LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 204, 23 October 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Items of interest, headed "Artful Lady Drinkers" and "Spoopendyke Brings a Kriend to Dinner," are to be found on our front and fourth pages. The Normanby Athletic Club' hold their fourth annual meeting on Boxing Day.

A purse, picked up in the on Saturday, awaits the owner at this office,

The Bowling Club propose opening the green lot the season on Thursday at 2 o'clock when a match will bs played between the President's and Vice-President's teams. Afternoon tea will be provided by the ladies. Forty-five thousand cases of cholera have occurred in Afghanistan since Apiil.

The New Zealand Government has ordered from Watcrlow and Company, of London, a million universal penny stamps. At the celebration of "Trafalgar Day" in London the Navy League's wreaths included French and 8, aniali colours. 'flic I'iemicr of New South Wales has received a cable relating to the Pacific cable, but beyond stuting that it is of a satisfactory character hedrc'ines to make it public.

A hawker named McKinley murdered his wife in a brutil fashion at liallarat. The woman's head and throat were terribly hacked with a butcher's knife. MoKinlev gave himself up. Archdeacon Clarke died at Auckland on Sunday night, aged 69. The slight earthquake vibrations which were felt in town about 9,30 on Sunday eveni- g had evidently travelled some distance. At Wellington the shook was sharp.

Messrs, Bert, Allen, S. Stroud and I. Caliaglian, were each the recipient last week of a presentation from the Star Football Club.

Mr. Stanford, S.II, took advantage of the opportunity, while hearing a- application on a judgment summons on Monday, to point out that, under the new Act, a debtor fan stay away from the Court and no order he ma'le ; and that it must be proved to the satisfaction of the Court that a debtor has had the money and declined to pay. The following trains leave New Plymouth station to-day for the Breakwater, connecting with steamers mentioned belovr, as follow : —5.45 a.m., llotoiti (from North) j 8 a.m., Mapourika (from South) ; 9.30 a,m„ Kotoiti (tor South); 9.30 pm., Mapourika (for North). A passenger-car will be attached to the goods train, leaving New Plymouth for the Breakwater, about 3 p.m. It will be seen by referring to the mail 1 notice:; that the closing of the mail forßarotonga and Tahiti has boen' postponed till this evening at 7 p.m. instead of closing last night as previously notiiied, The next boat to leave for England with dairy produce will be the s.s, Waimate which sails from Wellington on November Bth. The closing day at the Moturoa Freezing Works for this shipment will be Thursday, November Ist, at 3 p.m. The boat to follow will be the Tokomaru, which is timed to leave Wellington on November 22nd. The closing d ,y at Moturoa for this latter shipment will be Thursday, November 16th, at 3 p.m.

The prorogation of Parliament till December 2Uth has been gazetted, The Wanganui Chronieh says:—-Our wharves had a very commercial appearance yesterday, no less than six steamers and a tailing craft being in poft, viz., the steamships Oreti, Moa, CJhas. Kdwar.i, Manaroa, Kennedy, Gertie, and the scow Whangaroa. The activity displayed with our carters hard at work, the wharf hands busy with loading and unloading, and a locomotive moving to aid fro with trucks had a very refreshing appearance.

A general meeting of the Prohibition League wiU be held in the Whiteley Hall this evening at 8 sharp. Business iii.-jcrtantv- Advt.

A Hoysl Koji.woh.—lt is said that a cen.oin young English princess is shortly to 1 airy a well-born but poor officer in the li.iu.ti iiriuy. The spirited young lady cc.:ol..ik, !;i;a it cannot give her hand v ,(ir ; sht: lias yivi-n her heart, she will not rmny at nil. All wc have to say is, May gciul luck speed the wooing, and may no cuuiiiduial.uii.s uL rjtatfl mar the happiness of lae young couple, if they are to be perfectly happy, liowever, they must be healthy, I an-.t to insure this priceless blessing, lot them 'ay in a i!Owl slock of llollmvay : s Fills and t..Ml ll '■ t l> c true iriends of old and young rich and poor, the humble am} tii® aobly

Truth of September 6th, says:—"Those who have followed the amazing story of the Mokau Estate in Mew Zealand, and the adventures of Mr. Joihaa Jones in London, will be interested to hear that the Discipline Committee of the Incorporated Law Society has bow fixed the date for the inquiry into the condnct of Mr. Wickham Flower in this matter, the date being November 22. The inqairy, it will be remembered, was only granted after many evasions and refusals, as the result of persistant agitation, culminating in the intervention of the present Master ef the Rolls; and, considering how many long years Mr. Jones has waited and struggled for this meagre instalment of justice, it is not particularly creditable to the Discipline Committee that the inquiry should have been postponed to the very latest date consistent with decency, instead of being held, a* it easily might have been, either before or daring the Long Vacation."