LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 90, 21 April 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

| A Gfof.il TompU - f.o'lge will be opened by ■Mi' Vine at Whiteley Mall Mi;» | The Hospital pnd Charitable Aid Board : meets to-day. Seminations tor tha Mayoialty close at noon to-day. The Garrison Band has received a cheque for £127 ll>i from the Oonteßt Committee. Volunteers are reminded o£ the batlalioa pirado thin evening at 7.30.

Mr J. Rich-rds, the solo cornet player of the Granitv Creek Band, has come to New Plymouth to and he has joked tko Garrison Bind, to which he will beadecidod acquisition. Darin# tha hearing of the typographical dispute by the Arbitration Court at Palmerstoa Morlh on Saturday, Judge Cooper made it clearly understood thyt the country i mpl' yers were not cited at the instance of tha Union men, but at the request of the Wellington employers. At the annual meeting of the Palm«rston North brar.ch of the Farmers Union on Saturday, a resolution was pa<;>ed condemning the Government pioposaU relative to the Matiawatu Kaiiway Company, by which goods ar.d stock will have to be transshipped latLongbum.

Information has been received at Dunedin that an accident happened to the machinery of ths s.a. Napier on her voyago from ,'oubh, and she put int® Tautuku, Catlios River. It is unde l stood she has been hauled up on shore, and an attempt mads to repair some ditnak'® to the p'opeller. ' A masting of unemployed wa? he'd at the Basiu Keserve, Wellington on Saturday, about 100 rupn beim* present. A deputation was appointed to wait on ths Minister for Public Works, and u;-ge that eomathing sh uld be done in tha way of finding employment. for aiea in used of it. Aa iajpudcf-.t robbery waa perpetrated on Saturday night from a home in Broughamstieet, vthon cl. tli«s placed in a tub ready for the wash on Monday morning ware taken away, only one or two things being loft out of a tub full ot Miscellaneous articles v:il*ed at tot'si'iil pounds. The thaft will show the cl?sj 0: person who oeems to be paying tko town a visit, j.nd householders should b« on I their guard against such depredations.

A female writer to ibe Opunake Times g'.ves Mc Elwiu, one ef the candidates at the forthcoming Education Board elaction, a good "waging" for hiving coinpliisei e£ the increased employmont of women under tha Taranaki Beard. The inciessa in 1901 of tha inscribed debt ot the btratforil Oouuty Council was £5967 (is Ba,

The vaiioua dairy factorial in Elthamand contiguous districts have amalgamate'! and registered a company, called the " Ifgmont Co-operative Box Company, Limitsd," with a view to taking over the butter box and cheese factory of Messrs Kunciman and Compiny, otherwise kiiown as the Union Timber Cr.mvany. Woodville is likely to go in for electric lighting at a cost of £12,000. Amongst ths invited guests at the ball given by his Excellency the Governor to file Admiral and olficers of the fleet, iu Auckland last week, were the Hon. W. T Jennings, Jl.Ut!., of New Plymouth, and Mr and Mis Elliott, of Mahaenui.

The deaths ;>re announced of Frascisco Dassisi, husband of tx-Queen Isabel tbi: second '.if Spain ; and Sir William Anderson Ogg, (sheriff of London. Mr T. Wood, the present Mayor of l\i!merston. lias announced his intention of Contesting tha Mayoralty election.

v ln accordance with a decision arrived at at the ! ast meeting of the Auckland Board of Education, letters have been forwarded to teachers of private schools askii-g them to furnish evidence which may satisfy the Board that efficient and regular instruction .is given at the schools. This is with a view 'to granting certificates of exemption to children attending suitable private schools. At the annual meeting of the par.ahioners of All faints' Church, Palmerston, instruc- [ tions were given to the Synodsmen to support any motion coming before the Synod to the. effect of the placing of ladies of tbe congregation on an electoral equality with mala members. Messrs Barron, Land Purchase Commissioner, and A. Rsece, member o£ the Wellington Land Bo'ird, are at present in the Palmerston district inspecting properties offered to the Government for closer settlement under the Lands for Settlement Act.

