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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143838, 12 July 1912, Page 2

Tbo Wellington Office reports that the Zealandia, Tainui, Victoria, Moana, Moeraki, Malta!, Maheho and Dlimaroa should be within wireless range tonight. A Melbourne cablegram reports that early on Wednesday the thermometer registered 26.3, nearly six degrees below freezing point, the lowest temperature recorded for four years. The Taranaki Acclimatisation Society recently placed an order for 100,000 eesuTin brown trout ova from tho Hakataramea i waters. Tho consignment is expected to arrive to-night and -xho eggs will be placed in the society’s hatcheries at Ffankley Road. The Official Gazette (writes Reuter’s Tokio correspondent) contains an administrative order giving minute directions as to the method of application of corporal punishment in the Korqto peninsula. !Xho culprit shall lie on nis itomach, his hands stretched out above his head and fastened. Straps are to bp passed round the body and round the knee joints and arms, with tho clothes so arranged as to expose the hips. Tho pxecutionor shall stand with his whip at arm’s length, the tip protruding three inches over the edge of the prisoner’s body. The executioner’s left hand shall be on his left side, palm upwards, the right foot in advance, an 3 bearing the weight of the body. The stroke is to be delivered perpendicularly, and the skin, is in no circumstances to be broken. The punishment is to take place one hour after a meal, and the prisoner, if he requires refreshment during tho operations shall be given a drink of fresh water. The notice has provided .the Tokio press with an opportunity Tor displaying its wit. It is suggested that Mr. Yarmamoto, Minister of Finance, might obtain something towards covering the deficit in the budget by mating the spectacle a public one at a charge of Id per head for spectators. A smart new. model in youths’ threegarment suit is being shown by the Melbourne. Made of fine texture brown worsted, faintly striped or pencilled, it has a wonderfully smart appearance, specially cut long, shaped at waist, and with continuation knickers. • To fit youtha~l3 -to IfKyeais,—JScice-32a-J3d,*

From Shanghai it is reported that a now method of executing prisoners now prevails in the province of Chekiang. Instead of being beheaded, criminals are now first chloroformed and then shot. As a result of this improvement in local conditions, criminals are said to be flocking to the neighbourhood. Chatting to a Herald reporter last evening, Madame Read, the professional fancy roller skater', was loud in her praise at the splendid floor provided for linkers at the Coronation Hall. She said she has given exhibitions at all the principal rinks in the four centres and many provincial towns, but the Glido-away Riilk was undoubtedly the finest in the Dominion. “And what is the cost of three-tooth wethers?” asked the chairman of the Cost of Living Commission (Mr. E. Tregear) of Mr. 0. K. Wilson, M.P,, at Wellington on Monday. “Ha! ha! Excuse me, but you make me laugh,” said Mr. Wilson. “Wethers’ teeth come in pairs, you know; they rise from two-tooth to four-tooth. You don’t get three-tooth wethers.” Tho chairman laughed as heartily as any one 'at his error.

Recently a resident of Christchurch, in response to an advertisement, forwarded tho sum of 2s 6d to secure, so he expected, a watch. The watch did not arrive, but a letter, informing the would-be purchaser that when certain additional payments had been made the watch would be delivered, was received. The sum required was sent, and the purchaser was informed that the watch would be forwarded. It did not come to hand, and after telegraphing and writing about it without receiving satisfaction tho purchaser decided to place the matter in the hands of the Detective Office. A Linwood resident was the victim of a clever ruse one day recently. A respectably dressed women came to the back door of a house and exhibited a good sample of apples, which she offered for sale at IJd por lb. The victim readily agreed to buy a dosen pounds. Tho woman then asked for a basket to put the apples in, and also the money, stating she would send the fruit in by the boy, in order to save her coming round again. Not having the correct money, the lady of the house gave the seller two shillings and sixpence, and that was the last she saw of woman, apples, and money. The basket, fortunately, was left on tho lawn.

An estimate of the cost of installing automatic telephones in New Zealand was given to a reporter by the retiring Postmaster-General. Mr. Ell said that he had approved the recommendations of the departmental officers that the system should be adopted, and it was for the new Cabinet to decide whether the expenditure should be undertaken. The cost ef installing an exchange conisiderabiy in advance of the present plant would be £40,000 for each of the four cities. Mr. Ell added that if an automatic system was adopted there would be no need to dismiss any of tho attendants now employed in the city exchanges. They would all bo absorbed in other branches of the service as counter attendants or aa postmistresses in suburban offices. The manager of the Waitomo Government Hostel has reported to the director of tho Tourist Department (Mr. B. M. Wilson) tho discovery of a now chamber, which will lend an added charm to this popular resort. Following a passage off tho main cave near the “Organ Loft,” the manager and fiuid© have opened up a chamber from 2J to 3 chains in length full of beautiful stalactites and stalagmites, differing in many respects from thoeo in the main cave and with a floor which is a mass of wonderful formations. , Tho new find will be properly opened up at once, and will prove a Valuable addition to the manifold wanders of tho caves district, which is easily reached from the Mam Trunk lino from Wellington to Auckland.

