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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143772, 22 April 1912, Page 2

Patea has started on a progressive career. The residents propose to raise a loan of £SOOO for the purpose of erecting ft town hall and municipal buildings. A recent visitor to the Chinese slum quarter in AA’ollington found quite a large number of the inhabitants in bed at 11 a.m. In his opinion the Chinese got far too much credit for industry.

During the last financial year the revenue of the Hawke’s Bay County Council was £30,694 and the expenditure £30,261. The year commenced with a credit balance of £399, and ended with a credit balance of £832. In 1907 the council had a debit balance of over ten thousand pounds, so that its present position is all the more congratulatory. The rateable value of the county is about six millions sterling.

Mr. Crust, managing proprietor of the Royal Pictures and Orchestra, announces that an extended lengthy lease of the Theatre Royal has been secured by him, and arrangements were made while in Wellington for the screening of all West’s weekly exclusive pictures. In addition a new projecting machine and up-to-date lighting plant is shortly to be installed. With these improvements effected the Royal Pictures and Orchestra will be equal to the best picture entertainment in New Zealand.

When it was proposed at the meeting of the Moa Road Board on Saturday that Mr. Harold Trimble’s name should bo placed on the Manganui Bridge, the chairman remarked that this- kind of thing had always reminded him of a verse which he had once seen which commemorated that some country chairman had, ‘‘out q! his marvellous bounty, built this bridge out of the funds of the county.” He modestly made little of his services to the board, but was ultimately prevailed upon to allow his name to be handed down to posterity on the county bridge. The Japanese residents of Hawaii—and there are many thousands of them —are not so far proving the menace to the peace and prosperity of that country that so many yellow-peril criers professed to believe, states the New Zealand Herald; hut as their number is now so considerable, further introduction has been forbidden. Of those that have settled in the island, Mr. W. H. Hooge, chairman of the Hawaii Promotion Committee, told a reporter that they were well-behaved, industrious citizens. He considered ridiculous the statements made by outsiders to the effect that it would not be long before they would rise in revolt. At the meeting of the Moa Road Board on Saturday a considerable amount of time was taken up with a disousion as to whether a culvert under a roadway with a depth of 10ft. to 12ft. of soil between the road and the top of the culvert would stand up if the workwork of the culvert had rotted away. The engineer was of the opinion that the road would not be in any great danger of collapsing, for he said that numerous culverts in the country were completely rotten and not holding up any weight of earth. His opinion was not shared by some of the amateur engineers on the board, and a resolution was passed that the culvert should bo filled in.

Buying direct from the world s best makes “The Kash” lead the way ’n men’s and hoys’ clothing. ■ For men they have a splendid tweed trouser at 7s lid, beautiful worsteds at 9s lid, all wool flannels at 2s sd, Roslyn all wool ribbed under-pants at 4s 6d, and a host of other bargains.*

Colds being always dangerous, it is best to get rid of them at once. Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion is infallible.

A Waipawa telegram reports that two earthquake shocks were felt about on Sunday morning. Mr. J. B. Avery is resigning the position of secretary of the Taranaki Hockey Association.

Householders’ meetings for the ©lection of school committees will be held to-night at 7 o’clock, in the schoolrooms.

