LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

♦ i Interesting reading matter will be found on page four of this issue. I The Education Board meets to-day. ! Tenders close to morrow for earthwork at the Wesleyan Mission atitiox i The Town Clerk notifies that the dog tax ! is now payable, and that, dogs without 1903 collars are liable to be destroyed. Members of the Taranaki Guards who have j not finished class firing are notiflei that they! mast do so on Thursday or Saturday alter-! neons next. j The custodian of the Old Men's Home will i be glad to receive any old clothing for the' inmates. ! Tho»e in want of a covering for hay stacks ' sheuld apply to Mr J. Butterworth. I The übiquitous dairy cow is making head-! way on the East Coast, a considerable quantity cf lao/1 hitherte devoted to sheep raising now being taken up for dairy farming. The Auckland Agricultural Association is in favour of a 2001b grain sack. A sitting of the Compensation Court is being held at Nap'cr to hsar the claim in respect of the compulsory purchase of the Milb urne Witnesses called on Monday viluei ihe pr pertv at between fo 10s and £6 per acre. A great strike on the Clyde is threatened. owing te a notice to reduce the ship workers wages by five par cent., and engineers by ine shilling per Woei. I r Duz >ni, ot Bolongi, and Dr. Ma niarck, of Vieina, each claim that ho has tuberculosis s Turn. Thi latter's se'r»ra has been successfully user! iu a number of cases. Mr. Davi<! Evans, assistant master of th°. loglewood schoV, was married at (Stratford on r-'atordsy last to M:s». J >*ephiuc Groig, eldest daughter of Mr. J &. lireig, J P., of Stratfoid. Mr. W. T. Jenuinjs, M.H.K., is to be banqueted byhs cocstitu'nlsat Ongaiuhe on the 7th February. A demo, stratioa at rtrihaka is to follow ; A lengthy report from Mr. Fulton on the question of the liouu> bridge wss received; b.. the Bor uijh Council on Monday, but is j not for publication. '

It is with gre;t regret that we 1 arn of the sad bereavement which Mr Cement Gevatt has sustained through the loss o: his second daughter, who died on Tuesday morning. ! Miss Gowtt had been unwe 1 far some time, 1 and on ban iay last underwent au operation, I but succumbed to the effienti of hemorrhage which supervened: The greatest symp&thy i is felt for the bereaved parents and family.

The Bonom*, with the San Vrancisoo mail, arrived in Auckland on Tuesday at 7 a.m., ! a'ter a reoord passage of 15 days 19 hour--20 minutei. ;->er passengers are: Dr. Hop. Lewis, Mrs I>;wi3, Miss Lewis, T. Lewis, K. R. Davis, W H-il-.wilt, Miss K Lach-nan, T< Boge, F. Braund, A. Hale, 0. Nelsjn, A Hallerstoo, H. Craie;, Mrs Uraig and daughtei Rees, Taylor, aHd 3 children, T. Jervou.i Mrs Young, and 5 ohi'.dreo, and J, Maudlin. An kquiry into a municipal eleotiou at Sh ewabu-y, and, sko*red that oat of 6SI voting, two thirds of them had b.en biibid. - i During the tnoith of December 41S8 persons arrived in the colony, and 1415 took their departure The fi<ur<ss for Deoember, 1901, were 3607 and 1500 respectively, i The Ellhani Aryns says!—ln referriog to the record shipment of cUir/ produce by the Eapanui last week, amouaiing to 1113 tons, valued at £133,915, our New Plymouth morning contemporary complains that the New Zealand limes, in dealing with these figures, "coolly adds the New Plymouth butter to the Wellington ret urns, giving that part the credit of it.." This is a long-stand-', ing grievance of thdje direotly and iudirectiy interested in the dairy produce trade of Taranaki against the journals of the Umpire Oity, and is in keeping with our previously expressed conviction ibat they regard Tatauaki as a sort of marine suburb of Weliin.ten. We shill never lose this unenviable re. utition as a community until New Plymouth har'oour has been sufficiently improve! to ptriair. of the loading there of direct steamers with !h» surplus produce of ) I'ar.naii.

