LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 182, 4 August 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will befound on page four of this issue. The gold escort last month from the West Coast was 14,8620z lOiwt, valued at i' 59,594 8s lid. For ten minutes William Davis, of Skokogee, United States, used bad language over the telephone. The exchange girl brought an action against him for moral and intellectual damage Slio was awarded £2 for each minute, or £2O in all. The " Napier Telegraph " s-iys there ian interesting curio on board the steamer Essex, now at that port. This is the carl in which the famous Gonoral De Wet travelled about South Africa during the late war. It is.consigned to Mr F. Dyer of Wellington, ' | Mr J. B. Oonnett was in Wellington [ last week in connection with the Ne* Plymouth Harbour B-,11. He thinks the ohances of its being passed are hopeful, seeing that it leaves tha power of voting I or not voting the money in the hands of : : the ratepayers. | At a meeting of the Borough Council Reserves Committee on Fndiy, authorit\ was given for the purchase of 250 native trees, and other shrubs for planting Reserve B, and at Woolcombe Terrace it being understood that the same would be guaranteed. A sub committee consisting of Ors Oollis, Brooking, Wyor Smith, and the Mayor was set up to re' port on the question of diverting the Huatoki stream by the Bgraont Mills and filling in the hollow. Ah application by Mr Brooking for permission to erect a tool shed at the cemetery was deferred < until the committee inspect the proposed ' lite. ]

The shorlago of gravel, and the diffi- j culty of obtaining same from the beach : caused considerable discussion at the; Works Committee of the Borough Council on Friday. The Mayor considered that ■the Harbonr Board would do well to cart up the gravel, dump it down at a secure depot, and sell it from there. Cr Bellringer advocated employing a man to look j out for, and report when gravel was available on the beach, and the Engineer was instruoted to make arrangements for •that purpose, As the outcome of representations from persons in country districts, the Post-master-General has decided that at

isolated places, where there is no branch of a bmk, cheques aggregating a filed amount, drawn by well known firms and settlers, may be c ished by the Post Office, provided the bank on which the cheques are drawn guarantees to honour them up to an amount to be fixed between the drawer, the bank, and the Post Office. It

has also been arranged that cheques by local bodies will be accepted, on the local body ooncerned indemnifying khe Post Office agaiusb loss through

forgery, or other fraudulent practices. Cheques will also be accepted under cer tain conditions as deposits for the credit of a Post OAL'6 Savings Bank account. A meeting of ladies willing to assist in arranging for a military baziar is convened for to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon at 3 30, at the Town Hall. , Mr Newton King announces that he is nowbnding baled wheat straw, which he omi supply in any quantity.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands notifies that nine sections of rural land in

the Cape, Upper Waitara, Mimi, Mahoe, and Kapara Survey districts, in areas from 163 to 1700 acres, will be open for seleotion on and after 12th inst. Mr James Sanderson invites tenders for the erection of additions to the teacher's residence at Urenui. Footballers Rnd others go to Mason's

Auckland !Hairdrdßsiug Saloon, Brougham ] street, next Miss Cottiers. Shaving Tickets, three for Is.—Advt. Some policeman have been arrested iu Grangemouth, Scotland, on charges of bsing implicated in systematic burglaries. The Tukapa Football Club's annual social is to be held at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday, September Ist. The Rotoiti left Onehunga at 8 p.m. on

Monday |with Lord Ranfurly and party,

and also the inward 'Frisco mail. She is due here at 7. o'clock this morning, and will sail for south at 830 a nv Train t:> connect at 8 a.m. In consequence of the dmcevery of further serious embezzlements of the WanganuTMunicipal Opera House funds, the Audit Department has been asked to send up an officer to investigate the accounts. The late manager, Priestly, has beoh committed for trial on several charges of defalcations, amounting to between £3OO and £4OO,

