The Daily News. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 241, 6 December 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Our first page appears an article of interest headed " A Hasty Offer," while bur fourth page contains soma very interestina; items from Home filos, headed as follows : "Egypt's New Plague," "Lord Rosebery's Novel," " Electric Typewriting," " Died Like Christians," "First into Mafeking,""Naval Brigade Inspected," "Marconi, the Magician." The Kailway Department have forwarded the time-table of trains from December Ist.

We have to acknowledge the courtesy of the secretary to the School Commissioners (Mr. if. P. Oorkill) in forwarding the dates of meetings of the Board for the ensuing year. The executive officers of public bodies would greatly facilitate the performance of the arduous work of the Press by adopting a similar course, and especially by notifying beforehand the time of any meetings other than those which are known as ordinary meetings. We regret to state that this is | often overlooked, and not only causes inconvenience, but disappointment to.the public, I The Minister of' Railways says that independent of the, carriages ordered outside the colony there is sufficient work for the various workshops of the colony to keep them going for the next five years in providing new rolling stock. A Baptist and a Methodist minister were dining at the same ■ house! As they took their seats there was an cmbarassed pause, the hostess not knowing how to ask one minister to say grace without offending the other. The small son quickly grasped the situation, and, half rising in his chair, moved his finger -rapidly round tlie table, reciting; "Eny meny miny mo, catch a nigger by the toe." He ended by pointing his finger at the Baptist minister, and shouting: '* You're it." The reverend gentlsman accepted the decision and said grace, but it lacked the usual solemnity. . , . The Rev. Dr. Lyle, Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, has been appointed Bishop of Exeter.

Messrs. Mackay and Liariet replace .Messrs. Smart and Dingle as Stratford representatives on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. . .

There was a good muster of the "Guards " at the range ou Wednesday morning when under mo3t favourable conditions the volley firing was carried but to the satisfaction of faergt.-Major feacock. j The Rev. J. S. Sraalley, President of the New Zealand WVsleyaii Conference, has been invited to attend the Commonwealth Celebrations. He hopes to leave Wellington for Sydney on the 22ud inst.'

A fire broke out in a detached building at thu rear of the TarniuiH Herald premises about 10 a.m. on \V'edues<lay. The Brigade were quickly on the spot and extinguished the buixing matter. It appears that some old paper was being burnt up but during the temporary absence of the lad in charge other paper laying about caught fire and but for the prompt action of the brigade serious consequences might have ensued. We congratulate our contemporary on this second escape from destruction by fire. The Ohristchurch Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at a meeting on Tuesday night, passed strictures on the action of the police in permitting a revolting scene in that town on the previous day. When a runaway horse had a leg broken, despite the appeals of a large crowd the police refused to shoot the animal, After a futile attempt to kill it they procured prussic acid, with the result that the horse rolled in agony on the roa'i, and after half an hour a gun was obtained aud the animal shot. Dr. McArthur, of Auckland, has agreed to ,act as Stipendiary Magistrate in Wellington while Mr. Haselden is engaged on the Coal Mining Commission. The Hon. J. G. Ward, with Mr. RSnayne, went north last night by the Gairloch, which le't the breakwater at 12.3 U. The cruiser Sparrow, which recently sailed for the Austrahau station, has returned to Plymouth with her eDgines injured. Mr. Chamberlain will preside at the Colonial Club's Commonwealth dinner in January. Anyone wishing to make a Christmas or :Jow Year gift would do well to inspect J li. Parker's stock of jewellery, watches, solid ■•ilver goods, etc , etc. He has a particularly iiue u.splay of engagement and dress rings, .-.rait chains, brooches, bangles, watches, etc, Next railway crossing, Devon-street Central, New Plym.QHth,,-A d .vt,

The City Band will, weather permitting, give a performance on the Esplanade on Tuesday evening. There appears to have been some misunderstanding with regard to the movements o£ the Hon. Hall-Jones. The Minister intends to pay his promised visit to Stratford on Thursday, and will be entertained therein the evening. He hopes shortly to return and pay a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. Chamberlain has requested the Admiralty to enquire into the grievances of the New Hebrides.

The Privy Oounoil dismissed an appeal lodged by the Jewish Golonisation Association against the payment of succession duty on a considerable sum of money which was left to the Assooiation by the late Baron Hirsch and others. The Imperial Treasury will benefit by the decision to the extent of about £1,250,000.

Federal escort was originally to lave numbered 50 men, but it is now evident that it will not be far short* of 70. The arrangement to go to Sydney by a regular trader has been cancelled, and the force will both go and return in the Tutanekai.

Dr. Baldwin has been appointed house surgeon to the Otaki Hospital.

Edward Scarsby, of Scarborough, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for falsifying his books and pretending he had been robbed.

Major E. H. Owe* is gazetted Commandant of the Military School of Instruction for the New, Zealand Defence Forces. A Eangitikei farmer,- who lives in the midst of a settled and well-roaded disttiot, has fifty cows in milk, and runs- his own separator, says the trouble is to get suitable labour. ""All the farmers, around Bangitikei,"he said, "are at times stuck up for want of suitable young fellows to lqok after the cows and milk them. The lads are yearly getting more averse to. milking, as soon as they oan Khey clear oat to'the city <br the towns." Asked if milking machines had, not proved .satisfactory, he re-, plied that the inventions were many, but none of them' Had: yet been found anything, but hurtful to (he cows..! Several Manawatu farmers had .erected imachines ~iri their ■ dairies, but had to give them up after a trial I The human milker was still the best, and the expert was becoming scarcer every year, despite the fact that good homes and good wages were offered. The Kov. Dr. Parker, in imitation of th 8 journalistic efforts of the Rev. O. Sheldon in America, will edit and control the Sun tor one week on Christian lines. . J POISON IN THBBl6dDl]'"' '' Is there a dangerous poison lurking in your blood 1 Are you satisfied with a supposed cure for a disease that untillato years was considered incurable 1 No, yor are not 1 Your livor is oat of gear or you have indigestion. Then take Impbi's "May Awiiii," and realise that you have at last como across a medicine that will pat you right It willdoitl—Advt. Be Kind i'o the Little Ones.—There is no tyranny bo hard to bear as the tyranny of parents who, without meaning to be cruel, do not understand their children. How continually do we find a child punished simply because it is fretful. It does not seem to occur to some parents that in nine cases out of ten a child's fretfulness arises from illhealth or from some temporary ailment. But this is assuredly true, and, instead of punishing their children, parents will do well'to take steps to keep them healthy and strong. They will not find this difficult if they take care to keep Holloway's Pills and Ointment always by them. These are remedies which never fail.—Advt. UNNEOESSAEY. LOSS OF TIMK.' Mr. W. S. Whedon, Cashier of the First National Bank of Winterset, lowa, in a recent letter, gives some experience wife a carpenter ia hia employ that will be of value to other mechanics. He says: " I had a carpenter working forme who was obliged to stop work for several days on account of being troubled with diarrhoea. I mentioned to him that I had been similariy troubled and'that Ohamberlain's "olic, Cholera and. Diarrhuea Remedy had cured me. a bottle of it from the druggist here and formed me that one dose cured him, and is is again at his work." For sale by New Plymouth Co-operative Society.—Advt. Mr. Walter Bewley, Sharebroker, Devon street, New Plymouth, pays special ptSention to Otago and West Coast dredging stocks, and, having reliable correspondents both localities, is in a position to advise clients. Investors can obtain all information in connection with dredging, and inspect, at his office, the latest quotations, prospectuses of most companies floated, and maps of all dredging claims. Inquiries invited.—Advt.