LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 139, 12 June 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be f jund on page four of this issue. Messrs Carthew, Thompson and Company report having 6old Mrs Brantley's valuable suburban farm of 150 acres, situated on the Carrington road, to Mr. Edward Wells. Dr Leatham's groom,T. Salter,received a severe shaking otj Thursday morniug through the overturning of the gig ho was tiding in, owing to the horse swerving near the Hospital gate. The trap was damaged, but the horse was uninjured. Visitors and townspsople can inspect the museum on any afternoon, by application to the caretaker at the Town Hall, should the room net be open. The silver Challenge Cup, presented to the Clifton Football Club by M> S. R, Fairweather in 1899, disappeared from the Bridge Hotel, Waitara, where it stood in a glass case, being evidently stolen. The matter was placed in the hands of Constable Beattie, wh> satisfied himself as to the culprit, and that the cup tras buried. The suspeoted person was, however, in goal. Curious to say a slip in the Manakorjhf hill disclosed the cup, which, after cleaning up,'appears none the worse for its burial. Not a single bid was made for an autograph letter by the late Sir Hector Maowhich was offered for sale lately at Stevens', London. The Queensland live stock returns for 1902 show a doerease in the number of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, compared with the previous year.

' The citizans of Dannevirke (says a con temporary) have a clergyman on the Education Board to see that the children are well educated ; thoy have two clergymen on the Licensing Beuch, to see that the liquor is not adulterated | and a clergyman as Chief Magistrate and Mayor Mr W. T. Jennings has been appointed a member of the Waitara Harbour Board.

Three and three-quarter miles of the light-lino ia completed beyond Toko. Should work be continued at the siune rate through the winter, the Una will be omplotod to Doughs road creamery (12 miles) before the commencement of the milking season. Captain Dugdalo, an old and rospeoted settler at Waitara, died there on Saturday, aged 82 years. Wo understand that there is only about 10 or 12 miles of formation required on tha ftJoki-road to complete the road through to the Ohura Valley. A cadet corps is being formed at Waitara in connection with the State Sohool. Some 33 names have already been received.

A meeting of St. Mary's Band of Hope 1 will be held at St. Mnry's Hill this (Friday) evening at 7 o'clock. W. B. Blake, town clerk at New Brighton, died on Thursday. We have to acknowledge from Mr Holdsworth, the Chief Postmaster, a popy of a very handy map showing the Pacific (nil red) oable. A Press message states that the exchange of sites which will allow of the infectious diseases hospital at Auokland being erected near the general hospital, and should end the agitation against the Point Chevalier scheme, has been approved.

The progressiva policy of the direotors of the Provident Investment and Building Society is being amply justified, and it is a matter of remark that Bugh a young Institution should ho soon have inspired the confidence which it enjoys. 'Hit Directors very wisely invited the publie to apply for shares in their second series, and the result has been most gratifyiug, as the number applied for greatly exceeds the number available. The aotion of the Directors is in keeping with the crua spirit in which such institutions should be worked ; purely and simply to provide a means of saving money for the thriftily inclined, and to assist men who ate trying to acquire their own lands.—Advfc. 6,9,12.