The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1896.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10581, 4 April 1896, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1896.

There will be no issuoof the Taranaki Herald on Monday next. j Mr T. McGloin has sent in his resig- j j nation as a member of the Taranaki i County Council. Good Friday passed off very quietly, the threatening wet weather during the day keeping many people indoors. There is said to be a scarcity of Cuban cedar for cigar boxes since the outbreak of the revolution in that country. By an accident at the Hauraki mine, eight men were thrown from a wincb, and a man named Rodgerswas very badly hurt.

A sawmill at Lake Rotoiti, the property of Mr W. Kelly, M.H.R., has been burned down. The origion of the fire iis unknown. The property was valued ! at £800, and is supposed to be insured. A successful ascent of the Mount Egmont was made last week by a party consisting of the Rev. F. W. Walker^ Mr A. Morton, Miss C. Olson, and Master P. Olson, and three others* The highest pinnacle was scaled by the patty. The Marramarni) the steamer recently purchased by Mr G. Pott to pioneer the Mokau coal trade under his directorship, arrived in the Waitara river from Mokau on Friday. The steamer, brought a load of black diamonds from tho Mokau. Mr F. Pirani, M.H.R., was entertained at a banquet at Palmorston North on Tuesday night, March 31st, when about 120 ladies and gentlemen, including Mr Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, sat down.

Hawera is likely to be supplied with gas in the near future ; the matter of forming a company was bofore the | Borough Council last Wednesday, and tho promotors have been invited to submit their proposals in writing to the Council. Count Leo Toktoi ia a vigorous hater of England. Ho says the English and the Zulus should be herded together as the two most brutal nations on earth. His chief regret, he declares, is that he cannot spare tho time to write a book about tho English people. A few weeks ago a native of Motta Vißconti, named Audizio, committed suicide in the outskirts of Milan. He loft a paper behind him, in which he stated that he had been the original oorrupter of the assassin of President Carnot, and that bis remorse was too great to bear.

Captain Robertson's smart little barquentino, tho St Kilda, has been putting up some more record passages. She left Warnambool (Victoria) for Circular j Head (in TasmauiaJ on the 20th March, and arrived there on the 22nd, leaving tho latter port on the 20th and arriving at Sydney on tho 31st. j Though Oom Paul Kruger Jives vory simply, he is a very wealthy man without doubt. He is worth in capital not les<j than £1,000,000, and i/i addition he receives in all about £8000 a year for State duties. A curious allowance to the President of the Transvaal Republic, which Kruger receives, is £400 a year for coffee, the national drink of the Boers. A working man at Ballarat, named William Russ, who has been in necessitous circumstances for several months past, had a lucky windfall recently. While out prospecting along a creek, in the hope of finding a few specimens of gold to purchase bread for his family he came across a 12oz nuggec which had been laid bar 3 by recent heavy rains, The Maoris are holding a big tangi at i Kaipukapuka over the death of the wife j of Mahua, a well-known native in the Waitara district. Tho woman is a daughter of Wi Karewa, who was a conspicuous preaclior among tho natives in the early days of the settlement. It is expected that the tangi will cost tho j natives some £300, as viaitorsare expected from pahs all round the mountain.

In connection with the concert to be held on Thursday next for the Brunner Relief Fund we are requested to state that no complimentary tickets will be issued to any one, and no one will be admitted without a ticket. Messrs F. Newell and C. Ward were appointed by the Tewn Band as delegates to assist the United Committee in connection with the concert to be held to Brunner llolief Fund. The Advertising Committee have been most successful jih their endeavour to obtain all advertising free in connection with the concert for the Brunnerton Relief Fund, lud desire to thank the Tauanaki Herald and Daily News for advertising, Mr T. Avery for tho programme?, and Mr A. A. Ambridge for tickets.

The word •' starboard " and " larboard" as used in the nautidl vocabulary, are from the Italian words questa borda, meaning" this side" Rnd quella borda, " that side." Abbreviated, these two phrases appear as sta borda and la borda and by corruption of languages were Boon rendered '• starboard " and " larboard " by the English sailors. Years ago an order the Admiralty discpntinued the use of " larboard " and substituted " port."

A large number of Maories arrived in town from Parihaka on Thursday, and as the strangers, who were principally from Hawke's Bay districts, could not get accommodation they were granted the use of the Drill Hall, where they camped for the night, departing for home by the train on Friday morning. Several of the natives were very bounceable when in town, and affected to despise Taranaki and all balonging to it, the boarding-house keepers especially coming in for a great deal of bounce.

Sir Jacobus De Wet, the British resident at Pretoria, has prepared for the Imperial Government a statement showing relative amounts of British and Boer capital invested in the Transvaal. The total British capital invested in all kinds of property comes out at £80,000,000, of which sum £20,000,000 are invested in the Witwatersand gold mines. A careful calculation places the gross capital of the Boers £20,000,000 less mortgages on the amount of £7,000,000, leaving the net wealth of the subjects of the Republic invested in the country at £13,000,000. The figures in both cases have been prepared with the greatest care, and they may be accepted as reliable.

A rather serious accident happened on Monday last to a young man named Harry PartiDgton, of this town, who was employed as chairman on Mr Holt's survey party in the Kaitangiwhenua Block. He was cutting a traverse when the axe glanced off a tree and struck his foot, inflicting a severe wound necessitating his being carried on a stretcher till Wednesday afternoon to Eltham, a distance of about 40 miles, chiefly along rough bush tracks. In this the party were greatly helped by Mr McMillan and about a dozen men from the co-operative works on the Rawhitiroa Road, who willingly left their work and came as far as Anderson Road, where a vehicle met them. On arrival at New Plymouth Dr Leatham at once attended to the wound, which we are glad to hear is progressing well.