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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13745, 7 September 1908, Page 4

Mrs Theresa Sands forwards a par* eel of "Books for Bushmen/

There was an interruption on the telegraph lines between Hawera and Wanganui this morning.

One' supplier at the Stratford Dairy Factory this week was delivering over lOOOIbs. of milk each trip to the Factory. A meeting of ratepayers is to be held at Opunake on Wednesday to consider their position now that the Harbour Bill has passed its third reading.

"New Plymouth is noted for its pretty girls and Devonshire cream," according to Mr Gray, M.P. for Christchurch, who made the bold assertion when speaking on the Harbour Bill.

Mr J. S. S. Medley has been appointed Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the New Plymouth district, vice Mr J. C. Smith, who resigned. Mr Medley's office is in Devon Street.

Mr John R. Howard was in town to-day arranging for the visit of the Royal Pictures. It is the intention of the proprietors to visit New Plymouth fortnightly for the present and, later on, weekly.

A meeting of the Ladies' Committeo in connection with the Hospital Ball took place in the Council Chambers on Friday afternoon. There . Were about twenty ladies present. The reports received from tfio different members of the committeo were excellent. * The greater portion of the supper has been donated. The number of tickets sold clearly shows that the financial success of the ball is assured.

Tho Winton Record says: — "Football in the Taringatura district on Sundays seems to flourish, and a very full report of a game played last Sunday is to hand. Following our rule we will not publish any report of Sunday football, and again take this opportunity to express regret that these young fellows should persist in offending the large number of settlers who disapprove of this desecration of the Sabbath."

An extraordinary incident that occurred at Seadown is thus reported by the Timaru Post : A swagger, who had been sleeping in a stack, was badly burned about the head and body through his pipe having set iire to the straw about him while he slept. Early on Friday morning the injured man went to Mrs Hedley's homestead at Seadown to seek assistance. lie was in a pitiable plight, having had every vestige of hair burned off his head, while his clothes were nearly burned off him, and he had painful burns all over him. Mr Marshall, deirtist,' or Timaru, offered to take him %o the Timaru Hospital in his car, but the man declined the offer, saying he would i be all right, and, in spite of all persuasion, declined to have anything ( more done for him. A curietus note of Pepys' may be compared with Count Tolstoi's references to the former unpopularity of hangmen in Russia. 'Commissioner Pott, who had travelled, told Pepys "how despicable a thing it is to be a hangman m Poland, although it be a place of credit. And that, in his time, there were some repairs to be made to the gallows there, which- was now very fine, ©f stone; but nobody could be got to mend it tdl the Burgomaster, or Mayor, of .the town, with all the companies of those trades which were' necessary ta be used about those repairs, did go in thoir place, and there the Burgomaster did give the first blow with the hammer upon the wooden work; and the rest of the Masters of the Companies upon the works- belonging to their trades; that so workmen might not be ashamed to bo employed upon doing of the gallows works.','

