LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 38, 20 February 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Several lotters to the editor and oilier matter are crowded out. The Supreme Court opens to-day. Dr. Leatham informs us that Mr. W. Smith and the other patients aro, although not out of danger, as well as can be expected. An attractive programme for Bell Block, in aid of Vju enlargement fund of tbo church riiere, appears in this it sue.

The estate o£ the late Baron Armstrong, ol Blsvvio!:, was sworn at • 1,38i),M6. He bequeathed seven thousand io charities.

The whole of the dredge saud-pump ha? been re-lined with steel plates. During- the month of January there wen berthed at the wharf 31 steamers of tn aggregate °f 38,919 tons. Th« imports were isll tons,audi exports 1890; total, 3701 tons of cargo,

The Duke of Westminster has married Miss Shelagh Cornwallis West, youngest daughter of Colonel Cornwallis West. The Bell Block Fete is the the season. All sorts of preparations arc being made tor the visitors. The Maoris are going to astonish everybody. No one should miss it. Special train at 1.15, returning at 9.10 p.m. The licensee of the Longburn Hotel was fined £2 and costs at Palmerston North on Monday for refusing to admit the police. Those who had the privilege of hearingthe Bav. Wm. Heady a few months ago will be pleased to notice he is expaoted to preach and lecture here again. His unique story attracts crowds wherever heard, and it is safe to predict a crowded church upon his visit here next Suuday and Monday. The Minister of Public Works, in reply to bis inquiries as to the rumoured defect in the foundation of ona of the Mokohini viaduct piers, has received the following statement from the Engineer in charge : —« The statement is cruelly false, Veodois of snch false news ought to be punished. Everything is perfectly plumb and level, and no sign of any defect whatever."!

In connect ; on with the proposed Patepayers Association, we have been requested to state that the committee eleoted is purely a provisional one, the future personnel of the Committee depending on the votes of the members to be enrelled. Further, it is i intended that the Association shall be strictly non-political.

His Worship the Mayor has received a wire from the .Hon. the Minister of Public Health, cipressing his plpasore at the effective steps taken in New Plymouth to grapple with the cases of typhoid, and promising the support and co-operation of the Government to uphold what had been done.

The Bell Block Fete promises to be a wonderful success. Even the New Plymouth people will be astonished. Special train at 1.15 p.m.

Mr. P. Wirth, one of the proprietors of the enormous circus and menagerie now touring the district is in town with his agent, Mr. Petersen, arranging for the performances to be given here next week. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Seddon and Mr, Ward left Auckland last night in the Tufcanekai for Gisborne,

The Bimutaka has arrived at Wellington from London with 154 passengers' for all potts, those for New Plymouth being Mies Curtis, Master Kirk by, and Mr. Taylor. Amongst the passengers Bre Veterinary Lieut. Young and 8 returned troopers from South Africa.

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