The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11554, 8 September 1900, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900.

. > i ' < { Mr Winston Churchill, the- war corres? pondentj will bo Conservative 'cantiid?ite for the Oldham seat at the next ■ election in England. -''"''. :> < v On Friday Mr D: McAllum, Secretary of tho Taranaki 'Acclimatisation Society, released 5000 "rainbow t? dußHrrfKo Henu'i river, near Mr Cliff's property.' • 1 . :

Tho Cbristchurch Indiau Famine Fund has been closed,' the,; amount; 'collected being £2293, of which 1 £1900 has already been remitted to ,India. . , „ „,,— .. Captain Edwin wired at 12.30 o'clock to-day : — North-east to north and west gale after 12 hours from, now ; glass fall; sea heavy ; tides high ; very strong ebb tides in Straits, and weather warmer, i .

The man Bradley, remanded from Wuuganui on a' serious' charge, was brought to New Plymouth by the express train on Friday, and was taken to Auckland the same night by Constable Young.

Owing to lpressure of Wanganui engagements Mr Leo. Carri was unable to leave there till this morning. He will arrive in New. Plymouth to-night ' and commence his classes on Monday. *

Messrs Bewloy and Watt having sold privately on account of -Mr Courtney the four half -sections in Buller-street and two lots in OctavW Place, those sections are withdrawn from the auction sale.

At Cherbourg a few weeks ago 24,800 cannon shots were fired on the.evening of the President's arrival. As each. shot costs at-least^, nearly £100^000— i sum which would have built half-a-dozen submarines — wa3 spent in smoke.

The work of stripping and removing the valuable parts of the steam er 1 Douglas, stranded some time back- on the Mokau bar, has been completed. It is reported that the wooden hull of the vessel was not worth much, as the timbers had been considerably worn. ■ • /

It is understood that the syndicate, who recently purchased a Coal mine •at the Mokau, are building a steamer at Sydney for the trade. The' steamer will, it is reported, have a capacity for 150 tons of coal, and will have a steaming power of 9 or 10 knots.

The Triad for September is'a'good number of this always readable monthly. In addition to interesting articles on a variety of subjects connected with music, science, &c, there are several illustrations and an art supplement entitled "Mozart's Requiem Mass." A novel prize competition is ajso announced, and those interested may find par ticulars. respecting" this in another column. ' " ' '

"You can't sue the Crown 1 ; -without getting the 'permission of the Crown," remarked Mr Murley at: the Clifton County Council meeting on Friday.! " Then you have a poor chance of getting! such permission if such is tho case;- but I; doubt it," added ; the Chairman; Mr! Murley replied, •' Well, Mr Symes told! us when addressing tho electors' at UriitiJ that such permission was necessary, "i Mr Symcs' supposed exposition 1 of' tho law was not further 1 discussed. . -;'

At the Clifton County Council meetirfg! on Friday, Mr Oliver brought up' 'the question of the blackberry' 'nuisance on' native reserves. He said that while' on a recent visit to Wellington he had had an interview with the authorities on the question. A petition was now being circulated in his district at Mimi' asking the Public Trustee to insert clearance of blackberry clauses in future leases, and that the cost of such clearing should be rebated on the rents that the lessees had to pay over, through the Trustee, to the native owners.

Rev. John Watson (lan Maclaren) has told the following story in the course of a lecture on his recent visit to America: — An illiterate negro preacher said to his congregation : "My brethren, when de fust man, Adam, was made, he was made ob wet clay, and set up in de palmga to dry." "Do you say,' 1 said one of the congregation, " dat Adam was made of wet clay, an' put -up agin de palings to dry ?" " Yes, sar, I do." " Who made de palings ?" " Sit down, sar," said the preacher, Bternly, " such questions as dat would upset any system of theology."

At tho Clifton County Council meeting on Friday a letter was read from a settler as to the state of a certain road. He stated that he had seen in a report of the previous meeting that the engineer reported the road to bo in fair order, but he considered the engineer must bo like the "absent-minded beggar," who forgot his marriage license until the bridalparty were assembled in the church, and travelled the wrong road. Tho reference to tho marriage license tickled the risible faculties of one of tho members of the Council, who, it was understood, was the absent-minded person referred to by the writer. j

Tho Michigan Central Railroad has adopted a pleasant plan which ought to make travelling on that thoroughfare interesting and agreeable. At tho station at Nilcs, says a writer in the Leisure Hour, bouquets arc distributed every day on ouo train each way to all tho women passengers. A man in tho employ of tho railroad company cultivates tho (lowers on a live atro plot near the, station, having throw largo hothouses. Tho distributors go regularly through the train, dropping bouquets into the laps of paaseng' rx.

