The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 29, 6 February 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the threatening stats of the weather, the Hawera Bowlers have decided to postpone their visit te New Plymouth. Creosote works are to be established at Woodville immediately. Alfred Bennett, formerly proprietor of the Sydney Evening News, is dead. Mr. J. W. Williams, of Wellington, has been appointed Secretary of the Shipmasters Association.

A case of delorators exploded at Qympie, N.S.W., and blew a youth, named Kennedy, to pieces.

At the Wellington Supreme Court, which opened yesterday, John McCartney, for theft, and Whet a M&nona, forgery, were admitted to probation.

At Perth, Western Australia, very success* £ul memorial services were held on Saturday.

Two lads, named Hilsdon and Harse, were struck dead with lightning at Brisbane on Saturday. The barque Glenpark has been wrecked off Wedge Island. The crew was picked up by ths barque Ella. Lord Hopetoun cabled congratulations to London on the accession of King Kdward and claims there is no place where loyalty is more deeply rooted than in Australia. The Auckland Gas Company shows a net profit of £27,972, a difidend of 7s 6d was declared. The consumption of gai increased six per cent.

Mr. Newton King advertises a larg« sale of fruit at hi 9 mart this afternoon. This will probably bo the largest frait Bale of the season, and persons wishing to make jam should not miss it.

A cable received at Sydney, to the effect that transports for 2000 men will be sent, is assumed to mean that Sir W. J. Lyne'a offer of that number has been accepted. About 800 more men are repaired.

The total amount raised at Wellington by lady canvassers at the funeral demonstrations on Saturday, in aid of the Queen's Statue Fund was £lOl Is 3d, bringing the total to £643 Ms 2d.

A man named Dickie was fined at Wanganui £4 and co»ts 35s for illtreating two horses in a back block by working tkam with sores.

Mr. W, C. Buchanan, the unsuccessful candidate at last election, was prosecuted at Carterton by the Returning Officer, for not making a return of his election expenses, and was fined £lO and costs.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Ohnrch of Hew Zealand meets at Wanganui on Tuesday »ext, when over 100 delegates are expected. The question of union with the Presbyterian Ohnrch of Otage and Southland, wbioh is represented by (our delegates will be discussed.

Sixty-three railway carriages made at St. Louis, U.8.A., for the Government railways have been shipped. Au expert is coming with them to direct their erection. The Weatinghonse brakes haoe been fitted on sufficient carriages for uso on tho NapierWellington section, and will be equipped on the arrival of a new shipment, which is daily expected. The Supremo Court was unable to sit at Wellington on Tuesday, owing to the indisposition of the Chiof Justico, Sir Kobert Stout.

Until farther notice there will be 110 quarantine restrictions on vessels arriving in New Zealand from Australian ports. An inquest 011 James Gibbs, a greaser on the Otarama, who died from a wound received in a fight, is being held at Dunedin. Mr. Hay, American Secretary of State, and Lord Lansdowne have decided to appoint a new joint commission to establish the Columbian boundary.

There has been an exciting struggle lasting a week between " bulls " and " bears " in the linseed oil market at Arras, Franoe. The "bulls" wore defeated, losing ten million francs.

I At Chrietchurch a man named W. J. Wilding, an engineer, 4S years of age, attacked his wife with a razor while the worse lor liquor. The woman got her hand cut in seizing the razor and escaped. The husband locked himself in a room and when the police came a short time after they found him lying in b'd with his threat cut He was taken to the hospital and is now in a precarious condition.

'ihe Napier Gas Company declare a dividend of ten per cent., and carry forward , f 212. The directors hope to further reduce the price of gas during the year. In connection with the New Zealand Kifle Association meeting to be held at Wanganni shortly, Lieut.-Colonel Soramerville advises that it is useless for intending competitors applying for Martim-Knfiekls as they have not, arrived from England. The question of rilies will bn decided to-day (Wednesday). Probably the competitors will have the option of uning either MartiniHenri or Bufield

Between 9.50 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday last Mr. Coll is turned . out no .less than 150 copies of the late Queen's photograph so as to complete an order in connection with the memorial catd. This should be a photographic record,

A bicycle found standing in Devon-street until after midnight was taken to the Police Station.

The special train with the ont.wacd 'Frisco mail did a smart run from Stratford. It left Stratford at about five to 11 and reached Now Plymouth at 12.

The Stratford Mounted Rifles made a fine show yesterday as they rode through Devonstreet.

The new Baoted Heart Basilica, erected to replace St. Mafy's Catholic Cathedral at Was dedicitdd with aii impressive ceremony bn Shnday. Archbishops Carr (Melbourne) and Redwood took part in the proceedings, besides Bishops Grimes (Ohristchnrch), Verdon (Dunedin), Monaigjnor O'Reilly (representing Auckland), and a I large gathering of clergy. Captain Falconer and a detachment of the Torpedo Corps, who have been engaged removing sunken rocks at Kaikoura harbour, have returned to Wellington, having com-' pleted the task, which gives Kaikoura a neat little harbour with 12 feet of water at the wharf and 20 feet eastward of the moorings, and well out to the reef.

Mr. Collis has secured soma excellent photos of the memorial service. Samples he has shown us will prove valuable mementoes of the sad occasion.

Mr Browning, the Superiotendant of the Cable Company, ;is advised that the remaining seations, between Cornwall. Madeira, and St. Vincent, of the Eajtetn Telegraph Company's new direct cable to South Africa, which is to connect with the Eastern Extension Company's Cape-Australian cable are now completed, and opened for trafllc. The Telegraph Construction Company's steamer Britannia is to leave the Thames this month for Adelaide to lay the shere ends and the Adelaide-Fremanfcle section of the Cape oable. After the completion of this work she will proceed to the Pacific and start surveying the routs for the all British oable. Hollow ay's Pills. Weak Stomachs. The wisest cannot enumerate one quarter of the distressing symptoms arising from enfeebled digestion, all o£ whioh may be readily dispelled b/ these admirable Pills. They rouse the stomach, liver, and every other organ, helping digestion t,o that healthy tone which fully enables it to convert all we eat and drink to the nourishment of our bodies. Hence these Pills are the surest strengthened and the safest restoratives in nervousness, wasting and chronio debility. Holloway's Pills remove all unpleasant taste from the mouth and are infallible remedies for impiired appetite, eructations, flatulency, constipation, and a multitude of other disagreeable symptoms which render miserable the lives of thousands. These Pills are approved by all classes.—Advt. A GOOD OOUGH MEDICINE,

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