LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 273, 20 November 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

By notiee in the New Zealand (Jwtcttc Parliament is prorogued until the !lth January, 1902. According to a notice in the Gazette, the Ohristchurch Oity Council, instead of leasing a !yard, has taken a section under the Public Works Act, for the purpose of a ceutral yard. Messrs James Belcher, John Bottin, Alfred Ooplestone, Julius Coplestone, and Caleb Jesse Mailin have been gazetted members of the Eltham Drainage Board, This Board controls tbe Ngaire swamp land. The election of Mr Archibald Corbett, as a member of the Okato Roid Board, is gazetted. I The regulations under which the ex \miI nations for entraoce into the Indian Civil Service are conducted appeir in the New I Zealand Gazette.

Copies of the Public School Teachers Act, 1901, and of the Education Board's Election Act, 1901, are to hand. The latter is to provide for greater secrecy of vlfting at the election of members of Education Boards,

At the Christchurch Supreme Court on Monday, George Allen recovered £l5O damages from tbe New Zealand Shipping Company, for injuries sustained by bim while engaged in unloading the Rakaia.

The death is announced of Lor-1 Hood of Avalon, an Admiral on the retired list since 1899, aged 77. Baron Hood served on ihe Lyrian Coast in 1840, at Sebastopol. and in the China War in 1857.-58. He has been a director of naval ord nance, A.Q.O. to the Queen, a Naval Lo'd of the Admiraltv, aid Commander in Chief of the Channel Squadron. He was raised to the peerage in 1892. A sequel to the Roslyn tram accident of twelve months ago came before the Supreme Court at Du'iedinjon Tuesday. Alexandreva Matheson, a paesenper, sued the Roslyn Tramway Company for £ISOO as dameges. When the case was cnjled on, it was announced that a settlement had b :en arrived at, the company agreeing to judgment being entered for £6OO and costs. I Glorious rain, the best for months, set in at Oamaru on Monday night, and is genera l throughout the district. It will do an immense amount of good to the crops, which were suffering severely from the long drought.

A wire to the Oamaru Mail says that good rain has been experienced in Central Otago, and will be the salvation of the country.

A reminder is given of the popular lecture this evening by the Kev. J. Clover at Queenstreet Church.

The Waitara races at Sentry Hill are the chief fixture for to morrow. Special trail s have been arrangad, leaving New Plymouth for Sentry Hill at 10.45 a.m. and returnioe at 5.30 p.m.

On Thursday the usual 4, v ; 5 p.m. train for Hawera will be delayed, and will not leave New Plymouth till 5.25 p.m, The Guards paraded last night under Captain Taunton and Lieutenant, Holmes", and received the long-delayed payment for the Royal visit trip to Wellington and Christchurch.

At a meeting of the Wanganui Borough Council on Tuesday night Dr. Valeuline Health Officer, s»id Wangonui was one of the most sanitary towns in his district, if not in the colony.

The Public Works Department invites tender* for removal of the native school from Mawhitiwhiti to Pariroa. Pians and specifications can be seen at the New Plvmouth Post Office.

Mr Newton King will hold a clearing sale of drapery and clothing at his mart on Saturday afternoon, on acconot of Mr A. Davidson, who has sold his shop. "I have forgotten more about the Boer question than those bellowing Jingoism during this debate, ever knew," said Mr 1 ! Fowlds the other night. Mr Fowlds added; that be had lived in South Africa,

Ths Premier says that Mi Fisher is preparing to be on the "ticket" next election with Messrs Hutoheson and Atkinson.

Patea is agitating for a District High School.

The Haweraßowline: Green is to be opened for the season thisafternoon. One hundred and forty-five out of every 1000 British children die before they are a year old, 163 French, 209 Italian. Wnrtemberg holds th* record with 308 such deaths.

it, is said that the health of Mr Ohamberlaiu is causing anxiety. His nerves are beginning to feel the strain of the past two

years. The Governors of Wellington College and the Girls High School have applied to the ( Education Dswrtment for a grant under the Manual and Technical Instruction Act. The Department has promised to send its Inspectors to visit both the schools before it decides what grant shall be made. Mr P. Hutson, at a dinner given by the Wellington Ironmaster's Association, said " There will be no increase in the colony's induat'ies as long as the Conciliation Board system is managed as it is at present."

Persons riding or driving over the Court-enay-street bridge should observe the byelaw which limits the pice to a walk. The authorities are keeping a watchful eye for offenders, and on Tuesday afternoon several were caught, and will probably make their bow to the S.M. in a day or two. Cyclists shauld also take heed and carry lights at night and eschew footpiths, however uncomfon able the roadway may be io some portions of the town.

Tne Wangnnui Astionomical Society has cabled an order for a big equatorial telescope by Culver, to be mounted on an elevated s : to in the centre of the town, granted by the Borough Council. The instrument has a diameter of 20| inches, and weighs three and a half tons. It has a battery of twelve eye-pieces, and is driven by a powerful clock. Ths telescope, it is believed, will be the largest in ;the Australian colonies, tlus one at the Melbourne Observatory excepted. The list price of the teiesc pe ordered by the Wanganui Society is £BOO.

At the recently enlarged premises fronting Devon and Liardet-ttreeta, the Cash Trading Company will to-day commence business with a large and var'ed stock, including general drapery, ladies boots, gents outfitting and boots, crockery, fancy goo is, patent medicines, and general groceries. The company's motto is "top quality, bottom prices," and their method of business is cash trading. An inspection of th ir goods is invite i.

The Fire Brigade ball resulted in the handsome nett total to the brigade's fundi of £46 7s This affords very flittering testimony to the zeal anp ability of the ladies committee, on whom the success of this annual function so largely depends. We congratulate all concerned on the satisfactory outcome of their efforts in a most deserving cause. At a meeting of the Eltham Borough Council on Monday evening Mr. W. J. Tristram, of Hawera, was eleoted Town Clerk. The New Plymouth Philharmonic Society announces a popular concert on Tuesday, 26th i"st. It will be of a miscellaneous character, and will have the assistaoca of outside talent. ,

The Fire Brigade under Captain Bellringer had a very useful practice in the centre of the town on Tue<day evening. There was a good muster of members, ony three beiDg absent. The apparatus worked splendidly. At the Ohristchurch wool sales, which commence to-morrow, 4314 bales will be offered.

Professor Coleridge Farr, in charge of the Magnetic Observatory at Christcuhrch, does not expict the Antarctic exploring ship Discovery for a week, but she may arrive any day. The vessel must leave Lyttelton not later than the middle of December, in order to tka as much advantage as possible of the southern summer, which begins with the breaking up of the pack-ica about that time. The New Zealand Ujclists' Touring Club has entered into a reciprocal argeement with the National Touring Association of Victoria, similar to that existing with the Cycling Tourists' Club of England, New Zealanders ou their travels report chey h»ve found these reciprocity agreements extremely useful to them.

Mrs. Butt, widow of the late Ven. Archdeacon Butt, died at Blenheim on Monday afternoon. The deceased lady was in har 86th year, and was a very old settler in the colony. She arrived at the Bay of Islands with her father, Kev. Richard Davis, and family in 18.'4, and had resided in Marlborough since 1857.

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