LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 111, 8 May 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be found I on page four of this issue. j Messrs Callaghan and Co. report tho I sale of Mr Tisch's property in Devon street, occupied by tiia Lond..n Dental' Company, to a local investor at £'loo a j foot. Messrs Carthew, Thompson and Co. report having sold, on account of Mr J. 0. Ueorgo, a full quarter-acre section in Gillstreet to Messrs ISixon and Newton, engineers, who intend erecting a W"u building. On the motion of Mr .Roy (Roy and Wilson), the Registrar of Supreme Court has granted Lijttms of Administration in '. Ilia'intestate ostites of William Fowlor (Opiuiuk'.) and Charles Nipport (Now Plymouth), and al.o probate of the last wills of Joseph Colosby (Waitara) and! 1 Miss Mary Bragge (New Plymouth). ' <

By the last mail /mm South Africa Mr 'John McKsague, of Asburton, rece : v"d n 1 letter from Lord Miluor, stating that he ] had submitted McYfen»ue's " Practical' Irrigative ' to the Oo -* rnment experts of the Transvaal for t hair opinion nf tho book. By the stone m til Mr McKaaguo received a furlher laLtcr from the Director of Agriculture in the j Transvaal, expressing his opinion that the book was "'an interesting and important work," and saying that it hud been decided to place them in the near futuro in all tho libraries in the Transvaal. Quite recently this book, in company with eleven others, underwent a test of comparative worth by a prominent irrigative engineer in Australia, in whose judgment McKaigue's ' "Practical Irrigation " was the best work. J The Chairman of the Hospital and .Ch vritable Aid Board notifies that all outstanding accounts not paid beforo May 18th will be sued for. The Public Works Department invites tenders for alterations and additions to the Government Buildings at New Ply- j mouth. The Bank of Adelaide has declared a dividend of 8 por cent, and carried £20,000 to the reserve fund. | The Patea Harbour Board Ins to have a Foreshore Bill prepared and submitted tQ "Parliament at the coming session of tho House, vesting in the Board foreshore rights frqjn Waitotara to Waingongoro Rwers. | Complete specifications have beon lodged with the Patents Office for the fallowing paten's:—Arthur Frederick Gungnll, of flawera, New Zealand, photographer, an improved mitre shooting* block, for me in picture framing or the like. Coleridge Eidd, chemist, and -dentist, and Charles Edward Young, farmer, both of Eltham, New Zealand, an improved probe for the teats of cows and other animals. j On the arrival of tho oaoh from Rahotu on Thursday, tho police arrested a man named Walter Robert Allon on a charge of breaking into the Rahotu Post Office on April 4th and stealing £46 fis 61 from the safo. We understand that accused had alre idy taken his passage for England by tne Athenic. The teisses Mills, diughtors of the Hon. C H. Mills, \ inister of Customs, are staying for a few days at the White Hart Hotel. Membjrs of the Education Board are receiving voting papers for tho election of a member of the Victoria College Council, to fiil tho vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr J. K. Blair. The candidates are Mr Lee, a member of the Wellington Education Board and a very old educaexpert, formerly Chief Inspector to the Wellington distiiot, and MrF. Pirani, ex-S'I.H. It. for Palmerston North but now re-idont at Petone. Soma very valuable historical piotures have bjsn unearthed from a shop in Christchurch and deposited in the Public Library. They comprise (says the Lyttelto;i Times) a collection of 14, and were published about 1849 as illustrations to Mr E. J. Wakefield's interes'ing work, entitled "Adventure in New Ziahnd."There are several representations of Wei lington, then cilled Port Nicholson, as it appeared about 1840, one showing whaling and immigrant ships in th 6 harbor, la iho illustrations where townships are! ■diown the houses of settlers are depicitsd and the names of the owners are given. Thoro is a particularly good picture of Nebon. It gives a typical in 1842 surveyors laying out the roads, and setdels building and attending to other works. New Plymouth in 1843 is also! very well depicited. The pictures, be ! sides b ing of great historioal value, serve to show the great changes that have boen