LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 104, 19 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

His Worship the Mayor (iir. E. Dockrill) on Monday received the following cable: — " Grateful thanks for subscriptions received. —Chairman Indian Famine Fund, Cal-j cutta (per favour E.E.A.O. Tel. C 0.)." The hon. secretary of the City Band has forwarded us complimentary tickets for the " social" to be held in the Theatre Royal on Thursday next. The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company Ins declared an interim dividend of 4 per cent, for the half-year. At the Agricultural Conference to be held in Wellington, Mr. G. V. Tate will represent the Taranaki Agricultural Society, Mr. J. B. Connett the Taranaki Farmers' Club, and Mr. W. 0. Symes, the Egrnont Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

Mr. Henry, of Palmerston North, has disposed of his well-known stock auctioneering business to the New Zealand Loan It Mercantile Company, as from July 2nd. Mr. Henry remains in the district, and continues trading in live stock, quite apart from auctioneering. A deputation of Dunedin Chinese asked the Mayor to stop pulling down Chinese [ residences till the severe weather is past, as I they cannot get accommodation, and are being liteially turned into the streets. The Mayor promised that if the buildings could be patched up and were kept strictly clean, he would stay his hand for a while. Mr. E. M. Smith proceeds to Wellington to-day to enter upon his duties as M.H.K. Mr. E, G. Allsworth was presented by the Toko school children with an address and a handsome barometer.

In future the Land Board will only meet once a month instead of twice as heretofore. The third Monday has beea fixed as the day.

The Cheltenham dairy factory has now the largest output in the Manawatu district. During the past nine months the company has sold 199 tana of butter, and the monetary turnover has been over £II,OOO. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as iollow a—5.45 a.m., Takapuna (from North); 9.30 a.m., Takapuna (for Sonth); 9.30 a.m., Rotoiti (from South) ; 9.30 p.m., Kotoiti (for North), A passenger-car will be attached to the goods train leaving about 3 p.m. Owing to the drought in Norway the stock of wood pulp from which paper is made is running short, and the tremendous demand upon the supplies made by the newspaper business at the present time threatens to exhaust the stock. Some dailies hare more than doubled their usual weekly consumption of paper. A Press wire from Wanganui states that Mr. Geo. Murchhas been formally appointed secretary of the Wanganui Gas Company. Mr. Murch has been acting as secretary during the late Mr. F. R. Jackson's long illness. The majority of the shareholders in the Company are resident in various parts of New Zealand.

Great energy is being shown by the members of the Town Band towards making the complimentary concert which they will tender Mr. H. Tunbridge on Monday next a big success. Mr. Tunbridge, who has been for years a prominent member of the Band, some time ago met with a serious accident, which prevented hin following his employment for a long period. The concert is to be under the direction of Mr. George Garry, which is sufficient guarantee that it will be of great musical merit. We hope a bumper house will be the result.

Referring to the announcement in our issue of Saturday last of the establishment of a sawmill by Mr. Greenaway at Mokau, the Toroa got safely up the river on Saturday, and arrived at the mill (about seven miles up) to take on board the first shipment of timber. Considering that most of the wiseacres predicted that the vessel could only navigate the river on a spring tide, the accomplishment of it on a neap tide is one that augurs well for the furtherance of the industry.

A table published by the New Zealand Times shows the reductions which the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company has decided to make in the fares on its lines, so as to bring them into line with the reductions made on the Government railways. The effect on the fares from New Plymouth to Wellington will be as follows: —First-class single—present fare 52s 6d, reduced fare 31s Bd, reduction 20s lOd; second-class single—present fare 355, reduced fare 21s 2d, reduction 13s lOd; first-class return—preseut fare 70s, reduced fare 63s 4d, reduction G« 8d; second-class return—present fare 48s Bd, reduced fare 42s 4d, reduction 4s 4d.

Mr. Jellicoe, of Wellington, wai a passenger by the outward San Francisco mail steamer Moana.

At the celebration committee meeting in Picton a local medico was appointed by the ladies present a sub-committee to attend to the requirements of the juveniles after the peace celebrations for a week free yr&tit. —Mamwatu Standard,

What might have turned into a very serious fire was discovered yesterday morning at Messrs. Ellison and Duncan's warehouse (says the Napier Herald). A smell of fir# was noticed, and on examination smoke was seen coming from the lining of one of the store rooms. This was quickly broken into, when a rat half suffocated sprang forth, and the fire was speedily put out. Between the lining of the walls a most dangerous lot of fireworks was found, consisting of gunny bags, a huge quantity of matches, almonds, paper, and other inflammable material. H;y,l it started at night a most destructive fire might have taken place, which could not perhaps have been accounted lor. The sight was indeed an object lesson for insurance agents as to how lives can be cansed by rats.

