LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be foand on page four «f this issue. , Messrs Skeates Brothers, jewellers, Dsvon- [ street, in thankisg their customers for the liberal patronage received last year, announce that during the current year they inland keeping a complete and up-to-date stock, and they continue their oiler of lnlf a dozen tea speons to every purchaser of "a wedding ring at 21» or upwards. Attention is drawn to their advertisement in another column. Mails despatched from Melbourne on Deceinbar 10th arrived in liondon on 11th ; instant.

Messrs Bewley and Griffiths will, by instructions from the Hartour Board, sell by auction to-morrow (Wednesday) the shed on the betch at Moturoa, lately used as a 8 ter's shop. i Messrs Brandon and Camngton hare for sale a very tempting 83 acre section only five miles from town. Particulars will be found in another column. Mr Frank Messenger iavites tenders for building a residence in Ht. Aubjn-stieet; a'so for building a residence in Hawera for Mr O.K. Major, M.H.R. A Rowan resident, Mr Oh&r'toi Peirce, in a communication te the Waimate Witness anent the late suicide, says, with regard to the statement that the previous two schoolmasters of Bowan school took their lives, that the first one (the lata Mr McNaught) wa-j accidentally drowned at Auckland about 13 months ago, and the second (the late Mr Dowling) died about 10 mouths age, both fatalities happening long after the parties had left the district. Judgment by defau't for plaintiffs was givan in the B.M. Court on Mondav by Mr Stanford, 8.M., as follows:—J. W. Foote (Mr tfrey) v. Wm. alkw, £1 7s and costs 12; tame v. J. McCrackei, £4 4s and costs lis ; N. King (Mr U'ev) v. Q H. Buckcridge, ! £54 9s 81 and costs £2 17*; W. Proctor (Mr Ourrie for Mr Roy) v. McOuff, costs £2 8a 6d (amount of claim £32 l'2s paid into Court). Mr Bradley, the " lumber king " of MilJ waukee, who is worth eight million sterling, 1 marrie 1 his private secretary on his death bed. Litigation over his estate is sxpected. I Whilst at work on Saturday afternoon, a tail or. sa in the employ of Messrs Billentyne I was struck by a flish of lightening, which paralysed her right arm, and smashed a window in the room in which she was working.

At, Pa'raerston North on Monday, B. Smith, S. Doyle, B. Findlay, W. Murdoch, and C. Turner were charged with playing " two up." Tb*y were Saed £5 each, in default 14 day. Several informations of a sim lar nature have yet to be httrd at Falmerston. Jo an article beaded " Pie-crnst Road?," the Mastcrten Tiiiajs gays:—lt is a pity to *n thi publio money fooled away over '• burn d papa," instead of bji"g expended upoa cbe»p, economical and durable light li»e3. In enterprise of this kiad, New Zealand is fully a qu»rter of a ce ltury behiid burope, America, India and Tasmania, aad our brave ralers ought really to be put in a dime museum as valuable antiquities.

The Toko Athletic Cl«h held its annual meeting on Wednesday evening last, when there was a largo attendance of members.

Officers were elected, aud a sub-committte was appointed to draw up a programme to to be submitted to the general committee. The sports will be held about the middle of February.— J'ost. A parent in Timaru on M 'inlay registered the birth of his twenty-fourth child. A New Zealind dri'l manual, con tailing nil th) latest information appertaining to volunteering, will ba issued early next month by the Government for the «se of volunteers.

Mr Tait, the new Vhtorian director of Education, is expected to visit New Zealand shortly *n order t« investigate some educational matters in this colony. We understand that Mr Harding, ef Wanganui, is asking £l6 an ace fr>r 600 acre» of la id on the Beac nsfield-road, near Midhirst. The land is ia standing bjsh, with tha exception of 103 acres.— Settler. The present unseasonable weather is anything but suitable for c<mping out, but wa understand tha' tha Rev F. H. Spencer and his two sods have bsei campiag in the JTo'e>.t Reserve for a.ouple of wee»s. — Settler.

