LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 69, 9 April 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Trades and Labor Councils' Conference at Duncdin, H. Bates, of Wellington, h was elected Chairman. Business commences t on Tuesday. t Lord Salisbury has started for the Kiviera. It is stated that the census credits Strat- j ford with 60 more dwellings than Hawera. > [ Fifty thousand pounds has bean sub- c 1 scribed to the Mansion Heuse Fund for a " I national msmorial to Queen Victoria. 2 I The Melbonrne police have received inj formation from Fiji of the arrest at Suva ef J. H. Grey, the missiDg Goelong solieitor. * The teachers of St. Andrews' Sabbath r School regret that owing to the heavy rain j which fell early on Monday morning the j picnic could not be held at Woodleigh, aa ( advertised. Persons who id ignorance of j the change visited Frankley road grounds . can have iefund ol money piid for tickets ' on application to any of the teachers.— ( Advt. ( There are now seven sections of the light I j line under construction between Btratford 1 and Toko. Two parties are at work a little 1 this f-ide of Toko and another four are at 1 work between the Mounted KiHe range and . Stratford. Forty men, in all, are at present employed.

Piet De Wet, in his letter to Christian De . Wet, his brother, urging him to surrender ! asked, "Do you think that any nation is so , mad as to have thousands of men killed, and spend millions of money, and then to give tts the Kepsblics and the capital necessary to govern them." Progressive Wangaaui, which, a year ago established a municipal Opera IJouse, winch is paying hmdsoinely, now proposes to expend £2500 on a Municipal Athletic Olub and Gymnasium, We (Post) have authority for saying that there is bo truth in a report current iul'aranaki that the Railway Department intends to establish workshops at Stratford, The Greymouth Chamber of Commerce has decided to call a meeting of merchants to form a company, with a capital of £60,000, to purchase two steamers for the West Ooast trade, being dissatisfied with their treatment by the Union Company. Said a speaker at the new county meeting afrOtakeho on Thursday evening:—" If New Plymouth harbour ratei from this district were spent at Opunak*, or even the amount expended in resisting the sand encroachment within the breakwater. Opunake would be a much better harbour than New Plymouth." A contemporary says:~" The heads of families had a lively time on Sunday night week in filling in census returns. It is recorded of one family that the responsible person stayed at home all day wrestling with the return, and then forgot to pat in his own name." The annual meeting ef the City Band takes place at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. Honorary members are particularly requested to attend. The Nelson Harbour Board have decided to adopt Mr. Leslie Reynolds' Mo. 2 plan for improvements to their harbour. The Gulf of Tarranto, with the Seventh New Zealand Contingent on board, left Wellington on Saturday evening. Before the men embarked they were addressed by bis Excellency the Governor, the Pretnfer, and the Mayor of Wellington. There was a larjje attendance of the public, and the troopers received a cordial send-off, the Government ste-imers accompanying the troopship down the harbour. Judge Cooper has be»n spending Easter in New Plymouth. He went north in the Ngapuhi last night. The special train to Stratford at 10.30 last night was well patronised, every carriage loiving New Plymouth peingerowded. Owing to the mail train being late there was a good deal of crowding and confusion as to trains, a number of the excursionists getting into the breakwater train, but the tact and courtesy of the railway officials got over the difficulty and both trains were got away witheut accident. On Saturday afternoon at a meeting of a number of eettlers acquainted with the late b'ephen Limmer Mr. James Hill, who presided, stated' that after consulting two or three friends ho had made a canvass for subscriptions on behalf of the bereaved widow, and the sum of £33 12s was already promised, of which £2O 8s bad been received. A committee, consisting of the Revs. F. G. Bvaus (treasurer) and Secpell, VTessrs. Jas. Hill, King, Marfell, Stanley and Martin were appointed to circulate subscription l'sts. It was decided to meet again oh the 20th instant, when it would be decided how moneys received could best be applied for the benefit of the widow and family. The Rev. D. W. Prjor, assistant minister of Knox Church, Dunedin, died yesterday. An explosion of gas took place on the premises of Mr. Ramsay, sharebroker, Duncjj din, on Sunday night. Considerable damage was done to the building, and to the roof <>' Rattray's bond store adjoining. Hrns,H , who was hurled to the roof of the score, escaped with a shaking. The cricket match, Hawke's Bay v. Wellington, played at Napier yesterday, resulted in a draw in favour of Hawke's Bay. The body of a man named W. Taylor, who had been missing since last Thursday, was found yesterday at Napier under the hull of a steam launch, The Koman Empire, nigh foeg-itten, Once exercised a mighty sway, But like some buildings old and rotten, Was left to crumble and decay. The human body needs attention, In order to long life assure, For coughs and colds we've but to mention W. E. Woods Great Peppbbmist Oubb.

