The Daily News. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 20, 15 October 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board | and the Laud Boari meet to-day. The following trains will leave New Ply« mouth station to-day for the breakwater, connecting withsteamer mentioned below 6 a.m., Gairloch (from North); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North). . The Premier has wired His Worship the Mayor that Peace Celebration Day has been postponed. The s.s. Kanieri will leave Waitara for Kawhia on Tuesday, 23rd inst., as advertised. Dr. Findlay has been eleoted a member of the Victoria College Council, in place of Dr. James, resigned. Mr. Kirkby reports having sold Mr. Snowball's late residence in Octavins Place to Mr. Monteath, at a satisfactory figure. Quoth the Premier at the Labour Day Celebration in Wellington, on the subject of technical education: —•' There is constructive ability and brain power in our young men, but hitherto we have not had the requisite advantages within the grasp of our sons." He wished to have institutes and classes, so that the boys and girls might go to them and have an opportunity of fully developing their natural gitts. Mr. Shepherd Allen, M.A., preached in Queen-street Church last evening from Hebrew 2, v. 2. There was a large congregation. The Kev. John Nixon said that Mr. Allen, when a member of the British House of Commons, had always received the support of the Primitive Methodists. The secretary of the City Band desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of a parcel o£ music, donated by Mr. H. Uilmour to the Band,

" In addition to the usual traders, the Kini, Oreti, Herald, arid Kanieri were worked at the bieakwater last week, a very large quantity o£ imports and exports being handled. An exceptionally fine sample of mutton was to be seen at Mr. Luxton's shop in Brougham-street on Saturday morning. The weight, which excited considerable curiosity, proved to be no less than 1451b5. Some very well fattened beef was also also to be seen , iu the shop. With reference to & telegram from ]Xew Plymouth, which appealed in our yesterday's issue, regarding a homing pigeon rung with D.G. 13, we are informed that the bird is m >re than likely the property of an Auckland fancier. The Auckland i lying Club's training operations have about now reached the New Plymouth stage, and the'bird may have met the recent bad weather in that locality. The ring marking'looks like that o£ a private owner of a racing ring mark.—NX 1 met. I

On Sunday morning a horse belonging to Mr. G. Cliff bolted, and succeeded in doing considerable damaage to the phseton and to [some fencing. It appears Mrs. Cliff had [ driven to Bt. Mary's Church, and, with two (children, had alighted from the yhieton, retaining the reins in her hand*. Suddenly the horse took flight and bolted. Mrs. Cliff : let go the reins, and the horse made off down Kobe-street into Powderham-street, when it took a very erratic course, first colliding with the fencing on the left hand side, and then on the opposite side of the street, where the trap was overturned and the horse brought to u standstill. Of the several Australasian colonies, New Zealand shows the highest percentage of ; attendance of children enrolled in public I schools, the latest figures being: New Zealand, 8316 per cent.; West Australia, 73 per cent.; Tasmania, 72 96 per cent.; Victoria, 66-23 per cent.; South Australia, 56-96 per cent.; Queensland, 66-11 per cent,: and New South Wales, 54-16 per cent. The last living deseendant of Sir Francis Drake has been discovered in New Zealand She is Mrs. John Angelo (nee Drake), and is the wife of a settler. Her attorney# have applied to Chancery for certain monies aueged to be due to her as the last living heir of the great naval commander, and she has ■ sent to the Queen a long letter giving particulars of her ancestry. With a view to varying the eternal beer and mutton diet against which an article appeared recently in an English paper, a novel movement is afoot in Sydney. It is proposed to acclimatise the South African eland. This has already been done in England, and as the climate of Australia is much nearer that of its native land there should to no difficulty in bringing the project to a successful issue. The eland is said to be very docile, in size it sometimes run to 2001b, it is small boned, and the quality of its flesh is admitted to be excellent.