'■/rhe father of a family in Opetiki has been handed eight first class certificates w n by his children tor regular atten'ance at school. Four of the children have never missed attending schoil every day during the past two years.

The Stats ef Arkansas hss by la-v prohibited the S'le of cigarettes to any person, younj or eld. Even tha free gift of a oigaretti is prohibited. For any violatien of this Act, the penalty it not less than £IOO or more than £I,OOO.

On a farm at Matatoke (says the Wellicgton Post), near Thames, children unearthed two hundred weight of leaden bullets and flint. The presence of some metal hoop? waj the oily indication that bullets had once been enclosed is a barrel. It is thought tbat they were buried by the hostile Natives during the war, and must have been where found for nearly 40 years. The Borough Council has apprsaohed ownara of property adjoining the unmade portion of Fendarves street, between Liardethtreet and Carrinjten-read, with a view to getting their consent to allow an encroachment on their p.'opertj, to enable the roadway to be made over ths st-e m which flows from the Recreation Gioimd.

At the Borough Council meeiing on Monday, the Borough Solicitors, Messrs Qovett and Quilli un, notified that a sat of bye-!aws had bean prepared, and were now being typed, and would be r-ady fo- the next meeting of ths Bye-laws Committee. The announcement was reo?iv-d with app'ausa, and above all was heard a councillor's voice : 'And all this after thiit:en years."

We acknowledge from the propri tws a copy of the New Zsalatd Farmers Chronicle, printed and published at Ohri>tchurch For m ny years the pou'try rais rs of Mew Zealand have had t) content themselves with scrappy information from oth>r countries, and with advice tint was naturally not applicable to Niw Zailand, where dim \te *nd o'ber conditions are diff ;rent. The Farmers Chronicle, judging by the number under notice, has adiquately supplied the waat, and is a journal that every poultry raiser sh mid subscribe to. The rearing ef poaltn*, notwithstanding the prevailing cootrary, requires 85 much education as th i successful rearing of, say, dairy cows, and the man with the knowledge will most assuredly come out on top. A better source ef iaf rmation can hard y bj found than the Formers Chronicle, and for that purpose we can strongly reon>mend it. the popular and talented Dramatic I ompany, comprising 26 artists, arrived here by the mail train from Wellington on Monday evening, snd will open their svason at the Theatre Koyal t« night.

' Sir Joseph Ward left Wellington for . Lytteltoa on Monday evening. The Blenheim High School Board have i decided to ascertain how many primary pupils ate likely to avail t.hnnselvea of the ' advantages of secondary teaching, and if ihe ' numher is not too grett the new scheme will be brought into operation n;xt month. ! The Orown lands about to be op?ned in Marlboiough, 195,000 aces, will be made up into t-ight or ciue large sheep runs. Harvesting operations in the Blenheim d st-ict are being carried oat on er fine conditions anil the returns are good. Some good time-keeping records hive been established by the trains on seme of the sections of the Government railways dnring the four-weekly period onding 3rd January. The Napier-Wellingt-n train ran absolutely to time on ey-ry occasion, while the Weilidgton-N >pier train wag only late twice. The train between Dunedin and laVdi'car Jill kept exact time both ways except on oue occasion. The Christchurch-DuDe-di i train »a? only late once, and from Duued;n to Ohiistctiurch it was only twice b hind time —dua on oae occasion to the m ilicious derailment of an engine, and ou another to an engine being overloaded. Very fair time has bsen kept on the Palmer-stoi-New Fiyn.ou'h line, but the record there is sot quite s> good owing to the hvffic haying been ex:oedingly heavy. A Wanganui Lady writes:—When in Auckland about 10 years ago, I applied to a Chemist for a good toothache remedy, he handed me " Bjck's Herb Extnct," I never ha] tietter value, it instantly cured everyone that used it aud the paii never returned, we only recently emptifl 1 the bott'e. No home where there is a family should be without it Bock's Herb Extract, Bock's Rheumatic Powler, Bock's C ugh Balsam, and Bo.k's , Powder for the Liver, Stomach and Blood, and to obtained of all the leading Stores ' and chemists.— Advt.