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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13671, 9 April 1908, Page 4

Wo have received donations of "Books for Bushmen" from Mrs J, Whito and Master Sidney Lovell. The Mayor acknowledges the receipt of £1 23 6a collected by fa-Londoner and 103 from Friend for the South East London Mission. * Marton butchers have decided to introduce the cash or strickly weekly credit system. Canteen establishments will be , attached to the military forces taking part in the Easter manofcuvrasin the Wellington district.

The Rotoiti did not arrive at the breakwater from Onehunga till 6.45 this morning, but the railway officials delayed the mail train a few minutes and the through passengers were able to continue their journey. Mrs Murphy, of Warea, whose leg was broken while she was returning home from the Show in November last, and who has been an inmate of the local hospital sin£e, is now able to get about *gain with the aid of the walking carriage. This . is the first time that the carriage has been used. It was specially imported by the Hospital authorities and promises to be of great assistance in such oases.

The closing hours for grocers shops in New Plymouth have, been fixed, as follows in accordance with the requisition of the majority of the grocers: From April lto September 30, 8 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays ; from October 1 to Maroh 31, 9 p.m. on these days; except that the time of closing 1s to be optional during Christmas week — Deoember 20 to Deoember 31. On Thursdays the weekly half-holiday will be observed from 1 p.m.

Deer-stalkers are reported to he -get- ( , ting good sport in 'the Wairarapa. / The Gisborne Technical School Committee is initiating cooking classes for '• youths as » well as girls, . oonmoerialg.^ that the opportunity should be afforded } -young men whose occupation takes: ( them to places where competent cooks , tare not available, to gain a knowledge of plain cooking. • Miss Lilian Roff, of Colchester, is the fir3t yoman to gain the degree Bachelor of Divinity of London University, and now stands side by side in academic fame with Dr. Sophie ! Bryant, who first won the D*:Sc. ; Miss Fawcett, who gained a wranglership; and Miss Butle», who "topped' the classical tripos. ,; A professional fasting man was sen--tenced on February 18, at Elberfleld, Germany, to a fine of £25 for defrauding the public by eating chocolate ana other things during a would-be fortysoven days' fast at the Thalia Theatre. The, attendant who supplied him with food was fined 30s for aiding and abet1 ting the fraud. ;• A nervous man entered a Palmci*ston storo (says the Standard) with hi 3 baby on one arm and ,an oil-can on . tlie other. Bo placed the can. on the counter, and said gently, "Sit v there a moment, dear." - Then, holding tip* tho baby to the bewildered shopman, ; ho added, "a gallon of kerosene in this* , , „ "Maoris from various parts s of tKo is^ land are attending the tangi over, the late Hakaraia te Whena at , Otaki, vsays the Post's correspondent. It is riQt generally kn;own that deceaeod was a leading chief of the Ngatiwobiwehi tribe, a sub-tribe of the NgatiraukaWa. Up to the time of his death he : was 1 without much doubt the most prominent Maori of the district. His family number fourteen, ten of whom are still living. 'He leaves a largo number of ■> grandchildren. An . order has- been issued that all Europeans, unless by special permission, are debarbed: from entering the enclosure , where the body will, tie on its arrival from Waitotara; also that, shdttld any -Maori take liquor. into ,the- meetingplace, the interanent of deceased will take place imniediajtely. . . The police at Billy-Monti gny (France) saw a woman coming to the police sta- • tion with a big chain round her neck, ' which rattled at every movement she made. She ldoked, the Paris correspondent of the ', Telegraph says, as weird as the tale she told^ She was living with her husband and had a grQwn-up son in*, a houso neaE the Grande Palace, and', because they dis- - agreed with her, they made it a practice to chain her to tho bed-post., toleasing her only on Saturdays, wh» i J» she had to clean tho house. On this , particular occasion she happened to find a "way of breaking loose from tho bed-post, and cametoway,- chain and all, to inform the police and vast The husband and son wero'sunimonetl. and they* are alleged to "have declared that the chaining was the on!y"6ffrtareioiis way ,they found to prevent her from excessive indulgence in liquor: A peculiar incident which occurred on the southward bound express from Christchurch recently is reported, in the Asburton MaiL A- lady, carrying an infant, boarded thte train ai>, Christchurch, and? desiring 'to make a small purchase, and 'at the same time bid good-bye 'to a friend, she asked a fellow passenger — a single young lady — if she would be good enough to hold her baby — a requjest which was immediately compU<sd s with. In the meantime the married lady was so engrossed in the. conversation with a friend on the railway station that she failed to hear the signal for the departure of the train, which moved off without her. Tne passengers in the carriage in which the young lady and her charge were travelling extended their sympathy to the former, and advised her to leave the child in charge of the stationniaster at the first, stopping place. This official (a 'single man) courteously declined the charge, and the young jlady was compelled to take the infant to Timaru, where she intended remaining to await its. rightful owner^, Raisuli, the Mprocban brigand, who successfully held Kaid Mac Lean for ransom, may appear in a new cßatacter — that of music-hall entertainer. Mr. Trussell, manager of tho London Hippo-, drqme, has gono out "into the wflus kA Morocco to negotiate v. ith ltaisuli and bring him back in triumph to London.It _is, per)iaps, tbe most adventurous trip that a ?tnge agent has ever undertaken. Speaking to a prcs3 representative before hte Mi*. Trussell explained that no communication had yet takon place between Raisuli and' the Hippodrome authorities. Thoy had tried by cable and Icttcr3,< through both official and private chan* nels, to get into comrauuication with the chhef, but so far nobody had been found ' who v * tiildcrtako the journey to his place up country. "But,' ; added Mr. Trussoll, "I think I can get him. I am armed with letters of introduntiqn to Raisuli from all the principal officials and tradespeople in Morocco, in addition' to whjSch lam taking with me Hadj Abdullah, one of Baisuli's fellow.cqnntrymen. The ohief .difficulty will be to get over Raisuli T s nervous and sucpicious nature, and to convince him of our bona fides." The chief danger, however, seems to bo that Raisuli may capture his visitdr aad then make his own terms for appearing at the Hippodrome. The proprietors of big stores in New; York met recently and estiniated that their annual loss at the hands of well-to-do, fashionably-dressed kleptomaniacs was over £100,000, and this despite the extensive and .well-regulated system of private detection. The most respect-able-looking lady, it was asserted, would snatch i\p a silk blouse, hide it > in her muff, and leave the shop with- ; oat any idea of paying. Storekeepers say they have comparatively . little trouble^ with professional thieves, as their faces are known, and they are ; watched from the time they enter the • door ; but the combined loss per a,nnum < from well-dressed women, with .money in their purses, who cannot resist the temptation to lift a bit of costly lace, a pair of gloves, .or a trinket, is enormous, and rapidly growing. Hitherto it has been easy enough for a woman caught stealing In a store to avoid i exposure, as easy as for what Presi- ; dent Roosevelt called "financial malefactors of great wealth" to escape indictment. But the '■ store proprietors » are now united to suppress respectable ' kleptomania, and have decided forth- ; with to prosecute offenders, instead of '' releasing them. They made a start by i arresting a tall, well-dressed,, lady-like frirl, very respectably connected, who lfted a silk blouse. She became most : indignant, and protested her innocence, but the goods were found upon \ her. Then she. became hysterical, vow- : ing that her . arrest would kill her i mother, also that her fiancee would reject her. But, 'despite her sobs and entreaties, she was removed to the cells.

