The Daily News. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 81, 5 April 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first practice match of the Tukapa Football Club will take place this afternoon in tho Recreation Ground. The Committee hope to see a good muster of old aud new members. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned below,as follow:—6 a.m., Gairloch (from North); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North).

The concert to be hold in the Theatre Boyal this evening should be very largely attended, and those who intend to be present will be afforded a decided musical treat. The Town Band will play, by special request, the selection "Maritana," arranged specially for a military band, and which was received by the last San Francisco mail. Another interesting item in a very attractive progiamme will be the now popular song, " The Flag that Kules the World " (words by Mr. B. M. Dell and music by Mr. G. Garry). With characteristic kindness, the City Band have offered to play through Devon-street, and also contribute one or two selections outside the Theatre.

The " lolanthe" Assembly opened the season on Wednesday evening by a social and dance, which proved very successful. Some forty couples were on the floor, and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The New Plymouth passengers by the Whakatane, which arrived at Wellington early on Wednesday morning, are Messrs. W. Courtney, Groves, and 20 steerage. Mr. Courtney and party are expected in New Plymouth to-morrow.

Mr. John Leydon announces his last clearing sale by auction for Saturday next, when a large and varied stock will be brought under the hammer.

A lady called on the secretary of the Ambulance Association recently wishing to become an aunual subscriber to the funds of the movement, saying she did so in gratitude for tt.e great benefit her daughter had received in attending the lectures last year; The secretar hopes many others will do likewise. Ladies interested in the " Excelsior" system of dress catting will doubtle. s find pleasure in reading the certificates granted to Miss Forbes by the Auckland Technical School, and published in our advertising columns.

Mrs. Thos. Kelly has received from Dr. Bavnardo the following acknowledgment of the contributions towards his " Homes," collected and forwarded by her; —Tour generous and kindly gift from over the seas iinds a most cordial welcome at this season of many claims, and I thank you and your friends who have so kindly co-operated with you must neartiiy for this substantial addition to the iunds of these Homes. 1 enclose jiy olticial receipt* herewith, showing that vhe uiuuuy has been plowed to the two which you mention (iil'i toiluy.s' Homo J'und and £S 10s to Babies' Castle). This gift is peculiarly opportune, ou , iug as it dots at a time when we, iij conjunction with other charities, are suffering uonsiderably on account of the divergence of moneys to the various war funds now being organised on behalf of the widows and orphans of our i irave soldiers in South Africa. Of course, whilst we are pleased to sue that such a worthy object is meeting with the enthusiastic reception which it undoubtedly de: serves, still it is obvious that when tpecial calls are made upon the pockets of the benevolent in any particular cause some other cause is bound to suffer. I need hardly add that I am greatly encouraged by your loyal and warm hearted remembrance of the claims of these little ones, whose sad condition appeals so strongly to every heart The Salvation Army children will give lu-night one of their famous musical pro-

;;>ammes, including Club, Sash, ll'lag, and '-Tambourine 0 B sure V K present lo hear two old women in lodgings, i'iekyts iid.—Advt.

Saturday will bo t' c last day of John Leydon's unreserved auction sale of i'uniit -uro, dinpisry, clothing, l'auey goods, cutlery, and jewellery.—Ad. t.

| Walter iloiey &• Hon respectfully intimate I the arrival of an early shipment of live cases, lex " Waimate," consisting of] case Ladies' Capes, 1 case Ladies' Jackets, 1 case J/.dies' Hats, 1 case Furs, 1 case Tickings and Sundries, ''he bulk, cf our winter shipment (invoices to hand) are on board the " Whakatane," \vh :n due notice will be ghen of their ui rival.—Ad t.

