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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To meet the growing demand on our weekly edition' it has been deemed expedient to lincrense the size of the paper. In doing so it was decided to reduce tho size of the pages, making Ihom more convenient for readers, and to gain the additional space required by increasfng the number of pages. With changes and improvements in the arrangement of the paper which will be made it is confidently antiqipated by the management that the popularity of the Taranaki News will bo still further greatly extended', rendering it a reliable and welcome compendium of the week's news. This week's Issue contains a complete account of the doings at the exhibition, thus making it valuable for tending to friends at a distance.

Tho formation of roads in Fitzroy is being extended. In, this issue iMessis Sladden and Palmer advertise a contract.

From the 9th to the 14th' inst. excursion fares to New Plymouth wi'i 1 be available on the railways from Hawera and Toko.

The Customs revenue collected at Wellington for the year 1904 amounted to £681,453, being an increase 0 f £44,804 over that collected 111 1903,

Mr A. larrar, manager of the Old 1 copies Home, desires to Ulauk tho exhibition committee for the kindness shown to the inmates in inviting them tOl uie exhibition Yesterday.

A Carterton resident has invented a iiulk-stirrer,, which, it is claimed, by keeping up, a constant yet slow motion in milk-cans, prevents milk turning sour m Uo|t weather, assists.

An old man named Grimes was discharged from the Old P eop l«? s .Home on Friday. He had given way to drink, and was given the option lof taking out a prohibition order ■against himself or leaving. H e chose the latter course.

Amongst the frequent visitors to the exhibition since its opening was Mrs Williams, of Wellington who presented the Mission to Seamen with the large hall in which its headquarters are now situated. Mrs Williams has now returned to Wellington.

l am pleased to say," said a I'hames mine manager of many years' experience, last week, "that the present year will close with a more hopeful feeling than has existed at the Ihames for years. All round the prospects are brighter, and there is no doubt that the New Year will jopen weM,'-'

During the fortnight prior to Christmas over 10,000 head of poultry were sold at the Sydney market. Exceptional prices were obtained at the auction sales for odd fancy 'lots, as, for instance, 25s per pair for turkeys, lis for geese, and 8s and over for cockerels, and 9s for young drakes. Half-grown and rough lots sold cheaply. The Clerk of awards (Mr W. A. J). Banks) has been advised by the Rol gistrar of Industrial, Unions, Weilington, of the resignation of Mr J H Hoy of the oflice of Chairman of the Board of Conciliation for the Taranaki Industrial District. A meeting of members of the board will be held on Wednesday next at three o clock for the purpose of electing a chairman.

The anniversary services in connection with W'hiteley Church Sun-day-school will be held to-morrow. It was anticipated that the Row Robert Haddon, Maori missionary, of Okaiawa, would have been able 'to take-afternoon and evening services, but he is detained at home by indisposition. The services will be conducted by Rev. H. F. Williams, T. JR. B. Woolloxall, and ,J. N. Buttle, morning, afternoon, and evening respectively. Special hviuns will be rendered by the children.'

The eager spectators who crowded too closely round the wood-chooping competitors at a holiday sports gathering i n the Marlborough -district the other day were considerably startled when one of the men accidentally let the axe slip from his hundg. In itsr (light it actually grazed the throat of an onlooker, who had a narrow escape, for the keen ! blade- inflicted a wound two and a halt inches long-fortunaely a shallow one.

A party of Wanganui residents who ascended Huapehu last week encountered an unusual amount of snow, ihe last two thousand feet were traveled over snow slopes and glaciers, ar ,d the climbers had to •ut innumerable steps to make any progress. The descent was even more difficult, as may be soon from the fact that the mountaineers were for three hours on one ice face. Next day they ascended Ngaiuhoe, but driving rain and sleet made the experience an unpleasant one.

In a letter to a friend in Wellington, the writer says :—" At present I am in Oanada seeing something of this Dominion. I can only say that I think it at least twenty years behind Now Zealand, and that for everything brightest and best in life is not to be compared wjth fit. The terribly mixed peoples, the majority uncouUi, unkempt, uncultured, with only one suj.ect stamped upon every feature 'and ac(,ion—mpney—is creating a life both public and private sad to contemplate, I wm ,j. d not i ivo here for a fortune.'-'

The Tasinanjian axeman E It Terry intends to bo present at the TWaki Caledonian Society's sports at Haitara on the 19th inst. He will give au exhibition of chopping and wiM attempt some recoitl-break-ing, Ihe ))rogramme lias been extended by the addition of two b'icv<*o events, in which such men as Humphreys ami Tiernan wV.ll take part, Mr Campbell has lent his motor bicycle for pacing on this occasion, when attempts will be made Jraclf * roWn>B J '° r tho ■*"«* Sundav°' V I Mc,noi ' l »>. 'tomorrow, School Anniversary : Morning, u Rev. it. F. Williams ; afternSob, 3 Key J K. U. Woollcm.ll,: evening., &ta» ° nw ' torios ,or «*ool HOLLjQWAY'S PILLS. For the cure o< dpbJM.ty, also liver and stomach complaints this inappreciable medicine is so well known in every part of the world, and the cures performed by its use are so wonderful, that it now stands preeminent above all other remedies more particularly for the cure of bilious and liver complaints, disorders of the stomach, dropsy, and debilitated constitution. The beneficial effects of the Pills are so lasting that tho whole system is renewed, the organs of digestion strengthened, and a free respiration promoted. Thoy expel fiom the secretive organs the morbid matter which produces inflammation, pain, fever, debility, and physical decay, thus annihilating, by their purifying properties, the virulence of the most painful and devastating diseases.*

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7706, 7 January 1905, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7706, 7 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7706, 7 January 1905, Page 2

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