LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 99, 11 May 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tin Kev. F. Larkins, who is visiting New Plymouth before leaving Ihscolonr for England, will preach at St, Mary's Church tojnorcow morning,

The sea which set into the bay at Oamarn on Sunday last (says a local paper) was tlie heaviest that has been known f • r some years. At times the great waves completely ■ hid the breakwater from view, and the steamer, which was to have entered the port in here, deemed it prudent to go on to Dunedin. The sea must have been very heavy, as several steamers go : ng south deemed it necessary to hug the coast.

An Otaki resident has been fined £ 1 and costs £2 6s for shooting a native pigeon, contrary to the Act.

The New Zealand Federation Commissioner have covered about 9000 miles in their search for information.

The boundaries of the Eltham drainage district arc gazetted, and Mr. O. A. Budge has been appointed returning officer for the first election of a board, which will take place at the Rawhitiroa schoolhouse on the 25tU inst.

The Teachers' Commission at Wellington has decided to request an extension of time in which to prepare its report on the evidence recently taken.

It is stated by Christctiurch Truth a? a noteworthy fac 1 ! that during the past three months the Now Zealand Royal Humane Society his received no applications for the recognition of bravery in life-saving. We would draw attention to th°. bearing sale of Mr. O. Hoby's farm stock ne->r Waitara by Mr. Kewton King on Wednesday next. Full particulars will be found on reference to advertisement.

Ihe return of the Maori population in the colony is n w compltte It shows the native population in the North Island as 40,611, an increase of 3511 ; South Island, 2028,adecreateof 296; Chathams, 21> an increase of 13. The total increase is 3228.

■The discovery of a diamond field has been reprted to the Mines Depa-trnenfc by Mr. William Atkinson, who asks if he is entitled to the £IOOO reward for his find. He has been informed that under the regulations the rewa:d can only be paid after the field has been proved to be payable. A record yield of oats has come under the the Clutha Free i'ress. Last week Messrs Bates Bros, threshed a three and three-quarter acre paddock on Barnego Fb't belonging to Mr. Simmonds, one of the new settlers, and the yield was at the rate ot 123 bushels, to the acre.

Divine service will be conducted at the Baptist Church to-morrow at 11 am. and 7 p.m. The Rev. James logs will preach at both of these services, dealing in the morning with the subject of " Implicit Obedience." and in the evening with "A : Specialist's Testimony—lts Worth." To both morning and evening services strangers are cordially welcomed;

Mr. E. Gilmour) writes to the editor as follows:—A lady bavins noticed in your paper that I had received advice from the " Woman's World " Magazine of the award to me of a prize of a clock, has sent mc the following letter:—"Some time ago I went in for that contested was informed that I had won a handsome clock, which would be forwarded on receipt of 5s lOd subscription to the magazine. Aftsr waiting for some time I received a copy of the magazine (a very second rate paper) and by the last mail a little box came. On opening it I found a ' ring,' not worth more than one shilling, and with it a typewritten letter saying that on revising lists, they thought that I deserved a better prize than a clock and bad forwarded this handsome and costly (?) ring." la the face of this information (which can be vouched for), I would strongly urge your readers not to waste their time and money over such an affair.

The Nem Zealand Herald's L6ndon correspondent writes :—On the whole, I feel that once more I ought to say to my Now Zealand readers : Be prepared for any sudden emergency ; " keep your powder dry," and your defences in tiptop, spick-and-spin, up-to-date, " twencent " order. " For you know not the day or hour " when ' the foa may come. And the old Franco-Russian scheme for a prompt descent on New Zealand at the first outbreak of hostilities, thus to secure the key and coal-cellar of the Pacific, remains in force, and as ready for execution as ever. Therefore, " let no man deceive you with vain words." Keep a good look-out, for the baromHer points to " stormy 1" On Thursday next, Mr. Newton King will hold a clearing sale of dairy stock on the Durham Ro'd on account of Mr. A. F.Stone. The cows can be confidently recommended to anyone in want of real good animals, being all well-bred and carefully cared for, several of them are pedigree Jerseys. Everything •Must be sold, Mr. Stone having disposed of his farm.

The most effective pleasantry at the sitting of the Educational Commission at Blenheim (says the Marlborough Times) was uttered by a gonial elderly teacher, who was adversely criticising a certain detail of the proposed scale of staff and salaries. " Supposing," queried a Commissioner, "thatthe headmistress's salary was £—, and you as assistant-master were receiving £ —, what work would you expect to do 1" " I would expect to tike her out for a walk, and marry her as soon as possible," was the spirited reply. Hamed Did, a descendant of the Prophet Mahomet, has raised the standard of revolt in Arabia Felix. After defeating the Turks, Hamed massacred one of the Yemen garrison, and proclaimed himself Caliph of Arabia.

