LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 87, 8 April 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho Daily News will notbs published on ■ G'j d Friday, but the Daily and Weekly ! Niuws wil l bj published on Saturday aa usual. The Daily News will be pub- j lished on Easter Monday. { Interesting reading matter will be found on page four of this issue. Mr J. A. Strauchon, Oommission'jr cf Grown Lands, Wellington (tormerly of Taranaki) is at present confined to his house with a severe attack: of illness. We regret to learn that Mr F. L. Webster continues verv seriously indisposed. For some time he has been quite confined to his house, ,1 great trial to a man who has led in active life, and always enjoyed such good health. We hope to hear of some improvement, and tender our sincere sympathy. Dr. James Gibb informel the Dunedia Presbytery on Tuesday that he had arranged for a conference of delegates to meet in Wellington on April 28th, to discuss the ques' ion o£ Bibls reading iu schools, and to approve a text book, probably on the lines of the Victoria text bosk, after which tie Premier will be waited on with a reque-t that the question of text books be submitted to a referendum.

A concert in aid of the Organ Fund at the West End School takes place on Wednesday, Bth iist. Doors open at 7, the concert commencing at 73 I p.m. Admission Is, child en half price.—Ad ft. Mr R L. Stanford has been gazetted the Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in the Liconsing Districts of New Piy/uouth and %moot, and Mr H. Kyre-Kenny in the districts of Hawera and Patea. Tho Championship meeting of the New Zealand Golf Association is to be held at Napier from 2nd to Bth September. At a public meeting at Wanganm on Tuesday, Mr James Orichton, hon >r .ry conductor of the Garrison Band, was with an illuminated addraas and a purse of sovereigns, in recognition of his servic.-s to the band. A strong requisition to Mr A. J. ?dxiunds to become a candidate for the West Ward of the Borough Council, is in ronrsa of signature, and already bears a larire number of names. Mr Edmunds is locum towns for Mr R. O. Hughes du ing :.hu laiter's absence in fingund. ilerore coinlrg to New Plymouth, Mr Kdmunds was a lending nit mhjr of the PortPcre (oonth Australia) Borough Council for six years, and was only defeated for the Mayoralty by eight votes. As that Municipality has a population of 8000, the experience gained there should be of great s rvico if brought to bear upon New Plymouth matters.

The concert to be held this evening at the Hill, in aid of the West Bad School Organ Fund, should prove attractive. There is a capital programme, and the cause is one that deserves tuppoit. Mr N. K. MacDiarmid, as hon. treasurer of the Firemaa Parker Fand, desires to acknowledge receipt of £5 5i from the Taranaki Fire Underwriters' Association, being a subscription from the National Fire and Marina Insurw.-o Company, miking a totil of £4B 16s 6J reuaive i from ihe Association. Legal holidays during Easter are notified in auother column Owing to Good Fridvy falling in this week, the shops will reraxin opun till 6 pm. on Thursday. A notification re Kastar 1 holiday as regards business premises will lb} foundln another column. The premises of Messrs Burgess, Fraier and Oompany, J. H. Dock and Company, Sargood, Son and Bwen, and Arch. Olark and Company will be closed from Tbu-sday evening till Tuesday morning next, j A reminder is given of the unreserved auction sals by Mr Newton King teday, »t 2 o'clock, of the furniture and effects ia Mr John Abbott's boarding hoaso Devon-street Hast. An order of the Taramki Battalion ap pears in another column. The Rifles, Guards, and Band parade at tha Drill Ha'l tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 6 o'ciock, and ail baggage distinctly ad Pressed must be at] the Hail by that time. Vo'untsers wilt boar in mind that they must attend camp to earn capitation.

Wo nndeistand that Mr T. K. Skinner, for to any years the leading engineer and surveyor in New Plymouth, and who acted as professional adviser to neirly all the looal bodies in Taranaki at one time or another, and was until lately consulting engineer to the Borough of New Plymouth, but has now retired from busieess, leaves on a well earned holiday trip to-morrow (Thursday) by the Takapuua. Mr Skinner expect i to be away at least six months, and may make an even more extended stay. We dt-sir ito join with his many friends in wishing him a very enjoyable holiday. The Post and Telegraph Department has ißflued a circular stating thst the Department is prepared to deliver circulars or other printed matter prepaid in cash and addressed merely " The HousehoHt r" (with or without p'aca of delivery. If no place H mentioned, the town of potting is to ne understood as the place of delivery). Delivery of such matter will be nude by letter-carrier to every householder within the letter-earners' respective deliveries so far as the supply goes. A supply of cirouJlirs, etc., to the number of Lot less than 1(00 may be prepaid in cash at the ordinary rat:s of postage for such distribution. It may inherent our readers to know t 1 at over £60,000,000 are invested in Bui'ding Societies in the United Kingdon, alInoueh they are of comparative rec nt growth. Ninety per cent, of the memb irs are of the mortisuj elass, a fact which spe.ike for the popularity of thesa institution'. Krom what we hear, we think the Provid' nt Building Society will not need to complain on that score.—Advt.

Mails despatched from Sydney via V.taJ oouver on 24th February arrived in London on 3rd instant; from Auckland via San (franci.sc> on 6bh March on Sth inst int; nnd from Melbourne via Naples on 4th Mai oh on sth instant. At ths Ptar Sports on Ulster Monday, the creai.uro comforts for visitors will ba ft special feature. A strong ladies ommit'ee has the matter in hand, and has arrange i to provide at a moderate charge both luncheon J and afternoon tea. I

Tho proprietors ot Hook's Kerbal Rerntidies are daily recwvinß most flatten m testimonials. Mrs H. Signal, of Gladsto ir House, Marton, N.Z., writes:—"l hi ve used Bock's Balsam in my household s id foe ad it to do all that is claimed for it. It cured my hnsband of »n old standing cou;;h, and other members of severe colds. I c m conscientiously rccoramsnd it to every bod ■> " Bock's Balsam is also used externally for healing cracked bands, 'cats, And sor s, price Is fid. Back's Balsam, Bock's R!niBcutic fowder, Bock's Powder for T iv r, Stomaoh and Blood, Bock's Hoi b .u:,i,n,ct (all infallible Cure tor Toothache) jnd Neuralgia Drops may be obtained of the leading :Cores and chemists.—Adtt