The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 232, 28 October 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

•Inteteiting reacting matter wiJl ha found on page four of this issue, Messrs Bewley and Griffiths report hav , fc s? P ro P ert y adjoining Mr S. B. whites, Devon-street, now occupied by Mr Lumsden, to Mr d. Dallaghan, at a satisfactory price. Mr Charles Clarson, architect of Hawera, invites tenders for tna erection of an isolation ward at Hawera Hospital, An application for provisional licenses to sell liquor at the Caledonian games, show, and races at Invercargill, was re fused by the Licensing Committee on Tuesday. After eight woeks of almost continuous fitiQ weather in Southland, agen&ral warm raiu has set in. The crops are looking splendid. The season is fully two months earlier than last year. Cr Bdlringer has given notice to move that the Jiast End baths and plantation reserve be placed under the control of a committee consisting of the members for the ward, and others to be nominated by the Council. That the present grazin" tenancy be determined, and the plantation ba not again let; and that a committee wait on the next meeting of the Garrison Band with a view to formulating a scheme for the Council to be represented on the Band, the eommittee to consist of the Mayor, Crs. Carter, Tisch, and the mover. The Melbourne-Brindisl dispatch of mails of 23rd September, arrived in London on 25th inst. The Borough Council notifies plumbers and drain layers that they are required to take out licenses before 26th November next, and that provisional licenses will be granted to plumbers of not less than ten years standing in the trade. The Egmont National Park Board will hold its next meeting at the Dawson Falls House in December, and will inspect that and the Stratford house on the occasion. A locomotive engine has expression (remarks the "Saturday Review") and this more than anything gives it person ality. Look at an engine, and yeu see at once that one looks noble, simply noble in its strength ; another gigantic in force, but not noble—an expression of mere brute strength. Some engines have a lofty, almost supercilious expression • others almost foolish. Some Imve an air of snug stoutness. Then there are engines ' that distinctly look angry ; and ethers comparatively gentle. Most of them of any size have a more or les3 commandin" expression. ° Speaking at Waitara the other evening, tha Rev. Mr Hammond, whose heart and soul is in the Maori mission work, was reports the ' Mail," very severo on the "prophets" of Parihaka, saying that their connection with the nativos had not one redeeming feature. He paid a tribute to the good work being accomplished by she Rev Mr Bennett, and also said the Wesleyau (Jhuich was putting some f,tu dents in the field in order to extend the missionary efforts. ; Arrangements have been made at the instance of the Tourist Department by : '■vhich steamer tickets issuod at (Jnehun«a 1 Plymouth will ba available for!' rsilherhne of steamers running between j' i lie Hvo ports. j! The tenders for the Ilenui bridi'e were ' - is follows: A. Pikitfc L 3450 h Boon Urns. L 3850, U. Rhodes and Com-i: >»ny 1.391!) l!)i, A. Reynoll L4ISI, ,).F. i> lolian L'l.io2, <}. li. Rhodes (concrete'' structure) L 7200. j, 2i_r ,!. A. ivJ acdonald is in town arrano. 1 ng forthe appearance here on Monday i 1 nd Tuesday oext of the talontod Black i ''amilv of musical outortainars. These lever artists have been receiving most p tvourable notices of their performances'. 6 The public meeting convene 1 by the 'j, favor relative to the railway iiuio tsble I tj Is,: bold to-morrow (Thui-sday) even- ~< ig at 8 o'clock. * \j