LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 211, 12 September 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We understand tbat the Maketawa Co-' operative Dairy Company have sold their butter output, up to the end of February next, at the very satisfactory price of lOd per pound, which must be highly gratifying to the shareholders.

The cost of erecting municipal abattoirs for the Hastings district will be about £2OOO. The Borough Council has been unsuccessful in its efforts to induce Messrs. Nelson Bros, to do all the public slaughtering at their meat works or to sell a site for the public abattoirs. The Council now proposes to take the desired Site under the Pablic Works Act. A sum of money has been left in Mr. Hodder's shop by some person unknown. The High School Board of Governors is calling for applications for the position of teacher of higher sewing. His Worship the Mayor has convened a public meeting for Friday evening at 8 o'clock relative to urging on the Minister the necessity for deviating the railway line. The Bailway Social in aid of the library fund is announced for Wednesday, the 25th inst., at the Theatre Royal. Those who remember the success of last year's function will be eager for the forthcoming event. Notice is giyen that the Tapuae biidge will be closed for traffic from 8 a.m. on Thursday, 19th inst. till 5 p.m. on the following day. \ Messrs. Callaghan and Co. announce the ' sale of the Ahuroi estate on the South-road. This property being close to town and on the main road to the breakwater is sure to be eagerly sought for, especially as exceptional terms will be offered, and in view of the fact that very few sites are now obtainable on aty terms. Further particulars will be found in our advertising columns. The following notices'of motion have been tabled for the next Education B>ard meeting:—Mr. Mackav to move that in future the Ranger's honorarium be £lopsr annum; Mr. Allsworth to move that the Teachers' Salaries Commission report be referred to the Board's Finance Committee to consider and report upon. The late Bishop of Oxford, Dr, Stubbs, in his younger days had occasion to persuade a woman to try and cure her husband of drunkenness and invited her to treat him kindly and gently and so to h«ap coals of fire upon his head. " Coals of fire I" replied the woman in disgust, " ain't no good. I've 'it 'im on the 'e 1 with a lighted lamp six times, and 'e gets drank next day all the same."

Andrew Carnegie in hit lait sysaoh to his workmen at Homestead said " Labttar, capital and business ability are the three legs of a three legged stool. Neither is first, second or third, all being of equal power and without precedence." Giving evidence before the Labour Bills Committee on the, Factories Bill, the Rev, Canon Bryan King, of Dunedln, declared that'more factory girls died than those engaged in any other calling. He urged the committee to have overtime in factories restricted for the sake of the future mothers in New Zealand. There will be a considerable increase in the output from the local dairy factoties during the current season. The number of boxes of butter sent weekly from theEe will, approximately speakine, bo aB follows: Inglewood factory, 370; Maketawa, 115; Tarata, 85; Waitui, ih.—Record.

Nr. F. P Corkhill advertises several desirable freehold properties for sale, in ths best portions of the town. A special practice of the Philharmonic Society will be held at 7.30 this evening. All members are requested to attend, as important business is to be dealt with. The Horticultural Socisty will hold its spring show on Thursday, December 6th. this being the date arranged for some time rback.' The increase in the popularity of these shows is such that each one is looked forward to with keen pleasure by all lovers of flowers, e'c, and every effort is to be made to ensure the forthcoming show being a record one.

The Hon. O. Louisson stated on Friday that both the originator of the labour legislation (the Hon W. P. Reeves) and the Premier had sounded a warniog note as to the future. Before Mr,' Reeves left N9W Zealand he told the workers that they had in the Oonciliatiou and Arbitration Act a very valuable institution, pid advised them not to ride it to death.

There is, telegraphs the Greymouth correspondent of the Ohristchnrch Press, a good deal of rivalry between Westport snd Greymouth in regard to the State cotl mine, both districts being anxious to get a Government mine. It is said that the Government may possibly open pits at both places. The special session of the Anglican G<m'erai Synod will be held in Wellington to-day (Thursday.) The chief business, it is understood, will be consideration of the position of the Porirua Trust.

The Wanganui Borough Council has authorised its solicitors to draft bye-laws re licensing billiard rooms, prevention of letting in places or streets, directing removal of all signboards by 31st December, design of balconies and their width, prohibiting expectoration on footpaths, providing th»t foundations of newly-erected houses shall be level or higher than the crown of the roadway, and numbering of houses in streets.

Dr. Florence Keller, an American lady who has come to this colony to settle, says she does admire the elegant complexions of the New Zealand girls, but deplores their ugly feet and bal stole of walking. The Maoriland girls, '■ r. Keller thinks, perhaps spoil their feet ny wearing bad shoes.

