LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 75, 17 April 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Coal Mines Commission is advertised so sit at New Plymouth to-day. Mr Justice Oenolly, at Auckland, upheld the discharge of Ambrose Millar, bankrupt.

A deckers strike has occurred at Genoa, and several ste&mers are detained, The German Crown Prinee was feted while on a visit to Vienna.

Queen Alexandra has returned from Copenhagen. She was met by King Edward at Victoria station.

Numbers of p'ague stricken rats were discovered in sacks of mealies at Fort Elizabeth.

The Barl of Strathcona has subscribed £IOOO to the Mansion House Fund for a national memorial to Queen Victoria.

In the event of Thursday being a wet day the opening of the Onaero brick yard will be postponed until the following Thuisdsy. Hew Plymouth evidently has attractions for the fair sex. A young lady advertising for a situation \ia aa exchange says " Mew Plymouth preferred." The Hawera Water and Drainage Wokks were formally handed over to the Borough Council by Mr Leslie Reynolds O.E. on Monday night and appear to give general satisfaction.

MrR. B. Robbing, of Hawera, will contest the Mayoralty there with Mr O. E. Major, the sitting Mayor.

Mr R. B. Tatton has been elected Mayor of Stratford, unopposed. The remains of Mrs Vicary whose death we referred to yesterday have been brought into New Plymouth for interment. The

funeral which takes place to-day will be a private one. The Commonwealth Contingent will leave Lytteltou for Sydney en route to Melbourne by the steamer Warrimoo on the 16th May, In reply to a dopntation of merchants as to the proposed increase of insurance rates, the Mayor of Auckland said the Council could not undertake to spend £10,009 on an up-to-date fire saving plant when the insurI ance companies coatribnted nothing.

The confirmatory resolution enabling the New Plymouth 00-operativa Saolety to tike up shares in the Freezing Works was duly passed last Saturday. Mr H. Okey, late County Chairman has | consented to attend a public meeting at Inglewood on Friday, and at Rahotu on Monday in order to place before the electors the Position of County matters. It is to be hoped that there will be a full attendance at each meeting.

The census results for. Takapuna and NorthcoU show that while in 1898 the return for Takapuna was 757 this year it totalled 856, a gain of 99.. Northcote in the same period showed a much larger increate. In 1896 the return was 530, but this year it reached 769.

The mad Mullah, with 8000 men, is threatening Baras, in the interior of British East Africa, in this position the British have three companies of mounted infuntry, a camel corp3, and a Maxim, The fores is provisioned and strongly entrenched. While engaged in shunting operations at the Railway Station yesterday (Tuesday) a porter named J. Devlin met with a nasty accident. He slipped on the rails, witli the result f,hat his left foot was caught and jammed )sy a tj-iibk wheel, badly bruising the heel, The man was at once taken borne and attended to, and will have tq'lay up fer a few days. The Secretary of the Guards writes stating that at a meeting of the Committee of the corps he was instructed to write thanking us for publishing notes of the doings of the corps. Such appreciation is Tery gratifying and it is always a pleasure to us to report the doings ef this smart young corps which is a credit to the district. Up to a late hour last night there was no signs of the Coal Mines Commission returning. They were at Mokau yesterday evening. The sitting at New Plymouth will probably be adjourned till to-morrow. At Wellington, a. man named Chas. Lister was on Monday, committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of obtaining £25 from Fredk. Kabian, who answared Lister's advertisement for a bookkeeper, and was repaired to pay £6O as security. Prisoner obtained a moiety of the amount and tried te buy a bicycle with the ckeque, but failed, and was arrested. Yesterday, he was sentenced to 1? months hard labour. Mr. W. J. Chaney, for some yeajs postmaster at Hawera, who has be«n appointed a sub-inspector of post offices, has been in Uaweta during the past day or two. An item of commercial news, whioh a few yeirs ago would have caused a stir in Taranaki, is that there is just now a keen demand for fungss for export to China, quotations going as high as Sd per lb. For a good evening'* dance don't miss the Druide Anniversary social on 18th April, music by Mr. D. McKiunon Bain. Good floor and supper. Tickets can be obtained from all members.—Advt How does a man get in a funk, And take himself right off to bunk, Just when a pain with symptoms vague, Will make him'think he's caught the plague. How »ften doss a cough or cold Make cowards of the brave and bold, | Until they find the remedy sure— W. K. Woods' Great Peppermint Cubc— Advt. 2i HOLLOWAY'B OINTMSNT AND PILTA Sore raliaf. The weak and enervated suffer severely from nervous affections when storms or eloetric disturbances agitate the atmosphere. Neuralgia, gouty pangs and flying pains, very distressing to a delicate system" may be readily removed by rubbing this Ointment on the affected part after it had been fomented with warm water. The pills, taken occasionally in the doses prescribed by the instructions, keep the digestion in order, excite a free flow at healthy bile, and regenerate the impoverished blood with richer materials, resulting from thoroughly assimilated food, wanting which, the strong est must inevitably soon sink into feebleness, and the delicate find it difficult to maintain existence. Holloway's Ointment and Pille are infa'lible remedies,—Advt, The best medicine known is Bandbb & B«ns' Eucalypti Extbaot. And its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be |hey wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs, swelling, etc., diar, rhcea, dysentery, diseases the kidneys and urinary organs. Sander & Sons' Eucalypti Extract is in use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy; crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this ap. proved article and reject) all others,—Advt,

