LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 214, 16 September 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. D. McKinnon Bain's orchestra has been engaged to play at the Star Football Club's social on Thursday evening naxt. j Mr. M. Jones is inviting tenders for furze grubbing. We regret to announce the death of Cap-' tain Jonas of Waitara, He served with the company of bushrangers raised during the Maori war. A t the Theatre Royal this evening there will be given a most interesting bioscope lecture with 200 original pictures. 1

Messrs. Steuart and Corrigan opened theii new saleyards at Eltham on Wednesday, about 600 head of stock being yarded. The yards are well built and commodious and show the progress the Eltham district is \ making. Before the sale Mr. Corrigan i thanked the farmers for attending ia such ' numbers and for the support hitherto given to the firm through their representative, Mr. Prirg. The Patea paper says:—" One of the most enjoyable danees of the season was held iastj night, when a large number of " kittens " together with a considerable number of " cats," kept things going merrily till a late i hour."

i At the Hawera Borough Council meating on Tuesday, the debate was continued from where the council adjourned last week over the chairman writing a letter without submitting it to the members. Four members left the table on Tuesday night, and two more are likely to resign.

The deputation appointed to wait on the Minister of Railways will leave for Wellington on Tuesday morning. The Minister has arranged to receive the deputation at 10.30 on Wednesday. On hearing that a man named Freeman was missing from Uruti Sergeant Haddrell instructed Constable Beattie of Waitara to proceed thither and assist in the search. By the time, however, that the constable reached the township the missing man had been found in an exhausted state about six mile 9 beyond Urati. The funeral of the late Mr. Octavius Carrington, which took place on Sunday afternoon, was attended by many old residents and several of the Lands and Burvey staff. Had the weather been more favourable there would have been a very large assemblage The Rev. F. G. Evans' officiated andjin a short address referred to the deceased's many good qualities and the high esteem in which lie was held. The coffin w as covered with beautiful floral offerings, and the remains were laid to rest by the side of those of the late Mrs. Carrington. The Wellington senior hockey representatives defeated the Palmerston North team in that town on Saturday by one goal to nil. The Rev. T. Trestrail, who is to lecture this evening in the Whiteley Memorial Church, preached twice yesterday, when the sermons delivered evidenced the fact that ha is on effective speaker, and, having convictions, is not afraid to enunciate the same. His treatment of his morning subject was original and suggestive, the definition of the Kingdom ot God giving scope for scathing denunciation of ritualism and formality'of every kind and everywhere. We should imagine Mr. Trestrail to be a bom fighter, and that controversy woald b» a congenial sphere for his energies, and there can be little doubt that every age has Hb array of shams and bypocrasies to give occasion for this kind of warfare.

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