LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 80, 2 April 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be found on pige four of this issue. I A lost overcoat is inquired for. I The Boreugh Council invites tenders for cutting down Brougham-street to Pendarvesstrvet. The Education Board invites applications for the position of male as-istant teacher at tiie New Plymouth West End School. The Colonial Piano Company have jnst opened ap a large consignment of the latest music and musical instruments, violin, tta jof, autiliarps.accordions, phonographs, gram»phon«B cornets etc

Hall and Cocpiny, grosers at Chiistchurch, were fined 20s for causing persons to congregate outside their place by means of a gramaphone placid in the shop. At Christchurch on Wednesday, a man was fined 20s and coat? for exposing himself in a railway train and othor puoLc places while suffering from scarlet fever. The American mail brings a report tha<i Sinkey, (jha well Known singing evangeli .t, is stricken with blindneas at Brooklyn. Samoan news reports that the cocoanuts, and nearly all the fruit crops were destroyed by the hurricane on February 13th. Jr K. Webster, secretary of the Equitable Building Society, notifies that the Society's office is no« in Kgaaont-ttreet For the purpose of widening Bannls'er. street the Masterton Borough Council is offering £SO a foot for 16 feat frontage to Queen-street,

The Railway Department notifies the issue of holiday excursion tickets from 7h to 1 3th April, available for return up te 12th May.

I'he Customs collected at New Plymouth for lhe year "ending 31st March totalled £27,856 6s Id.

We understand that Mr Kennedy, manager of the Union o.S. Company is t:> b > in New Plymouth next Monday in oonneo ion with fitting r-frigeratiog chambers in tho uteamors oirrying dairy produoa. This would be a goad time for a deputi'ion to wait upon him regarding the establishment of a direct service to Sydney. Mr Harkness, chairman ot the National Diiry Association, was in New Plymouth on Wednesday, aud in conversation wi'h a I representative of the Daily Nhws, strongly 'supposed the idea of the direct service to Sydney beinu workel in conjunction with the present Bunedin-New Plymouth service.

Sir Francis Burnand, the author of "The l Lady of Ostend." to be produced in New Plj mouth on Saturday night, has been writing plays for very many years, and it is nearly a quarter of a century aince he wrose that clever comedy "The Colonel,'* which beome quite as popular as "Patience." "The Colonel" was parformed before the late Queen Victoria in 1861, and Mr W. F. Hawtrey was one of the oast, and was the first pofessional actor after the death of the Prince Uonao t to spaak a word in the presence of the Queen, the opening lines of tho play falling to his part. Dr. Ya intine, of the Health Department is in Hew Plymouth in connection with sanitary matters. Justice Cooper announce! at' hristchvroh that the Arbitration Court wou'd hold a special sitting in Auckland on April 20th, to consider the furniture trade rii puW. The Gazette notice ra f .<fying the constitution of greater ("hiistchurch and Weliijgron appeared on Wednssdny. According to the estimated papulation on J noary Ist of this year, Wellington will no.v have 49,424 residents, and Ohristchuich 46,630 hut thia ioes not include the suburbs still unamal- i gamated.

The Inglewood Record devotes three quarters of a column to eulogising Mr Westoa for protesting against; the Inglewood noxious weed oases beins; heard in New Plymouth. Although a considerable porti m of onr report is mei, no acknowledgement of our service in giving ths matter publicity is made. '

Iu oar report of the farewell social to the Rev. A. D. Spiers, at Inglewood, in our last issue, the name of the Rev. H. J. Lewis, of P«tea got printed as the Rev H. J. Jones of Pdtea. It is ratlur that the Inglewood piper made the same mistake. The hearing of the charge against Von Sturmer, of misappropriation of money belonging to the Sash and Door Company, takes place at the Police Court to-day.

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Engagement Rings, Wedding Rings and K- epers, Speotacles to suit all sights, and a ureat variety of gools suitable for presentations at J. H. Parktr's, next tbe Railway Grossing, Devon-strest, New Plymouth. N.B.—A valuable present with each wedding riag.—-Advt.