A resident of the Mackenzie Country, who has recently conujdowii front j the Alpine regions to civilisation^ gave a Timaru reporter some information, as to the losses sustained during the recent snowstorm in the district referred to. He said that, from a general estimate, it was thought that the shearing tallies would show a total loss of abeut onethird of the stock. A considerable .proportion of the losses might have been averted had stock owners remained passive, though it was only natural that a man should strive to succour hjs sheep rather than sit by his ' fire-side while they were starving. Unless black country was available near at hand it was worse than useless to shift tho sheep. They became heated by their struggles of two for throe hours' duration through the snow, and were then badly chilled. "aiM in many instances killed by the frost at night. As for giving dry feed to the sheep, he believed it was wiser to let titcm starve, because, being unaccustomed to that feed, they were simply "bound" by it, and a heavy death roll resulted. This was the experience of runholders of many years' standing. Speaking of the Government poultry farm to a Timaru, Post reporter, Mr D. D. Hyde, chief Government poultry expert, said that the farms did not pay in actual cash, but indirectly they paid the Dominion handsomely, thousands of eggs and birds having been distributed from them,, all from the best laying strains. The Government, in disposing of the birds and eggs, sold with a view to improving the stocks in the countrj T , and did not want to make a profit out of the people ; it wanted to assist them to make money for themselves,, and he did not think there was ahqthei* country in the world where fco much was done for the people by the Government in this connection as in New Zealand. On the Government poultry farms the time of the, managers was given up almost entirely to showing people round nsid imparting' instruction., A person desiring 'instruction could go to the Government poultry farm and obtain records of anq a}l information pertaining to any : particular bird or birds, the number of eggs laid by each bird being always kept. Any bird not laying over 100 eggs in six-months was. thrown out as iio good, and by this means the. egg output from the Government farms had been increased' by 50 per cent, during the last three years. *" > Probably tho person most interested ill. the big fight in Sydney last week (says a Sydney correspondent), was ''Tommy;", Burns' s wife. A special telephone line had been laid from the ringside to the house in which she is living in Darling Point. Mr H. D. Molntosh, the: promoter of the fight, stood at the side of the- ring, and described every move> in detail to Mrs! Burns. Through this telephone she was therefor**. informed of every phase of tho contest.' A>, soon as Squires had been tsdonted out Burns stepped to the ropes, ''and the transmitter was handed to-hhn. He said "Is that you, Jewel? This is- Tahmy. It's alii right." The ''Americans present wore delighted with ,ttie victory of Burns. A little, group of -officers, who wero sitting in the front chairs, sprang to their feel; as soon as the count-out was over. They gave what is known -as a "Four N Navy YelL" This is how it went:— "N, N/N, NI A, Ai A, A, J V, V, V, V ! V, V; Y x Y ! Navy \ Navy 1 Navy! Burns! Burns! Burns,!*' This is a sort of triumphant cockcrow, which has been practised in the American navy for ever so many years, and the exultant whoop of half-a-rdozen officers rose clearly and plainly above all the cheering and roaring of the packed thousands in the Stadium.

A well-to-do New Zeatejider who has been trying to induce his brother in j England .to emigrate* to New Zealand , has met an astonishing example of good j old English conservatism. < 'The- New' ' Zealander is question is in England on a holiday, ana a correspondent heard the story from his own lips, Sis brother* is a journeyman carpenter in London, earning about £2 a week, on which he supports a wife and one daughter. His pay leaves him no margin for amusements. He has not been to a theatre for years. He cannot afford '.holidays. If. he lost his present job he admits that he -would probably fail to find another, and he has no other means |of support. The New Zealander offer- ! Ed to pay the fares of the whole family , out to New Zealand, and undertook to get his brother steady and lucrative (employment in the Dominion, at more than double his present meagre wage. If the work in question proved unsuitable, he/ could follow his trade as a in New Zealand, and earn more money than he could ever hope j i to do here, and have more leisure and i cleaner, brighter and happier surround- j ings. The brother listened and seemed impressed. Ho thought he would like to go to New Zealand. Next day, however, he returned to say that he would have to decline the offer. His wife 1 would not hear of going a long sea voy- > ago. She had once been in a steamer , from Margate to London Bridge and ' had had enough of the seal ' And her, ' husband meekly accepted this view of the matter as final.

The remarkable new explosive invented by Mr Pommeroy, of Inveroargill, has been taken up by a syndicate of wealthy Melbourne gentlemen. The Defence Department failed to take much interest in the^-explosive, but the inventor is to be given every facility in Melbourne for displaying its great force.

At a Masterton sale last week a wether presented by Mr T. McKenzie to the Masterton bratich of the St. John Ambulance Association, in order to help a. district nurse fund, was sold on several occasions until the total amounts, reached £11 12s. This with the Government subsidy, will bring in a sum of £25.

