LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 125, 28 May 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be found on the fourth page of this issue. Messrs Carthew, Thompson and Company report having sold on account of a localowner.asectionin Outfield screet containing oyer half acre land, to aa investor from the Auckland province.

Messrs Medley and Rawstron reporl he sale of a house and s*x acres of land situated in Frankleigh Park, to Mr Cari Soronson.

The second term of 1903 in connection with the New Plymouth High School, commences on Monday next at 9 a m.

The following foreign letters are lyin« it the Post O.'lice unclaimed: A. Muller* itahotu ; Arthur Smith, Stratford ; ,7. J, Oallanan, Kaponga ; Mrs A. Callard, Cardiff; W. P. Slnrkey, Chkura ; Geo. 8. Hay, Cardiff; John Murphy, G. .Uoff-itt two, E. A. Burns, 11. DtJacourt, Messrs Hardy and Turner, R. Arthur Morley, W. G. Evans. Jas. J}' Canning, William Miller, Mr Q. Tait two, Sew riymouth. At the Police Court on Wednesday, Mr ■Stanford, S.M , fined James Coomes and Edward Kalchert 10s each and costs 7s, 'or disorderly conduct in Devon-street on Way Kith. It apposrs both the accused .oretended to be drunk, singing out at the top of their voices. Sergeant Haddrell intimated that the police were determined r.o stop this disorderly conduct of youths tfter dark, and his Worship took the same view.

The Arbitration Court at Wellington on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the linotype dispute till its next sitting here. The Union desired to include two other parties, and the Wellington papers filed counter demands, of which the Union had not received notice.

At the Police Court on Wednesday, a J uan named John Taylor, charged with I ittempied suicide at luglewood on the) ith iinfc , pleaded guilty, and expressed j ■l'gie. at his ra3h act. He was bound I >ver iu the emu of XbV to be of good be-! laviour, |

At Napier on Wednesday, a young] man went into a secondhand dealeiV shop, deliberately picked up a portman-1 teau and walked out. He met a constable i and told him what ha hid done, giving as I his reason that ho wanted to be arrested ( in order to receive medical treatment. / Accused was remanded. A party of 100 members of the House of Lords and Commons will pay a visit to Canada in tho autumn, The battleship Audacious will shortly ba stationed at Felixscowe, SuflUlr, which has been selected as a new base for a torpedo destroyer instruction ilotilh. The motor race accidents in France have caused extra precautions to be taken in connection with tho forthcoming great race in Ireland. A trench newspaper, Le Matin, has opened a fund to assist in equipping Dr Charcott's expedition, whose object is to ' search for the Swedish Antartic expedition uuder Dr Otto Nordenskjold, despatched last year. j . A Canadian Society of 400 members for men has been formed in London, ' with the object of promoting trads relations on a preferential bisis and intercolonial communications. I In the District Court on Wednesday an order was made, on the petition of J. J. Clark of Wellington, adjudicating Poter Gibson Clark, storekeeper, of Te Kiri a bankrupt. A meeting of creditors is called by the D.O.A. for Monday next, at 3 p m., at Mr Medley's office. The Egmont Settler of Wednesday states that Mr W. Qookin left his home it Punewhakau on Sunday morning with •» gun and a dog, and has not been heard of since. A search party from Strathinore went out on Monday, and tiacud Goakin to the head of tne Pune stromi, where they were baffled. They contioueid the search on Tuesday, but without suc« cess. Mr Goakin's brother, who resides at Ngaire, has gone out to Punewhakau. The steamer Cornwall, which follows the Essex in carrying cargo to k'outh •frica, loads at Timaru, Lyttelton, Gisborne and Wellington. I At Dannevirko a number of dairy farms at were sold on Wednesday at from £lO to £l3 per acre. j The Wellington Education Board decided on Wednesday to appoint a number of truant oflicers, at small salaries, in the city and the Wairarapa, in order to assist in keeping up school attendances. j Professor Brown has been elected to represent the Professorial Board of Victoria College on the University Sen ite.