The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1901.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11815, 12 November 1901, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1901.

The usual meeting of the Land Board on the 18th inst will not be held. A company is being formed at Napier to work a copper mine in the Ruahines, , at the back of South Makaretu. Slight earthquakes have been very frequent throughout the colony lately. Eleven cases tinder The School Attendance Act are set down for hearing in the Police Court next Friday. , Tenders are invited by the Public Works Department for work at the public buildings, Hawera. At the Parish Hall, Inglewood, to-night i Mr Ell, M.H.R., will give an addre&3 on i the subject ol State banking. No charge will be made for admissio . > Dr Campbell, of Auckland, celebrated bis eighty-fifth birthday a few days ago by climbing to the. Bummit of Rangitoto. The following ladies passed the Ambulance examination, held on Wednesday , November 6th : — Mrs Serpell, Misses Hoddety Coldwell, 'Johnson, Roberts, Marfell, Thomson. It is very illogical, says the commercial editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, that New Zealand should complain of a protective policy, seeing that the colony has for years legislated most strenuously against all Australian products. The management of the Wbiteloy Memorial Sunday School call the attention of our readers to a sale of work to be held in ihe Wbiteley Hall on -Thursday next. Mr £ Dockrill, the Mayor, will open th&Bafcaar at' 3 p.m., and a fttll att ndance of the public is looked for. The la lies of the congregation have prepared a large number of articles for which they hope to have a large demand. Mr 0. E. Hugo had a large audience at St Mary's Hall at his third lecture on physiognomy on Monday evening when he spoke apon the Ears and Mouth. By ' a number of well drawn diagrams and portraits the various features were illustrated. As usual tho public descriptions of character created much amusement. The next lecture will be on Thursday evening, when the subject will be upon 1 the chin and the forehead. ' It has been left to a French physician , to enunciate as a curious medical fact that cancer rarely attacks persons who , have led a dissolute life or those who . have given way to drink. The majority of the women attacked by the disease are ; active and energetic workers, and in a , vast number of cases it has been shown without question that not one single per- ; son who has succumbed to it.has been of dissolute habits. An analysis of the division in the Federal House of Representatives on the tariff Shows, excluding pairs. 13 to 10 in ' 'favour tot fVeetntde in New South Wales, 2 to 2 in' South Australia, and 4 to 1 in Western Australia. Queensland gave 2 votes against the tariff for 6 in its favour, 4of the latter being labour votes. Tasmania gives 2 votes in favour of Protec tion. Thus the five States' mentioned show 21 vpces for Freetrade and 21 for the tariff. Victoria, however, dominated the situation by giving 18 votes for the tariff acd only 4 against it. They don't like each other— headaches and Steams' Headache Cure. When the Core goes in the mouth, the Ache gets ready to leave 1 : In 15 or 20 minutes it's gone. Good-bye, Headaches ! Bill heads, letterheads, envelopes on shortest notice at HEBALuoffice. 0

Several letteW to llie editor and other matter are crowded out today. The letter carriers will in future take their haif holiday on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays-. Ottr repttrtft o£ tne t'drmai opening of Ih6 B(*\vKng Cldb's season, and of Ihe liand Board are published on the first page of this evening's issue. Captain Edwin wired at noon to-day : —North to west and south-west gale; glass fall, but rise af tyr 16 host's from i now; udt*i fei»h^ fieis heavy, indications <Por fain after twenty hour?. At the Police Court on Monday morning James Ilatvey was lined 5s and 2s costs for drunkenness. i A nother shipment of pianos and organs i arrived to-day for the l),resden Piano Co.'s great s'Jie of musical instruments. , t , T^e Christchurch City Council is so pleased with tha success of the municipal j music sohexne that it has decided to build a band rotunda. Those who- provided dishes for tho I supper in connection with the Fir.c Brigade ball can have them, returned by applying to Mrs Petty, Devdd-s^reet. Tne Takapuna left Onehunga with the inward ,'Fri&co mail at 11a.m. this morning. The &.'2O train this evening will | conneot Vrith her both for inward and 1 Outward passengers. It is reported that a discovery of cnal has begn made east of the Thames. Representatives of southern syndic ties h:ivc Visited the field, with a view of i reporting Upon if. Always to the fore with seasonable | food's, Mr S. B. White advisefcjthe arrival 'of a quantity of curtains, just m time for Christinas re-furnishing. The designs are all new, and are reserved to him for the Taranaki district. • At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Monday, Arch. John itcNeill, who reoently passed himself off as Sergeant 1 Hardman, Y.C., and imposed on many 1 people, was sentenced io three years' hard labour on each of three charges, the sentences to be concurrent. The delegates of the Friendly Societies Picnic Committee are requested to meet &t the Foresters' Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 p.m., the Secretary having received favourable replies from Mr Piper, Traffic Manager, and Mr Spurdle. It is important that every delegate should be present. A gentleman from Australia.last week > placed an* order in the Dannevirke district for three million feet of white pine of the sizes hitherto expprted to Australia. Those interested in the timber trade regard this as an indication that the . Federal tariff will not prove so injurious to the export of white pine as previously anticipated. A feature of the supper in connection ' with the Fire Brigade ball was a large two-tiered iced cake, provided by Mrs Clarke, of the White Hart .Hotel. It was a " King's Birthday cake," and the children ware eaoh given a proper birthday slice, to their extreme delight. The cake was " just lovely." 'The New Zealand Shipping Co's s.s. TongarirO) which arrived in Auckland the other day, brought out the record shipment, aggregating 10,000 tons. Over 3000 tons were blockediout, including the New Plymouth Borough Council's steam roller and steam crusher. The Company [ notified the Town Clerk of the block out, stating that tho machinery would bo sent on by the Rakaia. leaving London shortly after the Tongariro. A ratter peculiar case came before the Court this morning. A man named Robert Charming was charged that on September 21st at New Plymouth he did steal a sum of money. From the evidence educed, it seems that the prosecutor in the case, A: W. Feck, had had a ' bet with the accused. They were both connected with the railway reclamation works. To square the bet Feck gave j Charming £1, as he thought, but he alleges that he found later he had given a 1 £5 note instead of £1 aud on mentioning i it. to Charming the latter denied the charge. He brought the action to re- ; cover the money. After hearing cvi- ! dence the Magistrate dismissed the case.