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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143574, 12 August 1911, Page 2

The Wellington office reports that no vessels were within range of wireless ■lcgraphy at 9 a.m. to-day. Tho Patoa Waterside ’ Workers’ Union has cancelled its. registration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. During the past month there were slaughtered at the municipal abattoirs for local consumption 57 cows, 111 bullocks, 2 calves, 595 sheep, 1 lamb and 122 pigs. Compared with the corresponding month of last year there is an increase of 7 in the number of cattle, and 25 sheep and a decrease of 3 calves, 6 lambs and 56 pigs. Four cattle, 2 sheep and 17 pigs were condemned.

Some horses in New Plymouth appear to he seized ©occasionally by the publicity fever which afflicts politicians. Lately two or three animals have shown a peculiar idea of the fitness of things by finishing runaway gallops in Currie Street, close to the newspaper offices. Apparently they were -seized with a burning desire to get into tho "local” columns. But oue animal, a halfdraught, who ran away about 5 p.m. on Friday evidently wanted something more than a local, or perhaps he had a complaint to lodge in the press. That complaint may have been about his blinkers, for he was standing in the shafts of a dray in Leach Street, while his driver was putting in the tailboard of the dray, when his blinkers fell off. Promptly the animal dashed off, turned down Eliot Street and into Courtenay Street, and thundered for "Newspaper Row.” Coming down the hill by the Good Templars’ Hall he cracked on so much pace that when he jammed the, holm hard over and tried to turn into Curie Street be "missed stays” and brought up with a crash against the Daily News office. Perhaps lie wanted a whole column to himself. One, of tho shafts tore into a large window as if it wore paper, carrying away woodwork too, and then it lodged ill a corner post, checking the runaway with such sharpness that the animal ‘ fell on the pavement. After ho had been extricated it was found that the hot;so was uninjured, although glass had fallen all round him; while the dray was also free from damage. .Very fortunately, no one was in the front office of the News building. The horse and dray, it was found, belonged to Mr. A. Berridgc, contractor. The Rev. J. W. Burton, will preach in tlie Whiteley Memorial Church tomorrow both morning and evening. The morning sermon will be upon "The Ninth Commandment,” and the evening subject will he, “What is Religion;-” Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will bo due and payable on .Monday next, at the Secretary’s Office, Currie" Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. —Advt. *

Thrifty buyers were busy to-day at ‘•The Kash/’ Hundreds of bargains were purchased, but there are Hundreds more. Boys’ splendidly made Varsity suits. 9s lid; boys’ Norfolk®, *os 6(i; boys’ braces, 3d; boys’ celluloid collars, od, are among the bargains offered. Come' round to-night and secure a bargain or two/

Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs that in April last there were 404,284 horses, 2,020,171 cattle, 348,754 pigs, and 23,754,586 sheep in the Dominion. Sheep have decreased by over half a million sinte April, 1910. As compared with the statistics taken in October, 1908, horses have increased by 41,000, cattle bv 246,845, and pigs by 103,562. The officers of the training camp, which has been held on the Palmerston show ground during the week, breaks up to-day. It has been a great success, 400 officers and non-coms, working really hard under the instructional staff at the show ground, rifle range, and in the surrounding mountain ranges. Lord Islington was to have come up on Friday, but did not do so, owing to indisposition. General Godley came and inspected the troops at the camp and rifle range. The pay roll at the camp reached £7OO.

In Berlin a uoval insurance scheme is being introduced, recommended by the Kaiser, having tor its chief feature insurance against accidents to school children on their way to and from school. The policy covers all accidents to children within the wmlls of the schools, as well as on the playgrounds, as during lessons in physics and chemistry. The premium is 40 cents a year, and in case of death a sum of 3000 marks is paid to the parents, while total disability entitles the child to an amount of £3OO. For temporary disablement, the company pays all doctor bills and 75 cents a day. .

The break-up of ducal estates goes on apace. Amongst the properties recently sold were part of the Duke of Bedford’s Devonshire estates, consisting of 4760 acres, producing about £3OOO a year, every lot changing hands at Launceston for a total of £90,000. The tenants in many cases acquired their holdings, the Devon County Council being among the purchasers, The Duke of Bedford offered loans at 4 per cent, to tenants buying lots of a value of not less than £430. Part of the Compton Castle estate, in Somerset, comprising 1147 acres, and producing an annual rental of £1743, was offered at Selborno in lots, and realised £14,485, some of the principal lots being reserved for private sale. Portion of Lord Londesborough’a estates realised at Selby over £36,000. Nineteen out of 25 lots in tho Duke of Bedford’s Alaulden estate, Beds., realised over £16,000 at Bedford. After throe decades of opera singing, Mme. Nordica works for 28 weeks in each year, and during that period, from September till March, she gives 100 concerts, an average of nearly four per week, and receives a total sum of £35,000, or £350 for each appearance. These concerts are given in America, and the trans-Atlantic managers find that they can still do good business at these prices with' Mme. Nordica as the offered attraction. From beginning to end of her seven months’ trip round the North American continent, she travels and lives in her own specially constructed car, which is a veritable little palace on wheels. This car, which Mme. Nordica designed herself, is constructed of steel to minimise the danger of fire, and contains first of all a- music room sufficiently large to hold a grand piano, a chafrmiug' little salon, three bedrooms, besides bathroom, kitchen, and servants’ quarters.

