LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 191, 15 August 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Heading matter will be found on our fourth page.

To-morrow morning Mr. Newton King will sell at his mart the s.s. Douglas, as she now lies at Mokau.

A lunatic was taken through to Wellington on Tuesday by Constable Russell. We understand that Messrs. McKinnon Bain and Haigh have been engaged to play at the Cricket Club dance at Inglewood on Thursday, and also at the tennis dance at Stratford on the 24th inst. These engagements »how that the playing of these two musicians is evidently much appreciated. On the motion of Mr. Samuel, probate of the will of the late Colonel Stapp was granted by the Supreme Court of New Zealand' to Herbert Philip Henry Greaves and Ernest Percy Webster, the executors named in the will. Probate of the will of the late L. M. Tarrant, who died of typhoid fever at Pretoria on the 20th April last, was granted, on Mr. Samuel's application, to Francis Saxon Tarrant, the brother and sole executor and devisee of deceased.

His Worship the Mayor intends to close the subscription lists for the Indian Famine Fund at the end of the month. Those having lists are requested to return thorn by the 31st instant. The following additional amounts are acknowledged:-Sympathiser, 10s; G. H. Bullard, 10s; M., £1; Warea, per Mrs. Elwin, 12s; Sellish, 10s; W. Girling, 5s 6d; Friend, 4s. The Agent-General cables that the cheese market is firm, and good demand for butler. The prospects are encouraging.

A Press Association wire from Duncdin states that in nearly all the Wesleyan--and Presbyttnan Churches on Sunday.resolutioos were passed opposing legalising the sate of intoxicating liquor in the King Couuiiy.

A "social" is to beheld in the Baptist Church this evening for the purpose of helping the Chaudpore Hospital Fund. The N.Z. Baptist Missionary Society have for some years past been the sole mission workers in a large district in iDdia of which C'handpore is the centre. Dr. North, of Dunedin, has oi'arge of the medical branch, and has already done good work. It is to be hoped that the efforts to provide a properly equipped hospital lor this work will be successful. An attractive programme has been arranged for this evening's " social," to which ail interested are heartily invited. The report respecting New Plymouth which appears in the Journal of the Department o£ Labour for August is as follows: — Building trades: Very brisk; quite a demand for carpenters. Ketail trade (general): Good business ruling in branches. Unskilled labour: No local men idle at present. There is not much work offering just now.

Wage's Worm Fis?B, the wonderful Worm Worriere, nevar fail for spirits or jliildrfß, Prisa lf,~Ad?t '"- i

The Premier has received the following cable message from the Duke of Devonshire: —" The British Empire League have adopted a resolution welcoming your proposal for a united military system, and will gladly assist." The Duke of Devonshire is President of the League.

There was a large muster of the Taranaki Guards at company drill on Tuesday evening at the Drill Hall, about 50 members answering to the roll call. The men were in charge of Captain Taunton and Lieutenants Cook and Holmes. The men were put through marching exercises and manual and physical drill, tha various evolutions being well carried out. After the parade, two new members were elected. It was announced that on the 30th instant the Guards would proceed to Waitara by train, the Government having agreed to ] issue free railway tickets, The proposal is that the Guards will, on arrival at Waitara, partake of tea, and afterwards go through various evolutions, and in the evening march to New Plymouth. It is expected that nearly the whole of the members will partake in the demonstration. This evening, at the Club Boom, a ladies' concert will beheld, at which members and their lady friends will be present. ' * \ We understand that on the arrival of the new steamer bairig built to the order of the Northern Steam Ship Company for the New Plymouth-Onehunga trade the old favourite steamer Gairloch will trade between Hokiauga, Onehunga, Opunake, and Wanganui.

It is reported that the extra mail trains are to begin running shortly, and that the number of goods trains is to be increased. The traffic is said to be increasing very rapidly, and a large increase is expeoted during the summer months. The dairy produce trade is expected to be very heavy this season.

Mr. W. Courtney was a passenger by the Rotoiti last evening for Auckland. He iatends taking a run up the Waikato while in the north.

