LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 26 April 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

From the Chief Postmaster we laara that the colonial mails.'which left Auckland on the sth instant, arrived at San Francis* on the 23ra.

The householders throughout tbe education district are called upon to elect school committees on Monday evening. Messrs G. Faris and Company held their first auction sale on Friday afternoon in the premises lately occcpied by Messrs McMasters and Sbaldern. There was a goo i attendance of buyers, who «pp«ired well pleaded with the goods obtained and the prices ruling The sale will be cnßtisaed to-day i and on Monday and following days. Further particuUrs of th" bargains affered may ! be found in our advertising rolamns.

We (Chronicle) understand tba-5 the police do not intend to proceed with the prosecution of Dudley Eyre for alleged fraudulent mi appropriation of moneys 1 Our readers will remember that the accused wag arrested in Auckland in January last and brought before the Magistrate here on the 10th of the same month, when, owing to the police not being prewred with evidence in support of the charges, the accused was discharged " without prejudice." This case is little less than a public scandal. This man Eyre, i while in America, made restitution as he J believed in every case, and, thinking himself | eafe, returned to New Zealand and sittled on a farm in the Waikato district, where he has resided for a number of years in the most opea mar,»er, his whereabouts being well-known to the police and his old Wangazmi friends. In the meantime seyeral of his children had grown up and married, when, alter a lapse of 15 or 20 years some I unnsually smart policeman got hold of the j original warrant a d, without consulting the parties interested, arrested Byre, now an old man over 60 years of age. Needless to say, tho arrest has completely broken him down, caused his wife a serious illness, and generally been about a 9 cruel a proceeding as is possible to imagine. t The annual me«ting of the Acclimation Society takes place to-day at the Town Hall at 2.30 p.m. This evening a meeting is to be held at Mr J. O.Davies office with reference to deciding on u permanent resting place for thu colours of the old Mounted Bifle Corps, The question of naturalisation of Austrians was brought before the Governor on Friday, cemplaints being mads as to the difficulty in getting conespondence answered from the Oolonial Secretary's office. His Excellency promised to look into the mat-tor. Lieutenant-Colonel Collins, of the Wellington Bine Battalion, has been gazetted as "Lieutenant-Colonel in the New Zealand Militia,"in recognition of service rendered in the despatch of our several contingents to South Africa. The movement for the establishment of a national hospital for the Maoris has (says the N.Z- Times) an energetic advocate in Dr. Pomare, of the Public Health Department, mho is receiving a good deal of encouragement is the matter. Members of the native race have an objection to going to ituropean hospitals, hence the idea of having a special institution for their benefit, where chrenic cases in particular could be received for treatment. It is thought that it would be a good thing to have beds supported by the ivfaori Councils which are now in working order, and may hereafter be started. Among the offers ef assistance received by Dr Pomare is one from a chief who says he would use his influence to have a thousand acres of land set apart as an endowment for the proposed hospital. The Town Band will give a concert in the Recreation Grounds on Sunday afternoon, | commencing at 2,30. Amongst the ii ems to be played will be " The Heavens a ie telling," (Hadyn), " Gloria " ("Mozart), " Poet and Peasant" (von Suppfc), "Algonguin" (Pettee), and the '' Liberty Bell March " (Sousa). Mr Gerard, the D 0.A., reeeived a very j warm and well merited tribute to his business ability at the meeting of creditors in J. Abbott's estate on Friday. So well forward was he with the matter in hand that at the close of the meeting be offered to give those present their cheques for the final dividend if they would only wait while he drew the same. Moreover he announced that an additional twopence in the £ was available. Such promptitude is probably a record in j bankruptey proceedings.

Tha Tukapa Junior Assembly wi!l commence % series of dances on Wednesday evening, 30th in«t.. at. the Drill Hall (long night), commencing at 8 p.m. Mnsic supplied by Mr Scanlan. Tickets : Ladies Is. Gentlemen 2s. f

All the Judges of the Supreme Court have decided that proceedings in Ohamber shall in future be open to the press, with a pro- ' vision that reporters shall not report divorce proceedings and interlocutory matter if objected to by either parties. With reference to the drowning of the cook of the transport a message announcing the fact was fouud last Wednesday in n bottle picked rip on Island Bay beach. It was written on a piece of an envelope, atid ran: Sunday April 20th, Cook jumped overboard, Ssrgesnt Bootb, Trooper lfaigecombe, troopship Norfolk. The hud was reported to the newspapers, but in view of the frequency of hoaxes in messages of this kind, publication was withheld until confirmation.

The Wellington City Council has decided to borrow £IO,OOO, in addition to the £59,000 already authorised for a new Town Hal). 'J he Council has agreed to the greater Well'ngton scheme. In consequence of the opening of the [ Pacific cable, tne following cable rates have been decided upon:—To New South Wnles, Victoria, South and Western Australia, j ordiaary messages 4£d a word, Government I messages 3Jd a word: i-o Tasmania, ordinary ! mo»sages s£d a word. These wtos will also I apply to me» sages by the Eastern Extension Company's cable, and except the rate for Government message; to Norfolk Island, ordinary 3 i a word, Government 2d ; to Fiji, srdinary Bd, Govwument Gd. international messages will also be accepted t>y the Pacific cable, the rates being the same as for the Sydney-Wakapuaka cable. The charge for Press mossarei between Fiji and New Zealand will be 3d a word, pitas 6d per 100 words or fraction thereof for transmission over New Zealand land lines.

An illu tration of how the supply of dre iges has outrun the dec»ud, is found in tha fact that a modern dredge complete 1 last year at a cost of £6349, was tnught last week with all accessories by a Wellington syndicate for the .sum of £1 20. It is proposed to place tlvi rire?ge on a claim in the Colli: gwool district.

Mr Kobert Gilm ur, senior proprietor of the Southland Times, died >»t Invercargill on Thursday f om an internal malady.

The Wellington bakers have decided to raise the price of the 21b loaf to 3|1 ca*h from the Ist May,

Awatuna settlers are not apparently hippy at having been included in the new County of Egmont, and ate promoting a petition to the Government tbat they may biallowed to remain under the Waimate Road Board. The WUnest remarks that it is probably too late to agitate now. the boundaries having been gazetted.

Whiteley Memorial Caurch, U»v 8. J. Serpen's snbjecis for Sunday »rs as follows: 11 a.m., "The last words of Ohiist." 1 p.m., I " Sowing wild oats," an address to young | people. f A meeting of the NyhaneFund Committee j wad, we understand held yesterday; but as no intimation was given us, we are unable to furnish a report of the proceedings. i An inquest is to he held this morning as to , the deatu of Mrg Benton, who has for some iin.e past resided in the neighbourhood behind the hospi'al. The deceased had felt. unwell on Thursday morning, and when ' visited by a neighbour in the after/ oen was j found dead. '

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