The Daily News. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue XXXXII, 9 January 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An able and comprehensive statement on the question of the Boer olaims is published on our fourth page. The Taranaki Rifle Volunteers went into oamp last evening for a week's drill. There is an exoellent muster. The Taranaki County Counoil meets to-day. The colonial mails per s.s., India, from Melbourne,of December 6, were delivoitd in London on January 6, one day early. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Wednesday, the 24th inst, at 11 a.m.-, to fix the weekly half-holiday. Mr. B. A. Hignett delivered an address at Waitara on the Transvaal War, when a collection of £l4 was taken up. During the last four or five days a large dumber of people have made the ascent of Mount Egmont. We regret to hear of the illness of Mr. J. D. Wylie, auctioneer, of Waitara, who has had to come to New Plymouth for medical treatment. Mr. Ritchie, head of the Agricultural Department, who has just returned to Wellington from south, speaks highly of the harvest prospects. He believes the yield will be as large as last year. The overdraft of the Borough Council is £lOlB 13s (id. Mr. L. Sarten's notice of motion for the next meeting of the Harbour Board is to make an aperture in the mole of from 3ft. to 6ft., not 3ft. (iin., as previously published. The Waiwera, from Hobart, arrived at Lyttelton at 8.10 p.m. on Monday.

A number of Auckland visitors to the recent Carnival festivities were so pleased with the playing of the Town Band (Mr. Garry's) that tbey asfced them to pay a visit to Auckland! At a meeting on Monday evening, tho Band deoided to visit the northern city at Easter. Volunteers who intend to compete at tho Killa Association's meeting next month can obtain Martini rilles from tlio Defence Stores, on application through the officers commanding their .companies. . A generous offer has been made by Mr, W. Ji I'ioeth, the local agent of the New Zealand Express Company, who has offered to forward, free of cost, parcels from friends in the colony to any member o£ tho First New Zealand Contingent. Parcels ara to be sent in by (i on Thursday evening. Tho receipts of the Borough Council for the last month amounted to £2198 Os lOd, and the expenditure, inoluding£766 interest on coupons, to £US6 8s id. Mr. Kuddick, Dairy Commissioner, gives a glowing account of the dairy industry, especially in the 'i'aieri district. 'Xhe output this season already exceeds the whole of last season's, and some, of the factories are turning out live tons of butter per day. The electric lighting of London is in tho hands of ten private companies representing a gross capital of £4,300,500, and supplying electricity to 1,090,985 lamps, ranging from 8 to 16 candle-power, besides a vast number of aro lamps for street lighting.

Some excitement was occasioned in a public thoroughfare in Te Aro on Thursday afternoon by the extraordinary behaviour o£ a woman who was running about barefooted) flourishing a knife> The unfortunate woman, it appears, is of somewhat weak intellect, andßhe was restored to her friends before anything more serious bad occurred,

i Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as f0110w: —5.45 a.ui.', Botoiti, from North; 9.30 a.m., Kotoiti, for South ; 1 p.m, Mapourika, from South; 9.30 p.m., Mapourlita, for North.

At the Police Court on Monday, two applications for the old age ponsion were granted. According to the Times, the London County Council has decided to seek Parliamentary powers for the re-construction for electric traction of certain portions of tlie Council's tramways at an estimated cost of £251,000. A isnjarkable accident is reported to have occurred on the Juno, one of the ships forming the now Special Service squadron. After the vessel had been cpmmissioned for her present service she took in a sis months' allowance o£ stores and provisions, The perishable articles, such as biscuits and ilour, were placed in the fore store-room, and through the accidental opening of one of the under water valves an immense quantity of water found its way into the sWie-fWU) and utterly spoilt about a thousand pound*' worth of provisions. The new manngetas# p£ the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western kajUvay Company has issued an order that every one of its employe;, 1 must sleep eight hours onto! every nvvniy-tair tit lose liis position, livery novwpaV* Usat bcUuves i» Individual liberty deuou.iees tlie action or the Lackawanna authorities as utterly indefensible. She nimost iiiat corporations have aright] to in.-.isJ. in their employes is that tlie iatter shat'i. iV )J, : . «oa<Ji:ii/ii to perform the duties for sh>! <!h>skar£- '>? they art paid, and that those j»liaU be portuniied. U'ue time they eat, bgthe, pray, ajiJ übangd their attire is still, ce, their own business.—l'kila-d'.-ly/iia i«,uHirer.

The Iqltettm ?•;>.» says :-M'e aro i:j-| ••U'wd !'.» tWuk iliut Vyo-atm* tin a'loliilon of the revi.-1 i. i.-v;e , j. x . of ti'e iie".:;<;nsc |wil tj-iUi[ iVj; i; ;i;rv to nine your.;, ihe We;," merely a kite cm of tin brewers ?d«* publicans, li then; „ s tiling mo* 2 S(;r ious in tin; prnpo.als, ;;i:d ;'r. attempt'? being made to hrhnr iln-m up in Varliw-ent. we tmt they will be jwouipHv and rmnhatically rejected. M> : iUu:a residents are advised by Mr. G J H- WtMv, {.»Japiog,rapliesr, Ahat it, . ' Yvaitua -Estops. CwoMwito execute a few eonu... ~ eate early, care of Mr. stationer.—Adrt.

Special Christmas discount from December 16th and during the Christmas Cair.iva; and the New Year to all purchasers cf thcvalue of £1 and upwards at J. 11. I'ARKER's, Watchmaker and Jeweller, next Railway Grossing, Devon-street Central. New Plymouth. Please note our prices in advertisement over leader. Carnival Watcb and Chain, in case, 10s—only a few dozen in »toc!t. A splendid lot of new goods direct from Loudon in Bangles, Kin<?s>, Watthes and GJiajus at prices sswv ts '