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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143691, 12 January 1912, Page 2

AVith next week’s issue of The Budget end next Saturday’s Herald the “Taranaki Herald and Budget' 1 Calendar for 1912 will be circulated. It is intended that every paper on the 20th. shall contain a calendar, so that should any subscriber not receive one in his copy a request to the' office will immediately bring him one.

“I am rather deaf, and 1 did not hear what my son said in the witnessbox ; but I can endorse all he did say,” stated a man at Hackney (London) Coroner’s Court. Mr. John Bums has issued figures showing that two years ago 4 emigrants went to the United States for every 6 to Canada, and that last year only 2 went to the United States for every 8 to Canada. A London woman has invented a hendguard for the use of the police at times of street rioting and disorder made of fine mesh aluminium wire net, designed to hung from tho helmet to tho shoulders. The New Zealand Times Office in AVelliiigton Ims still kept up tho hoarding on which the election results were announced. Tho theory of those in authority there apparently is that there must be another election soon and that the hoarding will be useful then. “There is no such thing as light work,” said his Honour Judge Parry in a case at Lambeth Comity Court. “ ‘Light work,’ is a phrase used under tho Compensation Act. 1 do not think it was ever heard of before the AAorkmen’s Compensation Act.” Stella Carol, the young girl who was discovered hy Mine. Amy Shenvin, singing carols in a Hampstead lane, made her concert debut on the evening of November 13 at tlie Queen’s Hail. She sung an air from “La Perle dn Breed,” the Gounod-Bnch “Ave Maria,” and Bishop’s “Lo! here the gentle lark.” Mr. Foster, the Canadian Minister'of Trade and Commerce, has initiated negotiations for better trade relations between Canada and tho AVost Indies. The negotiators will doubtless take as their guide the recommendations of the Imperial Commission presided over by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, which made a report on the trade relations of Canada and tho Indies. Tho Hon. R. M'Kenzie, Minister for Public Works, has written to Mr. H. Okey, M.P.. in reply to a letter from tlie latter urging that tenders should he invited at an early date for the erection of the proposed Departmental Buildings at New Plymouth, stating that the resident engineer at Stratford has been instructed to invite tenders at once for the erection of the buildings in question. A rumour lias been circulated to the effect that tho St. Anhyn Town District is to be merged into the Borough without a poll, and numerous enquiries have been made both through the Mayor and at the Town Clerk’s office as to whether this is correct. The petition of tho ratepayers was for a poll and the merging cannot take place without a poll being taken. The date, however, has not yet been fixer!. Bleaching at St, Paul’s, Harringay, the Bishop of London said that among the congregation at a confirmation service he once conducted in AVcstminstcr Abbey was a girl of thirteen. During the service she said to her mother: “Do yon see them, mother?” “See what?” asked tho mother, and the child replied, “Angels on each side of the bishop.” It was said that tho pure in heart shall see God, and was it not therefore possible that a child perfectly pure could see things adults could not see? The annual picnic in connection with the AVliiteley, A'ogcltown. and Frankleigh Park Methodist Sunday Schools was hold at Air. C. Carter's and Air. AA'right’s properties, Frankleigh Park, qn Thursday afternoon. The scholars from AVhitotey and Vogeltown schools, their teachers, and a large number of parents and friends left town about noon, several expresses having been engaged to convoy the party to the picnic ground. The weather was all that could be desired for such a gathering, and tho properties being particularly suitable for picnics, everyone appeared lo spend a most enjoyable time. The youngsters were provided with lunch and tea. During the afternoon races and various games were indulged in. The arrangements wore admirably carried ont, and teachers and friends spared themselves no effort hi order to ensure the success of the fixture. It would not ho wide, of the mark to state that the prices in the Alelbonrno’s sale of Stewart Hustin’s stock have created a precedent in the history of good values. Such values as tlie following arc absolute records. Men’s genuine panama hats 10s Gd. Men’s wire tweed trousers os lid. Mon's and boys’ island hats with straps Is each.' Ladies’ os 6d corsets for 2s lid. Mon’s tailor-made suits 45s to 59s 6d. Sensational bargains.*