According to a late Consularreporfc, Siberia now has a population of 80,000,000 upon the basis of the present density of population of liuropeaa itussia. The excess of births over ueutbs in ltussia in Europe is 1,500,000, and this overliow is being colonised in Siberia largely at Government expense for transportation. 'lhe output of gold from Siberia is about one-tenth of the world's output, atid the coal uioasuicsaro enormous. The average freight rate on the Xrans-Siberial railroad is about one-half cent, per tou per mile. The Koy;tl yacht Victoria and Albert, the palatial vessel by which the Duke and Duchess of York intend making the trip to Australasia, has just completed her third trial of IS hours' duration, 'lhe mean results of this trial, which was at 7500 i.h.p., wero 7648 i.h.p., ia.4 7 kpots, and a coal consumption of 1.571b per i.h.p. On the previous trial at 7500 i.h.p the speed attained was 18.83 knots and the coal consumption 1,9111), She has now to go through her full-power trial of eight hours at 11,1,00 i.h.p. A salve that never fails to heal a sore, j gives instant relief, and draws out all poison,! is a boon to all. Ask for Needhatn's Salve at the Co-operative Stores. Price Is.— Advt

Tub Prettiest Woman is London is sa:d to be Miss Clara D , a young lady belonging to a very old English family. She is shortly to appear- so rumour declares— at a West-end theatre in a new comedy by one of onr leading dramatists. She is very wealthy, and her only reason for going on the stage is that she is reluctant to keep hidden away any longer her genius and beauty. These gifts of nature wore meant for mankind, mid it would t) (! sollish to conceal them. Actuated by a similar motive, George Henry Camp writes to say that lie l has been cured of his rheumatism by Holloway's Ointment; while by the use o£ Holloway's Pills he keeps himseli healthy in mind a«d bpiiy,—Advt,

A wire from Mr, Symea, M.H.R,, states that the vote of £IO,OOO for a light railway from Stratford has passed. The captain of the steamer Nemesis saw a sea serpent near Cape Naturalists. It was about 200 feet long, and moved along the surface as a snake weuld on land. The French Nationalists, wishing to embarrass the Government, are scheming to secure the landing of Mr. Kruger at Marseilles.

On Sunday afternoon several persons exercised their limbs by climbing up Paritutu. We understand that the wires which were put up some while since by public 1 subscription no longer serve as a protection, owing to being damaged. In fact, they are now a source of danger instead of an element of safety. Doubtless 1 there are many who would willingly contribute a small sum for repairs, and we would suggest that a subscription be got on footwjttiout loss of time. A wave of matrimony is passing over the " red-funnel" steamer Kotoiti at the present time. Mr. Flynn (third officer) was married last week, and his example was followed yesterday by Mr. B, Wallace, third engineer. Both benedicts were the recipients o£ hanA-. some presents from their shipmates, Mr. Hutchison acting as spokesman en each occasion.—N.Z. Times. The Kini, from southern porta, which visited New Plymouth last week, had 250 tons for New Plymouth, and about 250 tons for the West Coast. The purser, iMr.j R. Denny, transferred from the Corinna to the Kini at Lyttelton, but will rejoin Ms own I ship at Greymouth.

i The folly of having no recognised system of dealing with the Patriotic Funds has been shown in a marked manner during the past few days. An application was made to the New Plymouth Committee to assist in the case the wife of a trooper of the First Contingent, now in South Africa, residing near Inglewood. The committee made enquiries regarding the funds collected at Inglewooa, and found that the first money collected had been sent to the Lord Mayor's Fund in London, and a further sum of £6O, the result of a garden party, had been sent to Colonel Pole-fenton, and there was nothing available . for the case in question. The New Pljmouth i Committee, with very commendable promptness, at once voted a weekly sum, and sent , a cheque for one month's payment to Dr. Valintine, at Inglewood, with a request that t he would disburse it. It is much to be re- [ gretted that all the funds raised in Taranaki are not available for distribution by a local committee.