LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 227, 22 October 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Intetoating reading matter will befound on page four of this issue. We understand that tha vendors of Yeale's esta'e intend to offor the public a treat by allowing marquees to be erecced on the property free of cost at the expiration of the present lessee's term 'I hat this will be a boon to those not in the best of health, and linn? in a low lying situation is without doubt, thenonly cost being the rental of the tents. Mr Frank Messenger invites tenders for painting a house in St. Aubyn-street. Mr E. T. Potty announces a clearing sale of his large stock of furnature, carpets, linoleums, crockory, and glassware. Having disposed of his business he is open to any reasonable offer for hia goods, which are of first class quality, the timber used in the furnature being all guaranteed well seasoned. Su :h a favourable opportunity should not be missed, and as the sale will only be for a short while, no time should be lost in securing bargains. A private c:.ble received in Auckland states that a £ro occurred at the theatre at Durban, and that the Pulkrd Company was burnt out.

in. cable from London announces the death of the celebrated artist Mr J 0 Horsley, R.A. The Canadian Commissioners refuse to sign the AJaakwi award No one disputes the fact that you can get the beet value and the best choice in engagement; rings, keepers, and weddinprings at J. H. Parker'*, Matchmaker and jeweller, next the Railway Crossing, Devon-street, New Plymouth. N.B —A good prasent with each wodding rin» Myt. °" JEhe Skeates Cycle Company call special attention to tasir advertisement on pa»e u * Jff' inw kiohthey advertise the Mew Hudson Cycle. Thousands of these machines were bought by the War Office for use in South Africa, and the Postal Department have ordered thou i sands more for deli\ery of letters all 'through tne Kingdom. This speaks .volumes for the New Hudson Machines also call attention to the Skeates' machmS w £ls 15s, with a free wheel and plated nA>§. Anyone in want of a b,cycle would do well to gi ve Spates and Company a call. ' y ".~ J

Ihere tolan excellent attendanee I<atj J evening of the combined choirs, in con- ! i nation with the performance of the ora Jtoria .' J*das Macabaeus." The praotice | w -hs taken wl£ .Utyli.|&t;:a{ accompaniment, -. nd 'he result si'J™* « Jwgei i amount of persevering work has been into the project. Mr G. H. White (choirmaster, Whiteley Church) oonduoted, and he must be gratified with the assurance of a successful performance.

The Railway Department inform us that a specisl train will bo ran to the Breakwater at 2 30 p.m., returning at 4.30, to enable the public to visit the Northern Comuany's new steamerßarawa. An Eltham townsman the other day received a cheque for 8 J, being the first and lirnil dividend in a bankrupt estate. The liuforfeunato creditor lud to pay fid exchange on the cheque, Id postage for sending the receipt, which left him the muniiicient sum of one penny.—Argus. There are now stored in the refrigerat ing rooms of tho V7ellin?ton Meat Export (Company no fewer than one hundroi'' thousand dozen eggs—nearly a million and ■ a quarter. For last month's milk frotn-18 cows. Mr E. Knight, one of the suppliers of the Poverty Biw Factoey, received a cheque for L 25 sa. The herd from which such fin excellent return was obtained are chiefly of the Shorthorn and Jersey breeds. In Auckland a dairy committee fixes prices weekly, last week it fixed the pricos of batter and eggs for the current week as follows: —Factory butter, best brands, lOd to lid per lb ; farmers' ■separator or diiry make, first grade 81 ; second grade 7d; eggs, 8d per dozen wholesale, i Tht new railway timetable, for the ! Wellington-New Plymouth section and j the Wellington-Napier section will (says the "Post") come into operation on Ist j December, ]So alteration will be made 'with the running of the express trains, i but the goods and mixed train services on both sections will be considerably improved. The midget yacht Kia Ora, in which Mr Buckridge left Auckland last Sunday to sail round the world, has had but a short career, having pone ashore on the rocks at Point Rodney. Mr Buckridge wired that there was little hope of saving I the boat, but that he and his companion were safe. Mr George Aldridge, the well known evangelist and lecturer, who for the past 20 years ha 3 been minister of the Church of Christ, West street, Auckland, will conduct a short mtsßion here, starting on Friday, October 30th. Particulars in later issue.

The Maggie Moore Company concluded their seanon hero on Wednesday night with " The Widow from Japan." The performance was most eirjoyablo, and was quite up to the high standard of tho previous productions-