NEWS OF THE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 246, 21 October 1904, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

As a insult of the fire at Charters Towers 1000 men are temporarily idle.

A fire in a tenement at King's Crosß (London)i suffocated six and injured three persons.

The man Piper, accused of tho murder of his wife near Bathurst, New South Wales, was acquitted. Agnes Anderson, daughter of a Leostc-n (Canterbury) farmer, committed suicide by taking strychnine. She left a letter stating her intention of doing away with herself. Arthur Cecil Quartormain was charged at Palmerston North on two counts of forging the name of S. McKnight, Islington, to a telegram and a money order receipt. He was! committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington, for sentence. In order to swell the Queen Street Church building fund the ladies of the congregation have for some time been busily engaged in preparations for a bazaar and fancy fair, and this will bo held on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.

Mr Farrar, cusUodian of the Old People's Home, is 1 anxious t 0 erect a flagstaff at the institution H e is willing to-find the 'nag, If the public provide the staff, and it is probable that a concert in aid of the fund will be) given at an ejarly date. The bill of costs of tho lawyers who acted In England for tha Prohibitionists in ,the Newtown licensing apiwal caSo was received by the last San Francisco mail. It iououjiU '.o £125. With £470 paid in other costs, and £146 silent last year, tho Newtown licensing appeal cost the Alliance £761.

At the quarterly, meeting of the Government Railway Superannuation Fund Bomd allowances amounting to £2090 per annum were granted to 30 persons who have retired from I the railway service, ,in accordance] with tho provisions of the act, on reaching the ago of sixty years. In ths case of eight widows allowances wore granted oq|ual to £lB each per annum, ami to their children (fifteen in munberOi 5s each weekly until oach child reaches the age of fourteen yoars. Mr Gllruth, Chief Veterinarian, addressed a Wig meeting of fanners at Ifawera on Wednesday on the subject of blackleg. He agreed to recommend a modiflcatlott of tho quarantine restrictions, so that vaccinated calves may leave the district. Ho will also recommend that calves be vaccinated before crossing the Maimr wapou River, as tho district between that, and tho Wanganul River is said to be clean, > and that tto calves be soM in the quarantine area tmless they are vaccinated,

The annual meeting of the Co-op-' eratlve Society takos place to-mor-tow at 1.30 p.m. in the Town Hall. Tho Chriatchuroh Press gives currency to a rumour that the ScddonTaylor libel action has been settled, ibut does not vouch for its accuracy. Ladies requiring a sewing muchinc are referred to an announcement by Mi- H. Cocker relative to the ■ '''White" machine and its vantages in working. . Mr P. S. Whitcombe, secretary to the Education Board, last evening received a telegr a m from the de-| partmental authorities requesting that at as; many schools as possible the ceremony of "saluting the flag " should be performed to-day, in honour of the memory of the liattle of Trafalgar. The notice arrivied lute, but it is hoped most of the teachers will be Informed of the request by this morning.. By an advertisement in another column the well-known Castle Tea Co. Teas recommended to all lovers of pure unadulterated Ceylon teas, freshly arrived from the , most famous gardens. Superior quality te a s are difficult to obtgin. This firm has managed to secure a large supply of the finest crop from the best tea growing tea district lin the world. One trial is required. The tea does the rest. i At the Works Committee meeting last night the Mayor said that though there was apparently a good »ry out for employment, the Council had advertised for the ! .grubbing of furze at the abattoir. . Asked if a deposit was required, I his Worship replied that a email doposit had been asked for, though I ho had told one or two who hod I spoken to him on the subject that if : they sent in, a tender without a deI posit, they would receive ithe work i were they the lowest, but oJ) course they would get no payment till the work was done. Then again, there : were applications invited for wheeling some 400 yards of earth across a plank at tho bottom of Brougham btreet. The eingineer had estimated the work at 4d per yard but only one tender had been r«l ccived, and that was B t double I the cost. Tho committee decided to i eave the grubbing to the engineer o arrange f or , the ; to be done by day work.

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