The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1901.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11667, 29 January 1901, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBL ISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1901.

Ox the first day of April next the Slaughtering and Inspection Act. 1 900. the main purpose of which" is the establishment of abattoirs, comes into force. Where the population of a borough exceeds 2000 the local authority must establish an abattoir within twelve montfis of the gazetting of the census returnsjon which the population is computed, but the Governor-in-Council may, in special cases, extend this period by twelve menths. Other local authorities may also establish abattoirs, but no 'ocal authority may do so until the plans and site have been submitted to and approved by the Vlinister of .Agriculture. A local authority may defray the cost of erecting, equipping, and maintaining the abattoir out of i s general funds, or may raise money for its establishment (but not maintenance or management) by loans as for a public work, and the loan proposal shall be decided by a bare majority. Money may be borrowed for this purpose, under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, but no local authority may so borrow more than £10,000 in any one year. All abattoirs must be registered with the Secretary for Agriculture, and notice must be given by the local authority that the abattoir is available for slaughtering. A local authority may establish an abattoir outside its own district, but if the local authority in whose district it is proposed to establish it refuses its consent, the dispute may be referred «o a Magistrate, whose decision shall be final. Local authorities are empowered to delegate their powers in the ma 1 ter of establishing abattoirs to any fit person, on such terms as may be approved by the Minister of Agriculture; but his provision does not apply to the local authorities at Wellington, Drnedin, Christchurch, Auckland, and Invercargill, nor to the local authorities Avithin a radius of eight miles of those places. Two or more local authorities may a'so combine for the purpose of establishing an abattoir for their common use, but where the local authorities of contiguous districts cannot agree in the matter, the Minister may au horise one of the local authorities to carry out the work and to , control the abattoir for the common use of all or any of such contiguous districts. All stock must be slaughtered at a registered abattoir, and the fee payable must be published in the Gazette. Slaughterhouse licenses cannot be granted if an abattoir exists in the district, and all slaughterhouses licensed by a local authority must be registered. Provision is a!so made for the licensing and registration of meatexport slaughterhouses, but meat slaughtered there mast only be for consumption throughout the colony, or for export, and must not be sold in a district in which there is an abattoir, except on the payment of fees to the controlling authority of the abattoir. The Governor in Council is empowered to appoint Inspectors, graders, and other officers, for the purposes of the Act, but no one can hold • the office of Inspector unless he is a duly qualified veterinary surgeon, or has passed an examination before the Government Veterinarian appointed for the purpose. Full power of entry and search is given to the Inspectors, and they are also empowered to inspect at any 1 time the record of stock slaughtered, which must be kept in every slaughtering place. No stock whatever must be slaughtered without the written authority of the Inspector, who ttrafit examine it immediately afterwards, and it must not be removed until he declares it to. be free from disease, nor must any meat which is diseased or from an animal not slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, be removed for consumption or export, or sold or offered, or exposed for sale. Any stock that is found to be diseased must be destroyed by the person in charge of the slaugh-tering-place. Thus it will be seen that in the case of New Plymouth the local authority (the Borough Council) may, with the consent of a bare majority of the ratepayers, establish a public abattoir ; or it may delegate its powers to any fit person to establish an abattoir ; or it may license existing slaughterhouses, supposing, of course, that they are approved by the Minister of Agriculture. The majority df the butchers carrying on business in any district may agree to raise a fund by their own contributions to provide compensation for stock condemned under the Act ; and if the Governor approves the scheme he may declare it binding on all the butchers. Provision is made to ensure the cleanliness of slaughtering-plapes, sale-yards, and places where stock are confined. No drainage from a slaughteringrplace must run intoastream running through a borough, unless it is proved before a Magistrate that the stream is not thereby polluted. Skins and brands thereon must not be destroyed ; any Inspector or Justice may «t any time inspect the skins of stock that have been destroyed, and are given power of entry to search for stolen stock. If a wlaughtering-place is closed under tbe Act, the lease or tenancy of the occupier may be determined by his giving notice to the lessor, and the owoer of the buddings is entitled to i compensation to the extenjb of one-half of the value of the buildings; but no compensation will be paid for buildings erected or renewed after the pasting of the Act. Compensa'ion for diseased cattle will be paid at the following pates: — Fat catt'e not exceeding eight years of age, and of not less value than £595 9 one-third; fpr each pig not. less than 501 b, nor more lhan lQOlb, dead weight, 5s j more than 1001 b, <dey4 weight, 10s. The Governor-in-Coundl is, empowered to make regulations undjßr the Act. Whether it is decided to have a public abattoir here or not, the Act is calculated to safeguard the public health and to ensure greater cleanliness than is sometimes observed at «laugbt«rtiou*>e«.

