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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143768, 17 April 1912, Page 2

Mr. F. Black, consulting engineer of Wellington, will visit New Plymouth in two or throe weeks’ time to inspect 5 the route of the proposed tramway. 3 Owing to tho death of Mrs. Arthur Cliff, the committee of the North Tara- ’ naki Hunt has postponed the opening 1 of the season, arranged for Thursday „ next.

Nominations for the “position of Mayor of the Borough of New Plymouth closed at noon to-day. The only nominations received were those of tho sitting Mayor, Mr. G. W. Browne, and 1 Mr. J. S. S. Medley.

In connection with tho new Agricultural Hall that is now being built the Minister of Internal Affairs has written the Town Clerk that, as £7OO has now been expended, he has been pleased to approve of tho payment of the Coronation subsidy of £250. At a meeting of directors of the New Plymouth Gas Company, Ltd., hold on Tuesday afternoon, on tho motion of Mr. G. A. Corney. seconded by Mr. A. MoL. Thomson, Mr. E. Dockrill, senior director, was appointed chairman. Messrs. A. McL. Thomson, C. T. Mills and the chairman wore also appointed a committee to report upon the question of the administration of the company.

At tho last meeting of the Egmont County Council the following resolution regarding the traction traffic and tramway proposal on the Main South Road was carried after much discussion: — “That further consideration of the matter be held over until the Taranaki County Council receives information from the Government as to the harnessing of Bell’s Falls and also until it is ascertained it the scope of the proposed Railway Commission includes the consideration of tramway proposals.”

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With tho advent of colder nights, warm bedding claims rho attention of capable housewives. White and Sons are ready with a stock of blankets and quilts, at bed-rock prices. Every blanket wo stock is all wool colonial make, and may he relied upon for years of satisfactory wear.*

The "Wellington office reports that the Victoria, Moana, and xofua will probably be within wireless range tonight. Teacher (describing her encounter with a train); And then ... I faint-" ed. Little Johnnie Jeffries: Wi’ yer left or wi’ yer right, ma’am? In the university examination results just published 14 women and 27 men attained the M.A. degree, 6 men that of M.Sc., and 24 women and 36 men that of B.A.

Visitors to Rotorua during the Easter holidays got a great scare through 26 earth tremors occurring witliin half an hour. In some cases the people dressed themselves and went out into the streets. The disturbance ceased at a quarter to 4, except for one slight shock at 7 a.m.

At an inquest in the South of England the other day on a case of suicide, the jury retired to consider their verdict, anti remained absent for an unusual length of time. At last they returned, and the foreman announced. with solemnity: “The jury are all of one mind—temporarily insane.” In spite of the sad occasion there was suppressed laughter in court. '

The orohardists of Otago 'will not bo chuckling over profits just now (says the Dunedin Star). Prices are down to bedrock, and the profit on a case of apples, say, from Teviot, must bo about the size of the famous widow’s mite. It is said that the cost of a case alone—material and making—is a shade under 9d, and if a grower can obtain only from Is to 2s for a case of apples and pears in Dunedin, it is clear that he is not on the ■way to fortune.

The Paris Matin publishes an account of an extraordinary waltzing match in which eight couples took part at Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy, 'i'ho dancers began at 10 o’clock in the evening of February 25, and did not cease until they wore compelled to do so from exhaustion. By midday on the 26th, when there remained only two couples in the contest, the jury ordered the termination of the match, which had' lasted for fourteen hours, and Rogaldi, who was adjudged champion, fainted immediately afterwards. The waltzers ■were allowed to change their partners during the contest.

At four o’clock on a recent morning, a man, aged 1 twenty-one, was seen knocking at the Ashford (Kent) Police Station door. Tho policemen on night duty asked what was the matter, and he replied, ‘T want to give myself up for murder.” One of the policemen noticed that his eyes were closed, and it was afterwards found that he had walked from his home, one and a-half miles away, while sound asleep. He was carrying a can of tea, and had not spilt a drop. The police took him home. Ho was put to bed, and is none the worse for his adventure. No murder had been committed, the crime being a delusion of the man’s brain in his somnambulistic state.

