LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 185, 14 August 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Dnnrdin. on Monday, Mr. Justice Williams fixed the amount of remuneration to be paid to Mr. Oook, the liquidator of the Gutbrie and allied companies, at £5631. To-day is the last d<»y on which gas consumers can claim discount on their accounts. The August moonlight lecture at Tataraim&ka by Mr. White is to be ®n " Nansen's Furthest North.' His voyage and adventure i in search of the North Pole are everywhere famous, and the subject should be both entertaining and attractive. M. Jean Gerardy gave his farewell recital at the Theatre Boyal on Tuesday evening, the audience not being by any means as large as at the opening performance. The famous artist, however, was heard to great advantage, and his exquisite playing Moused the audience to a nigh pitch of enthusiasm. In the first part he played two sonatas, one by Rubenstein, and the other by Boccherini, and ps an encore an aria by Giorne.~ In the second part there was a vaded selection, and M. Gerardy responoed twice to demands for i.encores. Mr. Lawrence Phillips again proved an exceptionally clever pianist. The pleasure derived by their recitals will long linger in the memory of those who were present, and should serve as an incentive to higher aims in musical culture by the many amatures in our midst.

According to the Jmtrnal of the Departme»t of Labour, issued last week, the number of labourers employed on the StratfordWhangamomoaa railway was 56 The number employed on works under the Department of Eoadi in Taranaki is 337.

A Christchurch gentleman, whose advertisement in the local papers runs, " Wanted, paople to get married," has received a letter from a young lady, who resides at Portsmouth, England, which he has forwarded to us. The writer states that she and her friend are very auxioaS to get married, aud having both been "jilted," feel too disgusted to have anything further to do with Englishmen. Tha lady further r»marks, "we are both domesticated, musical, and believe you would call us good looking. We would prefer young gentlemen who have plenty of this world's goods, as we won't carp to work 100 hard after marriage."

A meeting of road board and Oonoty Council delegatas, held at Nelson yesterday, decided against supporting any alteration of the present system of local government; but that Government should place road boards on a better financial footing. The greatest sportswomen among English duchesses are undoubtedly their Graces of Newcastle, Bedford, and Westminster. The Duchess of Newcastle, though she is essentially feminine, and alino-t delicate in appearance, has led an open air exisl.e ice from childhood, and is an expert shot, as well as a first-rate horsewoman. Her father and mother, Major and Mrs Dandy, were always in the saddle, and were hunting celebrities even io that county of crack riders, Gloucestershire. The duchess has the distinction of being "master" of the Clumber Harriets, a pack she established herself five years ago, and which she hunts thiee times a week during the season. For so daring a hiTsewoman Her Grace ha* enjoyed a wonderful immunity from spills, jand one of her hunters carried her for five 'years withoHt any kind of accident.* t'leroby | establishing something of a reccrd. No doubt were Dickens still alive

He'd yet write many a tale, Though he is dead his works survive, Their reading ne'er grows stale. 80 many try to imitate, But they remain obscure, For coughs and colds don't hesitate, Take Woods' Gbbat Peppermint Cube. Adrt, " 4

'• Thb Would Went Veet Well Thbn " is the title adopted by Mr. Walter Besant for one of his novels. Many people besides the famous English writer imagine that our vaunted progress is a mistake, and that the world went better before the davs of railways and the electric telegraph. Young people nowadays are apt to despise the things which were formerly thought to be good;! but, happily, in a few essential things we continue to profit by the experience and advice of our fathersj la sickness we turn graefully, as they did, to Holloway's Pills and Ointment knowing that no new-fangled methods can ever take the place of remedies which have stood the test of half a centurv —Advt. J ' AFTER THE ROYAT, VISIT. Aftwr exciting times the health of children requires very special looking after. That the child is father to the man,' physically as well a* mentally, is one of those truths that can never be too often insisted upon, and the thoughtful parent will be careful above all to see that her child has the proper nourishment to establish its constitution. A good constituiion is a rock on which alone success and strength can be built. Among the various foods that science commends in these days for this purpose, none holds a higher place than Nbaves Food fob Ink \ nth and Invalids. According to tne besr. meiical testimony, and, what is perhaps better still, the grateful testimony of thousands of h»ppy mothers, this food cont&inf all the essential elonents of strength, and while it is p'eastnt to tha taste and eagerly taken by children, it may also be used by persons of all ages with decided benefit. It h a bone-building, health-sus-taining product that cannot be too warmly recommended and we gladly add our words of praise to that of the. numerous medical journals aod experts that have recommended it. Neath's Food should have a prominent place in the dietary of - every house where there are childrun or invalids.—Advt. A CONVINCING ANSWER.

' I hobble I into Mr. Blackmon's drug store one evet ing," says Welsley Nelson, of Hamilton, Ga., "and he asked me to try Chamberlain s Pain Balm Rheumatism with which I had suffered tor a long time. I told him I had no faith in any medic'ne as they all failed. "He said : Well if Chamberlain's Pain Balm does not help yon, you need not pay for it.' I took a bottle of it home and used it according to the directions and in one week I was cured and hare not. since beett troubled with rheumatism." Price, 1 6d; big size, 3a. For sale by New Plymouth Co-operative Society.—Advt. THBIR CLAIMS SET AT REST. The claims of other cough medicines to bo as good as Chamberlain's are effectually set at rest in tho following testimonial of Mr. C. D. Glass, an employee of B srtlett and Dennis Co.,Gardiner, Me. He says: "I had kept adding to a cold and cough in the winter of 1897, trying every cough medicine I heard of without permanent help, until one day I was in the drug store of Mr. Houlehan and he advised me to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and offered to pay back my money if 1 was not cured. My lungs and bronchial tHbes were very sore at this time, but I was completely cured by this remedy, and have since always turned to it when I got a cold, and soon find relief I also recommend it to my friends and am glad to say it ia the best of all cough medicines. Price, is 6<i; big size, 3a. For sale ny Now Plymouth Co-operative Bociety. Advt. The best medicine known is Bandbb & 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., diar' rhoea, dysentery, diseases the kidneys and urinary organs. Sander & Sons' . Eucalypti Extract is in use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe j patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy; orowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and reiect all other.—Advt. AT THE BAB, greatest compliment ever paid to a mnjicine was that paid to Impey'S " May Apple," when, during the recent Tariff DeM's.H.R. testified openly in the House the efficacy of this great remedy-as guaranteed cure for all liver diosrders. A oottle was subsequently presented to every metnber of the House, and Members now 1 speak in high termß of its goo effects, All i chemists and stores stock it per bottle.— Advt '