LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7717, 20 January 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The South Road School will re-' open on Monday morning. A notice regarding the City and Guilds of London examination appears in this issue. Messrs Veale and Chatlerton have a notice in this issue of interest to housewives preparing for preserve and pickle making. A postponement regarding a property advertised to be disposed of by auction by Mr Newton Kine appears in this issue. "May I draw attention to Civ,. and . They talk so much I cannot hoar the town clerk read the letters." Thus Cr. Frnser n'a the works committee meeting. The stock of furniture and crockery, etc., in the estate of the Inte Mr W. Dingle has been purchased by Mr K. Dingle, who intends to hold a cash clearing sale ntj the premises, commencing to-morrow. A long lawyers' bill of costs road at the works commit too on Thursday caused councillors to express themselves rather strongly upon the way in which legal charges were run up. Cr. Collis has given notice of motion to move at the council meeting on Monday night that the council take into consideration the ndv-is-a'hlencss of framing bye-laws wKh the object of preventing bookniaking and betting generally in any part of the -borough area, especially the Recreation Grounds and other places of public resort.

The New Plymouth public library having a large number of magazines for the past year far which u > a s no use, it has been d-ji-Jid' to present them to; diferenl libraries in tho district'. Secretaries wishing to obtain any of the above should communicate with the librarian at Now Plymouth at the earliest opportunity.

At the works committee meeting on Thursday Cr. Clilt drew attention to the fact that Devon Street was not watered beyond Liar-Jet Street. Cr. Wood said he had noticed that the catt did not go beyond Currie Street. The engineer said that the borough had only one cart, and it was not possible for the .requirements of Xew Plymouth to be met during the -weather lately experienced.

Those who intend to be present at the sale of properties at the exhibition buildings to-day are informed that the Maori wharcs are (o be included in the list of offerings. Anyone having a taste for benutifviiig grounds should find these just the thing for summer houses. They would thus serve a double purpose—they would be useful and ornamental, and be a reminder of an important event in the history of the. town and district.

In connection with the request of the Fitzroy school committee for necessary alterations and raising of the school, Mr E. M. Smith, M.J1.1i., has despatched the following gram to Mr Seddon as Minister for Education :—"Education Hoard has agreed to grunt £2OO to meet your promise of similar amount for Fitzroy School ; also to provide temporary accommodation for scholars during alterations. Board, however,| requires your official confirmation of grant before calling for tenders. To avoid scholars losing education as school cannot -be opened in present state, I should be cbliged by your causing board to be notified without delay."

All 'details in connection with the itrip of the, Ngapuhi to the North have been arranged by the Xithvrn Steam Ship Company, and the list of passengers j s tilling up. The steamer leaves Auckland on February ITvh, and returns on the 2">th. At Whangnroa, where two davs will be spent, tlie second dav will be devoted to a trip 1„ a kauri forest. '1 he party will be conveyed in -buggies to within half a mile of the hush, and will have an opportunity of witnessing the operation of driving timber out of a creek. A large dam will be tripped, in their presence ami the spectacle as the large body of water is .suddenly, released should be very fine. The visitors will also watch the felling of a line kain-i nboul'l 20 feet in circumference which is so situated as to form an imposing; sight. All who contemplate joining the excursion should forward tlvir names to the company's agent, Mr J. C. Webster, to avoid disappointment, as from the number of imf.uiries there are indications that the list will eventually be filled.

The desperation which forces suf- . |fercis to swell the profits of <|unck t doctors is a pathetic thing, but oc- . casionnlly it has its cojnic side. A Melbourne business man, with a rooted aversion to exercise, paid the : inevitable price of physical laziness and contracted "a liver." He visit- ( ed many medical men, paid them . guineas for advice which would have cured him, and then nromtly disregarded it. From medical men lie passed through a succession of her- , balists and self-styled electrical healers, and was just on the point of giving faith-healing a trial—- . "It's such a line, easy method of ; cure," he explained—when somcboditold him that Ah Kwak, the ccle- ; brated Chinese doctor, was just the [ one to set him up. He interviewed Ah Kwak, and after paying that venerable Chinese live guineas, he received by carrier an ornamental Chinese jar, as big as a copper , boiler. Kemoving the vellum cover |he found that it. contained a ; thick' brown fluid, two quarts of which he was required lo swallow daily. With a light heart he entered upon his tusk, and although he admitted tjnt the taste was worse than human mind could imagine, he ■-ulhcivd strictly to his instructions. Instead of becoming usutl to his medicine, it seemed to grow more and more nauseating as the ilavs passed, and juai us he was abtiul to order some more, he rent-hod the bottom of the jar, and found there the decomposed remains of a rabbit and another animal, whose species could only be lixed .by a biologist. Since that time the patient has been most violent whenever the subject of iquack doctors is mentioned, ami ho was the most hitter protagonist for the Chinese Uestriction JIM that ' could he found outside the ranks of ' the Trades Hall. The second 'auction sale to clear the Co-operative Society's stock of stores, crockery, etc., will be held at their premises in Curric Street to-morrow, starting at 1.30 p.m. As tho shelves are now much relieved fr om their usual weight of [ gooife the auctioneers mav be able . to .quit tho whole of the stock at [ tins safe. Everything will be sold without reserve.* f Bo you dread washing day ? Th cn . buy a tin of Washine and cheer up ■ H a }'f ? who stock 1 wasMng . SUmCiCnt for a weck ' s - HOLLO-WAY'S OINTMENT AND 1 T PILLS. ' Reliable Remedies. I„ wounds - bruises, sprains, glandular swellings, enlarged veins, neuralgic pans . and rheumatism, the application of t this soothing,ointment to the aii'ect- • parts not only gives the greatest ease, but likewise cures the tom- - Plaint Ihe pills greatly assist in banishing the tendency to rheumat- • ism and similar painful disorders > whilst the Ointment cures the local , ailment. The Tills remove the con--1 stitutional disturbance and regulate ' every impaired function of every or- ■ gan throughout the human 'body < The cure is neither temporary or i superficial, but permanent and com--1 plete, and tho disease rarely recurs, < so perfect has been the purification • performed by these searching yet ; harmless preparations. The most < delicate may lake Holloway's Tills ■; with refect confidence.*