Mrs J.^TOte4#wards a,parq4g>f r "Books for Bushmen." t The American fleet will, it v stated, stay ten days in Sydney And tho sa^ie -time in ( Melbourne. ( A lawsuit which has been in progress since 1430 between the local authority of Friemar, , Germany, and certain millowners was amicably settled m Monday, February 17, after 478 years of constant litigation, The raising of a dam Avas the pojnt'of issue. A water 1 and- drainage scheme ...for Waitara Boroufeh seems within reason-.. , able distance. On Wednesday Messrs Orbell and Mackay, engineers, who have been instructed to report on a scheme, were in Waitara taking levels 1 and collecting the necessary detailp;>. Tho depredations of- the fruit caused 150 cases of oranges, which arrived at Wellington from Fiji by tne Taluno last week, to be condemned _by tiro Agricultural Department. lncluded in tho «a»es condemned .'was the whole of one Jine consisting 01 75 cases. 4 - !f <' \'-'-. - ir. ■f ' •*\ #i in Great Britain the average man earns, after allowing for taxatioj*uj|29 10s 7d per annum. In the Unrtfcl Stetos it is £25 5s 9d; in France, 12 3 . sd; in Germany, £16 9s M ; an Alfttria, £9 15s Id; in j Spain, £8 ISs 2d: in Russia, £0 12s 6d; and in Italy. £ft Is 4d. _['"' The Nimes'^France) Court of Appeal r.warded £240 damages to a, lady Who claimed 'that jamount as compensaxicfti for nerrous shock sustained unaer cnrio'us circumstances. The lady, who *«»». in, a delicate ,sjbate of health, was.i^V ing her favourite poodle for an airing when a large fboarhound v attacked an*. mangled her tiet. The lady fainted aaa\ . serious illness followed. On recoyefinjg •she "brought her suit for damages . against the owner of the boarhom^l. By a clever device a Paris cook - named Celine baa, been conyicted ,of stealing £300. -Her master suspected that one of liis three servante robbed him. His wife was careless with money, and left it in an open drawer. tt» . pasted a hair across this" -drawer^a^ i sent Celine to dust the rfIOHU . Wiwn' ; sho left the room- the hair i had beett broken; She was .arrested *> at bm»»> Stolen money, jewels, and shaxe oerti* ficates wer^ l ioundin her box. v r ■ Bluff's, oyster industry makes a* n«kib little addition to the revenue of ;the town. A correspondent of the Duneoin Times says : Settling up day comes O»ce. a month. The second settling day of t»o, season came round the end of last weekv In rough numbers the month's f.take^ , is set down at 3500 sacks. Allojring 80 dozen 1 to the sack, the market ralne of these is, say £1500. Roughly put,; its distribution is as follows: One-. third to tho dredgers, one-third, to the-. boat, and the remaining third -to th^. company. Ten or twelve boats, the majority of which are cutters^ have* been< engaged in the work, and they; -are manned by 38, dredgers,, assisted "by 12 wharfifigeri; It is stated that 203 per wonting day was not far cm - itro irvieTaigevpay. 1 * „ =. t ' < \\\ r ' Surely tlje mystery of life was greater than' the mystery of death in i the case tof a five niqnths child which' ) has^ust been the subject of an inquest J at Battersea, (says the Pall Mall Ga- \ zette). It had what the doctors call ' i was on right side instead of tne } left, the 'position of the lunw wa» reVersed, the aorta curved aownv tn* x right side instead of the left, there waft. \ no spleen, and liver was on the wrong , side, >and«*nere was no. division be? ~ twee,n the two chambers of the heart, B while the artery which should Bw' " supplied the lungs with blood r W * closed, *the blood passing through. . a 3 communication between line 1 aorta and I the remaining portion of the-4*ulmon-f ary Artery. With all this jumbled ana* j tomy -ttie; child lived, and the medical, \ evidence proved that its subsequent 1 dea^h was not due directly to the dis- " arranged -organs, 'frit tp an attack of* 3 bronchitis^ ". » A gentleman who once served on an Irish jury tells an amusing stor^ of hif \ experiJences. When the hearing wa* .' over and the jury retired to their i room to consider their verdict, fliey found that they stood -eleven to- one in' favour of an acquittal, but the one > happened to be § very com^laflffiQt out f gentleman, who rested his' chin tipon i* the head of a thick bamboo caney and f- announced defiantly that he was reMj -. to stay there as long as any of them. I The hours dragged on, evening arrived, t 3 and the old gentleman obstinateryjhela •- out. The other jurors wearily arranjg5 ed themselves to make a night of it. - . From time to time the old gentleman * woula Contemplatively suck the head - of his cane!! Finally, he fell fast 1 asleep , and the cane fell heavily to 1 tho floor, , Then one of the jurymen * picked it up and found to his surprise,' >< that it .was hollow and filled with' good, ■ old Irish whisky. The thankful eleven 1 passed the cane round, relieved it of 1 its. coktohts, and then 'awakened, its i owner. ' Slowly he lifted the cane .to . hi 3 inmith, sucked ineffectually for "'lav 1 jroment, looked at his watch^and then - nro^e with tho announcement, "B'ys, 1 I'm aft her changin' me moind!" t "The contractor who is building my p rew theatre in Melbourne," said Mr p Wra. Anderson to a reporter,, "goes in 3 for what the Americans call speeding. j up workmen. In each department- he ; has a particularly quick' man setting l the pace for the other tradesmen. He . pays these fast artisans about 15s . a I Week more than the rank( and file, and » it is really a treat to watch them at work. My builder is particularly proud fof his pace-sotting bricklayer. He ; brought nie' along three or four times - to look at him. 'Isn't ho lovely PJP J he - would say each time the man put a > brick iii 'positibn, cleaned the mortar i away from thY interstices with a whisk - of the trowel and spread more mortar , ;. 011, top of it. * v Til match U&i ifoV >tt ; even £50 against any bricklayer in ■ Australia,' is his employer's standing 1 offer. It?s a pity," added the thea£, > rical manager, "an act like that could J nbt be shown in the mttsic halls. It's 5 something useful. I'm not saying it's > as graceful as club-swinging, but it ! ought %o draw. There's a fascination . ' about watching people work; it alwa^r > collects a crowd. I suppose m tune it . will become sufficiently a novelty tanbe ■ able to charge to see people performing > it." „ , ■ ■ \ A full attendance of members of the Now Plymouth Military- Band is re* quested for evening.— Advt. •