"In this Dominion -the volunteers do not form the third or fourth line of defence as they do in England. They are! the lirst line, and so the men wo se£ carrying their muskets in our streets are the men who must meet and invading enemy," said Lieutenant-Colonel Bauchop in an address to students of Victoria College 'wlto are talking of forming a f vo)jinteer' corps. .$

The report of the Royal Conlmision appointed to enquire 'into. tlie efficiency of the brakes,. on the Auckland tramways, states .that the Commissioners found the brakes in" fair working order, but not in efficient repair. They are of opinion that^the. brakes, as existipg, when in good order, are sufficient for ; the ordinary control of the cars, but i are not sufficiently powerful or quick in their action for use in emergencies. The boy of tlie family, the smart little sou of on, edited had just passed his ninth birthday, aw* delighted in stirring things up whenever he found a chance. On his way to spbool one day/ he popped into a hardware store. "Say, mister," he called out, "do you keep kuives?" "Oh, yes!" replied. the storekeeper, "we've kept them for. years." "Well," returned the, bay, starting for the door, "just advertise, and then 'you won't keep them so long." The lady writer of the Wellington Post says: — "An excellent idea at a recent afternoon tea, and one th&t every bachelor with a , matrimonial penr chant will approve <: t», wjis a price^ list— without the pricks — for the girls to fill up. The damsels who knew what flour, sugar, cream of tartar, and raisins cost a pound, what milk was a quart, and what was the presents price of the quartern loaf won* the prizes." Does this clever lady- imagine that a bachelor with .a matrimonial penchant cares two straws whether, "tlie one and only she" is a domestician? "Dance-mania" has caused the death of Valentine Taravel, the daughter of a wealthy man in the South of, France, states the London Daily Mail. Since the age of fo^r< the girl had been posseaiepd v with a \passiqn for dancing, 'isdiich\absorbed alPlier energies, and she Used ;to express , e,y_Br>% .sentiment by danoe\movementsi >lJfthe end she literally danced herself to death. Rising from jher bed, Qua night, the girl went to an! attic and danced for hours., until a loud thud aroused . the' household. Valentine Taravei was found dead on the attic; floor, itbie .great' exertion oi dancing having ■ caused syncope ' and death. . n~. * .A good story is told of the first annuity granted by the A.M.P. Society., The annuitant was a spinster of 54 years,., who, carried into the Boardroom on a stretcher in an apparently dysing condition, 'quite touched the, hearts of the directors., with the result that she was granted an annuity of £45 a year for the sum of £300, which was all the money she possessed in the world. The annuity proved an elixir of life, and for 36 years she appearetj regularly *every quarter-day at 10 o'clock sharp, before the office opened, to draw her cheque. Finally, she fell downstairs and broke her thigh. From this accident, at the age pi 90 years', she died. "Don't you think we are having a little too much of these hockey tours 4 by young girls?" asks. "Sports'" in a letter to the Gisborne Times." "It isn't the game I object to. of 'eyen an occasional tour, but when you^seo a dozen or so Gisborne girls only just in their teens bawling aj; the top, of their voices as a farewell to a crowd of Napier schoolboys as the Monowai leaves the wharf sueh 1 interestingditties as 'We Parted on the Shore,' you come out to-night ?' and other vaudeville favourites,, it is surely time to cry a halt. I know there were many passengers on the Monowai who, lifee. myself, were disgusted with conduct almost approaching rowdyism on the part ' of these young girls." ' ■A sensational accident marked the Ffeet gymkhana in Sydney. After the boomerang-throwing the aboriginals engaged in spear-throwing. There were only about 500 people- around the arena, and yet almost the first spear sent into the air was caught by the wiyid and shot "down amongst the few spectators in the official stand. Some American sailors had just time to hustle out of the road. . When they turned their heads to look what was happening, the spear was stuck, quivering, in the chair one of them had leaded irojn. The sailor went to. his chair, plucked out the spear, and flung it to an enquiring group that had just arrived from the arena. The police at once stopped the exhibition. Representations were recently made to -the WoiHen^e-iSiristian- Temperance Union that under Midwives Bill women not' registered as midwives would- be prevented from rendering assistance to neighbours in, time of necessity. The complaint," however, is based on a misapprehension.,,. Section, 15 .pf. the Bill provides that ;«vei7 Vbmati ;is liable to a fine not exceeding- £2O- whey "not being registered under this Act practices as a midwife or takes or uses the name implying that she is registered under this Act, or Ms tjaalified to practise as a midwife ," But there is an express provision following the section exempting "any legally qualified medical practitioner or. any .woman rendering assistance in a case of,emergency." Remarkable presence of mind was recently shown by a* six-year-old boy named John Collins, the son of a farm labourer living at Harden, Kent <saya the London Daily Mail)'.. Several children were playing on the .side of a stream, when Isabel Briant, a girl aged seven, fell into five feet of water. Thereupon a panic ensued among the other children, who rah off crying to tell their parents, but the boy (John Collins) displayed the utmost coolness and presence of mind. • breaking a long branch from an ash-sucker near by, he quickly ran along a phtafc only eleven inches wide, and held the branch out to the drowning ;girlr who was able to grasp it. Thfinf talking along the narrow plank, the boy pulled the girl fourteen feet through the water to some brickwork, where after a hard struggle, he succeeded in landing her just as the terrified parents came running to the spot. In giving his version of the rescue, the little hero remarked, "When she got hold of the stick she did swim."