brought about at the sites of colo-1 nial town* and cities. Mr H. O. Ell, on being acquainted with the ficfc that the pictures were on sale, brought the mutter under the notice of Mr A. E. G-. Rhodes, who immediately came forward and secured them, Mr Ell has started a subscription list to obtain funds for presenting the collection to the library. The Chief Justice ?ave judgment on Thursday on Donald Kerr's petition fori four years salary as Stock Inspector, he having been deprived of his office in June 1898. He held thit suppliant's claim was made to Into, and must- therefore fail | V\ hether it was usual to dismiss an officer ] whom a Commission or Board of Inquiry did not recommend to be dismissed, his ] Hunqr did not know, but it was clear the Governor had the power of removal, The Mayor of Wellington's allowance for tho current year is to bo £4OO. Subscriptions are due and payable at the offijo of the Providon'., luvestnun. and Building Society's o:li;e, up to 9 p.in. At the annual meeting of the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, held at Dunedin, the question of dehorning cittle was discussed. Mr R barts siid ho had seen cattle feeding a few minutes after their horns had been removed, and had aho seen cattle shockingly injured by other animals horning them. What would ba cruelty to hnman beings was not necessarily cruelty to animals The Society is in communication with the Home Secretary on the subject. Mr Alfred Kidd, M.H.R , ex-Mayor of Auckland, who has been a hotelkeoper in uhe northern city for 27 years, for the whole of that time in one house, has retired from business. His successor in the hotel is Mr Aitken, formerly a purser in tho Union Company's service. The first step in the movement for a greater Dunedin was taken to-night by the Cavershain Borough Council, who consented to a poll on tho question of amalgamation. There is likely to be an campaign against the movement. A proposal has been nude to amalgamate eight of the principal milling firms in London to compete against the American millers. The Federal Steam Navigation Company's steamer Somerset, and tho Northern Steamship Company's steamer Karawa, have been launched at Clyde and Dundee respectively. Woddel and Turner have secured an admiralty contract for th-3 conveyance of [50,000 tons of coal from Weatport to Ho g-Kong. HELPLESS AS A BAB?. THE man or woman who is safferice; from . Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatic), or other complaints aiising from uric acid poisoning, is generally as helpless ss a baby. Th-j awful paias, the btiilened muscles and joints. cauEO intense torture, reducing the viotim to utter helplessness, Don't be the victim of Rheumatism a day longer than you ' can help. Take Rh6umo, tha mod.'tn antidote for u-ic acid poisoning. Rlvuuno is a scit ntifis preparation, and is to betaken inwardly liste any other medicine. gives relief with the dpse—pain and swelling disapp3ar—and a eure is elected mostly wi' hin torty-eight h jurs. Said by chemists and storeke. pars at i!s fid aud 4s Gd per tioiUe.—Advt. II HOLLO WAYS PILLS aro admirably adapted for curing diseases nci-iental to tem lies. At differ.'«t periods o£ life women aro subject to complaints which reqlire a peculiar medicine; aad it ' is now au inHsputable fact that there ii aching so suitable tor complaints of tbii nature as Hollow iy's Piils. for all the debilitating disorders i:,cia*nUl to the sex, ' ani in every contingency perilous to the ] life aud health of womeu—youthful oraged, niaivied orein^le—thcyaro a sate and reliable , remedy. Their purifying qualities render t e.a invaluable to f.males of all agos. > h.iy are searching and clr-anting, yei invi < gorging ; a few doses will speedily remove , irregularities in the eysieui and thereby estaolish health on a sound aud firm basis.— Advt. 5 Chiluksn Like to Take It. The finsst finality ot gra:.ula- u l loaf sugar is wed iu 1 fie minufacture of Chamberlain's Horned?, and the roots used mi's i iion t<ive it a flivor similar to mauls syrup, making it quite pleasant to take. "Children like to take it, and it has no injurious aftsr ; >fl!;et. 15 nliVA>-« cures. Ko.- »ale by tiio Se.v Plymouth Co-operaiivo Sjelsly. 1 j F.r Ohildicti'd Kicking Cough at! light tnko Woods' Great Peppermint 11 Jure, Is 6d and 2s 6 j.—Advt, |