The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. ' SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1899.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11586, 29 July 1899, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. ' SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1899.

ThD Tnkapa Football C!ub bas fixed Thursday, September 14'.h, as tho date for its annual social.

A sale of work in aid of the funds of St. Mary 'a Sunday School will be held in tbe Schoolroom on Thursday next.

The alleged defalcations in connection with the Clifton County Couccil are larger than at first anticipated, and will, it is sai I, total fully £900.

A rnnway horse belonging to Mr WAvery bolted through Devon - street abont 9 o'clock this moniog. No damage was done.

Mr C. Enderby has, the Inglewood Record states, been promoted to the position of stationmaster at Kaitoke, on the Wairarapa line. Mr Enderby has many friends in New Plymouth, who, while regretting his departure from the district, will be pleased to hear of his promotion.

We learn from Mr Deem, Stork luspector, that several cases of anthrax among cattle have occurred ia this distiict. In tffo instances farmerr. adop'ed the very unwi-e course of feeding their pigs with the affected animalr, with the result that their swino stock has beeu largely dccima'ed Farmeis should tnke the precaution of burning the carcase?, o:, when the outbreak i 3 discovere ', communicate with Mr Deem, who will be only too pleased to givo any assistance that lies ia his power.

According to news rec ived from Nigeria, the Royal Niger Comf.ny ha 3 not succeeded in -entirely stamping out cannibalism in the Pagan portions of their territory. A native of Amorfu, a town about only 150 miles inland, has been arrested by tho district polico for murdering two women, and has confessed that these are only part of a series of murdeis committed by him for the sale of dead bodies to sertain cannibal towns further inland. It ia said that tbe pri soner is surprised at his arrest, and appears to consider the bu-incss' legitimate.

In reference to the sale of Ihe Lake of Killarney, announced in this week's cables, the far-famed Muckross ebtate comprised 13,000 acres. The sale includes Muckross House, demesne (which entirely surrounds the middle lake of Killarnoj), deer forests, game reserves, fhbing*, Muckross Abbey, Tore Waterfall, part of the Devil's Punchbowl, O'Sullivan'a Cascade, Dinish Island, Brickeen Island, Lord Brandon's cottage, part of Mangerton and Purple Mountains, Tore Mountain, Tomies Mountain, part of old Weir Bridge, the Meeting of the Waters, in fact, tho finest portion of the scenery of Killarney.

At Stuttgart the Queen of Wurtemberg has received a lad of fifteen, a turner's apprentice named Karl Fschnmuller, in in order to present him with her portrait and a considerable sum of money, ia recognition of his extraordinary devotion to his sister. Some time ago the latter fell into a vessel of boiling malt, and was so fearfully BCnlded that, according to the doctor, her life could only be saved by the grafting of new s'lin from another person upon the wound?. The young brother was the only one ready to mnke the t aorifice, and accordingly, a large piece of ekin was removed from him and laid upon the part affected. B3th he and his sister are now happily q'.ue recovered.

Here is an objact lesson for Prohibit tiobists. The Good Templars of Twerton, a populous village adjoining Bath, bave juat acquired the old White Hart Inn, which stands in the principal street, and have converted it into "The Twerton White Hart Temperance Institute and Resfaurant." The price of the premises was £500. Tho lodge have executed a mortgage to the extent of £250, some friend advanced £100, and the remainder is to be raised liy subscription. The Dowager Lady Tweedmoufch and Lady Pitman (widow of (ho late Sir Isam Pitnraa)are two who Lave rendered grt ah assistance, and the subscribers include many who are not teetotallers.

A sensational robbery is reported from Bilmain, Sydney. The faota show that Mr Aguew, a butcher by trade, sent his daughter, aged 14, io the bank with a large sum of money, in two bags, the former of which contained £123 19j ia gold and silver, and tho latter a number of cheques and bank notes. As she was proceeding on her way a young man suddenly seized hold of her and endeavoured to wrest the two bags of money from her, bub^&he threw one over an adjoining fence, and the man at onoo made off. A significant faot in connection with tho robbery is that a week or two previous Mr Aguew had received an anonymous letter, warning him of a plot to rob his bank me-senger, and from that time until the day before the occurrence, ho bad taken the precaution to employ a male mcHtenger. ■

For Children's Hncking .Cough lake WodHs' Groat Peppermint' Cure. 1/6 and 2/0 • r '