The signatures already obtained in Canterbury to tlie anti-vaccinatiorij>eti-tions recently circulated, total consKlerably more than 10,000. Several copies of the petition are still in circulation -

The campaign against tuberculous cattle is advancing. At a cattfe sale to bo held in tho Hutt Valley on Wed r nesday every animal is to be guaranteed to havo passed the official tuberculin test Avithin the past few days.

A blacksmith of Port Chalmers, probably holds the Dominion's record of the story book ideal of uninterrupted service in one firm. Forty-three years ago he, as a lad, entered the service of the now Maori Iron Works as ,an apprentice. During the intervening years the firm has developed frOto a modest blacksmith and horse sftdeing shop to its present preminent position, amongst engineering #ork. The now senior blacksmith las* week went away for his first holiday. — Star.

The retirement of the Rev; ; Wv C Oliver, the well-known Wesleyan mm- . ister, will take place after the Conference in March next. Mr Oliver entered the ministry in 1867 and has laboured, in many parts of New Zealand, including.'Dnnedin, Christchnrch,* and Wellington. He was elected president of the Conference in 1887, and during a long ministry has earned the respect of the whole Church. Mr Oliver^ who is at present stationed at Mount Albert, (Auckland) will probably settle in Christchurch after his retirement.

The New Zealand Times understands that the Government has under oonsideration the question of fittingly observing the first anniversary of j&qmmion Day on the 26th inst. It is proposed to solicit the co-operation of. the Education Boards and the school,teachers throughout the Dominion w arranging for the scholars to meet at 11 p' clock in the morning to salute tho nag and receive tho Dominion raedtaJs. As far as Wellington is concerned, it is also proposed to have' a military review on the afternoon of that day. It is not generally knoWn that. Ore- ..- gon pine, the present bugbear of our sawmillors, can be and isfirown in New Zealand. Tlie Dominion's Wairarapa correspondent says there are a riumbcr of these trees at present growing m some of the private gardens in Masterton, and they are also stocked by professional gardeners. Although it Would be a very long time before these trees could be available for timber purposes, it appears at first view that the planting of Oregon pine in New Zealand by the Government would be a goiMT investment. f The New York World celebrated its ' twenty-fifth anniversary on May. 10 last. On that day there was issued the 'largest daily newspaper ever printed (so - it is claimed)— -a 200-page Sunday World — for the printing of ,which 900 tons of white paper were used, or JU>52 rolls, requiring 45 20-ton cars to transport from the mills, and 141 6-ton trucks to haul to tlie pressroom. Run in a strio 21£ inches wide, the length, of a World page, the paper injfchis^edi- , tion would make a pathway #ide enough for one man to. walk on 17,878 . miles long, or more "than . half jWay around the world. Tor cover y&isi,'required 20 tons of printing inkl equJva- ' fent to 3200 gallons, .enough «d paint 3QO ordinary houses, and equal to j&ov* jpring a printed surface of six squaro .miles. . "* ''News iias-been received. in Sydney that v Miss Steel, a Tasmanian ladyhon- . gagdd in mission work under the Poona < and Indian Village Mission, was redwitly seriously attacked by natives. The bungalow connected; with-vthe mission at Pandharpur, Bombay Presidency, was attacked by a large body of natives,, and every window smasJiedyV Miss' Stee? went' outside to try and' pacify the people, whereupon she, was/ seized, her head battered, and all' her front teeth lcnocked out. It was "only when the infuriated natives saw her drenched in blood and believed that she • had been killed that they decamped.' The police came upon the scene td^ }&ite ? but the bungalow at the latest' advices was being continually guarded. . This act of violence is another instance of the unrest prevailing throughout India. The natives, were indignant at the recent of six years' imprisonment passed upon Tilak' one of their leaders, and imputed blame to toe European missionaries. In Bengal recently one of the Australian Baptist missionaries was chased several miles by a ttirbulent crown, and only escaped by taking refuge in a mission house.-

