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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143451, 11 March 1911, Page 2

In the Supreme Court on the motion of Mr. Quilliam (Govott and Quilliam) probate of the will of the late Mrs. Eliza Mary King has been granted to Mrs. Alice. Mary Turtou the executrix named in the will. During the last session of Parliament, Mr. Arthur M. Myers, M.P., took up a very .strong attitude on tho question of town-planning, and gave notice that next session ho would introduce a Dill to regulate tho-planning of tho City of Auckland. Tho measure has now boon drafted, and has been submitted by Mr. Myers to a conference of representatives of the local bodies concerned. At a recent conference of Seventh Day Adventists of New Zealand at Petone, it was decided to send a letter to the Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister of Education, expressing appreciation of the stand recently taken by him on the broad principles of onr religious liberty in refusing to sanction in anyway the altering of tho present system of ' education which conserves to the churcji alone the privilege _ and responsibility of imparting religious instruction. After to-night a convenience will be lost to tho New Plymouth public through tho operations of the Shops and Offices Act as amended last session. In the past tho grocers, and particularly those who reside on the premises, have been able to remain open on ordinary nights other than Thursdays and Saturdays until 9 o’clock m summer, and 8 o'clock in winter. From Monday next those premises w-ill be required to close at 6 p.m. all the year round, Saturdays excepted. The mail steamer Aorangi, ’which broke down on tho way from Now Zealand to San Francisco, reached tho latter port on Wednesday last, five days late. She was duo to leave for New Zealand tho same day, reaching Wellington on tho 30th. As, however, repairs will take about eight days, the mails for New Zealand, which were (o have been sent by the A'qrangi, are being dispatched by the Mariposa, leaving San Francisco yesterday. Tho mails will be transferred at Papeete to tho Taluno, due at Auckland on April 6.

At a meeting of Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, Air. T. Elliott, vice-president, reported us the result of a visit which a party of gentlemen—of whom ho was one—had recently made to the Piako swamp, that the work being done there was really magnificent. At an expense of some £64,000, land formerly useless had been reclaimed and sold to the value of about £IOO,OOO. Tho work demonstrated what could be done by dredging, and tho real cheapness of the method of shifting soil. Tho dredgers which wore employed shifted soil, much of it clay, at a cost of 2Jd to 2Jd per yard, instead of something like 9d, which used to be the cost. This fact would havo a considerable bearing upon tho proposal to cut a canal from tho Waikato River to Manakau.

White and Sons have opened their first shipments of autumn goods, and make an attractive display of millinery, dresses, coats, and all the little etceteras that go towards the transition of summer to winter clothing. Customers are' invited to come and look through even if not yet requiring to purchase. Very special attention has been given to underwear for the coming season, and ladies will not find this department excelled anywhere, either for value or selection,*

Compofeitors at tho recent Trentham riflo championship meeting returned to New Plymouth on Friday night. Taranaki secured its full share of the prize money, it being estimated that the various marksmen won a total of over £2OO. Tho Agricultural Department gives the grand total of the principal products exported for the twelve mouths ending February, 1911, as £20,128,096, compared with £19,768,880 for the similar period ending February, 1910.—Press Association During tho month of February 75 cows, 62 bullocks, 8 calves, 543 sheep, 215 lambs, and 154 pigs, including 6 suckers, wore slaughtered for local consumption at tho municipal abattoirs. Compared with the corresponding month of last year, they show an increase of I calf, 65 sheep, 20 lambs, and 2 suckers, and a decrease of 27 pigs and 12 tripes. Cattle are equal. Two cows and 7 pigs were condemned. There were 41 pigs slaughtered for export, of which 7 were condemned. “How many people, I wonder, ever contemplate the immense commercial value of tho recent advances in tho science of medicine?” remarked Mr. T. Copeland Savage at the Medical Congress in Auckland. “For example, the discovery by Manson and Rosa, after years of research, of tho fact that malaria is always carried by a certain species of mosquito which can easily 1)0 exterminated; later, the discovery of tho causes of other deadly tropical diseases—for example, sleeping sickness. Consider what this means—tho huge areas of the globe up to now uninhabitable, areas rich in minerals, vegetation, mu! general productiveness, will bo thrown open to civilisation and tho immense potential riches made available for mankind,” Tho regulations regarding tho registration of barmaids havo now been gazetted. To qualify for registration an applicant must have been employed for three months during the year ended November 2 last. A registered barmaid can serve in tho bar till the day of her death, if she chooses, but she must not leave it for any period exceeding two vears. If she complies with this provision she can obtain employment on production of her certificate. It is interesting to note that the licensee is tho responsible person for the barmaid. Ho would bo hold responsible for cmnloying an unregistered barmaid, who herself could not be prosecuted for not being registered. Regulations will soon be sent to all licensees in the Dominion. Marriage makes no difference as regards registration, “I believe that before a great many years tho iron industry—the raw material industry—will he one of the greatest industries in this country. Everyone, of course, is aware of the enormous extent of iron ore in this country. Wo are coming to tho day when, by electrical furnaces, wc shall be able to reduce our valuable ores, and then Now Zealand will bo one of the greatest iron-prodneing countries of the world. I should think myself it is not very far distant. It is impossible for anyone to tell what is possible ten years hence.” —Mr. G. M. Thomson, M R., at the annual dinner of tho Ironmasters’ Association at Dunedin. The remarks (says the Star) wore a bright contrast to those of other speakers, who dwelt on tho languishing state of the industry and the necessity of a higher tariff.