The services of the Ambulance Brigade ivere requsitioned on Monday evening, to :onvey an accident case to the Hospital, the sufferer was Miss Woods, who had the misfortune to fall through a tram l, rilge on the Durham-road, breaking

wrae ribs, and receiving internal injuries -he was attended to by Dr Harding, of [nglewood, and sent on by the afternoon '..rain. Owing to the wheels of the litter having been seat to Ohriatehuroh to be fitted with rubber tyres, the stretcher had ! o beoarried by means of shoulder straps. The usual monthly meeting of the Whiteley Ban! of Hope was held on Monday even'iig. Thew was a large a'jdienco, and a good programme was I submittedaifollows :—Piano duet, Misses | Ambury. and Okey ; Sons Miss Oonnett; | Recitation, Master Warren Oliver; Whistling Daati Messrs Roberts and' Type ; Sung, Mr Raven ; Address, Mr Christopher ; Song, Miss Shorney ; Piano | Duet, Misses Ramson and Oollis; Ad dresi, Rev. J. N Buttle ; Dialogue, Mrs Pikets. Miss Shorney, Messrs Nhipton and E Okey. Tha secretary announced that a Bind of Hope competition will be held at the end of October, and urged all Band of Hope children to compea. In all probability the best treat the | Parlimentary visitors had here was their visit of inspection of Mr J, Butterworth's oiirios. The whole party spent a considerable time examining this unique collection on Saturday evening, but unfortunately Mr Butterworth was unabla to ba present and do the honours of tho show personally. However, the visitors were thoroughly delighted with what they saw, and several of them again paid a visit on Monday, when they had the advantage of Mr Butterworth's expla nations, Nowhere else in the colony can suoh a fine collection of native curios be seen, ao that our late visitors will have good cause to remember with pleasure at lsast one attraction to be found in New Plymouth.

Mr A. D. Thompson, clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, has been appointed a Stipendary Magistrate, and will be stationed at Palmerston North.

' The majority of the Parliamentary visitors left by the mail traiu on Monday for Wellington.

Mr McLean, when speaking at the anti* Harbour meeting at Manaia, expressed the wish to have the opinion of the cap. tain of one of H.M.S. of Waron the plans for the New Plymouth Harbmr. When in Wellington the other day, Mr Oonnett, Chairman of the Board, was introduced to Captain Sealby, of the big liner Oorinthic, 12,280 tons. Mr Connett submitted Mr Napier Bell's plans to Captain Sealby, who belongs to the Royal Naval Reserve, and after a oareful examination of the plans, he expressed a very favourable opinion regarding them, and the praotiability of direct steamers loading and discharging at New Plymouth. Mr Oonnett, Chairman of the Harbour Board, says the ignorance regarding Harbour affairs is surorising. Many people have the idea that whan the loan maturos the rate will cease, quite forgotting that a new loan will have to be raised to meet the liability, Another idea is prevalent, viz-, that Now Plymouth ratepayers can swamp the country ratepayers la .voting power, if the Harbour Bill is carried, not recognising the fich that the New Plymouth ratepayers only number 806 out of 6 943 Mr Connett furthor says he does not intend to address ratepayers till the Bill is pissed. If the Bill is pissed, the true facts and prospects will be placed before lha ratepayers, who will then be a*knd to decide if an extension is to bo prooeaded with.

An alarm of fire was given lait night, but it turned out only to be a chimney on fire, which quickly went out. HOLLOW AY'd PILLS Fo? th 3 c ire of dvbility, al-o liver ard »tomich comolaints this inappreciable meriic'ne is so well known in every wt cfthi world, and the performed' by its use are so wonde fal, <liat it stinds preem'nent abewj all o'.h»r remedies, moro particularly for the core of bilious and liver i oomti'ain's, disO-rlnrs of tha storaioh, d 'opay, 'Wd debilitated constitution, The beneficial affects of the PiUa are so lasting Ih*t the who'e s'stetn is renewed, the organs of digestion strengthened, and a free respiration promoted. The' expel from tho s oretive orgies the morbid matter which produces inSimm«tion, pain, fever, debility, snd physical deo\v, thus annihilating, by their purifying properties, tho vimlenoa of the most piinful and devastating diseases.— •Advb.

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