LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 20, 24 January 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chamber of Commerce quarterly! meeting takes place this evening. I We have to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of a very handy pocket calendar i and note book from Mr. Bdgar Dall, agent j for the Guardian Fire and Life Assurance j Company. This old established company furnishes plenty of evidence of its stability and, in the haods of such an energetis agent should do good business in Taranaki. Ths approach to the bathing-house on the beach has been greatly improved and a capital bathing place made for children in the reef in front of it. Before deciding which of tbe competitive designs for the borough baths shall be recommended the committee of the Council have arranged with Mr. T. K. Skinner and Captain Hood to make some tests regarding tides, etc. Attention is drawn to an announcement I by the Band Contest Committee to be found in another column. Mr. A. E. ITJatchernotifießthat he resumes tuition on Monday next, and that his singiing class will be resumed on Monday, February 3rd. (S?A howling ror'westei was bloniog all day yesterday in Canterbury, and much damage was done to crops. The gale also interfered somewhat wiih telegraphic communication. A Press wire from Dunedin statss that the Recess Oommittte of the New Zealand University announce that W. A. B. Bewley, of New Plymouth, has qualified for matriculation on his scholarship examination. The wet weather on Thursday prevented the Sunday Schools picnic being held The large quantity oE provisions prepared for the occasion is now on sale at Mr. May's shop, and it is hoped that the public will, by purchasing the excellent supply, minimise the loss falling on the committee. The chairman of the Patea Harbour Board in his annual report stated that he believed the quantity and quality of the New Plymouth ironsand was not to be compared to i the deposits between Manawapoti and Waitotara rivers.

Mr. Pellew announces in this issue agreal olea'ing sale of bis summer goods. Pur chasers will find plenty of exceptional bar gains in this first-class stock. The South Canterbury Education Boart has a rule regarding scholarships that a nearly as possible there shall be twice a many junior as senior scholarships allottei each year. We are not aware whether o not the Otago Board has any rule on th subject', but this year it allotted thirtee; senior and ten junior scholarships. The I'armer's Union is apparently V.c coming a bit mixed in its politics. Th Otautau branch listens to Sir Joseph Ward speech and passes a vote of confidence in hi Government. The Manaia farmers read th speech and straightway condemn it, an regret the OtiUtau farmers were misle This looks very much like union:—Egmor Settler. "The Rev. Mri Fairclongh brought dow the house at the patriotic mass meeting i Dunedin on Friday night, by saying that tl: Premier in his younger days would hai been ready to volunteer for South Africi and that had there been any necessity f< it, even now he would have volunteered b services but for fear of costing the colon too much money in the way of remounts. Local bodies at Hokitika are arranging programme, to oocapy four days, embiaoin visits to Ross and Eumara, on the occasio of a visit to the district by Sir Joseph Wari Consequent on heavy rain on Wednescta night there was a big flood in the river i Hokitika ou Thursday, and low lying po tions of the town were under water. Tl floods will probably do a good deal i damage. Brother Urban, who is at present conduc ing the annual retreat of the Maristßrothei at Wellington, has been appointed Provincii of th"» Order in Australasia, as successor 1 Brother John, who recently became Assis ant-General. The Marine Department is asking th various shipping companies to instruct the: captains to furnish it with any informatio they may obtain respecting tides, current etc., on their runs, and more especially t notify any errors in the charts in the Ne' Zealand Pilot. It will, perhaps, interest colonists both i New Zaahnd and Australia, to learn (write a Lo.idon contemporary), that the last bate of 20 express engines just brought out o the Great VVt stern Railway, all bear name of places (including the Royal yacht) cor nected with the recent Imperial tour of th Prince aod Princess of Wales, viz:—Auck land, Adelaide, Aden, Brisbane, Cape Towr Colombo, Du edin, Durban, Gibraltar, Hali fax, Hobart, Lyttelton,Mauritius, Melboum Malt', Ophir, Quebec. Sydney. St. Jcbn am * Singapore. I may mention that the nam ' " Wellington " already belongs to a Grea Western engine, and -'Christohurch" was, believe, deemed too pious for such a use. The holiday on Thursday, the anniverear; of Wellington province, was spoilt b; wretched weather, and fixtures at Welling ■ ton and Wanganuihad to be postponed. Messrs. Baldwin and Raywari, Paten Agents and Consulting Engineers of Wei lington, have forwarded us a copy of i recently issued pamphlet entitled " Hints t< Inventors." It is exceptionally well got up has considerable artistic merit, and augari well for the enterprise and thoroughness o: the firm, who have branches in the chid centres of the colony, including New Ply mouth. Those ef our readers of an inventive turn of mind would do well to read the pamphlet. The inventor of the diamond drill. Mi Ashel J. Severance, recently died at Denvei in comparative poverty, although he received £20,000 for his patent, which has been such an important factor in developing the mineral wealth of the world. The report ot the Chief Veterinarian, Mi Gilruth, for 1900-1 is just to hand. It occupies 84 pages, and is not only full of technical matter in relation to Various diseases in animals, but contains a large fund of infarmation that should be of great practical use to owners of animals. There are several illustrations which materially assist the reader ia realising the nature of the diseases shown therein. Mention is made of the twe outbreaks of anthrax in the neighbourhood of Waitara, bo'h of which are said to have been traced to the use of green bono manure In re'ation to this matter, Mr Gilruth statei that the only means for preventing infected bones being landed appears to be by instl tuting a quarantine on such importations and having the bones sterilised under super vision of a Government official. The Patea Press says:—We understand that the Patea Shipping Company has en tered into a five years' agreement with thi West Coast Refrigerating Company, for tbi carriage of all the company's butter fron Patea to Wellington. In order to cope witl the trade, the shipping company has de cided to put on a new boatspecially built fo the trade, and Mr Bennett, the engineer o the Mana, leave) on Friday week by 'ifrisci mail steamer to bring her out. The boat i to be insulated throughout and fitted up* with a Linde refrigerator of 1£ ton ice making capacity. She will be 100 feat long, 20 feet beam, Bft depth of hold, and will carry 120 tons dead weight, on a maximum draught of Bft. Her epeed will be 10 knots an hour, and she is to be fitted up with all the latest appliances in the way of electric light, search lights for working the harbour at night, steam Bt9ering gear etc. The vessel will tie built at Paisley, Scotland, aed will be here ready to take up the running on November Ist. It is only due to the company to say that the successful inauguration of the Patea butter trade has been largely helped by the manner in which the little steamer Mana has handled the produce, and we can hope with confidence that the same satisfactory state of things will continue. HOLLO VAY'S PILL 3 AND OINTMENT effect wonderful cures of bad legs and old wounds. If these medicines be used aocording to the directions which are trapped round each pot and box there is no wound, bad leg, or ulcerous soie, however obbtimte, but will yield to their eurativa proparties Numbers of persons who have been patimts in the large hospitals without deriving benefit, have been cured by Holloway's Ointment and Villa, when other remedies have signally failed. The glandular swellings, tumors, scurvy and diseases of the skin there ia no m< dicine that can be used with so good an effect, and though the cure Is rapid, it is also complete and permanent.— Advt. 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That the child is father to the man,' physically as well ai mentally, is one of those truths that can never be too often insieted upon, 1 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 is a rock on which alone success and strength can be built. Among the various foods that science commends in these days for this purpose, none holds a j higher place than Nhavics Food fob Inpaktb ano Invalids. According to toe bess menk-.al 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 benefit. 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