The Daily News. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 6 February 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1905. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Express Company forwards us specimens of a neat celluiloid label for use on luggage and other packages. Tlit Trades and Labour Council at its meeting on Friday night passed a resolution against the admission of Asiatics to New Zealand. Mr J. A. Kinsella, Dairy Commissioner, in the course of a lecture at Carterton, said that at Eltham he had seen dairy land sold at £iJ7 an acre.

The Rev. j\lr Mairs, of the TCitham Primitive Methodist Church, has been transferred to an important charge in the Waikato, and leaves for his new tield in the course of a few weeks.

II is reported by the secretary of the Taranaki Jockey Club that no betting will bo aflowed except through the totalisalor. Persons infringing this rule will be ejected from the club s property. A meeting of townspeople at Itaera is to be held this evening to i consider the question of asking 'the | New Zealand Brass Hands' Associai tion to hold the 1906 contest in ! that town.

The Government, yielding to representations made by the Auckland and Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Associations, has promised to guarantee one penny net return per pound on a shipment af apples to England this year. At the Magistrate's Court at Wanganui on Saturday an elderly man was charged with attempting lo\ commit suicide by cutting his throat. He was under the influence of chlorodyne at the time. He received a. month in gaol.

At Auckland a man named Windsor, after a quarrel with his wilje, tried to hang himself in a collar. He was cut' down in time, and on Saturday a prohibition order was issued against him, and for tha attempt at suicide ho was ordered to come up for sentence when called on, Messrs Bewlej* find Griffiths report having sold during <1)0 ppst week Mr William Humphries' beautiful property known as "Ilumahunga," comprising 13J acres on the Old Hospital Road, to Mr W. G. P. O'Oallaghan, of Dunedin, at £(SO per acre. Or. February 14th Messrs Ilewley and Giiiffithf) will sell by auction the whole of the nii niiu,v bdkmging to Mrs Urownlow Honoukw, iyJ]o is leaving the district. The houuu Bind land will We offered at 3 p.m. jOU the «Ja,v pf the sale, Particulars will be fou'bd in nn advertisement elsewhere.

Ladies taking their afternoon !iia in town can now have the pleasure of having instrumental music while partaking of ! their favourite beverfige. The proprietress of the Pagoda tPB rooms has, in a worthy spirit of enU'i'pfjse, (engaged some wellknown li)usicjan« tp play selections between 3 and 4,30 p,m, dflMy. Mr Newton King notifies the &trivof ten tanks of new season's grass seeds from tihe celebrated linn of Hurst find Sons, London. Country settlers should forward their orders at an early date, as supplies are limited, and these seeds havu such an excellent reputation that tile demand is sure to be extensive. J!r King is aSso offering a small quantity of "raspaluin Dilatatun," a ne« grass from Australia that is said to be yevojutionising the pastures of that country,

Mr Arroivsmith, the proprietor of the {.'rand Central Coffee.! l'alace, in Egmont Street, liub just obtained for use in his oflire a cash register of the latest and handsomest t.vp<'. Looked at as one of the office fittings it is most brilliant, and attractive, jyliilc the mechanism is of the most perfect up-to-date character. We understand thai, the machine, which us one of the best,"of not the best ifc tlio colony, was wippfiuil by i the National Cash Kegiwler Co,

At the Bakers' Conference at lUnierfin on Saturday Mr McCarthy resigned hiu position as secretary. The subscriptions to the union were li.\ed as for last year. Tho next annual meeting will take place at Wnnganui. Entries for the I'Vilding A. and P. Show on the 22ml inst. total 650. The Governor is !o be asked to open the show. A gentleman who is interested in the meat IV'toey-tng business, speaking to a reporter in l'ugafd to the controversy over the depletion of the colony's flocks, stated that ho hud taken out of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Companj's summaries of export* figures which showed that in 1901 there we*-e exported from Lyttelton 122,571 fewur en.rpases of lambs than in 190:!. The figures are as follow For the six months ending June, 1903, there were sent /l'om the port 657,304 carcases, and in 1901 598,651 carcases, leaving a deficiency of 58,653. In the second half of 1903 ihu number was 117,054, and in the second half of 1904 83.786, making a deficiency of 63918, the total deficiency being 122,-

Christchurch grocers stale tlwrt tlio recent rises in the price of sugar are j compelling them to retail the artiulo |at a loss. I We remind ratepayers of the public meeting to be held in the Town Hall at 8 o'clock this evening, to discuss the abolition of wards in the borough. The Post reports that the new secj tion of the railway to Douglas Hood was used on Friday for the first time for goods traffic, when )hree trucks of wool were brought to Stratford -by the afternoon train. I For rising up in tlio pit of the Christchurch Theatre 'jKoyal during | a performance of the Knight-Jeffries ! ,Company, and calling out, "Hash it j all, Louisa !" a man was last Wednesday lined 10s and costs. I The skin disease commonly known jas horse mange is again very prevalent in the Tupanui disiricl. The disease makes itself known by an outbreak of spots on the skin, containing matter, and if not treated at once these pistoles spread all over the body, like small-pox on tlu* human body.

| A Japanese newspaper, the Nuroki, of Tokio, says :—The Baltic fleet? Let no one interfere with its slow ! advent. We have lost one battleship and several other serviceable men-of-war. The Baltic fleet will come at the very nick of time to fill our somewhat reduced line of battle.' Let it come, by all means. .'Tis the gift of the gods ! The idea that 'trout can only be caught by a special rod and fine j tackle is quite dispelled by an old lady residing not many miles from Okaiawa, whose outfit consists of a willow rod and eel-line and hook. jWith this primitive gear she has caught some good fish, recently 'landing a fine fish which turned the scale at 6-Jlb. | The Hawera Star states that the I warm dry weather of the past few j weeks, with occasional rain, has been most beneficial to all crops, which, owing to the bad weather j earlier in the season, were none too forward. There should be a good (deal of winter feed about. The milk supply, however, is naturally on the wane, and nothing can make good ithe caused by the prolonged spell of broken and cold weather which preceded Christmas. I The Agricultural Society of |Hawke's Bay has received replies from nine other societies supporting its attitude regarding the import.a- ---! tion of bones and bonedust. In consequence it passed a motion at its last meeting urging the Government to exclude these materials until I such time as sterilising works have '.been erected.

Writing to a friend in South Taranaki, Mr 'l'. E. Taylor, defendant ■in t-lm' celebrated slander notion, says that lie doesn't believe the other party of the suit vill proceed further with the case. His own costs, so far, he says, run into between £3OO and £IOO, and he proi poses to take action, as soon as it is definitely settled whether the case <is to proceed or not, lo recover the Jmone.v from Captain Seddon, on the point that the verdict of the jury | was in his (Mr Taylor's) favour. M? | Taylor adds that if a new trial tak,es place, he will have a great deal | of additional evidence, that for tin j most part was unavailable at the I trial just passed, to produce. He I has thirteen additional witnesses.

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