LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 188, 11 August 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I Inferesung reaomg matter will le fount i on iwy« lour ot this issue. : Good progress is being made with th< Karaka railway, the first pile of the bridgi ! over the KaiteretakibeingduvenonSatui j day, and initial piercing of the hill for tin j tunnel at Kaiaka was completed on Mori day. It is expected the section will Ik completed in March next, and a con , Biderable amount of timber trade it \ already developing. I At Timaru, for supplying liquor othej ; than to bona tide travellers on Sunday two country hotelkeepera in that elec torate were fined £2 and £3 respectively. i Trains leave New Plymouth Station for the Breakwater connecting with eteamera mentioned below as follows:6 a.m., Rotpiti (from north): 9 a, ra . Wainui (fiora south), 11.20 p.m', Botoiti (for south); 820 p.u., Wainui (for north),

The principal business before the Parliamentary Union this evening in a' debate on a motiou of "want of confi-j deuce" in the Government, which, if i defeated, will be followed by the second J reading of a Bill to prohibit further sale of Crown lands. As the Society has been somewhat languishing of late, it is hoped that every .nembsr will stretch a point to be present this evening. Sir Robert FitiUv, Attorney-General, stated in the House of Commons that the Direotor of Public Prosecutions was considering the prosecution of E. T. Hooley as two Judges in recent case 3 had described his action as fraudulent,.

Phil May was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Kensal Green. There was a t;L'eat gathering of journalists, including Longstatf and lorn Roberts, the Australian artistj.

Mr Tom Woodard, a well known member of Mr Newton King's staff, made his initial appearance as an auctioneer on Monday. Mr Rowan, tho Stock inspector, was c tiled in by Mr K I ward Sole, of \Vusmwii to inspect a bulli'ck th it died suddenly on Saturday, and pronounced tho ciuse of

'cuh to be anthrax All precautions have been taken to prevent the spread

■ f ilia disease The outbreak is attributed to tho use of bone-dust for turnips. Sitting in his civil jurisdiction on .Monday, Mr Stanford, 8..M , gave judgment, for plaintiff in tiie following cases : Hooker v. Lam-ant. lis 6J and costs 7*, name v. A. G. Bishop 10s an I costs os, Hospital Board v. McQnyL22 121 and costs L 3 12, same v. W. C Wall Lo 16s and costs 25i 61, same v. S. Berge 18 15s and co9ts 25s 6J.

In tho S.M. Court on Monday, a witness said a motor car was running very fast, as fast as a train running free. The S. NT. said that was not very complimentary to the rcotor car. At his mart on Saturday, Mr Newton King sold by auction three farms at Stony River, in the estate of the late William Bayly. Lot B, 248 ac 3r., with homo.stead, was bought by Mr W. D. Linn at £l9 per acre ; L-Jt A. 248 ae., by Mr John Carey at Ll9 10j por a:re ; and Lot 0, 212 ac, by Mr Andrew Gray at £l7 per acre.

The Auckland-San Francisco despatch of July 10th, arrived in London on 9:h inst.