LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 68, 7 April 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

J The County Council meet i to-day. The names of Br. McCieland, Messrs H Dempsey aud J. A -thur were inadvertently omitted from the list of vice-presideais rf , the bt3l* Football Club elected at the annual mee'in^. At a meeting of the Gisborne Liberal Association a resolution wai vassed that the Government should take aotion to prevent the formation of t' usts. A deputation from the Law Society waited on the Premier at Wellington on Saturday asking him to make representations in London to enable New Zealand barristers and solicitors to bj allowed to practice in the English Courts. The Premier promised to give the matter attention. At the Cnristchurch Cycling Club's meeting the five-mile championship of Canterbury was won by W. Ma'tin (Amtrica), by a length in 12min 8 2-sscc, G. Sutherland second and W. Palmer (Queensland) third. A sharp demand has arisen at Auckland for maize for expoit to Sydney, bayers oflering 3s Sd per bushel.

The Piemier leaves Wellington to-day for Christcliurch, where a presentation will be made to him on Tuesday. A Board consisting of Aliss MoLean, principal i f the Wellington High Bchool, Messrs Bogben, Kirk and Pope has been set up to ex.mine the applicants for teacherships iu the concentration camps in South Africa. The final selection will be made this week. The police have unayailingly searched for the man Burrows, who escaped from the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, last Friday. "lie Taranabi Rifles parade the Drill Ha l this evening ;it 7.30, At N'lison on ifriday a man named Brunnii g wj3 fined 40a for assaulting an Assyrian hawker. The defendant sa id he was provoked by the insult offered by the Arsyrian, The total Wellington subscriptions to the fund for the presentation to the Premier are £Bi>o. Tha signatures to the address num-

bsr 9,000. p.ji ey .'Hfcwood, who was connected with the yacht Ariaene, was sentenced at Wellington to tix months for the larceny of a bicjcle. A supposed attempt to set fir* to tbe Christchuich Working Men's Club was discovered on Friday night. A quantity of paper and other combustible material had been collected under the stage, evidently with the idea of fire. The Horowhenna County Council on Saturday presented the Premier with an illuminated address th-inking him for the fervict-s he had rendered to the colony aid the Empire at large, and hoping he would ! reotive a fitting reward at the hands of the j King. Mr Seddon said he had sufficient rej ward in having the good opinion of his j fellow men. | A man who had mad* a book on the ! Chris! church races and had oeen struck for £lO to 5s double, which he declared himself ut.able to pay, was before the Magistral - . Court at Wollin'toa on Saturday on a cbn'ge of theft ot ss, but the charge was dismissed. Jam'.s We ch. a sailor from one of the warships was sentenced at Auckland to one reoath's imprison me tie for a'-sulting Const ibie Skinner, who had to get assistance to secure Walsh's arrest. Mr B. A. Hignett has returned to Auckland. He is slightly better for the interval of complete rest since his return. Instead of'the colonial salaries scheme assisting the Taran&ki Education Board in the matter of securing teachers, the Board never had so much diliiculty in securing teachers as now. Miss Black, who was recommended by the Central School Committee for one of the vacancies on the staff, has also been selected by the Frankley-road committee. Miss Black has decided, we understand, in favour of Frankley-road.

r Jhe funeral of the late Mrs Low took place on Sunday, the Kev If. G. Evans officiating. The pall-beaTers were Messrs G. N. Curtis, 0. Curtis, G. F. Robinson, Hairia Ford, W. H. Skinner, and John Skinner. There was a large following of relatives and fiiends, Major Farm being among the mourners. In tbe ceurse of a brief address tbe Rev Evans made a touching allusion to the rapid passing away o£ the early sett'ers, who, amidst war and other trials incidental to the new settlement, had laid in blood and tears the foundations of the happiness and prosperity we were now enjoying. * Miss Arrow, of the Central School, has received instructions to report herself in Wellipgton to be examined as to her fitness for service in the South African concentration camps. She leaves for Wellington this morning. The Education Board inutis applications for the appointment of a teacher at Uplaadroad, and assistant mistress at Midhirst, Kaianai, Cardiff, and Urenui.

Mr Frank Messenger invites tenders for building a residence in Gill-street. While a combine was being hauled over the Waiwakaiho bridge en Friday, the elevator came in contract with the overhead ties, and the crashing noise which ensued aroused the attention of the driver of the traction engine, who promptly shut oil steam. No great damage was done. Members of fha Taranaki Rifles are reminded that the adjourned general meeting will be held after parade this evening. Owing to an informality the election of officers at the last meeting; was void, and a new election will take place to night. A full attendance is requested, as it necessarythat at least two-thirds of the company should be present. Those attending tho Druid's social at tiie Foresters's Hall, Gill-street, on Thursday evening next, can relv on having a good l evenings enjoyment ' Tbe floor will be in first class ordur for doncing, and the supper will leave nothing to be desired.

