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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143782, 4 May 1912, Page 2

The Wellington office advises that tho Rcmuera, Mooraki, Mahcno and AVimmcra will probably be within wireless range to-night. A Maori wrote to tho Master-tori Countv Council as follows; “I will send you the money for the rates when I sell my sheep. lam very busy just now. t’loaso oblige.”

At the request of several school committees, the Rev. A. M’lnnes Bradbury has consented to become a candidate for the vacant seat on the Education Board.

“Seven hundred and twenty pounds is a big sum.” said Mr. J. Somervell at the meeting of the No-License League in Gisborne, referring to the amount of expenditure during last year. “The first election we ran here cost us £lO, and out of that wo bought a new suit of clothes for the secretary.” Mr. F. J. Murray, who recently visited England to “preach Australia” to British tradesmen, says that are coming from there as the result of his mission. Australia, he says, is becoming tho magnet for the better class of emigrant; so much so that Canada is sending a special agent to stem the turning tide. Tho euchre party and dance at AA’estown on Friday evening proved most enjoyable. The prizes, which wore given by Mr. Marfell, went to Mrs. Richard Sole (first). Airs. C. Sole (second), Air. I). Sartcn (first) and Air. H. Crazier (second). The music was provided by Airs. W. Lander (piano) and Air. AV. Putt (violin). Mr. D. Sarton proved au efficient AI.C. Tho Financial Secretary to the British War Office states' that, at the option of commanding officers and if desired bv the men, rabbits, refrigerated or fresh, aro supplied to the Army in lieu of fresh beef noc oftoner than once a week. No unfavourable reports have been received. The experiment may bo discontinued at any time if the men do not like it.

The chairman (Air. S. Elliot) was appointed tho Clifton County Council’s representative at the unveiling of the cairn in the AVaihi Alilitary Cemetery, and the monument in Victoria Park, Normanby, erected to commemorate the memory of tho fallen soldiers. Tho appointment was made at tho invitation of the NormaußV Town Board, and the ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 2l)tlr inst., at 2 p.m.

The Rev, J. AV. Burton commences to-morrow evening in tho AVhiteley Momorinl Church a series of “Sermons to the Thoughtful.” These addresses will be delivered fortnightly through the winter, and will touch questions that arise in the minds of thinking men and women. A syllabus of subjects has boon drawn up and published. The question to be dealt with to-morrow evening is, “AVhat evidence have we that GAd is?”

A dramatic meeting between a man who had betai believed to be dead and his wife took place last month in.some tenement buildings off AVostmiuster Bridge Road, London, S.AV. Charles Herbert Skinner, a porter, was supposed to have been buried in Stroatham Cemetery a fortnight before, tils wife having wrongly identified the body of a man who died suddenly in a Salvation Army shelter. Skinner reappeared at tho home of his sister-in-law, and .it was some time before ho could realise that ho had been mourned as dead. The “widow” was sent for, and later there was a happy reunion. Skinner had been searching for work. In returning thunks for his re-election as chairman of tho Harbour Board on Friday, Air. J. B. Connett referred briefly to the dredging operations. It was originally intended, ho sa-id, to dredge to a depth of 30ft, alongside the wharf, but subsequently, acting on the suggestion of the superintendents of. ’the .shipping companies, it had been decided .to dredge to 33ft. This additional 3ft. had been very difficult to dredge, particularly inshore, owing to the hard nature of tho material excavated, which frequently had to be blasted, and at times it was only possible to remove one load per day. This was one of the reasons there had not been so much work done as was anticipated at tho commencement of tho year. He had no doubt, however, that the board would bo able to carry out the work satisfactorily with tho money in hand, even though it did take them longer than was anticipated. j To-morrow night, in the Baptist Church, the Rev. F. Halls will begin a scries of addresses having for their object the study of the religions movements and personalities of tho nonChristinn world. The subject to-mor-row night will be “Jesus and Buddha.”

AVintor is here, and with it tho pressing necessity to provide a 'warjn coat for cold and frosty nights. Having secured a nice' rain-coat, your attention will he directed to the heavier makes, of which AVliite and Sons carry such a fine range. Those at 25s each aro worthy of special notice. They aro built for tho Taranaki climate.*

Members of the Equitable Building Society of Now Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will bo duo and payable on Monday next (May 6), at the secretary's office, Currie Street, from 9 a.in. to 12.30, from X p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 —-Advt.