Go to John Leydon's auction sale of colonial clothiug. Ko English shoddy,—Advt,

It is with much regret that we have to record the death, at the age of 40, of Miss R. Tycrs, who has held the position of Matron at Hawera Hospital since May, 1894. Previous to receiving that appointment she had been on the staff of the Waikato Hospital [for six years, pad had most excellent testimonials. During the time that the deceased lady was at Hawera she proved her fitness for the position, in spite of some trying circumstances she lis 1 to contend with. A few days since she was attacked with influenza, and arrangements were promptly made by the Chairman of the Board for carrying on tho Hospital work. Pneumonia supervened, and Miss Xyers succumbed on Wednesday afternoon. The funeral place to-day. Both the Chairmen and the Secretary intend to bo present.

One of the most novel chapters in the late Mr. G. W. Steevens' book " In India," entitled " Lord, Have Mercy on Us 1" deals with the tenement quarters of Bombay and Calcutta during the plague, which is causod Iby sheer piggery, dirt, and darkness, foul air, and rabbit-wan en overcrowding. " The huge houses, with their ranks of w' idows, thoir worn plaster, and scratched, rickeiy shutters, have slum written all over them in a universal language. ... On stamped eaith floors, between ba''e walls, by tho dullness of one tiny window, you see shapes squatting like monkeys. They stir, litlio but always languid, and presently you sue that' they are human. Babies, naked children, young men and youths, mothers and fathers, shrivelled grandsirea and granddames —whole families stifle together in the thick darkness, breed, and take In lodgers. In the room, where there is hardly space to move, they sleep, and work at trades, and cook their food with pungent cakes of cow dung. Becauso January is cold to their bare limbs, they shut doors and windows to fester worse. The lower rooms are worn down beneath the level of the street and of the drains; tho upper are holes beneath the sloping roof, where a man cannot stand upright. On the stories between these are dens lighted only from the dark corridor.

You look into them, sndat first see no more than a feeble wick fluttering in a night-glass; then moist eyes shine at you out ol the darkness, and again two, four, six, ten mon and women are sitting motionless against the wall. They neither speak nor stir—just sit and ripen for pestilence. On the door-jamb of this house are a dozen red marks —dates with a line round them, in some semicircular, in others a complete circle. Bach means a case of plague—the full circles a death, the halves a removal to hospital. For your own part you wonder that anybody in the poisonous air is left alive."

An unusual notification is made in connection with the steal of a sentry of the! New South Wales Medical Corps at Orange River camp. It runs: "No 49, Private Thomas Henry Norris, New Stuth Wales Army Medical Corps, was tried by a district court-martial, held at Orange River, South Africa, on 19th January, for insubordination, and sentened to 81 days' imprisonment, with hard labor." Froniadvioes received by post it would appear that the man was on sentry-go, when two men approached the camp. 'J hey were promptly challenged, but did not take tho trouble, to reply properly. The sentry again challenged, and, on receiving an unsatisfactory reply, fired. One man was killed, and the other wounded. The sentry was court-martialled, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labor, which was reduced to 84 days, and, later, altogether remitted. His duty was, of course, to call out the guard, and give the men in charge, not shoot them " on sight." John Leydon will sell on Saturday, his last day, without reserve, D.8.8.L. guns, oil paintings, ladies' and gents' saddles and bridles, accordions, and violins.—Advt. Attend for bargains on Saturday at John Leydon'slast sale by auction in Devon-street. No reserve.—Advt.

Sir Redvers Buller, through a friend, has denied the statement credited to him, viz.: That he would eat his Christmas dinner in Pretoria. He is not the tpyo of man to use such bombastic and high falutin talk. He knows his contract and he is going to carry it out thoroughly. It can be safely said that Sykes' Cnra Cough needs no such credits. Use it, and it will act for itself.—At all Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt.

" Cruel only to be Kind."—Much unnecessary 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 giddiness, one is immediately teld to take some disagreeablo 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 and agreeable restoratives to health. Thousands can attest this, thousands hare attested it, For disorders of the stomach and liver, take the Pills; and use the ointment for gout, umbago, rheumatism, &c.—Advt.