By the Ruapehu, which arrived from London on Wednesday night and was berthed on Thursday, there came to Now Zealand ten saloon passengers, 39 second saloon, and 207 third class. Of these, six saloon, 17 second saloon, and 44 third class passengers were hooked for Wellington, the remainder having tickets for Auckland, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and other ports. Assisted passages were granted lo 26 adults. Twelve were domestics, seven farm labourers, and two farmers. Their capital ranged from £2, passessed by some domestics, to £6O. The passengers from Capetown were three first saloon, one second saloon, and three third class. The effect of tho Budget on the Scottish whisky trade has been illustrated in Edinburgh Court of Session, when a petition for the winding up of the Glenmoray Glcnlivet Distillery Co., Ltd., of Elgin and London, was considered. It was stated that there was now no market for Highland distilleries, and that a distillery at Kingussie, which cost about £40,000 was recently sold for £6OO. The Glenmoray Company stated, in reply to the petitioner’s statements, that owing to the depression in the whisky trade, they considered it expedient not to, distil during the past season. At least ten other distilleries in the district followed the same course. One Of the members of the New South Wales Totalisator Commission at Auckland on Thursday referred in a .deprecating way to the presence of an official at the Ellershq course hurrying people up to the machine. It is explained (says the Auckland Star) that it was not' any part of this official’s intention to tout for custom for the totalisator; the idea is merely to regulate the traffic. With the same object in view, the police usually have several officers posted along the entrance and exit paths to tho machine to keep excitable or thoughtless people from causing a block in the traffic by using a wrong gate. This is, it has been explained, a favourable rusO of pickpockets. Two or three of these evilly-disposed gentry will make what is apparently an excited rush into the totalisator by way of one of the exit gates. In tho temporary block and confusion the opportunity is seized to get away with such objects of value as light fingers can extract from unguarded pockets in the time available. There must be something in tho general belief that the hardness of skulls of tho black race is far in excess of those of the Caucasian (says a Philadelphia paper). Following an altercation over a woman at a party given in the home of Henry Lewis, thirty-six years old, of No. 2402 , North Alder Street, Lewis, a- negro, was shot four times in the head at a raiige of less than oft. After penetrating the flesh the bullets flattened out and dropped to the floor. Lewis was taken to the Samaritan Hospital, but was soon permitted to go to his home. The man who shot him escaped. AVhile harnessing a mule in a stable at No. 418 East iiittenhou.se Street, William Piffen, a negro, thirty-three years old, of tho same address, was kicked in the head and knocked down. Getting to his feet, Piffen discovered the mule lying on the ground. Examination showed that the animal’s log was broken. Piffen was taken to tile Germantown Hospital, where six stltbhes were taken in his head. The mule was shot. “A, Kent Man,” who has been 35 years in South Africa, writing from Capetown, says;—“Speaking as a mechanic I wish to warn your readers that South Africa is not such a happy hunting ground, nor the land of milk and honey, as people in England are led to believe. Workingmen have had to struggle very hard for a bare existence. The cost of the necessities of life are 30 per cent., and rent 40 per cent, higher than in England. 1 The prices of work have been cut down to nearly starvation point. There are no labour organisations, and capitalists have it all their own way. Thousands of people have left these shores during the acute depression in trade, flying from poverty. South Africa is not a. white man’s' country; there is such a preponderance of blacks who work for starvation wages, and employers of labour don’t care as long as they got their work done cheaply. Artizans get from 3s to 5s a day; labourers, 2s to 3s a day; and farmers’ boys Is to 4s a month, with food and shelter. It is impossible for white men to complete with those rates, and elderly men especially have a bad time, for there is no old age pension here.” The war in the air which will precede the great battles of the future was dealt with in a lecture at the»Jßoyal United Service Institution by Captain C. J. Burke, of the British Army Air Battalion. “On the outbreak of war,” he said, “it is to be expected that the aeroplanes of both sides will endeavour to reconnoitre and to pick up all the information possible about the enemy's concentration areas. It is probable that the first day will sco them in collision, as it is vital to success that the enemy should be deprived of the use of aeroplanes as early as possible in the campaign. It appears probable that the passengers in the aeroplanes will carry weapons of precision, which they will use against their adversaries, and it may even be necessary to have recourse to wrecking the hostile aeroplane by the ‘back-wash’ of tho propeller, although that is a very risky proceeding. There will be a struggle for the supremacy of the air, and we may assume that" a commdndcr whose aeroplanes have defeated their adversaries can hope, for an extraordinary amount of clear and accurate information as to his enemy’s dispositions for, and intentions of, battle.” The purchase of laud by tho Government for the erection of workers’ dwellings is not always an umnixed advantage to the locality. A recent report to tho Petone Borough Council' stated:—“The lands in the Wilford and Herelaunga Settlements to the extent approximately of 73 acres, are still uomrale-produoiug. The' Government valuation of this land is £41,632, The rates payable on it would amount to £656 0s 6d per annum. This amount has to be met by the Petone ratepayers, and to tho qwner of a section valued at £250 this represents an annual levy of 4s lOd. This is practically the amount that each sec-tion-holder pays in Petone because the Government some six years ago undertook the purchase of expensive laud for which they can find no use.”' In other words, tho Government, which docs not pay rates, purchased tin's land and thus robbed the’ Borough Council of the rates which it previouslv obtained from tho owners of flic land. All private owners of property, who are competed against by tho Government in the matter of securing tenants for their houses, not only have to pay the ordinary rates, but are mulcted also in the extra amount necessary to make up the loss duo to the non-payment of rates by the Crown.

