LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 23 June 1902, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough Council meets this evening. The annual meeting of the St. John's Ambulance Association will be held in the Whitcley Hall to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at 8 o'clock, whsn the certificates and medallions will_ be presented by his Worship the Mayor. '1 he proceedings will be en'ifened by a good musical programme. The 'Frisco mail will close at the Post Office at 9 a.m. on Thursday next, instead of 7 p m. For money orders and registered letters at i p m. and 5 p.m. re3pect Acly on Wednesday afternoon. A supp'cment mail I for correspondence will close at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Absufe 60 New Zjaland surveyors have applied for employiriant under the Ijnperi.il Government on the Airican Gold CJogsfc. The s.s. Kanieri was floated off the south beach at Waitara on Saturday night an-i is now alongside the wharf, ' j

The Col >nial Piano Company's warehousaj was on Saturday the centre of considerable j attraction, when the first inst'lment of a large consignment o£ pianos was recaived, the largest cuosignment, Mr McKinnon Bain, the manager, informs us, that has ever come to New Plymouth to one order. The ! pianos are splendid instruments, by the well 'known English makers, Hopfmon, and and Ba.ratt Robinson. Very great dissatisfaction was expressed j in New Plymouth on Saturday evening at th • inability to get a special train to Hawera and back on Sunday, It appears that a | number of Masons and nilway men were very anxious to attend the funeral of the late Mr Hawkins, late Inspector of Permajcnt Way, and a'so Master of HaWera Masonic Lodge. It appears that on the Traffic Manager d' -lining to grant a train an appeal was made to Sir Joseph Ward, but he declined on Sabbatarian grounds. Wo understand the funeral was fixed for Sunday as the only day tie deceased's fellow employees, with whom he was very p'pu'ar, coold attend, 110 one doubling a special train would ba granted, What caused the chief feeling of soreness was the fact that Sir Joseph Ward's reply came too late for those anxious to attend the funeral to go to Hawera by the last train on Saturday evening. Those aggrieved complain that special tains are run on b'uiday on many occisi ns with far less reason than on this occasion, and that had there been any idf a that the special train would be refused the funeral would have been held on tome other day, or some some other arrangements made. As St was there was no time to do this, and a large number were debarred from piying ihtir last respect to the remains of their departed comrade and brother, In tho course of a letter asking for lules, returns, etc., of the New Zealand Union, a Natal geut'einan, Air H. Mercer, Bagineer-in-Chicf of Natal Bailwsys, informs tha secretary of the Union that football is beginning to get a Arm hold on Natal. Footballing New Zealanders at the front have di.ec'.ed his attention to this colony, an 1 several of them will, be think a , render good service on South Afiican football fields. A new set of stamps from tho Iransvaal Colony has just been issued, the values ranging from £d to"3oi. The King of Shm has a bodyguard of fern lie warriors—4oo girls sslecttd from the strongest and handsomest in the land. The Department of Rozds employed 813 latouring men m co-operative works in different parts of the colony during the last month, Taranaki absorbing 81, A very interesting book for school children has just reached U3 entitled " Nature in New Zealand." It is written Vy Mr J. Drummond and edited by Captain Button, of the Canterbury Museum. It is printed and published by Messrs Whitcombe acd Toombs, and is a very creditable and useful production. Midi Seymour, of Nelson, has been appointed postmistress at Okiawa, and will t;ke up her duties about 10th July, New Zea'anders are evsrywhere in Cape Colony and Natal In a letter, whibh h s been published Mr J. 1\ Martin, formerly of Invercargii, mentions that during a visit to i'o ; t E izabeth M New Zealanders attended a meetirg to arrange for a rtc-plion to the Right Hon. R. J. Be'don, At Uape Town he came across a number of ex-Inver-cargill residents. At Durb n3O New Z<a landers attended a meeting to form a Now Zealand Rugby Football Club, when O. Rogers aed A. J. Scindress (of Southland) were eliated president and vice-president respectively, 'lhere are about 40 New Lsalanders in butiaessat Durban.

, In view of the proposal on foot to establish co-operative freezing works (says the Palmerston North correspondent of the iY. Z. limes), coupled with a better tone of the wool market, the prospects of sheep-farmers • are muc.i brighter than they have been for some seasons, atd it is probable that a • boom ' will shortly set in for gracing farms. It is fully e.ipeflted that with farmera reaping the full benefit of the markets, in freezing their sheep on the co-operative , principle, as high prices will be s:cu'ed for North Island sheep as have been rulirg ft freezers in the South Island. Sheep.fara.ers 7 a e apparently fully determined to secure the benefits of co op ration, for the utmost enthusias.il has chirncterised the various meetings which lnve been held in this island to furtbe> the p ojjct. D-Tilflw f nf® youn? man who was found guilty of embezzlenv-nt at Wangtnui, h ! s Worship, Mr C, 0 K'ttle, said he would take, )n»o consideration the fact that he was al youag man and that he had been tempted by a legalised gambling machine. The sentence fct the Court was that he b :i imprisoned for three months with hard labcur. His Worship added that this kind ol thing must be put down, as crimes of this sort, attributable to betting on the totaiisator, were frequent all over the colony. The best medicine known is Sanotsb & Sons' Buoalypti Extract. And its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, the rel'ef is instantaneous, serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, bt they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling -no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis inflammation of longs, swelling etc., diarrhcea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. Sandeb & SONS' EUCALYPTI Extract is in use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronsed by his Majesythe King of Italy; crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and reiect all other.—Advfc. HOLM) WAY'B PJLLS AND OINTMENT With the changing season it is prudent for all to rectify any ailment iifH c'ing them; but it is incumbent on the aged, suff ring i rider ulcerations and siniil r dibi'itatiog eimes, to have them removed or worse c6osequeaces will fol'ow. This Ointment i< their remedy ; on its power all may confr dently rely; it not only simply puts their sores out of sight, but exti pites the tource oflmißchie', extracts the corroding pois n, and stimulates Nature to fill up the ulcer with sound heUthy g-anulations that will abide through lifUnder this troitment b*d legs soon b come feund, scorbutic rkins east off their scales, and scrofulous sjres cease to annoy:—Advt. To Pbkvbnt Croup, begin in time, llie first symptom is hoarseness; this is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is eisily recognised and will never be forgotten by one who has heard it. The time to act is when the child first becomes hoa r se If Chamberlain's Oou;h ltcmedy is freely, given, all tendency to croup will soon disappear, Even after tho croupy cough has developed, it will prevent the attack. There is no danger in giving this remedy as it contains nothing injurious. It always curej and cuioa quickly. New Plymouth Co-op-erative Society sells it. Price is 6d; big size, 3b.—Advt.