LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 13 January 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kquitable Building' Society shareholders (Star Bowkett) are reminded that fortnightly subscriptions are payable to-njght (Monday) up to 9 o'clock p.m..—Advt. a hjo The Minister of Marine has received advice that Captain Moorbouse of the submarine; mining vessel Lady Roberts, who was ill in ■ the hospital at Albany, has been discharged I cured and left that port for New Zealand on theSthmst.

The Borough Council meets this evening. There are 875 cases of smallpox in London. The recommendations of the Conciliation Board on the stationary tiadeand locomotive engineers disputes provide for a minimum wage of £3 per week, la 3d per hour in freezing and gas works, and from Is to per hour elsewhere. The length of the week's work is to be from 46J to 56 hours, the latter time being for freezing works.

The Primitive Methodist Conference fur-' < titer debated oh i-'aturday the question of , Metlvust union, and adjourned the discus- j, sioT till Monday. ] Nominations for the vacincy on the Har- , b'mr Board close at noon to-day with Mr C. j' Kennell, the secretary, at the Harbour Board 1 office. We notice our Patea contemporary reprinted the letter from South Africa written specially for the Daily News by the Rev.> J. In»s, without any acknowledgement. Attention is drawn to an announcement in this issue by Mr. T. Francis who has started business for himself. During the many years he has been engaged in this district in plumbing and its kindred trades he has become thoroughly well-known as an expert craftsman, and there is no aouht that his popularity and high reputation will help him on the road to rapid success. .... . . ......

We have good reason for saying that the difficulty regarding Lieutenaat-Colone! .Davies taking command of the Bighth Oon tingent had nothing to do with the selectiot of officers. Mr. Day, the New Plymouth stationmastet went south in the Rotoiti, as stated by ui on Saturday, not north as stated by oar con j temporary. 'Che new goods-shed at the end of Currie street is expected to be ready for use ii about a week's time. The work of plate laying in the station yard is proceeding ver; rabidly now. The present goods-shed wil bo shifted to its new site as soon as th' other shed can be used. Mr Woodhi>ad of Stratford has been ap pointed a member of the Egmont Ucensini Committee, in place of Mr W. Mookhouse who has resigned. The escaped prisoner, T. Schriener, wa captured by Constable Beattie at twoo'clocl un Saturday morning on the bench at Ore nui, and was br. ught into town in the coura of thu d*y and taken to the gaol. M. Marconi has been invited to stud; aerial communication between Iceland Shetland and the Faroe Islands.

Sir Michael Hicks-Bea?h, speaking at Bristol, K»M it was not intended to further burden • nd ><,trra-s licensed victuallers. Ilenr. vidal co f *»s d an Nice to rourder,ing tlife 'Wi-olheart* und attempting to murder a f.jnrtti. »dditjional crimes have also been discovered. Carta, an Austrian officer, has baen found guilty of espionage, and sentenced to four and a half yesrs penal sevitude, days of fasting quarttrly, confinement periodically in dark eells, loss of.nobility, and banishment. The weather in the Hokitika district is very dry and hot, and bush firas are doing considerable damage. One sawmill and several huts were destroyed, and other buildings injured. A large area of timber was also destroyed. The absence of rain is injuring the crops, and the outlook for pa*toralistsis serious.

Dudley Eyre was once again before the Court on Friday morning (says the Wangatiui Herald) in connection with the charges brought against him by the police. Mr. 8. T. Fitzherbeit, for the Crown, said he had made proposals in this case to Mr. Barnicoat, who appeared for the accused, which Mr. Barnicoat agreed to, subject to the approval of the Court. He (Mr Fitzherbertj found from the papers in his hands and such preliminary investigations as he had been able to make, that it would be a work occupying a very considerable time to unravel the different matters connected with the case. It would be quite impossible to go on with the case on Saturday, and he could not say exactly how long it would be before he was ready to do so. He di<l not wish to impose any unnecessary hardship on the accused, and he proposed that the present information be withdrawn, without prejudice, on the understanding that the accused kept the police informed as to his whereabouts and address. When the case was sufficiently advanced to go on with, a bum«ions would be I sent to Eyre to attend. If, however, he failed to keep the police informed of his I address, a warrant for his arrest would be issued. No' evidence being offered by the Crown, the accused was discharged, HOLLOWAY'SP.LLS AND OINTMENT. Dsspbpsu, Jaundice These complaints are the result of a disordered liver, which secretes bile in quality or quantity incapable of digesting food.' J >ig'.stion requires a free flow of healthy bile, to insure which Holloway's Pills and Ointment have long been famous, far eclipsing every other medicine. Food, irregul>rity of living, climate and other causes are constantly throwing the liver into disorder, but that important organ can roos be regal ited ani healthily adjuated by Holloway's Pills and Ointment, whioh. act directly upon its vital secretion. Tha Ointment rubbed on the skin penetrates immediately to the liver, whose Blood and nerves it rectifies. One trial is all thit is needed, a cu'e will soon follow.—Advt.

Special attention is. drawn to the lovely display of Pearl, Opsl Torquoisa Greenstone, Sapphire, Ruby and Diamond Brooches and Rings, solid Silver goods, Silver Mounted Hair, Clothes, and Hat Brushes, Mustards, Salts, Muffineers, etc., etc. Boys' Nickel Watches, good timekeepers, 7s 6d each. Christmas and New Year gifts, high-class quality goorts at low prices, at J. H. Parker's, Watchmaker, Jeweller and Optician, next. Railway crossing, Devon-street, New Plymouth.—Advt.