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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143771, 20 April 1912, Page 2

The Napier ratepayers, by 568 to 381, have authorised an additional loan of £IO,OOO to complete the electric light and tramway scheme.

The iWollington office reports that the Victoria, Moann Maherio, Athenio and Tofua will probably be within wireless to-night. The'Antaretic ship Terra Nova is now on tho lay-up berth at Lyttelton, and, will in all probability remain there until November next, when she will leave again for the far south. The majority of her officers and crew have gone on holiday leave for about a fortnight.

The New Zealand Times has joined the press crusade against the mismanagement of the railway system. It says that the classification scheme has entrenched mediocrity in the top slot, and that the younger, more enterprising, more alert minds are kept sedulously in the background by the Tite Barnacles.

He was about to put his son out into the world, and tho lad hankered after a, job whore the pay was good and the work nominal. Ono profession after another was proposed and promptly discarded. “Confound the boy,” yelled the captain.. “Perhaps you will be good enough to tell me what your notion of a shop is!” “What’s the matter with a professional agitator?” was the gentle reply.

A meeting of ladies interested in the New Plymouth Technical College was hold in the Borough Council Chambers on Friday to discuss the beet way to raise funds for the purpose of assisting the college. Mrs. Dockrill was voted to the chair. Hr. Heatloy explained the various improvements that could be made, and the ladle® decided that a euchre party and dance should be held on Wednesday, May 22, at the Technical college.

The Mayor has received the following reply to tho telegram forwarded to the Minister of Railways on Friday: In reply to your telegram re an opportunity for parents of Territorials now in cahip at Hawera to visit the camp, l a® pleased to inform you that instructions have been given for excursion fares to be available on ordinary trains on luesday next, from New Plymouth and intermediate stations, so that all who are desirous of so doing may have an opportunity to visit the camp.—A. M. Myers, Minister of Railways.” At the conversazione held in the Technical School at the beginning ot March some of the ladies present were so pleased with what they saw that they offered to get up an entertainment if asked, at any time to raise funds. Consequently on Friday atteinoon Mrs. Dookrill convened a meeting, which was largely attended s Mi. Heatley was present, and after explaining the need of further funds, W decided to hold a euchre party and dance at the end of the first term in the Technical School buildrags. the date was fixed for May 22. A further meeting of the ladies 1 committee will be held on May .8 to make final arrangements. .The matter was cnthusiastically takhn up, aud it is hoped that the funds will benefit considerably. It is proposed that the proceeds will be devoted to securing further plant and conveniences for the girl students.

The Melbourne Clothing Company, true to their traditions as “the great price reducers,” announce the following new “cut" prices. Men’s ribbed allwool Kaiapoi socks Id pair, men s warm fleece-lined underpants and shirts 2s Ud, men’s knitted natural lambswool shirts and pants 3s lid, men’s splendid warm-ribbed heatncjr socks Is 6d pair, men’s hydrotite coats 37 6d and 49s 6d.* 1

' The, effort being made in Wellington to raise £6OOO towards the formation of a national art gallery is not yet meeting with brilliant success, only £428 having been promised as the result of a week’s campaign.

Mr. J. R. Hill, who promoted the recerit cricket match between the County and Borough Councils, desires through our columns to thank the members of both bodies for so readily falling in with the idea, and all those who assisted in carrying it out, also the public and the press for their support. The Easter sports at Prankley Road did not result in any substantial addition being made to the committee’s finances. To ensure a good working balance for next year the committee have arranged to hold another of their excellent dances on Thursday next. Particulars are advertised.

The services in the Whiteley Memorial Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev, J. W. Burton. The Sunday _ School children will repeat their anniversary music ‘at both services. The morning subject will be “The Sacrament of Service,” and in the evening Mr. Burton will preach upon “The Titanic Disaster and a Good God—Some Problems and Suggestions.” Miss Nellie Castle, the well-known contralto, will sing at the evening service Cowen s “Light in Darkness.”