Judgment wa3 given in the S.M. Cou-t, Wellington, in the test case in which J. R. Hansel', r-presenting the Foxton sawmillers, sued the Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company to test the right of the Company tocharge hemp* freights in excess of those charged on the Government line". The S.M. held the plaintiff had a right to recover £l2 4s 5d paid in excess of that required by statuts. Leave to appeal was granted.

The Nihilist documents show Paris and London as the centres of the conspiracy and - disclose the fact chat workmen ai the Putilaff ironworks, neir St. Petersburg secretly made hundreds of daggers and numerous revolvers which were concealed amongst goods, and were smuggled into St, Petersburg. • An American, Mr. Frank O. Carpenter, who recently passed through New Zealand, interviewed Mr. Seddon at Wellington, and the Chicago Times-Herald has four column' of an interview from his pen. Hero is the introduction:—"The head of this Govern!ment is the Hon. Richard Seddon. He is morsi's President th-m McKinley is Presi--dent of !ha Uuited States. He is th.tleader -of the House, and he almost controls Parliament. He ran to a certain extent make his own laws, and he is pushing forward new schemes of all kinds without regard to pre ■ ■cedent or history. It is ho who for years h=>s teen at the head of the socialistic movements in New Zeiland. He is the mm behind the new laws which relate to labor and capital, and at the head of the party which is now cutting up the large, unproductive land holdings of the rich, and . dividing them fit the lowest possible rates of ownership requirement among the poor."

The concrete foundations of the Inglewood Post Office are completed and the first cour-.e of bricks was being laid on Friday. At Mr. Newton King's aictien mart today is to ba held a sale that should attract a crowd of buyers. The consignment of furniture, fancy goods, etc., which Mr. Durrau has s-;nt for sale, is one amongst which every householder should find some articles that will add to the comforts and conveniences if the home. This is an opportunity that should not be missed. _ Attention is called to the extension of time for sending in tenders for the supply of sleepers for the Stratford-Whangamomoia railway, as notified in another column.

Mr. W. Black, of the local railway station, haa received notice of transfer to the traffic office, Wauganui. WhilecongrahiJatiiigMr Blade on his promotion, his many friends will regret his leaving New Plymouth and in , musical circles he will be greatly missed. There was a very large number of passengers by the mail train last night, a considerable portion of whom went north by the Rotoiti.

I We have to acknowledge receipt of <i cordiil invitation to a reunion of past and present County and Bor/'ugh Councillors, to j take place at Stratford on Wednesday evening, on the opcasion qf the ppening of the new county chambers,

Mr. Fairhall.of Messrs Olimic and Fairhall, of Sratforland Hawera, is at present in New Plymouth.

At a meeting held at Kaponga in support of creating a harbour di.-trict for Opunake, with the object of spending £30,000 on harbour works, Mr. Stcwa't, of Opunake, said indop 'iideut of everything else it was the only way of avoiding the proposed rate for further improv-ment at New Plymouth Mr. Sexton moved a vote of thanks to the gentlemen from Opunake, and that considering their interests w. re not indeutioal, it would be unfair to include Kaponga. Seconded by Mr. A, J. Hastie, and carried unanimously. Mr. Moore thanked the meeting for the hearing that ho had been granted, an \ said tint eventually they would come to Opunake. Thi riilway revenue and expenditure on the Wellington - Vapicr - New Plymouth sect'on for the four weekly period ending March was as follows .-—Revenue £38,235 I6s6d, expenditure £29,218 Is 6d. For the Korth island the total revenue was L57,9t6 4s 6d, and expenditure L42.67S 3s sd. The total revenue from the railways waß L 151.268 13s 3d, expendilu'e L99,2Gt 6s 7d. For the corresponding period of. last year the aggregate revenno was L1'13,191 6s 6d, andllio expenditure L-83,278 8s lid.. Look- | ing at the analysis of traffic for the four-' weekly period, the passenger traffic shows a I total increase of 775,300 passengers as coui- ' pared with the corresponding period of j WO,.while there were 19,586 more season ! tickots in currency. The goods ca'ried show j a decrease in number of over 75,000, but this is almost entirely accounted for by ashortags of 111,596 in sheep. Goods carried by weight on the other hand, amounted to 3,339,687 (tons, an increase of 211,812 tons on the corI resp aiding period of 1900.

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