It was announced at the annual Dressmakers’ Convention at Chicago, where 3000 delegates assembled, that tho season’s millinery novelty would be tiny electric lights in the hair, operated by a small flat battery concealed in tb© corsage. Tho lights will represent floral and jewelled effects.

Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, ex-Bishop of Ripon, addressing a meeting of ■ the Clergy Union for London last month, said the diminishing birth-rate in Europe would moan that the proportion of Christian to heathen people would tend to decline, and in this there was a very real danger. He suggested that the materialistic conditions of today were largely due to the fact that tho scale of living had risen so enormously that a large proportion of the population could live in comparative comfort without necessity for struggling. Therefore, there was a desire for a little more comfort, a little more folding of the hands.

A flash of lightning, followed hy a very heavy peal, of thunder, was experienced in Cleveland on Tuesday night. At the local post office a telephone instrument was struck, the wires fused, and tho box with its contents smashed to atoms, and hurled across the room, striking the wall on the opposite side, and falling into a chair. The wall was blackened, and holes were burned in telegraph forms. Mr. Robertson, storekeeper, was standing beside bis instrument when he was startled by a flash some feet long coming from the mouth of the receiver, and followed by a report like a pistolshot, sufficiently loud to alarm the neighbours.

The story of a vigil kept hy a bereaved mother on the banks of a canal in the hope, which was at Inst rewarded, of finding the body of her drowned son, is reported from Tipton, England. The boy was seen to fall into the canal while playing on the towing-path, but several days’ dragging operations failed, and 'it was thought that the body had been carried away by a passing boat. But the mother refused to believe that the boy, to whom she was greatly attached, had been carried away, and at length her vigil was rewarded. Under her eyes her child’s body rose from the bed of the canal to the surface alniost at the very spot where he had disappeared weeks ago.

A well-known resident of TJronui wrote in the following strain to the Clifton County Council: “I have tho honour to bring under the notice of vour council the existence of a cattle iliseaso in the township of Urenui called hero ‘The Long Paddock Disease.’ It seems to affect mostly wandering stock, and is now almost chronic, having existed for over 20 years or more. Still tho cattle seem to thrive on it, especially if they manage to get into any good grass paddock near the roads. I trust that vour council will take sharp and immediate means to arrest the spread of this violent disease, for, by so doing, you will confer a benefit on the suffering settlors in this township.” The settler will bo thanked for his letter, and informed that the council is taking steps in tho matter.

In an address to the members of the Christchurch Philosophical Society, Mr. A. M. Wright, discussing the subject of the chemist and his relations to the community, referred at some length to patent medicines, which met with short shrift at his hands. He stated roundly that not one patent medicine on the market—and he knew the formula of most of them —deserved its, reputation. Ho assured his hearers that one muchadvertised remedy consisted of 9G( parts of water. A certain elixir had been ascertained .to be a mixture _of sulphate of iron and Epsom salts, which the speaker characterised as an edifying mixture of faith and works. Q.he remedy for this state of things, Air. Wright held, was the creation, by means of school education in the first place, of a public oxrinion firmly opposed to quackery, and determined to class all tampering with the food of the community among criminal offences.

Several bush farms in that portion of the Ahuriri district near Port Alolyneux have' lately been abandoned by their occupants. On some of these places there are good dwellings and outbuildings, with orchards and cleared paddocks. But apparently the isolation and the plague of bad roads have proved too much for the settlers, who have moved in search of “fresh fields and pastures now.” Ono man who recently purchased the improvements and arranged for a lease with the Land Board, did not remain long. He told a friend: “The wife and children have bolted, and I think I’ll bolt, too.” “Bolt” he did. The' soil on these farms is fairly light, but excellent for grass and cereals] and in time to come when the country gets opened up these lands will no doubt be permanently occupied. At present their appearance conveys a sense of desolation and abandonment sad to see, says the Balclutha Free Press. '

A case the transference of a railway privilege ticket cam© before the Lower Hutt Atagistrate’s Court on Wednesday. A carpenter employed by the Railway Department was prosecuted for putting a privilege ticket issued to him to another use, namely, by transferring it to his sister. The latter Was charged with using tho ticket with intent to evade proper payment. Mr. Ayson appeared for both defendants, who entered picas of guilty. Ho stated that ho would admit that there had been a technical breach, but there was absolutely no intention to defraud the department. Defendants had no idea that they were doing wrong. They had already offered to refund the difference between the two fares. Dr. Al‘Arthnr said that tho breach was not a serious one, and he would, merely enter a conviction in each case, ordering the costs only to be paid. The sister was ordered to refund to the department the sum of £2 13s lOd.

