NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 17 March 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Shareholders in the James Uillespie Company, of Melbourne, have decided upon going into voluntary liquidation.

The Sonoma, which sailed from Auckland on the 20th, Willi the outward 'Frisco mail, arrived at 'Frisco on the 15th at 1 a.m.

The business at the conference of thw New Zealand branuh of the llritish Medical Association, now sitting ink Wellington, is conducted in camera.

The New Zealand Fl-ourmillers' Cooperative Association (Limited) announces (says the Lyltclfon Times) that the price of pollard has been raised to £4 per ton, an advance of

The Dannevirke Advocate suggests an amendment of the Act which will provide for the proper advertising of the name of every person ugainst whom a prohibition order is gruntfcd.

The School Commissioners visited Kit-hum to-day in connection with the proposal of the Eltham Jlorough Council to take certain land from one of Hie Commissioner's reserves (or a septic tank.

We hear in connection with the coming -harvest festival to be held in Whileley Church that the Indies who have undertaken the decorations are using every ell'ort to make their part of the service a. success.

The first two fruit steamers of the season have arrived at llobart, and will take to London 20,000 cases of apples. Twenty-three, other steamers are to follow during the next three weeks. The exports of fruit for the season amount to 500,000 cases.

There was a merry laugh on the grandstand nt the Stratford races yesterday when Dr. Paget, who rode into second place on his own mount Hindoo, came forward lo receive the trophy presenlyd by the wife of the President, Mrs Paget. Jf was an unique occurrence.

Mr S. Hrooks yesterday showed a News representative a line "lircnt Western" camellia bloom. The forwardness of the flowers this season is remarkable, and Mr Hrooks slates that in thirty years' experience in tho district he has never known the camellia to bloom so early. A little boy named Raymond Stanley, eighteen months old, died at Auckland from a gunshot wound accidentally inflicted by his brother, aged 11. The children got possession of a loaded revolver, which went off, the bullet indicting a severe wound in the shoulder.

His Worship the Mayor canvassed the town yesterday for guarantors for the Christmas Carnival and Inhibition. He was only out for an hour and a hull', and in that time secured £775, which shows that the people of New I'lymouth are in oarnest übout the Carnival. Mr Cock says there should be no -difficulty in obtaining a guarantee of £2000.' . During his recent tour in the North I Auckland district, the Minister for Lands found that settlement was. being retarded through the large area of Maori laud which is lying idle, and also through the absence of good roads. The local bodies derive no revenue from the native land, and are averse to spending I money on roads which would benefit the Maori property. Mr A. G. Hasell, tent and oilskin maker, bus a notice in another column, which should be of special interest to fanners in view of the approach of winter. Horse and cow rugs are among Mr llasell's special Hems of manufacture, and as farmers and dairymen an- each sear taking greater cure of their slock Mr Jlasell will doubtless lind a ready demand for his goods. JI is proposed to abolish the existing system of franking letters, parcels, and telegrams on public service, and in lieu thereof such letters, parcels, and telegl'ams are t„ in- paid for by means of official stamps, the cost of which will be charged to an amount to be appropriated. Each Department is now being requested to furnish a statement, giving the estimated cost of postage for next, financial year, calcuculaled on postal rate of one penny for each half-ounce, and lor book post matter (printed papers, etc.) of tlntcopcnco per lb., and also the estimated cost of telegrams during next liiaucal year, calculated on the rate charged to the public for ordinary and urgent, telegrams.

Hie statement of the Premier iu his speech at Owakn, that li er for the Wellington Town Hall has been unpolled from America, has alirarled some attention j„ the city. 'the luct is (writes the N.Z. Times) that Jregoti pine has been used for (he extensive roof of the Town J (tt || ; I.'"' ouiinces on the part of a considerable quantity of , h a. <jm _ her is being employed for b.iiklin.,Purposes in Wellington. It j s ux t Pained that builders are able U, obtain longer lengths of Orco-on l»ne than of the N PW Zea lai „, h . , Pine and that tho Oregon timber is •it the same time cheaper than kauri One authority i„ t |, c building tl .„ ~ asserts that the p ,- hlci „ nl "i the use of New Zealand timber arises fn )m the high price of labour, and that for this reason the imported timber ie gaining in favour.

Tin! Fclltlin-g Borough Council is taking immediate steps to compel all bourding--hou.su keepers to erect balconies around their premises, and provide adequate, lire-escapes.

On a Held of the Merchison Estate, Rata, Wellington, there are at present 30 acres of rape, oil which over .10(10 lambs have been turned, and the crop was of such a strong and vigorous character that it is bard to- tell that lambs were ever on it.

A visiting angler has had a 151b trout caught in the Wainiakariri by his guide, mounted, and is sending it Home to Scotland, believing that Ids countrymen would never credit, his statement as to the size of the llsli unless it. was supported by the iish itself. No trout -'stories" for him ; but ••they'll line their dools" all the same.

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Primitive Methodist Church will take place this afternoon in Queen Slreet. Rev. John Nixon, the minister in charge of this circuit, will be assisted by Revs. Clover, Drake, Dawson, and Woolloxall, and a number ol gentlemen interested in the extension of church work will also take part. In the evening a social will be held to welcome Rev. T. Woolloxall to his new charge in New Plymouth. A pleasant, evening is anticipated.

■The engineer to the Westport Harbour Hoard says in his report on the new sand-pump dredge Ruby Seddon :—"She is not up to our specification us regards dealing with larger shingle, as our requirements were for a dredge to pump up shingle varying in size from 3in to join in diameter. For this purpose she is quite inefficient, the largest stone she is able to lift being Din by sin. In this respect, therefore, she entirely fails to comply with our requirements us submitted to the Government."

A survey of the gigantic linancial j operations of the London County Council is given in -a report prepared by one of its committee. The gross debt of the Council last September wns £59,785,557, and the assets amounted to £29,604,742. The net liability is, therefore, £3o,t 330,815. The capital expenditure on tramways alone is given as £lO,000,000. The sum approved, but not yet voted, for projected works is £4,840,00, and further, schemes about to lie .submitted by the Council for Parliamentary sanction ars estimated to cost £2,110,000. Lord Welby, who takes a prominent port in the management of llie L.C.C. fi-n-unce, says the total debt is lower, per rateable value, than that of any other great city in Kiifcland, excepting Liverpool. Money is scarce just now and people are complaining that thev me experiencing great difficulty in'placing their loans. The Provident Ruilding Society are offering excellent terms, and it would ouy intending borrowers to call oii ' the Secretary, Mr 11. A. Lennon, and see for themselves how easy things are made for them by the society.*

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Diseases or the skin. No case of disease of the skin, be its nature what it may, has failed to be benefited when these potent remedies have been properly applied. In .scrofulous and scorbutic allections they are especially serviceable. Scurvy and eruptions, which had resisted ail other modes of treatment, and gradually become worse, have been completely cured by llolloway's cooling Ointment and purifying fills, which roof out the disease from the blood itself, and leave the constitution free Irom every morbid taint. in the nursery llolloway's Ointment should be over at hand ; it will give ease in sprains, contusions, burns, scalds and infantile eruptions, and 'nuiy nlways safely be applied by anv ordinary attendant.*