LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 78, 31 March 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be found j on page four of this issue. The New Zealand Shipping Company has ] declared an interim dividend of £6 per cent. Mr Fred Duval, touring representative of William Anderson's famous dramatic organisation, was in town on Monday making arrangements for a season of two nights at the iheatre Royal, coomenclng on Wednesday, April Bto. Full particulars will appaar in a future issue. We are requested by Mr Samuel to state that ha rumour wnich is prevalent (and to wnich we gave publicity yegferday), that be is to bo appointed a Judge of the Supreme Oourt in succession to Mr Justice Oonolly, is wichout foundation.

An elderly man, a resident of Inglewood, wns convicted on Monday of improperly ob-.-iining an old age pension certificate In Hiving his decision Mr Stanford said he was s itifcfied the wroog doing was unintentio :], and by refunding the pension paid ihe accused had done all hs could to meke reparation. The case was not one for punishinont and no penalty would be imposed. ! J liu Manley, late 57th Regiment, was grau'ed a renewal of his pension certificate ; for £lB.

At the Supreme Oourt, Wellington, Obarlss Qrogan, who p'eaded guilty to t'aefr., was sentenced to six months hard labour. Alexander. Oallaghan for forgery was admilted to probation. Messrs Bewley and Griffiths' auction sals [today will include watches, chains, a-.d fancy goods. Since the opening of the Hastings abattoirs in January there has not been a sirjg'c i caicase condemned. There are now 19 motor cars in Obristchnrch, and that number will soon be considerably augmented. Early ia the month a mob of 2500 sheep were drivan from Nelson to Canterbury on behilf of Nelson farmers, and better price* worn secured than could have been olt-iued in Nelson.

In the noxious weeds esse against Mr Capper, of Intfewojd, the S.M. retused to grant coats on tna ground that the oasa should have been heard in Inglewoad. Mr W. Q. Oarr, representative oE Messrs W. !?oig and Company, oE Lond-n, the publishers of Hor late Majesty's historical pictured of the Jubilee Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey in 1887. and the Diamond Jubilee Bervice at St. Paul'-a in 1897. is in town exhibiting specimens ot the photogravures of the pa'ntings of these nismorable ceremonials. These reproductions are spleodii works of art, the likeaessei of the chief prsonaires in both being wonderfull j faithful, while the prints themselves are worthy of being hung in any mansion. Great care ia being taken that She copies shall only be placed privately, as it is desired thai they shall be prized as being rare. Mr T. Avery is the agent in this district fur the limited number of copies available.

Mr W. G. Reid, of Henry Brown and Company, has been appointed the Eltham agent for the New Plymouth Sash and Door Company, in place of Ton Stunner. Mrj Keid takes up his new duties next Monday. Mr. Oily Deering, one of the best known and most popular among Australian comedians, is now with the Hawtrey Oomedv Company, and appears as a frisky oldgeuueman in " ih* Lady of Oitend."

It is announced in this issue that with the Weekly Press of April Ist ia commenced a series of pictures taken in ■' Farthest Sou'h"bythe Ohristchurch Weekly Press' special photographer with the Discovery cxpeiition. The reUcf ship, the Morning, having returned from the Antarctic regions, brought back the photographs, which are copyright and protected. A specially written narrative of the expedition—what has been seen and done in the South Seas - accompanies the engravings, which will be the first in connection with the expedition to be published in the world, the Weekly

Press proprietaiy have shown great enterprise in securing this scoop, and there should be great demmd for copies of the numbers containing the pictures. The Warrimoo being late leaving Sydney, has unfortumtfly caused a emtailmentof the Williamson Company's season at the Theatre, as the Te Anau must siit from Wellington ia time on Thursday to connect with the express as Lyttelton. This unfortunately neceessititei the Company leaving here on Wednesday,