LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 274, 21 November 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the monthly share list of the Wellington Stock [Exchange and, report on gold inining, per favour of Mr G. A Hurley, sbarebroker. It contains all the latest and most reliable news regarding goldmining and joint stook companies generally. It is open for reference at this office. Mr Ell, M.H.R., was usable through pressure of other engagements to make arrangements for speaking at Stratford, Eltham, and other centres in Taranaki, but informed us that he will be glad to do so if requested before next session of Parliament. Mr Ell speaks at Woodville and then returns home. Mr IT. Calger has disposed of his interest in the Commercial Hotel, Waverley, to Mr Carmody, of the Cosmopolitan Club, Wanganui. The new proprietor takes possjssion early next month. The Patea Freezing Works will start to receive butter to-day, Thursday.

In the Supreme Court (in Chambers) on Saturday, on the motion of Mr Roy, probate of the will of Mrs Bliss i Charnock, late of Henui, widow, was granted to Miss Eliza Charnock, of Henui, the executrix named in the will.

The Wanganui District Wesleyan Synod commences its meetings in the Whiteley Memorial Church on December 3rd. The Chairman of the District, ReT. H. R. Dewsbury, will preach on Sunday, December Ist, We refer our readers for farther particulars to the advertisement in another column, under date of November 14th the Minister of Mines announces in the New Zealand Gazette that a bonus of £2OOO will be paid to any person who, prior to the Ist January, 1904, shall invent appliances to successfully save gold from auriferous black sand. The invention in its main features must be new, transportable, capable of using local water, and of dealing with not less than 30 cubic yards of sand per hour profitably when the gold recovered is worth 3d per cubic yard, and not less than SO par cent of the gold contained in the sand must be recovered. The machine must wori six months and have treated 100,000 cubic yards- of sand under the above conditions before any bonus will be paid, a certificate of not less than 20 persons other than the inventor mnst be sent in, and the patent rights in New Zealand [ will belong to the Government. Nelson contemplates cutting a canal from the sea to the town, a distance of a mile and a half. The canal is to ba three hundred ,f96t wide, and capable of accommodating ocean going ships,

Under the Factory Act, 1901, any person employed in any capacity in a factory [the word "factory "has a very wide definition, including any office, building, or place in which two or more persons are directly or I indirectly engaged in preparing or manufacturing goods for sale] shall be entitled to I payment as agreed upon, but in no case shall I ' the payment be less for the first year than 5s per week for boys and girls imier 16 and , thereafter an annual increase of nob less than 3a per week till 20 years o£ age, such I payment to be irrespective of overtime. | The definition of bakehouse under the Factory Act includes every place where any article of food is baked for sale for human consumption. Many old residents in Taranaki will regret to learn of the death at Wanganui on the 16th instant of Mrs Riemenschunder, at the ripe age of 68 years. The deceased was relict of the late Rev. J. G. Riemenschneider, formerly well-known in the mission field on this coast. She was a daughter of the late Rev. William Woon, also a well-known missionary at one time on the Waimate Plains, and sister of Mr J. G, Woon, of Wanganui, and Mr Richard Woon, formerly Resident Magistrate and afterwards Judge of the Native Land Oourt at Wanganui. She leaves two daughters, who both reside in Wanganui.

A volunteer order has been received at the Thames that a Royal salute will be given on Sunday, the Ist December, being the Queen's Birthday. This applies only to artillery.

A good suggestion has been made that the Mayor should call a public mleting to express sympathy and tender help to the people of Cheviot. We pass it on to his Worship for his consideration.

Our local contemporary is to be heartily congratulated on at last having made the discovery that New Plymouth is not Taranaki. In his last night's issue he sajs:— "It may be a blow to our vanity, but it is a fact all the same that as a market town New Plymouth is no longer indispensable to the country people, who can make their purchases equally well in Inglewcod, Waitara, and other towns," What a confession to make; but that is just the trouble in New Plymouth, and our contemporary should advocate the formation of a Society for the promotion of a knowledge of the Province of Taranaki outside New Plymouth. Robert Thomas Leathern, a Ohristchurch solicitor, has been suspended by Just'ce Denniston from practice for six months on a charge that he sent a demand to a woman for the return of a bicycle on a Magistrate's Oourt form, thus leading the woman to believe it was a Court order.

The North Island Trunk Railway League Commissioner has wired to Auckland that strange rumours are afloat that a largo nunfber of men are to be discharged from the works.

Entries for the Egmont A and P. Show total 1190, an increase of between 300 and 400 on the entries last year. Increases aro evenly distributed over all classes, of which horses, 355, is the strongest.

An auction sale o£ the residue of Stratford town sections were held oa Wednesday. Satisfactory prioes was realised. The last of the Crown sections have been disposed of. The Toko-Stratford line is being energetically pushed on for completion at Christmas. One hundred men are employed, and are working in two shifts.

