The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1901.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11817, 14 November 1901, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1901.

Mr Hugo lectures in St Mary's Hall this evening on "the forehead and chin." i The Rotoiti will leave for Bouth at 7 1 o'clock to-morrow morning; and train to 1 join her will leave the station at 8 o'clock. Captain Edwin wired at 12.65 today: . — Went to south-west and south gale; glass rise but fall after 20 hours from i now; sea heavy ; tides good. I The report of the Education Board I meeting is published on tho first page. i Tn the Supreme Court at Cbristchurch on Wednesday Robert James Shanks, I clerk to the Akaroa Board, pleaded guilty r to a charge of stealing £70, the property of the Board. Probation was refused, and he was sentenced to six • months. The friends of Mr D. Teed, junr., will bo pleased to hear that he has again been most successful in passing five students out of six, who presenced themselxes for the Pharmacy examination — these being ; the only ones in Auckland— thus quahfing them to registration as pharmaceutical chemists. Mr J. C. Morey, who has b°en io Wellington on Band Contest business, informs us that at all the towns he visited great interest was being taken in the forthcoming contest. Mr Morey visited Wellington, Palmerston North, Feiluing, and Eltham. Further entries received are from the Ruahine Battalion Band, . and tho Kaikoura (North Island) Brass Band. 1 The Baptist Jubilee Conference, sitting ' at Nelson, was occupied on Wednesday 1 morning with missionary business. The secretary, Mr H. Driver, read the annual ' report, which was unanimously adopted. Further converts were baptised, two * native churches formed, a hospital built 1 and opened. Tho medical and mission work had proved most effective, ibe balance-sheet was equally satisfactory, the year's revenue exceeding expenses by [ £11. The missionary luncheon which ' followed was very largely attended. At the afternoon session, Mr H. Driver was unanimously re-elected secretary, and Mr A. Hoby treasurer. In the evening the Rev Gk Greenhough, from England, delivered a missionary sermon of great power and eloquence to a large congregation. A scheme was brought down for abolishing the financial deficit and was received with great enthusiasm. The local preachers' report was also presented. In the afternoon the Rev J. J. North, of Sydenham, read . a vigorous paper on church methods in relation to the need of the times. He pleaded for a reyjs«on of practical method and pulpit phraseology to accommodate the temper of the time. A lengthy and breezy debate ensued. The Rev J. D. Grcenhcugh sumnud up at the evening session, when the cnurch was well filled. The President, tho Rev A. Collins, deliveted his address. After an eloquentreference to the jubilee and a tribute to the pioneers he addressed the assembly on the vital need of modern churches. The address consisted of, a fervent appeal for further recognition of the essential nature of the work of the Holy Spirit. The addren was well received and applauded at the olose,

The President of the Arbitration 1 }ourt announced at Wellington on ruesday that after hearing the city svidence, the Court would sit in such lentres as Wanganui and Palmers,on, and there take evidence of the :ountry people interested. At the Ashurat bazaar on Saturday the 'remier and the member for Palmerston *orth were induced to teat their avoirlupois upon a weighing machine. Mr Jeddon turned the scale with ease at 20st, >ufc Mr Piraui fouud some difficulty in legotiating Bst 61b. Referring to the sham fight held last tfonday the Waitara MaU reports : — One. •ather ludicrous incident occurred during ;ho day. Sergeant MacDiarmid, of the southern army, after tho bridge over the Mangaraka was blown up, decided to ford the river with his guard of eight men, md seeing the position of a post undei Sergeant Hine, wh kept his men firing lie decided to advance across the open in nrder to capture the well-protected Wuitara men. Sergeant iViacDiarmid continued his march up the hill, notwithstanding the fire was heavy, and, when within a few yards of Sergeant Hine, he ordered him to surrender. "Net I,' replied Sergeant Hine ; " all of you are dead men and cannot trouble us." The New Zealand Illustrated Magazine for < ctober is to hand with its usual well selected stock of reading matter and illustrations. Among others there are two interesting articles on the money ques tion, one by J.M. Venall, the other by «!.