LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 199, 24 June 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

*. Interesting roading matter will be found on page four of this issue. A winter school for teachers is being held at Wangauui, and over 200 teachers are attending. Mr James fanderson invites tendonfor tho erection of a two storey residence. Tenders are invited by the Borough Council for the remoyal of earth from thi Oeu! i\»l Fire Station. Messrs Bewiey and Griffiths anncunci that on Thursday, July 16: hj, they will, by instructions of Mr W. Courtney, sell by auction 71 sections on the estate now kuo>vn as Chilian's Extended, bub hitherto as Paynter's, on the Hospitalio!id. Investors would do well to note this sale. The pUn showing the levels of King-. street, from Egmont-street to Queenstreet, as fixed by tho Borough Council, can bo inspected at the Town Hall, ThelSrindisi mail, which left Melbourne on May 20th, arrived in London on 21st inst. Ihe cry that "stiil they come " holds good as regards the Tonsorial profession in this town. William Mason, recently with Mr Fred Stohr, and late of Auckland, has opened a Ladies' and Gents' Hairdressing t-aloon in Brougham street, next Miss Cottier's. A new feature will be the introduction of shaving tickets, 3 for !■>, or 8 for 2i 6:1. Ladies will be waited on from 2 till 4.30 p.m., excapfc on Saturdays. A special and private room for ladies has been fitted up, and ladies haircatting, singeing, curling, and dyeing undertaken. —Advt. Mr E. Gerard, chief clerk in the Wellington Official Assignee's office, has been appointed to succeed Mr Liwaon as Official Assignee at Auckland. Mr Gerard, while acting temporarily as D.O.A. at Now Plymouth soma while since, won golden opinisns for his prompt despatch of business. rho annual report of the Dovonport Ferry Company ■ shows a net profit of i'3o(i. An interim dividend of 10 per cent has been declared, and the balauce carried forward.

Amongst a very large number of cables and telegrams rocoivod by the Premier conveying birthday greetings, were messages from Mr Chamberlain, and tho Mayor of Wigau, Lancashire. Tho Committee in charge of the arrangements for tho " At Some " to Lord >md Lady Ranf urly meet this afternoon jat the Town Hall at 3 30, when the final [ details are to be fixed. It is hoped there will be a full attendance. The subject discussed by the Debating Society on Tuesday evening was Harbour Extension. Mr Nixon led off with arguments in favour of extending the present breakwater and wharf, and Mr Trogellis replied advocating the formation of a large deep harbour, by connecting the Kugar Loaves on the plan suggested by Mr E. M. Plinth ; failing that he urged open work at the root of tho Breakwater. Noedloss to say the members who followed in the dobate had a wide field for discussion, and the subject became decidedly i knotty. The chief speakers on tho openers side were Messrs J. C. Smith, Veale, and Roberts, while Messrs Ambury and lihving sided with Mr Tregeilia. On a vote being taken, 10 voted in favour of extension, and seven for the larger scheme. Mr Ewing presided. During the past year the Wellington Benevolent Trustees expended i' 1270 in indo ir relief, and £'2685 in out-door relief.

The Chief Ju.-.tice on Tuesday decided in favour of defendants in the action against the We.lington Harbour Board to recover i 303 damages caused to tho barque County ef Ayr, while moored at Jervuis Quay in August last, on the ground that the writ was issued a day WO soon,

Tuesday «as the 58th birthday of the Hon. the Premier. He was entertained at a banquet in Wellington, and received very hearty congratulations from all parts of the colony. We wish him many happy returns of the day. The need of a foot passenger bridge at the side of the traffic bridge in Courtneystreet is every day becoming more apparent On Saturday Mrs Cliff was driving over the bridfte, and on trying to avoid some foot passengers ran into the Bide of the bridge, seriously damaging her trap. Hardly a day passes but there is a narrow cscapo from a sarious accident. We have received a very pressing request to assist in furthering the raising of a sum to erect a memorial to tha memory of tho late Mr llollestott. We had a great admiration for the late Mr Rolleston ; hut wo think before that is done j ustice should be done to the memory of the late Sir | Harry Atkinson. He was not only a great politician and Statesman, but a great soldier and patriot. It is a disgrace to the people of tho colony that long ore this a suitable monument has not been erected to the memory of this groat man in the grounds of the Parliamentary 1 Buildings iu Wellington. We hope even yet to 860 this remedied. At the A.F.P. Show which opened at Invercirgill on luesdav, the Edendale Factory swept the board for cheese prizes, tho mauagor securing the 20 guinea gold watch, having won it two yoars iu succession. Mr James Buttle has been appointed general manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Ho was formorly manager of tho itfelbonrne branch, and more recently was acting general manager. Lord Kitchener, in an order to tha Indian army, regrets the num 1 er of cases amongst British soldiers, of assaulting natives, sometimes fatally. He states that he is resolved to prevent such assaults, and commands the order to be read at three successive parades.

It is reported at Tangiers that Elmenbeh, tho Moorish Minister for War, lost 0000 men in a battle at Auiuedinnia. A mseting of the provisional directors of the propoasd new Freezing Company was held Ht Hastings on Tuesday, wh in it was reported that anfficient promises of shares had been received to enable the company to oe formed, but the final decision on the que lion was postponed till a further meeting, etqairies to bs made in the meantime as lo the terms upon which the present companies would freeze sheep for clients.

Mr O. O. Hawke notifies that his great clearing sile will c'.ose on Monday neit.

At tt.e public library at Macon there is a barometer marie simply of a thin strip of ced ir and a thin strip of white pine, olaced together and stuck pßrpendioulaily in a base re tot w od. When it is going to rain lha strips bend down, and when it is to be cry ihty stand rigidly stiff and straight. It is said to indicate coming storms unfailingly.