A Working Man's Club has been established at Eltham. Mr John O. George ha» been appointed a member of the Taranaki Conciliation Board, vice Mr David Brown, retired. The Government steamers Tutanekai and Hinemoa have a blue streak around the top of their bulwarks— aship's mourning colour — on account of the death of i the Queen. '■

Tin 1 postal returns for the r quarter endi'd Pi'C«»niber 3]st show that the revenue tor the whole colony was £124,895, as compared with £115,904 for the corresponding quarter of 1899. The largest shipment of cigarettes ever landed in Auckland via San Francisco arrived by the Alameda last week. During the Christmas holidays there was a great demand for Vanity Fair cigarettes, and the American Tobacco Company had to get 2,500,000 cigarettes overland from New Yoi k to San Francisco. At the Police Court, on Monday, before ATr R. L. Stanford, S M., a young man pleaded guilty to a charge of being on licfnsod premises at W&itara during the currency of a prohibition order, and was fined £1 and costs. Another defendant, charged with obtaining liquor for the accused in the previous case, was fined 5s and costs. Mr Weston appeared for the defendants. Queen Victoria's conservative fondness for the things she was used to was shown in the fact that the little ivory paper knife, with which to the last she cut the pages of her new books, was in her possession when she was a little Princess. The cabins of Her Majesty's Royal yacht are still brightened with the same old fashioned rosebud chintz which the Prince Consort loved. Messrs Alfred Tyree and Co., boot, leather, and griadery merchants, of Christchurch, forward us a useful and ornamental calendar and diary, interleaved with numerous portraits including the Duke and Duchess of York, Lord and Lady Ranfurly, the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Roberts, Lord Kit chener, Generals Buller and White, Lord Methuen and others. Judgment was given for plaintiffs by ■default in the following cases at the Magistrate's Court on Monday :— W. Webber v. M Bilderbeek; claim Ll 15s and costs 7s. — Same v. N. Maras; claim L 3 4s Bd. and costs ss.— A. L. Tuke v. F. C. Bennett; claim L 4 49. and costs ss. M. Wilson for plaintiff.— W. Nixon v. C. Hodgson ; claim L 2 11s 63, and costs ss. Mr Bellringer for plaintiff. — W. P. Snell v. N. Frost; claim L 2 ss. Mr Weston for plaintiff. A correspondent of one of the Auck land papers draws attention to the need of a by-law dealing with the nuisance of cutting and scribbling on honses. .gateposts, and fences. People are punished, he says', for using obscene language, while some of the lowest and vilest writings are done in broad daylight with impunity. The same thing is becoming uupleasantly noticeable here, and an ex ample of an offender caught might have a good eti'ect. We h;ive to acknowledge receipt from the publishers of Hazell's Annual for 1901, a volume which is indispensable in the journalist's library, and which will be found extremely useful to the ordinary reader of newspapers. Though only in its sixteenth year of issue it has worked its way into the very front rank of reference books, and its compilers evidently mean to keep it there. The present volume gives the roll of the new House of Commons, records of the Boer War close up to the end of the past year; in fact, from cover to cover it is brimful of information of every-day utility. When in doubt, look up Hazell. At the inquest upon O'Reilly, the expressman who was killed at Wellington last week through a train colliding with his trap, Dr Perkins is reported by the Post to have stated in evidence that " at N T ew Plymouth, where the position was .similar (i.e., a level crossing in a bus} street), a good many lives had been lost in the same way." Without wishing to make light of the ever-present danger of a fatal accident at the Devon-street crotf sing, we believe we are right in saying that no such accident has yet occurred here, the immunity being due largely to the extreme care exercised by the railway people. At tbe recent University examinations, am6ng the candidates who gained scholar shipis is CharleSs Boult, of King's College, Auckland. . It is interesting to note that this is the first occasion ou which a private school has been successful in winning a University scholarship. From the same college, E. A. Cox has passed the -same examination with credit. Six boys have passed the Matriculation and one the Medical Preliminary examination. This result constitutes a record for the college, and it is highly creditable to so ►young a school. An advertisement in reference to the College appears in our advertising columns. The Conference of School Inspectors of the Colony, convened by the Minister