LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 99, 24 April 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reading matter will be found on pige four of this issue. The annual meeting of St Mary's Vestrj will be held in the schoolroom on Tuesday evening next at 7.30. The Botough Council invites applications for the position of foreman ot works Mr J. S. B. Medley has been appointed local agent for the Guardian Hire Assur nee Oompany, one of the leading companies in England and the colony. A Press message from Wellington sta'e that the Liberal Party propose to tender the Premier a public demonstration on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his Premiership.

Ol 16 k patients in the Wellington Hospita\ 37 nre suffeing from scarlet fever.

Locomotive! propelled by electricity drawn from the air without cost, aud ocean liners racing over the sea by the agency o : the electric current drawn inexpensively from ihe same sourc ', are promised for the near future by Tesla. It is to be done oa the priucipal of wireless telegraphy. At presantthere are 600 cooperative workmen employed on the North Island Trunk railway, on the left bank of the Wanganui river, and work is being pushed on vigorously. A start has been made wi'h tie railway bridge over the Wanganui river at Taumaranui.

An interesting visitor to the opening of the Punilio School on Wednesday was Mr Buo'--, i Native medical student. Mr Buck received his primary education at Urenai, his home. Later on he spent three years at Te Aute College, where he gained a scholarship, which entithd him to a cou se in the Invercargill Univers'ty. He made excellent progress there, as evidenced by the faet that he will probably receive his diploma iu January next. Mr Buck intends to practise amongst his people in Taranaki, and assist as much as possible the good work being done by the Kev. Bennett. Mr Bu:k is the second Taranaki Native who has entered the medical profession, Dr Pomare having been practising for soma time. The new building for the National B :nk of New Zealand is now beginning to look ship-shape, and will ho a decided improvement to Brougham-street architecture

Sergeant Hadd<ell left New Plymouth by the mail train on Thursday morning for Wellington, in connection with a o«se against Kuucimao, who recently hefore tue Oonrt here. He will probably be »w;iy nearly a week. Firat-cla«s Constable Bea Ikof Waitara, is '■ Acting-Sergeant " in charge of the New Plymouth station during his absence.

Mr Justice Connolly's retirement from the New Zealand Bench leads the Dally Chronicle to refer to his Honor as "one of the fathers of tbe fnner r«mple, having started his studies there in January, 1849. Hi went the Home circuit for a dozen yeare, before emigrating to New Zealand, where he became a prominent Parliamentarian, and Minister for Justice."

The London cor.-esponden*. of the Auckland Herald says:—l met the Hon. A.J. Cadnan recently, and had a short conversation with him. He toM ma fiat he had oeK-n somewhat s-rio isly indisposed since Christmas, suffering with an enlargement of shj glands, but u now be: tec again, although he is far from well, and his experiences of an English winter have not improved his health. In spite of th's, how--v«r, he is still of carrying through his bi-hame for the rie-elopment of New Zealana's mineral lesources. "But it is very slow work," ho said, " People here are very slow. Still, I hope to get the thing through in a short time from now."

4 labourer at, Tiverton (England) wai sentenced to three months imprisonment for nailing hb children in a dark cupboard where they had to remain till nearly miduight. J

Joseph Beecham, of pill fara°, is separated from his wife to whom, under an order, he pays £2500 a yyar, but the lady not baing c .ntent with this modest income applied for more, on the ground that the profit of (he the pill bas'ness were £30,000 a year, a-id that her husband enjoyed altogether £8 ,000 a year. The Court ref.'s d to vary the "!'der, as t'-.e lady was o£ humble origin (a dressmaker). A meeting of the Trades and Labour

ouncil was he'.d at the Town Hall on Thursday evening, Mr V\. Kivell presiding Messrs B. M. Smith, M.H.R..D. Berry and 3. Hill were present by request to give information relative to the borrowing power for improvements by selectors in the Spotswood Settlement. A resolution was pissed to make formal application to the Government for an advance of one half tho value of improvements on all land included in the settlement, such advance to be made immediately on the completion of improvements on any section.

The annual meeting of the Acclimatisation S:ciety takes placj on Saturday nftenoon »t 2,30 at the Council Chambers, when all interested iu the work of the Society a*e invited to be present.

On Monday ev.-ning next, at 7 p.m., tho annual meeting of househollers takes place for the election of Bchrol Committers. Parents and residents should make a point of attending the meeting in their particular district.

The qnestion of the possibility of catohing I the trade of tho Plains for the Patea Breezling Works was discusse 1 by the t>atea Chamber of Oommerc9 at its last meeting. The Minister of Public Works has a?r'ed to defray t' e cost of Mr Napier Bell's report on the Wairoa harbour improvement. The President of the Patea Chamber of Oommwrce is of opinion that the machinery at the Freezing Works in that town is ant - qaatei and f;at the works will have to be I practical!} built over again.

The Patea Chamber of Commerce has set up committees to inquire as to the advisability of promoting companies for the parpese of manufacturing cement, and working the lime deposits. Mr Newton King reports having sold a portion of Mr A. W. Budge's grazing run, situated neir Toko, to Mr Joseph B. Jones, of Weedons, Christchurch.

Mr 0. Samuel is on a visit to the Empire city.

Writing from New Plymouth, Messrs Sole Bros., butchers, horse-breakers and dealers, write rs follows to Messrs Olapham Bros. : Dear Sirs,—We can with pleasure testify to the efficacy of jour Patent Horse Holder. Besides being perfectly effective it has this merit; it does not, take two seconds to apply. \ Some lime ago we were recommended, to u»e this patent,, and we fully intended to d/ 6 so! ! We delayed a day, however, and in consequence had a sm>>sh-up cost us morn [than the pries of 50 holders. Threeda*s after the a-cident we put the sime in, I uning the holder, which gav;» every satisfaction. We have had no trouble since. We are getting your patent holders fixed to all out carts, traps, etc., and we st.ronglv recommend their use to every butcher aud bake in the district.—Advt

j HOLLOWATS Pir.lA The hour of danger. Disease coramrnly comes on wth slight symptoms, which, when neglected, increase io extent and gradually grow dn -• gerou«—a condition whih betrays thA grossest remissness—when the«e Pills, taken ia accordance with their accorup-nying directio- s. would not only have checked, butconquered the incipient disorder, Patients d->il» forward details of the most ramirkable and instructive cases in which timely attention to Holloway's advice has nndoubte 'lr sav-'d them from severe illness. 'These pills act primarily on the digestive organs, wh'ch they stimulate when slow and imperfect; and, secondly, upon the blood, which ithoroughly purified by them, whence is derived the general tone they impart, and their power of subjugating hypochoiidriacistn, dyspepsia, and nervous complaints.— Advt,