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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12867, 27 May 1905, Page 5

illrs Harding forwards a parcel of '"Books for Bushnien." In connection with the deserving case mentioned in our correspondeaice columns to-day, -the Herald maclitmical staff has started a subscwiption list, XI being their contribution. An industrial school is being 1 established «m Hangdhow, China, and the curriculum includes training in the camndayg- of fruits and vegetables on a large scale. . It is reported says , the Greytown Standard, that } a "speculative pub-, keeper recently sold out his interest in ,a certain Wairarapa ; "pub" for fear that no-license may be carried in November next. "The time will soon come wjhon a man will be yavttxg .at 70," says Dr. Harvey • Wiley, chiefv chemist of the United States. "During recent years science iias increased the averag 1 © life of man from 33 to 45 years)? "Jf a woman is unfotruUrate ensofugh to many a brute, she has a rigibt to defend herself, even to the f point of talcing his life," said a Chicago Judge in setting free -a woman who sihot her husband after he attacked 'her. Apropos of the open-air treatment, it is interesting to notice that Blealieim has lately; ordered , the setting up of tents on revolving- foundations, whereby the doors of the tents may be maVed to be always facing the sun. i3£r N. 0. Nelson,, a Chicago millionaire, declares that getting- rich is a bad habit. "Don't grow wealthy," ho says, "for it only piles \fiu oare. v 3lr Nelson still runs his business in. his own name, but he distributes tihe dividends among his 4000 employees. With a view to advertising- Erin's beauty sfpots, the Great Southern and Western Railway Company of Ireland are sending to England a f'ully-eqjuip-ptd Irish jaunting car, which will make a tour of tlje principal mantufactiuring districts of the noi-tib,. ,The ne"w Nelson Boys' Col logo is to cost t'21,000, and is to be built in brick, with the same appearance in front us the old building recently burnt down. It will be one of ' the birgwest in tire colonies, and *vill havo accommodation for over 200 hoarders. The young man Who sells sixpenny tins of polish for two shillings and the promise of cups and saucers which never come, is still at large. Dunedin people are complaining about it. You may 'depend (says the Hastings Standard) that the Duneditt police will gather him in. They are so expert in things in. A young! Italian, aged 22, known as Ambrose, who for gome time has been ainployed as handy * in<an at the St< John of jGod's Hospital, Kalgjoorlie, has, it is believed; established his jlaitn to be the Marquis Tulliamo, of ftaly. and the owner of estates .worth £30,000 a year. # Two years ago the Defence Department held an enquiry in .-onneciion with certain remarks jnade by two volunteer officers in (Auckland criticising the qnethbds of tlho Department. It [snow announced that the Department has called upon both officers to tender their resigfoationss. Quick work, eh?! Discussing the subject of moral variability, and illustrating how it) was Influenced by environment, the Rev. [)r. Gibb said at St. Andrew's Church, Sdsborne, he had known people who ivere excellent Christians for eleven nonths of i the year, but veritable pagans for one month spent at the seaside away from their ordinary environment. A tragic story of the bush comes from Siver Suttor district,- Central Queensland. The owner of a station was stricken with a bnystorious disease— -probably dengue. Then his wife and children were attacked. When a distant neighbour' happened to call at the station homestetad he found the (nan, scarcely afcle to stand, cUg^iKg a graye 1 for his d&d .wife, the "eldest daughter apparently dying, and the other sick children (ono six jnontjis* old), fondling the corpse, inside the house. , Mr Austen Chamberlain in presenting liis second Buldget to- the Ho-use of Commons • stated that there has been a rem'ai'kable decline in recent years in the consiumlpluon of alcoholic slpirit. The revenue from beer and spirits last year fell no less than £1,370,000 below tiie estimate. "Mr Chamberlain thidks the mass of the people are beginning to find other ways of expending some portion of the time and money which used previously to be speint in the public-house. ! He attributes the advance of Temperance largely to the increasing attenjdante at out/door sports and theatres and music-halls. Mr H. Trotere's quickness in 1 composing songs,' etc., is referred to by "M.A.P."— Thej idea of ' his "In Old Madrid" came' to Mm while; no > was returning home) from wort at the Aquarium. He had no paper on which to jot )it down, ,so slipped into a little jrtrblic-nouse im Kochester rqw. The public-house had nothing in the wary of writing paper to offer him^ but, catching sight of some biscuit bags, he jotted down the famous melody in a minute., or two. 'His > song, "Asthore," was written and composed in less than forty minutes, he arid Mr Clifton Bingham turning in to Blanch'ard's Kestaurant for the purpose. "Go to sea" was composed between a 'music shop atild Regent Circus. Leave your stiff shirts at home during the cold snap' and invest in one of ihe Negligee shirts at 5s 6d at "The Kash." They are made of ihe best flannel, b)ut you can wpar a whitef whifo collar with them. There is the maximum of comfort in these shirts.— Advt.