LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7707, 9 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

No less than Tour ladies fainted during the evening service at St. Mary's yesterday. The North British and Mercantile Insurance Company forwards a handy wall calendar. Mr lly. Bedford represents :thc company in New Flymouth. The Crown Lands Office advertises the sale and opening of lands for selection in Totoro S.D. on Jilst inst., and 5n Ohui'a, and Wa.ro S.H. ou February Bth.j Owing to her projected departure from the district Mrs J. Uilbertson has instructed Messrs Bewley and Griffiths to sell her house and section at Fitzroy, with her furniture, etc., on Wednesday next, at 1 p,ni.i At St. Mary's Church on. Sunday morning the Kev. Arthur Fowler, who has neon appointed curate to the Kev. F. G. Evans, was admitted to his appointment, the Ven Archdeacon Cole taking his declaration.; About .11.1.') on Saturday night the Fire Brigade was called by an alarm given at the Centra! Station: Tlie outbreak was at Mr C. K. Jeffries' bakehouse in Devon Ftreet, some embers igniting the woodwork of the oven'. The brigade wa-s very speedily on the spot and put out the lire before more tluin a few pounds' wortli of damage was done. At Whitcley Church last evening, during his sermon, the Kev. Mr Buttle slaited thjit n.f Foreign Mission secretary for New Zealand he had received on the previous day a cheque for £SO from an anonymous contributor for the mission fund. Two gentlemen in I he South had aiso promised gifts or £IOO each. Mr Buttle also stated that the ordinary income was already considerably in advance of the' previous year, uhich was a record in the history of the church', V'ts understand that the resolution passed ui, the Co-operative Society's meeting on Saturday last relative to closing the stores does not in the least affect the butter department, as Messrs Collclt and Co., of Cardiff, who have been the company's agents for years, are lairing over the entire butter business. They have taken t)ho premises in Carrie- Street adjoining the Freezing Works offices, almost opposite the Co-operative: Stores, and have retain-ed-th° setWes of jv T l,., R i, as their New 2^BBtT^H|B||^^^_

Tho Tarahaki Kifles parado this evening at 7.30.

Accounts against tho New Plymouth Co-operative Society tboukl (it is requested by adver.igj.nent) be rendered at once to th-) liquidators. It is also anno tiiMd tliat Icr two weeks there will he a clearing sale of groceries, drapery, ironmongery, and crockery. Tennis devotees should find a pleasant day's outing provided for them at tho Vivian Street courts to-day,, when the final matches of the annual Tarannki championship meeting will be played. Besides the ordinary meeting of champions—lo-' col and colonial —there will he an exhibition match by Miss Nunneley and Mr A. (!. Wallace against M*ss Powdrell and Mr H.. A. Parker, liefore the ciose Br. Leathani, president, will present prizes won by competitors. Play commences at 9 a.m.

The success of the first sale by auction of sections in the resubdivision of the Tlronga township at

Vogeltown has induced the "vendors lo instruct Mr Newton King to hold u second sale, which is lixed for Thursday evening next. Full particulars will be found in the advertisement in this issue from which it will bo seen that the sale is to take place in the Exhibition grounds and that it will include a number of acre sections. A visit to the laud in question will *.e wejl worth the while of anyone on the lookout for either an investment, or a sito for, a residence. Not only are the tenuis offered very tempting, but the sections themselves are more so, and a more glance at the surrounding properties will show that the Tironga township has a brilliant future before it so far as land values are concerned.

An echo of the famous '■ Mokau case '-which has been before the public for some years-is reported from London. The will of the late Mr Wickham Flower, the chief opponent of Mr Joshua Jones in connection with the estate, has been proved and the gross value of the estate has been sworn at WOO. Mr Flower was always considered a very wealthy man, and his legal practice was a very large one. As head of the nn " °f Slower and Jfussey, he took a■ -Mr Fellowes into partnership when the trouble arose with Mr Jones. Mr Labouehere in 1898 exposed the Mokau case in his paper (Truth) and the result was that the linn of I'lower and Co. broke up, and that many .beneficiaries who had trust moneys in Mr Flower's hands called them mon a moment's notice. Mr Mower's co-trustee, Sir Charles Hall having died with practically no estate, Mr Flower had to pay for .both with the result that his fortune was swaii oW ed up in making good the deliciencieSj

One of the most novel unions extant is that ,of renters, recently formed at Chicago. In organising to protect their rights, writes the American correspondent of the Melbourne Age, tenants aro merely following in the footsteps of factory workers, associated employers, and organised property owners. The landlords of Chicago are charged with (conspiring with one another to maintain rents at exorbitant heights, one method being to practically refuse to accept a tenant who desires to move for the purpose of reducing his rent charges. It is ah object of the tenants' union to expose such conspiracies. By co-opera-ting with labour unions it is proposed to prevent deliveries of coal and provisions to the apartments of renters who persist in living upon premises whore alleged, exorbitant rates are charged. Other objects of. the new union are to furnish legal advice to members and defend them in litigation for their rights. ; to promote agitation for civic improvements, such as abolishing signboards and other eyesores, for which landlords receive rent, and to enforce landlords to live up to their leases, ,Kupply heat, und make promised iml provements. There would appear to be a rod i n nickle for the landlords of Chicago.

Rowe and Paterson, seedsmen, notify by advertisement elsewhere that they have secured first prize gold medal for seedsman's exhibit, and first prize diploma for farm and vegetable needs at the New Plymouth Exhibition.*

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