LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 107, 8 May 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Good coal has been discovered at Roseires and Abuharez, in tbe Soudan. At a sale of pictures at Christie's, London, £60,000 was realised. A landscape by Holbein, the famous Dutch painter, fetched j 9200 guineas and a portrait by Sir Henry Kaeburn 6100 guineas. Sir Henry Berkeley, Chief Just'ce of JTiji, who has been appointed Attorney-General at Hongkong, has arrived in Auckland from Fiji, and left again for Wellington. Frank Murphy was sentenced at Wellington to seven nays' imprisonment for impi rsonating another man named Murphy and drawing wages I rom Huddart Parker and Co. Tbe last of the convictions in the Chinese gambling case- were quash'.d in the Supreme Court at Wellington on Wednesday. The adjourned annual meeting of the A"climatisatii>n Society is to be held at the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon at 2.30. At the official inquiry held by Mr. Bedford, Collector of Customs, into the outbreak of firti os the s.s. Mokau, the officers and crew were not only cleared of all blame but were praised for their strenuous efforts in putting out the conflagration. The vessel proceeds to Wellington for repairs.

Messrs. C'allagban and Company report the sale of sections 41, 43, 53, 54, in Fitzroy West to Mr. G. Cliff for building purposes. Thomas Murcott and Kale Alexander, whose case was before the Supreme Court Wellington, on Tuesday, were married at Masterton on Wednesday. A man sained William Brown, blacksmith, of Kumeroa, has been missing since Monday. He was seen going towards the river, and apparently was eel fishing, tackle having been found on the hank. The Railway Appeal Board has dismissed the appeal* by John Morgan, shunter, of Dutaedio, and Campbell, fireman, of Wbangarei, against their compulsory retirement. The Mayor (X Dockrill, Esq.), has promised to preside at the public lecture to be delivered in the Whiteley Hall this (Thursday) evening by the Rev. A. H. Collins, of Auckland. The subject of the lecture is "Tennyson's Debt to the Bib'e," and musical and literary selections from the poet's works will be given by various friends. The chitir will be taken at 8 p.m., and a collection will be made in aid of the funds of the Baptist Church. * The death is announced of J ihn Daysh, an old setter of Masterton, xtat 97. The death is announced of Archbishop Corrigan, of Hew York, aged 63 years. The Rev. Mr Somill, missionary of the Otago Presbvterian Church at Epi, New Hebrides, is dead. The Napier abattoirs, which have been erected at Awjtoto, wereiormally opened on Wednesday. The pictures in connection with the art union and promenade co- certs, the first |to be given to-night in the DriD HaJI, will be on exhibition to-night at the hall. They are paintings by the Kev. Bradbury, and are splendid works of art, all arrangements for to-night's performance are well in haod, and it only wants the public to tarn, out in force to show their appreciation of same. The Garrison Band will leave the Post Office at"7.15 and march to the Drill Hall. A patient ia'ely discharged from thr Masterton Hospital is formulating a series of complaints in connection with his treatment there. Miss Balgarnie lectured in the Opera House, Wellington, on Tuesday, to a very large audience, which intensely interested in the sympathetically-told s'tory of the visions, triumphs and sufferings of '• Joan of Arc." The lecture was illustrated by magnificent limelight views of scenery and sculpture. Mr J. 6. Harknets, chairman of the Hairy Association, came into town last night by the mail trai* He confirms the statement regarding the arrangement as to freight on dairy produce made with the shipping companies. Although the Union Company is only charging 10s par ton freight on dairy produce consigned Home, Mr Harkness informs us that a charge of 15s per ton is made on produce consigned to Australia, although carried by the Union Company from Wellington to Australia. Mr Harkness says this a hardship on several factories in this district. H ram Patea the freight it only 10s. Mr T. W. Rapley, disktick agent for the Eq«itable Life Assurance Society, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train on Wednesday evening te meet Mr Carlisle Taylor, the general manager, who arrives from Auckland this morning.

The Assessment Court to revise the Borough valuations sits to-day. No dance, or other fixture, fer the entertainment of the crew of the man-of-war visiting Xew Plymeath on Tuesday next, having been notified, we learn oh good authority that the Stratford people ore inviting (hem te a dance in the new Municipal Theatre, and are trying to arrange for special trains. The apathy being shown in New Plymouth over this visit is certainly not complimentary to our guests. So far no effort appears to have been made to arrauge for trains so that country people caa come in. A splendid opportunity of enabling tham to see the harbour' is being lo3t sight of. The Snal exhibition of Cooper and Macdarmott's kinematograph in the Wbiteley Hall on Wednesday was only moderately attended, but the programme was an excellent one, and well received. At present the Heads Department has about 700 men at work in various pares ef the colony. During March the arrivals in the colony numbered 1946 and departures, 3712. In March, 1901, arrivals were 1585 and departures 2144. At Tjyttelton on Wednesday the Vaccination Inspector brought a uumber of charges against parents for not having thoir children vaccinated or obtained an order of exemption, as providad by tbe Act. Amongst others was Mr G. Laurenson, M.H.R. The Magistrate said he had no pov;«r to line, and made orders lor the vaccination to be pfcrlormtd withiu 14 days.

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