A claim for compensation arising out o* the fatality at the Government lime kiln at Dimb.sck came before the Supreme Court at Dunedin on Friday, when Elizabeth Murray, widow, claimed £IOOO for the death of her husband. Owing to the abseuca of a material witness for the Crown an order was granted for an adjournment on condition that tho Crown made an interim payment to plaintiff ®£ £250 under the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act, all plaintiff's right'a being Jeft open. At New Plymouth the Borough Council charges the Educations Board fur the water used by the children of ratepayers. At Masterton, on the other hand, the Borough Council is spending £l6O t.o connect the school with the Borough drainage scheme. Ia moving that the work bs dona by the Council, the Mayor remarked ho had no idea that the cost was so small, or else ha would have voted to have the work completed baforo. He considered it very essential to tho safety o" the school children. Mr D. McAl'um Chairman of the Education Board, returned by Friday evening's mail train from Wellington, where he has been on business connected with the Board. 'J ho result of his interview with the Minister for Education will be made know/i at the Board meeting on Wednesday, A cable from Sydney states that there were 48 stowaways found on the Drayton Grange aftac leaving Wellington. Thirty of these weie enrolled, the remainder will be sent b.:ck.

The advantage so£ the metric system of weights and measures were urged bi' the President o? the Wellington Chamber of Commerce (Mr Nicholas Jieid) in bis address. Ho said that if Australia and New ■ ! Zaaland were to take up earnestly the metrie system of weights and measure., and carry it through, it would probably not be l'ing bofero (ireat Britain would follow. Thi3 metric s- stem was now made compulsory in twenty count; ies, representing over I 300,000,000 inhabitants. !

From a t • b!e of valuations supplied by th® J Hospital ~.od Ouaritable Aid we find tliafc the rateable value of the tiifl'ercnt towns lis as follows :—New Plymouth. itG09,124; J Stratford. £248.081 ; Hawera, £200,469. i The menthly conlributioris to the Hospital ■ funds are as follows:—New Plymouth, £2l I lis 8d ; Str*t£ord, «» 9s sd; Hawera, £7 13s lid. Uf the counties Hawera is by far the . most valuable, the figures are:—Hawera ■ County £2,913 514, with a monthly coutri- : bution of £UI 54 7d ; Taranaki 0 urity,! £1,888,837, -.villi a monthly contiibution of £s lOd; Stratford County £i,yi7,o;i2, 'with a monthly contribution of £SO (is; Clifton County £477,774, with a mootnly contribution of £lB 4s 10'1 Oil the lid rate basis Stratford County aud Borough pay an annual contribution to tin Hospital aud Chm'itable Aid Board ol £717 o.i lOd. The best medicine knowa is SANuiJM & BOSS* Bocaiypti iiXTRAOI'. And its eminent powerful ellects in coughs, colds, influenza, the relief is instantaneous, 'for serious cases, and accidents of ail kinds, be they wounds, bams, scaldings, bruises cyirotns, it is the safest remedy—no swelling -no inflaiiitti'itioti. Like surprising effects fjrodnce.i in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs swelling etc., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and uriiia'y oralis. b/.KDisii & Sons' "Eui;a--lyp'i'l Extkaot is iii uoe at li>.»pitals aud medic U clinics all over the glob,, ; patronised by his fcijosythe Sing of Italy; crowned witiiniedn.ls and diplomas at International UxhibitioD, Amsterdam. Trust in this aproved article and reieofc all other.—Advt. A CONVINCING ANfiWJiH. 'L'he following testimony! hows the values £ Need ham's Salve Mr. Needhaiii—Your Salvo is iirst-class for drawing and healing. Its speedy effects on wounds s turprising Every mother of a family might to Uesp a npply at hand, most especially hi country places, where safe and sure remedies such as jour l&lve, applied quickly, saves much pain and doctors accounts. I consider no home compl without it,—James B'lorenoe Agents. for Needhaai'a Salve, Co-operalivj I Society, Mew Plymouth,—Advfc,