The Daily News FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 296, 14 December 1901, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have to acknowledge receipt from the Government Printer of the 1901 volume of New Zealand tutes. ihe volumn tbis year comprises 395 pag'S, which, compared with the result of the Parliamentary deliberations of 1900, is quite a modest production.

In this issue there appears an advertisement drawing attention to the curriculum of the Nelson College. This is a very extensive ooe, and the standard of education in classics, mathematics, modern languages, and science extends to the requirements of the B.A. degree. Pupils are also prepared for the ciTil service, matriculation, junto' scholarship, aid University terms examinations. The boys' and girls' colleges are conducted on similar lines, but in distinct establiihments, and the facilities for hoarding scholars have been considerably improved, and are under the management oi thoroughly competent staffs. The following trains leave New Plymouth , station to-day for the Breakwater, connect--1 ing with steamers mentioned bo»cw, a? follows 6 a.m., Takapuna (from north); 8.20 p.m., Takapuna (for north;. The largest shipment of dairy produce yet sens from the colony went by the Tongariio on Friday, v.z., 18,187 packages of butter equal to 970 tons, and '2,sß'i packages ol cheese, equal to 108 tons. The Dairy Commissioner testifies that the average quality of the butter is better than that) of any previous large shipment. Taranaki is the largest contributor, and Wellington next. In a recent musical examination by the. Associated Board and Royal Academy of Music a gold medal was awarded to Miss Connie MoUloskey with 137 out of a possible 150 points. The young lady is a pupil of Bt. Mary's Convent, which since 1897 has carried off the gold medal three times, while last year Miss Flanagan missed it by only one point, and secured a silver medal. The Rev George Carver, of the parish of Waggawagga, Bathurst, has been nominated for the position of vicar of the Ohurch of the Holy Sepulchre at Auckland. At the meeting of the School Con)missionersyesterday, the chairman welcomed Mr Allsworth as a member of the Board and said frooj what they knew of Mr Allsworth, he would be an acquisition to the Board. Mr Allsworth briefly returned thanks.

During the ballot at the Bnilding Society meeting last evening, the ballot boxslipped and a lot of the tablets fell oat. As far as is .known they were all picked up and replaced in the box, and the ballot proceeded, but no re-count of the tablets took place.

The Premier has received information from the chairman of the Pacific Cable Board in London that he expects the cable will reach New Zealand by the middle of March.

At Auckland on Thursday sn elderlj man named Dudley Eyre was charged with the theft of £2B at Wanganui so far back as 1887. He was remanded to Wanganui. 1 Mr. Millar, M.H.R. for Dunedin, was oa Thursday presented with a purse of sovereigns and a gold chronograph by his constituents in recognition of his services towards securing »n all-red British service i between New Zealand and England. At a meeting held at Wanganui last night it was decided to form a cadet corps, under the Defence Act Amendment Act 1900 About 60 lads were selected, and their names are to be to the Defence Minister.

At the annual meeting of the Ohristchurch Samaritan Home Trustees, Mr. Board gave notice to move at next meeting that the djen's side of the home be done away with.

The December issije of the Jo]vrml of the department of Labour reports on the labour market at New Plymouthßuilding trades, brisk in all branches; engineering trades, fairly busy; boot trade, fully employed; clothing trade, all in full work, tailoring particularly so; retail trade (general), good; miscellaneous, full work locally for regular bands, milkers are in demand but applications are for o'her classes of work. On Wednesday next Mr Newton King will bold a clearing sale of household humtiire and effects at >' The Pines," Te JJenui, tin account of Mrs 0. Brown, who is leaving the district. Full particulars will be found on re'erence to advertisement.

