LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 52, 7 March 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Steps are being taken to form an infantry • corps in Waitara. Mr. Newton King will hold a sale of fruit I at the mart to-day. Mr. C. D. Whitcombe, who has received a B official appointment in Tonga, left by steame 1 ' last evening. The Carrington Road picnic, which is usually a very enjoyable outing, takes place on Thursday in Mr. Crockett's paddock. Mr. W. E. Spencer, Inspector of Schools, returned on Monday evening from a well- : deserved holiday. The calendar for the next sittings of the Supreme Court in New Plymouth is light. The juries are now being summoned, r The numerous friends and patients of Dr. Leatham will be glad to learn that he has returned to New Plymouth in restored health, : having greatly benefitted by the rest and change. He has already resumed professional work. Two members of the Auckland Contingent - of Rough-riders passed through New Plya mouth on Tuesday. They had missed pas- | sage by the Rotokiao, and were going to join their comrades at Wellington. i We are asked to mention, for the informaJ tion of members of the Masonic fraternity, & that the annual installation of Lodge Strati. ford, No. 75, will take place to-morrow evening, at 6.15 o'clock. We regret to learn that Mr. Dowling, Q master at the Bird Road School, met with a , serious accident on Tuesday evening. While riding near Stratford his horse stumbled and Q fell, and unfortunately rolled upon him, t breaking one of his legs. The sufferer was J attended to by Dr. Paget, and then brought into town, and attended to by Dr. Leatham at his home in Courtenay-street. Some excitement was caused on Tuesday . afternoon by tho appearance of a shark, about eight feet long, just off the bathing shed. In view of the possibility of one of i- these voracious monsters attacking any of g the bathers, it has been suggested that a boat f should be always moored off this spot, so as II to afford some chance of escape. Meanwhile, e bathers should be on their guard and not S venture out too far. f Messrs. Thomas Hood (formerly of this i town), of Patea, and Mr. F. Treweek, of j Whenuakura, have applied for letters patent for a preparation for preventing rust on iron J" and steel. Mr. S. W. Shaw, of New Ply--1 mouth, has also applied for a patent for an e improved fence and apparatus for construct- . ing the same. e Colonel Morris, a contributor to the Dune--0 din Star, writing in that paper on 27th February, made use of the following words: — r "I am reminded that yesterday, the 26th, - was the anniversary of Majuba Hill; and it - would be something like poetic justice if 0 Cronje's force were to surrender on that day I" As everyone now knows, the surrender of the " Lion of Africa" occurred on the e 26th. The Tauranga correspondent of the New e Zealand Herald states that Mr. Patrick y Herbert, one o£ tho oldest military residents _ there, was in Lucknow at the time of the j siege, from June 30th to November 36th, 1857, under Sir Henry Lawrence, a cousin of " Lord Ranfurly. Mr. Herbert holds a medal i. and two orders for Lucknow, the first being 3 for the siege, and the second for the relief. 0 He also holds the New Zealand War Medal. Lady Ranfurly, in talking over old times 1 with Mr. Herbert, asked him if he had seen 9 Lord Roberts' work, " Forty Years in India." r Her Ladyship sent Mr. Herbert the book, e with the following inscription:—" To Patrick Herbert, with the kind regards of Lady ® Ranfurly, February 14th, 1900," from Christ--1 church. 0 In a paper read before the Society for the i. Promotion of Health, we are assured by an e editorial writer in the* Minneapolis 'limes (December 8) that pure sand is recommended to dyspeptics. Says the editor" What we ' all need, says the gentle doctor, is grit—the e real grit that is furnished by the silica in the \f sand. To get that we must swallow a little 0 clean sand every day with our meals. The , presence of the grit will assist in the grinding process, and our food, instead of distress--1 ing us, will nourish and cheer us. ; . Six t five-grain capsules of pure sand should be s taken with each meal." As usually treated a sprain will disable (■ the injured person for ttiree or four weeks, but if Chamberlain's Pain Balm is freely applied a complete cure may be elfected in a very few days. Pain Balm also .cures rheua matism, cuts, bruises and burns. For sale . by the New Plymouth Co-operative Society. ( —Advt. "Why do the South African Dutch bear the British so much animosity?" has been an oft reiterated question. It is because r their rancor has been inbred and nurtured for - generations. They won't reason and argue, _ and be sensible, and live with us peaceably £ in a land where there will be plenty of elbow room for the next thousand years. The only 1 solution of the question is to conquer them r by force of arms. This is what Sykes' Cura 3 Cough is doing to all competitors, as it is f beating them out the market,—At all Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt. Fokgicn Competition is often declared 3 to be the cause of much of the suffering in t this country, and we are told that the numj ber of fareigners in England make it very , difficult for the Englishman to get a living. However this m-iy be.it is,-certainly true t that tho presence of foreign .matter in the 3 blood endangers the health of the whole ■j system. To purify the blood and to correct disorders of the liver and stomach, tho only ivi'lain, safe and agreeable medicine is Holl' loway's Pills. If you suffer from gout, 1 rheumatism, or lumbago, scalds, burns, or , similar evils, you must use with the least i ; possible delay Hoi lo way's Ointment. For , over haif-a-century these famous remedies j have been the faithful friend of man,—AdVl.