“It’s the insects,” complained the amateur gardener. '‘They destroy all my radishes; and, try as I may, 1 can’t exterminate them.” “Best remedy I know,” said the friend, “is to lay salt between the rows. Never been known to fail.” “Well,” said the friend, when next they met, “and did you try the salt on those insects?” “Yes,” replied the other, “and the next morning the little beggars were pulling up the radishes, dipping them in the salt, and eating them by the score!” Representatives of the various fire brigades in Taranaki' held a conference at Stratford on Thursday, Superintendent Fred, bellringer, of New Plymouth, presiding. Waitara, Fitzroy, Eltham, Manaia, Inglewood, Hawera, and Stratford were also represented. It was decided to form a Taranaki Fire Brigades Association, and to hold a demonstration early in December next, the programme being the same as at the recent Daunevirke gathering. Invitations from brigades to have the first demonstration held in their respective towns will bo received up to Tuesday, May 28. Officers were elected as follows:—President, Superintendent Bellringer (New Plymouth) ; vice-presidents, Captains T. G. Grubb (Stratford) and Rolston (Inglewood) ; secretary and treasurer, Foreman Champion (Hawera). Being Saturday evening, and the races having taken place that after-, noon, the trains were packed. In one compartment, a little boy had been standing all the way, but before the journey had proceeded much farther Mrs. Jones kindly took him on her knee. "Were you very frightened, dear, as we passed through the tunnel?” the gentle lady asked. “Not much,” replied the little boy shyly. “But I thought you trembled , a little as X kissed you,” remarked Mrs. Jones, who was not even middle-aged yet. “Arid what’s your name?” “Toriy,” cafne the answer. “Then you’re a very lovable little chap! And how old are you ?” “Twenty-five, ma'am.” And Tony Spurs, the light-weight jockey, slid to the floor to the accompaniment of a piercing scream. French mothers want a Legion of Honour for themselves. A petition to that effect has been laid before the Senate, and M. Reyuald was commisedoued to report upon it. He now declares that he finds the petition very interesting. French mothers demand a pension lor each child they bring up. When a mother has eight children she is to receive a medal corresponding to the medaille roilitaire granted in recognition of valour arid equivalent to the V.C. The French mothers who bring up eight children aak for the badge ox courage, and M. Rejuiaki, the Senator, approves them, but he cannot hit upon a name for the new Legion. TTie Senate is to be left to choose the title. The pension claimed for brave mothers is not exorbitant. It is to be only 20f. a year per child. “We commend their moderation,” adds Senator Reyuald, and as spokesman of the committee he proposes the scheme to the Ministry of the Interior, with a strong recommendation for approval. Growing interest in cancer cures is stimulating physicians to strenuous efforts to devise a specific remedy against the horrible disease, and recently Dr. von Stein, in Moscow, delivered a lecture on a new method and demonstrated the successful results on patients whom he had treated with piroloxyne. Dr. von Stein (states the Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) maintains that in cancer of the throat, ear, nose, and face his remedy, if not altogether infallible, is at least a genuine specific and localiser. Several among the lecturer’s colleagues sharply criticised Dr. von Stein, alleging that he jumped to conclusions hastily. The action of piroloxyne, they stated, is insufficiently tested, and might possibly cause death. It is certainly harmful to the organism, as it contains pyrogallic acid, and cannot be said to destroy or arrest cancer. The discussion ended hi the formation of a commission of bacteriologists, chemists, and physicians for the purpose of subjecting the whole question to a careful scientific scrutiny.

Many people were wide awake on Friday'(says the 'Wellington Post) to see a young woman put into a hypnotic sleep by the compulsion of fixed stares and weird passes of hand by Professor Norwood, in a shop front of Willis Street This advertising expedient produced a congestion which constantly threatened an accident. The mesmeric power of curiosity made portions of the public indifferent to a risk of broken or mangled limbs by contact with passing cars The crowd was densely packed on the roadway, right up to the tramway rail, and bicycles were mixed up in the surging throng. Tile clang of the car bells no more perturbed the eager sightseers than the buzz of a fly. For all their interest in tho oars, which insisted on a right of way, they might have been under the spell of the stare and the passes. Sometimes a footboard slowly grazed the edge of the concrete mass of palpitating curiosity, but if spread no more alarm than a flick of a feather could have done. The police ordered a “moving-on” to keep the footpath reasonably clear, but they evidently considered that tho roadway was outside their province. An accident was possible every time a worried motorman anxious about Ins time-table, set himself to work his car through the zone of danger. _ Oil shares at a premium is splendid news to Taranaki,people, and to New Plymouth people in particular. Hiere are three things to bear in mind tins winter. Support the oil industry, support the ironsand industry and most of all support The Kask. They’re the best and most economical clothiers in Taranaki.* . , For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d„ 2s 6d- \

The Oakura Dairy Company will pay out to suppliers on April 26 for March milk £985 16s Bd, as against £765 2s 9cl for March, 1911, or an increase of £220 13s lid. *

