LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12, 16 January 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

ffi The attention of our reader! is called to the notice re postage on newspapers and commercial papers appearingin this issue. It is reported at Ohristclwrch, that oxJudge Martin's succsssor will be selected from Mr. Fitchett or Mr. Sim (Dunedin), Mr. Stringer (Ohristchurch), and Mr. T. Cooler (Auckland). Mr. J. Paul is on liis way to attend the Bowling Tournament at Christchurch The Russian Budget predicts a surplus of 73,000,000 roubles in IS'JI over ordinary expenditures, Mr. George Fisher, M.H.R., obtained a I separatioa order at Wellington on Monday, ] from his wife, on oonsonting to the payment! of £1 per week towards her support.

The DepArtii\o'i't'Al examinations which commenced oh the 7th inst, were concludsd on Tuesday. The total number ot candidates presenting themselves for examination j a 1", this centre was 33. In the Civil service division there wore 17, 15 junior and '2 senior. In the teachers'classes 5 came up for the D certificate and (i for the E, while 5 others presented themselves for completion. One candidate, unfortunately, mistook the day upon which the examinations were to commence, and consequently was debarred, j by a rule of the Department-, from sitting for tany subject.whatever. A wii"le year was [thus lost, the News, we may add. had i published in its columns the dates of cxamI instion. The Kev. Jas. Ings was supervisor.

Mr. J. G. Harkness was in town on 'i'ues day evening on business connected with the purchase pf the Taranaki Freezing Works by the New Zealand Dairy Association. Wo at.! informed on tho best authority that the Midhirst Dairy Factory is turning out between 70 and 80 boxes o£ butter daily. The United Sunday Schools Picnic is now fully announced and our readers are refetred to the advertisement for details. The hearty co-operatic n of all who take an interest in Sutday School work is cordially invited by the superintendants and teachers of the schools represented. A very pleasant outing is anticipated. Formalin -o'ution is an article of great service for the summer, o'. Carter in a replace adverti'ettebt now appearing calls the attention of our readers to tho many purposes for which it may be used. J Mr. Buxton, District Railway Traffic Manager at Wanganui, has boso offered a similar position in Aucklaud, vice Mr. Donne. It I he accepts he will probably be succeeded by 1 I Mr. Waite, at present Chief Olerk to tho General Manager of Railways. A well-known resident of Wanganai, named George Devenport died suddenly on Sunday afternoon. Ke and his wife arid child went to Kai Iwl for a day's -bating. When the timeci.ma to return Devenport complained of feeling unwell. He laid down and sdorlly expired. Deceased was an able-bsdied man and extremely popular. The Agent-General has cabled as follows to the Acting-Premier:—Colonial Office informs me War Office has recommended Admiralty to arrange for an extensiou of visit of Imperial troops from Australia to New Zealand." ' » ■ . ' The London police are frequently in a tight carter .and subject to rough treatment. Only recently a case of this kind happened, and a constable had the good fortune to b? ass'sted by a woman, Mrs. Shoob who came to his rescue an l rendered material aid. By way of recognition of her courage, the officers and men of the 0 Division presented her with a silver-mounted parse and handsome teabot, the Ciiief Commissioner forwarding me plucky woman a cheque for £2. In addition to this, a gentleman, hearing of the incident, offered to advance Mrs. Shobb £IOO to assist her in business.

During the sitting of the Wanganui Presbytery, the Rev. 8. S. Osborne movod that the General Ass-mbly bs overturned to rearrange the three Presbyteries of Wanganui, Hawke'a Bay, and Wellington in the direction of forming from them a fourth Presbytery, in order to relieve the pressure of work, mure especially in the Presbytery of Wanganui j that the southern boundary of the Northern Presbytery be the Wanganui river, aud thu the Southern Presbytery include the congregations of Woodville and Danevivke from the Hawke's Bay Presbytery. Tho Rev. 0. Muray seconded, and it was agreed to. Tho residents of Wanganui have t tk-n up the matters in connection with the approaching band contest, to be held there, in a very enthusiast-!;! manner. A silver-plated cornet has been presented by Messrs. Hawke and Sons, of London, and will ba given as a sixth prize. Mr. J. 0. Richardson has been appointed to the important position ef superviser of the contest, The following gentlemen bave been appointed to act as military judges for the marching contest .'—Colonels Porter (Wellington), and Watt (Wanganui), Majors Chicken (Napier), and Ellis ({Jew Plymouth), Captain Neill, Lieut. McNaught, and Mr. J. C Richardson (Wanganui). In order that the Wanganui band will have no advantage over the visitors, it has been decided that every competing band, if possible, will be given the opportunity of playing at least once, in the Opera House, and also going over the marching ground prior to the con- j tost. '

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Mr. W. S. Whedon, Cashier of the First National Bank of Winterset, lowa, in a re cent letter, gives some experience with a carpenter in h'o employ that will be of value to other mechanics. He says: " I had a carpenter working for me who was obliged to stop work for several days on account of being troubled with diarrhoea. I mentioned to him that I had been similarly troubled and that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy had cared mo. He bought a bottle of it from tho druggist here and informed me that one dose cured him, arid ho |is again at his work." For sale by Now Ply mouth Co-operative Society.—Advt. AT THB BAIJ, The greatest compliment ever paid to u medicine was that paid to Impky's " May Avple, ' when, during the recent Tariff De bate, M's.H.R. testified openly in the House to the efficacy of this great remedy—a gunriinteed cure for all liver diosrders. A bottle wa» subsequently presented to every member of the House, and Members now speak in high terms of its good eflocts, All chemists and stores stock it: 2sper bottle.— Advt.