The Sight Rev. Bishop Lenihan, of 1 Auckland, had' t^he honour of being received in audience on the 12th June by the-Pope. The Waihi Gold Mine Company crtfahed 7753 tons for £22,485 of gold,- for the 24 days ending 2nd July. The total return to date is £1,056,712. ■ A cable met-si'ge from London state? that the Hon. John RlcKenzie, ■who recently underwent an operation, is now out of dacgor. 1 he export of lambs from Christchurcb last season was 800,000, returning to the farmers half a million of money, equal to two and a half million bushels of wheat. The publicans of the Manukau district have withdrawn their for an extension of hours from "10 to 11 p.m., and have agreed to maiatain 10 o'clock closing. f Mr Scott, who had been, appointed manager of the Wai taraJFrcf zing Wo»k->, md was to bave superintended the. placing in nf tho new machinery, has just died at k Sjdney,

A Maertwhenua miner took to Oamarn recently a number of specimens, including rubies ani emeralds, and also some excoh lent "cats-e yes" as large aa an ordinarj gooseberry.

It appears that 100 dtad men- many of them deal for many years — have been g^zjtted J's P. in the new Commission ot Peace. That kind of patronago wont make any one envious.

Mj^llenry Firth, tho victim of thf bicycle accident ou the Ponsonby Road, Auckland, after lingering for about n motrth with paralysis, died on Thursday aight. Us leaves a widow and family.

The Southland Tinr.es has the beat authority for stating that the profit made by the Southland Frozen Meat and "Export Company for the half-year ending 30ch June exceeded £5000.

Premier Turner, of Victoria, fixesJuly Ist, 1900, as a reasonable'date for the consummation of Australian FederatioD, aud he does not think that ihFederal Parliament will be elected before the end of the year.

The Nelson City Council, after considering a resolution passed at a public meeting, has decided to reply that fctjp preparation of plans, &c , has been de layed already, but that the Council sses no reason for delay in the rain g of the money for the establishment of abattoirs.

The woman named Blakr, who was sentenced to pecal servitude for lifo for an attempt to poison hsr hu3band hi Wellington sorro years ago, and who has. been in a bad state of health for a consiierable time past, is now under treatment in the Wellington Hospital.

The harbour works at Capetown have cost up to date some two and a half millions sterling, and there is now berthing accommodation for twenty-seven steamers. The quayage built has been 13,000 to 14,000 ieer, giving some 11,000 feet of berthage.

At the public reception given by (he President recently i i the White House, \fr McKinley shook hands with 481G visitors in nn bout and three quarteib, bt ing an average of more tl aa two visitors per three seconds. He established a record for both speed and endurance in this task

The first meeting in connection with the Christmas Carnival Promenade Concert was held at ft»r Taunton's office on Friday night, when the Committee decided that they would not be content with a simple promenade concert, but would introduce several novelties never before attempted in New Zealand.

A movement is on foot in Greymoulb to procur? legislative interference with the importation of opium except for medical purposes. Mr Young Hee, the well-known law cleik of Greymoutb, stateß that tho Cbi.iese on the Coast spend about £3000 a year on opium, and that whilst more than ninety per cent, of them are addicted to opiuti smoking fully thirty per cent, are confirmed in the hat it-. In addition to Chinese the evil is spreading to whites, especially the juniors.

A red stag wlioh was imported from England by the Otago Acclimatisation Society and given to the Wellington Society in exchange for two stags from the Wellington district has disapp. ared from Staves Island, where it was being held until tho quarantine peiiod expired, [t is supposed to have swum the two mihs of water separating Soames Inland from the Diy's Bay porliin of the main" land, ( s there are eviden-es of its hiving b r .en in the vicinity of Day's Biy.

A bi# haul of contraband goods was made by the Customs authorities at Sydney on board the Orient )i jer Ormuz the other day. The mailboat arrived early in the morniog from London, and shortly after ehe was moored a number of searchers attached to the Customs Department proceeded on board to make the usual search. The aaarch^rs had not long been at the work of rummaging when a plant of wbout 25,030 cigars was found in one of the lockers- These were quickly brought on deck, togeihar with a couple of hundredweight of tobacco, alfo found concealed bolow, and during the afternoon (he lot was'i formally se ; z:d and lodged iv the Queen's Warehouse. Thi* it the largest seizure of contraband goods made on a mailboat at Sydney, and it is interesting to note that the Ormuz Lad previous to arrival there called at Albany, Adelaide, and Melbourne.