Writing on the subject of New Zealand wines, a correspondent of the New Zealand Herald draws attention to the price charged in Auckland hotels for the wine produced on the Government experimental farm at ' Waerenga. Inhis opinion, 2s a pint bottle is an altogether excessive price ttf pay. "I do not know who is responsible ," Jbe writes, "but if the Government is selling its wine at such "a pride that $t cannot be retailed at less than 2s, the Government is not going the right way to establish the wine industry in New Zealand. The only way to do that is to produce a good palatable wine, and induce the people wh6 tako alchoiic beverages to drink it By selling it as cheaply as they can buy other^lwttiors. This' has been realised in Victoria, where sereral of the leading growers have started first-class wine saloons for sale of their own produce. At these places one can obtain a glass of drhrtadble "Winer quite equal, iffndt better than the Waerenga claret, for, 3d.. or a really first*class wine for 6d. If the New Zealand Government wants to establish the infant wine industry of New Zealand it will havo to do something similar."

A woman who lost control of her tongue electrified the air at the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Friday last. She was applying for an order against her husband for the maintenance of their children. During .crossexamination by her husband's counsel — ' a particularly mild and unoffending .member of the profession — tho womai* got. worked into a temper, which *t last became too much for the Magistrate, , who tried to get her- to talk v quietly. This she refused to do, and" she had to be ordered out of the box; But she had her revenge when the defendant's case opened. As soon a3 'her husband or his counsel said a word die would ejaculate, "That's a lie," or "He'sa liar," until His Worship intimated that unless she was silent ho would dismiss tljs. case. "Keep your money," was the retort: if the Court won't give me anything I'll do without it. I don't want your money." To the next question. by counsel the defendant replied that he had lived happily with his wife. ''Oh ! what a lie !" ejaculated the complainant. His Worship at once stopped the case. "Ton can lay another information," he said to the complainant, "but these cases are to be dismissed." The woman stalked out with" her head in the air. "I won't apply again ; keep your money." And the Court heaved a deep sigh of relief. A.fire-Tshat occurred at Wairoai Hawke's Bay, last week was attributed to rats. The flames were extinguished before much damage had been done. .

