LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 50, 27 February 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will bo found n the fourth pige ot this issue. Messrs E J. Cartliew and Company report having sold Oaptnin Jan. McPherson's line suburban farm of 124 acres at Hamilton to ■ a Taranaki buyer ; also having disposed of, • in conjunction with Mr Langley, a section , at Raglan to a Canterbury buyer. We are advised by the Postal l'eparhnont th\t the postage to the United Kingdom, Ointment of Kurope, America, etc., of tlv spici-.l New Plymouth number of the AucVl:nd Weeltly A'rws, is three pence halfpenny. Insufficiently prepaid newspapers are surcharged double the deficiency, and rletiined for di.cct tteamer, Mr G. Fnris, auctioneer, advertises n gigantic unreserved sale of drapery, clolhi g, and I'a- cy goods. Full particulars will b-i round in the advertisement. Wo have to thank Mr J. D. Murrav. the local representative of the Auckland Werhh/ Xews, for a copy of the exce'lent , turn containing views of New Plymouth, ac- , companied with admirable letterpress description. The views are referred to at great ' lei gth elsewhere. Mr R. li. McKonz'.e, J.P., of Carnarvon was in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr Mo Kenzis is a very old lUngitikei settler, and is captain of the Rangitikei Mounted kifles. The second of the overhead bridges at the railway station is now nearly complete. New Plymouth people will riot be able to complain of b;iog noglec'ed in the matter of access to the sea beach now. In the first reidin? of the station ihect of , the Wesleyan Church it will be noticed that ( the Rev. H. J. Serpell is down for Timar-j, the Rev. C. Griffin being down for flew I Plymouth. i hj", progress of the poultry industry in . this col-ny uuy be judged from the fact tint live hundred birds a day are being dealt with at the Government gradingstores for the South African morkat. The output last year numbered 33,000 birds, and it is I believed that this will be doubled thiq year. The resignation of Mr Heean, headma fcer of the Opu Jake School was accepted by th? 80-ird, to take s-ffict on 31st May. A poll was taken at Pahiatu-i on Thursday on a i-i'oposal to borrow £12,000 lor drainagu and water supply. The proposal was can icd by 125 to 55. At a b.illot held at Tauranga on Thursday l for 13 sections, comprising a total ol 3187 acres of Crown land, there were 511 app ications, one section having as many as 117 applicants. The Provincial exac itive of the Farmers' Urdofl, at P.ilm- rston North, decided to sup- . port the ciaims of that centre as a location i lor an experimental dairy station.