The Daily News. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 8 May 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will be found on our fourth page. The Governor and suite arrived by the Gairloch on Monday, and went on by express train to Wellington. The Borough authorities have been notified by the Minister of Bailways that St. Aubynstreet is not to be interfered with in carrying out the alterations at the local railway station. The Union Steam Ship Company has received notice that the s.s. Talune leaves Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday next. There was practically no civil business at the Court on Monday morning. Several cases were adjourned, and others settled out of Court. Messrs. Fischer and Jones have placed the Theatre Koyal at the disposal of the meeting to bo held on Wednesday rc the matter of a new Post Office. The Land Board has decided that leases under the I ands Improvement and Native Lands Acquisition Act, 1894, should be issued by the direct authority of the Board. This will be done in future. The form of lease is still under consideration. As a result of a special collection being taken up at the Baptist Church on Sunday evening, the Secretary has been able to hand over to the Treasurer of the Indian Famine Fund the amount of £4 ss. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today. connecting with steamer mentioned below, as followl p.m., Kotoiti (from South); 9.30 p in., Rotoiti (for North). A passenger-car will be attached to the goods train leaving about 3 p.m. The Waitara Foreman reported on Monday to the..oounty Council that he had inspected W. Bayly's slaughterhouse, which he found clean and in good order. The number of cattle killed there last quarter was 178 large and 790 small. He also inspected A. Drake's slaughterhouse, and found everything in fair order; 2148 pigs were killed there last quarter.^ Fourteen sections in blocks 3 and 4, Upper Waitara, and 12 and 13, Mimi, are to be offered for sale or selection. Three sections in block 4 are to be dealt with when that block has been surveyed. There aie also eleven sections in blocks 8 and 11, Upper Waitat*, and 5, l'ouatu, that are to be offered for sate and selection—provisiou being made! in thb adjoining block for a reserve for j primary education. Count Einile Beauregard, who was killed iwith She Boer force at Colenso, was (says the (irajiliin) for two years an officer of the Lanccis. He joined in 1894 and resigned his Ciipmiission in 18!i(j. Subsequently he went Out to Kimberley, and joined the Boer forces lost July. He was born in 1872, and educv&d at Trinity College, Cambridge. News of his death was received the other day from the Boer headquarters, Pretoria, by Count Beauregard, of Bournemouth. Tho Beauregards are French Royalists, and were exiled from franco at the time of the Franco-Prussian war. A Ghasd Speculation, in these days of financial unrest, is a rare thing for people with spare capital to come across. It is, therefore, refreshing to know that in purchasing a box of Holloway's Pills, good value for money can be obtained. They never fail to give instant relief from pain, and no disease can long witlmtand their purifying influence. A few appropriate doses at the r proper period will prevent many a serious illness. Their primary action is upon the blood, stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Their secondary action strengthens the nervuus centres. No drug can be so harmless yet so antagonistic to disorders caused by brain worry. The most perfect reliance may be placed upon their regulating and rcnovaing virtues.—Advt. An earthquake, with its mystery, | Will cause the stoutest heart to pause, I The bravest men in history I Have trembled at old nature's laws. ! The man who then invokes the siints Would rathei sickness long endure, He knows the thing for chest complains Is W. E. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. ]!) Wa-Vs Worm Figs, the wonderful Worn-.! Worriers, never fail for adults or shildren. j Prce Is.—Adytj 1

Mr. J. P. Carolin, ex-Mayor of Bendigo, and a councillor of thirty years' standing, is on a short visit to this district, which he speaks of in the highest terms of praise. An interesting story is told concerning the life of G. W. Steevens, tha war correspondent, who died recently in South Africa of enteric fever. Four years ago he married Mrs Christina Rogerson, who, although more than double his age, is a woman of wonderful charm, wit, and fascination. She enjoyed the spirit and gaiety of a woman of 20, when Steevens, then 26, married her. She was then 63 years old. Mrs Rogerson refused him repeatedly, but she eventually yielded to an unceasing importunity. Their married life was very happy, and at Merton Abbey, Nelson's one-time residence, they devoted the kindliest parental care to six boys and six girls taken from the wornt haunts of vice and misery. These children they prepared for honest livelihood. Mrs Steevens is still very handsome and a sister of the famous beauty, Mrs Henry Smith, whose daughter was the Mrs Virginia Crawford of the Dilke case. She has a substantial fortune in her own rignt.

Speaking at the official welcome tendered to him at (Jape Town, prior to his departure for England, General Sir George Whito said: —" England always come out best in the hour of adversity—(cheers)—and this campaign has been no exception to that general rule. We are all proud of being English. England is only a little dot on the map of the world on which we balance one foot of the compass while we wheel the other leg towards the Poles to mark the confines of Greater Britain. (Cheers.) In this case, as in many former ones, we have found that this little England is the heart of a vast system whose giant limbs reach to the uttermost parts of the earth. (Cheers.) So brave and so strong has proved the pulsation of that little heart that it has sent & current of English lifeblood to the furthest extremity of the further possessions, and knit them together as one unconquerable whole. (Loud cheers.) The dark hoars of our adversity, I believe, are past. I am sorry to say that my share in the business is ever; but I know that I have had the honor and the pride to be a lieutenant of the gallant Field Marshal who now so ably directs military affairs in this country—-(cheers)—-who is going to be the biggest soldier in England since the days of Wellington, and who already possesses, and deservedly so, the hearts of the whole nation, (Prolonged cheers.) You can depend on ridding your ohlldreD of worms with Wade's Worm Figs, the wonderful Worm Worriers. Price la.—Advt. The recent rise in prices for shoeing horses has caused some dissatisfaction in this district, but it appears that the oharges 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, 7s; heavy draughts, 8s; polo ponies and doctors, 7s; first shoeing, young light 8s and young draughts 10s; trotting (with weight bars), 10 s; stallions (in season), light 10s, draught 15s; removes or sKppers, Is; leather soles, Is. —Advt. Wade's Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant; children thrive after taking them. Price Is.—Advt, Our colonial cousins say that we New Zealanders " blow " too much. But haven't we something to "blow" about? Look at our climate, our creeks and springs, our wonderland of lake scenery, our forests, our unrivalled bay scenery, and a happy, contented, and healthy people inhabiting our isles. Our men away in South Africa are noted for their fine soldierly appearance, and the way they stand the tear and wear of an arduous campaign. We have other points wo can "blow" about, and among them ia Sykes' Cura Cough. All Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt.