LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 216, 8 October 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Inteiß3ting reading matter will hefonnd on page four of this issue. McCortnick rake gathers all hay, just tell the McUormick agent you want one. —Advt.

Entries for United Band of Hope competition slose with Secretary (Mr S. E. Hulbert), Saturday October 17th.—Advt. 14 In this issue Messrs Bewley and Griffiths announce that they will sell by auction a splendid lot of crockery and enamel-ware on account of the New Plymouth Co-operative Society, the Society being forced to reduce its stock, owing to having leased the portion of the premises hitherto devoted to the crockery department on advantageous terms. I his is an unusual opportunity of securing articles of every day use, which aro always requiring replacing, and should ba largely availed of. The crockery is ot excellent description, having been imported by the Society. Mails despatched from Melbourne via Naples on September 2nd, arrived in London on the sth inst.

The " London Daily News " has been enlarged to 16 pages, and a special mornins: train has been started so that tne paper may be on sale in Birmingham and other Midland cities by half past six in the morning. Andrew Couper, charged at Wairoa with arson, was remanded to Napier on Wednesday.

A 35 foot launch for Waikaremoana will shortly be brought from Auckland to Wairoa, and as Boon as the mere and cieeks are bridged, the Napier-Wairoa Motor Oar Ouimmiv intend to run c-irs from Nai>ier to WitiUaremoana. }Jr Butcher is going home with a view to purchasing an up-to date plant. ThaNiivaru was expected out of dock on Wednesday, and ro start to load, arriving at Napier about the 18" h for a cargo. The work has been carried out in a satisfa :tory m inner. The striKing on lie rocks off Napier Breakwater means ■:hat the Niwaru's first cost is not less than L 25.000.

We would remind our readers that tho ■Me for receiving entries for tho forthcoming Band of Hope contest is Saturday October 17th, the Secretary also wishes ■,o acknowledge the gift of 10s fr -m an anonymous donor towards the piizj fund. We need hardly nay that this is quite a novelty of an unusually attractive nature, and its educational valuo is very We feel sure the interest the contest is exciting will lead to excellent results, besides producing a desirable amount of emulation amongst our young people. For the vacancy in the representation ■if the East Ward of the Borough Council, owing to Mr Stanloy Smith's resignation only one candidate, Mr Burgess, was nominated, and he >vas therefore returned unopposed. Mr Smith decided not to ro offer his Fervices at this juncture, and we understand that the resolution which was the cause of his resignation will be tho subject of a motion at to day's meeting of the Works' Committee. For 1 tmuenzii and Oo.ld m tho Read 'take Woods' Great. Pappeitaint Cure, Is 6d and 2e6d. —Atfvfc,

The Rev. G. H Cole completed his evangelistic mission in Auckland last evening. He will arrive in Mew Plymouth by steimer on Friday morning, and nny be expected to bo present at the meeting for prayer in the afternoon at Whituley Hall. He will also conduct a preparatory meet ins; ou Friday evening in the same building, and confer with mission workers aftor the meeting. Considerable interesf is hninj; taken in the mission, and Mr Cole's visit will doubtless occupy a good deal of public attention next,week. Li the Supreme Court at Palmerston North on Wednesday, Alice Maushan, of i V/oodville, was awarded L 250 damages and oosts avainsfc James Siuclair, platelayer, also of Woodville, for breaoh of I promise.