The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 9 April 1902, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. .—♦-_—, Tenders are invited by the D,0.». for the purchase of the book debts in the estate of John Abbott. Particulars can he seen atMr Geiard's office. A meeting of the Won Corns. C!ub°will b;: iheld it tha Drill Hall this evening at 8 o'clock sh-irp. Captain Cook will kindly | give instruction in the new firing exercise. Members will bring rifles, and any officer and intending non corns, who wish to attend will be welcome. On realised figures f or eleven months, the railway revenue for the year is expected to be about £IOO,OOO above the Minister's estimate of £1,760,000. The expenditure «hould be about £1,245,449, or £93,449 above the estt-i ate. Tsong Yas Lao, Chinese Consul-General at Singapore, has arrived at Sydney, to inquire into the question of commercial relations between China and the Commonwealth. Mr Barton, Federal Premier, denies that he will visit Japan. A rich find of gold is reported from Pilbira (We9tcalia). where a dozen men obtained 400ozs in a forti.ight. In Sydney the price of bread has advanced a farthiDg the 210 loaf. The Australian wheat markets are excited and startling advances are anticipated. At a football match at Glasgow a collapsed, precipitating numbers of peopio a distance of 30 feet. TweDty persons were killed and 800 injured. The crowd became so uoraly that mounted police had to clear the playing ground. In the Appeal Court on Thursday, in the case Baker v. Johnson and Company, the majority of the Court held that fire escapes [ having been lawfully required by the Licensing Oonomittee, the appellant, who was [licensee of the Club Hotel, Wellington, was bound to provide them at his own expense [under covenant with his lessors to do all acts and things which might be necessary lo keep the license in force. The appeal was therefore dismissed with costs on the middle scale. The New South Wales census shows that the number of New Zealand born people residing in New South Wales has increased from 9015 in 1831 to 10,389 last year. The Rev. Dr. Parker, in a letter to the Times, referring to the maintenance of voluntary schools, is convinced that Noncocformisti will submit to distraint rather than pay the new form of Church rate initiating a new variety of sectarian degradation, The Tickers Maxim Company have'submitted to the War Office an armoured motor car for coast defence, adapted for service in the field, carrying a pompom and two smaller guns of the Maxim pattern. The Victorian Labour Commission, in taking evidence at Ohaatchurch with regard to the working of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, found that the testimony of witnesses there was diametrically opposed to that taken on the same point at Dunedin. A woman in the public gallery of the French Chamber hurled a parcel of eges at the Deputies below, exclaimiug " down with the thieves."

The Countess Ranfurley, accompanied by the Ladies Eileen and Constance Knox, arrived by the mail train on Monday evening, and went north by the Rotoiti. The Operatic Society's practice th's evening is fixed for 7.30 instead of 8 o'clock. The latest novelty in Paris is the coffee cigarette, mads, not from the ground be m, hut from the leaf of the tree. It affords a fragrant and harmless smoke. The heavy wind which was blowiag on Tnftuday morning was responsible for considerable damage to trees about the town. Some of the telearaph posts recently shifted at Fitzroy were thrown out of plumb.

The Imperial remount, officers, accompanied V>y Mr J. Stevens, M.H K, or his agent, will visit the va-ious centres tbrough""t Taraaaki on dates advertised. Air John Hes'op has b;en re-appointed a member of the Taraaaki Laiid Board. Excursion fares and trains are advertised for the departure of the Tenth Contingent. In reference to the prosecntion of shopkeepers reported in our last issue, we understand th»t in each case the shop was only »pen for a very short time in the even: *,i and not at all i"t the '''