That the biths are popular, says tbe Hawer i Star, is to be gathered Irom the fact that lasi week 208 casual visitors pai 1 at the , t'eket- holders. Receipts last week were £2 ' 112s i | Offi-ial re'u'ns relating to.marriages in i C pei'o'ony during 1901 inlioate that the | war did not seriously interfere with the course of true love in that portion of the British Kmpir.?. In faot, if. wasf a record year m ventures Tbe total number of we idiugs solomaissd was 9547 - near y 1000 increasi on the figures of 1900, and over 2000 more on those of a decade ago. Interviewed in Dun din, Ceramissioner McKie, head e£ the Salvation Army in-Aus-tralasia, who is touring Neov Zoaland, state,! that General Booth is to visit Australia and ' New Zealand towards the end of th's year. Tbe General, who will l>o 75 in April next, is at pres nt touring America. Mr Timothy O. Harrington has been reelected, by 43 to 28 vetts, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Three hundred and fifty nominations have been receive 1 for iha Strattord Caledonian sports meeting on Thursday next. There will be 142 compstitos, including 8m th, Spencer, Barues, Davidson, Brunette, and Humphries; also tbe Soutb Island champions among tbe pipers. 'lh* Wanganui Pipe Bind will be ia attendance. A record met ting is anticipated.

Armed wi h Colt's revolvers and lasoes, Colonel Mulhali's band of cowboy'*, led by ' Miss Lucilo Mulhall, visited the Grand Optra ( ; House at Sao Antoaia, Tex*". During the j progress of a song, Miss Mulhall emptied a < six thooter into the ceiling. Th > excite- ' meat hid scarcely subsided before one o' the co vboy?, not liking the way the heroine was treated, whipped oat the lariat and sac- i cessfally lasoed the villain off tha stag*. , Mr Pringle, the Governmsnt photographer, has armed at Hrkilika. having trayelied from tha Hermitage, (Mount Cook) across the mountaii s, and down the Qopeland river to the We--t Coast. He spaaks of thescanio besuties of the south of Westlanl, sonwof which are unequalled in the colony, and will prove of special Talus to th i celony, being easily ncce»sible Mr Richard DiHgle, ct Stratford. Irw notified his intention of contesting the Hew Plymouth Harbour Board election, Thiß is how the New Zealand Times makes aaienJs: AmoagsC tho dairy predace shipped to London by the Papanui last week by the j National Dairy Association (North Island) | wj« a considerable consignment of butter : and cheese from Xaranaki, | The Manawatu Timet asserts that store pigs have never been so short ia that district as tbey are at present, and there is no J prospect of any improvemnat in the imms- , diatc future. ._. Eighteen free pipili have bean ad-nitted Jto the Sira'ford District Hi?h Schao). Of I eight pupils presented by this school, six ! passed the matriculation and solicitor's general kaowle Igo elimination. On reference to another column it will be seen that the estate at Vog ltown, lasely be!on*in,» to Mr. K. Cook, has been sabdivHed, and will shortly be sub-tutted to auction by-Mr. Nawton King. ThereigV boirlie :d ij kuown to be the best in the ■ district, while its presimi'.y to town renders !it al the more attractive. Hither for specuj lative or residential purposes the property is j equally advantageous, and the sale should be kept well in usw. Particulars will be pnblished in due cuirre. ( The s.s. Romo has shipv.od at Melbourne j £350,000 in specie for India. i The following speaks for itself:—" Makotuku, August 2kd, 1902. P. Bock and Co. Dear Sirs,— I am writing you a testimonial. I wis suffering from Lumbago for some years I tried a good many remedies before I tried your Rheumatic Powder. I took yours by directions, and was relieved aft;ir the third dose. I hvn not felt any ' symptoms since. One tin cured me Thanking you for the fame.—Yours truly, L R. . Wiibb." Bock's Rheumatic Powder, pace 3< 6*, Bock's Bilsam, price Is 6i, Book's Powder for the Liver, Stomach and Blood, price Is, Bock's Herb Extract, an infallible j cure for toothache, Is, and Bock's Neuralgia | Drop«, pric9 Is 6d, may be obtained of all the leading stores and chemists.—Advt