Holi,oway's Ointment and Pills. With the changing season it is prudent for all to rectify any ailment afflicting them but it is incumbent on the aged suffering under ulcerations and similar debilitating causes, to have tbem removed or worse con[sequences will follow. This Ointment is [their remedy; on its pnwrs all may confidently rely; it not only simply puts their sores out of sight, but extirpates the source of mischief, extracts the corroding poison, and stimulates Nature to fill up the ulcer with sound healthy granulations that wil ! abide through life. Under this treatment bad legs soon become sound, scorbutic skins cast off their scales, and scrofulous sores cease to annoy.—Advt, Who wouldn't be a brainless fool j

With heaps of glist'ning gold, Than some poor scholar freh from school Thrust homeless on the world 1 Who would'nt rather 1 >se his wealth, Than cjughs and colds endure ? Then ba content enjoy good health, Take WooD3' Gbeat Pmppebmint CCRit Advt. k

The best medicine known is Sandbb & Sons' Eucalypti Extbaot, And its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, the relief is • instantaneous. v nr 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, j inflammation of lungs swelling, etc., diar- ! rhtEa, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. Sandbb & Sons' Eucalypti Extraot is in use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe; patronised by his Majesythe King of Italy; crowned with medalß and, diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust In this approved article ana reject all other.—Advt,

Piospovous Wellington 1 The Post states! that the sum of £594 Us 5d is to be written off the City Council's books owing to the poverty of the persons liable for it. Local volunteers are busy training for the route-marching competition to be held on | sth October. On Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday perspiring bodies of men toiled up hills and <?own gullies outside the city in order to coax hardness into muscles for the contest —Post. Another progressive euchre party has been arranged for this evening ac the Gnards' Club. In connection with the rations scandal at Newtown Park, Wellington, and the_ subsequent "dead meat" procession, during the Royal tour, we understand that the Royal I Commission has reported that one of the offanders was formerly a member of the ! Manawatu Mounted Rifles, and wll-known I as a genial and popu'a"* resident of Fitzher- ! bert.—Manawatu Standard. At Wellington, yesterday, William Doyle was committed for trial of stealing £4 and jewellery valued at £39, the property nf a woman who keeps a boardinghouse. It appeared that accused and another man, who was not called, bad been drinking with the landlady in her bedroom, and the case for the prosecution was that accused subsequently abstracted the key of a safein which the valuables »ere kept from the woman's pooket while she was asleep. / AFTER THE ROYAL VISIT. After exciting times the health of children requires very spesial looking after. That the child is father to the man,' physicallj 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 propel nourishment to establish its constitution, A good constitniion is a rock on which alone success and strength can be bnilt. Among the various foods that science commends in these days for this purpose, none holds t higher place than Neavbs Food fob Idfante and Invalids, \ccording to th( best medical testimony, and, what is per haps better still, the grateful testimony o: thousands of happy mothers, this food con tains nil the essential elements of strength and while it is pleasant to the taste and eagerly taken by children, it may also be used bv persons of all ages with decided benefit. It is a bone-building, health-sus taining product that cannot be t"0 wsrroly recommebded and we gladly add oni words of praise to that of the numerous medical journals experts that have recommended it. Neavb's Food should have a prominent place in Ihe dietary of every house where there are children or invalids; —Advt. REMARKABLE CURE OF RHEUMATISM. From the Vindicator, Muteeroodton, N.C.\ The editor of the Vindicator has had occasion to fest the efficacy oE Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice with the most remarkable results in e»ch case. First with rheumatism in the shoulder from which he suffered excruciating pain for ten days, which was relieved with two apnlicatiuna of Pain Balm, rubbing the parts afflicted and realising instant benefit and entire reli*t in a very short time j Second in rheumatism in thigh joint, almost' prostrating fciin with severe pain, which was relieved by two Applications, rubbing with the liniment on retiring at night, an'l'getting up free from pain. Price, Is 6d; big size, 3s. For sale by New Plymouth Co-operative Society.—Advt. A GOOD OnUGH MKDIOINE FOR CHILDREN. "I have no hesitency in recommending Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," says F. P. Motan, a well-kDown and popular baker, of Petersburg, Va. "We have given it to our children when troubled with bad coughs, also whooping cough, and it has always given perfect satisfaction. It was recommended to me by a druggist as the best cough medicine for children as it contains no opium or othar harmful drug." Price, Is 6d; big size, 3s. For sale Dy the New Plymouth Cooperative Society.—Advt. A CONVINCING ANSWER. The following testimonial shows the nc lv of Needhim's Salve:—Mr. Needham —Your Salve is first-class for drawing and healing. Its speedy effects on wounds is surprising. Every mother of a family ought to keep a supply at hand, most especially in country places, where safe and sure remedies such as your Salve, applied quickly, saves much pain and doctors accounts. I consider no home compl without it,—James Florence < 'Agents for Needham's. Salve, Co-operative Society, New Plymouth. I—Advt