NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 179, 2 August 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The formation of a Traderss' Association in Waitara is mooted. The Arbitration Court sits at Timaru to-morrow, proceeding thence to liunodin. The Egmont Brewery will in future observe Saturday as the statutory weekly half-holiday. 1 A meeting of subscribers to the Jlrown-Goveti memorial fund is to be held on Monday evening l next, in St. Mary's Hall.

"I am a total abstainer and neither touch think nor know the touch of tobacco."—Thais an applicant for ihe position of first assistant master at the Gisborne school. Ho was»ot the chosen one. Many thousands of young ducks and pukaki are yearly destroyed around Lake Ellesmore by hawks, and the Acclimatisation Society is being urged to adopt measures for the destruction of the birds of prey. It is stated by the Post that Messrs John Nathan and Co., of Wellington, have secuixwl the contract for supplying the New Plymouth Exhibition Committee witluWindmill corrugated iron for us« In their buildings. MrMcGowan has intimated that be reeagwises that the police fonie is not numerically strong enough for its duties, which, moreover, are being constantly added to by stature, and intends to ask Parliament to allow their numbers to be increased.

The classes in theory aind practice of plumbing', forming part of the technical education branch under the control of the local board, will lie held on Friday and Tuesday respectively, at places and times which are notified in another colunm During the 20 days from Ist April to 25th June last 1,941,538 tickets were isgned to passengers on all sections of the colony's railways, and 38,361 season tickets. The goods (exclusive oi parcels) carried during the same period totalled 1,038,802 tons. Messrs P. Moroney and Orbcll, who were appointed to inspect and value the Frnnkley lioad tannery site and the Fitzroy Bacon Factory on Ix-half of the promoters of the proposed new co-operative bacon curing company, are at present in town, and will visit the sites to-day.

The secretary of the Consumptive Annexe Committee (Mr J. C. George) has received from the secretary of the Wnngivnui " Hospital Saturday " movement, the boxes used in Wanganui. Arrangements for the local " Hospital Saturday " (flth August) are well forward. The Stratford Post reports that the local Acclimatisation Society is obtaining 200U Hainhow trout ova (sea run). Mf Jones, the curator, is very anxious to try his hand at imU'liiirig, and the Wellingiton Society very kindly gave Mr Sole, tire sec|retary, this consignment to experiment with. The official opening of the Mangnwhero Bridge is to tike place on Monday next. After the ceremony there is to lie a banquet. The Star is informed that Sir Joseph Ward cannot leave Wellington to open the Mangawhero bridge, and that the ActingMinister for Roads, Hon. J. McGowan, will probably perform the ceremony.

Our readers will notice an advertisement in this issue relative to the forthcoming visit of the representative of the Langston Institute. This institution has been esltaMishod in Melbourne since 1887, and under the direct management and supervision of its chief and founder, Surgeon Langston, has won a great reputation throughout the colonies for the treatment of special forms of disease. Owing to the amalgamation of the Colonial Piano Company and the local branch of Messrs H. Collier and Co., Mr I). Mclvinnon Bain, who has been manager of the company since lis inception, has retired and has decided to embai'k upon his own account in the same line of business as soon as suitable premises ar# procurable. Mr Bain has a host of musical friends from one end of the province to the otlier, and theee will be pleased to learn of his intention to open up business! upon his own behalf. The Mayor (Mr R. Cock) has received from Dr. Valentine, Assistant Chief Health Officer, the following telegram relating to the Government lluildingsi:—" You will have received .my wire ; it is impossible for me. to visit New Plymouth just, now. When 1 returned from my last visit, I rang up Public Works Department concerning thb condition of (he above huilnings. I understand there Is no chance of new buildings being; erected iinniodlaU'ly, but that a considerable ■'win has been set apart for repairs. The Under-Secretary also informed me that tho authorities were quite willing to make arrangements to relieve overcrowding, in certain departments, and to that end were prepared to lease offices in other parts of the town. I think you will agree with me it would be better to come to such nn arrangement than spend a good deal of money in ■tinkering' un old buildings. There is no doubt the department recognises the necessity oF erecting new Government Buildings m New Plymouth as soon as possible."