LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will be found on page four of this issue. St. Joseph's School will re-open to-day. Owing to the sraa'l number of entries received Tor the shooting mitch to be held on thd 4 h and sth February, the time for receiving entries has bean extende 1 ti 1 Saturday next, t.be 31st inat The value of the prizes to b > given are worthy of large entries for i<ch match aid the commiitee hipe fjr better support dirlrg the coming week. Patea Hewing Club inteuds to hold a regatta next monib. The Agricultural Department is unable to see iti way to accede to the request of the Hawke's Bay settlers that a of dairy prodtpe should be stppoihted for the port at Napier. ' ' A couple of Amerjcins who visited Rotoura for the first time lately voiced the fee i.igs pretty well of all wh-> have bean

there when they satd " Well, we gue,s that if we had these steam pjts in our cmitry. we'd make them hum."

At Wanganui a man was fiaed 10j and oosts-7s 6d for smoking on the platform «f a carriage not set apart for the purpose. He [ wps asked by the guard to delist, but refused, fieijoe the information.

Commahded by Prince Christian, a New gealanl aitjat, Mr J. King, has painted a representation of the grave af the late Prince Christian Victor, in the oemetery at Pretoria. In Worcestershire, 499 women are engaged making anchors, whi'e others make needles, and 1044 nails, fleariy all are mar.ied women or widows, There has been quite a boom in FahUtua dairy land during the past year or two, the prioei secured ranging from £l7 to £24 per

acre. Considering that its producing power is le s than that qE local lands, the prices ruling fcr the latter cannet be oonsideredas being altogether unreasonable. ''be mail train ran from Aramoho over four hours late on Saturday evening, Dot »rriv ng in New Plymouth till considerably after midnight No ofljciai information was obtainable regarding the cause, but it is repoitsd that an accident happened south of A'amaho, one of tha'engines leaving the rjils. Mr D. McAllum is In Wellington attending a cosfe-ence of Acclimatis ition Societies as the repre3;ntative of thd fa'anaki district.. The Imperial Fo;d Sapplies Association is issjipg a qaarter of a million sh rei for public subscription. Mr Geddes is chairman of the Association and Mr Hotson manager. The Laqion Binkruplcy Court bas jrantad B, J. Fink, formerly of Melbourne, his dis-

charge subject to the payment of a nominal S its. The death is announced of Augustus Hare, the well knewn author cf topographical and ofher works. Deceased, who was 69 yeirs ot age. was born ia Rome and lWed iu Sussex He was educitei at Harrow and Oxford.

The Right Rev. J. Patersen, who o :ened the new church at Ino;lewood last week, and poach d the anni-ersary services at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Ohurch, New Flymouth, yesterday, is the moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand He has had the spiritu i 1 charge of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, for 34 years, and has just asked his office-bearers to provide bim with a colleague, who will eventual y be his successor. It is understood that Mr Paterson's request wjl be given eif ct to at aa early date,

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