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Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14245, 25 June 1910, Page 2

This afternoon tho New Zealand Rugby team meets the Australian team at Sydney. At Wellington tho Wellington and Hawke’s Bay hockey representatives will meet in the first championship shield match of the season. The results of both matches will bo posted on tho Herald windows thjs evening. With this issue is circulated u v !.- torial supplement giving tryo capital illustrations of tho New Plymouth Harbour Board’s ikjav dredge, the Paritutu, which is expected at Moturoa on Saturr day next, ready to commence at once the work of dredging the harbour. A third illustration is a panorama of the harbour and sea front, from a photograph taken by My. E. C. Rennell fro m the Island of Moturoa. This, avo think our readers will agree, is quite the best picture yet produced of tho sea front in that locality. , Mr. J. C. Smith, who for many years assisted Iris father, the late Mr. K. M. Smith, in the latter’s experiments with ironsand and other minerals, has continued to carry on researches into tlio mineral resources of this district, and noiv he appears to have made a very important . discovery. To-day he brought to this office some specimens of metal Avhich lie has obtained from tho ironsand by a process at present a secret, and which he declares to be platinum. Certainly it looks like platinum, and he says it stands all the tests for that metal, ryhich is one of tho most valuable of all metals. He also claims to have extracted gold and silver from the ironsand by a simple and inexpensive process. An analysis by an English metallurgical chemist over forty years ago disclosed the presence of gold and silver in the ironsand, but it has never been successfully extracted. Mr. Smith intends to have his products analysed hy an authoritative analyst—at a School of Minos or elsewhere—and if the analysis bears out liis claims more will he hoard of his discovery very , soon. An afternoon class in dressmaking will commence at the Technical School on Monday next at 2 p.m. Those who cannot conveniently attend in the evenings should come along to this class. Members of tho Equitable Building Society of Ncav Plymouth (First qncl Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be duo and payable on Monday, Juno 27, at tho Secret jtary’s Office, Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. bBB3

A new shipping company to work the Dunedin, Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, and Wanganui trade is in course of formation. The intention is to buy a steamor at Homo for/the purpose. On tho motion of Mr. Quilliam (Govott and Quilliam), probate of the ivill of the lato Susan Copestake has been granted by tho Supreme Court to George Henry M'Ganoy, tho executor named in tho will. Tho deepest Government boro in New South Wales is that known as the Boronga. Tins well is dotvii to a depth of 4340 ft, and is flowing 1,600,000 gallons of water every twenty-four hours. The temperature of the water as it comes from tho boro is 139 degrees. Tire poultry pong at the auction marts of Messrs. Webster Bros, and Messrs. Nolan and Co. were stocked with a particularly fine lot of birds to-day. Many were of good laying strains, and ready for the breeding pen, whilst others wero excellent table birds, Lord Dudley, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, has cabled a contribution of £IOO, through the Mayor of Christchurch, to the fund being raised to enable Professor Biekortoh to exploit l)is partial impact theory in scientific circles in the Old World. A meeting of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth was hold at the Town Hall last evening. Mr. F. P. Corkill presided. An appropriation of £3OO in No. 1 group realised £56, and an appropriation of £3OO in No. 2 group was balloted for. Mr. S. T. Crocker being the Successful member. Mr. Newton King had several motor pars on exhibition at the National Show at Palmerston this week- The exhibit Included a 12-14 h.p. 4-seatcr Calthorpe, also a 2-seater Calthorpe and a 9-h.p-Riley. These cars, for Avhioh Mr. King is New Zealand, agent, were greatly admired by visitors to tho Show. Last year the United Kingdom exr ported manufactured goods of twice tho value of those exported by tho United States. Her exports of manufactured goods were also 60 per cent, greater than those of the German Empire. Manufactured goods comprised §0 per cent, of the total exports of the United Kingdom, 40.4 per cent, of those of the United States, 67.7 per cent, of those of Germany, and 7 per cent, of those of France. Recently the director of tho Wanganui Technical School reported to the