LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 204, 14 September 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I ill el' of Major Coyler, the othjer 111 charge ot lan the Auckland and Wellington submarine is mining stations has retired from the do public service. i n A petition in favour of a school at p. Vugelrown is in circulation, and has al- ea ready been sigued by a large number of vf residents. p t In connection with the Star Club's ~0 Social on Tuesday night, Mrs D. O'Brien a has kindly Oonsontid to nresent the Senior . and Junior Challenge Shields, won by the 'Star Club. The presentation will take ra place at 1015 p.m. v; The "Wellington Post" says that J" Judge Chapman was offered a Judgeship " by the Atkinson Government in 1889, but bi could not see his way to accept 011 that of occasion." This is pretty good proof that m political motives do not come in with the p present Government in making the ap- a , pointments. c( The principal items in the cargo taken j to Africa from the colony by the subsi , dised steamer Suffolk were—97o2 caroases ! mutton and lamb, 8152 sacks oats, 2920 . boxes butter, and 2824 sacks bran. K The Fatea railway station was lit with c f electricity for the first time on Friday night says the " Press.'* The novelty 0 E was a decidedly pleasing one, and was '< noticed not only by the local residents, t " but by passengers on the express train. n Bv an Order-in Council blackleg (nymp- s tomatic anthrax) has been declared a d disease for the purp»ae of the Stock Act, • 1893, f Mr Justice Oonolly was 81 years of ] age on Monday. When in Gisborne last j he expressed himself that August had < = been his eventful month. He was born in August, mirrierl in August, called to . the bar in August, made Minister of Justice in August, aud he thought he would * 5 most likely die in the month of August. ' ° Kurupo Tareha, who has just won the ( I New Zealand Amateur Golf Champion- ' 5 ship, was born in H&wkes Bay, his father < - being the Maori chief Henare Tomoana, 1 at one time a member of Parliament. •0 Tareha and his brother were membi rs of . the Maori Contingent sent Home to the , Queen's Jubilee celebrations. He is a (ousin of Mrs G. P. Donnelly, daughter J. of the late Renata Kawepo. Nicolaus, Jg the runner up for the championship, is a cadbt on f>, station in the Palmerston = North district, and is only nineteen years at of age. Mr Gilruth does not think that Taranaki is more subject to disease amongst cattle than other parts of the colony. Sir Thomas Lipton, the owner of Sham rock 111., Ins a business house in New York, in addition to more thin 400 others in various pvrts of the globe. Ho is a contractor for the Army and Navy ; he B kills hogs in Chicago ; he makes ginger ale in Dubiin ; he has warehouses in Calcutta and Colombo j he sells tea in New ;e, York, and he makes jam and all sorts of d, other things in London. Our readers are reminded of the meeta ing to be held in the Whitely Memorial •s School-room this evening, of the W.C.T.U., when Mrs Atkinson, Presi dent of the N.Z. W.O.T.U. and others will deliver an address. All interestel in _ Temperance work ,?re.invited to attend. At Gisborne on Saturday, a dscree nisi was granted in the divorce case in which Elizabeth Hick was petitioner, and Francis Hick respondent. The evidence showed lhat the husband left his wife and five children, and was living with w ■ another woman. d- The Star of New Zsaland took from ed Gisborne 17,000 carcases of mutton, 100 3d bales of wool, and 15 oasks of polts, 0- Mr W, F. Brooking has been appointed by the de'egate of the local Master Builders' he and will proceed to Dunedin in a few j g days to attend the forthcoming conference at Dunedin. j s We understand that Mr J. B. Oonnett - f has resigned his seat on the Borough . Council. It is also rumoured that another Councillor is retiring. • u j The following advertisement from a , Southern paper is distinctly rich en Wanted, capable girl for dairy farm, able to milk. Four good looking sons in as family. At the sale of the Patea Poultry Oompany's purebred poultry yesterday fail )w prices were, on the whole, reilised, in though smno breeds were neglected, he Houdins brought from 10j per pair, Buff c f Orjiingtons from 5s to 12a, Langshans 10*, Q£ i tis to 12s, Inriiain Game 4s 61. There wore no Plymouth Hooks nor Leg* ,as horns effared. Pekin ducks made from sa 12 jto 201 per pair. The sundries realised b« somewhat low prices. Mr W. Cowern in- was the auctioneer, ic-s I