A gentleman connected with the West Coast timber trade in a chat with a representative of The Press, remarked that as far as red pine was concerned, West Coast sawmillon, had not had so bad a time for many years. He explained that this was due, probably, to tho present tightness of tho money market. He supposed that there was not a better financial barometer than the timber trade, because if there was a stringency in the money market vieenle who contemplated building or making additions postponed such building and additions, but found funds for such absolute necessities as petrol. The demand for white pine was tho salvation of tho business at present, but there were comparatively few mills that had white pine to cut, and in addition the supplies of tills timber were decreasing. A member of the House of Commons, just returned to London from a visit to the United States, brings with him treasure trove well worth the perils of the voyage. It is in thq form of a letter addressed by a customed in Ohio'to a steam pump company in New York. It runs thus: “Gentlemen, I get tho pump witch i by from you, but why for god’s sake you doan send we no handle? writs the use of a pump when she doan have no handle. X loose to me my customer. Shure thing you doan treat me rite. I wate 10 days, and my customer ho holler for water like h— for tho pump. You know he is hot sommer now, and tho win he no blow tho pump. She got no handle, so wat the h—■ i goan to do with it ? Doan send the handle pretty quick i send her back and i goan a oder some pump from other comSanie. Goodby, Your truly, Antonio aitrax. P.S.—Since i rite i fine tho goddam handle in the box, excuse to me.”

I In the course of an address at a Salvation Army meeting in the Sydney Town Hall, Professor David said he was an awful example of a man who by indiscriminate giving—as opposed to giving to organisations—had become accessory to a burglary.—(Laughter.) “A man came to me,” said tho Professor, "with a sad tale. He told me he was a criminal, lately from gaol, and if I would only give him a little capital to start life again he would be intensely grateful. Well, what could I do? I said, 'What is the smallest possible sum that will enable you to start life again ?’ He said, 'Five bob.’ ” —(Great laughter.) “Well, I gave him ‘five bob.’ The first thing he did was to spend sixpence on a ‘nobbier,’ and then he went and robbed the house of a Judge.”—(Boars of laughter.) “Let us hope,” added the Professor in a more serious vein, “that that poor piece of broken earthenware is now safely mended. I realise now that the proper thing to have done with him Vas to have sent him to the Salvation Army workers at the prison gate.” “If you see a man walking out .of the house with an umbrella under bis arm, it doesn’t mean a storm necessarily- “ Well, if it’s my umbrella he’s walking with, it does, because I Vo just paid balf-a-guinea for it at ‘The ICash.’ ”* A great showing of this season’s latest millinery models is being made at White’s Sale. The strict adherence to the principle of clearing out each season’s lot as it comes along makes this a very choice assortment of the newest goods from which to select. Prices 3a lid, 4s Ud, 7s Ud, 10s 6d <

At Orford, Sussex, out of a popular tiou of 836, there are 24 inhabitants whoso ages aggregate 2000 years, an average of 84 years, and there are 76 inliabitanta over 70 years of age. Norway’s population is the smallest in Europe compared with her area. Each of her inhabitants could have 40 acres of land while the Briton would have to be content with’ less than an acre.

The transport strikers to the number of about 1000 paraded the streets of East Ham Fast week. They carried with them a miniature gallows, with which a mock execution was hold outside the house of each of the dock foremen who had refused to join in the strike. The hangings were carried out with a god deal of realism. A striker, garbed as a clergyman, “administered spiritual consolation” to each of the condemned men. There was some excitement at Manakau on Thursday night and early Friday morning, owing to two tribes falling out over the body of a young Maori named Mason, which had been brought from Rotorua. One tribe secured the body and carried it to their pa, but the others rallied and hotly demanded its return. Ultimately Constable Satlrerly made his appearance, aud by diplomacy 'arranged that the first tribe should have the corpse for half-an-hour, at the end of which time it was to be returned to the others. This arrangement w’as carried out, and the disturbance to all intents subsided.

Entries for the road race, to be held next Thursday from New Plymouth to Inglewood and back, close with the handieapper, Mr. A. George, to-mor-row. 'The race will be run under the auspices of the Rovers Cycle Club. A further inducement for cyclists to turn out will be the points prize, a cup presented by Mr. C Roebuck, which will bo awarded at tbo end of the season to the cyplist gaining the most poiuts in the races hold by the club. The points will count; 3 for first place, 2 for second, and 1 for third place. The race next Thursday will count for points. The people of Auckland have the satisfaction of knowing that they have a well-equipped Fire Brigade to protect their hemes in time of need. The latest addition to the equipment is the huge escape ladder, which, mounted upbn a motor for transportation purposes, towers to a height of 87ft, when fully extended. The ladder has been lying idle until the present, but on Saturday the necessary batteries were installed and the machine is now ready for use when called upon. It ia worked entirely by electricity, and no'manual labour is needed to erect it to its groat height. In case the current should fail, however, provision has been made for the working of the machinery by hand.