■ W. Flowerday. ''Cosmopolitan writes of the Turkish woman; Elsden Best continues his interesting contribution "Oij the Trail of the Kawau Maro"; H. J. D. Mahon, 8.A.., describes the Auckland University in the Universities of New, Zealaud series. There are also a numbu of good photographs of French artists. "In the Public Eye" contains shor. notices of Sir Hector Macdonald, thelatt Mayor Charles Brown, and the late MrLouisa Bake, of Christchurch. At the Christchurch Supreme Court criminal sittings on Tuesday, Stanley Dales, for burglary at Kir.apoi, was sentenced to eighteen months. W. L. Batt was found not guilty of horse stealing. Carl Tritt pleaded guilty to a common assault on his wife, Elizabeth Tritt, but not guilty to her manslaughter, at Kaiapoi, on October 25. Evidence for the prosecution was to the effect that the woman had been severely beaten with a heavy harness kicking strap the resultant being internal injuries which caused her death, and the medical testimony bore this out. Two sons of accused saw their father beat their mother with the kicking strap. He asked the lads to say he used only his hands and a light strap. He was sentenced to one year for the assault and seven years for manslaughter, the sentences to be cumulative. In the Ariadne case, Mr Stringer, Crown Prosecutor, will apply to have the trial fixed for December 17 next, in order that a number of seafaring witnesses may be brought to New Zealand. The TJniled Societies' Picnic Committee met on Wednesday esening at tlx Foresters' Hall. A letter was read fxou Mr Piper, District Traffic Manager, gran' ing excursion train to be run on Is'ew Year's Day to Sentry Hill, where it has been decided to hold the picnic. Tlv Secretary and also the Chairman an nounced to the Committee that th' Mayor, Mr Dockrill, had been 'waited or by them in reference to the seaside picni« and the Friendly Societies' Ficnic clash ing, and Mr Dockri'l thought that hot! covld be run on thß same day without interfering with one another. The se 1 side picnic would bring the couuln yeople into town, where it would be ft treat for them, while the Friendlj Societies Picnic would take townspeople in the country. It was decided that the price of tickets be : Adults Is 3d, children Bd, which will entitle holders to train fare and entrance to the grovnd, tea, milk and hot water. A charge of 6d will be fixed for friends living in the country; children 3d. The Secretary was instructed to write to the* secretaries of both the local bands asking them to assist. Writing under date, October 12tb, th< London correspondent of the New Zealand Herald says : — ''Last week I sen* word of a fatal accident which had be fallen Mr John D. Pope, said to be g New Zealand journalist. Since then J have been able to gather further particulars. Mr Pope, I learn, was the sod of an engineer at Lyttelton, where he ro sided for many years, an! where, in fact, he was organist of a Roman Catholic , Church for twelve years. Leaving tha' position, Mr Pope went in for literature and, as I learn, made his mark, particu larly at election times. As a lecturer he was known as an exponent of the "Wrongs of Ireland." When he came to England no one here appears to know. An unknown stranger, when near the Old Bailey, which is one of the narrowpsi and darkest streets in London, he was knocked down by a passing van, and wa> carried in an uucouscious condition to S* Bartholomew's Hospital. There he died a few hours later from the shock of the accident, the last wordg he uttered beinj. in regard to his wife, who, after living iv Taranaki and other parts of the colony, is, I hear, now residing at Onehunga. In quiriea vnn n ade by the police, at tic Agency-General, if anything were known there of the deceased, and as it happened Mr E. M. Smith, M H.R., knew him wel. and identified the body. At St Bartho lomew's Hospital an inquest was held oil the deceased gentleman last Monday before Dr F. J. Waldo. Mr E. M. Smith M.H.R., was present and gave cvi dence, stating that he had known Mi Pope for two ov three years past. At the time of the accident he was in Lou don on a business visit. 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