The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1897.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 10994, 11 August 1897, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1897.

The Bank of England wa* opened 202 years ago. The ordinary meeting of the Education Board was held to-day. A train leaves New Plymouth station to meet the Mahinapua at C a.m. tomorrow. The number of unmarried woman in England and Wales exceeds the number of unmarried men by nearly 200,000. There will be a practice meeting of the Gun Club at the Fitzroy Sports Ground on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 p.m. Germany has'strongly protested against America imposing an additional duty under the new tariff on bounty-fed sugar. Mr R. L. Stanford, Commissioner, held a sitting of the Native Land Court this (Wednesday) morning. Mr James Sinclair, founder of Blenheim, and ono of the earliest colonists in MarlboTOUgh, died on Tuesday. The steannr Kiripaka, the Mokau Coal Syndicate's recent purchase, left Auckland on Saturday last for Mokau via Kaipara. Itnly is building a HbW quay at Brindisi, in order to facilitate the lauding of passengers. The Government also hopes to accolerate the mail service. A Hawera telegram states that at the inquest on Icamsay, who was killed by i the train uc-ar Eltham, a verdict of accidental death was returned. Mr W. J. Honey field's name was inadvertently omitted from tbr coroner's jury that enquired into the circumstances connentrd wi ii tho fatal fire at Moturoa. The letters which were stolen from the Stratford po-t office and subsequently lecovered aro now being distributed to the addresses. The members of tho Amateur Opera Company will hold their first stage rehearsal of •' The Pirates'' in tho Alexandra Hall this (Wednesday) night. The Wellington Meat Export Company has paid a dividend of 8 per cent, for the past year. During tho year the company paid away £139,'25t> for stock. Messrs " McNay, Myaott, and Findlay left New Plymouth on Tuesday for Wellington. They will take passage for Vancouver in the Aorangi, which sails to-monow (Thursday). The Fitzroy Club will hold their usual fortnightly dance to morrow evening. It is the intention of the Club to run a basket social early in September, particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns. A peculiar coincidence in connaction with the fatal fire at Hawera some two years ago, and the recent one at Moturoa, is that two persons lost their liv«s in each case, and tho name of ono of tho victims in each instance was Turner. Mr Hatrick's now Wanganui River steamer, the Ohura, made her first trip to Tangarakau on Saturday last, accomplishing the journey safely and without having to warp up any of the rapids. The river was about a foot above the ordinary-summer level. The s.s. Moana, with the inward 'Frisco mail, has arrived in Auckland, and the Mahinapua, with tho Southern portion of tho mail, leaves Onehunjja at 2 p.m. today, arriving here about 5 a.m. to-morrow, leaving for tho South again at 7 a.m. A loy died in the Sydney Hospital on August Ist, frem tho effects of swallowing a mandarin en July 16th. It appeared that he accidentally swallowed the fruit whilst he was endeavouring to catch it in his mouth after having thrown it into the air. It in said tho highest paid choir (singers in th* world are two American ladies Miss Clementina DeYert, at tho Paxt«* Church in -New York, who receives £900 a year, and Misa Dutton, at the Baptist Church in in the same city, wh» receives £000. During the Jubilee thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral it was observed that one man, and only one, remained covered. That man was the Marquis of Salisbury, but it was no doubt .inadvertence on his part, for he subsequently removed his hat. A rich Chicago w«man, who was granted a divorco recently, vai requested by the Court to contribute to her husband's support, the judge remarking that, in th«sa days of absolute equality of the sexes, it was ai proper for a worn** to pay alimony as for a nan. Tho street improvement scheme brought down by the Public Works Committee, and explained by Mr Dockrill, tho Chairman of the Committee, ut tho Borough Council meeting on Monday night, will bo discussod at tho next ordinary meeting of the Council in September. At the same time Mr J. Bellringer'a notice of motion to borrow to e#eot street and other improvements will also be considered. ' A man will die for want of air in fivg minutes, for want of sleep in ten dayo, for want of water in a week, and for want of food at varying periods depending on circumstances. When one falls asleep the order of surrender to the spell is : Sight, taste, smell, hearing, touch. The •anse of touch ii the lightest sleeper, and most easily wakened, than hearing, then sight, while sluggard ta*te and smell waken last. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 12.25 p.m. to-day;— Wi»d between east and north and north - west at all places. Barometer further rise at all places north .of Napier and Jfew Plymouth, but full at all other places. Sea increasing on ajl western poasts of Wort)} Island, and heavy swell on all eastern' coast south of East Cape. Tides increasing on all western coast of North Island, high on all eastern coast southward of Eajt Cape,' aud moderate elso where. Northerly gales are probable at all pl»ce» southward of Napier and New Plymouth after from 12 to 20 hour?, and moderate northerly winds elsewhere. The following judgments for ) laiutiffu wore entered up in the S.M. Court on Monday : — N. King v. E. Fitness, claim £11 lls 2d, and costs £1 ssCds Cd ; Taranaki County Council 'v. L. Larsen, claim £1 Is 9d, snd costs lls ; T. Whice v. Johns, claim £26 3s 2d, and costs x 3 4s (Mr Govett for plajntiff) ; C. M. Sorensan v. W. Briscoe, claim £4 10s 5,d on a judgment summons (£2wa» paid, and the judgment debtor was ordered tp pay ih'a balance, £2 10* sd, in default J days' jmprisonment) ; T. O. Kelsey v. MoLebd, claim £7 3s Gd on a judgment ; the judgment debtor was ordered to pay the amount in instalments of 15s per month, in default 14 days (Mr Hutchen for judgment creditor).