LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will be found on page four of this issue. Tbe illuminated address present* 1 to Mr T. K. Skinner is on view in the window of Mr Sykes, the well-known chemist and druggist in Devon-street. A. special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday, 28th instant, at 7!I0 pm to appoint the half-holiday for shops. Tenders are invited by the Borough Council for carting 1060 yards of gravel from the beach. The German Buiget shows a deficit of el ven millions sterling, necessitating h*avy loans. The deficit is officially attributed to commercial and industrial depression. A sanitary decree prohibits the importation ' f Anstraliao cat.le into the Argentine. Many other countries will be similarly treated. The Duke and Duchess of Oonnaught are visiting Peshawar. Two arches of the Procaratic Vecche are badly cracked, and a portion of the facade has been detached. It is tared that the subsidences will extend throughout Venice.

The Saltan of Achia in Sumatra has submitted to the Dutch. An American syndicate has purchased St. James' Hal', London, and is converting it into a hotel and restaurant. Snowdrifts, 10 feat d'ep, are lying on the Highlands of Scotland. Trains were embedded far ten hours. Too Conciliation Board sat at Wellington lon Tuesday to hear a dispute brought by the Plasterers' Union, who desired seyeral slight changes in tba existing award. It was | agreed that the partus should confer with a view to an amicable Ee't'amant. Those who have occasion to frequent the pircals office at the New Plymouth railway station will regret to learn that Mr Blao.(, the obliging clerk in charge of that depvrtmint is under orders to traasfer to Stratford. Mr Black was stationed at Stratford o i a previous occasion and tbe Stratford psople will be glad to have him bactc, as he was very popular there. The death is reported of Mr S. B OorrigaD, senr., which took place at Otakeho on rfondiy. The deceased gentleman had reached the ripe age of 83 years. He was kn father of Mr Oorrigan (of the firm of Steu irt and Oorrigan) and Mrs F. J, Stemrt of Stratford.

Pape XIII his arrived at the time when fie has occupied the chairat "'t. Peter's louger than any of his predecessors, except Pius IX, who held the positioi for 33 years 7 m inths The present P«pe was pro claimed in February, 1878. Despite his great age -he is 92—the Pope coitiuaes to receive a large number of visitors. It costs the Wanganui Obaritable Aid B >ard between £6O and £7O per annua to supply the inmates of the Jubilee Home wth tobacco. Bach smoker is allowed a large stick of tobacco per week. The proceedings institu'ei by the South Canterbury Aoclimatisati 'u Society at Temuka resulted in three men being fined £6 each for illegally takl'ig trout from the Temuka river,

At a meeting of the Dunedin Cycling Club, it was decided to accept an offer to hold the championship meeting in Dnnedin onMajch 21st. There are fear champ'onship events.

A press message from Westport states that the Mini>ter of Defence has instructed the Department to prepare a list sbowiug all men of the New Zealand Contingents entitled to medals and clasps for 1901-2. It has always been a moot point whether the Fontinalis trout, some thousands of which have been liberated in our streams, have thriven. A beautiful specimen weighing about three pounds, has bsen sent to the Colonial Museum by Mr T. B. Donne, of the Tonrisf. Department, who received it from a resident of Atiamuri. on the Waikato river, near Rotors*. The trout was caught in the river, which is siid to contain large nnnsbers of the same variety, and it has been identified by Mr Ayson, inspector of Fisheries, as the true Fontinalis.

We acknowledge from the propri tors a copy of the New Zaalacd Fanciers Chronicle, printed and published at Ohri tchuroh For m my years the poultry rais'rs of .New Zealand have had to content themselves with scrappy information from ooh«r countries, and with advice that was naturally not applicable to New Zealand, where climite and other conditions are different. The Fanciers Chronicle, judging by the number under notice, has adtquately supplied the want, and is a journal that every poultry raiser sh mid subscribe to. The rearing of poultry, notwithstanding th? prevailing idea t« the contrary, requires as much education as the successful rearing of. say, dairy cows, and the man with the knowledge will mo-t assuredly come out on top. A better source of iaformation can hardy be found than.the Fanciers Chronicle, and for that purpose we can strongly recommend it.

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