The New York Herald tells a story of a bulldog. Two men, Messrs. Archibald Greer and Hall Brown, wo are told, started in the poultry business. Greer furnished the experience and Brown furnished tho capital and a bulldog. They started with twenty hens and a rooster, and had very poor success until Greer suggested that they put the bulldog’s house m the chicken yard and have the animal sleep there in order to prevent tho stealing of chickens and eggs. Lately the poultry farm has been producing 20 eggs from 20 hens day in and day out. Lpon investigation tho partners found that when a hen came out in the morning the bulldog chased her into his house and kept watch over her while she laid an pgg. He-then chased her off and chased another hen into the doghouse, and repeated tho cgg-producin.g ■ treatment. By five o’clock in the evening of ,oaeh day the 20 hens had each been forced to contribute one egg to the Greer-Brown combination. Mr. Greer has been offered 500 dollars for the bulldog, but has refused.

Four of tho leading moving picture show concerns in Australia are about to amalgamate, and form what will now be tho largest cinematograph concern south of the Bine, states ■ a Sydney paper. The capital will bo £250,00t). The whole of the Australian interests of the great firm of Pathe Frores have been purchased by Wests’ Pictures, and will bo handed over to the new firm. The first move in the direction of amalgamation was made by West’s Pictures, and the negotiations have been cbnducted for several weeks. The firms now included in the new firm will be Messrs. West, C. Spencer, J. and N. Tait, and Johnson, Gibson and Co. Mr. J. D. Williams was a party to the negotiations, hut eventually decided to remain outside the new company, and run his business independently of the new firm. The now arrangement, it is stated, is more on the lines of a business association than an actual amalgamation. It will be worked somewhat on the lines of the Steamship Owners’ Association, and, besides preventing undue overlapping, will result in a far better service to the public. Esperanto is no longer in the experimental stage; it is a living language in use by over one million of people in tho world. Seven congresses have been held and attended by members of 40 different nationalities and languages. Tho congress this year is to be held in Melbourne. In this colony groups have been formed in various localities, and it is hoped that in time sufficient interest will be awakened to warrant its introduction into tho schools. Esperanto is rapidly receiving official recognition in many quarters. Although until 1905 Esperanto was unknown in the United States, it is now being taught in tho University of Wisconsin, Massachusetts Institute, Pittsburg High School, and Stanford University. In France very much propaganda- work is being earned on; 1200 children are being taught it m the Government schools. Red Cross societies are taking it np enthusiastically in several countries. The Catholics publish two Esperanto magazines, and tho Y.M.C.A. also have their own. In England the National Union of Teachers has"included Esperanto in its examinations, as does also the London Chamber of Commerce. There are now 2000 societies and groups throughout tho world. One association, the U.E.A., h n ™ n e <J membership of 8000, has established delegates or consuls m 900 efferent cities, and these are proving of invaluable benefit to tourists and commercial houses.

Talking about crooked spines in females, it is an astonishing fact that this disease is prevalent to an alarming extent amongst workers of sewing machines in factories, etc. This is because the operator cannot sit upright af her work; she cannot sit opposite the treadle and needle-bar at the , same time. An absurdly simple invention has been brought out by tho Standard Sewing Machine Co. whereby this serious defect is obviated. Tho needle works right opposite the eye of the operator, and she can sit perfectly upright. This remarkable invention should be hailed with delight by all interested in the health of girls. The J.P. Hardware Co., Devon Street, are the sole agents, -and the juiKa.iaxSlO, 4

An Australian gentleman has taken out a patent for a discovery whereby new cheese can bo given all the qualities which pertain to old cheese. This, Punch suggests, seems to point to a successful experiment in colonisatioii. Cheese it I At Southbrook, a few miles from Christchurch, a trap horse was killed by lightning recently. The owner had just taken the hors© out of the trap when the storm came on, leaving the harness on and covering the animal with a horserug. It appeals that the lightning Was attracted by a buckle on the bridle, and it mode a mark right along the horse’s body. A Raetihi Native, while "scorching” on the footpath, bad the bad luck to collide with Mr. W. Kerr, S.M., who was standing conversing with a lady. The dusky cyclist struck the Magistrate on the side and spun him round like a teetotum, according to a constable’s evidence. A summons was served on the offender, who admitted his delinquency, but when the court sat ho failed to appear; in .fact, defied its authority. The police asked that a substantial penalty be imposed, and the defendant was mulcted in £2 and costs 7s.

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