LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 106, 25 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Waikato left Lyttelton for Waitaia at 5 a.m. on Sunday. A notice appears in this issue from Mr. A. D. Gray, dentist, intimating that he has decided to remain in .New Plymouth and continue the practice of his profession. The Rev. H. T. Rawnsley, vicar of St. John's, Waitara, has received from the Primate a draft for £2O towards the building fund of the Lepperton Anglican Church. The building is already paid for, but the vestry owe £l9 3s 4d to a local resident. The decision of Mr. Stanford, S.M., in the horse case Mliot v. Taylor will be given today. An application made by Mr. Spence (Mr. Roy) for the admission of further evidence was refused. An influential deputation of the Prohibition Party in Oamaru waited on the Hon. Mr. Jones, M.L.G., prior to his departure for Wellington, and urged that the proposed amendments in the liquor laws were a retrograde step. Mr. Jones took a similar view, and promised to oppose them to the utmost. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as follow:—6 a m., Gairloch (from North); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North). In a private letter, Mr. E. M. Smith writes: —" I have had a long interview with the General Manager of Railways and have seen the plans of the proposed new railway station and alterations at New Plymouth. The building is a magnificent one, and I am getting a tracing made and will forward it at an early date for inspection, and feel confident that you will be very satisfied with it. The total cost of alteration will be some £40,000 (this must include diversion of the line round the cliffs), and the work will be hurried on as fast as possible. I hope to get an interview with the Postmaster-General tomorrow or next day re the new post office and Customs-house." The Treasurer of the City Band desires to acknowledge the receipt of £1 from a young lady sympathiser. A most successful meeting of the Wesleyan Band of Hope was held in the rear room of Whiteley Hall on Friday evening. There was a large attendance, and a splendid programme was provided. Several of the pertermers were new to the Band of Hope, and the audience showed its appreciation of their efforts in a very marked manner. Two musical items by Mr. Harold White, an old member, were rendered in good style. An address was given by a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the subject chosen being " Wines—home-made and British." By the means of an experiment, alcohol was shown to be present to the same degree in the ordinary fermented home-made wines as it is in porter. Judging by the answers given to questions asked by the chairman, the members profited greatly by the lesson. The Rev. W. Ready, of Auckland, is to visit New Plymouth on the 15th and 16th prox. The rev. gentleman will preach at the Whiteley Memorial Church on the firstmentioned date, the sermon being entitled " From London Streets to the Pulpit," The skeleton of a moa is reported by the Rangitikei Advocate to have been discovered by Mr. D. C. Tennent, Marton, near the mouth of the Turakina river recently. The bird apparently was of gigantic she and had been buried on a sandhill, which has now been blown away. Mr. Tennent gathered the bones and took them to Marton, and they constitute almost the complete framework of the bird.

| Mr. P. J. O'Regan has, it is understood, made up his mind to join the legal fraternity. He has taken up his abode at Wadestown, and will go through a course of legal training preparatory to entering the profession. The Inangahua Times states that he has been heartily commended to take this step by Sir Robert Stout (Chief Justice). Mr. O'Regan has no intention of abandoning politics, and when the proper time comes will be heard again at the hustings. In New South Wales Methodists Eorm 9 per cent, of the population; Victoria, 13 ; Queensland, 7; Western Australia, 9; Tasmania, 11; New Zealand, 9; South Australia, 20 per cent. The schoolmaster of a village near Tobermory has translated "The Absent-Minded Beggar " into Gaelic, and recites it in that language at local gatherings. In an illustrated character sketch of Dr. W. G. Grace in the Youug Man for May we are told that if you ask "W. G." for a secret of health—and as he is a medical man as well as a miracle of physical robustness the question is justifiable—he will give it you in a few words. " Live a natural, temperate life; get all the outdoor exercise you can, and don't smoke," There is one curious fact about Dr. Grace which is not generally known. He has only one lung. A crenerous gift is to be made by Mewrs, Lever Brothers to Port Sunlight (Eng.) by the erection of an undenominational church, to cost £25,000. Although Messrs. Lever Brothers are Congregationalists, they have invited a Wesleyan (Rev. S. Gumble Walker) to be the first pastor. Should Mr. Walker accept the position, it will be necessary for hirn to resign his connection as a minister of the Wesleyan Conference. Last year Messrs, W. H. and J. D. Lever huilt a handsome church and school at Bolton, the organ being one of the largest church in. struments in Lancashire,