At the Auckland Police Court on Wednesday a shopkeeper was fined 10s damages and £3 6b 9d costs, the reason being that a nail projecting from his premises had played havoc with the trousers of a man who was passing by. A recent Hawke’s Bay visitor to Australia states that the Education Department in Victoria is making a new departure in illustrating lessons by means of moving pictures, which is found to possess many advantages over the ordinary oral methods. Sir Robert Anderson, ex-Mayor of Belfast, who is now touring New Zealand, stated to an interviewer in Christchurch that the Belfast tramways system is run at a profit, and about £20,000 is being given from the tramway earnings towards the relief of the rates. The Railway Department has made good arrangements for those wishing to visit the Territorial camp at Hawera. On Tuesday and Wednesday holiday excursion rates will be available, and all passenger trains with the exception ,of the mail trains will stop at Hawera racecourse if required; At a meeting held in Dunedin, one speaker, with special reference to the Territorials, expressed the opinion that all old married men were worth a place upon the field by virtue of their tactical experience. To use his own words, which were received with a shout of laughter: “Men who have been inured to warfare by years of married life, in which, if they have acquired nothing else, they have at any rate learned some useful defensive tactics, such as how to elude and evade an enemy, to recognise the presence of a superior force, and in the face of inevitable defeat to effect honourable terras of surrender.” Shortly after twelve o’clock last night the water main, at the junction of Egmont and King streets burst, the break occuring at tlie same spot at which a similar mishap occurred, soon after the 8-inch main had been substituted for the smaller one in Egmont Street, about six years ago. The roar of the inpromptu geyser, soon brought the night-watchman to the spot, and he promptly gave the alarm, with the result that a gang of the borough staff wer© soon on the spot. Where the water had been shut off it was seen that the roadway had been washed out forming a deep and dangerous hole. Mr. Tom Smith and his men, had the work of repairs finished, and the water again turned on in the main by 10 o’clock this morning. “Reforms by revolution in the poor law,” said Mr. John Burns the other day, “had been denied us from many reasons and for many causes. But if reform by revolution has been denied us, revolution by reform has been most surely and efficiently secured. In London there has been a decline in the general deathrate of 19 per cent., tubercular disease has diminished by from 25 to 33 per cent., in the last six years infant morality has declined 30 per aent.. the total pauperism has been di minished 15 per cent., the total pauperism over 70 by 50 per cent., and old age pauperism over 70 (outdoor) by 94 per cent. I might be asked whether London is getting its grip on the problems of the underworld. Here, also, we have some reason for encouragement. London,- which has 28,000 lodg-ing-house beds, has only 21,000 lodgers to occupy them. Better still, is the fact that the (homeless persons in London aro 34 per, cent, less than two years ago, and't will be disappointed if the census taken last week does not make that decline 60 per cent, lower than it was three years ago. AVith these things to encourage ns, we have no reason to despair of grappling with what remains of this tremendous problem.” The Kaupokouui 00-opcrative Dairy Factory Company, Ltd., paid out for milk received curing the month of March £11,312 4s sd, at the rate of 13d per lb. of tat, as compared with £8260 6s lOd for March of last year. The number of cheeses made in. the months of January, February, and March of this year exceed the number for the same mouths of last year by 2548 cheeses, or, approximately, KJO tons. As indicating the nature of the season just drawing to a close, the rough dry spring and the good summer for dairying, the following figures, published in the Hawera Star, are instructive: On October 81 the output of cheese from Kaupokonni showed a shortage as compared with last year of 13 per cent. This shortage gradually diminished to 10 per cent, at the end of November; 7J per cent, at the end of December; 6 per- cent, at the end of January ; 2J per cent, at the end of February; and at the end of March had disappeared altogether; whilst the month of April promises to show an increase over April of last year of almost 10 per cent. Thus the good summer has more than made up for the bad spring, and the groat price this company will b© able to pay out for butter-fat toll make this the greatest year ever known in the history of cheesemaking in New Zealand for the suppliers of Kaupokonui. Sir Joseph Ward had hardly set foot in Christchurch on Tuesday when he received a communication from an anonymous correspondent, who, in the letter, stated: “An inquirer wishes to know if Mary found out who spoilt her best hat.” On the letter there had been pasted the following clipping from a London newspaper: “I chanced to be one of those on the platform at Charing Cross to see Sir Joseph \\ard, the New Zealand Premier, off to Southampton, on his way hack to his native Dominion, and a friend of Sir Joseph s seized the occasion to tell me the following amusing story concerning the distinguished New Zealander. At bir Joseph’s home at Wellington, it appeared, the servants chanced one night to be early abed, and, hearing a dpoibell ring, Sir Joseph answered it himself. A young man stood on the steps, holding a largo package. . Q „ 1“ Mary, the cook, at home, sirr ne asked. “Yes, but she’s gone to bed, returned Sir Joseph. “Can I * ea T? this for her, sir?” “Certainly, said Sir Joseph. He took the bundle, from which flowers and buds were protruding, and, after bidding the man S°°"" night, carefully carried it to the kitchen, where he deposited it, paper and all, in a bowl of water. Sir Joseph thought no more qf the matter until the following morning, when he heard Mary’s angry voice raised in conversation with the housemaid. It 1 had the villain here who put my new spring hat in this ’ere dishbowl, cried the coo\. ‘l’d black his blessed eyes for him.’ ” “Hoy we never desire what we cannot obtain.” This is a popular toast — but we can always obtain Martell’s Three Star ,and how often we need it! Thestory of the Stars—Ask for Martcll’s Three Star. Different countries have different customs. This does not apply to Martoll’s Brandy which is drunk everywhere. *

The Eltham Co-operative Dairy Factory Company at a special meeting resolved to increase the capital of the company from £20,000 to £40,000 and alter the present basis of allotment of shares, so that the shares may be taken up by the present suppliers. This increased, capital is required for the installation of a cheese .plant.—Press Association.

An unpleasant incident took place at the King’s Theatre, Wellington, last Sunday night, when a Socialist lecturer was giving an address under the auspices of the New Zealand Socialist Party. There had been a good deal of interruption, and one member of the audience became so noisy that the speaker pleaded for order, and reminded -his audience that the Socialist Party had paid for the use of the theatre. “I’ve paid threepence to come in,” said the interrupter. A voice; “Give him back hia threepence and put him out.” The disturber, however, declined to leave, and it was not until after a prolonged scuffle that he was ejected through a side door. Several disturbers who had left the theatre battered on the door, but a constable restored order, and the speaker proceeded with his address. The Government’s endeavour to establish a trout-curing station at Tpkaanu, on Lake Taupo, does not appear to have been an altogether successful venture. On Wednesday a prominent angler informed an Auckland Herald reporter that up till about a month ago the business had been little more than a farcb. There was just one method of smoking trout properly, and that method was not to hang thP trout by the head over a smouldering fire—which had been ' done at the de_pot. The result was that consignments qf fish, Supposed to have been properly cured, had been sent down to Wellington, and upon arrival it had been found that they were utterly unfit for consumption. Several English anglers had, however, been able to profit out of the venture, if the department had not succeeded in doing so. They had been paid one penny a pound for trout, and after disposing of even moderate catches had been able to defray all the expenses qf a pleasant holiday and to depart with a useful credit balance.