, Three members of the great family of ! Jones presided in .the Police Court at Wellington on Wednesday. .^ , The sum of £61 odd was' the amount of- gate money at the Otago-Taranaki football 1 match. There was a fairly large attendance at the Bulb Show and Industrial Exhibition on Friday. It is expected that a goodly sum will be netted from the exhibition. * Mr J. Avery has undertaken the wholeBale agency for this district for the Golden Eagle flake tobacco, one of the pleasantcst ,'tbbaccos now in the market. It is neatly packed in tins of two or four ounces. The firm of Callaghan, Medley, and Goj report the sale of Mr Court's house and half-acre of land, situated in Devonstroet West, to Mr Blake, at a satisf actor,; , figure. ' The Adelphi Dramatic Company, under the management of' Messrs Hodge andHarpur. will stage Boucicatilt's romantic' 1 drama' "Arrh.h-na-Po'gue" in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday uight. The company includes jMr R.' Henry, of tho Henry Dramattc"C6mpany,,and Mr Humphries^ tho comedian. "In tho Ranks" will be performed on Thursday night. Dublin has been described as "-the most car-drivengest city, in' the world, 1 ' and no doubt it' has b'eon^but (the Westminster Giizetye says) It we are to juSge by 1 the figures set'but'b'y the Chief Comini^ibri^r 'of ' the 'Dublin 1 Police -in his latent report, 'the popularity of the' " outsider "is on the wane. In a single year the number .p^cars^ has jbeen, reduced by 62, _tW' t'ota"!'' ,- number"" licensed' last-yeay beingjl^/aslagainst 127$ the previous year. '. \ No "reason is assigned for' this',' nor is {here an .increase in any other style of. conveyance. •. TJie " hansom " does not seem' to have yet, made any headway in the Irish capital,'and only in a tentative way hns it been introduced at all. „ ■ ' Sdnio* discussion -took^ piaca at'.'tn& Cliiton County Council meeting on Friday when the accounts were -"under review.' An account of 35s for manuka* scrub was sent iii by Mr Oliver. • one dl ,the members 'of the Council,' Ib sdemec ihat the manuka had bseh taken off' Mr' Oliver's land to put down some facirie work on the Okoko Road, at Mimi, in order to make the -jroad passable. The 'workmen who took it were settlers in the district. ( Mr Hicks queried the account, .and reckoned/, Mr should not [charge under" the circumstances' for the ; scrubs which N had' practically no market" value. Mr Pigott, tho chairman, took j the- same fvTe.\y. Mr. Oliver conterided tho taking of the scrub was a trespass, as the persobs had come on his land;and partly spoilt Ihe^burn" of the scrub that j he intended to have. There was some further discussion on the subject,, sind finally Mr Oliver s'.id ho would waive the claim. 'Mr Hicks was so pleased at' Mr Oliver's concession that he took all his" -bYothor , r - Councillors along ' to' "Jt"h6, nearest' hotel immediately the 'Council rose. . - ,- .

An interesting sequel attaches to the mysterious clis.ippcarnnco of th'o Omata toll-gato. ' A well-known settler' in the neighbourhood lately -erected a new gate on lila -f arm, I ' '{tncJ in the coufso' of their search somoof thoCounty oHficials spotted this am\ identified it as tire missing toll gate. They communicated with^the police, and ou' the j strength- of ftieir. "positive assertion, that it was the toll-gate the gate was' removed from the farm to the spot from which it was said to have been taken. The settler, ascertaining what had taken place,' promptly threatened an action at law for the removal of his ga_te, and was ablo .to convince 'the police of their. en&r- .Ho accepted an apalogy^but insists thatUhe County, having iakea his gate, keep it and pay him for it. It is a curiousjthing that the missing gate cannot be traced, for it is not' a thing that can be put in thevest pocket like a toothpick, or concealed in a milk can returning frofnithe factory. r I '* ;:'~ s 4m <

According to ihe Auckland Star, the prospectus of the Taranaki Coal and Land Development Syndicate, Limited,, has been issued. The scene of' operations is on a property well known in connection with tho name of Mokau Jones. It is stated that coal -is there in abundance, and. on , the., authority of Mr Andrew Gordon, French; "M.EI, &c£ihe.doal within the boundaries ,of the; lease controlled by the syndicate iis given at 120,000,000 tons workable without sinking, , and a tramway along the waterway will cut seiiras of coal 'aggregating SG^'fefet-to bo taken out in the most simple and convenient way. The flotation of- Ihe syndicate is ' considered ' assured, ;as only -some 12,000 shares out'bf 50,000 shares of 5? each, aro now an( j we are informed most of these have been taken up in Taranaki and Wellington. The'- Auckland agents, Messrs Jesso King and Co., stipulated that tho head office shall bs in Auckland. Tho object of the Syndicate is to'spend some 1 £4000 in development and then form a powerful Home company. In face of the present oo'al'faraino the 1 promoters' 1 are i very confident of success.