This hot spell makes one long for the beach. Get your swimming costume from the Kash they’re the lowest priced people in town. Boys’ full costumes Is Id, men’s full costumes Is 3d, boys’ trunks 9d, men's Canadian costumes, the genuine article, 3s fid. Don’t wait until the fcot woahter is gone buy right away.*

“Tho year just ended is the first during the last twenty years in which a boat has not gone ashore.” This was a paragraph from tho report submitted by the Pilot, Captain Tinney, to the Harbour Board on Monday, says the Patea Press. The Chairman, Mr. G. V. Pearce, said this was highly satisfactory, and referring to the state of the bar, stated that the fact that the bar had remained open during tho long spell of westerly weather was direct evidence that tho work carried out at the mouth of the river had been of very considerable value. A novel kind of globe-trotter in th( person of Mr. F. K. B. Butcher is iii town to-day. He is one of the proprietors of W. Butcher and Sons, .Ltd., makers of the Empire cinematograph machines and pictures, of London, and is on a trip round the world. The Empire Company produce nothing but scenic and industrial pictures, and the visit is all the more singular when it is noted that Mr. Saunders (new Empire Theatre) is at present showing one of Messrs. Butcher's films, entitled “The Home of the Famous Cullinan Diamond.” This picture, which will be included in the change of programme for to-morrow, was token by Mr. But- \ cher while on his trip in South Africa, where lies pent seven months. He told Herald reporter this morning that he had just fitted up a con\plete plant for taking and finishing topical subjects. Mr. Butcher explained that this Will mean that Mr. Saunders will be able to take a picture in town and show it on the screen the same night. When Vice-Admiral King-Hall visited the Protector, the Australian naval braining ship at Hobart last week, he made some interesting remarks on tho subject of defence. In the days to come, the very existence of the Commonwealth would depend upon the potency and prowess of her naval forces, said the Admiral. Here was a country double the size of China, with a population only about equal to that of Yorkshire, and increasing ,at the rate of a few thousands a year. Thinking persons must ask the question: How is this immense continent to be reserved for the handful i of British, people who have appropriated it as' their own. Of course, to pour the people in was the vital necessity, but that was not the point he desired to bring before them. He dwelt upon tho necessity of making the first line Of defence, -the navy to. which they belonged, which was part of the Imperial fleet, so efficient, so ready, that when the time of testing came if it ever did, they would not be found wanting, and would be ready to take their place in line with the fleets of the Old Country in defence of the shores of Australia. To-morrow White and Sons o.Yer for tho first time 160 curtain ends at Is, v/ Is Gd.and 2s each. These pieces are half lengths of lace curtains showing the bottom edge and the side designs. This very limited number will be eagerly snapped up, so customers should take the opportunity of looking, over . them as early as possible.*