The Daily News SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 8, 10 January 1903, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will be found ' on page four of this issue. j ! There aienow 222 applications for land ' for workmen's homes, in the hands of the !' secretary, Mr Smith. j Messrs Cillaghan and Company repoitth i'' sa'e of a five-room dwelling and psrt sccii ,n i situated in Crane-street, to a lioil investor. 11 Sergeant Haddrell, Insppctor under the Factories Act, informs us that any t'ada?man by giving notice under section 10 of j the Shop and Shop Assistant j Act of 1894 before the end of January, can keep his shop open on Thursday's and close on Satur- ! day or any other day he desires. At the Police Comt on Friday, on the information of J. F. Hooker, Frank .Reel was charged with hiving receive £5 from informant bdl frau iuie»t y omist?d o p-iy the same or the proceeds to informant. On the case being called Mr 0. Weston, of Weston and Weston, who appeared lor iutormtn', was al'Owed to wi hdraw th» charge. | The members of the Wellington Conciliation Board unanimously elected thi Kev. B. L. Thomas, Congregational minister, as chaitman. | Writing to the Sydney Daily Telajrapn on 11 Spart Worship," a correspondent draws atteotion to the fact tint whilst M ■ Victor Trumper was presented with an illuminated address snd a cheque for £lO3 becaus3 during a well remunerated profes.ioml tour he txcelled at the game of cricket, an effort made some little time since to raiso funds to pay for the erectioa of a memorial to the la'e Mr Smallpage, who was drowned whilst unsuccessful y attempting to re cue a joung lady at Manly, resulted in the magnificent sum of £l2 Ila being obtain'd. Mr Smilipage was a visitor to Now South Wales, and | the lady, who was struggling in t'ni surf at! ila-;ly an sbsolu'e stranger to him. Yet! he courageously went to her rosci", apd was 1 drowned within view' of his w'.fe and children. . Marconi's system of wir jl ss telegraphy is being installed to keep the British warships at Berbera in touch with the moving columns*, in the Bomaliland expe iition. News Ins be n receiv d at Wellington of ttlß doitil at Sydney of Mr James Wilkinson, ii well known journalist, formerly ii New ' Zealand. | Lady Sargocd has accepted the ofier of a public funeral for the late Sir Frederick SargO d. 'I ho bjdy was sent ta Sydney on I'lilay b; Un Wavvimoo. Sixteen hundred at the Vulcan hhipbuildiug dockyard, at Sciltin, telegraphed to (he Kaiser a re solution disassociating themselves irom the telegram of homage sent U'om Krupp's Itssen workmen, v ho they declare were foxed to sign it or else wers liketj to suffer pecuniary lms. Biit : sh imocrta for December 'ncreajed'

