in tho recitil. A correspondent writing to one of Wel lington papers appeals to the pry everywhere interfere-everywhere Government for protection against the piano nuisance. He writes :— " What is the object of having an Inspector of Nuisances if piauos may bo thumped— at nil hours and in all manners ? The revonue will suffer, New Zealand credit in London will be damaged, if pianos are not regulated. The surplus ••viil be spent in prov.ding extra accommodation for lunatica.jf tho piano pandemonium is not suppressed, Tho vory least tho Government can do is to issue maps of the city, in which every piano shall have a back mark placed against it, and the area of greatest and least piano density is donoted by shaded linos. In the town of Loipzig, m Germany, pianos may not bo played oxcept at proscribed hours, and never in a room with the window open. Now, there is much more piano playing to the square yard in Wellington thac in Leipzig, and I say that hero this is a nuisance dangerous to human reaßon It destroys the nerves of the community, it saps their moral fibre, it ia n Ihentiou?, infectious indu'gence which should arouse the indignation of every hornet patriot Let piancs be put down, in the name of truo Liberalism thoy are a monopoly of the bloated capitalist— or, at the least, let me beg and pray all those who sit down to pianos in heaps — I scarcely know what I am writing— that they should indulge in their vicious inclinations, if not with the blinds down, at any rate with tho windows shut. If the Government will do nothing, 1 inyßoJf hereby offer five shillings for every piano brought to me broken up into matchwood. Great Scott ! tLe sowing machines are beginning," Valuounßurpaßßed in clocks and watches Thoroughly good American 8 Day Striking Clocks ; regulated and guaranteed, 21a ; nickel clock, 5s ; alarms, 7s 6d each. The Bushman's Ist Class Keyless Watch, 21s ; at J. H Parker's, under the Gold bpectacles, Dovon-etreet, New Plymouth —Advt.