LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 59, 1 March 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Whitaley Memoiiil Church, Sunday, 2nd March, Harvest Thanksgiving Services, Kev, W. K. Woolley, 11 a.m.; Rev. P. J. Serpell, 7 p.m. Subject " Harnst Home and its Lessons." Mr Newton King will hold a supplementary sheep fair at his Toko yards qn the 4th March, for which there are rery good entries.

The Uoion S.S. Company's steamer )kcrima has been launched at Dumbarton. News has l een received that the Filipino General Lueqan h s been captured. , Princess Katherine Badziwill hes been arrested at the Oape for forgin j Mr. Bhodes' '• same to bills for £23,000. The Court v ill h"ld a reception on M»rcU 14th at Buckingham Palace. There has be n »o such reception for several reigns. There haw been s'xty-four deaths from smallpox during ' he week in London out of 1350 patients. Twenty-five members of the House of! Oommnns are down with influenza. Mr. Bal- j four being one of the vicunas, but he is improving. At the Wesleyan Conference on Friday it was decided to appoint a Home Missionary at Eltham with a suitable grant, but the request for an additional Home Missionary for New Plymouth was delivered. Anyone wantiDg either a good residential property or a first-class investment will have an opportunity to-day which seldom offers when Mrs Oapel'd charming property known as " Montora " will b» offered at the hammw by Mr Newton King, at his M-art. The property is most conveniently srtaated, the house and grounds being in first-class I order, and the land is very suitable fori cutting up into residential sites. The arrival of the 'Frisco mail was 'signalled at Auckland at 6 o'clock on Friday evening, and should the weather be clear the Takapuna was to be despatched from Onehunga about 10 o'clock m which crtse the trdia from New Plymouth to connect with the steamer will leave the station for the breakwater at f1.30 this morning.

Owing to the Recreation Ground being engaged on Sunday week, tke concert announced by the Town Band will take, place in front or the Government Buildings after the church fervice in the eveningIt will be aeen by reference to our advertising columns that the block: of 53,602 acres of Orown land at Kawhia wiMch was to be offoied for selection on March 18th has been withdrawn in order that it may be offered on Auril Bth under the lease i'a perpetuity system only. We unde'sfcind that it is Mr 38. M. Smith's intention sho:tly to tike the TlSea'ire Koyal, and exhibit the ironsand samiples broaght out by him, and give a lecti' • on his trip home. A large parade of cadets, including-those of the Aucklf nd city schools, was held in the camp of the northern section of the .Ninth Contingent yesterday. On Friday there -ere 89 visitors to the museum; We are desired to request that these who were present at the opening ceremony, and s%aed the visitors boo Jr. in pencil, wi'l kindly call at the mweum and Bign in ink. For this puvpohe the book will remain open for two -weeks. At Hokitika on Friday, the flags on the public buildiags and pusiness premises were flown half m»st, oufc of respect for the fallen New Zealanders. At 2.30 p.m. a passenger train will leave (few Plymouth for tb<e breakwater, returning at 5 p.m. The attention of Justice Williams was oocupied at Wellington yesterday with a b 'se in which thu issues he tried were as to whether a certa : n George Cole, who died intestate, had been duly married. The widow claimed that tha marriage ceremony was i irformed by th« Her. Wm. OBnnell at its house, bat no official entry could be iouad, and Mr Oannell cocdd not remember lerforming the marriage. The case was idjou ned to enable his Honor to inspect ;he marriage registers for the district to . nn ..i. n ;» v. nnr TOcrik lrpnl;.

iscertain how they were kepi. At a meeting of the Acclimatisation So3iety at Dunelin on Friday, it was decided to issue a citc.ular to the school teachers in the country districts offering a reward of £5 for the conviction of any school boy found poaching trout. In a telegram to Captain Hugh Boscawen, the Governor states that the Admiral with the Mildura and Fhoeba will arrive at Auckland on April 4th. In the opinion of the Daily Chronicle, Mi Seddon's intention, as cabled to the Times by its Wellington correspondent, of placini, Mr W. T. Stead's ch«que for £26) "to ,th e credit not of a charitable institution, but fen the fund for fitting out the fresh New If a land contingent for the front, is distinctly aid mischievously mirthful." The State Premier of Victoria has caiolec to tho Government that the Koyal Oornmis. sion on Shops and factories is coming tc New Zealand to make inquiries. The best medicine known s Sahdsk i Sons' Eucalypti Extract. And its en.l flent powerful effects in couglas, colds, in. suenza, the rolt'ef is instantaneous. *oi nerioas cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, loruises sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling -no inflate mation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis inflammation Of lungs, swelling. et.o., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. SANDBB & Sons' EUCALYPTI Extract is in use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe, patronised by his Majesy the King of Italy; crowned with medals and diplomas at Inteuiational exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this aproved article and reiect all other. —Advt. HOLLO WAYS' OINTMENT AND PJLL! Diseases of the skin. No case of d sease of the skin, be its nature what it may, has failed to be be' efiteel when these potent remedies have been pioperly appl ; ed. In scrofulous and scorbutic affections they are especially serviceable. Scurvy a*d eruptions which had resisted all other modes of treatment, and gradually beoome worse, have been completely cured by Holloway's cooling Ointment and purifying Pills, which root out the disease from the blood itself, ond leive the constitution free from every morbid taint. In the nursery- Holloway's Ointment should be ever at hand j it will give ease in sprains, contusions, burns, scalds, and infantile eruptions, and ms.y always safely be applied by an ordinary attendant. — Advt. You can depend on ridding your children of Worms with WADE'S WOEM PIGS, the wonderful 1 wormworriers Frice Is. —Advt,