NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Borough Council meets on Momday evening. The Pope has taken the last step towaeds the Deatifk'tution of Joan of Are. The Stiatkud Dramatic Clllib is to put (an a piece at the Hawi'ra ExilvlIwtioii. The Stratford Dairy Factory is new turning out 111 boxes of butter daily. The bad weather of the past fewdays has spoiled a (fuautity of hay not saved in time. Ah a result of the extreme cold in New York fifteen deaths were recorded on Tuesday. A number of Chiistchurch athletes left last evening for the Amateur Championship Meeting at Wellington. \V. K. Muson, of Wellington, won the Chess Chaimphmshjp on Friday in the play o!T uith J. Mason.

The arrivals in New Zealand during November were 2953 and departures L 21.8, against 81)10 and 957 lust year. A labourer named Algernon Edward, suicided by cutting his throat in his hut at. Taihape on Friday morning. His insurance policy was found to have elapsed. The several bowling teams proceeding to A,ucklan|d for the tournament opening oil Monday were passengers for the northern city by the Karawa last night, Pas'.seii'gers by the ltaiawai stated that the run down from Onehunga o# Thursday night was a particularly rough one, the steamer falling in with the heavy gale which blew that nigtht.

The Stratford Vast stales tl.al, Mr Btlid'ge, District Stork Inspector, giave some inteiesl i[];' demo-nKtra-tions of the treat nK'nt of cows for tdie prevention of alxurtion at Toko on Wednesday.

The Tauhei Block, Woodlands estate, Hamilton, with flax growing on it, estimated at 10,(J00 tons, luis been purchased by Messrs Clifford and i'urlour, flaxmillers, Morrinsville, for £7,500.

The Paris Socialists have expelled Alexandra llillerand, a Socialistic Deputy lor Seine, because lie declined to support a motion that France should initiate a system of disarmament.

Baldwin's blast furnaces, and steel works near Swansea are to stop operations to-day. Three hundred ami fifty hands have been paid off. Tlqis is owing to the over-production and dumping of iron 'in England.

At a meeting' of the general committee in charge of arragenwnts forthe Tnranaki Hides' bazaar held >esterday, the date was fixed for Thursday, April 14th. The ladies are hand at work preparing for t'he event, wlrioh promises to to a great success.

On the evening of Christmas Day, says tl»e Kawhia Settler, Messrs' Bell Bros, avid Hoss, ol' "Mura-kou, win# are amongst the most enterprising of the local settlers, were unfortunate iin losing by fire abmit £l5O worth of dressed flax, which was in baU-s and l-eaidy for shipment.

Mr McAllum, secretary of the Tara'reaki AccJimaiti'Siitian Society has just returned from WeUingUV, ijig l with him twelve pheasants and four widgeon, part, of the coneignm<ent lamJivi from the Corinth ie recently. 'I ho pheasants have been liberated, and the widgeons placod in the New Plymouth' Kwrea/tion Qrousvds.

A somewhat important nnvst has been made at Motupiko in connection with a man calling himself Cripps, who is with stealing £7 from his employer, a Mr Druuimond. After a long lapse on the hills a clever capture was effected at the point of the revolver. It then transpired that Cripgjs is a man named Madigan, against whom a warrant has been out since 1892 for, alleged theft ol £B6' from the Hastings post office.

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