LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 136, 10 June 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting raiding matter will I}e found on page four cf (his issue.

In the butchew walk from Smithfkld market to Brighton, the winner beat the time of Mr Broad, the successful com p3titorintho Stock Exchange oontest, by nine minntea,

The Health Department reports thai the small pox patients at Lyttelton and Dunedin are making excellent |irograss, ar.d that no further extension of tha outbreak is anticipated. Mr W. Courtney will be offering 116 very desirable building sites, on tho Hospital raod, shortly by public auotion. At a committee of the New Plymouth Auxiliary of tha British and Foreign Bible Society held on Wednesday, iho 3rd inst,, it was resolved to ask all the | Ministers of tho town to bring before congregations the object of the Centenary Fund, and to add that they would be pleised to hand over to the Treasurer aoy donations, however small, and that members of the congregation might lika to give to the fund. Mr McKellar was re>appoiuted auditor, and hearty thanks were accurded him for his past services. It was reported that the collection at the public meeting amounted to £4 12? 6i, and expenses for printing and advertising to £2, thus leaving a bilanae of £2 I2i 6d to bo added to the Centenary fund, From Mr R. 0. Hughes, who is in London, we have to acknowledge the re cipt, por favour of Mr Edmunds, Mr Hugheslocum tenens,of one of Wall's Fountain Pens. It will be understood that Mr Hughes took this matter up, and wont Home with Wr Wall, who was previously in business in New Plymouth, to exploit th's patent. This, as we mentioned some time back, appears to have been successfully done, and we are writing this paragraph with one of these useful pens, The patentee claims to have got over the annoying leakage, so common with this class of pen, that any ordinary steel nib can be used, and that it is, in fact, the only perfect combination of ink bottle and nib. Wo hope the venture will prove a financial success to both Mr Wall and Mr Hughes. The Education Board is losing no time regarding the plumbing classes, which start next Wednesday. The necessary pspera for the recognition of the chsses were sent away to Wellington yesterday. The Stratford classes will be startod as soon as the Borough Council there approve of the proposal. The Stratford Post of Tuesday, in a highly appreciative article on the subject, reports the article appearing in Monday's Daily News, and concludes " The proposal will be sub mitted to the Stratford Borough Council to-night and it will doubtless receive their favourable consideration. It seems to us to be an excellent idea, and the efforts of Messrs ISmart Brothers to have tho matter of technical education satisfactory settled are worthy of the highest commendation." On Monday, before Mr R L. Stanford, Registrar of the Supreme Court, probate of the will of the late J. VV. Middleton, of Eltliam, was, on the motion of Mr T. B. Crump, granted to Jane Grecard Middleton, the executrix.

The Dunediu pnblicans have, without demur, accepted the Licensing Com" mittoa's stipulation that there shall be only one bar for each hotel. The diminution of bars must mean a diminution of the publicans' profits. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why tha Wellington publicans are now raising their tariii. Tha frosts of the past few days in Eltham are said to be iecord frosts for the district. Old residents say that they do not romomber any previous winter when so many water pipes burst.* The plumbers, no doubt, think it is a grand winter.—.sr^us. Among the applicants for relief by the Board of Benevolent Trustees at Wellington on Tuesday, was a veteran who-hud won a distinguished conduct medal for valor in the field. Ho had served in the Indian mutiny, the Chinese war, the Abyssinian war, and the late Boer war, being wounded in all of these campaigns except China. He was sent from South Africa to N-tley Hospital, and on being discharged as unfit f.ir service, came back to New Zealand, liis pension of 2s 6d per week had been mortgaged unt 1 Jauuary. He was admittod to tho Homo. Sir J'soph Ward arrived at Napier on Tuesday evening. Mr John Roberts, president of the Otago A. and P. Society, died on Tuesday after an operation for appendicitis. Engagement flings, Wedding Rings, and Keapers, certainly the finest stock on the West Coast of New Zealand. A good present wish eachwoddingringatJ.il Parker's, Jeweller, next Railway Crossing, Devon street, New Plymouth.— Advt. For Bronchial dough, t'ifce Woods Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6J everywhere.— dvfc, |