The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 55, 21 March 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL

His Honor Mr. Justice Oonolly arrived by 1 the Rotoiti on Tuesday. The Supreme Court | sessions will commence at 11 a.m. t j-oay. I A concert will be given in the Husp.tal grounds on Sunday next, at 3 p.m., by the Town Band (Mr. Garry's). The average attendance at the Central School for the last four weeks was 457.8, 464.8, 481.9, and 473.3; average 469.4, with 531 on the rolls. Messrs. Boon Bros., the contractors for the removal of the Town Hall building, are making excellent progress. The building during the past few days has been shifted back some forty feet. The annual meeting of the Tukapa Foot ball Club will be held on Thursday evening, at the Farmers' Club, at 7.30. The Kail way Department notifies that passenger cars will be attached to the 1 o'clock goods train from town to Sentry Hill and Lepperton on Thursday for the convenience of persons attending the gaxden fete at Mrs.' McTaggart's. At a meeting of the Town School Committee on Monday la-t, the Chairman was appointed a member of the Central School Cadet Council. In our report of the Borough Council meeting published on Tuesday the tenders for oats should have appeared as 2s lOd, 2s Gd, and 2s 5d respectively. It should also have stated that Messrs. I). Berry & Co.'s tender for waterworks supplies was accepted. A further consignment of Virginian quail has been iccoivei by the Taranaki Acclima-ti-atiou Society, and will be liberated at Katapihipihi and in the Stratford district. A warning is given to sportsmen that the birds are not to be molested. A ffite in aid of the War Fund will be held at Lepperton to-morrow. A most attractive programme has been arranged by the committee, the items being such as are sure to cause interest to all who attend. A private match over a short course will eventuate, the contestants being a sprinter of considerable avoirdupois and a light-weight from Lepperton. The heavy-weight has been for some time anxious to sliow his agility. Mr. John Leydon, who has several times visited Hew Plymouth and held auction sales of furniture, etc., is again in town, and has taken one of the shops adjoining Messrs. Ward & Co.'s hardware stores. In a few days he expects a large consignment of goods, the sale of which will be duly advertised. The sewing meeting held the other afternoon was thoroughly successful, and our wounded soldiers in Africa should largely profit thereby. Some forty ladies assembled, and a large amount of work was done. The next meeting will h<t held this afternoon from 1 o'clock till 5.30, when it is to be hoped a large number will again attend. The Central School still maintains its reputation for orderliness and discipline, as the following resolution passed at a meeting of the Town S'-hool Committee on Monday : last tbstifies :—"That the Visiting Committee having expressed their great satisfaction with the orderliness and discipline of the pupils of the Central School on the occasion of their last visit, the clerk be instructed to write the headmaster conveying to him their congratulations on the general good tone of the school." Some Waitara ladies are doing their best to assist in raising funds for patriotic purposes. The Misses Cameron have donated a very handsome white silk cushion, which has been decorated with liand-painted flags and a crown. The cushion is on view at tbe depot of the Trading Stamp Co. at the corner of Egmont-street, for a few days. Permission for an art union having been obtained, the dravy for this article will take place at a concert shortly to be given at Waitara. Tickets Is each.

A curious find is reported from a curiosity shop in Pittsburg, U. SA. A rusty blunderbuss, supposed to be of last century English make, had its butt accidentally smashed. '1 lie portion was found to be quite hollow. Inside was a bit of paper, bearing the date 1761, with writing to the effect that John Winter desired to leave all his worldly goods and his blessing to his eldest daughtei, Maria Winter. There is no allusion to locality, so it is a matter for speculation as to whether this long lost will referred to property in Englaud or America. There appears to be a blessing, and perhaps sometiling more, for anyone who can claim a Maria Winter among his great-grand-mothers.

The Feilding Borough Council has adopted the report of Mr. K. L. Mesteyer. 0.E., providing for a water supply from the lviwitta stream, and a sewerage system, the whole to cost i'- 38,715. The proposal is to he submitted to the ratepayers for consideration at an early date.

1 The report of the General Committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association says:—"The annual parade took place on Saturday, 30th September, when 3!) horses were paraded, being a material falling oil as compared with previous parades. It is difficult to understand the decadence. The difficulty experienced in procuring suitable mounts for the Roughriders' Contingent is sufficient evidence that very little attention lias of late yeais been paid to the breeding of this kind of horse. Again, anyone frequenting ihe saleyards will have noticed the numbers of indif-fcrcntly-bred draught stock ollured for sale, and the miserable prices realised for them, while well-bred animals always command attention. 'J his state of things is not creditable to tlie Canterbury district," " Crujjl, only TO 1313 Kind.' Much un. necessary suffering is inflicted under the above excuse. If one is not very well, feels out of sorts, has a touch of the bile, and experiences an unpleasant giddiuess, one is immediately teld to take some disagreeable medicine. It is kindness in the guise of cruelty we are told. As a matter of fact disagreeable medicines are no fonger necessary. Holloway's Pills and Ointment —the world-famed remedies—will soon put one right, and, moreover, they are pleasant ard agreeable restoratives to health. '1 housands lean attest thi?, thousands have attested it, For flisordeis of the stomach and liver, take! the Pills; and use the ointment for gout,l lumbago, rheumatism', fcc.^-Advt,

Mr. Gerald Paul, son of Mr. James Paul, 1 of New Plymouth, has gone from Nelson to Wellington to seek enrolment in the Fifth Contingent for South Alrica. Xeas are now very thick on some of the back-country stations in Canterbury. At one homestead (says the Lyttelton Times) six of these birds have been caught, and placed in a large cage. They are stirred up at night, and induced to squeak, which attracts their comrades, who are then despatched with sticks, "Why do the South African Dutch beai the British so much animosity 1" has beer an oft reiterated question. It is because 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 solution of the question is to conquer them by force of arms. This is what Sykes' Oura Cough is doing to all competitors, as it is beating them out the market.—At all Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt.

As usually treated a sprain will disable the injured person for three or foui weeks, but if Chamberlain's Pain Balm is freely applied a complete cure may be effected in a very few days. Fain Balm also cures rheumatism, cuts, bruises and burns. For sale by the New Plymouth Co-operative Society. •—Advt.