A writer in Pearson's Magazine com* menting. on ihe " Mystery of woman's belief in r aite, gum and cement ' relates the following anecdote: — ne saya "I once knew a temperanco lecturer whose wife ace ilen tally knock-d her husband's fl tsk from the table w here it was standing and broke a hole nearly an inch in cirs cumferenco in the bottom o£ the fiisk. She proceeded to mend it with a patent cement which she had bought the previous day from a pedlar. The next evening tha unfortunate husband was on his way to a meeting for the suppression of profanity with his flask in h : s right bin I overcoat pocket. He became sensible of a strong smell of brandy, and on examira tion found that a bottomless and empty Risk was reposing in a brandy-soaked pocket. His language, although not adapted for publication, was natural und< r the circumstances, but it is needless t > Biy that the result of his wife's experiment dii not ia (he least shake her faith in the tfficienoy of -her glass and china cement."

The Waikato h now 86 days out on the voyage from London to Port Chalmers. Thu vessel was built in 1892 by W. Doxford and Sons, of Sunderland. She is 47G7 tons gross register, and 3071 tons net, and, as far as can be ascertained, her officers are a? follows : — Captuin, T. S. We-ton ; chief officer, E. J. Tosswill ; third officer, E. Moone ; J. Turnbull, supernumerary officer. Cap'ain Weston is on his second voyage to the colony as comminder. Mr '1 osswill is a son of Mr W. B Tosswill,of Peloius Sound, and Mr Turnbull, \\ho was second officer when the steamer was kit here, is a native of Timaru. Ho resigned his posiluu in London, nnd was working his passage back to the colony. Mr W. G. Chalk is chief engineer, with Mr Divie second ; Mr J. Ro3s is chief refrigerat log engineer, with Mr E. Brown second ; while Mr S. Viz ird is chief steward. I( is possible tint come alteration in tho staff was made before tha steamer left London. Tho Waikato is 4Coft. long, 48ft beam, and 21JFt. depth of hold, fcjbo is a spar deck craft, and 8 sister boat to the Uankes Biy, of tho Tyser Hue. She is regarded as one of the slowest boats engaged in the trade, but a good sea-going ciaft. She carries no passengers.

Attention please ! A most hearttouching Scrviao of Song, entitled '•Scenes from the Lifo of Mrs Booth," will be rendered at tho Army Barraoks on Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Singing of special quality. Silver coin at the dcor *

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Doughs and, Colds never fails }/G and 2/0."

An Ekotahuna settler has discovered 3heep suffering from tuberculosis.

" Killed by excessive tea drinking " was the verdict given at a Poplar Coroner's Court recently in the ( case of the death of a furniture dealer, aged 38.

The Lyttelton Times is urging the Government to settle the claims for compensation pub in by (hose who were iDJured in the Rakaia railway accident.

Vesuvius wa3 covered by a heavy snowfall recently while the crater was in eruption. Ihe Neapolitans watched the unusual spectacle of three streams of red hot lava working their way through the white srow. M¥ L. Sarten his given notice of his intention to move at the next meeting of the Harbour Board, that the Government v be applied to for the services of the prisoners for a month' or so to open up * low level approach at <ha harbour quarries, and thus have stone available in oase of an emergency.

Mr G. G. Boyd has forwarded to the Poverty Bay Hera'd some samples of native olives from the East Ca;e. They are rather rare, and he believes are found only on Marau Point and Eeßb Cape. The berries forwirded came from tba Cape, where there are several trees. The fruit is not unlike the genuine olive, but 13 of a purple colour when ripe.

To encourage the breeding of Jersey cow&in Australia, steps have been taken ia New South Wales by a number of gentlemen interested ia dairying pursuits to form a society to ba called the Jersey Cattle Society of Australasia, one of tha principal duties of which will be to compile a herd-b:ok for tha breed.

The Port Waikato correspondent of the Auckland Herald states thit a new relN gious sect has been formed amongst the -Maoris at Awitu. About fifty of them attended a korero held at Turanganui, near the Waikato river, tha other Sun-. Jay, and gave an exhibition, half poi, half haka, and to an accompaniment of Ihe chanting of verses of Scripture and scraps oE Salvation Army hymn", the former in the Maori and the latter in the English tongue, the whole proceeding ending with the singing of a native hymn. Afterwards, ii the old church, one o£ the natives gave a speech, in which ha asked for proselytes to come and join this new religion. From what the correspondent could gather the re'i^ion i 1 question seems to be a departure from, or an improvement oa, the Hanhau creeJ. What the particular tenets are no one seemed to kaow. All tha natives would say was that it was all in the Bible, and thareforo gooJ, and all one had to do was quote and sing Bible veraes, dance, and be happy.