Education Board that “football, soldiering, and picture shows” were having a detrimental effect upon the work of the school. This has boon greatly resented by the local garrison olticers, who consider that as “soldiering” is now the law of the land and part of the curriculum of tlio public schools, it should not be classed with sport and amuse-, monts. Inquiry made by a Now Zealand Times reporter elicited the fact that during the last three years only thirteen. unions have cancelled their registration. Their cancellation was under sect ion 21 of the Act, which states that “any union may Apply at any time for cancellation of its registration on a majority of its members deciding to do so.” But of the thirteen who took advantage of their fights in this way, six have since re-registered under a new name. The total births in the principal boroughs in the Dominion during Mayamounted, to 688, against 620 in April —a decrease of ’37. The deaths in May wero 201—a decrease of 53 on the number in April. Of the , total '■deaths, males contributed 112, females 92. Fifty-two of the deaths were of children under five years of ago, being 25,49 per cent, of the whole number; 39 of these wore under one year of age. There were seveuty-tyo deaths of persons of 65 years and upwards. “1 am not quite sure how you like people to start off praising your harbour,” said Lord Plunket to A Sydney Morning Herald reporter pn his arrival from Now Zealand. “Cut I must say that the view over the bays of it which you get from Government House when the sun is setting I can only compare to peeps one gets hero and there from Lord Konmare’s house at Killarnoy. It is—well, almost as beautiful as Kjllarney. And that, from ah Irishman, is very high appreciation indeed.” As Mr. 0. Oxenham, Miss Gladys Oxenham, and a visitor were driving into town from Fitzroy yesterday afternoon their horse took fright at a cart laden with rattling iron. The animal shot across the road, and took the gig into collision with a telegraph n°‘°. which wrenched the upper portion of the gig off, this portion being movable for convonievjo •of balancing. The ladies ivere thrown out violently on to the road.. Miss Oxenham had a leg broken, but the other ladies escaped Avith nothing worse than bruises and a severe shock. Professor H. T. Andrews, in an address at the Congregational Union meeting in London recently, said that the wohk-end pleasure tours of the rich, the Sunday excursions of tho middle classes, the congested golf courses and the bridge parties in country houses, made it clear that tho old conception of the. Sabbath was' rapidly passing away. From one point of view, how-GA’-or, tho change had not been so disastrous as some might imagine. In early Victorian days the observance of Sunday rvas purely external and formal. People ate more, drank more, slept more, than on other days, and that was all. If they had to choose between wholesome recreation in the open air and the debauch at ’ home they need not hesitate about admitting the advantages of the modern custom. Sabbatarianism was dead, and no efforts of theirs could resuscitate it. The following additional special prizes have been donated for the various class.es at the Tqranaki Poultry Society’s Show: —Mr. Tuthill, 10s for Technical School cookery, classes; Mr. Fraser, 6s value (miscellaneous classes, children); Mr. O. Garter. 5s value (for second baby in Maori class); Mr, N. Johnson, 10s value (judging ’competitions) ; Mr. Hanna, three cabinet photos in', each of the three baby classes (for Avinning baby); Messrs. Garland and Co., Auckland, for first prize, value 20s (for best baby from 12 months to six months); Messrs. Tucker and Co., Auckland, for first prize, value 20s (for host baby from 18 months to 12 months); Mr. V. H, Beal, silver modal (Technical School woodivork); Mr. A. T.‘ Moore, ' donation to school prize fund; Mr. G. E. Blanchard, 10s 6d first (medal or brooch), -and 3s 6d second (silver modal), for most points in primary school rvork and children’s cookery, sowing, and pot plant classes combined; Mr. J. Abbott, value 10s 6d (best trio in ducks). _ AV.C.T.U. The monthly business meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union will he held in the Baptist Church on Wednesday next, Juno 29, at 3 p.m. —Advt. A man needs to bo very cautions and shrewd when ha takes the ripe fruit of his brain to market. The prime necessity of success, given a good idea, is to make your patent a sure thing. Messrs. Baldwin and Rayward, Wellington, have correspondents and subagents everywhere, and their reputation for scrupulous dealing gives their clients full security. Local Agent; Walter Bcwloy, Sharebroker, Devon Street, New Plymouth. 4