One sign of the “New Germany" is the revelation, proudly oiroidated in the press that the Fatherland now possesses a total <rf 137,633 football /players who are formally associated with' 'the National Football League. These, of course, are practically all amateurs. The number represents ah increase of 25 per cent, over the total registered a year ago. The game flourished most in South Germany, but is making rapid headway in all parts of the country. Popular interest, as manifested by the attendance at the matches, is also substantially on the increase. The record .is 10,000, at the match between Germany and England, and 8000 at the Crown Prince’s Cup tie ihatch last year. Encouraged by the Kaiser and .the Crown Pnueo, “FuasbaßspieP’ is /tanking daily progress in the arn>j, and regimental matches are now of regular occurrence.

The testimony of Mr. HarokJ Brido, assistant wireless operator, that the Titanic's last hymn was not “Nearer, my God, to Thee,” but “Guido mo, 0 Thou Great Jehovah,” brings the saintly hymn-writer of tho Welsh hills to world-wide prominence. It has been said that what Isaac Watta has been to England, and Paul Gerhardt to Germany,’ William Williams has been ' to Wales. He lies buried in a churchyard in the Valley of the Towy, which runs through the heart of Carmarthenshire, and biq. hymns have been, sung throughout AVales for more than 100 years. It \pas Mr. Whitefield who first got hold of the hymn “Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah, 1 ’ and inserted it in a collection which bore the title? “Gloria in Excelsis.” This was in 1774. Another hymn by William Williams which has passed into general Use in the English-speaking world is "O’er the gloomy hills of darkness,” which the hvmn-writer composed early one morning on the Prescelly Hills in Pembrokeshire. '

Hart and Stone, two professional aviators engaged in a twenty-mile race at Sydney on May 30. The conditions of the race, ’as laid down by the Australian Aerial League, were that the contestants should fly to Parramatta Park, one to start within ten minutes of the the contestant who should cover tho distance in the shortest time to be the winner. Hart, having won the toss, started off and was soon lost to sight, keeping fairly low down. The American, Stone, started about five minutes later, and as he at once rose to a considerable height, remained in view for some time, a black moving midge barely discernible against huge dark-purple rain-clouds. At the end of an hour’s wait the nows gradually arrived that tho victory had gone to the Australian aviator and his monoplanr, having reached the park in twenty-three minutes. Stone, the American aviator, it appears, was unhappily handicapped by not knowing the country, and missed his way. He finally alighted, fortunately without having sustained any injury either to himself or to the machine.

Captain E. It. M‘Taggart, the advance agent of the Vancouver Cadet Corps, whose members are to tour Australasia, was a passenger on board the Ivlakura, en route to Sydney (says the New Zealand Herald). While in Auckland ho was engaged in making some preliminary arrangements for their tour in New Zealand. The boys, who ore to leave Vancouver on the 10th inst., will not stop at 'Auckland, but will proceed direct to Sydney, and, after touring the Commonwealth, they will come to Now Zealand, landing at Bluff, and thence proceed on their inspection of the Dominion,, visiting the important entities, and finishing up at Auckland. The corps is comprised of 75 boys, with a bugle and fife and drum band. Concerts and military displays will be given in each of the centres. Like the Australian cadets on their recent tour through Great Britain, they will bo billeted out in the houses of the hospitable and representative citizens of each particular town, and in this way gain at first hand a knowledge of the local customs. Captain R .N. Davey, of the Vancouver High School, is responsible for the or-, ganisation of the visit. By his energies, the Government and business men were persuaded into giving the necessary financial aid, while all the boys are assisting in the payment of their individual expenses. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, la 6d, For Chronic Chest Complaints, 2sf3d.

It’a always a good one that gete damaged,” said 1 a veterinary surgeon in fiving evidence in a civil action at the nvercargill Magistrate’s Court oil Friday.” The case concerned the damage sustained by a horse through a collision on the North Road, and counsel for plaintiff was endeavouring to point'out that the animal was of the value set out in the statement of claim. The witness’s point wsts observed at once, judging by the smile that passed over the countenances of those assembled in Court. While the local fishermen were on the grounds in the vicinity of Centre Island last, week they witnessed the interesting spectacle of a whale hunt by the Norwegian whaler Hobart (says the Western Star). During the day she captured two whales. They say she is a fast boat with a high bow on which is placed a gun for firing harpoons, The whaler steams right up to her prey. The Hobart is fitted up with a complete trying-out plant, also a. plant for manufacturing the waste matter into manure, so that the whole whale is consumed. It is understood that since May the Hobart accounted for twelve kills in the Straits. Whales have been reported as very plentiful in the vicinity of the Solanders—once the great hunting-ground of the early pioneers. A

