The Daily News THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 30 January 1902, Page 2

The Daily News THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It ( is understood that vice-Admiral Sir! Harry Rawson will be the new Governor of I Mew South Walea.

A lion escaped from Fitzgaralds' circus at Broken Hill, N.8.W., and killed a performing goat. The animal was recaptured after some difficulty near the Proprietary Mine office.

The Taranaki Rifle Association Meeting has been fixed for March 19th and 2Gtb.

The man Jeyce, wbo was arrested in connection with the death of a settler st Whangamomona after a brawl, has been acquitted, the medical evidence showing that death was doe to natural causes.

Fresh efforts are being maaeto raise fends to complete the Ohriatchurch Cathedral, and Cannon Pollock, who has been commissioned to take the matter in hand, addressing a meeting of business arid professional men, stated that a considerable sum wouM bi if the work was gone on with at once, and the contractors had stated that if this was done they could complete it in eighteen months. A representative committee of laymen was appointed to take steps to raise the £7OOO which is required. An announcement of exceptional interest to householders and others is made in this issue by Messrs. Hardy and Company, who are now carrying on the extensive coal and firewood business lately transacted by the New Zealand Express Company. A large supply of coal, etc., will bs kept available for customers and henceforth there should be no trouble in securing Uolna coal which in the past has frequently been unobtainable. The business ability of the firm is as well-known as their reliability. Trains leave New Plymouth station forth® breakwater to-day, connecting with steamer 8 mentioned below, as f0110w56.30 am., Rotoiti (from north); 8 a.m, Takapuna (from south); 1 p.m., Rotoiti (for south); 8. JO p.m., Takapuna (for north). A passenger oar will be attached to the goods train leaving for the Breakwater about 3 p.m

Bverjone in Taranaki will rejoice to sei. that Colonel Daviesand Captain Bartlett hav e received well deserved promotion. The gentleman who got into difficulties j n the surf on Sunday was, we learn, Mr. Alien of Eltham, secretary of the Eltham Ejash | and Door Company, who was staying p re r Sunday in New Plymouth.

We understand that General will make a tour of the colony, vlijiting all the volunteer districts to mm himself acquainted with the conditions oftbe colony ond locality of the various cei&4ael before making any changes in our military /syntsm.

The late Bev. T. J. Wills, of Ormindville, was an old Taranaki boy, having been born at B»ll Block, and in one of. J& 3 L a j visits here he went out to renew hif ß icafaaintance with his birthplace. Amonigt jthooo who went to spend a few minnfts With him in the last days of. his lite waif he/Rev. Frank leitt who found him no lonpL ji p a j' D| an( j fully in possession of his fefciltiis. His last [thoughts almost were fori tie pause he had so strongly fought for, aij,i What may be termed his dying message to/ the Alliance Executive was •• My hea/ r t f u n 0 f i OTe) and I feel so sore that v:"ctcv'ry must soon come to our cause. I -wonder whether I shall be able to watcti' ts progress." He | had no regrets, though p f believed his long agony and hastened d4a:hat the age of 46 was traceable to the woik of the 1890 campaign. He seemed rather to rejoice that be had been able to make a great sacrifice to the cause. I

I A reminder is given oj[ i.he public meeting at tha Town Hall to-night, to discuss matters in connection with the seaside picnic. I A man Edward O'Hara, who was committed for trial at Hawera yesterday on a charge of horse-stealing, was brought np to New Plymouth last night and lodged in the gaol. 8 B I Mr. 8. Weetman's property at the corner I of Vivian and Morley-gtreetshasjust changed hands through Mr. W. J. Shaw's agency at a price which shows a continued advance of town values. Mr. E. b. Kingdon, of Anck- | land, is the purchaser, Tha house is the one lately occupied by Mr. Strauchon. " Should the v/eather be favourable to-day, | there ought to befi very large attendance at I the United Sunday School Wcnic whiob was postponed frctn Thursday. Train arrangements will be found in our advertising] columns. >, jHOLLO PILLS AND OINTMENT [Belublb iptjfaiies. In wounds, bruises, l sprains, glaJ/d r swellings, enlarge i vans, neuralgic pfciD i fe n( J rheumatism, the application of kfjothing Ointment to the affet ted p»r(s nml only gives the greatest «ase, but likewise cnfres the The Pills greitly auist i n banishing the tendenoy to rhenmat™^ d similar painful disorders, 1 yj l p.JJvO «i#tment cures ihe local ailment. Ihe Pilfe remove the constitutional disturbance and regulate every impaired f motion of every p r g &a throughout the human bodv Th'; ouy e is neither temporary nor superfic al, but pe»in Wen t; and complete, aid the disease rarely Recurs so perfect has been the purifif>ation; performed by these pearcbing yet harmjes? preparations. The most delicate ma y, take Holloway's HUs with perfect uonidenee.—Advt. T'he best medicine known s Sandek & "Otis' Eucalypti Extbaot. And its en.i"ebt powerful effects in coughs, colds, insubnza, the relief is instantaneous. w or "ejioua cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, "Prains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling ~no inflammation. Like surprising effects Produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs swelling etc., diarrhcea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and hospitals and I