by £1,400,000, an J the exports decreased by £'JI,OO<J, compared with the previous De-' camber. I The American Senate's Foreig» Affairs Committae has reported favjurabiy upon a general international arbitration trea : y, applicab'e to the western h um- pho e, which was recommended by the Pan-American Congrsfs held in Mexico. | Baron von Holleben, German Arabas a'l or at Washington, who has lately b( en suffering from influenza, has askel for rrolong d leave of absance, Owing to the suppression of gambling, many ho:els and clubs, and tha 6pa at Os ten I have been cl sad tor ths winter, the municipalities devising other attractioDS. Mr G. Ellison Macartney, \I.F for Antrim South, has heen appointed deputy matter of the Royal Mint Ihe Queen Victoria, Memorial Fund has' reached £';r',oGo, iacluimg £s':o from Basutoland. 'J lie following, from the Ohristchurch ii'iith, is a good example of the manner in ; which a lie intensifies with circulation, as it' also is of the extent ofllMitmgioatnn of f-e romancer who wrote it:—"lf this were a country, there v o ild probably I [be some d.flhulty in finding a fucce-s .r to ' the unhappy school-master who has jast committed suicide at Kowan. N;ft many rchooU can coast the had eminence that this school has attained, for no fewor than three of the ' men who have cousscutively undertaken its ' management l.ave voluntarily .juitted this lifo It is abfurd to suppose that these su -1 cides are no more than a serie? of ghastly' coincidence?. Powau is fitted by na'.ure to ' drive a man to suicide unless t litre are some' circumsfcancis of unusual brightresi to dis I p jl f Jia gloom engendered by residence in a' backwater i f the world, with r o scenery ex- j cept miserable'stumps, that hint at the previous existence of n ,tive bush, and with a climate whose dampness hv, made the residents webb-footeii, and with as much chance of mental <Jistiacii"n -i d oppoituni y for culture a-* < xisted in the horae of Og. the caVr! dweller It is an idea l place to fi l d I snicUea, and tho Education Board of the: district aids nature by sending a man—lo;s;b!y a min with a mind—to tu>n into a vegetable and draw a n Herablj stipend. Meanwhile Kf.wan is vailing for another man to brav.; its misery and its loneliness, ■ an i its wretched stipend if he cm, or e's-3 ( | go th-; way of his piedecessors " 1 Owing 'o a slriue of ship-builders and joiie's at Newcastle-on-Tyne, orders for fourteen new ship, have pone to G rmany. ' At a meeting r<f the directors of the Bank 1 of Now Zealand on Kridf, Mr V. fie C. ' Mallet, of i hr st. hu oh was unanimously I re-elect '.d chairman for ths ensuing year. J It is understood that the Board of Gover- 1 nora «f Christ's Ool'g/c, 1, rbn~y, have i K'ven Mr C. F. Bourne, the hetdmaster, t. notice of the terminitiou of his engagement at the end of twe!-e months. No reason's zftif ei for t'.i.g st;p, though one has bem ' d »tl ed for, . £

Ttie Primitive Methodist Conference, i which is now silting at Ashburtoa, has de- j cide t (0 open a mission on the East-road, Stratford. The racehorse Kinglock has been sold to Mr A. r>. Bailey, of Oape Town. The price j ij withheld. |' The Hon. W. Hall-Jones retnrnsd to ' Dun".din on Friday from hia vis't io Central I Otajo, and leaves for north to-day. ; Miss Alice Rimmer, the popular Aucklaul soloist, will si*g at the Wlr,tel«.y Mem >rial Church on Sun Jay morning and evening.— ; Advt. I I This afternoon Mr Newton King will sell. I by auction at his mart a f-uparior well bu lt I cott'ge and part section, sit ate 1 in Leichstreet, on account of Mr K. Ste;eniOi. This ; is a spl n lid opportunity for anyone wanting j a i ice freehold property, as it will be sold cli ;ap. The Secretary of the Hospital desi'es to thank Messrs A. Stindish, E A. Hawk?, Jas. I'aul, Ambury Brothers, vValter Amhury, Burgess, Fraser »n1 Company, 0. Carter, Hardy and Company, Father McKenna, and Mrs Copeland fo? Christnus cifts, etc. for the old (:eop'e in t.he Home, an 1 also illnstrated papers for the Hospita' from Mrs F. L. We ster and Mr Wm. Sta-dey, Kgmentroa White'ey Memorial Church.—Rav. S - . J. Serpen's subjects for Sund iy are: Morning, "The ICternity of God's Salvition" ; evening. ' An Important Question." Mijs Rimmer wi 1 sing at eich service.—Advt. In answering a request from Stritford that insurance rates should be reiuc d, the kecretary of the Taranaki branch of the Fie Underwriters' .Association says, inter \at hi: —l may mniti'm tbat there is aa elej menl o£ doubt as to whether the Cou- cil J will t'j tin full 1 eduction recommended, ias it lias been sti I tint St.ra!fold liisbesn . liigel/ rebuilt by the Insurance Companies. A reminder is given of the annual meeting t of the Taranaki Agricul.ural Society at 2 ■ p.m. to-day. , J Weather permitting, Mr West will ion an I all diy trip to the wreck«n Bunda>, J .nuiry

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