Mrs H. B. Leatham forwards a parcel of "J3ooks for Bushmen." At Christchurch on Saturday a bookmaker named Jack Gill was fined £o for betting with a boy. The Omata, Okato, and Hurworth • Dafry Factory Companies have sold their season's output. The price, it is understood, is on a varying scale which works out at an average of llid. The llahotu Factory has disposed of its cheese at a price just under 6d per lb. Money orders and correspondence may not be forwarded through the Now Zealand Post Office to C. Amick, Hunter and Bligh Streets, and 62. Bligh Street, Sydney; nor to Tho British Electric Institute, 25 Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C. There is a keen elemnnel for flower i in Wellington. On Friday last a handcart appeared in Laznbton Ouay ladon m ith penny bunches of violets and twopenny bunches of narcissi. A circle o'- 1 passers-by immediately closoel around the cart, and in a very short time bought up the" whole supply. Fears as to the safety of Mr J. West, of Oakura, who had been missing since Wednesday afternoon, wore set at rest on Saturday evening, when ho returned to his homo. Mr West had boon wandering about the country during his absence and had become very weak, but he has already improved considerably. A few days' rest will restore him to his normal state of health. A. meeting of the Egmont Licensing Committee was hold at Waitara on Friday. Mr H. S. Fitaherbert, S.M., presided. The Committee agreed to tho transfer of the license of the Inglewood Hotel from H. Shotlander to M. Bergin. The application of A. T. Lake for permission to change tho name of the Bridge Hotel, Waitara, to the Club Hotel was agreed to. Constable Price asked the Committee to direct that the licensees of tho Masonic and Vi aitara Hotels, both at Waitara, close their *yard gates during prohibited hours, particularly on Sundays. The Bench suggested to the licensees to heed* tho remarks of the constable. * Speaking of the use of New Zealand pine for the manufacture of butter boxes, a New South Wales expert, Mr C. E. D. Meares, who has just returned from England, said that both in tho ship-building and joinery works of .Great Britain an increasing demand had .«et in for this wood. Mr Mearcs holds the belief that the best of the pine meets tn .i & demand^ and that much of the inferior must of necessity bo drawn into tho butter-box making. An almost inexhaustible quantity of white wood is obtainable from Northern i Europe. From investigations made ii j is believed that from this source a largo auxiliary supply of excellent boxes can be obtained at lower prices than in Now Zealand. -This timber is light in weight, and of bright appearance. The change of the public feeling in Norway tending towards the creation of a Democracy has placed the King; and Queen of Norway in a delicate situation, states Lc Journal (Paris). The Norwegian people accepted the Monarchical regime out of respect to tradition, and^the more readily because it was a necessary condition to the realisation of their independence. *The question now asked is how far King 1 Haakcn realises this. The Democratic element reproaches his Majesty with not keeping in closer touch with -his* ■ people. A recent characteristic incident is quoted. The Constitutional party . : in tbe . Startling, < (proposed **&* ' amendment to the Constitution declaring that, in the event of the extinction of the dynasty, it would- he well to consider whether or not the monarchic regime should be maintained. Some managers of London hotels are providing cheap souvenirs for their American visitors to carry away — An the hope that they will thus overlook such expensive trifles as silver, spoons or lace-fringed serviettes! They are going* to present their enthusiastic visitors] with tiny cheap nickdr sdoous, very pretty^ to look at and useful as well ? the handles will be ornamented with flowers and the namo "London" will be conspicuous. They are going to give thetn dainty fans made of crinkled white paper, ornamented with roses, forget-me-nots, and white heather— the rose for England, the forget-me-not that it may be a reminder to the traveller to come back again, and tho. hoather for good luck. The American men ayo to be provided with little match cases in white leather with the word "London" prominently- printed upon them. Various little devices are in course of preparation in tije hope that the treasured silver spoons may not be induced to take a trip across the Atlantic "I have never heard a business man say anything against a Chinaman,, and I have never heard one say a good word for the Jap." So says Mr G. W. S. Patterson, of New York and Auckland, who has recently returned from his annual trip to the East. "The reaioß for this is not far to seek," he say I. "The 1 Chinese merchants <, have for centuries been drawn from the better class, and honesty is a part of their religion, while in the case of the Japanese it has been the other way kbout, the bettor class becoming soldiers or priests. The Japanese Government was trying to raise the standard of* the national commercial morality, but with very little effect. When 1 was there early in the year there was a caso before the courts in Tokio, where the Japanese had imitated the label of a British brand of whisky and sold a vile spirit in placa of the genuine stuff throughout the East, but tho courts threw out the charge on the ground that there was no registration of trade-marks iii Japan. The case was referred to the recently-instituted Chamber of'-Com-merce — really a Government institution to correct commercial immorality — but / see that body has thrown out the cas<*. Now I learn that tho Powers are about to insist on Japan recognising registered trade-marks. This is only ono of hundreds of cases where tho Western trader is defeated by the cheat of the East."