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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13483, 24 July 1907, Page 4

Fine, calm weather \vil/h a frosty atmosphere prevails in most parts of the colony to-day. Captain Edwin wired at 1 p.m. the following weather forecast : — Moderate to strong easterly winds. Olass wilt show little movement. Tides good. Se& considerable. * A large number of Wanganui residents are leaving to-morrow for Sydney to witness, tho Webb-Towns sculling match for the World's Championship.. -'- Press Association Telegram. At Newmarket (Victoria) cattle sales during the first week in July a pen -of seven bullocks averaged £20 5s 9d per head — by far the highest averago attained for many years. The top price was £25. Mr G. Tisch mentioned at last night-! meeting of tho. Education Board that he had been endeavouring to raise subscriptions for defraying the cost of planting the grounds at the Technical School and had about £20 in hand for this work. The United States Consul at Nankin, in a report' to Washington, stated that a Chinaman called one day and asked for some American trade catalogues. He said he would especially v like those with thick leaves. This, exciting the consul's curiosity, led to the discovery that they were wanted as inside soles for shoes. j Giving evidence in the Court on Tuesday the Noxious Weeds Inspector stated that a great deal of good had been done by tho importation of goats on to a certain farm at Omata towards eradicating blackberry. The Department, he said, had taken particular notice ot the instance and had tried to encourage the idea. Opium, it is said, still comes into the colony through the mail. Mr W.. A. Lloyd mentioned at his Dunedin meeting that some time ago the Postal Department offered rewards for the detection of this practice. One postal officer reported two cases, but was reward-, ed by nothing more tangible than a wintry official silence. The officer naturally grew weary of ' well-doing, and made his second detection his last. , When the last mail left England on June 15tlf Notts and Middlesex-were leading for the County Cricket Championship with 100 points each. Notts had won six matches out of. seven, the other being drawn, while Middlesex had three wins and two draws to, their ere-, dit. Yorkshire was seventh on the list with two wins> one loss, and five draws, and Lancashire was ninth wSfch three wins and two Josses out of seven matches played. An alarm of. fire w.as given from the East-end Station at a quarter past three this morning. The bell at the Central Station immediately took up the alarm, in response to which the brigade hurried out with* great promptly tude. The fire originated in a detached shed at the back of an eight-roomed house on the corner of Powderham and Mount : EdgecumWStreets. The flames spread to the main building, but on arrival the brigade suppressed them and by its promptitude saved the building. The house is owned by Mr O'Brien and occupied by Mrs Dowling. As a doubt seems to exist in the minds of some people as to whether the owner of an hotel or boarding-house could be compelled to register his dairy the following legal opinion obtained from the Solicitor General by Mr Ritchie, Secretary fop Agriculture,, j.shpujd. set the matter at, rest t— "On the whole I think that in the case quoted the milk is sold, and consequently the dairy should j>e registered. The case is clearly within the meaning of the Act, for if an hotel-keeper or boardinghouse-keeper can supply infected milk with impunity he may disseminate disease in wholesale fashion." Dr. McArthur, the Wellington Magistrate, tells an amusing story of the Irishman who signed the pledge when Father Hayes was here, but who appeared before the magistrate six days afterwards. The S.M. was surprised, and a little ruffled. But Pat explained. w 'Twas me absent-mindedness, yer Wurshup, an' a habit I have of talkin' wid meself. I sed to meself : 'Pat, come an' have a drink!' 'No,' says I, 'I've sworn off V 'Then I'll drink alone,' sed Ito meself ; 'an' l!ll wait for yez outside,' setf I. An' when' myself came opt, bedad, he drunk !" Fined ten* shillings. At a meeting of the Egmont bounty Council at Opunake, on Saturday, it was decided to rescind the resolution declining to contribute towards the cost of an expert's report on the scheme to construct .an electric . tramway between Opunake and Eltham. The following resolution was -then passed :. "That this Council is prepared to contribute £60 only towards the cost of the estimate, such estimate to be given in sections from Auroa to Opunake town, from Opunake to the end of the western part of Egmont County, and also to include a branch line from. Eltham Road to serve the Skeet and Oeo< Road settlers. The Southlaud Daily^News says that it is evident that accommodation' tot visitors to Invercargill will not suffer through the operation of « no-Jicense, as large additions to^ several hotels are*, under way or in contemplation. Mr 1. W Raymond has invited tenders for a three-storey addition to the , Railway Hotel, which will include fifteen bed^ rooms, and it is understood that nein : tends to add twenty rooms to' th» Carriers' Arms private hotel. Proprietors of the Criterion 1 private Jhwtel hfi-ve'JEdbo. arranged for extensive additions, wh^ch. ) will include about a dozen bedrobms. It is not unlikely also that the purchaser of another hotel will, ere long have additions made. A gruesome discovery, was made a< couple of days ago in the Ohoto Block (says the Wanganui Herald) by Messrs Purses Bros, and Winks. While going over their recently-acquired section in the interior in company with Mr Winks, , the Messrs Purser found in and around the cavity of an old rata^ tree the skele - tons of an adult and a little child, which they brought into town. The locality of the "find" was about two miles from an old track that was probably used years ago by the Natives travelling to and from Kariori. The remains appear to be those of Natives, who doubtless wandered off the track and took shelter in the hollow trunk of the tree, where they strccumhed to exposure or starvation. Weed's Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails, la 6d and 2s 6d. — Adv*