NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10597, 24 April 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

JEWELLERY ROBBERY AT ELTHAM. Hawera, April 24. A man named Richard White was arrested at Eltham yesterday in connection with a jewellery robbery at Elthara - station about a year ago, when gootis to ?G? G Ift i°i 125I 25 in ***& * travel for Ahlfield Bros, were stolen from the railway {station. CENSUS EETUfiNS. Wellington, April 23. The census returns for the following boroughs are to hand :-Devonport, 8016; Patea, 739- Masterton, 8492 Hawkesbnry, 760; Tauran ga | 1022 All show an increase except Tauranga* winch has decreased 38 since the censns at 183 j. further census returns: Woodville, 1060 ; Karori, 1024 ; Ashburton, 2096. All show slight increases. Pahiatua has sprung from 782 to 1851. ADVANCES TO SETTLERS. The total number of applications for loans under the Advances to Settlers Act up to the 81st March ] ast was 1799 and the amount authorised to be advanced was £539,497, distributed as ±67,4C7 ; latanaki, 288, £70,785 ; ♦ X? * 7 l l 35 > £84,770 ; Welling! £28,785 j Nelson, 82, £11.885 ; Can' XSS *!?' £26M0 ! Wetland, 10, £2,266 ; Otago, 446, £148,605, EXPORT COAL TRADE NIPPEDIN THE BUD. The Westport Coal Company has withdrawn its negotiations for charters owing to the stranding of the barqne Corouiandel at Westporfc. VINE CULTURE. ™ tt T WEt «NGTON, ApriS 24. Mr H. Lowcay, viticultarkt, from Capetown, m a letter to the Times, states that he has just completed a tour ' ,of the North leland districts where vines ' are cultivated. He wpreaaes the opinion that this island has everything favorable to become a great wine centre, and expresses astonishment that such a sourceof prosperity and revenue as vitieaUnre. lias been so long overlooked, as- grapes mature in the open and possess all the qualities for making excellent -mne-, which would compare with the better class of French wines. He recommend^ planting vines on a large seala r amtf declares there are thousands of acres in Hawkes Bay, and Wairarapa, where vines would grow to great perfection and yield heavy crops. Varieties alono should be selected that are most suitarV> to the particular land on which tb Q r ' to be planted. He speaks favorably^r wme made m the colony.

Ihu did -,vt K e uilujli L'iiiilihi Imsteliy. the JMeplunt and Castle, iv.ta 111 its Uinu fiimoiis as a public resort, lisijloiies .110 now none under the new conditions ol life in London, nnd the S.ivoy, the ISnstol, the Churing Cross, and other jmUti.il hotels replete with luxury uud comfort are very difleicnt fiom thi; White Lions, Red Hulls, and Criteiions of the early years oJ the present century. Let us picture the bar parlour of the old Klenhuiit and Castle, sa.y after the b.ittle of v\ .uerloo, vi here the f.enius of tho Duke of Wellington overthrew by the aid of British bayonets und tho Prussiitus under Bluoher, the great conquerer Napoleon Bonaparte. Burly red-faced fat mers from the midlands, the dapper little Uoen u heat-buyer trom Mark Lane, the wholesale carcase butcher, the dealer in huntuia and roadsters and others of that ilk, till in harmony threshing out the tilk of the day over theii mugs of ale, when in conies the old stage coachman after a long journey. Not being gifted with much conversational powers and with a consciousness of infcrionty in this respect he takes up the newspiiper as an excuse for silence notwithstanding the difficulty that he was unable to rend. In those days the mail coach whs pictured in an illustration, and the paper Being held upside down, it is easy to understanutho honor of the old coachman, who exclaimed, "Here's a big accident, a coach eapsize<l," anil the roar of the delighted compaujr \yhen they learned the natuteofthat capsize, nnd the puzzled look on the coachman's fuce, who cannot understand where the joke comes in. How different is convivial life now to those old times. Instead of tho loiik church-warden pipes, we have the beautiful and fragrant Vanity Fair Cigarette, the perfection of quality and the soother of worried humanity.