The Daily News. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 143, 11 July 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i A contract for supplyiog Post Office chiming acd striking clocks for Masterton, Oaroarn, anl Bluff, has been let by the Government to Littlejohn and Son, Wellington, The cost is to be between £2O< 1 0 and £3ooo.—'Thi* should be a good time for New Plymouth to put in a claim for a clock.

The Auckland Miners' Union has formally rejected the award of, the Conciliation Board, and appealed to the Arbitration Court.

At a conference on Tuesday of Sydney iron trade employes, it was agreed to submit the stiike to arbitration.

In the Supreme Court (in Chambers), upon the application of Mr. U. L. McDiarmid (for Messrs Standish and Kerr) Probate of the will of the late Balph Bonner, lat9 of the Rkiuner-road, near titratford,- deceased, was on Saturday last granted to Margaret Bonner, the sole executrix.

The quarterly return of business in the Supreme Court and Court of Bankruptcy at Nqw Plymouth shows that there have been 30 motions, 20 petitions, and 10 orders disposed of in Ohambers; Jive probate* and three administrations granted • 109 instruments affecting property registered. In«he Magistrate's Court there were 40 sittings, of which 36 were presided over by thS.M, the number of cises heard being 161. The aggregate amount sued for was £ISBB 16s 3d, and the amount recovered £7ll 4s i 3d. Plaints entered totalled 132, distress warrants issued 21, judgment summonses 4, committal orders 2. Criminal cas°s dealt with were 53, of whom 50 were males and three females. Of these 11 were dismissed, four committed for trial, 23 summarily convicted, and 12 otherwise dealt with.. The District Court Judge sat on two d iys the number of bankruptcy petitions filed by debtors being three. There was one public examination of one bank npt, and an appal underlhe Fencirg Act. The revenue derived from fees during the half year was Supreme Curt, £BO 9s; Magistrate's Court, £67 17a; Licensing, £l9 3s; Police Court, £2O 2s ; District Court, £25 7s. The cases for trial at the Supreme Court at the Ocfobei sittings up to the present are:— Thos. Payne, >n; Alfred Aitken, l.orse stealing; She-iff Lowe, breaking and ent°ring; John Joseph Coanel), forgery; Otto Schultz, horse stealing (four charges) ; AlH? r w T '^ hreiner - ; James Ireland k* n 0 eland > breaking and enterng Of these Connell, Aitkin, and Schreiner ha Te pleaded guilty, and merely come up for sentence. Messrs Pi ice and Milleis, members of the South Australian Assembly, have returned from a trip to New Zealand, where they inquiries with reference to industrial matters. They spesk highly of the treatment they received. A representative of a South African firm is purchasing 250 cattle in Quesnsl >nd for shipment to Capetown.

The proposed transfer of Serjeant Stagpool to Dannevirke has been felt by many leading townsmen who highly appreciate his merits, to be an injustice to such an excellent officer as he has proved himself, and a memorial is in course of signature by justices, and other leading townsmen, asking the Department to appoint him to a station at least of equal importance to that which he now has charge of.

The High Church Ritualist newspapers in England denounce the Lords' Committee's amendment of ; the King's declaration aa "fatuous and inadequate." Earl Cfrey moves that the substituted form is unsatisfactory. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Salisbury moved other amendments. . The best medicine known is Sander & Sons' Eucalypti Extract. And its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, the relief is instantaneous. For serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they 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., diarj rhcea, dysentery, diseases the kidneys and urinary organs. Sandeb & 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 approved article and reject all other.—Advt,

; Jacob Rogers, locomotive millionaire, bas left eight million do''ars to the Museum, New York. £;The annual sessions of the opeDed in Wellington yesterday, isgs-, iS* , It is proposed to borrow £78,000 by Ihe Auckland City Council for city improvement [purposes. _£;'i22S:j

«The Executive Committee in connection with the proposed ball ti returned troopers met, yeste'day after coon, and at ranged det ils in connec ion with the orgari-ation orsub-committfes to eupei vise the pr pa'ations. As thrse committees a-e composed of hearty workeis, and as they will no doubt ( liave the fullest symp.thv hnd assistance from the public in such a laudable cause, the ball may confidently be rntic'patad to prove a thorough success. At Dunedin last right a public meeting of Protestants carried resolutions protesting against any alteration in the coronation oath, and against any modification of the oath without a plebiscite being taken of the Aus trah>ian colom s. A dance will be held at the Drill Hall on Wednesday, 17th July, in aid of the Tukapa Ist. Juniors' trip to Palmerston. Tickets: Gentleman, 2s; la ties, Is. Smart and Morerley, Hon. decs.—Advt. 16

New Zealand was nH going to let Old England call in vain, Together they the foem;o met, And side by side were slain. Tis said " disease kills more than war " And notbiDg can be truer. When coughs and colds knock at the door, Take Woods' Gkeat Peppermint Cube, —Advt. 12

Monkt panic in the Citst.—Nothi-g disorganizes all sorts of business so effectual y as a money panic in the City of London. It signifies that something is wrong with the very foundation upon which t-e whole fabric of commerce is ereited. The commercial world turns giddy as it were, and loses its head. In such a case even the wisest man does not know what to do. In' our personal trouble', happily we are not so helpless. If we suffer from headache, in ligesion, loss of appetite, disorder of the s omach or liver, we simply take our Holloway's Pills and we find relie f . If it is gout rheumatism, bronchitis, sore throat, or weak chest which ails us, we turn to Holloway ► Ointment, which is an infallible remedy for all snch troubles —Advt.

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