Whiteley Memorial Ohroch, Sunday, December 15tb„ 11 a.m., Rev, J, H, Whits. Subject; " Moses, his life lines, and character," 7 p.m., Rev. Wm. Cannell,—Advt, Anyone in want of a good farm at a low price should bear in mind the sale of Mrs E. Schultz's farm at Te Koru, by Mr Newton King at his mart on Saturday next, 21st instant. The property comprises 219 acrae held under lease from the Government at £ls 10s per annum with right to purchase at £1 7s 6d i )r acre, and is situated on tin Upper Kent-road; only five miles from P. st Office and store. AT THE BAB, The greatest compliment ever paid to a medicine was that paid to Impky's " May Appm," when, during the recent Tariff I eM's.H.R. testified openly in the House the efficacy of this great remedy as guaranteed cure, for all lver diosrders. At Dottle was subnefluently presented to every member of the House, and Members now speak in high terms of its goc effects,' All chemists a»d atoijea (took it per bottle,— Advt, 1

The brea'iing-up ceremony at St. Joseph's (Convent) School takes place at 230 p.m. on Tuesday, when parents aid frien-is rre invited t« be preseDt.

Attention is drawn to a \ announcement in another column as to Roch's Kojal Steam I.aundry, a desciiption of which ia crowded out of this issue.

The Northern Shipping Company notifies that tho Kanieri will leave Waitara on 3156 insfc, at 10' p.m.. for rn excursion run to K'twli'a, returning on 4th January. Kawhia has ma jy altr.-ictions for tue visitor, and as tins try will bz opportune for those who love water sports to attend the first Kawhia ngatti, on New Year's Day, the excursion should be we 1 patronised.

For tl e University of New Zealand local| examination now being supervised py the liev. S S. Osborne at St. Andrew's Schoolroom, there are altogether 19 candidates, two lor medical preliminary, fourteen for matriculation or solicitor's general knowledge, one fjr junior scholarship, and two for Victoria scholarships Of the last named one is a Convent Sonool pupil ana the other is a Stratford boy, a son of Wing Kee and s lid to be a very bright lad.

HO ,1,0 v AY'S OINTMENT AND PILL" Diseases of the sksn. No case of disease of th i skiu, be its nature what it may, has failed to be benefited when these potent remedies have beea properly applied, in scrofulous and scorbutic affections they are especially serviceable. Scurvy and eruptions, which had resisted all other modes of treatment, an < gradually become worse, have bsen completely cured by Holloway'a cooling OintnuDt, and purifying Pills, which root out the disease from the blood itself, and leive the constitution free from eve y morbid taint In the nursery Hol--1 iway's Ointment should be ever at h»nd ; it will give ease fa sprains, contusion', burns, scalds, ,tnd infantile eruptions, and may alwiys safely he applied by any ordinary attendant —Advt. The beat medicine known s SANosa & sons' Eucalypti Kxtbaot. And its en.iflent powerful effects in coughs, colds, insuenza, the rolief is instantaneous, 'or nerious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inliatr, mation. Like surprising effects produce i in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs swelling etc., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinay organs. Sandkb & Sons' Eucalypti Ext uact is in use at hospitals and medic * I clinics all over the globe, patronised by his Majesy the King of Italy; orowred with rnjdals and diplomas at Intel national exhibit'."ti, Amsterdam Trust in this aproiei' wlii'.ln hii.l reiect all otVr. —Ad\* AKTKK THE ROYAL VISK.

Aj'TKR exciting times the health of children requires very special looking after. That the child is father to the man,' physically as well as mentally, is one of those troths that can never be too often insisted upon, and the thoughtful parent will be careful above all to see that her child has the proper nourishment to establish its constitution. A. good constitution i 9 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 a higher place than Nbatbs Food fob Infante and Invalids, iccording to tne best medical testimony, and, what is perhaps better still, the grateful testimony of thousands of happy mothers, this food contains all the essential elements of strength, and while it is pleasant to the taste and* eagerly taken by children, it may also be used by persons of all ages with decided oeneflfc. It is a bone-building, healtb-sus taining product that cannot bo too warmly recommended and we gladly add aur words of praise to that of the numerous medical journals and experts that have recommended it Neavk's Food should have a prominent place in tho dietary of every house where there are children or invalids.—Advt.