The Australasian asserts that while in» New Zealand the Indian troeps were "allowed to do many things which the ordinary tourist is forbidden to do, at Ms peril. They had their photographs taken on the flat Stone at the top of Mount Kgmont, and took part in the military sports in Auckland, witnessed by a record crowd of 40,0 m) people." In anawei to out inquiry at the Hospital last night, Mr. Waimate Smith was reported to be in a very critics,! condition. Mr. Morton, Inspector of Schools at Hokitika, has been appointed Secretary of the School Teachers' Salaries Commission. At the Christchurch Police Court on Tueiday informations against bookmakers for trespass on the New Brighton racecourse at the meeting of the Trotting Club were heard. Thomas Hulligau was fined £5, and John Hyams £2O, The case against Sydney Nettleford was adjourned.

IT HAPPENED IN A DRUG STOKE. " One day last winter a lady came to my drag store and asked for a brand of cough medicine that I did not have In stock," says Mr 0. R. Grandin, the popular druggist of Ontario, N. Y. " She was disappointed and wanted to know what cough p.eparation I could recommend. I said to her that I could

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 back the bottle and 1 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 advised her to buy a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I- consider that a very good recommendation for the remedy." The remedy owes its great popularity and extensive sale in a large measure to the personal recommendations of people who have been cured by its use. For sale by New Plymouth Coaperative Society.—Advt. TBSTIMONUL.

Napier, September 9th, 1900. Professor Notmann. Dear Sir,—l am pleased to be able to tell you lam feeling well, and improvingevery day. I have lost n'toiiolher timi miserab'o f eelingl used to have, andatu quite fresh when I get up in the morning, as I can rest and sleep well now. I have vained considerably in weight, and look well; th<s haggard lo >k has left me, and my friends congratulate me on my improved appearance, and I am sure you do not know how grateful I am to you for your kindness and attection, as my life was a burden before I wrote to you.— Gratefully yours, Patmbsos. CAME NEAR DYING. "For three days and nlghtj I suffered agony untold from an attack of cholera morbus brought on by eating cucumbers,' says M. E. Lowther, clerk of the district court, Ceoterville, 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, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and three doses relieved I me entirely. I went to sleep and did not awake for eight hours. On awakeniDg a few hours ago I felt so gratified that the first work I do on going to the office is to write to the manufacturers of this remedy and offer them my grateful thanks and say, God bless you and the spleidid me.licine you make.'" This remedy is for sale by New Plymouth 00-operative Society.—Advt Bewley and Griffiths, Sharebrokeis, Devqntreet, New Plymouth, pays special ptientiou 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 con nection with dredging, and inspect at his office, the latest quotations, prospectuses f most companies floated, and maps of al mining claims. Inuuiries invited —Advt. AT THE BAR,

The greatest compliment ever paid to a medicine was that paid to Impex's (' Mat ApeJjß," when, during the recent Tariff Debate, M's.H.R. testified openly in the House to the efficacy of this great remedy--a guaranteed cure for all liver diosrders. Ai bottle was subsequently presented to every i member of the House, and Members now speak in high terms of its goo effects, All j chemists and stores stock it per bottle.— I Advt