The Daily News FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 14, 17 January 1902, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. W H. Pillar, painter and decorator, has an announcement in this isiue to which the attention of owners of bouses, etc., is drawn. It will be seen that the advertised programme of the Waitarn Regatta bids fair to make the fixture more interesting than usual. There are no less than 17 events, including a cigar and umbrella raci and a Maori canoe handicap. An experienced committee has charge of the arrangements and Mr Spurdle who has piloted ;so many of these meetings to success, is again acting as secretary, The usual dance will be held in the evening. In order to afford facilities for friends of troopers of the Eighth Contingent to be present at their departure, the Railway Department announces the issue of holiday excursion tickets to Wellington en Slat and 22nd inst., available for return up to February 9th.

In April next there will be offered by public auction by Mr. Newton King the property known as the Mission Farm, which has been out up into sections varying from a quarter of an acre to six and a half acres. This property, being so favourably situated between town and the breakwater, is sure to attract very keen competition, especially in view of the establishment of the ironsand works at Moturoa. The particularly favourable terms of the leases which give lessees a perfectly free hand as to improvements will tend to still furthar swell the number of bidders. Plans and particulars will be issued in due course.

The Borough Council will hold a special meeting on Tuesday. February 11th, to confirm the building by-laws which meanwhile are open for inspection at the Town Clerk's office during business hours, The Cabinet has approved the Fatea Harbour loan of L 28.000, The monty will bo obtained from the Postal Department, and £15,000 will be spent on harbour improvements, which will be takes in hand shortly.

[ Dr. Mason, Chief Hsalth Officer, will represent N«w Zealand at the Australasian Medical Conference, Which opens at Hobart on February 17th. When the creditors of Hugo Wollerman met at Christchuroh the Official Assignee i announced that he had received information that the bankrupt, whose debts amount to £1472, had left Auckland for San Francisco. There was, he said, no monay in the estate and he did not at present see any means of assailing transactions which had taken place prior to the bankruptcy. The meeting adjourned until the 31st inst.

At Balclutha, on Tuesday, Henry Boss was oharged with selling liquor without a license at the Bhow. Beer, said to be manufactured by himself, but containing 8 per cent of proof spirit, was sold openly cn the show grounds The magistrate reserved his decision.

In proof of the popularity of the sea-bath-ing facilities provided by the Napier Borough Council, since December 24(10 tickets have been issued to bathers. During this very hot weather the beach is daily lined with bathers, especially children. In view of th« great demand extra tent accommodation is to be provided.

| As a result of the resolution passed by the 1 Dnnedin Presbytery the acting-editor of the, Outlook (Mr. W. Hutchinson) has resigned, | At the Borough Council meeting last night the Town Clark stated that the poundkeeper had notified that be could not continue the position. Or. Brooking was authorised to arrange for a, temporary appointment. The Borough Council has fixed the dog tax within the borough, for the cijrrentyear, at the same amount gs last year, Some discussion was oooasioned regarding the appointment of a collector, but ultimately it was decided to combine the office with that of poundkeeper, and to call for applications for the dual position at once. '

The Stratford Borough Council has appointed Mr. E. F. H. Hemingway as Town Clerk. Mr. Hemingway has for some time been clerk in the late Town Clerk's office and will make an excellent successor to Mr. Penn. We congratulate the Stratford Council on securing such a capable clerk. One of the Stratford papers lately Hilvocated tha haif : holi'iay in Stratford being altered to Wednesday so as to fall into line with Hawera and Klthara. The Borough Council, however, has decided to retain the Thursday. New Plymonth, Inriowood, and Waitara t> lso observe Thursday.

An invitation signed by oyer 40Q ministers of congregations in New Zealand has been sent to Mr. J. Gr. Woolley, asking him to pay a return lecturing visit to the colony. CURB FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM—NEVKR KNOWN TO PAIL.

During l»st May ip in an!; bhiM of our neighboW Was suffering from' cholora infantum® (The doctors h ill givea up all hope of recovery. I took a dottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera -.iid Diarrhoea Remedy to the house, telling the - *) < feit sure it would do good if used according to d'rections In two days itme the child had fivly recovered. The ohUd is now porous and healthy. I haye recoipmsndedithip remedy frequently, and have never Known it to fail—Mrs Cuktu Baku®, Bookwaler, Ohio. Prion, Is fid; bigMze. Si. For sale by Nsw Plymouth Co-operatiw Societv.— Advt. |

The London Daily Mail states that Great | Britain will sboitly announce at Brussels that unless the sugar bounties cease, England will be prepared to impose a counteracting duty. Mr John O'Donnell, M.P. for Mayo North, has been sentenced to two months imprisonment for taking part in an unlawful assembly. He has appealed against the sentence, Mr Clibborn Booth and his wife, son-in-law and daughter of General Booth, as they have c. me to believe in faith healing, have resigned from the .Salvation Army and ioined liowis, the leader of the Zion Church, Zion j City, near Ohicago. During an examination into the London and Globe Finance Corporation's affairs Mr I Whitaker Wright alleged that he allotted! blocks of shares to the frees, including representatives of the Financial News, Financial Times, Mr Brousson, of Chicago, of the Citizen, Truth, Daily Mail, Australian Mail, and Mr Stuart Cumberland, of the Empire. Miss Amy Castles has been engaged for all the next series of ballad concerts in London.

Max Reglis. ex-Mayor of Algiers, who gained notority as an anti-Semite leader during tha Drefns troubles, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for failing to pay damages awarded in a libel case. Mr Walter Symes, M.H.R., was in town yesterday. The Borough Surveyor and his staff were yesterrlay engaged in laying off the proposed deviation of the Henui river, in connection with the building of the new bridge. The local secretary for Trinity College, London, has received information that at the recent practical examination held in New Plymouth, Miss Minnie Tayler (teacher, Miss J. Edwards), and Miss Constance Leatham (Miss Stanford), secured the highest number of marks, S4 and 81 respectively, and are therefore entitled to the local committee's first and second prizes respectively. As was generally expected, the New Plymouth Borough Council has appointed Mr Felix Bellringer as Town Clerk in succession to Mr 0. E. Bellringer, who was com-, palled to resign through pressure of busin9ss. Mr Felix Bellringer is to be congratulated on the confidence placed in him by the Council. His legal training sheuld be of valuo to him in his new position, and the experieucf he has gained while reieiving his broHier ;s a guarantee that he will fill the position satisfactorily. A party of five ladies, with an equal number of gentlemen made a trip to the mountain on Saturday, and had a most enjoyable stay there, Usting five days. They reached the Mountain, House on Saturday evening, and murio the ascent to the summit on the Monday, being the first party to do se this eea-on. The track is pronounced to be in capital order, and so is the house, although if tlie ceiling were lined the comfort of visitors would be promoted. The caretaker, Mr i Lewis, has a good store of provisions (ex- | cept bread), so that visitors can get all that : is wanted.

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