The Daily News. MONDAY, MAT 7, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 7 May 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, MAT 7, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A committee consisting of the Chairman > and Mr, J. B. Roy has been appointed by the I High School Board o£ Governors to watch' , the Board's interests in the Patea reserves. \

The ordinary meetings of the Oounty Council and Land Board will take place to-day. Mr, Skinner has been appointed overseer of the Recreation Grounds for May. The High School Board of Governors has decided to send a resolution to the Senate of th« New Zealand University, expressing regret that the Senate should have decided to cease holding the matriculation examination in the smaller centres, and asking that such decision be re-considered.

A general meeting of members of the Taranuki Guards will be held in Mr. Holmes' 'office, Kobe-street, at '7.15 this evening, to transact important business. An advertisement notifies tho appointment of Mr. P. Drevvitt as custodian of the High School.

Trains";will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned below, as follow: —5.45 a.m., Gairloch (irom .North); 9.30 p.m,, Gairloch (for North). The Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society have appointed Messrs. John Roberts and T. Brydone delegates to the Agricultural Conference.

As the result of the Easter Monday ball, the Recreation Grounds Board has benefited to the extent of £2O.

At the Te Henui Sunday School this evening will be given an attractive lantern entertainment. Both the Revs. F. G. Evans and F. A. Bennett will take part, so that there is every prospect of a very pleasant , evening being spent, Mr. If. C. Jury announces that he has commenced business as a general grocer in premises situated on the junction of Gover and Courtenay streets, Mr. Jury is well and favourably known in New Plymouth, and this, coupled with the fact that the portion of the< borough in which he is starting is well populated, should ensure a large connection. The Board of Governors of the New Plymouth High School has decided "That in the event of a pupil being «dux' more than once no medal shall be given, but the year or years shall be inscribed on the medal already awarded and on the school shield,, and the value of medal in books shall be given to the dux." It was also decided that an allowance ot £52 per annum be made to the Principal on condition that the duties as laid down in the " Duties of Janitor," as put before the Board, are complied with. In consequence of his impaired health, Mr. Seddon will shortly leave upon an extended holiday for some place entirely removed from business. During his absence Mr. Ward will probably be acting-Premier.

According to the London papers received, by last mail, the plague was fast increasing in Bengal—the number of deaths in one week being 4,725. In the last week of March the number of men employed on relief works in India amounted to 4,810,000. The "Mansion House" Famine Fund had reached £142,600. In reply to a message oE congratulation, as Grand Master of tho Mew Zealand Masons, Mr. Seddon lias received the following:— "The Prince of Wales warmly thanks the brethren of New Zealand Grand Lodge for kind and fraternal message." The number of workpeople reported killed in Great Britain in 18!)!) by industrial accidents was 4 416, being 418 more than in the preceding year the highest rate being amongst seamen. The number of persons reported as injured was 90,028, being 16,10!) more than in 18!)8.

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Our colonial cousins say that wo New Kcalanders " blow " too much. But haven't we something to "blow" about'.' Look at our ciimale, our creeks and springs, our wonderland of lake scenery, our forests, our unrivalled bay scenery, and a happy, confuted, and healthy people inhabiting our isles. Our men away in South Africa are noted for their line soldierly appearance, and the way I hey stand the tc;ir and wear of an hrduous campaign. Wc Lave other points wo can "blow" abort, and among them is dykes' Cura Cough, All Chemists and Storekeepers,—Adv Vl

Wo appreciate the action of the Egwtmt Settler in reproducing our notes on the solar flame prominences, withoutacknowledgmeat. To-day will bo the 227 th day of the siege of Mafeking— a record that passes many of the more prominent sieges. Early in January all the food stuffs were taken over by the military authorities and rations served out daily.

The only item in the revenue which shows a decrease is the territorial, which is less by ' £11,571. Otherincreasesarelandandincome e tax, £8923; beer duty, £4079; marine, £2330; ] miscellaneous, £9491. The Customs revenue i shows increase in spirits, £2999; tobacco, £12,852; sugar, £11,237; ad valorem, ' £68,410; goods by weight, £10,898. Mr. Gilbert Carson, editor of the Wanganui Chronicle, has been seriously indisposed for some weeks pa9t, but is now, we are pleased to learn, picking up in health. Says an English contemporary:—Never perhaps since Patrick McAipine, the missionary preacher to the Irish, afterwards ( canonised as St. Patrick, picked up the little piece of trefoil in a.d. 432, some fourteen hundred and sixty-eight years ago, to ex- < plain to his flock the mystery of the Trinity, has there been a more popular " wearing of the green " than that of Saturday, [St. Patrick's Day.] Everybody seemed to be wealing the emblem to which the Queen's gracious action has given yet another kindly significance. As in past years various types of shamrock were to be seen, and once again has arisen the controversy as to the true shamrock. Many Irishmen will not accept as the genuine herb anything but the tiny trefoil of the yellow clover, but Antrim, Mayo, and Armagh wear the larger leaved white clover. Sowerby, the botanist, in en attempt to solve the question, received seven different plants from various parts of IreIs ud, some of them clovers, some lupins, and some wood-sorrels. Some year* ago the late Shirley Hibberd wrote a long article in the Gardener's Magazine to prove that the plant was a distinct trefoil, and related to the cresses. In connection with this contention it may be noted that in Queen Elizabeth's day, Spenser, in his "View of the State of Ireland," says that shamrocks were eaten, and remarks of the people, "If they found a plot of waterciessses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time." The Earl of Arran, too, in the Civil wars, said his troops could live on "meal and shamrocks." In any , case the shamrock is a trefoil and the Irish emblem, and all must hope that in future it may mean for us a larger measure of faith, hope, and charity between Britons, who must all remember with gratitude and joy that the luck-bringing four-leaved shamrock worked by the fingers of Lady Roberts on the Union Jack has been placed by her noble Irish husband in victory to wave over Bloemfontein, Wade's Worm Figs, the wonderful Worm Worriers, never fail for adults or children. 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 1b to 2s below those advertised in the Wollington Post by twentysix members of the Horseshoers Union of that city. The rates there are: —Hacks and light harness horses, 6s; light draughts, 7s j heavy draughts, 8s; polo ponies and doctors, 7s; first shoeing, young light 8a and young draughts 10s; trotting (with weight bars), . 10 s; stallions (in season), light 10s, draught 15s; removes or slippers, Is; leather soles, Is.—Advt. Wade's Worm Figs aTe most effective and . not unpleasant; children thrive after taking them. Price Is.—Advt. Commerce, with its Speeading Wings, * has traversed the globe many times, and binds nations together with the strong ties of mutual self-interest. Through its influence \ London has become the metropolis of the l ' world, and her merchants have amassed s wealth sufficient to make them the envy of l' princes. Holloway's Pills and Ointment have now become essential articles of commerce , with all parts of the world. They have j effected cures which have seemed miraculous, and given relief in complaints when all hope had been lost. In all known diseases their r success has at all times been wonderful. In cases of disorders of the stomach, bile, livex s oomplaint, indigestion, fevers, ague, &c, they i act like a charm, as the cure is speedy and i certain.—Advt.

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