The Daily News. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 64, 7 March 1902, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The troopship Kent arrived at Wellington on Thwrsday to take in coals and provisions, and then goea South to tak© oa board the southern battalion of the Ninth Contingent. Twenty-five Chinamen were arrested in a police raid on a Haining-street house on Wednesday night, The Wellington representative of -the Huddart-Parker Company has been advised that the Westralia has to be docked at Melbourne consequent on grounding at the Bluff. It is expected she will be able to leave Sydney on the 22nd. The Taranaki BiHas are notified of a Church Parade at 10.30 on Sunday morning. Train arrangements in connection with the Band Contest will be found in another column. Holiday excursion tickets will be issued to New Plymouth on the 10th. 11th, 12th, and 13th instant, A reminder is £iven of the meeting of the Municipal Association this eyening at 8 o'clock. Th# congregation of St. Andrew's Church are reminded of the social to take p'ace this evening at 8 o'clock.—Advt. Included in the programme for the Town Band Concert on Sunday evening next will be the euphonium solo 41 L'Ktude De Con- 1 cert" which will be played by Mr, J. Sturmey. Floods have occurred in the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. Twenty-three persons have perished and a million dollars of damage done. The town of Marshall, North Carolina, has been destroyed. The steamer Tiber, bound from Lonesberg to Halifax, coal-laden, has been wrecked. Thirty of her crew pe ished. In the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain stated that the representatives ot the self-governing colonies at the Coronation would distuss the commercial relations of the Empire. Additional subscriptions to the Band Contest Fund are:—R. Chambers, £1 Is; S. Manning and Company, £1 Is. The Surveyor-General has wired the Auckland Lands Board that the reason the Kawhia lands are wi hdrawn from lease with right of purchase is that they are believed to csntain valuable mineral deposits. Mr Mueller has also received a letter reducing the areas fixed for reserve, and stating , that such reduced areas would be for village and improved farm settlement. The Royal Commission on Native Ailairs, Messrs H. G. deth Smith, A. L. D. Fraser, M.HR., and Hone Heke have got to Cambridge. Two more arrests Wave been made in connection with the alleged theft of goods from the Uoion Company at Port Chalmers. Matheson, one of the men, is charged with stealing varniah, paint etc., while John i Walker, the other man arrested, will be j charged with his brother, who was arretted earlier in the week, with stealing kerosene. The congregation of St. Andrew's Church intend fareweliing Mr and Mrs Stanchon a' a social, and on the same occasion welcoming Mr MacKenzie. The Prince of Wales cat tin first sod of the Avonmouth (Bristol) docks, which are to cost £i,000,000 and are intended to have th* largest cold storage depots in the United Kingdom. The Princess accompanied the , Prince. At the Supreme Court on '! hursday Mr Claude Horace Weston, fifth sod of Mr Thomas S. Weston, of Cbristchurch, and brother to Mr T. Shailer Weston, of New Plymouth, was admitted a barrister of the Supreme Couri;. No Je s than four of the five brothers in this family have adopted the legal profession, and all of thsm held University decrees, while one is law lecturer at Canterbury College. Mr 9Jand Weston is alrcadv favourably known here, having 'or some little while past been assisting his brother, and there is no doubt that he possesses in a marked degree those peculiar qualifications which make a successful barrister.

The Order of the (furtor has been conferred on the Duke of Badford. Meat importers in London are seriously complaining of the emaciated condition of two recent shipments of Victorian lambs. They bear the Government stamp. _ They were condemned at Smithfield and in thft (provinces. The beat medicine known s Sander k Pons' Eucalypti Extract. And its enuifiertt, powerful effects in coughs, colds, in-suei-za, the relief is instantaneous. v «r nerioaa cases, And accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, ucaldings, bruises 3 uprains, it is the safest remedy—-no swelling -no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs, swelling etc., diar- ! rhcea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and 1 urinary organs. SANDER & SONS EUCALYPTI Extract is in use at hospitals and ; medical clinics all over the globe, patronj ised by his Majesy the King of Italy; crowned I with medals and diplomas at International i exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this apj roved article and reiect all other.—Advt. j fIOUiO * AYS' OINTMENT AND ' Diseases of the skin. No case of disease ot i the skin, be its nature what it may, hya : faPed to be benefited when theße potent remedies have been properly applied. Iu ! scrofulous and scorbutic affections they a*p j especially terviceable. Scurvy eruptions ( which had resisted all other modes of treitment, and gradually become worse, hav€ ! been completely cured by Holloway's cooli ing Ointment and purifying Pills, which ' root out the disease from the blood itself, j and leave the constitution free from every I morbid taiut. In the nursery Holloway's ' Ointment should be ever at hand ; it will give ease in sprains, contusions, burns, I scalds, and infantile eruptions, and maj I alvvays safely be applied by an ordinary atI tendant.— Advt. t GOOD MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN.* i If you have a baby in the housfi you wil ! wiah to know the best way to che?k my unus lal looseness of the bowels, or diarrhoea so common to small children. O. P. M, j Hollid ly, cf Deming, Ind , vho has ar 1 eleven mollhts , old child, says:—'* Through j the months of June and Julv our baby was teething »nd took a running off of th< , bowels and sickness of ths stomach. His bowels would move froir. eight to ten tifei a day. I had a bottle of Ohamb3rlain« Colic, ' liolera. and ' iarrhooa Remedy ii the house and luve hi'o four drops in a tea spoonful of water, and he cot better a' once." Price, Is 6d big size, S3. Kor salt by New Plymouth Co-operative Society.Advt.