NEWS OF THE DAy.
, The Sierra arrived at Sun Francisco on t'ni' 2Slh at 3 a.m.
'■ Dalgety yr.u Co., Wellington, yester-', day ri'iv.'i-.l'd :l .'aide from ihi'ir Urn- I 'don office a« fi:lli)\vs : ■■llnLtor mar-j j kit quiet; prices im l Inured."
j The Wanganui Herald reckons that ! they have got a young gobtli'inau named Webb in that locality lit to measure oais with either Towns or Tressider.
Readers should note an advertisement elsewhere announcing <a spe cial boot nale at Chattel-ton's, commencing on Saturday next, September 3rd.
George Short, a young man, well connected, and hitherto of good reputation, has been arrested on a (barge of setting (ire to the Manukau Hotel.
The Hon. J. E. Jenkinson is of opinion that "a large number of J usticcs of the I'ence are not competent either to sit on the Ltench or to »it anywhere else." At the Supreme Court, Napier, Timothy Mcljuin, for assaulting Thomas Clifford, and causing actual bodily Inarm, was fined £2O and costs ; in default, wix months' imprisonment. The Tukiapa Football Club's social will be held on September 22nd. Mr Newton King advertises a stock of Sinclair's Champion and Parriball's carrot seeds, and Yellow Globe mangold seed.
A settler at Whangarei tried Schmidt's treatment, according to the Agricultural Department's leaflet, on a valuable cow. suffering from milk fever, and a complete cure was effected in twenty-five minutes. A resident of Ashiburton recently received a letter from Christchurch, with no other address Uian his own
pho'ograph and the word "Ashburton." The postal authorities delivered the letter the day it was re :eived by them.
Masterton call proprietors have refused to pay for a license to stand in the precincts of the railway station, and remain outsido the gates by way of protest. Passengers consequently have to carry their luggage some distance. "Hatches, Matches and Desptaches," is a well-known valiant on 'Births, Marriages and Deaths." l'he London Times has now added "Itetrothals"—for which the appropriate word (says a contemjiorary) will dearly be "Catches." Ruby Bell, aged eleven, was drowned at Mount Eden (Auckland) by falling in a cistern, the cover of which had been removed and not replaced. The water was eight feot deep. The fatality was not discovered until tho girl was missed some lime later.
The text of the Licensing Bill pubtbib d this morning was telegraphed from Wellington last night, and the 10,700 words were handled expeditiously by the telegraph operators, Messrs Fookes, Horneman, and PearSon. As published, the Bill runi into nearly 12,000 words. There is in Southland, says the Invercargitl Mews, a champion tirewood chopper witlh an , extensive backing, eager for a trial. He will undertake in eight hours to fell his own trees, and cub right cords of firewood into six feet lengths, and to stack It.
At Masterton Augustus Stempo was fined £6 and costs £2 16s for allowing pigs to wander, and for having a slaughterhouse that was unclean. Evidence was to the effect that the premises were filthy, and the magistrate advised defendant not to come before him again on a similar charge. Tho team of riflemen tint represented the colony at the Disley meotiiMs in England last month was booked to leave London by the s.s. Karamea on the return journey to New Zealand. The Karamea was to have begun her trip cm Saturday [last, so tho team should reach home early in October. The annual report of the directors of tiie Wellington Woollen Company states that, the net amount earned during the past year was not so highly satisfactory has hud been the case for many years past, the lessoned profit being due to the increased price of wool and keen t ratio competition. The usual dividend of 8 per cent, was recommended. The next Parliamentary p'.cnic will ho held on 10th September, when tho Minister (or Public Works, accompanied by a large Parliamentary party, will visit Taihiape to celebrate the open'n? of the Main Trunk line as far as that lively township. On the 12th tho visitors will be present at the opening of the new cantilever bridge across the Raragltikei Kiver at Mrngawcka. Travellers to Eltham requiring saddle horses or driving outfits may rely on getting just what they wait at the Coronation Stables. Tho proprietor, Mr R. McGregor, also conducts a coach service between Eltham and Kaponga. which should be a great convenience to New Ply-* mouth business people, enabling (hem to visit the rising township and return the same day> A meeting of those interested in forming an elocution class (under leadership of Mr J. Christopher) in connection with Whiteley Hand of Hope wdll be held to-mor-row at 7.30 p.m., In Whiteley Hall.*
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 203, 31 August 1904, Page 2
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779NEWS OF THE DAy. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 203, 31 August 1904, Page 2
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