LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 75, 27 March 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will b# foand ob page 4 of this issue. Tenders are invited for buliding a school at Puniwhakau. Notice is given that the Waiwakaiho bridge on the Junction-r*»d will be closed for trafflc from 8 am. on Taenday, 81st instant, till 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April Ist. Householders will be pleaded to learn that the prica of bread is to bo redßcedMper! 21b loaf as from Monday next. Messrs Tickers and Stevens by instructions from the D.0.A., will on Monday next sell by auction in the bankrupt estate of J. W. Roberts, of Inglewood, the equity of redemption of section 8, b!»ck 14, Waitar-(Kaimata-road), containing 248 acres on Ims« fr»m the Public Trustee with 15 years to run, having right of rsnewal and coropansation for improvements. The live and dead stock on the farm will be sold at the same time. Full particulars are ia another column,

The thirteenth year of pnblicatioa of Stone's Direotojy is announced for August next. Accurately compiled with a mass of information detailed and arranged for general use, this valuable work is indispensibe to the business man and the farmer. Messrs Oarthew, Thompson and Company! report having sold to Mr J. H. Bayley, of! liine-street, Mr Mofflyn's fine residence and j 11 acres oE land at Glenavon Bs' .'a. Tenders f«r the erection of a school at Puiawhakau are invited in this issne. Tenders close on this day week.

Phenomenal potato crops have been obtained in the Poverty Bay district this year. One settler has realised £63 an acre for tubers. Neighbours of his have baen clearing £45 aa aore. The latest issue of the New Zealand Patent Bazetle (issged fortnightly by the He* istrar ot Patents as a supplement to the ordinary Governmeus Gazette) coniains four pjges of leproductions o£ ihe plans of inventions of which complete specific itions have been accepted. The i'lans are excellently reproduced, though mate-ially reduced in size, and the illustrations add considerably to the value of the Patent Gazette. It is in 'erstood that the publicans of Ashburton are not giving up hope of having their licenses restored at the next election, and they intend keeping their houses in present condition, leaving them in charge of caretakers. The Peat Office authorities have requested us lo again call attention to the large number of newspapers detained for insufficient post ge These papers are, we are informed, detained and tent on by cargo steamers. No less than 260 papers were detsinod last night far being insufficiently stamped. II people would remember this, it would save the postal people a lot of trouble, and their friends at home having to pay the fine. The English miil despatched north last night by the Tak»puna, to catch the 'Frisco mail steamer, was an unexo-ptionally heavy one almost a record for New Plymouth. Very good evidence of the business growth of the town and district. When turniug the corner from Watsonstreet into Devon-Btreet on Thursday, tie ix'.e of Dr McOlilaud's gig suddenly snapped, but no harm was done to the occupants. Mr Orb9ll, while riding along the Waiw;ikniho flat by the sale yards on Thursday, had the misfortune to get his horse injured by contact with one of two mo.or cars which were spinning along the road at a good

The head-master of the Auckland Grammar School objects to the regulations for ihe Rhodes Scholarships, which proposes !o restrict candidates to those who have bein three years at a University College, as being contrary to the intentions of the founder. Ihe B >ard ot tSoveroors passed a rusol :ti< n asking the Government not to approve the rigu'ation.

The Bishop-elect of Auckland, Dr Neligan was expected to leave England yesterday by tko Papanui. He is accompied by three clergymen. Over £IOOO his already been raised to increase the bishopric endowment. The proprietors ol Book's Herbal Remedies are daily receiving most flattering testimonials. Mrs H. Signal, of Gladstone House, Marlon, N.Z., writes:—"l have used Boca's Balsam in my household and found it to do all that is claimed for it. It cared my husband of an old standing cough, and other members of severe cords. I can conscientiously recommend itto everybody." Bock's Balsam is also used externally fjr healing crackei bands, cats, And sorts, price Is 6d. Beck's Balsam, Bock's Rheussatic ?owder, Bock's Powder for the Liver, Stomach and Blood, Bock's Herb Extract (an infallible Oure lor Toothache) and Neuralgia Drops may be obtained of all the leading stores and chemists. -Advt.