The s.s. Corinna was to leave the port of Lyttelton last evening with a full general cargo for New Plymouth. She is expected to arrive at the breakwater early on Thursday. It is not unlikely that the Union S.S. Company, with their customary enterprise, will put on an additional steamer during the summer months between the breakwater and Onehunga if the mail trains run through every day. A Saturday night steamer to Auckland would certainly be a very popular service, and the passenger trade is always congested during the summer months. The Town Band were fortunate on Tuesday in having such a particularly favourable evening for the open-air performance which they gave at the Government Buildings. A large crowd was present and thoroughly enjoyed the music, which was well up to the high standard of merit attained by the Band, the reeds being especially noticeable and materially assisting to enhance the effect of a first-class performance. Considerable effort was made on Tuesday afternoon to make a sensation out of what was really the simplest and most commonplace affair. Someone started a rumour that a fishing boat had overturned in a squall, and, with the usual avidity for excitement, the ball was set rolling. The facts, however, were very simple. Three boats were out during the day, two returned, and the third was well on the way to the breakwater when she ran into a squall; naturally the sail was dropped and the occupant rowed on. By the time the rain cloud passed the boat had neared the breakwater, and as it naturally could not be seen on the spot where it passed from view, the rumour got abroad that it had disappeared. At no time was there any daager to the boat or its occupant., Misfortune seems to hang around the track of the vessels engaged in the Mokau coal traffic. The Douglas, which has lately been carrying the bulk of the coal, is to be sold on Thursday as she lays on the spit at Mokau, the underwriters having abandoned tha attempt to get her off. Perhaps, after all, this may be a blessing in disguise, and be the means of ensuring a suitably built vessel being placed on this* important service. Mr. W. Symes, M.H.R., has forwarded to Mr. Vaughan, clerk of the Clifton County Council, the following letter received from the Minister of Lands: —" I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th inst. forwarding for perufal and consideration a letter and a petition from settlers on the Otaraoa and Wiri Roads, praying that a sum of £BOO should be placed upon the Estimates for the purpose of opening up communication between Waitara and Tarata. In reply I hive to say that the request will be considered in preparing the Estimates for the current year." An English journal guarantees the following to bo the latest anecdote about Mark Twain:—"Mark Twain has been living quietly in England. The other evening he was dining at the house of a friend, and seated next to him was an American who had only that day reached England. They were of course, talking war, and the newcomer, wishing to know the feeling in England in the matter of the future of the Transvaal, asked Mark Twain how he found public sentiment in England regarding the independence of the republic. ' Well,' said the genial humorist,' 1 find the English are paraphrasing a part of the burial service. Yhey are quietly repeating, ' Mr. Gladstone giveth and the Lord Salisbury hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.'"

We (Bay of Plenty Times) are glad to see fjom our contemporaries published in other parts of the colony, that a fight has begun against the issue of filthy notes by the banks. We consider that a law should be passed prohibiting the issue of any but new notes from the banks themselves, as the £1 note might now very well be dispensed with and considering what a large source of revenue they prove to the banks through the numbers lost and burnt, the least they can do is to invariably issue qlean ones in place of the disgustingly filthy rags which arc now in circulation.

IT 18 BETTER TO KEEP WELL THAN to have (lie quickest possible recovery from illness. That is why there is such a universal demand for articles like Liebig Company's Extract—now called LBMOO.

Wade's Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant; children thrive after takiig them. Price la —Advt

Ten Thousand Pounds ran Annum may be Earned at too great a sacrilice, if we ruin our health and happiness during its accumulation. Although money i> a necessary article to possess in order to obtain the means of existence, it cannot pnrchass love, friendship, or immunity f om tlic dangcis and pangs of disease. The millionaire has often envied the toiling labourer his hearty appetite and sturdy health, and would gladly have sacrificed a large amount of his wealiii in exchange for these blessings. Holloway's Pills, however, can give health to the most delicate They are the precious key which can open the door leading to the smiling valley of health. They purify the system and give the essentials of strength for the blood. —Advt.

Old Kruger's a bit oat of veck'ning If he thinks ho will wriggle scot free, No angels to him'll be beck'ning When he swings by his neck from a tree. Jls'll get a had cough in the open Exposed to the air, I am sure, And his hands 'll forever be gropin' For Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 3