LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 219, 25 September 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Immigration officers in America are deporting steerage passengers nnprovided with passports or citizenship papers. Chemical and bacteriological examinations of Czolgosz's (President McKinley's assassin) revolver did not reveal poison. The Anarchist Most has again been arrested for haranguing crowd*. Patea Harbobr Board at its mee'ing this week decided to increase the wharfage on coal by fcdper ton.

Thomas Andrew Conn was arrested at! An ckland on Monday on a charge o£ sie»l- ---«■ g £7O, the property of the Bank or New Z'Jaland at Lyttelton on July sth, 1900. .ccused waa brought before the Court and remanded to Wellington. The Solicitor-General having given an < apipion that if Mr. Crow accepts the appointment o,n the Hansard staff he will lo e all his rights as a civil servant Mr. Crow has determined not to accept the appointment recently offered him on thit staff, and! hi>s therefore rejoined the Hon. 0. Mills' us private secretary. Mr. John Leydon's well-known genial countenance is once more to beeeea in N< w » Plymouth. He arrived on Monday and exspectstostay for some while. Needless to ' say he has brought a large stock of goods I with him of the usual miscellaneous and r useful character, so that one and all ma' look out for bargains,at the popular auction sales which this popular and humorous auc tioneer will new be holding, the first of which takes place on Saturday next.

The funeral of the late Mr. O. K. Stock took place at Te Henui Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon when there was a large and representative gathering. The Lands Department waa represented by Messrs. Strauchon (Commissioner), Bannister, Skinner and Oooke; the School Commissioners by Mess: s. Cock (chairman); the Forest Reserves Board by Messis. Dockrill and McDiarmid; the [ New Plymouth Co-operative ' Society by Messrs. Hopson (director), Brash (manager), and Lennon (accountant). Many other friends of the deceased were also present. The service was read by the Revs. Nixon and j Dudley. There were several beautiful | wreaths," those sent by the Lands DepariI ment and Mr. McAUum being particularly ! massive and effective.

Among the many choice biscuits from Feek, Frean Jand Co. now being opened up by Mr. Whitaker are to be found chocolate cream, chocolate mozzelle, and chocolate table biscuits, all delicious fteliiloies. Fruit, I raspberry, venice and Neapolitan wafers, the ! celebrated fairy cakes, cream crackers and cream waiters, much appreciated by invalids, celery biscuits, zoological, animal biscuits, etc. These are meeting with a favourable reception and buyers are asked to call and' se3 the very choice selection now on sale.

The Waihi Gold Mining Company's return for the four weeks ended September Utbi shows 12,880 tons of ore treated for bullion at £35,350, the seoond largest return in the history of the company.

There are fifteen towns in the United States called " Canton." The Canton where the late President McKinley was buried is in Ohio. It .may be news to some to learn that there is also a Canton in Glamorganshire, Wales.

America claims to have enriched athletics with two new records—one o£ 80sec for a mile by bicycle, and another of 9sec for 100 yds on foot. Not content with that, at Oolombus, Ohio, Crescens lowered the world's trotting record, the time being 2min 2Jsec for a mile,

Wauganui A. and P, Society has decided to have a pigoon-flying much from Palmerston on the first day of the show, tha competing birds to be exhibited on tbe second day.

An Amerirtan journal says: "Cuba is getting along. It already has more political parties than Kansas."

At a trial of the Lawrence Kennedy Milking Machine, held recently atLillydale, Victoria, a man and a boy milked twentyfive cows in half-an-hour. When th» case of the Brick, TUp, Drain, and other Pottery Makers Union came before the Conciliation Board at Wellington on Tuesday, the representative of the employe's claimed there was no dispute in the trade, as none of the employers received an intimation from tbe Union till t k e demands were filed. He therefore asked the Board to rule there was no case to go on with. The Board agreed to cousider the matter in camera, and give a decision to-day. Theemployers, he declared, had been treated by the Union with contempt, and if the Board decided there was a case tor heaing, they wpuld move in the Supreme Gseit for an order prohibiting it. A hew Zealand trooper in South Africa said in tbe course of a letter that so far be had not been wounded, " but perhaps," he goes on to say, "my turn is to come. But under • any circumstances," he concludes philosophically, " I don't expect to get out of this world alive."

According to the Oamaru Times, the [scarcity of feed has necessitated heroic measures for the sustenance of young lambs. In some places condensed milk in considerable quantities has been used.

The Maoris (savs the Bay of Plenty Times) are much grieved about the shooting of President, MoKinley. and pronounce the murderer so be a"kuri"dog. Remembering the free and unguarded manner in which the Duke and Duchess of York went about at Rotorua, they say that if any Earopean had attempted to injure them there, the law would never hare had a chance to deal with the- culprit,' as they would have dealt summarily with him themselves, adding signiI ficantly chat there are plenty of ngawhas (boiling springs) in the vicinity.' Don't ever play with dynamite, In case it should explode, Beware of robbers late at night And take the safest road. Don't laugh at any little ill, But health at once secure, Bad coughs and colds arise from chill, Take Woods'. Gbbat PflPPaBMiNi Oukb —Advt. . 7

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