On Tuesday next an important conference, under the auspices of the Manawatu and West Coast, Masterton, and Wairarapa and East Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Associations, will be commenced in the library of the Colonial Museum, Wellington. A great variety of subjects will be discussed. Suggestions will be made by the Ashburton Association that the attention of Parliament should bo drawn to the insufficiency of grain trucks; that only half rates either way should be charged for the railage of stock exhibited at shows and taken back by the owners; that Government should be asked to make an annual grant of £IOOO towards t-ho prizes of a New Zealand Agricultural and Pastoral Show to be held alternately in the North and South islands. The Masterton Association will make suggestions as to opening n p a South African market for New Zealand produce, and also as to dealing with various diseases, sheep dipping, diseased cattle sent to the slaughterhouses, and selection of grasses, fodder, plants, and grain most suitable for certain soils and climates. The Taranaki Association will suggest "the necessity for legislation v-e noxious weeds and'tha desirableness of an ai'rang,omcn|t wljereby lectures will be delivered to j'aFme'js' A§ : sociations by Government specialists. " That the Conference be asked to approach the Government and ascertain whether it is intended to impose the tax on dairy factories " is one of the' niotjoris tabled by the Egmont Association. "'

Miss Mary Kingsley, the explorer and authoress, who died of fever, contracted while nursing Boer prisoners at Simonstown, writing tp a friend some time since, said:—"lt was not as 'tonic' that I wenfc to West Africa. J. tuj-iird to it naturally after the dreadful grief' of 'the loss of my parents in I§'J2. My father, Or. Kingsley, X foumi dead J'n bis bed one morning, and my mother, w|)Q "had been for years an invalid, died sist weeks after. I had been for so many years so close to death and danger in the most dreadful form thoy can come to one, nam ly, the light for the IK" «i{ one we love, that a lucre English social life and will over remain, an impossibility to nic, iuA sp I went off to carry on the old ii.:lit where it is at its thickest, 'in the Terrible Jiight of Benin, where, for one that comes out there are forty go in,'and the none less terrible Bight of Biafra. There was v.r. reason why 1 should not go there, for my parents' only children are my brother, Mr. C. G. Kingsley, and myself, and my brother is unable lo live in England as J am, and so isa ; traveller in the regions of tile Bar Best"

Great Cnssar's Ghost! poor wasted frame, '1 hat once full vigour did possess, Can't be a man in else hue nan-.r, 'is Bowjrh has brought him sucli'dislro.-s. Hie undertaker smiles, to think ' -w'.u winter's cold he'll not endure, Oh ! ne'er say die, but take a drink' Ox W, ft Weeds' Great Peppermint Qu.ro 11

The respect in which the late *Mr7James Bennett was held and the sympathy felt for the relatives of the deceased were fully demonstrated on Sunday afternoon, when the remains were conveyed to their last restingplace. The cortege was one of the largest yet Been in New Plymouth, and included friends from all parts of the Taranaki distnct. The Oddfellows, of which Mr. Bennett was Provincial Grand Master, were largely represented, while kindred societies assembled in large numbers. At the grave, the Rev. Father Treacy read the beautiful service of the Roman Catholic Church in a most impressive manner. A profusion of lovely wreaths covered the coffin. Irish emigration statistics continue to reveal a decreasing population in Ireland. The report of the Registrar-General of Ireland for 1899 was laid on the table of the House of Commons recently, and it shows that the number of emigrants who left Ireland in the year was 43,760, or 97 per 1000 of the estimated population, and an increase of 9375 over the numbers of 1898. Deducting those who were natives of other countries than Ireland, the net emigration of native Irish was 41,332, being I an increase of 8991 over the previous year. As usual, the bulk were young men and women, 82 per cent, being between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. Of the total 35,433, or 85-9 per cent., went to the United States, 1005 to Australia, 397 to Canada, and 4141 to Great Britain. Ton can depend on ridding your children of worms with Wade's Worm Pigs, the wonderful Worm Worriers. Price Is.—Advt When a notorious robber was run to earth some years ago, he told the two detectives that he would point out where he had hidden most of the money in boxes in a river. One detective went in the boat with him, while the other sat on the bank. When the fishers thought they had hooked a box the robber obligingly butted the detective in the wind, jumped over, swam to the opposite bank, and made his escape. The detective, who was once a smart runner, had his organs in bad condition for sprinting, and he lost his man. Had he used Bykes' Cura Cough he would have retained his wind and his reputation. All Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt. Wage's Worm Figs, the wonderful Worm Worriers, never fail for adults or shildrei. Price Is.—Advt' The Opinion of every Englishman is that liberty of speech and action is Che birthright of every free man. "Britons never shall be slaves " is one of the most popular of our national songs, and, as a matter of fact, it is impossible for slavery to exist under the protecting shadow of the British flag. In the same manner, men cannot remain bound by the tyrannic shackles of disease, if they will place themselves under the healing influence of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. Their success in all parts of the world is now a familiar story, and it is only necessary to say here, there is no known disorder that cannot be speedily cured or relieved by them.—Advt. Wade's Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant; children thrive after taking them. Price In —Advt