of Education, opened at Wellington on Monday, Mr Hogbeo, Inspector General, presiding. aTho folipwing, lnspectors were present: — Auckland, Messrs D. Petrie, E. K. Mulgan, E. C. Purdie, J. S, Goodwin, J. Grierson,, R, Cowie ; New Plymouth. W. E. Spencer;' Wanganui, J. Milne ; Wellington, R. Lee, T. R. Flem ing, F. H- Bakewell ; Hawke's Bay, H. Hill ; Marlborough, J. Smith ; Nelson, G. A. Harknesq, W. Ladley ; Grey District, W. L. F. Fetch ; Hokitika, A. J. Morton ; Christchurch, L. B. Wood, W. J. Anderson, T. Richie ; Timaru, J. G. Gow, O. Bell ; Otago, P. Goyen, W S. Fitzgerald, C. R. D. Richardson, C. R. Bossence ; Southland, J. Hendry, G. D. Braik ; Education Department, J. H. Pope, H. B. Kirk. Isaac Browne. After crr.inging a few matters of routine, the Conference adjourned till Tuesday out of respect to the late Queen. Messrs Angus and Robertson, Sydney, forward us through Mr Gilmour three more volumes of their Commonwealth series. One is Part 11. of Charles White's History of Australian Bushranging, dealing with the period of 1850 to 1862, and depicting some of the conditions of life in the colonies during the early days. The volume is brimful of stirring incident, especially in the career of Frank Gardiner, who was looked upon as the " father " of that bushranging which was followed by so many young men during the decade commencing in 1860. The other two volumes are by Henry Lawson, and are entitled " Humorous Verses " and "Popular Verses." Th 9 former appeared in the first place in the pages of The Bulletin, which has brought to light so many budding writers and poets. The Popular Verses have also most of them already appeared in The Bulletin, Town and Country Journal, and other papers, while a few of them are now published for the first time. Some of them were among Lawson's earliest efforts, and on that account must not be expected to be equal to what be has done since, and is capable of doing since. Still they are all " racy of the soil " of Australian life, and their publication will serve to keep the author's friends and admirers interested in his career in the wider world o* England, where, it is to be regretted, he his so far met with anything but good luck. In the volume of popular there is nothing finer perhaps than "The Writer's Dream," in which there is a strong vein of sadness and disappointment apparent. But a writer who can write such verse must come out on top) and Henry Lawson has hosts of friends in Australia — and New Zealand too, for he ipaa Bchool teaching for a time in this colony — who will rejoice when they hear that his luck has changed for the better. The volumes are published at a each Holloway's Ointment and Pills. More precious than gold. Diarrhoea, dysentery and ehb'era are, through the summer's heat, carrying qff the young, as the winter's cold destroys tho aged. In the most acute cases, where the internal medicines cannot be retained, the greatest relief will immediately result from rubbing Holloway's soothing Ointment over the abdomen. Tbe friction should be frequent and brisk, to insure the penetration of a large portion of the unguent. This Ointment calms the ex cited poristallir- action nnd soothes the pain. Both vomiting and griping yield to it; where fruit or vegetables have originated the malady, it is proper to remove all indigested matter from the bowels by a moderate dose of Holloway's Pills before using the Ointment. o^

The chemists of New Plymouth have a ! notice in this issu? relative to the business hours to be observed on Saturday. | Mr G. H. White has had on view in his window since yesterday afternoon photograph* of the scene in front of the Town Hall a few hours earlier. There is every probability of Mr R. Pigott being nominated for the Clifton Riding of the Harbour Board for the election next month. It has been decided that in the event of the weather being fine on Saturday next the memorial service is to be held in the Recreation Grounds. If the elements are unfavourable the Drill Hall will be utilised. Messrs L. Earp & Co. succeeded in securing some excellent views of the ceremony at the Town Hall on Monday, on the occasion of the reading by the Mayor of the proclamation of the King. Copies may be seen and obtained at Mr GHtuour's and at the studio, Broughamstreet. The Corrick Family arrived from Inglewood this morning, and shortly afterwards proceeded to Okato. where they appear to-night, and Oakura tomorrow night. Tbe talented family, who have met with great success everywhere, will perform iv town next week. It might be mentioned that the family have just received from England an vn-to-date kinematograpb, with all the latest films, which will be used in connection with all their future entertainments.