Mr G. 1,. Petersen, advance agent for \ Wirch's Circus, was it New Plymouth on 'lu day, makiog arrangement for that famous combination here on I6lh and 17th April. The management, have secured many nove't'es for the present tour, one of the | most striking of which is an act by three tigers, in which two are harnessed ti a cbmiot and driven round the enclosed ring by a third. Complaint has again bren made tons that no lu'ht wai burning lasS evening on the obstruction on the footpath at the Imperial Ho nl co n«r, in On i.e-slreet. This oa-siruoi-ion is pa acuiariy <1 ngerous at this' -pot, and should be well lighted. The footy.tb is nn- lowed down in a most unreasonable m nn r. The 'Frisco mail steimer was sighted yesterday at 2 p.m, The mail was expected to leave Uuehunga by the Takapnna about 5 p.m., and will arrive here early this morning, and be on by the mail train. Last week the local railway authentic? received 4CO trucks of coal and general cargo over the whirl. Interviewed at Cbristchurch on Tuesday by representatives of the Bootmakers' ULion, the Premier was a»kod not to make any rotate of duties !n favour of Great Britain, but to raise the tariff a •ainst other countries, especially America. Mr Seddon replied that the Government had always ■;one tba be.t it could to foster local industries. It was not intended to advocate au indiscriminate rebate of duties. The Mayoral elections will ba held on the 30th instant. Nomina ions close on Wednesday, 16th instant, at noon. At noon on Tuesday the cable stesnier Angliahat pud out 792 niiks of the KijiNoifolk Island cable. Prime quinces, for preserves, obtainable in any quantity from F. Newell, c/o Shuttlewoith Brothers' stores.—Advt. The Premier met the Victorian Labour Commissioners at Christchuich on Tuesday and piomised every facility for obtaining information on progressive labou. 1 legislation. The Commissioners said that they had been vnry favourably impressed with what, they had teen, Mr Enward Tregeur will accompany them through How Z-a'and. The Premier visited Kaiapoi on Tuesday, and was presented by Messrs T. Pan„ta and Xait.ua with an uddress on beba'f of the Ngatu Ahuriri Mrs Seddon was also presented with a kiwi mat and a carved mere. The best medicine known ia Sanuhb & Sons' Eucalypti Bxtbaot. And its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, the rcl'ef is instantaneous. Woi serioao cases, i»n<l accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, bums, scaldings, bruises sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling -no inflammation. Like surprising effects! produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis,' inflammation of longs, swelling etc., diarrhcea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. Sandeb & 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 msdals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this ap roMiri irlicle arid reioot all other.—Advt. HOLLO <AY'S PILLS AND O<'NTMENT effect wonderful cures of bad legs and old wounds. ]f these medicines he used according to directions which are wrapped round each pot and box there is no wound, bad leg. or u'cirous sore, however obstinate, bu* wi'l yield to their curative properties. Numbers of persons who had heen patients in the Urge hospitals without der ving benefits, have been cured by Holloway's Ointmeub and Hiils, when other remedies had signally failed. For glandular swellings,: tumours, scurvy and diseases of ihe i-kin there ia no meiiicinn that, can be used with so pood an effect, and though the cure u rapid it is a'so complete and permanent.— rUivt.

AFTER THE ROYAL VIBK. Abthb exciting times the health of childrr. requires very special looking after. Thai 'the child is father to the man.'physieallj as we!l as mentally, is one of those troths that can never be too often insicted upon. and the thoughtful parent will be careful above all to see that her child has the proper nourishment to establish its constitution. A good constitution is a rook on which alone success and strength caa be built. Ar the various foods that science commends in these days for this purpose, none holds a higher place than Nbave's Foon for Injmntb and Invalids, iccording to tne rest medical testimony, and, what is perhaps better still, the grateful testimony of thousands of happy mothers, this food contains all the essential elements of strenjrth, I and while it is pleasant to the taste and eagerly taken by children, it may also be used by persons of all ages with decided oeuefit. It is a bone-bnilding, health-sas taiaing product that cannot be too warmly recommended, and we gladly add one words of praise to that of the numerous medical journals aod experts that have recommended it, Neavb'S Food shr/ald have a prominent place in the dietary of every house wher; there are children or invalids.—Advt. GOOD MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN. If you have a baby in the housn you will wi3h to know the best way to check any] unusual looßenees of the bowels, or diarrhoei bo common to small children 0. P. M. Hollidiy, cf lieming, Ind, "ho has an eleven monhts' old child, says:—" Through the months of June and Julv our baby' was teething and took a running off of the bowels and sickness of thn stomach. His bowels would move frou. eight to ten times a day. f had a bottle of Ohamb ?rlain s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house and have him four drops in a teaspoonful of water, and ho p.ot better at once." Price, Is 6d big size, 3s. For sale by New Plymouth 00-ooerative Society.— Advt.