LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 191, 16 August 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' Interesting reading matter will be found on our fourtli page. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned below, as follow:—6 a.m., Gairloch (from North); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North). W. A. Parkinson, Esq., J.P., the editor of the Hawera, Star, was in New Plymouth on a short business visit yesterday.

, A sale of Crown lands will be held at Stratford to-day. I Owing to detention at Lyttelton through bad weather, the s.s. Oorinna will not arrive here until to-morrow.

I At the Police Court on Wednesday, William Hickmate was fined 10s and costs for drunkenness.

The opening concert of the New Plymouth Philharmonic Seciety will be held in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday, August 28th. An advertisement in reference to the fame appears in this issue.

The annual election for the Borough 1 Council takes place next month. The memibers who retire by effluxion of time ate Messrs. W. F. Brooking (Central), A. Lealand (East), and J. Ward (West), The Fire Brigade desires to acknowledge £5 5s from Mrs. P. Skinner in recognition of the Brigade's efforts in suppressing the late fire in Brougham-street. The Supreme Court sittings commence at New Plymouth on 10th September. The criminal calendar so far is as follows:—G. W. Walaer, breaking and entering; W. Doyle, breaking and entering; J, Hannam, assault and occasioning bodily harm; W. Graham, indecent assault; F. J. Hicks, personation; J. D. O'Brien, theft of post office letters (six charges); O. Holmes, breaking and entering. It is expected by those who have the affair in hand ttiat the Town Band Ball will be one of the successes of the year. The Ladies' Committee will be in attendance at the Theatre Royal after 10.30 this morning to receive promised contributions for the supper. It is expected that the new firm of auctioneers, Messrs, Bewley k Watt, will shortly j commence selling. [ The enquiry into the Koru school will bo .held at Koru to-day by Messrs. D. McAUum, l E. G. Allsworth, and G. A. Adlam, the comImittee appointed by the Education Board.

We have to express our thanks for a photograph received from Mr. W. V. Gordon, who , hasdesigned it to commemorate Her Majesty's llate visit to Ireland. The portrait of the Queen rests on a shamrock leaf, and that on the Union Jack, with the words, " Who shall separate them!' The photo is an excellent one, being done by Mr. White, and can be obtained at Mr. Avery's, Mr. George Garry, for many years bandmaster of the Town Band, and who has accepted an engagementas conductor of Mr. P. R. Dix's orchestra at Christchurch, will leave New Plymouth about the middle of September. Master Jack Garry has also been engaged as an instrumentalist. Musical circles will greatly suffer by the departure of Mr. Garry and son, who were always willing to assist in public entertainments.

Messrs. Ward and Cliff, with Mr. C« Rennell, secretary of the Harbour Board, met Mr. Mcintosh, Engineer of New Zealand Kailways i yesterday afternoon re procuring stone for the necessary repairs to the apron work at the breakwater. No difficulty was found in coming to a satisfactory arrangement. Mr. Mcintosh undertook to put on more men to enable sufficient stone to be got out forboth the breakwater and the railway reclamation, the Harbour Board to iind trucks and haulage for the stones used at the breakwater, the Railway Department loading the trucks and supplying the Harbour Board with the heavy : rails required to relay the line on the break- | water. As the Harbour Board require larger stones than the railway people arc able to use, the arrangement suits both parties, as the latter have been breaking up the larger stones. Full details will be reported to the Board on Friday.

Our Okato correspondent writesOn Wednesday afternoon, "Bth ingt at Mr, Hart's residence, Mr. James Henwood was married to Miss Sarah Hart. The ceremony was a quiet one, attended only by immediate iriends, and conducted by the Kev. John H. White, of Rahotu. Mr. Leonard Sydney Hart acted as best man, aud Miss Ada Susannah Hart as bridesmaid, Mr. Joseph Hait giving away the bride. Those present, heartily congratulated the happy couple, and expressed their sincere wishes for a long and happy life together. Quite a number of friends gathered later, in token of goodwill and to suitably celebrate the occasion.

Japanese trade with Britain and her possessions for 1899 totalled £15,831,908. Exports amounted to £5,732,197, and the imports totalled £9,991,761 i. Her trade with United States totalled £10,420,297; with China, £7,038,112 ; France, £3,076,035: and Germany £2,185,616.

