LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be found on pago four of this issue. Subscriptions to tho Provident Investment and Building Society, will be due next Saturday, not last Saturday as stated in an advertisement inserted by error in [last issue. The Ventura left San Francisco on the 4th insr. at 10 p.m. Guards.—Government Parade on Tussiday 9th, at 7.30. Drill order with leggins. Fines for non-attendance. °j The New Zealand Dairy Company's uow factory at Eketahun* is said by ex perts to be the most up-to-date factory in the colony. The cost of iGOOO. Milking 96 cows on an 80 acre farm, a Waimate settler obtained £SOO in seven months. The Arbitration Court has decided that the Registrar of Unions can register the Shipmasters' Atsociation as an industrial union of workew,

The following are the names of the Ladies Committee for the baazir in aid of the Maori Uirls' College :—Mesdames Dockrill, K. M. Smith, Evans, Battle, Woi-ley, Home, Copland, W. Bennett,: Paton, Ryan, Edmunds, Percy Smith, i P.idham, W. E. Spencer, Kemp, A. 0.: H Collins, Fleetwood. Misses Drew, Hempton, Hopkinson, Percy buiith, Tostar, Stephenson-Smith. Ladies who have kindly promised refreshments for tho bazisr in aid of the Maori Girls' College will please notice the alteration of the date of holding the baitaar j it is now fixed to take place on the 2nd and 13rd of July neit. The following are the traffic returns on the Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth section of railway for tho period ending 25th April, 1903(25 days), and for the | corresponding perion of 1932 (26 days), I shillings and pence omitted : 1903 1902. Passengers ... 18,805 13,053 Parcels, luggage & mails 1,90? 1,780 Goods 21,610 21,201 Miscellaneous ... 493 526 Rents 1,449 2 760

£44,272 £39.322 Lady Macdouild aud her Bdn were photographed standing by the General's tomb. The utmost secrecy was preserved, and the plates were subsequently destroyed, the only photographs taken from them remaining in Lady Mae donald's possession. A now industry is shortly to bo started It Napier, that of twine manufacture Mr W. Ross, managing director of the Hawke's Bay Woollen Company, has ae* cured the premises formerly in the occupation of Stewart and Company, Spit, where he intends starting operations next ,month About £2OOO worth of machinery is being secured from England, and it is expected to arrive shortly. It is felt that there is ample seope for sdeh an industry there, and those interested in the development of the province will wish the promoter success in his enterprise. The Town Clerk cf Wanganui Bays the borough gas management has placed £2500 in the pockets cf the ratepayers as the result of last year's work, after pay-? ment of interest and sinking fund, if the Council had needed such a Bum es £2500, it would hive been necessary to levy a rite of j)i in tho £1 on the whole ef the ratepayers of the borough to Becurd it. The Gear Company has declared an interim dividend of four per cent. The Fitzroy School Committee on Saturday evening decided to recommend the Board to appoint Miss Mackenzie as assistant mistress, in place of Miss Tilley, who has resigned. The Dunedin Winter Show closed on Baturdiy. The takings have been about ICjO, as compared with i' 634 last year. Notwithstanding the rough weather of last Month, shipping was not once delayed tt the breakwater, and the dredge worked iteadily all through. It is gratifying to oe able to report that the new boilers have not only nearly doubled her dredging capacity, but she is able to make 25 per cent more trips

The Borough Council invite tenders for stormwater tunnel, aud other work in •jover-street. Lird Salisbury is suffering from a •iovere chill, but is progressing favourAt a meeting of the Mayors of Timaru md Teuiuka, and the Chairman of the Levels, Geraldine, and Waimate Comity Councils, held at Timaru on Saturday for liscussiu? the questnn of erecting an infectious diseases hospital, the Oiiairmeu >f the I 'cal bodies were appoiiitet a comnittee to draft proposds, to be submitted ;o the respeotive Councils, for the apportionment of the cost of the building. At the Auckland Police Court on Saturhy, Chas Albert Vaughan was remanded <)r a week for medical treatment, on a jbarge of being helplessly drunk in the (treat. Tho Key. Gilkm stated that , Vaughan arrived from Sydney a fortnight ■ igo. and being disappointed in not ge - ing a situation, took to drink. lie was i suspended clergyman who had lost his iioonse, and was now suffering from ielirium tremeus. The news that Mr George Musgrove's "Sweet Nell" Dramatic Company will not play at New Plymouth, Wanganui, or Napier as originally proposed has caused 'ory treat disappointment. The comj;tny will proceed direct from Auckland •■o Wellington. A man named Charles Goosey was found dead in U'Connell's Hotel, Opunake, on Wednesday evening. A post mortem examination showed that the mau had been suffering from congestion of the lungs and brain.

We understand that Mr John Blair has aold his horse Boomerang for a good j rigure. Mr D. Hughes is the lucky purchaser, aud judging by the horse's performance at the Manaia races on Wednesday, more should be heard of him Up till about three week's ago, the horse was running in a milk cart. Dr Mason requests the New Zealand j Times to state that the views in regard to I the Pacific Island attributed to him in ! yesterday morning's "Times " must have ueeq. the opinions of some other medical gentlemen, as Dr itaasou vouchsafed no statement, official or otherwise, to any one, he having been asked to report on the health of the natives and tbe hygienic state of the islands visited to the Minister of Public Health. Ybt the Press Association sent this item all over the colony. New Guinea is the home of the most wonderful feathered creature known to the student of ornithology—the awful " bird of death." A wound from the beak of this creature causes excruciating pains in every part of the body, loss of sight, speech and hearing, convulsions, and death The Deutsohland has been refloated.

This evening Captain Voas, of Tilikum fame, will lecture at St. Mary's Hall on his remarkable voyage, and Mr H. E. Buckeridge will relate some of his experiences in the Antarctic regions. Part of ihe proceeds will be devoted to the organ fund. The hall should be fillsd to overflowing. Our losal contemporary is publishing a veiy interesting history of the harbour. ■-io far he has succeeded iti showing that ' Mr Standisb, instead of being as he has repeatedly attempted to show, an enemy of the harbour, has been one of its strongest advocates and best friends. We understand Mr N. J. King, of Stratford, h the successful tenderer for i the erection of the Ilaupuha School, oa ; ■ tho Toko road. j With regard to the cable that the Gauss •', communicated with} the Discovery, Cap !; tain Col bock, of tho relief ship Morning, ' considers it highly improbable that theji German ship could have got round to i where tho Discovery was lying, and have returned to O*petown. If true, the Dis- : oovery should have been free from ice, : ' and according to arrangement should have ] been in Lyttelton before this, but he con- ■ sid.rs there is absolutely no prospect of ' her liberation this season. ~