LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 24, 29 January 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To enable Duuedin, Lyttelton and Auckland to have flax graded for export the necessary regulations are being drawn up. The teachers attending the Wanganui Summer School to the number of aboat 200 participated in an up-river excursion on Tuesday. Instructions hare again been reoeived at (Sisborne that all work on the local railway is to be stopped at the end of the week. There was a painful scene at the Onehuuga Presbyterian Church on Sunday, when the Kev. Robert Wyllie, who recently resigned his pastorate, spoke bitterly of the causes that led him to sever his connection with the congregation. The Bltham Borough Council on Monday adopted the draft Bill o! the Kltham Electric Lighting Company, with amendments. | Some years ago a man named James Mc- ! Lean was arrested in the Hawera district by Sergeant Stagpoole for cattle-stealing, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. According to a letter received by Sergeant Stagpoole from hU son, Bugler Stagpoole, of the Seventh Contingent, McLean ia now working at a mine in the Transvaal, and is earning £35 per month. A meeting of the Recreation Grounds Board was held on Tuesday evening, Messrs. Hughes, Govett, Newman and Ford being present. A letter from the Lands Department was read, notifying that a complete survey of the boundary of the whole area of the grounds would be made. Mr. Hughes offer to collect subscriptions to paint and ornament the iron gates was accepted with thanks. The use of the grounds was granted to the Rev. F. G. Evans on Easter Monday for a fete, the Board to receive one-fourth of the gate coney. It was decided to charge a consent fee of £1 on all consents to transfers of leases. A vote of thanks was passed to Messrs: Okey, Rollo, and Brooking for donation of memorial plates to replace those taken from Poet's bridge; also to Mr. Thos. Williams for his gratuitous services. several years on the ocoasion of fetes in the I grounds, and to Mr. Chapman for donation' of seeds. It wan decided that in view of the | band contest additional seats be erected on the east side of the lawn; and, tbat an order for another shipment of fireworks be forwarded by the outgoing mail. Mr, Cook was appointed Overseer for the month, i Lord Granville Gordon, yeunger brother of the Marquis of Huntly, has arrived at Melbourne, en route to New Zealand. The Secretary of the Postal Bepartment advises tbat the Sierra arrived at San If rancisco on 27th inst. at 9 a.m.. and that the Orizaba's mails which left Melbourne on 25th December arrived in London on 26th inst.

While bathing in the surf near the Terminus Hotel on Sunday morning- a gentleman had rather an unpleasant experience. In the rough surf which was running he began to feel rather " done," and called out to Mr. G. W. Henderson, who was in the vicinity. Mr. Henderson swam ashore and attracted the attention of several men who had been in and were dressing. Two of them, Messrs. Broome and L. Hammond, ran down to the water immediately, and went in to the assistance of the bather, and brought him ashore. Some aspersions have been cast on those who were near for allegedly not going to the distressed bather's assistance, bat a News reporter was informed by an eye-witness that these reproaches were quite uncalled for, as had it not been for the prompt action taken by Messrs. Broome and Hammond the bather (whose name we were unable to ascertain) might have had some difficulty in reaching shore. WADE'S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever Mid prevent; blotches. Price, Is,—AflTt

The United Sunday Bchool Piofaio, which was postponed last Thursday oyMngto unfavourable weather, is to be held/to-morrow, i Fall particulars will be found/ in our advertising columns, / : The Wanganui Education Board has decided to inform the Kducatiojh Department that the Board objects to /the proposed alterations of the northern boundsry of the : Watiganui district. / A special meeting of the |Btfrottgrl Council i is summoned for Friday evening to consider Mr Mestiyor's scheme f e/r water, drainage, and electric lighting; also the Financial ' I Committee's loan proposals. ! That the rise in the price of wool is a fact iis established by a cablegram received br 1 Messrs Freeman R. Jackson'aod 00.,0t WanI ganui advising that 15 bales of this year's i elip were sold at 4£d, an advance of Jd to I |d on the November sales. By the death ot the Rev T. J. Wills, vicar of Ormondville, whioh occurred at his home sn Friday last, l the temperance cause has lost a warm supporter and donghty champion. As a speaker,, the deceased gentleman was not brilliant, though full of force, It was as a writer that his best work Was dons, arid he Spared neither time nor '. energy in his steadfastness ef purpose to for- ' ward the cause of temperanoe. There are 1 many in this. district who will deeply regret i that so useful a life has been cut short. ] There is no doubt he taxed his physical re* , seurces beyond their strength. He was a really grand example of a member of the ' Church militant; The funeral took place on > Monday, and was largely attended. Bishop . Williams, Archdeacon Williams, and Canon ' Webb officiated, temperance workers being " represented by the Rev. H. Miller. The Government has temporary engaged Signor Bragato, formerly wine expert to the Government of Victoria, and he has been it-1 J tached to the horticultural division of the! : Department of Agriculture. Bignor Bragatol i left yesterday for Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay,L and Auckland, where he will visit as many vineyards as possible, giving such advice as 1 he may deem necessary, j As some farmers in Hawke's Bay were 1 rather loth to believe that they had the Calil fornian thistle in their midst, the Stock 10, , specter at Hastings forwarded some spaci- . mens to Wellington for identification, The Government Bialogist says it is absolutely i iwyond doubt that they are specimen* iof ) Oalifornian thistle. j

/ A press wire received from Btratford states that Joyce has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of the man Hewitt at Whangamomona. / Daring Tuesday afternoon a series of (dust cyclones in town oreated somewhat at a scare and a large amount of discomfort. 1 Horses were startled, tradespeople's gjoods were blowing about,.and for a while there was a scene of great activity. The effect' ras vary striking, especially where the! rotaory motion of the wind had full plaJy, but weryone was thankful when the elements la'meddown. I

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