LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 137, 3 July 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr D. McKmnon Bain's orchestra his bo n engagn to pi .y for the Oddfellow' dar.ee at Stratford on Thursday night next.

According to the New Zaaland G-a-tte Mr Fehx McQoire hrs been promote from sub-Lieutenant to the ra- k of Caphaiu i„ Te New Zealand Militia,.

The New Zealand Bugby Footba'lUnXn astmgnt fixed the date of the (Wpm, terbury representative match for tho 17th

A man named Wi liarn Cusson, a survmnr shot himself at Otorohwga ft is reported to be a case of suicide.

In an e- counter be ween Christians and Albanians, at Jusmgi, in North rn Albania sev n Christians were killed aiD * nl ».

The tr ffic on the railways c .nthine, mv heavy. Yesterday was a reco d fa ! passengeri for purely local traffi • t„ p ll with the goods traffic caused by the 1' 11 inward cargo from the steamer Upo'u ilo goods trains are b ing desp itched " O Jh

To enable tin English mail to be dislrbuted alo-g the line a< ea-ly as no, i u Mr. Day, the local stationmaster is dttnil' log a special good* train woich'was timed to leave at seven till ihe arrival nF iht Glenelg when it will take the mail and diV tribute it at stations along the line. Messrs. Piper, District Traffic M an „ and Burnett, Dist-ict Railwayßnginterfro' atpresenin New Plymouth on brfs nes 'con- ! nected with their departments.

Mr. T. W. Fapley, Igent for the Oitizens' Assurance Society, is on a visit to New Plymouth. to the temporary breakdown of the R-rteiti preventing her departure for Onehuoga list night, a 1 .rge nutnbtr of passengers who hart tnoked for the north had to remain ia New Plymouth. 'Che new Hotel Commonwealth received a share of the unexpected influx of " visitors,"and thus served to relieve the pressure on local hoW accom<n at what may be called this " abnormalUime." ] Th? Secretary of the General Post Ofiicc'f at Wellington was advise.] yesterday by the \ I leputy I'ostmaster-Goner.il at Hobart that l he had exchanged good wireless telegraphy ' s gnala with H. VI.S St. George when she was three miles off the Tasmanian coast, though oaly crude local appliances were used. The House of Lirds Select Committee appointed to consid°r the Coronation oath h.s furnished its report. It suggests a modificaHon of the oath, and recommend* that the King mere.y expres<es his disbelief in the doctrine of the transubsfantiation, in the i .vocation or adoration of the Vi'gin Wary, an I in the sacrifice mass as praciced by the Church of Rome, as being contrary to the Pro! eatant religionOwing to an accident to th* ru Ider bearings of the Rotoiti on her trip from the s.uth she was unable to. get away for Auckland last evening. As it is difficult to execute repairs under water it is intende 1 to t each her at high water this morning alongside the boat s!ip and make the repairs a 1 low water. The train with passengers for her will leave for the breakwater at 11 p.m. but the K-toiti will wait the arrival of the outward 'Friseo mail which is expected to arrive by special train about midnight. An attempt was rnide yesterday by the Harbour Board's diver to effect r-p sirs but owing to tho difficulty of working under wator the coarse stated above wai decided upon. The atra-ford nistrict High School reopened on Monday with an attendance of 43" children. We regret to learo, says the Stratford Post, that Messrs. Rog rs Bros., of Pembroke Road, were c.f lied away to Lepperton on Sunday nw. ning to s-.e their fatfcer, who i 3 seriously ill. Tto Welling on Post states that Mr i na'rt Rrn.t. the representative) of an English syndic !.e which intendstoboreforpetrjl..uTt' in New Zealand, ha* arranged to begin b '.ring operations in the Gisbome district aV out the middle of August. While Alfred the Great, for centuries past, H is s'ept in his.to.nb of rest,Old England lus grown to he ever so vast,' Till how he is greatest an 1 best. May he. s ns neve- have to suitor defeat. 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