News from the Capo states that Private I W. W. D. Whytehead, formerly of Auckland, and lately of the Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry, was killed in action at Swartkopjesfontein, near Boshof, on April 21st, when under Lord Mcthuen. His age was 21) years. Whytehead was well known in Auckland, Upper Thames, Paeroa, and in the Karangahake and Coromandcl districts, where he worked as a miner for several years. He then went to Opotiki, but gubser quently joined one of the direct stgaijiers. He was last in the s.s. Tekoa, anil on arrival in England left sea and joined the Yeomanry. He was a son of Mr, T. 13. Whytehead, subp'ditjW 9f ftye Nem Zealand Herald a quarter ,pi a' century agjy.

A London correspondent, writing qn May JWfe, fajs: —The despatch from (jeiiers JTrench, putjlishjed in last night's Gazette, is ipost agreeable reading! it refers to the operations round Coles berg. L?pd Robert?, i# transiting the despatch to JJjq 'Wjr Oijjce, I concur' yith the "general pfficer conjoining ju thipkipg that tli.e discipline, parage, ' epdufap,c3 q[ jbhe officers, non.-coiftiftis.siflned officers snd )}>en employed in these operations ft'!? descrying of high commendation, and I am glad IQ observe that tlie Royal Horse Artillery and Zealand_Mounted Kifles appear to h ive specialjy dittioguished themselves." Tho events covered" by .General French, who daun l)is despatch lley'sbuj-g Camp, February 2nd, eiteifcl i'fonj December 15tyi, to January 25tli, UiQQ, ij,nd comprise the seizure of Arundel (December lfi hj), the y.aious actions near liensburg, including the disaster to the Knffolks (January stli), the. engageruent ;j.L Blingersi'ontein (January IIill), and ihe reconnaissance to Hcitfontein i'lekes i*a»s (January 43th) General Freucl) pjakud special mention yf il»jor Kobin, commanding J]je Ne\v Zealand Mounted Infantry, for the ))p and his men accomplished, and among ,tlu>,w jyljopi lie brings to the notice of the CommahderiitChief is Captain W. B. N. Madocks,

Interesting extract from a letter sent by a romantic member of the Fo.r;h Contingent The beautiful iunrises and sunsets ! I never saw anything before the sun rises the lovciy hues th.e sk'y assumes are wondrous in tho extvumo. First deep red, then orange, then all the myriad colors ul tho rainbow. It is as though the prismatic shatts 3f/ere projected by an im-mcn.-e limelight. And' then, .yithont any warning, the huge red orb of day lea s \rb from the waters, The moourises are eijnaljy glorious,"

The Amuri correspondent of. the Press states that Colonel Fox, who is the guest of Sir George Clifford, at Stoneyhurst, has been taken seriously ill, that Dr. Fitzhenry had to be sent for, and Mrs. Colonel Fox brought from Ti Kouka to Stoneyhurst. Later news concerning Colonel Fox states that he was suffering from inflammation of the lungs, which is rendered more serious from the fact that he has previously suffered from the same complaint.

Eleven millions of men are said to belong to the great Chinese Society of Boxers. This estimate (says an exchange) was made by a Chinaman a year ago in conversation with an American who was then in Ohina. The Society of Boxers, which now stands for lawlessness, robbery, and murder, was once respectable. It is a good influence gone wrong. Originally it was organised as a protest, and a means of defence against the bandits with which the province of Shantung was infected. It was, in fact, a Law and Order League. At that time the life i and property of no honest man was safe. [ The bandits were not wild ruffians, such as those of Italy or the American West, but on the contrary seemed to be men of peace. By day they toiled as shoemakers, carpenters, farmers, and what not, but at night they repaired to their strongholds in the mountains, and from them made descents upon villages in which any man was reported to possess a store of money worth the having. A typical attack by these bandits was that made several years ago upon one of the Shantung missions, of which the Rev. J. H. Laughlin, now in New York, was a member. It was such attacks at this, repeated over and over again in villages throughout the province, that resulted in the organisation of the Boxers. But they were not called Boxers then. Their name was Ta Tao Hwei, which means " The Society of the Great Sword." Christians do not know just when the Society of the Great Sword had its origin. The natives refer to it as an " ancient" society, but that may mean 10 years or 100. It is agreed, however, that at first its principles wore laudable and its work good, but as it became more powerful and increased in numbers many dishonest and designing persons entered it for the prestige and protection it afforded.

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