LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue XXXXII, 29 January 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough Council has decided that Thursday shall remain the statutory halfholiday. The Governor, on his recent visit to New Plymouth, was surprised and pleased at the improvement that has taken place in our harbour. The arrangements for the annual social at the Te Henui Sunday School on Thursday next are likely to prove highly successful. The programme will be announced in a day or two. Trains will leave for the breakwater to-day, connecting with steamer mentioned below, as follow: —G a.m., Gairloch (from north); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for north). A meeting of the general committee of the Patriotic Fund takes place this evening to consider the question of tlie division of the fund, and especially as to devoting a portion for " More Men and Horses." Our readers will be sorry to hear that the Hon. John Bryce is dangerously ill at his residence, Brunswick, Wanganui. The Opuiialts Times says an attempt was made to burn the public school the other evening. Some rags saturated with kerosene were found blazing under the wall of the building which had taken Are. Fortunately the fire was noticed and promptly extinguished. The constable has a clue, and it is hoped will result in the offenders being made to account for their act.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr. E. Dockrill) is receiving names of those willing to join the Third Contingent for South Africa. Up to Saturday night, His Worship received the names of twelve persons willing to join—all likely men. Several expressed their willingness to provide horses. Through Mr. Henderson, local representative of the Dresden Piano Co., we have been favoured by the composer (Mr. Alec Hill) with a copy of a very pleasing and tuneful song, entitled " liosemary." No doubt it will become a drawing favourite, as not only is the compass within the register j of an ordinary voice, but the notation is peculiarly suitable to the words. As may be judged from the title, the song belongs to the sentimental class. A late number of the Lancet declares that " it is a standing disgrace bo a country like England " that in some cases women should be compelled to "stand in shops from 12 to 14 hours daily, with only two intervals of half an hour for dinner, and 20min. for tea all the year round." Gold and precious stones sot in the human body is a fad, or mania, not extensively popular. A gentleman of South African fame (says Sewntiji: Sittings) wears a beautiful emerald, which, set in a rim of gold, is stitched by means of gold wire to his breast. Thus securely fastened, the green gom has rested under his shirt front for ten years. He considers it is his lucky stone. The keen-sightedness of science has just been aptly illustrated at Niagara falls. A biograph picture of the Grand Trunk Railway bridge over the gorge was taken, and when developed was thrown on the canvas. It was then noticed for the first time that the body of a man was being tossed about in the boiling waters. Search was made, and the body of a missing suicide was pulled out of tho current at tho spot shown. Nearly every other person is suffering from some form of cold; colds are dangerous, and when neglected lead to consumption. Neglected Colds give more work to the doctor and undertaker than any other complaint. Have Sykes' Cura Cough ready to use as soon as you begin to sneeze, shiver, or feel that you are taking cold. Sykes' Cura Cough, if taken as soon as the cold manifests itself, will break up any form of cold in a few hours. Hundreds of testimonials from all parts of New Zealand. Sold by chemists and storekeepers in Is Gd and 2s bottles.—A. E. Sykes, Chemist, opposite Theatre Koyal, New Plymouth.— Advfc. "The Boy Stood on the burning Deck."—Some irreverent person has declared that his reason for so doing was that it was too hot to sit down; but this is a libel. The reason was that the gallant boy would not desert his post. With an implicit obedience to his father's commands he stayed upon the burning ship, and went to a glorious death. But suppose at the last moment young Casabianca had been saved, what then 1 He would certainly have been very much burned, and the best thing for him would have been an immediate application of Holloway's famous Ointment, a certain remedy in all cases of burns, scalds, abscesses, rheumatism, I lumbago, sciatica, bronchitis, asthma, sore throat, and the like.