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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143786, 9 May 1912, Page 2

Air. H. Okoy, ALP., recently wrote to the Minister of Railways requesting that the dining-car bo again attached to tho mail train between Arnmoho and New Plymouth. The Hon.. Air. Alycrs has replied that lie will inquire into tho matter and communicate again with Air. OSey.

A coalownor’s wife was engaging a maid (says the Liverpool Post) and tho applicant for tho position seemed satisfactory bo far as appearances and reference were concerned. The mistress, about to appoint the damsel, said: “By tho way, what is your name?” “Alinnie, mum,” she replied. “Ob, go away,” said tho coalownor’s wife, “and never let me see you hero any more.”

Fifteen hundred members of the Oriental Consistory (says a Chicago cable to tlic Sydney Sun) have arranged to place on hoard the next outgoing White Star liner an immense wreath, which is to bo dropped into the sea in the vicinity of where the Titanic foundered. This lingo floral emblem is intended as n tribute to the Freemasons who wore drowned in the difcVcr. and will bear the inscription “At rest,” Captain Burry accomplished an unprecedented feat in England when ho descended fruia an aeroplane by means of a parachute. He rose in a biplane piloted by Mr. Jannus, and when a height of 1590 ft had been reached the airman steadied the biplane ami Captain Jierry let himself down through the frame.' Ho then caught Hold of the rings of the parnchuto, which were attached to the bottom of the aeroplane, lot go, and dropped 300 ft before the parachute opened. Ho then drifted slowly to the earth unharmed. During a heavy storm at Hobart, the jiable cud of a terrace of houses was blown out, and the debris smashed through the roof of a cottage on to two beds, whore a man ami his wife and two children were sleeping. The occupants were buried by bricks and mortar to a depth of oft., and how they ci-caped serious injury, if nor death, was miraculous. The wife and one girl were badly cut about the lace, and suffered severely from shock, but are now improving.

The first batch of' prosecutions in connection with the new by-law framed to regulate the size of hatpins which the ladies wear came before the Sydney Central Police Court a tow days ago. Annie Kelly, a very timid-look-ing woman, ivho was wearing a small black hat—or cap—through which was a very carefully-protected hatpin, was the first of the four called. When asked how she pleaded, she timidly answered “Yes.” The hatpin, it was explained, protruded 31in. A fine of os. with Gs costs, was, imposed. Three other women wore similarly dealt with. Professor Wilson, speaking at a meeting of the Sydney University Women's Settlement last week, said that we lived in the midst of a revolution as true and deep as the French Devolution of tho 18th Century. It was an ago of phenomena which most of us only half understood and many did not understand at all. Class consciousness in the worst sense was sure to eventuate unless we made a more serious effort to understand one another. One of the distressing conditions of this time 'was the suspicion and distrust with which certain of tho more cultivated and richer classes wore regarded by tho poorer classes. The effects of the hurricane in Fiji in January last were much exaggerated, says Air. A. M. Urodziuk, who returned to" Sydney last week from his periodical visit to tho group, where ho has some branches of his business established. Some damage was done, lie says, on Taviuui, Labasa, and some of tho smaller islands windward, but tho other parts of the group were comparatively untouched. Some of tho larger banana trees, with fruit on, wore blown down, but in a few months’ time the output will bo as largo as, if not larger than, ever, for the soil has great vitality, and soon recovers from these storms. The ladies’ shower-proof tailor-fin-ished coats shown by Tho Kash aro quite tho smartest soon in Taranaki. While they arc splendidly cut, made and finished, tho prices, ns usual at Tho Kash, are only Thoy have them at 355, 38s, 42s 6d and 455.*