„ —Advt. i. AT THE BAB, j The greatest compliment ever paid to a medicine was that paid to Impki's " May ' Applb," when, during the recent Tariff De--1 bate, M'g.H.R. testified openly in the Honse 6 to the efffcapy of this great remedy--a . guaranteed cure for all liver awarders. A j bottle was subsequently presented to every member of the House, and Members now 3 speak in high terras of its goo effeots, All 3 chemists and stores stock it per bottle.— s Advt f The best medicine knewn dhb k , Sons' Eucalypti Extbact. ts en.iv t nent powerful effects in coughs, colds, in- . 'fluenga, tho relief is instantaneous. n serious oases, and accidents (,f all be * hey wounds, burns, soaldirigs, bruises, i sprains, it is the safest remody—no swelling 3 —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs, swelling, etc., diar, f rhcea, dysentery, diseases o the kidneys and - urinary organs. Sander & Sons' Euoa- ) LTPTi Extract is in use at hospitals and . medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy; crowned i with medals and diplomas at International ! Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this ap- - proved article and reiect all others.—Advt.

8 IT HAPPENRD IN A DRUS STORE. J " One day last winter a lady came to my 3 drag store and asked for a brand of cough medicine that I did not have In stock," says Mr C. R. Grandin, the popular druggist of c Ontario, N. Y. "She was disappointed and - wautad tp know what cough p-eparation I r could recommend. I said to her that I c„uld j freely recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and that she could take a bottle of the remedy and after giving it a fair trial , if she did not find it worth the money to ) bring tho bottle and I would refund the . price paid. In the course »f a day or two • the lady came bacK in company with a friend in need of a cough medicine and adyised her ' to buy a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough < i Remedy. I consider that a very good re- I .commendation for the remedy,'' The remedy | [ owes its great popularity and exton rive sale jn a large measure to the personal recom- ' mendatjons of people who have been cured ! i by its use, For sale by New Plymouth < , aperative Society,—Advt, 1 WADE'S TEETHING POWDERS * 1 for babies are soothing, reduce fever * and prevent blothea, Price, Ib. Advt,- )

M. Sarafott and other membersl'of the] Macedonian commutes have been arrested at Sofia. Mr. Allen Stoneham has presented the city of Perth with a statue of the lata Queen by the celebrated sculptor. If. J. WilliamaoD. Owing to the influence of electric tram? it has been found necessary to remove the magnetic instruments from Kow Observatory, London. The decorations at St. Mary's on Easter day were very greatly admired, and had a very pleasing effect. Thoso at the Henui church were also particularly appropriate and arranged with much Uste. The services at bath churches were of a festival nature. Hollow ay's Ointment and PiixsDuring piercing winds and excessive variations of temperature every one is more or less liable to internal and extemal disease. Throat, chest, liver, bowels, kidneys and skin all suffer in some degree, and may be relieved by rubbing in this ointment, aided by proper doses of the pills, for administering which full directions accompany each box; m truth, anyone who thoroughly masters Holloway's "instructions" will, in remedying disease, exchange the labour of an hour for the profit of a lifetime. All bronchial, pulmonary and throat disorders require that the Ointment should be thoroughly well rubbel upon the skin twice a day with great regularity, considerable briskness, and much persistence Advt. CAME NEAR DYING. "For three days and nights I suffered agony untold from an attack of cholera morbus brought on by eating cucumbers,' says M. K. Lowther, clerk of the district court, Centerville, ,lowa. "I thought I should surely die, and tried a dozen different medicines but all to no purpose. I sent for a battle of Chamberlain's Colic, Oholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and three doses relieved me entirely. I went to deep and did not awake for eight hours. On awakoning a few hours ago I felt so gratified that the first work I do on going to the office is to write to the manufacturer* of this remedy and offer them my grateful thanks and siy, Gol bless you and the spie-niiii medicine you make.'" This remedy is for sale by New Plymouth 00-operative Sooietv.—Advt Willis Street, Wellington MB. M. IMPEY. 31st uly, 0 Dear Sir,—Please send me three more bottles of your " May Apple." I cannot speak too highly of it. It has entirely re lieved me from the headaches which used distress me on busy days; and a member of my family who used to suffer from chronic palpitation and indigestionhas been restored to perfect health through taking Impbi.S May Apple."—l am, yours gratefully, E. W. WILTO». Butcher.—Advt.