LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 36, 14 February 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Education Board meets to-day. The Auckland City Council has appointed as clerk Mr. H. W. Wilson (a brother of Mr. Frank Wilson, of New Plymouth), formerly Assistant Town Clerk at Dunedin. The Cabinet has decided to arrange for practical and technical education in native schools, There is to be a meeting this evening at the Lepperton Hall in relation to cemetery matters. It has been decided to increase the individual strength of mounted corps from 63 to 80. Volunteers may attend the send-off to the Third Contingent from Lyttelton should a sufficient number offer. Free railway passes will be granted to Wellington, but steamer fares must be paid between Wellington and | Lyttelton. On the application of Mr. Samuel letters i of administration of the estate and effects of William Thomas Moflatt, who died at Okaiawa on 12th December last, were granted by the Supreme Court of New Zealand to Louise Frances Moiiatt, the widow of the deceased. Mr. James Ducker, who has for some twenty years filled the position of foreman in charge at the New Plymouth Sash and Door Company's Factory, has resigned his position in order to enter into business. On Monday the employees of the Company presented him with a handsome marble clock, suitably inscribed, the presentation being made by Mr. J. O. George, one of the directors.

An exchange says" There has been no J.P. appointed to the Maerewhenua district, near Oamaru, since the de ith of Mr. W. Stringer. The country round Dunbroon is looking well." Verb. sap. Slight showers late in the afternoon on Tuesday culminated about 7 o'olojk in a downpour of rain, which continued without intermission well into the morning. Mr. N. K. MacDiarmid, lion, secretary of the North Egmont Reserve Board, informs us that the returns of the caretaker show that duriog the month of January 257 visitors ascended the mountain by the Egmont track, a large increase on January, 1899. It is proposed to form a Mounted Rifle Corps in Stratford. At an inquiry into the recent big fire at Stratford, the evidence disclosed nothing as to the origin. Mr. F. McGuire, M.H.R, for Hawcra, was in New Plymouth on Tuesday. I A movement is on foot to form a second volunteer corps in New Plymouth, and a good many young men have alreidy put their name 3 down as willing to joia. The friend* of Mr. E. T. dark, of the firm of Messrs. Honnor & Clark, will regret to hear of his death, which occurred on Tuesday. The deceased had been in business in New Plymouth for many years. The funeral will take place to-day. The following gentlemen have' been selected to fire for the civilians in tho match against the volunteers on Thursday next: Ij, M. Taunton, C. A. Harrison, F. Messenger, A. H. Holmes, A. Humphries, W. Humphries, Frank Newell, Taylor, J, Bennett, J. i Loveridge. Emergencies : M. D. Stagpoole I and M. J. Jones. Shooting will commence at 1.30 sharp, and ammunition will be provided on the range. All ladies and gentlemen interested in rifle shooting are cordially invited to witness the match. I

Says the Observer Nice, gentlemanly fellows, those Bluff Hill bowlers. They won the hearts of all the antagonists whom they met. But who was the Napier joker who sent them that pathetic wire:—"Why, oh, why, does Bluff Hill always lose in the afternoon?" It must have put them on their mettle, for next day they broke the record i by losing to Feilding in the forenoon. The following interesting notice of a popular New Zealand officer appears, together with his portrait, in the Illustrated London News: —" Major Davics, who is second in command of the New Zealand volunteers in South Africa, is English born, but went out to New Zealand in the early eighties. His home is at Taranaki, the province historically famous as the seat of the Maori war, He is by profession a Government surveyor, and is thus well accustomed to roughing it in the opon. He is' a clever and able man, greatly respected by the troops under his command. He married the danght r of a captain of an Irish regiment, Souie time ago lie was appointed permanent cavalry drill instructor of tuc North Island, the similar position being filled for the South Island by Major llobiti" who is also at the Cape." "We don't dtliver any more beer this week," said a br jwer's drayman; •' we're going to the beanfeast with our wives." ' But how about those who have no wives 1' sajd the landlord. "Oh, them!—ob, they lak.es their flnanpes." j

Man's Isgka'i'itudjs, W'c have ifc on Shakespeare's authority that the winter >vind is not more unkind than man's ingratitude, In many casos this is unfortunately only too true, There are_ times, however, when the benefit received is so great that, ingratitude becomes impossible. When life is rendered r., burden lo us by sickness, and someone i-.omcs and re.-lores its to health, *.ve should' be base indeed to feel ungrateful. Thus, melons arc grateful to iioi'oway's: : i'iils ana w{)jph hqvo cured tln.ni) |i)f all stomach' and livu'v l>a ! ii', 1 ;!' iache, ilatuloncy, indirection.' au : i low 1 spirits, and cleared their systems of gout, rliuuinaUsm, sciatica, and all similar ailPivitou and the Boer ttn-ew dowi} i h-: v.aunleb to meet m deadly combat thej ; e ;:;is been a marvellous and unprecedented mm '».} all till)' modern u y.-<ns oi! the Sea," ;i:id " l-JoMinv. oi: the Queen," arc the .avouritus, and in every city, town, village, and hamlet where the Anglo-Saxon tongue is s:>i 'ki:u 1 he soul-stirring retVains can be heard. .\ e have a!.-\> to chronicle another unpre- ] 'vdotilod ;;nd fc fJll ( Sykc!/ Cu W l (vOiiLjh, which has '."."habilitated thousands ot*\ v-ilonhlod r-ud nui d'.wn constitutions,--* All! ami Btprgtopgrs,—Adyt^