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Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14324, 29 September 1910, Page 2

Matters at the Taranaki Petroleum Company’s bores at Moturoa continue to be very satisfactory. Good progress is being made at No. 1 boro, and No. - 2 is .still flowing steadily. There are no. further developments. at No. 3.

On Tuesday, tho Hon. J. A. Millar received, an anonymous Jotter from Christchurch, enclosing a note for £SO “conscience money.” The money was sent to Mr. Millar in his capacity ias Minister of Railways.—Press Association.. .

Mr. H. J. H. Okoy (Taranaki) is in favour of tho Government providing some scheme whereby a person showing the first signs of tuberculosis might be given employment .at tree-planting or other useful work on the high country in tho Cambridge district, which is noted for its beneficial effect on this class of complaint.

We (Manawatu Times) recorded recently a sharp shock of earthquake. It has had the curious effect of killing a great number of unhatched chickens. There ore several poultry raisers hero who incubate on a largo scale, and they are discovering that the chickens that would, have been alive in the shells at that time are dead. It means a serious loss to many of them. One man had to take a clothes basket full of eggs so spoiled from his incubators, and others are fearful that tbyeggs have all been affected. ,

Tho Agricultural Department is at present .giving attention to the drawing up of a scheme of lectures in connection with the growing of sugar beet, and as soon as this is ready an expert of the department will he sent to Wanganui, also to other districts interested in the matter, to give information and instruction to farmers on the subject. In the meantime, says the Wanganui Herald, the Wanganui committee sOt up to go into the question of tho establishment of tho industry hero must perforce "lie low,” but we understand that, as soon as the expert’s visit takes place, the committee will set the matter in. motion again.

Writing on the shearers’ dispute the Christchurch Press says: 11 —“ What has happened during the last two or three months has done'as much to shako the system of conciliation and arbitration as anything that has occurred since it was instituted, because on ,the one hand we had the chosen representative of the men asserting that the men, would not work except at the rate he specified, mid, on the other hand, were the sheepowners, who would ho compelled to pay any rate the court chose to fix, no matter how unjust they might have thought it. ; The unfair incidence of the arbitration unless both sides are loyal to it, was never more clearly displayed. Yet it was the employers who,, by the. correctness of their attitude, upheld the Act all through, and in tho end enabled an award to bo made.” The Melbourne reaches for tho patronage of men and women- through merit of merchandise and not through exaggerated comparative prices. Exaggeration is not an agent for winning confidence, hence it is studiously avoided at the big corner store. The Melbourne’s practice is to give value, not to preach it.*

For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d. .

It is dll nonsense to say that New Zealanders are not being attracted to other States, remarked two returned Aucklanders to a Now Zealand Herald reporter. They had heard, they said, of many New Zealanders going to Queensland, and on tlie steamer on which they went to Sydney two months ago there were two parties of New Zealanders (one from Nelson and one from the Waikato) who were on a landseeking expedition to the “other side.” Land, they said, was offered on favourable terms in Queensland, and the country was being rapidly developed by means of railways. Lines ran from various points on the coast a long way into the interior, and it' was claimed that Queensland had more ■ miles of railways in proportion to its ■ population than any other country in the world.

Yesterday afternoon, at tho invitation of Mr. Hugh Daily, secretary of the Motor Transport Co., a number of representative citizens, including the Mayor and three or four Borough Councillors, also tho chairman of the Stratford County Council, had an opportunity of testing tho capabilities ,ot the new 25-30 h.p. Arrol-Johnstone char-a-banc imported by the company for the Opiinako service. With a full complement of passengers the car left town shortly after 3 p.m., travelling along the .Carrington Road as far as; the !bus terminus, then across to the Avenue Road,’ and back to town; and bn to the breakwater and hack, tho full time occupied being about 40 minutes, including a short step at the breakwater, and. the distance covered about nine miles. The car is, exceedingly comfortable and is capable of doing from 18 to. 20 miles an hour. It takes the hills with case, and should prove very suitable for rile coastal road.

The strange behaviour of the famous Eiffel tower was the, chief topic of discussion amongst Parisian scientists when the last English mail loft.: The .iron tower-has got into the habit of screwing itself up during tho day and unscrewing itself during tho night.'. This peculiar performance is due to the heat of the sun. In* -summer ’the tower twists itself in such a manner that by sundown tho lightning rod .at the top leans eastward, and m the winter it points westward. By dawn next day the rod is vertical again. Recent'observations have shown that the tower’s habit of screwing itself round in different directions does not increase with ago a hair’s breadth, and there seems, therefore, no danger of tying itself up altogether: and tumbling down; Moreover, it has been ascertained that the floods of ’ last winter have not in the smallest degree impaired the solidity of the foundations, these having been dug very deep. ■ ■ - ,