Airs. Jenny Schmeyer was committed to prison at Allentown, Pennsylvania, recently, charged with bigamy. Although only twenty-seven years of ago, states a New York journal, she has had twelve husbands in ten years, and apparently was never divorced from any of them. “I liked them all,” she admitted reluctantly. Some are dead and some missing, but three attended the trial. The defendant is a small woman, vivacious, with dark eyes, but hardly beautiful. The listing of her husbands proved a very difficult task for the county detectives. They wore found hero, there and everywhere in Pennsylvania. The police do not pretend that tho list even i now is absolutely complete. _ To judge by the names the lady "was thoroughly cosmopolitan in choosing her mates from all nations. No record was given of their ages, but the magistrate said they were “evidently a mixed lot.” Airs. Schrncyor smiled when brought into court, and said she still hoped to secure a real good husband before she died.

For the showery winter weather, wo have at The Kash a fine lot of boys’ oilskins, all sizes, at 8s lid. men’s oilskins 10s 9d, men’s tweed overcoats 33s 9d, men’s hydrotite overcoats 355, men’s special Prestwoll shower-proof coats, in dark greys, at 35s 9d, moil’s willow calf, box calf boots, several shapes, at 16s 6d. Absolutely the best value m Taranaki, at The Kash.*

The fame of Sow Zealand hotter is spreading to distant places. Lately Taranaki factories have been receiving numerous inquiries from firms in America and South Africa for supplies of butter, but so great is the demand that dairy companies cannot supply half the quantity inquired for.

Amongst the saved from the Titanic there was reported to be a one-year-old child. The Carterton Daily News is informed that a well-known Wairarapa resident has communicated with the American Consul at Wellington offering to adopt the child, and asking that inquiries be at once made with that object.

The fact that many country districts carry a surplus of clergymen was referred to at the annual meeting of parishioners of St. John’s Church, Feilding. The vicar, the Rev. Mr. Innos Jones, said that Halcombe, which had a population of about three hundred people, had five churches with three resident ministers. The attendance at the Anglican Church services both at Halcombe and Stanway was deplorable.

Writing of seedless apples, Mr. Luther Burbank s,ays none of them are of any commercial value. ‘‘There was,’ ho says, ‘‘once a so-called stoneless plum, but it was not larger than a large bean, and was not fit for human food. The bush was an ill-shaped, thorny on©, and the fruit absolutely useless. Now there are growing on my farms splendid prunes and plums which are stoneless. Nature gives us a hint and it is man’s business to carry out the work to produce results. A deputation representing the manufacturers of billiard tables waited on the Hon. G. Lanrensou (Minister for Customs) in Wellington on Wednesday, asking that the duty on imported billiard tables be increased from 20 to 40 per cent. Mr. Laurenson promised that the question would be included among a number of others to be gone into mview of the tariff revision. Personally, he would prefer to take the duty off slates required for making billiard tables, rather than do as the deputation asked. An intending applicant for the Four Peaks runs—a man says the Timaru Herald) who would have made an excellent runholder—had his application rejected because he is the bolder of 83 acres of private leasehold land. The reason given for rejecting him on this account-by the Commissioner of Crown Lauds was that there were so many landless applicants the board did not consider it wise to allow those already holding land to compete against them. “The board might go further,” remarks the Herald, “and reject all applicants who, though landless, are sufficiently wealthy to allow them to live in.comfort without any land.” How many golfers would care to send a ball over the weathercock of St. Giles’, Edinburgh? It has been done, however, according to the Glasgow News. In virtue of a het in 1798, Mr. Scales, of Leith, and Mr. Smellie, a printer, were selected to perform the curious feat of driving a ball from the south-east corner of Parliament Square over the weathercock of the famous church (161 feet from the base of the building). They were allowed tho use of six balls each. These all went considerably higher than the vano, and wore found in tho Advocate’s Close, on the north side of tho High Street.

