LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will be found on page fourw>£ this issue.

The against all traffic to day and to-morrow. At l he Police Court on Wednesday, Walter Smith was farther remanded on the charge of seltiDg fire to a tent at Moturoa, and inj-uir.gr Beorpe lnce. William Jellinga, a jockey, was fined 59 aud costs for drunkenness, and £2 and costs for cruelly illtreating a p®ny by thrashing and ovar driving it < n Monday next Mr Newton Kiog will hold an unreserved sale of farm aud dairy stock at Omata, on account of Mr James Hooker, who has sold bis farm. The c iwj, which are half, ihree-qnart»rs, and seveneighths J rseys are all young, quiet, and good mitkirj. A large, quantity of ft>m machinery, furniture, etc. will alto be sold. Mr Brsest Tuck, the Christian TCvanye'ist who is advertised to speak in the Whitely Memorial Hall 10-night, has for many juars been a very soccassful evangelist in Victoria. For the last nine months ha has been supplying the platform of the Chuich of Christ, West-street, Auckland He is now on his way to Christchnrch, where be has baan appointed to cirry on evangelistic work. | Trains leave New Plymouth station for the breakwater, coanectin® with »teamers mentioned below:—3 a.m. Takapunafrom north; 3 a.m., Taktpuna for south; 8 a.m., Roteici from south; 820p m„ Rotoiti for North. Already many teats have been ticVeted oil in the Ohaaiber of the Hoaae of Representatives by members of the new Pa-liament. Mr VY. 'J\. Wood, member for Palmerston, will occupy th> seat formerly held b; Mr liorrsby, and his companion will be Mr Graham, of Nelson, who intends to move over to the eeit iamediatelv f<cing the the Speaker, which was occupied by Mr Collins in last Parliament. Mr Jennings, the new member for Kgmoat, will take Mr Barclay's old seat, on the other si-ie of Mr Wood, and next to Mr Fowlds, of Auckland. The seat near the Government benches, which Mr Napier formerly held, has now been claimed by Mr Flatman. 'MrT. E. Tnylor will have the seat 'on the crossbenches, which Mr Gilfedder bs l in laßt Parliament, j ist beh ; nd Mr Fii-hsr. Mr Laarenson has ticke'ed Mr Graham's old seat in the sane row. Mid Mr T. H. Darar will he just bshicd him, in the placs where Mr Meredith sat Mr Hone Hske, who was in last Parliament on the back row of the 'ippentioa bonches, has taken a seat immediately beside the door facing tha Speaker, in that pirfc of the chamber formerly reserved for strangers. The seat which Mr Atkiaion occupied will next session be taken by Mr Herdman; Mr Lewis will be next to Mr R. H. Rhodes, on the last row of the Oprosition bancAes, and Mr Majer will be in- the place from whic v > his predecessor for Hawora, Mr McGuire, was wont to address the House

The Board of Trade has approved the use of life-belts made of kapok instead of cork. \ committee ef the Marine Board of Victoria reported having considered the application of the Melbourne Steamship Oeaspany for approval of a life-belt constructed of kapok. The committee, after due i. quiry, fund that the life-belt complied with the regulations for the epuipment of ships, and recommended that it be accorded the formal approval ef the Board. Special attention was drawn by the committee to the fact that the life-belt was made of ordinary kapok, and that as euch,mat«rial is largely used in

the manufacture of mattrasses, pillows and cushions used on shipboard, there.ex<sted an addition to the usual epuipment which mi.. lit net be g n .rally known, and which in certain ci'cumstancas might prort invaluable in assisting persons in the watsr until picked up. The funeral of the late Mr E. R. Morgan took place at Rahotu on Tuesday, being attended by between two and three hundred people. Thi floral tributes were very numerous and handsome. A large number iOf telegrams and letters ot nympa'hy and condolence have been received by the family jfiom all parts of the district as far as Wan-ijC-nui. The Kev. F. W. Young officiated, and it was evident that all those present I highly esteemed and respected the deceased gentleman.

About 46,000 people were carried oa the Auckland electric tramways on Boxing Hay.

General Sir Evelyn Wood in a letter to the Times on K uger's memoirs, says" Mr Kruger writes, 1 took him by the arm and asked him not to be hasty. In reply, I saw Mr Kruger then (March 1881), for the first t'me I did not take him by the arm, as Mr K'uger did not change his clothes, day or night, asd economised soap, close proximity to him was unpltasint. A hundred thoasand immigrants hive arrived in the Canadian North-west provinces during last year. Manchester proposes to fn'low Glasgow in abolishing barmaids. Professor Sir Michael Foster, M.P., wi'l join the Radicals if the London Oeiversity, which he represents, will permit him. It is officially announced that Admiral Belferd has been appoitted Governor of West Australia.

The proposals of the Austrian Premier, Dr. Von Koerber, for the treatment of the language question on the basis of equality are well received.

The brewers voluntarily surrendered the hotels licenßts held by them in Blaoaburn, Lancashire. The value of the licenses was £IOI,OOO.

Joseph Gizard, a dealer, has been remanded at Richmond, Londen, on a charge of *tealiog a»d receiving £IBOO, being part of £4ooo,the proc eda of the recent burglary.

Twe hundred Redifs, or Tuikish militia, at Uekub deserted, retaining their rides and ammunition.

The German naval estimates provide for the erection of an Admiralty building at Berlin, costing six million marks. They also provide for 100 additional officers in the navy, 24 eogineers, end 2033 men. A movement has been initiated to induce wealthy Scotsmen to purchase for the nation the histerical estate of Abbotsferd, the residence ef Sir Walter Scott. On the body ot Mr James Robertson, schoolmaster of Rowan-road, who suicided, was found a bank boek showing a credit account of £176. afso a life policy for £3OO. His watch had stopped at I 5 p.m.

The tender of James Trevor at £21,119 has been accepted by the Wellington City Council for the construction of a p iwer house for the electric tramway system. At a special meeting of the Wellington City Council on Wednesday, a propos il to have the weekly half-holiday changed to Satarday from Wednesday was lost.

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