The fund to provide compensation for railway accidents in Victoria, inaugurated shortly after the Windsor railway disaster in 1887, now amounts to £71,500. It is to be closed when it totals £IOO,OOO, that sum being considered an adequate reserve.

ihe laboring classes in the Austrian district of Aquilegia, at the head of the Adriatic, are being largely attacked by a disea-e winch frequently ends in iusamty, brought on by the eating oil nothing but unripe maize.

The Railway Department contemplate altering the time ol departure of the last train from Palmerston to Wanganui from 5.30 to 5 p.m., thus enabling the train to reach Wanganui at about 9 o'clock. At Dimedin last week, the Key. Father Cleary, editor of the Kem Zealand Tablet was presented with a purse of over 270 sovereigns. The rev. gentleman intend I owing to ill-health, to tako a trip to Aus- j tralia,

Stamp collectors may bo into-csted in fhe fact, related by the JJvmlln Star, that lnll' a sovereign was paid the other day for the envelope which had enclosed a letter from an officer in South Africa, said envelope bearing the writing " Mo stamps available on active service," and being impressed Willi the British Army stamp.

Mow fondly rests a mother's gaze Upon her children dear; ■She loves tliein for (heir pretty wiys, And al« ays likes them rear. ' -be tends them in their I rouble-' too Her care soon nv.kes them fo ■ er, ' Mid for a cold kn-.ws what to du'; She gets Wo ds' Groat Peppermint Cure. & Wade's Worm Figs are most elective ai d not unpleasant; children thrive after taki< a iliew, fiios la -~AdvJ '

' ~At a meeting of members on Tuesday evening, Mr. Taunton presiding, it was decided to wind up the New Plymouth Gun Club owing to the lack of interest taken therein, and a good offer for the traps was accepted. It is to be regretted that a club which started with such promise, and had for its object the cultivation of sportsmanlike instincts, should be allowed to die of inanition. Unfortunately, many Bimilar enterprises have met the same fate in New Plymouth. If all the defunct " clubs " and " societies " could be 1 revived what a goodly show there would be 1 A curious case of spontaneous combustion is reported from Mount Homers. A number of enthusiastic citizens recently spent an afternoon polishing the seats of a newly finished English church, and when they left Hung the oily rags in a heap on the floor. Next morning the place where the rags had been was marked by a gapiug hole in the floor, while the joists were slightly charred. A smaller heap of rags was just beginning to smoulder, showing that no outside agency was responsible for the fire. Had the heap been near a wall the consequences might have been much more serious.

A Bey rout telegram in the London Dotty Mail says:—Among the books found in the mosque at Damascus is a series of 10 books, written in beautiful gilt Oufic, beginning with the smallest sized Koran ever seen, and ending in one as large as the one in the Native Library at Cairo. Nazem Pasha has called a military and civil committee, and made them take an oath that not a single piece of paper shall leave the room in which they are kept. The books are kept in sacks and boxes, and every evening every member of the committee must fix his seal to these, and they cannot be opened unless all the members are present. The German Academy entertains great hopes that the original New Testament may be there too. Xne German Bmperor has written to the Sultan on the subject, and it has been deoided that a German professor shall be sent to Damascus to try and find it. This evening the Rev. F. H. Spenser will lecture in St. Mary's Schoolroom on the work of the British and Foreign Bible Society in China. Chair to be taken at 7.3o.—Advt.

The celebrated remedy for coughs and colds and kindred ailments, Sykes' Cura Cough, is obtainable at all Chemists and Stores. The wonderfulamount of good which this medicine has done is ample testimony of its excellence as a cough cure. As there seems to be an epidemic of colds visiting the place now, sufferers will reap the advantage of trying a bottle. Sole proprietor, A. E. Sykes, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Chemist, opposite Theatre Royal, New Plymouth.—Advt.

Ten Thousand Pounds pie Annum may be Earned at too great a sacrifice, if we ruin our health and happiness during its accumulation. Although money is a necessary article to possess in order to obtain the means of existence, it can net purchase love, friendship, or immunity from the dangers 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 wealth 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.

Wade's Worm Figs, the wonderful Worm Worriers, never fail for adults or children, 'rice Is.—Advt

We are now in the football season, and during the short winter afternoons the welkin will ring with the loud and vociferous shouts of the barrackers. It behoves all players to be careful of colds, which they are liable to catch through getting over-heated in and then cooling oil rapidly after their exertions. Whenever the player is attacked by a cold or chill he should seek some remedy, one tbat has proved its efficacy. We cannot do better than recommend to him Sykes' Cura Cough. All Chemists and Storekeepers.— Advt.