LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 81, 3 April 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading mattor will be found on page four of this issue. An Auckland Press wire aays:—Captain Morris, M.L.0., was found unconscious on the floor in his residence at Onehunga on Thursday with a deep cut on his forehead. He had eridently tripled and fallen. The doctor found an artery severed. Captain Morris has not recovered consciousness, and his recorery is doubtful. We (Wairaate Witness) understand that Messrs Williscroft ami Jjartlett have sold the r Kiri sawmills to the Opunake Timber Company, Limited. The former proprietors hold a substantial interest in the new con cern, the capital of which is £BO6O. It is the intention of the cimp >ny to extend the operations of the business, and to establish, almost right away, a sash and door factory at Opunake. Con-table Lind, a popular memler of the local p Jice force, leaves to-day - o take up his du ies at Rahotu. On Thursday evening he was presented by the New Plymouth police staff with a malacca walking stick suitably inscribed. The presentation was made by Mr McAra, assistant Olerk of the Court, who referred to the respect and eeteem in which Oonstab'e Lind was held among his comrades, who wished him every happiness in his new sphere of duties. The presentation was suitably acknowledges. Mr Newton King advertises a clearing sale of the Wanganui Fruit Company's stocrt-in-trade to-day (Friday) at 2 o'clock. He will I also submit at tho Mart at 3 o'clock on ' Saturday a knitting machine. A rat-catcher in Brisbane (says a cable) baa baen attacked by plague,

The Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company have had a very successful year. At; tba annual meeting held on Wednesday, the ohaiwnaa of directors, Mr J. Kirkcaldie, I stated that the increase in revenue for the j year was the highest recorded, and the profit available for dividends, £10,361, was| also greater than in any previous year. The j future prospects of the company were even . more satisfactory than in th« p»st. In four years' time £680,0u0 worth of debentures on ' wbich 5 per cent was would tall due. The riireotors suggested that out of the funds availa i!e £IOO,OOO of these should ba p*td off, und the natance of the money coald be raised at Z\ to 4 per cent, leaving a net profit to the company of £7IOO per innum. There wis a prospect of an increased dividend next year, i At the annual meeting of the New Z?a----j lan 1 Flour ..fillers Asaooiatien held at iutniatchnrch, Mr Meek, of Oamaru was re- ; elected chairmin. In a speech, he said there wa* not a miller in NewZenland who would n -l be sorry if the Asseciatioa were to cease. 'J he millers who were standing out wanted te get something which the others had not got, but they had been told that they must take a fair share or nothing. The increased prici or lour was due, not so the Association, but to natural conditions. The Association was prepj redtosubmit the questio a of prices to arbiNation.

la the University boat raoe, Cambridge won easily. At a well attended meeting of the Bltham Cooperative Dairy Company, on Wednesday, it was resolved that it was not advisab'e for the company to join the proposed New Z >aUad Farmers' Importing and Distributing Company. The Fielding exhibition cbsed on Wednesday night. The takings for the season totalled £950, and it is estimated there will ba a surplus of £2OO. The New Zealand Times Oompany pay a a dividend of 8 per cent on preference shares, and 5 per cent on the ordinary capital. Pilot Day, of Lyttelton, who' was snspendad in consequence of the recent Sumner fatality,?, for not hoisting the danger signal, ij to be re-instated, bus forfeits his pay during the suspension. A decree nisi was granted at Wellington in the case of Walter Lange v. Harriet on the ground of respondents adultry with KYancis Laicombe.

Lieutenant-Colonel Newall, who recently retired from the Dafencs Department, ba> b3sn appointed seor tiry to the CorameTcia! Travellers' and Warehousemen*' Association. The Hon. E. Mitchalson has consented to stand for the Mayoralty of Auckland. The new!j created coasuiate general of the Unit-d btates will be located in Auckland instead of Wellington, as Auckland is nearer tbe numerous South Sea Islands, which are included in th ■> Uonsul-Genera'.s jurisdiction. Mr W. Reid, .who has been Yice-Consul in Scotland, will go to Wellington as Consul. The farewell sooul at Timaru, to the Rev. J. N. Bu>tl4, the Methodist Minister who is removing to New Plymouth, was largely atta /deJ. High euconiuma werepassed upon bis fire years ministry there, and presentations were made to both Mr and Mrs I Buttle.

Writing from New Plymouth, Messrs Sole | Bios, butchers, horse-breakers and dealers, write as follows to Messrs Olapham Bros.: — Dear Sirs, —We can with pleasure testify to the efficacy of your Patent Horse Holder. Besides being perfectly effective it has this merit; it does not take two seconds to apply. Some time ago we were recommended to use ! this patent, and we fully intended to do to. We delayed a day, however, and in consequence bad a smash-up that cost us more than the price of 60 holders. Three da?s after the a-cident we put the same horse in, using the holder, which gave every satisfaction. We have had no trouble since. We are getting your patent holders fixed to all out carts, traps, etc., and we strongly recommend their use to every butcher and bake in the district.—Advt