LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 52, 17 February 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board meets to day. The annual picnic of the Convent School will be held in the Recreation Grounds on Thursday afternoon, when a large master is expected to be present. The owner of a bay trap mare foand at large should inquire at the Criterion Stables for his property. It Wi» with much gratification we learned from Mr on Saturdiy that ho had receive I th i very welcome message announcing his son to ba out of danger. This news will be received with the greatest pleasure by the numerous friends and sympathisers with the family. In the Supreme Court (in Chambers) upon the applin tion of Mr Kerr, who appeared on behalf of ttin Public T'uslee for 'h» colony of N w Zealand, the Registrar, Mr fctanford, on Saturday last, granted probate ofthie'laat will and testament of the late Elizabeth Ana Harvey, deceased, to the I Public Trustee, lie being the exeoator in the said will and testament named.

Thp valuations of the city of Wellington have just been completed, and show a total of £473,599, an increase of £14,771 over last year. The tender of George Frazer and Sons, Auckland, have been accepted for alterations to the Government steamer Hioemoa.

The Monowai, sailing on Saturday from Wellington for Bydney, took 220 tons of cargo, of which 70 tons is fpr transhipment to Yancouver.

The New Zealand Polo Association has decided to hold its annual polo tournament at Palmtrston North, beginning on the 18th of March,

Mr 0. R, Beattie, secretary of the National Dairy Associotion, met a sab-committee of the Palmers ton A. and f, Association on Friday, with refarence to holding a dairy exhibition and conference daring the coming winter in Palmerston. He pointed ont that the fixture lattyear invoked a loss to the Dairy Association of £9O, and suggested that if some attraction was effered in connection with the show, if held here in Jaly, it would obviate possibility of los«. The Mayor wbo was present at the interview, has taken the matter in had, and will consult prominent citizens in reference to the subject. Trains leave New Plymouth statioi for the breakwater to-day, conaeoting with steamers mentioned below, as follows:—6 am., Dpolu ffrom south), 6 a.m., Ngapuhi (from north), nooo, Upolu (for sßHth), 8.20 p m. Ngapuhi (for north). A passenger oar will be attached to the gcods train leav* ing for the Breakwater about 8 p.m.

Mr D, McKinnoa Bain has consented to act as supervisor of the Band Contest arrangements in connection with the solos, quartets, and test selections, etc., which take place in the Theatre Royal. At Christchurch on Bunday, the remains of Staff-Bugler Ash to a, a Orimean veteran, were accorded a military funeral. Olose upon 600 volunteers turned out, and the streets were lined .With fully 10,000 people.

f*ir Joseph Ward returned to Auckland on Saturday night, and leaves for the north of Auckland en Tuesday to inquire into railway matters.. Ife was cordially received in the Waikato,

Mr E. M. Smith has brought from England soma samples of rope made from New Zealand hemp by Me>srs Walter H. Hindley and Company, of London. These show an excallent finished article. The samples may be seen at the News Office.

Right through the tour of the Janet Waldorf Company great attention has been paid to its Shakespearian productions by the students of both sexes attending colleges, universities, and high schools, and Miss Waldorf holds io her possession many letters of high appreciation received from the principals of svjoh institutions, testifying to the great intellectual and eduoatiohal treat so afforded. Mr. Harcus Plimmer, representative fojr Miss Walderf, now in town, has received word that a party of 180 students from the Wanganui Collegiate Bohool attended the performance there on Saturday evening. Local etuden's would do well to profit by the production of " The Merohant of Venice "la l>» given at the Theatre Boyal on Friday next.

The replica of t]|e bust gt the late Sir Harry Harry Atkinson, brought from England by Mr B. M. Smith, shows an excellent likeness ef the deceased statesman. It will at an early date be unveiled with naitoble ceremony in the New Plymouth Moseum. Quite a large number of people visited the Recreation Grounds rn Sunday, when the cygnets, or young white swans, brought from England by Mr E. M. Smith, were greatly admjred. Some persons seemed to expecS however, that the birds \yoald he white, and it may be as well to enlighten these by stating that the swans do not ob- [ tain perfect whiteness of plumage until after the first moulting. It connection with the Band Contest, arrangements for securing aooommodation for visiters are being systematically carried 'out. anfl the followinggentlera&n are acting an a special committee for this purpose Messrs R. Cock, W. Ambory, and C. Carter. We understand that Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R,, has acceded to the request of the Pangarehu people to open their baziarin aid of the new We»leya« Church at 2 p.m. on Thursday next.

At a meeting of the Wanganai Presbytery, held at Martoii, the Rev. William Thomson failed to appear on the second citation of the Presbytery, and it was resolved to cancel the Presbyterian certificate granted to him, and to declare hin. no longer a minister of that church.

The Hawera Slar reports that a telegram has been received slating that £360 has heen granted by the Education Department for technical school bnildingi for Hawer*. The work of erecting art and science rooms is to be proceeded with *t once, and part of the old school is to be convertad into gymnasium and bench room.'

At a meeting of directors of the Equitable Building Society (Btar-Bowkett svstem) it was decided that the next appropriation by sale take place on Wednesday, 26th March next, at the Town Hall, at 7.30 p.m.

The Wanganui Herald says: The whereabouts of 4 well-known local public servant *re being anxiously inquired for, he not having been seen at bis usual post »ipoe the beginning of last week.

It is reported that, in view of the immediate acquirement by the Government of the Maaawatu railway, a new time-table Is ilrea'iy in course ef preparation, and will mvolutionise the running on the Wellington-Napier-Taraniki lines,

A Japanese and a British ensign were fiyinp on the one staff at the Japanese Consulate on Customhouse Quay, Wellington on I Friday. 1

j The e'ection of the H«n. C. C. Botren, Mr' 'Martin Chapman, and Mr 8. Percy Smith an governors of the New Zealand Institute is gazette^.

1 In the course of a sermon at the Napier Oath<sral on Sunday, % Rev, ff. A. Bennett, representative of the Young Maori Party, slated that no fewer than 10,f)QO Maoris are living in ab»olate heathenism,