LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 45, 20 February 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will be found on the fourth page ot this issue. The Wanganui Education Board has granted a Diatriot High School to Manaia, The yield of grapes at the Government farm at Wairangi, in the Waikato, this season is unusually heavy; A profitable market is found for all the Wine manufactured on the farm>

A correspondent of a Napier paper suggests that the compulsory clauses of the Education Act should be made applicable to Sunday Schools I Apropos of the cablegram in another column to the effect that a man had died of starvation in Sydney, a former resident of Manterton, writing from Sydney to the Master lon Times, says:—*' Times are bad. A general curtailment is proceeding in every branch of business. There seems no provision here for the destitute, and one has to descend to the Domain without the common necessaries of life, to face the unknown. The country is in a terrible stats, numbers out of work, lying about the public works, starving. The worst, they say, has yet to come. The heat has been intense, The water impure, and with a burning thirst the consequences are stomachic disorders. Folitios seem a muddle; an intense straggle between capital and labour." The Saturday half holiday is not proving a complete success in Napier. One of the chief causes of complaint is that some employers do not pay their men on Friday, fearing that they could not depend upon the workmen returning up to time next morning. Many women who entered shops said tbey would like to have bought, but they had no money. Some husbands worked in the country and did not return home until Saturday with their week's pay. One shopkeeper's takings were P5 per oent. lesi than on the previous Saturday Another reckoned that the dislocation of busine-s during the week had cost him at least £SO, comparing his figures with previous week's returns.

The Equitable Building Society advertise the next appropriation of £3OO to take place oa 6th March.

Sir William and Lady Russell have placed ( in the Anglican Church at Hastings; two bi.iutifully designed brass tab'efcs, one in memory of their son, Lieutenant Lionel ' Phil ip Russell of the West Yorkshire Regi- I ment, who fell in battle during the late Boer ' War on 19th December, 1901, and the other ( to their son, Mr C. J. North of the Inner Temple, b»rrister-at-l»w, who died on 27th, August, 1900. Whilst excavating for a new gas holder at Petone, near Wellington, the workmen discovered that the water possesses remarkable . healing properties. It has also a strong, atemUic smell, said to be very similar to 1 that of Madame Rachel's Bath at Rotorua. i The trenches, which carry away the water from the are Covered with a thick, 1 viscous substauoe of a dirty white colour, The individual who advertised in tue Rangitikei Advocate for a wife possessed of children who are able to milk, has apparently been rushed by eligible widows and orphans. He now announces that he has been suited. ] It is with the most profound regret that the many friends of i>r Fookes will learn that his wife passed away shortly after ten 1 o'clock last night. It ii only about twßlve months since that the deceased lady arrived in the colony from England, to enter upon their married life, which gave such pro- • mise of happiness and duration. Since then she has won golden opinions from all who knew her, and her loss will be deplored by a very large circle. For the bereav«d husband the deepest sympathy will, we are sure, be _ felt by the whole community. Rain extinguished the bush firis a'ound Dungog 1 Mr Spencer Walpole Is negotiating with 5 Bigaor Marconi to experiment with wireless n telegraphy between Fanning Island arid | Honolulu. g Sir Henry Norman unveiled a memorial erected- to sixteen fellows of the Colonial Institute whs fell in South Africa. 9 Concluding tests between ths Scotch and 0 Belleville type? of boilers resulted in H.M.S, .1 Minerva, fitted witb the former, winning a i2 race from Gibraltar to Spith^aThe Hya.3 cloth broke down and abandoned the trial. ■J There are ten inches ot snow in New " \ork and SOOO men are e-g&ged in clearing _ the streets.

The Scotch Court ha? ord red the 01yds Shipbuilding Company to pay Spain £67,000 for delay in delivering destroyers. . Lord Charles Beres'ord has accepted the commsnd of thi Ch nna! Squadron. Mr Murray, the looil representative of the Auckland Weekly News, received a wire on Thursday stating that the New Plymouth special number would be issued next Week. We should advise those who wish to secure a copy to order in time, as there will ba a " run " on. this unique issue, REiAD WHAT DOCTORS SAY ABOUT " LANE'S EMULSION." A well-known Ota'io dootor writes i " I write on behalf of a pati nt of mine whom I treated for Phthisis wit i jour Oreosofed Emulsion; ths sputum has diminished, cough less, sweating almost stjppid, and (weight has increased 7 or 8 pounds." Another: "l'he co'in o?ition of your Ernulision is excellent, , nd should be of great benefit in wasting or lung diseases; I have compared its Emu'silication wi h others (microscopically), and fird yours excels them all." A Ohristchurch doctor writes: 'I have presciibed sour Creouoted Emulsion for several of my patients, and am highly pleased with the results. I consider your Emulsion a greit improvement [on the ordinary Emulsions of God Liver Oil."

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