The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1900.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 39, 17 February 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1900.

On our fourth page will be found a quantity ] of interesting matter, and a notice in reference to the " Encyclopaedia Britatmica." i The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Ch;.m- ' pionship Meeting will be held at Wellington i to-day. This week's issue of the Auckland Weekly News contains many excellent illustrations of the war. A picture is given of the New Plymouth members of the Third Contingent. The attention of intending competitors at the forthcoming Swimming Carnival is drawn to the alteration in the fees for the three ' events in the New Plymouth Handicap. The ( fee is Is for nomination and Is for accep- ] tance. Applications for enrolment in the Fourth . Contingent are still being received by the Mayor. Until the despatch of the Third ' Contingent, however.Ut will not be known '. whether men will be accepted from Taranaki. ] The Dresden Piano Co. have a change of advertisement in this issue. , Mr. George Davy, of Fitzroy, suffered a severe loss on Thursday afternoon. He found i two fine three-year-okl fillies lying on the i ground, as the result of a fight. One animal ' had her leg broken, and had to be destroyed; ' (he other was severely injured. The evangelistic services conducted by the < Rev. D. O'Donnell in the Whiteley Memorial Church during the past week have been very j well attended, the interest being maintained throughout. Mr. O'Donnell will conduct services to-morrow morning, afternoon, and ' evening, and also on Monday and Tuesday < next; and on Wednesday will deliver a lecture ( on a subject that has always attracted a large measure of interest. Mr..C. O. Hawke, bookseller and stationer, i advertises cheap lines of books. . Mr. Newton's King's annual sheep fair will be held at the Waiwakaiho yards on Friday next. Full particulars may be found on re- 1 ference to advertisement. < The new Wesleyan Church at Tataraimaka ' is to be opened on Thursday, the 25th inst. < For the convenience of visitors from tilwn a \ conveyance will run shortly after I o'clock, seats for which should be booked at Mr. Carter's as soon as possible. ' On Wednesday next Mr. Newton King will hold a clearing sale of dairy stock on account ' of Mr. J. G. Knyvett, who is giving up dairying. The cattle are a real choice lot of well- ] bred Jerseys, carefully reared by Mr. Knyvett . himself, and will prove an acquisition to any { dairy. J Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, of Lepperton, intend leaving the colony for the Old Coun- ' try on the 23rd February, taking their depart ture from New Plymouth by one of the Union boats and finally leaving the colony in the lonic, which sails from Lyttelton on Ist of March. Mr. and Mrs. Hall being pioneers settlers in Taranaki they have r earned a well-merited holiday, and we wish - them a pleasant trip home, where they intend ] staying for some months, returning via Suez. ( Since the advent of Ensign and Mrs. I Ramage to New Plymouth things are be- \ coming decidedly interesting at the Salvation i Army, and to-morrow's services promise to be ! especially so, the subjects " Darkness," " Lone- ' liness," and " Sorrow" being suggested by l the French motto, " Great Heart for a Great ( Hour."—Advt. . Rev. D. O'Donnell, of Victoria, will preach i in the Whiteley Memorial Church to-morrow at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., young peoples' service - at 3 p.m. On Wednesday, March 21st, he - will deliver a lecture in the same place on 1 " Things to Come." Admission by ticket, i procurable from any of the church officers.— , Advt. | Since Briton and the Boer threw down i the gaunlet to meet in deadly combat there has been a marvellous and unprecedented run ' on all our modem songs, " Sons of the Sea," 1 and "Soldiers of the Queen," are the ' favourites, and in every city, town, village, j and hamlet where the Anglo-Saxon tongue is spoken the soul-stirring refrains can be heard. ' We have also to chronicle another unpre- 1 cedented run, and that is on Sykes' Cura < Cough, which has rehabilitated thousands of j enfeebled and run down constitutions.—All i Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt Fobbign Competition is often declared to be the cause of much of the suffering in this country, and we are told that the num. e ber of fareigners in England make it very i difficult for the Englishman to get a living. However this may be, it is certainly true that the presence of foreign matter in the blood endangers the health of the whole system. To purify the blood and to correct disorders of the liver and stomach, the only • certain, safe and agreeable medicine is Hol- ) loway's I'ills. If you suffer from gout, j rheumatism, or lumbago, scalds, burns, or JMmilar evils, you must use with the least fjotvsjble delay Hollowav's Ointment. For [ ovef halfrarcentury these famous remedies ' (have bteii the fojthfj/l friend of man.—Advt, t