LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 173, 24 July 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

[ Interesting reading matter will bo found on paga four of this issue. Last gas discount day to morrow, up to 4 p.m.

£outh-road Wesleyan Sunday School Anniversary Service, July 26th. The Rev. J. N. Buttle will conduct service at 3 p.m., and Rev W. Cannell at 7 p.m. Special hymn for the occasion by the children. All invited.

The Health Department states that the suspicious case of sicknuss on the Talune at Lyttelton turns out not to be of a serious or infectious character.

The Mitchel case, in which application was made by the Loan and Mercantile Company to the Appeal Court to rescind the order allowing Mitchell to appeal, was settled out cf Court, leave being given to appeal in forma pauperis, on condition that appellant gives up the house and land to E. E. Johnson by August 13th next.

Two Chinamen were fined at Wellington on Thursday £2O each and costs, for having opium for smoking in their possession One of the defendants is a leper, who is in quarantine. A full Bench dismissed the application to make absolute a rule nise for certiorari to quash the conviction of one, Thomaß Priske, for importing opium into the colony. The Court unanimously upheld the Chief Justice's ruling, which was ap pealed from, with £lO 10i coats.

After perusing the police report, and conferring with the Chairman of the Education Board, the coroner, Mr R. L Stanford, has decided to hold an inquiry regarding the fire which destroyed the Uruti School.

A satisfactory solution regarding the man Malum Divers was arrived at on Thursday, when the S.M. remanded him until to-day, when he will be taken to Woodville where his brother lives, who has promised to take charge of htm. "We learn that the S.M. has asked the Government to gives Magistrates power in such cases to commit to ihe Old People's Home, in which case the Board will have no power to refuse admittance. I At a public meeting held at Stratford oh Wednesday, it was decided to hold an [lndustrial Exhibition there, and a committee was set up to obtain guarantees. General Brailmont, a famous Belgian military engineer, has juso died at the age of 82. The following is the absolutely true text of the closing phrase of a letter of thanks addrnssed to an English M.P., who recently obtained a post for one of his constituents : " Now that I have got into the right track I hope I shall live 20 years, so that you may frequently have the pleasure of being again useful to me." The American dootors have discovered a man whom they expect to live 200 years. This man, though 25 years old, does not look older than a boy of four or five. He is 36 inches high, and weighs 35 pounds. At birth he was normal and weighed 10 pounds. His parents are ordinary, everyday, healthy porsons. His mental and physical growth suddenly stopped when he was five years old, and ire has only developed at one-sixth the natural pace since, so that to day the man of 25 looks no older than a boy of four or five. He eats but three meals a sleeps 24 hours at a stretch, and romps and plays for the same length of time before he retires. He is just learning the alphabet. He is developing in every way, but at only one-sixth the normal rate. As the years go by, they have only one-sixth the usual effect upon him. A social will be held by the Wesleyan C.E Society in the Whiteley Hall this (Thursday) evening at 7 30. A' good musical programme will be given. Refreshments provided. Admission 6d. Proceeds in aid of the Native Missionary in New Britain, who is supported by the Society. Ihe Vogeltown 'bus will run in and from the social.—«dvt. The new issue of the Providens Building Society was a decided sucoess, at might have been expected from the conspicuous manner in which it had made its way in popular favour. It is a most healthy indication that the number of applications were very much in excess of j the number of shares available, and is ] evidence of public appreciation of the: policy of the Directors in inviting appliations for the new series—Advc.