Councillor Browne has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Borough Council as follows; • —That the resolution passed on December 12, 1910, instructing that no compulsory building clauses be inserted in the conditions of lease of the Avenue .Road reserve sections, he and the same is hereby rescinded and that a clause be inserted in the conditions requiring a building of not less value than £3OO to be orected on each section within two years from the dale of lease except that in the case of sections 23, and 24, sections 39 ,and 30, and sections 31 to 33 which owing to the configuration of the laud will require to be sold in three lots instead of each section separately in which case it will be sufficient for one building of the above value to be erected on each lot so teased s Councillor Buttimore will move that the resolution passed on December 12, 1910, fixing the upset of rental at 4 per cent of, the capital value bo and the same is hereby rescinded. The, habitual cynic might (says M.A.P.) be pardoned for regarding with some degree of amusement the craze for mixed bathing which has suddenly developed at the London public baths. A few years ago, when tho daring innovation was introduced, the various municipal authorities held up their hands in pious horror at the ’"bare” idea. But it subsequently appeared that there was ‘'money in it,” whereupon the municipal fathers promptly shed their moral togas, and welcomed the mixed bathers with, so to speak, the ope.nest of arms. Hackney Council did the trick by announcing last April that ‘‘mixed bathing has brought 'a wave of prosperity to our baths.” Enough said! St. Pnncras baths committee went baldheaded fof that prosperous .wave.; so did the councillors of Tottenham and Hammersmith; and today the difficulty in London is not wliere to obtain mixed bathing facilities, but how to get away from them. Meanwhile, the cynic smiles. Sir H. W. Lucy, writing to the Sydney Morning Herald, says;—Tariff reform, for a long time sickening, has received its death-blow at the meeting of the Colonial Conference. The apostle of the new crusade, with the art of an old campaigner, sought to invest revival hf protection with the guise of imperialism. Whilst insisting that it would be good for homo trade, the hapless foreigner paying the difference in rating, it was a necessary concession to colonial feeling, imperative if the Empire was to be kept together. Well, the authorised representatives of the colonics have been in London for some weeks engaged upon the high mission of drawing closer and strengthening the ties with the Mother Country. The fullest discussion was invited. They showed no disposition to mince matters where the interests of their people were concerned. Yet never a word was said in favour of Mr. Chamberlain's gospel of colonial and'British tariff preference. On tho contrary, when . Sir Wilfrid Lanricr proposed the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate and report upon the resources of the United Kingdom and the colonies, the trade of each part with the other and with the outside world, the conference unanimously adopted an amendment moved by the Colonial Secretary stipulating tfiat report upon methods by which tho trade of each part with the other might be improved and extended should be ‘‘consistent with the fiscal policy of each part.” Thus authoritatively and finally was the door hanged, barred, and I riled against the new-fangled policy of imperial preference. No one questions the excellence of the Melbourne Clothing Company's men’s boots. All agree that they are of high character and exceptionally low priced at 16s 9d. .Quality for quality they are excelled by no other hoot in the Dominion at 255. To those who ITavo never worn a pair of these boots the present display and sale will take on an important aspect, as the saving is so substantial as to attract the attention of everyone.*

According to a consular report made for the information of the United States authorities at Washington, there are estimated to be in England at present more than 2000 theatres showing moving pictures exclusively, and many others are being constructed. London has become a selling centre for films for all parts of Europe and even Australia and New Zealand. “Phases of cowboy and Indian life are the most popular subjects for American firms,” says the report. “A strong flavour of melodrama is desirable, but there is no demand for immorality or vulgarity, despite the attempts of some manufacturers to place films of a sensational character. The English audiences are quick to note any lack of taste in the dressing of the actors.” . By deciding on a scale of 1 in 200,000 for the proposed international map for aeronauts, tho Brussels Conference has initiated a task of some _ magnitude. The map of. the world which is to be constructed by the International Committee, which, met in London two years ago, is on a scale of 1 in 1,000,000, or five times smaller than the projected aeronautical map. On the world map one inch will represent 16 whereas the flying men’s chart will be just under four miles to the inch, a scale which .will permit of much necessary detail being inserted. The Mar Departments of several European Governments have already produced maps of their own countries specially designed for aeronauts, on which is marked every safe place which offers a sale “harbour” in which airships may anchor and aeroplanes bo safely brought to earth.

An instance of no ordinary heroism is recorded from Donai, where Lieutenant Ludmann, the head of the military aviation depot, started on Sunday for Rheims.with a private soldier as passenger and scout to take notes (writes the Paris correspondent of the Standard). What happened is reported as follows tcrPassing over Cambrai towards half-past four in the morning at an altitude of 1800 ft., the passenger, a sapper named Deville, noticed that one of the bolts of the motor was loose, and that the magneto was not working normally. He made signs -to the officer, who cut the ignition, so as to bo able to hear better what his subordinate wanted to say. Hoping, however, that the machine would get as far as the camp of Rheims, Lieutenant Ludmann started the screw again, but the sapper noticed that the bolt was getting looser and looser, till the danger became imminent. He warned his superior, who then resolved to come down at once, which he was able to do safely at Catelet. During the few terrible moments that followed the soldier found time to write in his note-book:—-“If WO fall, it should he known that'accident through a bolt in the motor comipg loose, and the faulty working of the magneto, and that there was no error cither in the handling of the motor or in the conduct of the aeroplane.” M ith the prospect of a horrible death staring him in the face as he watched the shaky bolt, the only thought of this simple-minded soldier seems to have been to exonerate his superior from any blame for the catastrophe which lie thus stoically foresaw, and was prepared to fall a victim to. The shrewd, business-like woman knows full well that after the sale there ore crowds of oddments which mav be picked up for an old song. That is the condition o! things at White and Sons’ just now. Little lines of useful goods, which in the rush of sale business were overlooked, are now being sought out and offered at irresistible prices. Just beat this in mind while v waiting for new spring goods.* ________