LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 107, 4 May 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interes'lng reading matter w ; il bo found on page four of this issue The County Council moots to day. Mr Joseph T- Wl|ite, of th.e' Goqd Value Stores, has a replace advertisement to which the attention of houishoiders is drawn,

Messrs Bewley and Griffiths announoe the sale by auction on S»turd»y, 16th inst., of the land known as Perry's corner, having frontages to Devon and Liardetstreets.

We are advised by the Postal Department that a die, bearing the King's head, is now in use for impressing half penny and penny stamps on envelopes. The mails despatched via San Francisco from Auckland on 27th March, arrived in London on 29th ult.

Shareholders of the Equitable Building Society will note (he next pay day is to-day Monday, Subscriptions will be payable at the Society's office, Egmont-street, between the hours 9 a m. to 12 30 p.m , 1 30 p m. to 5 p.m, and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.— Advt.

Messra Carihew, Thompson and Company report having sold Mr E Griffiths suburban property, comprising three acres land, and fine superior resideuce,. situated Frankley Park, to Mr W. A Ballantyne, of, Dunedin. The Equitable Building Society advertise an appropriation by ballot of two sums of £l5O each, to take place in the Town Hall on the Bth inst. To participate in these benefits, shareholders require to be paid up to the 4th May, by 8 p.m. on that data.

The New Zealand Loan »nd Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cable from their London office, Dated 29/4/'O3. Wool—We think a rise of about 5 per cent, is likely to take place in Merino and Crossbred. Mr Newton King reports having sold, on behalf of Mr Mullens his fine residence and three acres, situated on the Avenue-road, JNew Plymouth, to Mr W. F. Greenaway, of New Plymouth. Messrs Callaghan and Company are placing 26 section-, of areas not less than one acre each, situated at Vegeltown. on the market. The terms are unique, and far ahead of anything previously offered to the public, being on a building society scale. They also point out that buyers of these sections get about four times the value for their money, as compared with the market value of building sites in the borough, although the sections they now offer are situatod close to the town centre. The Turakina arrived off Waitara on Sunday afternoon to load a consignment from that port. Mr Holdsworth, chief of the local Post Office, has returned from his holiday trip, and resumed duty. Sir Henry Irving's presentation of Dante at Drury Lane Theatre was a remarkable success.

Mr Carnegie' has added to his recent gift for the erection of a place of meetiag for the Hague Arbitration Tribunal i' 40,000 co purchase a library of diplomacy and internationil law. As Mr and Miss Cash were driving along the Lepper-road, near Inglewood, on Saturday, a bolt in the whipple-tree broke and the horse took fright, Miss Cash being thrown out, receiving a frac • ture of the left leg below the knee. Dr Fooks went out and set the limb, and some members of the Ambulance Brigade .went on Sunday and removed the lady to the hospital. An explosion of benzine on board the schooner The Brothers, at the Bluff on Saturday, resulted in the vessel being burned to the water's edge. There was an insurance of i£looo on the vessel in the New Zealand office

Fifteen thousand pounds, under the will of the late James M. Allen, of Rich inond, is bequeathed to the Melbourne public library. The fatalities by the Frank disaster number 56, and the damage amounted to £3OO 000.

Messrs Munroe and Company, Westport, have received a cable stating that v<r Oadman had successfully placed the Wainvingaroa coal lease in connection with his iron sand scheme. The properly will be taken over after inspection by the Company's engineer,