LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 85, 21 March 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' .[|f u R * • always a favourite with har singing, ij announced to conduct | th§ Hartast festival me«tingi at the Army ; Barracks, commencing next Thursday night with a musical meeting. The barracks will be nicely decorated and there will be a good display of produce, i

Messrs Carthew, Brittaia and Company report having sold Mr A. 0. Johnston's pretty (arm of 80 ecres at Lepperton to Mr John Jolly, of Hokitika. I The Duneclin City Council has received from Noyes Brothers a detailed estimate for the conversion of the tramway system. The detailed estimate is £160,891 6s Id, and the maximum £170,000. This amount, the Mayor stated, was somewhat higher than ;vvas anticipate; but Noyea, Brothers ex- ' plained that the increase was accounted l'or 'by certain txtra works which had been ran .ered necessary on account of alterations made by the Council in the original scheme. The Council agreed to both. | The Bon Marche, Stratford, advertises for a smart boy to learn the business. A conference on confession and absolu- ,' tion, convened by the Bishop of London, ' i sitting at Knlham Palace, agreed (hat the Church allows private confession and absolution under certain circumstances. The strike in the Durban railway workshops has been settled, and the Government is investigating the strikers' grievances. A notice appears in another column that 1 Mr E. Gerard, of Wellington, has been appointed local agent of the Official Assigaoe in Bankruptcy. Messrs Carthew, Brittain and Company advertise a desirable property at Omata for sale. The Agent-General cables that he has . selected Dr. Arthur 8. Wohlmann, of London, for the position of Baln&ologist to the New Zealand Government Sanatoria. In the House of Commons, in reply to quesiionp, Mr Balfour stated that eince the Koyal College of Physicians and Surgeons had appointed a committee to consider the question of the cure of cancer with prospects of success, it was not desirable that the , Government should appoint a Commission.

The T.ondon Board of the New Zealand Shipping Company has declared an interim dividend for the half year, ending December 31st, at the rate of S per cent, per annum."

A public meeting held under the auspices of the Socialist Party at We'lmgton adoptsd a resolution moved by Mr Tom Mann, condemning tl.e principle of the flour trust and urging on the per-ple the necessity of taking steis id counteract the influence of such trusts by establishing Stat« industries. The also pledged itself to use the floar of the jvorthern Koller Mills if-equally good. The Australian squadron left Wellington for Picton on Thursday morning. • Up to a laie hour last night no further info'mation ha.i been obtained by the police as to the whereabouts of the escaped prisoner idcDo.iald.

The idea that drowning persons take much water into the lungs has seemedto be unquestioned. But it has been long opposed by Professor W.- Sft Whitford, who in ; forty years has successfully treated many patients apparently dead from drowning, and who now asserts, as the result of many •laminations, that practically no water enters the lungs. The mistaken view ha 9 caused the waste of much valuable tims. He has found heat—energetically and persistently employed—to be the most important agent in resuscitation, and with this, aided by artificial respiration and stimulation, he has restored patients that have oeen submerged - n hour.

A magnificent specimen of the weed ragwort, which appears to be spreading all over the colony, has been sent to the Government Biologist from the Kotorua district. It is 5f B lin high without the root, and carries a mass of yellow bloom. In a leaflet issued by the Government Biologist (Mr T. W. Kirk) about a year ago, ragwort is described as a handsome plant, growing from Ift to 4ft in height. The leaves are much divided, and the handsome, yellow, daisy-like flowers lare carried in large masses. Being a very |free feeder, it proves exceedingly destructive to pasture lands, and save in the young state is rejected by stock. As to the best means of keeping it under control, Mr Kirk says : - '•The plant is a remarkably f.ee seeder, but jit mast be remembered that if simultaneous action is taken, 1 and the weeds cut before flowering, the production of seed will be | confined to the later maturing plants, and these should be out from time to time as necessary. This action, if systematically carried oat, will in two years materially reduce, and, indeed, piactic:il'y exterminate the pest Sometime) several cuttings may be needed."

Writing to bis parents under data January I 27tb, the late Lance-Oorporal Percy Nation said:—"Our time of service will soon ex-' pire, and we shall be glad to see home once more. Sometimes I fear something may happan to spoil all" That" something " has happened, and poor young Nation is in his giave.

The Hunterville Express says:—The last sleepers are now being laid on th« Makohine Viaduct, and the laying of rails will shortly be commenced. The men are promised a champagne sapper if trucks can b# run across the line on the 31st March, and every effort is being made to that end. It wilt bti some weeks later before the line is open for traffic. We would direct the attention of the borough authprities to the absence of lighis during the past night or two on the barricading at the Impei ial Hotel corner. Footpassengers using what is left of the footpath are apt, in the dark, to .come into violent collision with the obstruction. We have noticed that lanterns were provided, and it would certainly be a protection to the public if these were put in use.

The breakwater is in first-class order new, all the holes being filled with cement and the rabble wave breaker campleted to the end.

The Railway Department is covering over a large portion of the space between the breakwater and the root of the wharf and erecting a large building thereon for the use of passengers aud for an office for the wharfinger. The frame of the western end of the new station is now up and the old station raised on rollers ready to shift over to-day. Passengers by the mail train last night had a pionic getting through the middle out into the street. The officials are working under very great discomfort and will have to do for some time yet.

We understand that t he Taranaki Freezing Works Oompany has made a profit of over £2OOO. Deducting interest on purchase money,cost of forming company,etc, tliere will still remain ever £I3OO to divide. Had the butter shipped to Patea gone through the works it is estimated that the profit would have been fully another £IOOO. The contractor for the ekctric light at the breakwater expects to have it in working order in a week or two. There will be throe arc lights on the wharf. Messrs Smart Bros, are doing the installation, Messrs. Finn and Stewart, experts, being in charge. The power house is now finished. The best medicine known s Sandbb & Sons' Eucalypti Bxtbaot. And its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, insuenza, the rel'ef is instantaneous. Tor nerious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs, swelling etc., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. Sandbb k 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 m edals and diplomas at International exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this apro\ ed article and reiect all other.—Advt. HOLLO WAYS' OINTMENT AND PILLB Rheumatism, Neuralgia It is sometimes difficult to determine which of these diseases is afflicting the sufferer, but this ignorance does not matter if Holloway's remedies be used. They alleviate aud cure all muscular and nervous pains, 'n hereditary rheums - tism, after bathing the affected parts with warm salt wa'fr, Holloway's Ointment should be well rubbed upon the spot, that it may penetrate and txert it" soothing and regulating properties on the deeprr vess-ls and nerves which ;ire unduly excited, and cau>e bath the pain aud swelling. Hnllo way's treatment has the- meriu of removing the disease without debilitating the coustitut:on, which was the inevitable result of the bleeding, mercury and colehicum practice formerly adopted in theie complaints.•— Adv*' AT THE BAR, The greatest compliment ever paid to a meJic.ino was that paid to Impby's " May Apple," when, during the recent Tariff DeM's.H.R. testified openly in the House the efficacy of this great remedy as guarauteed cure for all lver diosrders. At Dottle was subsequently presented to every i member of the House, and Members now peak in high terms of it 3 goo effects, A 1 chemists a»d stores stock it per bottle.— Advt, WADE'S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever And prevent blotches, Pricej Is,—Asvt