LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 221, 14 October 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interesting readins: matter will befound on page four of this issue. Entries for United Band of Hope competition close with Secretary (Mr S. B. Hulbert), Saturday October 17th.— Advt.

Mr James Sanderson invites tenders for tho enction of a school ac Puaawakau.

Settlors at Whangarai cannot supply the creameries, as the wet Spring is keeping the roads in a bad state, although milk supplies are plentiful. On Saturday next Mr Newton King will sell by auction at the mart the goodwill uf lease of two sections in the Whiteley Township. This is an investment that should attract purchasers. A consignment of 10,000 rainbow trou'; from the Masterton hatcheries has been placed in the rearing ponds at tho Rec reation Grounds.

On Saturday Mr Newton King will sell by auation a whalaboat, tully equipped, with sail and oars, also a dingey and shed, the whole being the property of Mrs James Butterworth Jull particulars will be found in the advertisement in this issue. This is a chance that rarely happens, and there should be good competition.

Tho Education Board is calling for applications for vacant teacherslnps at Tiko rau«i, Oakura, and Inglewoxl Full details appear in another column. The Auckland San 'Fruiiisco despatch of 11th September, and the Jfrtloaurn'aBrindisi iloipatoh of 9;h September, both arrived in L mdon oa lOch insb. In the course of hii sermon at St. Mury's Cathedral on Sunday night. Bishop Neligan referred to tha death of Arch deacon Govatt, of New Plymouth. The Bishop spoke of tha Arehdeac id as a Christian Imperialist, a scholar, a Ohris-f thin, a gentleman, a trusted friend, and a "eneroua benefactor. His death loft the Church militant poorer, and the Church triumphant richer. '' May perpetual shine on him."

A sailor from the Papanui was sentenced at Wellington on Tuesday to six mouths imprisonment for stealing four pair of stockings and a pair of boots from the nold of the vessel. The Chief Justice at Wellington on Tuesday granted a deoroe nisi in the divorce suit of Mary Baker v. Rawiri R-.ikatau, an aboriginal native of Waitara Applicant married respondent when six teon years old, and he lived with her for only a month. Lieutenant Herd, bandmaster of the New Zoalatid Band, arrived at Wellington by the Athenic on Tuesday. He declined to speak as to management 'of the band,- but statod that tho tour had been a «r«at n:uucd success, said they were all sorry it ha I been a iiuancial failure.