The Daily News. FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 94, 4 May 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page will be found an interesting article entitled "A Terrible Patient."

All the members of the Recreation Grounds Ball Committee are requested to meet at the Farmers' Club this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Malcolm Niccoll has been appointed Grand Secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand.

The Mayor, in response to a requisition signed by a number of leading business men, has agreed to convene a meeting for nest week to consider the Government's action in determining not to remove the Post and Telegraph Offices to a more central site.

The Northern B.S. Company's Gairloch did not arrive at the breakwater until 8 o'clock on Thursday morning, the passage from Auckland being exceedingly rough. Thej express train was, of course, missed, but passengers were taken on by the special in which the Premier travelled, Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as follow 5.45 a.m., Kotoiti (from North); 8 a.m., Takapuna (from South); 9.30 a.m., Rotoiti (for South); 9.30 p m., Takapuna (for North). A passenger-car will j be attached to the goods train leaving about 3 p.m. A rifle match between teams representing the Taranaki Rifles, the Stratford Rifle Club, and Manaia Kifle Club will be lired on the Frankley Road range to-day. The Committee will be glad to see a good attendance of the public, who are, however, requested to keep behind the firing point and not interfere with the competitors. The annual meeting of the Wesleyan Band 1 of Hope will be held in the Whiteley Hall at 7.15 this evening, when an interesting programme will be submitted. As this will be the first of the winter meetings, there should !be a good attendance. An advertisement in | connection with the meeting appears in this issue.

On the application of Mr. Hughes, the Begistrar of the bupremc Court ha# granted probate of the will of the late John Mackintosh Paterson to his widow and Mr. Murdoch Mackay, the executors. Mr. Paterson, it will be remembered, was the first of the Taranaki section of the First New Zealand Contingent to die in South Africa.

The railway returns for the past year show a most satisfactory result. The total revenue was £1,623,890, against £1,469,665 for the previous year,audthe expenditure £1,052,357, against £929,737. The net receipts were £5U,533, giving a percentage of £3 Bs, against £3 5s lud. 'l'he i evenue from the North Island railways was £600,826, and the South Island £1,023,064. There are now J 2104 miles open, against 2090. Tho total cost is put down at £16,404,076, besides £786,891 for unopened Jxnes. The traffic shows an increase in every class of goods except "chaff, lime, &c." The passengers increased by 512,731. Journalism is rapidly becoming a matter of ha'pence. Like the poor, the ha'penny Mail, the ha'penny Herald, and the ha'penny Leader are always with us. On the morning bus and the matutinal Underground these journals flourish in a manner calculated to make several largest penny circulations rub astonished «yes. . . . Kumor has whispered these months back of a new ha'penny morning newspaper to be owned and ran by the Pearson linn. Humor sometimes knows what she is auout. The new paper of her whispers is to appear in a few weeks' time. It will be called the Daily Express, its pricewill be a ha'penny, and it will be owned by Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, and not by Messrs C. Arthur Pearson, Limited T)ig Baiiy Express offices are at 17 Tudor street, Mr. Pearson makes no announcement as to programme .or staff. Will he be his own programme and editor, like Mr, ffomsjyorth, or will he call on Mr. T. P. O'Connor or Mr. MASsipgham 1 ManChester also is being giyen tyyo pew ha'penny journals this spring.—Outlook,

Since .old Oom Paul has gone to war We'll ft hot for every Boer, But soldiers' find there's else but lead To hurt a man or kill hie dead.

The hard rough life, climatic lUs, Are apt to bring on grevious chills, i'O ward ofl! which there's one thing sure,

A dese of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 15

You can depend on ridding your children of worms with Wade's Worm Kigs, the wonderful Worm Worriers. Price Is.—Advt.

The question of sending a team of footbailors to England, under the auspices of the New Zealand Kugby Union, is likely to be raised again this season, and towards the close of the period will probably be carried into effect. The mutter of selecting the players will be a ticklish job lor the selectors, as there are so many good men in the colony. It behoves all exponents of the game to keep themselves in good buckle, as the selection will be on the l'oriu shown. Keep clear ol' all colds, coughs, and chills by using no other remedy than iykes' Oura Cough, Ali Chemists and (storekeepers.—Advt,

At the annual meeting of the Taranaki Rugby Union, held in New l'ljmouth on Thuraday evening, it was decided to remove I the head-quarters from New Plymouth to , Stratford.

The Premier arrived in New Plymouth from Auckland on Thursday morning, and was met by His Worship the Mayor, Mr. B. M. Smith, M.H.R.,and others. The questions of the proposed alterations to the railway station, the Department's intentions as to the Post Office, and sanitary matters were discussed during Mr. Seddon's two hours' stay, and consideration was promised. Mr. Dockrill asked that Mr. Gilruth and Dr. Mason be allowed to visit New Plymouth, and Mr. fjeddon said he would do what he could to meet the wishes of the people in that respect, Mr. Seddon left by special train shortly before 10 o'clock.

A country laird, riding in an unfrequented part of Kircudbrightshire, came to the edge of a morass which he thought was not quite safe. Hailing a peasant lad who was standing close by, he asked him "if the bog was hard at the bottom." " Ou, ay, quite hard," responded the youth. The laird pass on, but his horse began to sink with alarming rapidity. "You rascal 1" to the grinning urchin. " You told me it was hard at the bottom." "So it is; but you're no at the bottom yet." William Henry Gilder, whose death iB reported from Morristown, N.J., had an adventurous career. Born in Philadelphia in 1838, he enlisted in a New York regiment in 1861. He was wounded in the arm at the battle of Fredericksburg, and through the leg at Gettysburg. In 1878 he joined the Franklin search expedition, commanded by the late Lieutenant Bchwatka, of the United States army. He served with this expedition from 1878 to 1880, and during: its continuance made a sledge journey of 3000 miles in King William's Land, the details of which were given in this book "Schwatka's Search." In 1881 he joined the De Long expedition. When the Rodgers, the vessel which carried the party, was burned on the western shore of Behring Straits, Mr. Gilder was chosen to cany the news to the nearest telegraph station. His task involved a winter journey of nearly 2000 miles across Siberia. He afterwards joined in the search for the survivors of the Jeannette, and in 1882 went with the French army sent to invade Tonkin, Wade's Worm Figs, the wonderful Worm Worriers, never Jail for adults or shildrea. Prce Is. —Advt.

The recent rise in prices for shoeing horses has caused some dissatisfaction in this district, but it appears that the charges current here are from Is to 2s below those advertised in the Wellington Post by twentysix members of the Horseshoers Union of that city. The rates there are: —Hacks and light harness horses, 6s; light draughts, 7b ; heavy draughts, 8s; polo ponies and doctors, 7s; first shoeing, young light 8s and young draughts 10s; trotting (with weight bars), 10s; stallions (in season), light 10s, draught 15s; removes or slippers, Is; leather soles, Is.—Advt.

Wade's Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant; children thrive after taking ■them. Price Is.—Advt,