The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 68, 5 April 1902, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Flour and oatmeal have advjnced 15s per ton in price. Captain Angus Smith, n, Crimean veteran, died at Opotikifrom blood poisoning. Jumping at the Sydney Show Fitzgerald Bros.' Newhaven and Piitchavd's Kattler cleared 6ffc. sin.,a record for the ground. A fire was discovered in the after hold of tfie steamer Takapuna on Friday morning between New Plymouth and Onehunga. Water was poured Con the fire, which was extinguished. Very little damage was done. The cause is unknown. The Lands and Survey Department has completed the subdivision of several properties recently purchased on the Kaipara railway, close to Auckland Ci'y, for the purpose of selection as work mens homes, which are to be leased in perpetuity. The properties have been named the Kitchener, Methnen, Cradock, Plumer, and He tana Hamlets. Two seamen of the Athenic were sentenced at Wellington on Friday to imprisonment for cargo broaching. Hinde received ten months and Lucas six weeks, The presentation of au address from the old age pensioners of the Auckland district to Mr. and Mrs Seddon and a diamond ring to Mrs Seddon took place on Thursday night at Wellington. A somewhat sensational arrest was made at Wanganui at noon on Thursday, when as elderly man named Ward was nrrested in the registry office when about to be married, on a charge of failing to provide foi the three illegitimate children of the woman with whom he formerly lived. He was brought before the magistrate and remanded till Friday morning, but oa Thursday afternoon the fine was paid by tha bride and the accused was released, and the event was duly solemnised next morning. Recently a cross action f( r assault was heard, the two women above implicated baing the parties. The colony's gold export for March was 24,2370z, valued at £88,085, as against 40,002, valued at £157,159 in March last year. The total for the quarter vas £376,679, as against £456,100 last year. At Invercargill the weatker has broken after a fine spell. To householders "the rain is welcome, but a few more days of dry weatner would have been appreciated by farmers. Mr C. D. Sole, of Stratford, has been gazetted a member of theEgmont Licensing Committee, vice Mr B. A. Hignett, resigned. A curiois state of affairs exists at the Pukearuhe township where many of the sections are owred by absentees, while the two or three persons on the spot have not had their sections properly transferred, and therefore cannot be officially recognised as owners.

In communicating to the Olifton Council Mr Justice Oonnolly's decision oil the appeal case with reference to recovery of rates frem Mr Flower, the Ooimty solicitor expressed his opinion on the judgment. It was pointed terse and decidedly scathing. is reported that his the Mayor received a request for a ton of lrousjuid to be forwarded to America for experimental purposes. After conferring with the lessees the sand was procured, and now the Harbour Board officials are looking for the man for a breach of the bye-laws, the sanction of the Board not having been obtained. The Hen, A. J. Cadman, 0.M.G., came from Wellington by the m»il train last evening,and proceeded north by the Ngapuhi.

At Auckland Magistrate Bush gave judg-11 ment in a oasa, Thomas Gibb v. Kmest I Walters, master of the Hikutaia School.J Tho claim was £2O for assault, viz , being I thrashed for bathing with his sisters and j I other girls. The headmaster had warned (. the boys and eirla he ivauld punish them i he found them bathing together, wbea there were separate bathing places in the river provided. The Magistrate decided that the schoolmaster had no jurisdiction to administer punishment for an offeree committed out of sehpolimdont, of school hours. Judgment was l'or complain')nt for £5 damages and £5 los costs. Ak tho Wellington Magistrate's Court on Friday William > iovvan and Edward Cor.rick, bookmakers, vreru fined £5 and costs fori frequenting Willis-st r eet for the purpose of I belting. I

Whila a man named William Edward Burrows was awaiting his turn to appear before the Wellington §.M. on Friday morning on a charge of theft aud forgery he aiezed an opportunity *nd bolted. It was believed that he went into the Govomment Buildings, and a sordou of police was drawn around that place and search made. The efforts to find him in the building failed. Fifteen lady teachers in the InvsrcargiH district have volunteered for service in the South African concentration camps, and the Board has selected three for examination. Mr?. Abercrombie, wife of Mr D. A. Abercrombie, manager of the North Queensland Insurance Company, died suddenly at Weilington on Friday.

Word was received by cable cn Friday from the electricians aboard the Attglia, which is laying the cable between Norfolk Island ani Fiji, stating that the cable had been paid out for 123 miles and was going well. In a speech to the natives at Papawai, the Premier intimated that the Govf rnroent intended to survey and road the Maori lands j handed over to the Maori Councils, and the lands would be let to settlers for the benefit of the natives. Mounted native volunteer corps would be established all over the colony under native officers, who will first bei trained in their duties. He also stated that when in England he would ask the King's advisers not again to refusejMaori volunteers to fight for the Empi'O. Tenders are invited for tho pulling down and removal of a stone wall ftom the old mill iu Queen-street, to St. Mary's Church. General Babington is confident the Maoris can ba trained to make good soldiers. A Native address to the Kiug is being prepared, snd will ba offered to the Premier next we-k for presentation. j Mr vSmedley opened his temperance mission at Wellington on Thursday night. On Saturday next Mr. Newton King will hold an unreserved sale oi drapery and clothing oh account of Messrs. McMaster and Shalders in the shop lately occupied by Mr. C. Garter iu Devon-street. Trains leave New Plymouth station to-day, connecting with steamers mentioned below as follows:—6a.m.,Takapuna (from north); 8.20 p.m, Takapuna (for north.) A pas-senper-car will be attached to tha goods train leaving about 3 p.m. fur readers are reminded of the ceremony of laying the cornerstones at the Pu-garehu Methodist Church on Thursday next at 2 p.m. Arrangements aro made for a brake to leave New Plymouth at 10 a.m. The ceremony is at 2, luncheon at I, and tea at 4 'clock, with musical social in the evening, at which E. Dockrill, Esq., Mayor of New Plymouth, is to preside. Those desiring to go should communicate with Mr Carte-.

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