Mr. J. B, Mackay, a son of Mr. Joseph Mackay, M A., of Midhirst, has, says the Egmont Post, been appointed secretary of the Stratford Racing Club. The Pout adds: " He will make an excellent official, es he is well versed in the working of the club."

In connection with the complaints of sly grog-selling in the vicinity of the North Island Main Trunk railway works near Poro-o-Tarao, the Public Works Department has issued the following circular" The Minister directs you (resident engineer) and your staff to render the polica every assistance in your power to stop the traffic. AH workmen on the line are to be warned that if any of them are found either dealing in or purchasing sly-grog, or in any other manner whatsoever encouraging the traffic, tbey will be peremptorily dismissed from the works, without any hope of further employment under the Government." A large consignment of spirits and beer is now lying at Poro-o-Tarao, Station where the working railways' control ends.

The Waitara Races take place to-day at Sentry Hill.

A reminder is given of the boxing match at the Theatre Royal this evening. Mr, J. Roberts, who has recently returned from a trip to England and America, has arranged to give a recital of his impressions and observations on Monday next at the Whiteley Hall, when his Worship the Mayor will preside. Mr. Roberts' cuteness of observation, keen sense of humour and quaint mode of expression, will ensure a most enjoyable and interesting evening to the audience, which should bo of very large dimensions.

Attention is drawn t(J the provision in the Registration of Births' Extension Act. 1901, which allows parents who have neglected t6 register the birth of any children born prior to November, 1899, to do so now. Application must be made to the Registrar-General ; the fee for registration is £l. The Act only remains in force till Bth November, 1902, and by rectifying omissions before that date undesirable prosecutions will be avoided.

In Clause 3 of the Shop and Shop Assistants Act, 1901, it is provided that chemists shops may be opened between 7 and 9 p.m., but not longer on the days appointed for closing Bhops, and then only for the supply of medicine and surgical appliances. Chemists may also on the afternoon of any day appointed for the closing of shops, supply any medicine or surgical appliances which are urgently required, but his shop shall be open for such purpose only. At the Dunedin Police Court on Wednesday the licensee of Gladstone Hotel was fined £5 and £2 2s costs, for failing to admit the police. A charge of permitting drunkenness on the premises was dismissed. At the Wesleyan Synod at Christchuich, the Rev. J. Orchard, after 41 years of miniiterial service, applied for leave to retire from the full work of the ministry after the next Conference. The Synod agreed to recommend the Conference to grant the request, and also recorded its recognition of his exceptionally lengthy and valuable services to the church. Rev. W. Lea was elected Conference representative. Kev. J. Clover's lecture in the Queen-street Church on Wednesday night, on the subjects of " Love, courtship, and matrimony," was fairly well attended, and wa3 listened to with evident appreciation. The reverend speaker treated his subject in his usual bright and happy style, rendering his remarks at the same time amusing and instructive.

The attendance at the Palraerston North show on Friday was estimated at from 16,000 to 17,000. The gates and stand receipts for the three days amounted to £llsO.

A witness before the Conciliation Board at Wellington, said, " Some grocers' assistants could out bacon cr cheese and make the article present a good appearance, and some could cut the articles to make profit, but a good man could do both at one cut."

At a meeting of the Canterbury A. and P. Association yesterday, it was stated that the receipts a*i the Metropolital Show amounted to £2273, and expenditure to £1653.

We have pleasure in announcing tint the honorary members list of the New Plymouth Fire Brigade has been increased by the following names Mrs Very Kev. Dean McKenna, Messrs J. Sanderson, C. Olarke, J. O'Driscoll, Henry Brown and Company, S. W. Jackson, andM. J. Jones. Anniversary services are announced to be held at Whitely Memorial Church on Sunday December Ist, when the Revs Dewsbury and Ashcroft will conduct the services. A public meeting to be presided over by Mr W. G. Bassett, of Wanganui, will be held on the Wednesday following. Full particulars will be found in another column.

The objects of the Veterans Association are set forth in another column, and should be studied with interest by veterans, all of whom should make a point of joining the association. The qaarteriy subscription is only Is 6d.

An excellent substitute for the unattainable Turkish bath is found in the Quaker Bath Cabinet, a notice in relation to which will be found in outadvertising columns.

BEWARE OP A COUGH. A oocnii is not a disease but a symptom. Consumption and bronchitis, v.liijh the most dangerous and f.vtal diseases, have for their first indication a peruitsnt cough, and if properly trcatci as soon as this cough appeura are easily cured. Chamberiain'a Cough Remedy has j-roven wonderfully suoful, and gained its wide reputation aad extensive sale by its success in curing the diseases wbich cause coughing. If it is not beneficial it will not cost you a cent. Price, Is 6d; bis; size, 3s. It is for sale by the New Plymouth Co-operative Society,—Advt,