In these days, when political prophets it is interesting to hear what Ministers’ views are. According to the Hon. J. Colvin, who spoke at Darfiold on Friday night last, at a “social” to Mr. 6. Witty, when the House meets there will be no rate in the party. Every man would prove loyal. He did not say there.would not be a bit of a mix up in things, but let them go to the country, and the Liberal Party would come back to power. If he were a private member he would not vote against the party. He had asked for no seat in the Cabinet. He was sent for, and ho said that if he could be of assistance to the Liberal Party he would help them. A remarkable accident occurred in Brisbane last week. A pony attached to a sulky containing a young man and woman shied and swerved in front of a moving tramcar. Both occupants wore thrown out, and the pony in somo way got underneath the car. The animal remained harnessed to the dogcart, and the greatest excitement prevailed amongst a large crowd of spectators as the tram sped on, pushing the dogcart in front and dragging the pony underneath it. After dragging the pony along for fully fifty yards the car stopped and the animal got up, apparently uninjured. The sulky was smashed, but the occupants’ received only very slight injuries.

A relic of Otago’s early days is observable at Sawyers Bay, in the ferntree house erected there by the late Mr. Hugh M'Dermid in 1848, It is said that this fern-tree house (or hut), which was built by Mr. M'Dermid in 1848, was the first of its kind in the province. It at present constitutes one of the rooms of the dwelling-house of which it was the beginning, so to speak, for the house was built to include the fern-tree room, which Mr. M'Dermid, jun.; its present owner, says has always been regarded ns the most comfortable room in the house. The house is about to be removed, and it seems a pity that the fern-tree room could not be preserved as a memento of pioneer days. One or two points of interest to motorists wero mentioned during the hearing of a case at the Magistrate’s Court, Gisborne; —A motorist must'stop if the driver of an approaching vehicle holds up a hand. Should an accident occur and the motorist not stop, he is liable to an additional charge besides those arising out of the occurrence in the ordinary course of events. In giving judgment, Mr. Barton, S.M., said: “Motor cyclists and motor-car drivers go at a furious rate—at a. rate very dangerous to the public. Some of them seem to think the roads are made for them and give consideration to no one else using the roads.” The Central Scholastic Commission at Berne is of opinion that a woman is too old to teach after her thirtieth year, and during the last two years, states the Geneva correspondent of the Daily Express, in all the Government schools in the Swiss capital women teachers have been dismissed on attaining this age. The commission paid no heed to the storm of protests against this absurd rule, but the other day a young teacher who was about to he dismissed appealed against the judgment under legal advice, and the case came up before the General Council, which promptly decided in her favour. Tile verdict will completely change the existing regulations made by the Central Scholastic Commission. The “too old at thirty” rule does not exist for teachers in any other part of Switzerland.

Those in need of floor coverings for the winter are reminded that the Melbourne has in stock a small lot of superior carpet ends, consisting of real Axminstor Veronese velvet, and genuine Brussels. Each piece liyds long. Prices 5s lid and 7s lid.*

Through neglecting colds, thousands die that'might easily have boon saved by Tonldng’s Linseed Emulsion. Price, Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d, at Chemists and Stores,

A patentee down South is in trouble. A capital of £4OOO was raised to finance the development of the undertaking, and then the patentee went Home to perfect the invention and put the patent on the market. Now the capital is all swallowed up, the patent is still ‘‘in the air,” and the patentee is demanding payment of an amount due for salary. It appears that a sum of £250 a year was allowed him under this heading, together with travelling expenses, and it would seem that there is a lot of high feeling over the whole business. .The shareholders appointed a committee to try to come to terms with the patentee. It will thus be seen that all patents do not necessarily lead to fortune so far as fEd shareholders‘are concerned.

It takes five years’ study at the University of Sydney to learn to be a doctor, and seven years to learn to bo a scientific farmer. Mr. Trefle, the Minister for Agriculture, thinks this, is too long, and expressed that opinion at the Diploma Day celebrations at Hawkesbury College last week. His objection was that a course of instruction of such a length practically excluded many students from taking it. This is borne out by the fact that although the Chair of Agriculture has been established for sprue time there are only eight students. TKe se='6n years is not all spent at the University. The actual course under Professor Watt occupies only four years, but before that students must have been .for three years at the Hawkesbury College and have obtained the college diploma. The L.M.S. steamer John Williams, which is repairing at Nelson, is one of the most notable vessels in the world. She is the fourth of her lino, and bears the distinguished name of the martyr missionary or Erromanga. The steamer is a moat graceful model and is barqnentine rigged, with tall masts which carry a fine spread of canvas, largely used on her long voyages in the Pacific. It cost over £17,000 to build this mission ship, and the whole amount was raised by Sunday school children of Britain and Australasia; and for about twenty years the cost of maintenance and of running the steamer has been providedvby successive generations of children. The vessel’s tonnage is 750, with a crew of r.wenty-six, nearly all of whom are natives of Polynesia, who make some of the finest sanlors in the world.