The Daily News. THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 22 May 1902, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Frank Messenger invites tenders for building a cottage in Gilbert-street. Attention is drawn to a notification in this issne by the Town Clerk relative to plague precautions. A social in aid of the Primitive Methodist Sunday School will be held this evening at 7.30. An interesting programme has been provided, and refreshments will be served at 9 o'clock. The popular concert to be held to-night in the Drill Hall will be one of the best. Besides instrumental items, there will be a number of vocal items by some of our best talent. Mr T. R&pley, the popular and eorteous Insurance Superintend well known in the Taranaki district, willgive two comic items, and this in itself ought to draw a good house. Beach ticket eold admits te concert and a chance in the art-union, the pictures for which are at present on view in the! Colonial Plane Company's window, and it is l intended also to have them en view to-night! at the concert. Thev are by the Rev Brad-1 bury, and are of exceptional merit. Refreshments will be provided during the evening at6d extra. Mr J. B. Connett returned from Ancklanrt on Wednesday morning, having received great benefit from his treatment at the Hot' Springs. I Mr Hayward, who has fyr some little time: been acting as coaching forsman at the local railway station, is being transferred I to Auckland. Mr Simmons, ef Clinton/ takes his place here. | The " Tongariro," which has been loading at Waitara is taking from the freezing works i there an equivalent of 20,000 carcases of' mutton, and 120 casks of t»llow. This con-1 signment will bring the Waitara Company's ■ exports for the season to a value of over; £50,000. A slight error sccurred in a telegraphic message published yesterday morning re-1 garding the Representation Commission, j The-.present number of members of the Honse of Representatives is thirty-four for J the North Island, and thirty-six for the South Island. 1 The Pahiatua Hospital was opened on j Wednesday by the Minister for Education, j There was a large gathering of settlers. The j Mayor stated that the hospital to date had i cost £1575. Nurse Carston, who holds a | South A frican medal, has been appointed I matron. j Rev. W. A. Evans, of Wellington, has been i elected chairman of the Victoria College Council. Mr J. J. Shannon. A.R.A., has been commissioned by an Anglo-Colonial to paint a presentation portrait of Mr Seddon. The young men Finn and Eager, charged with stealing slimos from the reduction works at Waibi, were further remanded at the Thames on Wednesday to the 30th. The question of bail was not mentioned. The case ia creating great interest owing to the connections of the accused. ' A Filipino named Anastosia, who was acquitted at the Napier Supreme r 0 urt en a i charge of horse stealing, has been arrested on a charge of perjury in giving evidence on his own behalf.

A meeting of co-operative sattlara at Weber (W»irarapa),carried resolutions condemning the action of the Government in lowering the wagfls of co operative labourers - a shilling per day, also shortening the working time from eight to two month"; further that other co-operative settlements be asked to join in a pro Lest to the Government. Nine tourists and four boatmen were drowned through a gale at the Lakes of Killarney. Karl Beaucliamp is engaged to Lady Lettice Grosvanor, sister of the Daks of Westminster. *ir Joseph Ward visited Millerton and Denm ton ou Wednesday and. l oßV es for Wellington at 11 a.m. to-d»y fXhurseiay.) A race between Sherlock, of 57sstport and Lord, of Greyraouth, for £SO and gate money, over a distance of 440 yurds, was run on Wednesday. It was raining heavily and toe track was soft. Lord won by 30 ' yards, in 51see. At (he i' lice Court or ( Wednoiday befor» I Mr R L. Stanford, S.M., Hdwwd Leyden i who had bpon before the Court the previous | morniug for a similar offence, was fined 10s J and costs, in default 4S hours, for drunkenness. i

Would it be possible for the Borough Council to improve the approach to the Drill Hall 1 It is |to be used pretty frequsntly during the winter while the thoatre is undergoing alterations, and the approach on dark wet nights is not very inviting and calculated to deter many from attending there.

A copy of the Prolrhitionist to hand shows how Mr Woolley's articlsis have been distorted by Mr Stewart to suit his charge against Mr Woollsy. The following paragraph, carefully omitted by Mr Stewart, appeared in Mr Woolley's paper:—" The suggestion that interested European powers might seize upon the present embarrassment j of England as aa opportunity for overthrowing the British Empire, has set a grett many people, even among the -Boar sympathisers, thinking seriously. It is probable that ninetunths of ail American born sympathisers with the Boers would repent any Kuropean intervention that should imperil the integrity of the British Empire, and our friends in Canada and England who have taken American expressions of sympathy with the Boers to mean hostility towatds Great Britain, would probably be very agreeably surprised in event that complications should arise that should place the British in need of assistance."

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