Speaking at the Otago University capping banquet, Dr. Barnett said he thought that the senior students at the University, who had the respect and esteem of their professors, Should set a higher standard to the first-year men. The freshmen were allowed to have too much of their own way, and almost to dominate the University life. They! did not understand in their earlier years what tho traditions of a high-class university should be. • The senior men should take up much the same attitude that the prefects did in a big school, and should discourage that particular class of outbreak of boyish spirits that was rather apt to discount to some extent the good name which the University bore. From the manner in which his hearers received these remarks it was quite evident that they appreciated both the force of what Dr. Barnett had said and the reasons which had prompted him to say it.

New York newspapers publish reports from Niagara Falls of what is described as the most daring rescue in the annals of United States history. A man named Henry Smith fell into the river above the falls, and, though only, a little distance from the bank, he was swept dowh towards the brink of the torrent, and his doom seemed inevitable. But three men who wore lower down the bank, and who had seen Smith’s plight, rushed into the water. The first,-throwing himself in, was held by the second man, and as the latter swam fropi the bank he in turn was held by the third man, who gripped his feet firmly with both hands. A human chain was thus formed, and the man furthest out was just able to grip hold of Smith, who was being , swept past in an unconscious condition. Several persons on. the bank, who had been holding on to the feet of the Inst man, then drew all four to the bank in safetyi The spot where the rescue was effected was only a few yards from the brink of the falls.

With the deserting husband the newspaper reader is painfully familiar. Mean as the deserter is, the execjTfcive council of the Victorian Association of Ladies’ Benevolent Societies have their S -e on a still more worthless follow, e stays at home'and loafs on a wife who works and who appeals for charity when the burden proves too heavy for her. “The healthy brute who, with work to be had'for the asking, loafs while his wife drudges and begs, deserves no quarter,” comments the .Melbourne Herald, “Presumably, the vice to which his degradation is said to be dne in certain cases, is generally drunkenness, for the ladies’ man of the slums usually leaves his wife and levants with her rival. As to the sober waster who sees his wife overworked and his children want while he basks in the sun- or orates at the street corner, the normal* citizen cannot comprehend him. To deal with him is not easy. For the credit of human nature, it must be hoped that generally, despite a fair show of health, he is constitutionally unsound, but the Legislature must not ignore him. If he cannot get work, it should be provided in a labour colony. There, if it be found -that he is as, he appears, capable of work, he should he forced to do it.’

With a view to improving the standard of local body engineers and clerks, and the administration of the affairs of local bodies generally (says the New Zealand Herald), Mr. H. Marsland (clerk of the Raglan County) has suggested to the Minister of Internal Affairs that clauses be inserted in the proposed new Local Government Act, to the effect that after the passing of that Act no person shall be eligible to fill the position of engineer or clerk to any local body unless he is the holder of a certificate of competency issued by boards of examiners, as appointed by the Act, and has further suggested that in the case of county engineers the board of examiners consist of the chief engineers of the Public Works Department, and in the case of county clerks of the Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs, the Secretary -to- the Treasury, and the Auditor-General, the present officials of local bodies to be excepted from the provisions of the Act, and to receive certificates of .competency. The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, in reply, informed Mr. Marsland that he considered the suggestion worthy of notice, and would have clauses to the above effect included in the new Act. For some years legislation of. this character has been in force in New South Wales.

South America, which has drawn: so largely .upon the United Kingdom for stud stock, is especially looking towards New Zealand for new blood, with a view to improving mutton and wool production (states the Wellington host). A number of estancieros have already improved their flocks by the infusion of fresh New Zealand blood, and tho trade promises to grow. The New Zealand Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders’ : Association, however, has found it necessary to seek the co-opera-tion of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce in, approaching the different shipping companies trading between New Zealand and South America, and also the Now Zealand Government, for the purpose of asking that a special rate be granted for the shipment of stud stock during the months of August, September and October. The present shipping charges made it almost prohibitive for New Zealand breeders to compete with the English stock owners, stated the breeders. The chamber found, on inquiry, that, so far as the shipping companies wore concerned, ono reason for the high rate was that the lighterage charges ac Mont© Video were very high, and had to be paid by tho through shipping companies. Further, that it would be impossible to get the shipping companies to go through the Straits of Magellan, as their exporience in tho past has been unfortunate, and insurance companies asked for an additional premium of about 5s per cent, on tho whole of the cargo and on the value of a vessel. The careful mother’s surest winter safeguard—Xonking’s Linefeed - Emulsion* 1-3