According to the Inangahua Times, a unionist of 30 years’ standing went to the Coast the other day. He visited Runanga, Denniston, Millerton, and, trade unionist as he was, he expressed himself as absolutely shocked at the low level unionism has sunk to in those localities. The Runanga men he described as absolutely without any redeeming feature. “They are little short of savages,” he said. “They use before women without any cause or reason, the most filthy and disgusting language,' and their idea of unionism has simply sunk to an endeavour to get as much for themselves, and squeeze down the charges made on them, to the lowest possible. They had neither honour nor principle,” he went on. “I had no idea, admiring unionism as I do, of the depth of degradation these men had carried it.”

Three clergymen visited a two-up school at Hurstville on a recent Sunday on an evangelistic mission (says the Sydney Morning Herald). Two-up is the usual form of Sunday amusement for a large number of young men at Hurstville, who usually congregate at the foot of Maher Street. There were about 50 or 60 in the “school” when the trio of clergymen arrived. The visit was arranged by the members of the Church of England Men’s Society) It was only when the main party of miasioners were in their midst that the gamesters manifested any desire to make themselves scafce. A scramble to obtain possession of the instruments of gaming, the kip, and pennies, ensued. Tb© missioners (Rev. S. D. Farrington, Rev. Duncan Hudson, and Rev. H. Arnold) assured the young men that they were not members of the police force, and then took possession of the ring and started a service. On the service getting under way, attracted by the spirited singing, the gang gradually emerged from their, temporary hiding-places, behind rocks, stumps, bushes, etc., and listened. TJie clergymen vigorously appealed to the young men to employ their time more honourably, and made the best use of the opportunity their stolen march on the camp had given them.

An outward-bound Bondi tram bad more than a, full complement of passengers recently (says the Sydney Aiorning Herald). A thmman " witn beetling eyebrows and an anarchical beard was jammed tightly in a corner by a very stout man. He tried to read his paper, but the other wriggled and: squirmed in the endeavour to squeeze himself securely on to the seat, rendering concentrated attention on Antarctic discovery a , hopeless task., As the car turned into .Liverpool Street the stout man struggled viciously, causing his fellow-passenger to gasp for breath. “Don’t, sir, don’t,?’ ejaculated the man in the corner, while the other planted his feet firmly on the floor and began to push. “Don’t, I pray you, dont.” “Do you own the car?” was the irascible query. The thin man explained that the vehicle was the* property of the Government, and added by way of a rider that if it were his he would not let the fat man travel by it. This made the stout gentleman more determined than ever to get a full share of the seat. “Steady!” said the attenuated individual in a warning voice, “or there’ll bo an explosion!” The aggressive man stared in surprise. “Well, well,” explained the thin man resignedly, “I might as well tell you, that if you struggle much more the packet of dynamite Clips in my pocket will go off and blow us to pieces!” -Three women screamed simultaneously, and two men cried. “Guardi” while the stout man, without waiting for a practical demonstration, jumped from the car. “Now I’ll be able to read in comfort,” said the thin man with an expansive emile. And the oar smiled with him.

Authenticated stories of beggars dying and leaving thousands of pounds behind them, of their luxurious suppers in the Faubourg Saint Antoine after the “labours” of the day, and other tales of a similar character (writes the'Paris correspondent of tho London Daily Telegraph), have long convinced experienced Parisians- that mendicity, in this city, at any rate, does not pay’so badly as a business. Further evidence in support of this view has just been forthcoming in quite a lively manner.* A beggar, who could scarcely move along with the help of a couple of crutches, betook himself last evening from tho fashionable quarter which he patronises during the day to the populous district in which he resides, and oy way of beguiling the tedium of the road he halted at various public-houses, as seems to have been his custom. He had already spent a good deal of money on liquor when he stopped at another wineshop, but the effect of his potations was so apparent that the proprietor; declined to admit him. One crutch came in handy for the smashing of the window, and the other was" nearly broken on the head of the policeman who had been called to the rescue. Nor was this poor cripple, who had hardly been able to drag himself along, mastered until four'men had been summoned to . assist in taking him. into custody. When the man was at last searched at the station upwards of £2, the remainder of the day’s receipts, whs found on him. He must be making more than a Senator or a deputy receives from a grateful country for his services and, as need scarcely he added, he has no appearances to keep up-indeed very much the reverse, if he wants to do a brisk trade.

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