The Daily News MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXV, Issue 183, 17 August 1903, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will fce found on page four of this issue. „ _ The Provident Building Society wit] isßue & now series of shares next month, and, in accordance with the liberal policy they have laid down, the directors invite applications for shares from the public. Forms will be supplied by the seoratary, Mr H. A. Lennon, and applications must bs lodged witti him before the sth Sep teraber.— 5 dvfc. 17,19,21 Mr T. Parsons informs us (Eketahuna Express), that a portion of next yeai'e output of the New Zealand Dairy Union, has beeu disposed of at 9 very satisfactory figure. This is thought i to be the first sale of next season's butter ■' that has been made in the colony. ~ . At the last meeting of the Inglawood a. Borough Council, it was decided, on the , motion of Or. Brown, to rename SBveral streets, the names being Rata, Rimu, Matai, Tawa. Kow»i, Maire, Mahoe, Miro, J Hinau. Puketea, Kahikatea, and Konini- ■ streets. A strange collection, surely, bven for Inglewood. The foundation stone of the new Anglican Church in Eltham was laid by Arch--3 deacon Cole on Tuesday afternoon. .. Canterbury has the reputation of sending to the House men with fads, State bankers, prohibitionists, laud nationa lizers, single taxers, women suffragists, anti-vaccinationiats, Eleotive Executive supporters, barmaid abolishers, cto. etc. hail from Canterbury. Qhey also dabble i- in certain social matters, suoy as the C.D, 1 Act. They are known in the House as " The Sin Squashers." The Stratford people have recently been served with their rate notices under ■ the rating on unimproved value system Some people are snorting with indig- _ nation at finding a heavy increase in their rates, while others are chuckling with delight at getting oft so easily. Like all other systems of taxing the unimproved value system doss not work perfectly. A system that will please everybody never will be devised. The " Eginont Settler " says: We feel suro that Mr Joa MQOJuggage's many friends will be pleased to hear that he is - able to get about again* xlis injured knee is, however, anything but well, and still causes Mr McCluggage much pain. We uadet stand it will be some time before he will be ukle to walk with any degree of comfort. We are glad to notice that Mr Jennings' representations are bearing fruit, and that the work of extending the railway ® platform is now in hand, the benefits of which will be fully appreciated by railway travellers who have to get on or off at this station.—" Record." The "New Zealand Times" saysi "During his visit to Wellington the Mayor of New Plymouth (Mr JR. Cock) has made it his business to interview several members of Parliament, and explain to them the needs of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, .and the necessity of the empowering Bill, now before the j House, becoming law. The mail train which failed to reach New Plymouth on Friday evening did not reach New Plymouth till 12 noon 011 Sunday, surely a record trip. The cause of the delay was a slip on the Manawapo Hill, abont eight miles south of Hawera ' sli P bein 8 reported at Hawera,' Mr Day promptly sent down a relieving train, and beyond the delay of having to change trains, passengers and mails were none the worsß for the mishap, and ar- ! rived in Hew Plymouth at. 9.30 p m. The mail train came in the following morning on the line being cleared. A public meeting at Stratford on Friday decided to hold an Industrial Exhibition in the first woek of February, 1905. Messrs Ambury Brothers notify that their stocktaking sale will be continued till the 29; h inst,, and that many iob lines are being sold at half price. At a publio meeting held at Straiford it was decided unanimously to protest against any alteration in the railway time table, excepting in the direotion of providing an extra train to return daily between Wanganui and New Plymouth A reminder is given of the unreserved sale by auction to-day, by Mr Newton King, of Mr A. H. Holmes' superior furniture and effects, including a piano by and Sons. A Serious outbreak tint is supposed to be scarlatina has taken plaoe at Oputauia Mahia, and ten native ohildren are said to 1 have died. A Gisborne doctor has been 1 instructed to report on the epidemio. 1 The Federal Exeoutive has authorised the purohase of eight million rounds of 1 cartridges from the Colonial Ammunition < Company,