LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 53, 2 July 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be 'i found on page four of this issue. The Auckland Board of Education da cidod not to declare a holiday for Arbor , Day. Burglars stole £53 worth of goods from a store at l Ongaonga, near Waipawa, on Tuesday night. They took the storekeepers horse and trap, and cut the tele- _ phone to Waipawa.

Ihe Customs Duties collected at Wanganui for the quarter just ended amounted to £16,728. This is an increase of over £2OOO over the similar period of last year, and constitutes a record for the district. The following tenders were received for the construction of ten locomotives for the New Zealand railways :—Price Brothers, Thames, L2B 000 (Accepted), J, and 4. Anderson, Cliristchureh, L 29,630 j New Zealand Locomotive Engineers Company, Wellington, L3l 410 ; Soott Brothers, Cliristchureh. L 32 000 ; Maoalister, luvorcargill, L 33,500 ; McGregor and Company, Dunedin, L 35,750. Daniel Vinson Dossiter, employed in a chemiats shop, has been arrested at Auckland on a charge of performing an illegal operation on iirs Isabella McOullum, who is now in the hospital. Trains leave Plymouth Station for tin' i.Sreakwater, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as follows :—0 a.m. Kg ipuhi (from north), 8.20 p.m., Ngapuhi (for north). The following unclaimed letters are lying at the local Post Office : —G. Bird, New Plymouth ; G. Girling, P. 0., Tara naki; Mrs Harrison, New Plymouth _: A. Lowsanton, Pine View, New Plymouth ; Mrs Wm. Miller (2), J. F. Southland, W. Walter, A. Ware, all New Plymouth. The English mail despatched from Melbourne via Naples on May 7th, arrived in London on 29th ultimo. Too examination of Mr Williamson, relative to his connection with the affairs of W. M. Woodhead, a bankrupt, will take place before the S. M. to-day. It is not unlikely that Mrs Woodhead may also be examined. His Worship the Mayor has received the following from Captain Alexander:—"Dear Mr Cock—Lady Ranfurly has asked me to thank you for your kindness during her stay in New Plymouth It was with mingled feelings of sorrow and pleasure that she a' tended the "At Home "on 26th June. Pleasure at meeting so many old friends and acquaintances, and sorrow that it was unlikely she would meet them again, unless in the Old Country, in which latter case she wou)d be always glad to see them once more.—Yours sincerely, Dudley Alexan der, 1 ' Officers aud non-coms, of the Guards are reminded that the School of Instruction will not gtart until the SJth of this month.—Advt. The Waitara School Committee are norm - nating Messrs Faull and Jennings, M.H.R., for the vacancies on the Education Board. According to a contemporary, a farmer in the Greytown district killed a giant " porker." On being turned into bacon the leviathan realised £lO 7s. A correspondent of the Wellington "Post" points out that Sir John MoDonald was Premier of the Domioion of Canada from 1878 to 1891—a period of thirteen years. Sir Oliver Mowat was Premier of Ontario from 1875 to 1895—a period of twenty two years. So it is clear that the record Premiership does not yet '. belong to Now Zealand." j We have to acknowledge the receipt of a iriuted copy of the Governor's speech. Mr Carnegie has cabled to Mr Richard|son, the Mayor of Sydney (Canada), with reference to his recent criticisms of Canada and the Cape Breton steel industry, in view of which Mr Richardson said he would recommend the Town Council to return a gift of 15,000J01. offered by Mr Carnegie for a freee library in Sydney. Mr Carnegie says he is sorry that his words gave offence, and explains that he meant none. He adds : "My wish is to restore the union between North America and Great Britain, instead of maintaining two separate divisions. We should then rule the world in peace." Mr Richardson sent a reply cordially accepting the explanation. An invention for manufacturing gas out of chalk has been tried in Sussex with, it is said, surprising success. To every 100 tons of chalk will be mixed about ten tons of coke, or coke breeze, and from this it is claimed 10,500,000 feet of gas will be obtained.

Referring to the runaway truck rrom Eltham, we learn that the distance from Eltham to Hawera was covered in 20 minutes, the "flairera Star" says: News of the affair was reoeived at tho local station some few minutes before ac rival, and preparations were made to re ceive it. The waggon was seen to come through the trees in the distance, followed closely by the engine, and coming at the rate or' about 40 mile an hour. On the flat considerable pace was lost, the engine ultimately obtaining command j within about two hundred yards of the station. Information has been reoeived j that Potter, a railway servant, was down the line on a velocipede trolley when he heard the truck coming, and h:id only jufet time to jump off. The truck oulljded with the trolley, throwing it over Potter's leg. The extent of his injury is not known, but it is thought he only received a few bad bruises,