The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 190, 25 August 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting reading matter will be found on page four of this isau j. At Mr Hardy's sale at Vogeltown good prices were realised for most lines. The house and section (f acre) sold for £770, the purchaser being the Rev. H. J. Lewis. A deputation from the employers of engine drivers waited on the Premier on Monday to protest against service certificates being placed on the same footing as competency certificates. The Premier promised to consider the matter, but did not hold out much hope of altering the Bill. '.Che New Plymouth Parliamentary Union meets this eveninp, when the the principle items for discussion wdl be the " Technical Education Bill" and the committee on " State Fire Insurance Bill." The Speaker will take the chair at 7 30 sharp. The New Plymouth Harbour Board invite tenders for carting gravel. The Other Man's Business is to improve your appearance. Mason does that. Hairdressing Saloon, Brougham street, opens on Thursdays.—Advt. Owing to reported cases of plague at San Jranoisco, the mails which arrived in Auckland by the Ventura last evening were not allowed to be landed at the wharf, but were put on board a iighter, and will be fumigated before being despatched. TheTakapuna with the southern portion of the mail is expected to leave Onehunga at 7 a.m. to day. i Or. Wood considers that most of the ■ Borough Worka bear the appearanoe of having been started on Saturday, and omitted to be resumed on Monday. According to the Mayor, dogs in the Borongh are like tha geese that lay the golden eggs, and should not be killed, but the owners made to pay up. Most towns arc proud of a low death rate, hut it seelrn, according ti a discussion at the Boiough Council, that the low rate of mortality in New Plymouth does not furnish sufficient funds for improvements at the cemetery, although the ground is disposed at the r,\te of ifIOOO per acre. A subsidy would be far preferable to an epidemic. Ors Bellringer, Edmunds, and Collis were absent from the Borough Council i meeting on Monday, the two former owing to indisposition, and the latter in consequence of bereavement. A design for new Municipal buildings, drawn by Mr Maisey, was laid on the ! Borough Council table on Monday, but wbb not discussed. Guards. Company parade to-night, ( Tuesday 25th. Fall in 7 30. Urill order, with leggings.—Advt. A. F. Hass was brought up at the Police Court on Monday morning on remand, i ch«rged with child desertion at Too-! ' woomba, Queensland, and again re--1 manded pending tho;arrival of a constable who wi'l take him tc Australia. I At Napier on Monday a man named James Koorey, a fancy goods dealer, was committed for trial for a criminal assault i on a girl under 14 years of age. ! The Christchurch butchers aro holding ■ aloof from the city abattoirs, and having i , their moat killed by the freezing companies. Tho Council will take a test case to compel the companies to use the I abattoirs in killing for local consumption. Last Thursday's " Gazettee " contains] the appointment of Mr A. H. Holnr.s as Clerk of,tho Court at Wellington ; Mr W. A. D. Banks as Clerk of the Court at; New Hymouth and Sheriff of Taranaki;! Mr R. W. Hornby as member of (he N Plymouth Harbour Board. Also noti-' 1 fvingthe Minister's approval of the New' Zealand Kxpress Company's buildiii" in' St. Aubyu-strenc as a boml-storo. > The Australian press publishes ab- '< stracts from reports of cures of consump-' tion by means of inhalations of Eucalyp. tus Oil. It must not be inferred from these publications that tin common Eucalyptus Oil is tho agent employed. The essence of the leaves ia tho unsdicv : ment used. The experiments ware mada with Sander and Sons' product, and bear additional evidence of its ofti«cy long since established over the entire civilized globe. The best way of using it is to put 8 drops with a cupful of boil Tun water, and inhale the arising stoaiu ~ I Adit.