The Daily News. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXIII, Issue 81, 26 April 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Hogg has been re-appointed a member of the Wellington Land Board.

Allocking outrage occurred at Waßganul on Wednesday evening. A woman named Caroline Peters was brutally assaulted and frightfully in jared, especially about the head and face. Bhe was taken to the hospital, was ffiuhd to be so : serious that her depositions were taken. A man named Bhauaban was arrested on suspicion.

Onr readers will note J. ft. Foote and Go's replace adveitisement in this issue, in which special attention is diawn to several very special purchases of seasonable goods to be sold at sale prices.

When the County Council resigned in a body pn anti-toll-pate man in great glee wired to a county friend " The white flag was shoß n and the Oouncil have resigned." As soon ai the numbers went up after the election, the county friend received a wire from the other side to this effect " Flag still flying, toll opponents frozen at the poll

Mr. G. W. Wareham returns thanks, in another column, to the County electors of the Omata Riding for electing him to a seat on the County Council. At the Gisboine Supreme Court Wirenui Tangihawa. whe bit another native's no.e nearly off in a drunken squabble, was sentenced to four years' hard labour.

A very fine comet was observed at Napier on Thursday morning in the east at 6.45 o'clock.

The following trains will leave New Ply. I mouth station for the breakwater to-day, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as follows : 8.45 am., Ifapoirika (fr»m north) ; 8 a.m., Rotoiti (from south); 9.30 a.m., Mapourika (for south) ; 9,30 p m., Rotoiti (for north). A passenger car will be attached to the goo'Js train, leaving New Plymouth for the breakwater about 3 p.m.

In the Wanganui District Oourt District Judge Kettle senteuced Walter William Bates, a midd'e-aged m?n, to seven years and two floggings of 30 stokes each for an indecent assault on a girl under five. Williamson's Opeva Company has sailed from London for Australia. The repertore includes the following operas now to Australia : Romeo and Juliette, Othello La Boheme, a id Fedora. '

The Senate of Finland protests against the ordinary Budget being used to provide for the maintenance of Russian gendermorie in Finland.

The Bmpiror of Austria disavows the Archduke Francis' recent assurance to the clerical society that he sided with the militant Catholics.

A meeting of the New Zealand Fatm«r«' Union to form a branch at Stratford was Tery disorderly, and ended in the Secretary and others trying to throw out a farmer who persisted in getting an answer to questions The "sing of the Ogadsn Somalia i» Jubaland, East Africa, hai been crushed, and British authority restored.

Fifteen thousand land owners, merchants and literateurs at Moscow and Bt. Petersburg signed in one week petitions to the Ozar asking him to grant a constitution to the Empire.

The little grand duchess Olga #f Russia is the richest baby in the world. The week she was born £1,000,000 was invested for her. In the ccursu of a review of the work of Victoria University College, the Chairman Sir Robert Stout, stated that the results s.> far are extremely satisfactory, and showed plainly that the College had already attained ! a goad position in the colony. A Paris jury acquitted Vero Gerlo, a Russian girl who fired at the father of M Deschanel, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and wounaed a friend named Alexandrene Zelenine.

Ibe streets of Blocmfontein are now lighted by slectricifcy throughout the night for polie« purpojss, and ar» thoroughly patrolled Bfsry jajght by armed soldi'ra.

For tbe month ending March Slat, discount stamps amounting to £159 15s were sold, of which £6O were at Wellington and £23 at Thames; only 17s worth were redeemed.

Specifications for the supply of sleepers required by the Public Worts office for the btratford-Whangamomona railway, may he seen at the Public Works office, Stratford, as wall as at the Post Offices in New Plymonth, Inglewood and Havrera. Joshua Jones, of New Zealand, sued his solicitor, Flower, on a charge of improperly I obtaining the Mokau estate. Justice pkillimore held that though the solicitor was guilty of misconduct ifc was unnecessary to punish him beyond ordering him to pay the casts of the action.

The railway carriages made in the United States to the order of the New Zealand Government are it ia said, not giving satiafaotionin the South lalaßd, where they are in use. The r oors will not open and the windows will not shut, and there is no streaeth in the timbers.

A Wellington firm has completed arrange' ments for shipping 1600 head of frozen poultry to South Africa every month,

Fitzgerald Brothers Circus and Menagerie was well patronised on Thursday evening. A very full programme was executed with the u««al ability for whicft the artist* of this Company are celebrated. Well-trained horses, clever riders, marvellous acrobats, and trapeze performers, a particularly expert lady juggler, a cyclist of extrasrdinary versatility and drollery, and some very gocd clowning helped to make an excellent entertainment, in additisn to which the performing elephant and tiger proved very attractive items. Ihe applause throughout was well sustained aud laughter was frequeatly very hearty. The Company proceed to-day to Auckland.

Mrs. Smith who is on her trial in connection with the death of Mr. Conway on board the Talune, is said to be identical with Miss (Daisy) Hampden, formerly a very popular bat maid at the Stratford Hotel and afterwai ds at the Club Hotel, Stratford. A telegram in this morning's issue appears to bear this out.

Additions to the Telephone Exchange are: —Mr. D. Thompson, Criterion Hotel, No. 30; Monteath and Clark, No. 97; Mr. Sykes private residence, No. 77; Mrs. Goodacre! Gover-street. No. 284, and Messrs. Webster and McKellar, No. 87.

The yorng ladies of Fitzroy will give a I dance in aid of the Drum and Fife Band in! the Fitzioy Hall on Tuesday, April 30th. Gents, 2s ; ladies, Is.—Advt. 20,27,30 The Journal of Education tells an amusing story of the War. A successful operation was performed on a sergeant in South Africa who had been wounded in the head. The surgeon who performed the operation subsesentily recognised his patient walking in Pall Mall, and congratulating him on his recovery. " I've got that portion of your brain that I removed preserved in spirits; and if you like 111 give it to you as a curiosity. " Thank 'ee kindly, sir, but I've no use for it now; you see, I'm employed at the War Office."

The British Bull-dog tu'w the wave, Undaunted tar is he, And angry billows oft his grave, Can't torn him from the sea. The hardship's of a sailor's life.

He can so well endure, When coughs and colds are always rife, With Woods' Gbeat Peppermint Cube. —Advt. is

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Napier, September 9tb, 1900. Professor Notmann.

Dear Sir,—l am pleased to be able to (el 1 you lam feelingwell, andatn improving ever v day. I have lost that miserable feeling I used to have, and am quite fresh w'oec I get up in the morning, as I can rest and 'sleep well now. I have rained considerably in weight, and look well; tta haggard loik has left me, and my friends congratulate me on my improved appearance, and I am suri you do not know how grateful I am to you for your kindness and attention, as my life was a burden before I wrote to you.— Gratefully yours, Albxandeb Pattbjbson. IT HAPPENED JN A DRUG STORE.

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"For three days and nlght< 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 thouuht I should surely die, and tried a dozen ditferPiit medicines bat all to no purpose. I sent l'or a battle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and three doses relieved me entirely. I went to i-leep and did not awake for eight hours. On awakening a fuw 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 sny God bless you and the splendid medicine' you make.'" This remedy is for sale by New Plymouth Co-operative Sooiety.—Advt