LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 211, 2 October 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

r lnteresting reading matter will befonnd on page four of this issue. Messrs Medby and Rundle report the sale of 20 acres and house, situated on Smart-road, to Mr Brangrove. The Customs duties received at Auok land in September shows a decrease of L 15,257, as compared with September last year, and is tiiu lowest recorded there for three years. In the Arbitration Court at Wellington on Thursdav, a number of employees were fined sums foom LI to LlO for breaches of awards. Trains leave New Plymouth station for the Breakwater, connecting with steamers mentioned below as follows: 6 a.m Rotoiti (from north), 8 a m., Takapuna (from south); 11 20 am. Rotoiti (for B9uth); 820 p.m., Takapuna (for north) The "Daily Express " Kew York correspondent says that Professor Lorez's bloodless operations have proved a failure. When the plaster oasts were removed from patients in four out of eight cases, the limbs were found to be gangrenous, two fresh amputations being re quired. One patient is dying, while Lolita Armour, who is under treatment, is unable to walk. Ihe Borough Council invite tenders , for electric light and power installation I complete. j The Minister of Railways informed a i deputation which waited on him relative j to objections to certain of the new regu~ latious, that the staff was too large to permit everybody to ride in first class cars, and that with regard to compensation payments, it was necessary to have some uniform system. In a telegram to Mr 0. B. Bellringer on Thursday, Mr E. M. Smith states that he had interviewed Sir Joseph Ward, who said that the money for the new pnst office is on the estimates, and the work will be proceeded with in front of the Government buildings. Mr Smith has been promised a tracing of the plane which are being prepared. Lord Strathcona, in the course of an interview, inplied that the proposed fast steamship service between Canada and England was delayed to considar the pos sibilities of turbine steamers. The '' Daily Mail" states that Mr Robort Davies, shipowner, of Menai Straits, has bequeathed L 135,000, invested in English railways, to Oalvinisth Methodists in the Khasl Hills, India. My pa buys the MoOormick,— Advt. As the outcome of a conference between the chairman of the Hawera County [ Council (Vlr Winks), and the Cttairrnan | of the Taranaki Hospital Board (Mr risoh) relative to payment of the rate due by the Egmonfc County, the question in dispute is to be referred Auditor^Qeneril,

At t! ii of hub cf the c<M:il yesterday, IviwuiV.s snid ll rot | part of his duty 10 onforco tho lie many laws, but it certainly seemed to him that there wore at leasrt two hotels in Strutford which required the attention of the police. It \v»s this sort of thing which caused t-he outcry against licensed houses, which would suuiiov or lator lead to their boing closed altogether, unless a very great reform in the manner in which they were conducted, was effected. The members of the Bar have asked His Honor Justice Edwards to attend a banquet, which will be held on an even* j iug to bo iixed if His Honor accepts the j invitation. t i