The "battle of the'bases "created a good deal of interest on Saturday. There are now two newly imported rival conveyances of this kind on the Fitssroy route, and the event whs celebrated with much blowing of horns. Tho excitement was encbanced by the " Takapuna " colliding wi!h a verandah post in the morning, and the •' Nelson Moate " being stuck up in tho afternoon. All inte'ested in the raoid winding up of insolvent estates will be pleased to hear that Mr K. Gerard has been officially gazetted as Deputy Official Assignee for Taranaki. Mr G~rard, who is chief clerk in the Wellington office, is 01117 temporarily filling the office here. His expert knowledge and active business habits have already made themselves felt in clearing up outstanding estates. It appears that the second atempt to hold the annual meeting of the Ratepayers Association was successful in »o far as enough were got together to talk over matters. The meeting was composed of Messrs Alexander (president), West, M. J. Jones, Govett, | Hughes, and Richmond, while the Borough Council was represented by Mr Tisch, who was flatteringly welcomed as " a progressive member." Nhoulrt any further meeting be called it would probably be as well to 1 acquaint the ratepayers and tho Press with the date. A rumour is afloat that Mr R. 0. Hughes is to be requisitioned to become a candidate for the Mayoralty, tie evidently tikes an interest iu Borough matters, so there may be some foundation for tho rumour.

The London correspondent of the Svnuiin/ Post writes thnt Mr W. if. Howit.t, for thirty years a settler in Taranaki, and who was for some yea's a member of tbe Patea Boiough Council, lias taken up his abode at Tarland, Aberdeenshire, where Le holds the position of postmaster. Recently Mr Howilt delivered a lecture on New Zealand, under the auspices of the Town Council. The Maori's view of the Ptemier's visit to London, journeying by way of South Africa., has been tersely expressed by a Wairarapa native thus:—"Yes ; Mr Seddon go to Pretoria, see Lord Kitchener; see Milner • then go to London, and sa? to Bdward, ; Now I have fixed up every tiling, you can go on with yovr coronation I'" —N.Z. Times, 1

jffivery minor at Granity Oreek gave half a day's pay to enable the Granity Creek Band to come to New Plymouth for the recent , contest. i; The Auckland TVecltly A cms reports°n ' , Saturday afternoon last a very pretty wed-; ding took place at St. Mark's Ohurch, when , Miss Florence Mabel Sellers, second dauuh- ; . ter of Mrs H. J. B. Sellers, of Kemuera, was j, I married to Mr David S. Syme, ot' I | Taranaki. Tb« bride, who was dressedi in 1 I cream silk, with a deep frou-frou of chiffon ] | and the customary veil and orange blossoms, j was attended by two pretty little bribes* I maids, Miss Itujy Sellers (her younje».-1 j sister) and Mis ) Daphne Hay (her cousin), j both dressed in white Indian silk, and ing short veils and lili's of the valley. The bride was given away by her elde»t brother, Mr Stanley Bellers, and the bridegroom was attendee by Messrs H. G. Thomson and r. I<\ Battley, as groomsmen. After the ceremony, a reception wai held at the residence of the b: Me's mother, and later in the afternoon the newly-wedded couple drove away on the'r honeymoon. The cluych was prettily decorated by the choir girls of St Mart's with white flowers and greenery. GOOD MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN. If you liav a baby in the house you will - wish to know the best way to che"k any ! unusaal looseness of the bowels, or diarrhoea ino common to small children 0. P. M. Hollidiy, cf beming, Ind , has an eleven monhts' old child, says" Through the months of June and Julv our baby was teething mid took a running off of the | bowels and sickness of tha stomach. His bowels would move fro if: eight to ten ti'res ' a day. i had a bottle of Chamberlain s ' Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house and have him four drops in a tea- • spoonful of water, and he got better at ' once." Price, Is 6d big Bize, 3e. For sale i by Xew Plymouth Co-operative Society.— ! Advt. AT THE BAR, [ The greatest compliment ever paid to a medicine was that paid to Impby's " May Apple," when, during the recent Tariff i >c* M's.H.R. testified openly in the House [ the efficacy of this great remedy as ! guaranteed cure for all lver diosrders. At 1 Dottle v.'a* subsequently presented to every - member of the House, and Members now s peak in hiah terms of its goo effects, A 1 3 chemists a»d storea jtock it per bottle.— i Advt,