LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 25 April 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Town Band have ltindly consented to play at the Benefit Football Match to Mr L. Duffiß on Thursday afternoon next at the Recreation Grounds between Takapa I and Eltham 1. Endeavours are being made to secure excursion fares and delayed trains. Mr Browning, Superintendent of the Eastern Extension Cable Company's station at Wakapuaka, on Thursday morniDg mired to Mr Gray, SecreU'y of the Telegraph De-1 partment, Wellington, congratulations upon ibe opening of th* Facific cable for traffic, i The message was so marked that it travelled | from Wakapuaka to La Peronse, thence to] yydnßy and Soathport, in Queensland. At i the latter station it was transmitted on the] Pacific cable to Doubtless Bay, whence it was sent over <Vew Zealand lines to Wel-

lington. Trains leave New Plymouth station to-'?ay, connecting with tteamers mentioned below as follows:—6 a.m., Kotoiti (from north); 8 10 a.m., (from south); 11.20 a.m., Kotoiti (for south); 8.20 p.m ,Tanapuna (for north.) A passenger car will be attached to the goods train leaving for the breakwater abont 2 39 p.m I he raid on the opium dens at Dnmtdin *-»s made in consequence of information that opium to the value of £IOO had been smuggled into Otago. It is understood that the opium seized was not the smuggled article, which is believed to have been taken to the goldfields. The Bupr. me Court at Dunedin on Thursday reserved its decision in the action by P. Grnt against Detective Campbell for £SOO damages for allege! wrongful >eizure and removal of Grant's b olcs and pipars in November last. The case arose out of the raid on Grant's office, which resulted in his being fi-.od for tote Letting. Messrs Bewley anil Griffiths report having sold the property known as the Round House. Devon-street, ta a local investor at a satisfactory price. On Saturday, 2tith instant, Messrs Vickers and Stevens will offer for sale by public auction Mr A. A. Ifromm's well-known property situated at the corner of the Mountain and Jutction-roads, in the towDship of Inglewood, ar,d oppositi the Railway Hotel. The i'uildiii;;s c ntain eight shops and I dwelling rooms, with a frontage of about 53 feet on t e Juno ion-road an I 99 feet on the Moun;ain-road. As the property U b-ingmg in a goo ' rental and is one of the best business site* in the t ,wn, it should prove a good investment to the purchaser. Basy t-rms i an be arranged if require J. The mana.er of the Auckland Fre zing Company expre-ses tn« opinion that the c M"d advance in New Zealand frozen beef is entirely due to shortage on the s^ o ', an( ' that London market prices must go diwn shortly. the Venknra, leaving Auckland for San Francisco on Saturday, will have a record passenger list. Booking for the second tiloon stopped a few daya ago, and the saloon and steerage are row full.

As a result of a conference between Dr, Mason and the Auckland health authorities, it is "nderstoo 1 that several areas will bo j ined, and that one hospital for infectious diseases will serve inste d of several, and so enable the removal of the plague hospital I from the Dimain. against vt hich there is a strong pubac protest. [ Sorgeant-Major Ramsey, who for the past three years has been iu charge of the i'almerston North police district is now retiring in consequence of the new regulations. Daring his forty years service be has never had a day's wci leave or holiday. The latest additions to the telephone exchange are:-—T, S. Weston, private residence; Joseph llawken,7i(%roy ; H. Phillips, solicitor, KgTiont-stieet. The names of Messrs tl. T. Mills, (i. W. White, W. karnard and G. Doig have been erased from the list. The staff cf the Auckland Harbour Board on Thursday presented Mr Malcolm Niccol, on the eve of his departure for Welling n , as secretary < f Grand Lodge of Kreemasons, with a ii ver •, pint stand and travelling case, Mr Nicco! has been a member of the Hoard for upwards of 25 years, and chairman six or eight times. Mr B. O'Dowda intends playing for Tukap:i this season. The Sun, a newspaper la'ely started at Wellington, has ceased publication. A reminder is given of tha large, nnre-l served drapery auction sale by Mr G. Faris, | which commeuces to-day, in the premises lately ocouoied by Mc Masters and Shaldera. Details will b: found in another column.

Mr O'Driscoll's counsel h»s agreed to the conditions imposed fay the Court of Appeal relaive to currying the Hotel Commonwealth oase to the Privy Council. Captain Sir T. Fowler, who wai yesterday announced as amongst the killed in the engagement at Olivier's farm on the 20Hi, was the only sun of the late Hir R. N. Fowler, Bart, the eminent banker and M.P., who enjoyed the rare distinction of being twice called on to occupy the Mayoral Uhairof the Oity of London. The deceased officer beH a commission in the Koyal Wiltshire Yeomanry, and was very popular. His death will be greatly deplored, A young man named John Ledsham, recently out from England, was sentenced on Thursday at Blenheim to one month hard labour for the theft of Ll4 in different sums from his employer, a storekeeper at Havelock. He jjoaded that he bad given way to temptations of drink and gambling at Hav«bek, j

The Post and Telegraph revenue for the qnartnr ended March 31st was £125,016, as against £126,344 last year. By an Order-in-Council in the Gazette wild turnips and oxreye daisy are included in the schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act. Alterations in fares and rates on the Westland and Hurunui-Bluff sections ot the Government railways were gazetted on Thursday.

On March 3'st the Kait&ngata Relief Fund showed a credit of £3251. During the year £432 was paid to sixteen beneficiaries. Regulations under the Inebriates Institutions Act are gazetted. The buildings at North Harbour and Blueskin are to be institutions within the meaning of the Act. An inquiry is being held at Timaru under Govrnor's Commission relative to olaiins for contribution for up-keep of the Levels County road. Three adjoining counties are called on to pay sharet varying from an eighth to three-fourths ot the cost of repairing the road in question under section 8 of the Public Works Act, 1900. The que-tion to be oecided is, the extent of the traffic on the roads from each of the counties iccludsd in the reference.

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AFTER THE ROYAL VISIT. AtfTHR exciting times the health of children requires very special looking after. That 'the child is father to the man,'physically as well a' mental'y, is one of those truths that can never he too often instated upon, and the thoughtful parent will be careful above all to see that her child has the proper nourishment to establioh its constitution. A cood constitution is a rock on which alone' success and strength can be built. Among the various foods that science commends

in these days for this purpose, none holds a higher place than Nbave's Fooo for Inimktb and Invalids. \ccording to tue best medical testimony, ani, what is perhaps better still, the grateful testimony of thousands of happy mothers, this food con-

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