LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 168, 12 June 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Gertie, which sailed for Westj.ort on Wednesday, took the West Ooast portion of the inward 'Frisco mail. Efforts to float the Kanieri hate so far proved fruitless. Arrangements have bieu made to try and " jack " the vessel iata the river.

Those in need of watches and alberts will iiad aa announcement in our advertising column that should tempt theni to invest. The Boys' Institute mi rt-opened on Monday night at the old Freemaaoa's Hall in Biougham-itreet. Mr Cochrane was in charge, a fair muster of new members being present. Colonial mails which left Melbourne on May 7th, arrived in London on the night of the Bthinst. Mr 3, 13. ConutsU has been ekcted a director ofthe !»<ratlord Bleo'.rical Lighting Company.

Mr W. A. Parkinson, proprietor and editor ofthjj! Ha we: a Star, was in New Plymouth on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs O'Driscoll, of the Commonwealth Hotel, received numerous telegrams from all puts ot the colony lust evening congratulating them on securing thuir license

The ladios of the committee for the Coronation Ball are requested to meet in the Mayor's r«.om of the Guuncil Chambers touay i-t 3 t.m. f

At Wanganui on Wednesday a lad named Mras, aged 14, whs was admitted tj probation sonu months ago on a charge of breaking and entering, was before the Couit for theft,. When arrested i.e had a bunch of skelesun keys. The Justices recommc»ded his committal tj the industrial School.

The fielding Chamber of Commerce has decided io supiort a suggestion calling a pubic meeting with tha object of urging the Government to take propsruies around Chel-tenhp-n for close secernent.

Dr Uli'ghorn, well known throughout the colony, oied suddenly at his residence at Waigauul on Tuesjaj. Deceased was suffeting from angina pectoris, and death was not altogether unexpected.

All monibers ot the Taranaki Rifles who have joined during the current year, will afctenu for iistruclion in the care of the rifle tun .Thursday) evening at 7.80 at the Whitley Hull buildings. By order of the officer commanding tha corps. f A plebis ite of the Oamar* electorate has just bef-n taken on the qaesiiun of Bible reading in schools, and resulted in 2637 votes in favour, and 137 against. Eightyseven persons decliced to state iheir opinion Of the rail number 6» per cent voted in favour of the movement.

The yellow weed now so prevalent in the bush has (says the Tapamii Courier been idmtifieo. by the Goreinme t biologist as tar wee*. It is a native of England. At Wellington on Wedaesday the Suborbs Licensing Committee unanimously refused to giant a license for a proposed new hotel at Newtown.

The imports of American flour by the Ventura, which anived at Auckland on Tuesday from San Frascisco, were:—96o J-sacks, 36,985 J-sacks, 461S j-sacks, and US barrels.

Tio attendance at Eev. Lyall's mission meeting in the Drill Hall on Wednesday must hate been between 800 aud UOO, and the seating accommodation will require to be extended if tha attendance continued to increase as it has been doing. Constable Buttimoro on Wednesday arrested a man named W. T. Wallace,' on a charge of deserting bis vessel at Waitar.i. A charge of false pretences is also pending. Wallace will appear before the Ooutt this morning.

living evidence before tha Auckland Licensing Committee as to the iocrease of drunkenness, Sergeant Hendrey stated that in IS9B the cumber of arrests in the Auckland police district was till. Last year it was 1272. In the Anc land licensing district tne arrests wore 664 in 1898, as against Mii'J last year.

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