The Alarch number of tho Review of Review’s has as its main feature sn interesting character sketch of Mr. J. L. Garvin, who is styled as “Tho Real Leader of the British Unionist Party.” The article will give Australians a good idea of the controlling powers in politics in the Old Country. There is also an interesting article on “Our Lady Alayors.” Tho “Caricatures of the World” for the month are amusing, while tho section devoted to the review of the loading magazines of tho world is full and complete. .The Book of tho Afonth is a review of Dr. A. H. Wallace’s “The World of Life: a Alanifcstation of Creative Power, Directive Alind, and Active Purpose.” Air. W. T. Stead’s evidence before the Royal Commission on divorce also makes an exceedingly readable article. The task of putting an end to war, which Andrew Carnegie has taken ujkhi himself, is not a mere bobby for him (writes tho San Francisco correspondent of tho Post). He has taken it up in practical mood, and he has practical ideas as to the means ho is going to use particularly one brilliant idea, which no laid before his “peace lunch” party at New York the other day. It was this: that a combination of tho w'orld’s Powers could compel the arbitration of any dispute and compel either disputant to accept tho judgment of the arbitrators by tho simple device of stopping fts mails if it persisted in a doairo to go to war. He argued that, in the present state of commercial dovcloi>inent, no nation could resist such a complete boycott as would result from stopping its mail. Therefore there would bo no need for any huge international armament to enforce the awards of an arbitration tribunal. The plan has been received with favourable comment by the press. In connection with a meeting of tho Clntha branch of the Farmers” Union on February 17, at which the question of tho immigration of boy labour was discussed, Mr. Richard Allen (secretary of tho Southland Branch of the Farmers' Union) writes to tho Clutha Leader clearing up a few points on which members wore in doubt. He says: “My experience shows mo that tho question of tho boys proving a success and remaining with tho employers chiefly depends upon tho way in which they aro treated by tho farmers themselves. Tho bulk of tho boys aro remaining in tho situations they went to first. I may give an instance that occurred only this morning; A farmer who has had one of tho hoys since he came out in October came in to pay tho first deposit of tho refund that the boys make, namely, £4 in six months. He informed me that this £4 was a bonus that he was giving to the boy in addition to his wages for tho satisfactory manner in which ho had performed his work. One hoy who arrived in April last is getting £1 2s (Id per week, and has boon at this rate since November last, and three hoys who arrived in July last are getting £1 per week; other boys who arrived in October are getting ]7s (id to £l, I have another twelve arriving on Monday, and only wish that they had been able to secure from Homo the, passages for more boys, so that I could have satisfied tho forty to fifty farmers whose names are on my books now. I don’t wish to say anything about any other scheme, although I havo my doubts as to tho success of Iwys being bound down for a fixed period. While having to acknowledge three as being failures, I am satisfied with my boya on the whole.”

Mrs. T. Waugh forwards a pared of Books for Bushmen. Melbourne specials. Cork soles 3d pair. Women’s soft chrome slippers, sown soles, 4s lid pair. Men's pocket felt lounge hats, 3s 6d. Men’s splendid quality white neglige shirts 2s lid. Men’s famous welted boots box calf and glace kid 16s 9d. Women’s tan cashmere hose Is pair. Men’s Roslyn tweed suits 29s 6d. Men’s celluloid collars 9d. 72 inch herringbone and twill sheeting, unbleached la yard,*

The King Country Chronicle says, it is rumoured that a re-arragemont has been made in connection with the road district. Mr. Williams, formerly district road engineer for Marlborough, who has been at Taumarunui for the past six or seven months, is to have charge of the Taumarunui district. Mr. Murray will havo charge of tho Taranaki district, extending to Paten and including the Tangaraku gorge, and ns far North as Alokaii. Air. Reaney, formerly in charge of Wanganui district, returns to tho charge of his old district. In regard to tho old To Kniti district, extending from Kawhia right on to Awakino, this will probably bo put in charge of Mr. Burd—at any rate included in the Auckland district. No doubt this will bo an arrangement very much appreciated in and around To Kniti, if the facts are as stated, and our information oomes from an authentic source. If wo had a resident engineer-in-charge, empowered to deal on tho sp.ot with plans and specifications submitted by tho County engineer, it would save an immense amount of time, trouble and expense to the district. Recently Mr. George Smart, while going through tho bush on his section in the Kiritehcro, came suddenly on what he thought to be a strangely shaped log of wood lying across tho path. Ho investigated the fern covered mass and found it to bo, to his astonishment, tho hull of a nearly finished Maori canoe, about forty feet long, burned out of a single giant tree. Ferns, mosses, humus and tho accumulation of generations of forest rubbish wero cleaned away with the slashers, and a canoe of totara, perfect with tho exception of a little rot on tho outside, lay revealed. The makers of this ancient dug-out must havo been disturbed in their work—for they left it unfinishcd—probably by some marauding war party from down tho coast— Taranaki may be. That the remains are very old is easily proven, by the charred appearance of the inside of the canoe, which, if appearances toll truly, was burned and dubbed into shape by those quaint little Maori adzes which we pick up so often. Tho nearest float-water is tho sea—a mile distant, and tho old workers of wood and stone would havo had to negotiate a high ridgo before reaching their destination—tho sea,—To Kniti Chronicle. Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and .Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable on Monday, March 13, at tho Secretary’s Office, Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.—Advt.