LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 779, 23 March 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Sydney telegram states that more plague rats have been fuund in Karling Harbour. A meeting of .Justice's of the I'cnce will lie held on Friday, to revise the jury list. Owing to the Tukapa {! round being ungrugeJ to-morrow, the first jiractice of the Tukapa Football Club will be held in the Jtecreation tlrounda. A ilrm in Xapii-r has received an order from the Now South Wales (iovcrnment to manufacture 100 tons of flax rope. The contract price is about JU3OOO. The Indian Budget shows a surplus for the last financial year of £2,1.)1<>, (100. The estimated surplus for the current year is £3,4»5,0<K>, and the estimated surplus for next year is £904.000, A local farmer who tried to create a corner in potatoes foil-in lamentably the other day (says the Oamaru Mail). Wrth the intention of milking a " pile," he took the express lo lhini.ilin and canvassed the various agents there, buying up all the avaihvble early potatoes in the market. We arc sorry to have to report that li'p inspirations to weal Hi were not ,ik he, forgot that the green ; ! loess will not. keip for ever, tu-I !!,• bulk of his holdings l are still in the hands of the uveitis from whom he bough'i, ami no doubt he is now in his quiet homo, a sadder and wiser man. Possibly the. potatoes in hand may become available for seed purposes next season. From lmpilrie/3 mude in different parts of Hie country, the A«bburlon Guardian has ascertained that, despile tile decrease of breeding ewes, the total numlier of lambs this season is filly as large as that recorded for the previous .'.ear. A number of farmers in the early pari of the season intimated their intention of. Keeping a number of ewe lambs for future Inverting purposes, but the present value, of fat tiinibs appears to have proved too Rival a temptation for farmers, «h,n the high prjrc. iif siiund-motitli breeding- ewes is taken into consideration, on,.- wimlvl nlmosi think ihat n ['.'inner In need of replenishing his stoc'< would fare he-t----ier by UVeping his lamhs. It is nnil.TstoM.l that lambs are maturing splendidly Ihis season, taking the ilist rift as a whole, and export buyers are at present busily engage.l in purchasing lambs for their respective freezing companies. The ruling price for lamb, according to the markets. is from .")|d to .'>Jd per tb. Tukaka. March ;ird, 189f>. Dear Sir.—l have to inform you that the lHicumatie litfuid procured from you about three years ago cur- i I'd me of Rheumatism, after unsuccessful treatment with several other medicines. I have never had a return of 'the complaint since taking 1 only the one botlle of Harraelough's lfheuuiatic Ijkpiid. I may state that 1 suffered from the Ttheumaji.sni for fifteen months before taking the Liquid.—Yours truly, HEXUY POLLARP. Mr If. .),, ilarraclough, ■Welljajyttyj,.

! Now Plymouth B cricket team will i meat Carrington Road on the Tu- : kapa ground this afternoon, play to start al 3,15 sharp. The Bate for receiving nominations for the election to fill the vacancies on the Victoria College Council has been altered to March 27.

A Wellington telegram says that the Auckland Land Purchase Hoard has decided to purchase 162,000 acres in Patatere district, Tiako Country, from the Thames Vallc\ Land Company (in liquidation). Tlio Taranaki Co-operutive lV.coi. Company has advanced the price given to non-shareholders for pigs to ilid. The weights have also been alt-Ted, and are now 1201b to lbOlb. ill' Collis. Chairman of the North Kgiuon't Committee, wishes us to state that the water hole ju.st inside- the gate at the Mountain is dry. Another watering place 1"«been opened up a little beyond the mile post. It is about a chain and a half off the road, and a cun for carrying the water has been supplied.

in the i'-rilish House of Londs, Earl Selbourne, replying to Lord Spencer's inquiries' concerning the navy estimates, said Great Britain noticed what other countries were doing, and never forced the pace. It was his duty to protect every pen ion of the Empire from in\nr sion. The navy stood between us and conscription. At the Police Court on Wednesday, a man named Sydney Palfry, alias Geo. Humtt, aged about 30, and of unkempt api.e.irance, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, having no visible means of support. Sergeant Haddrell Stated that the man had been Knocking about the town for a week or two, lying about and getting his meals as best he could. He appeared to be somewhat non compus mentis, evidently induced by his destitute- condition and attendant despondency. He was a billiard tabic worker by trade, and had been about eighteen months in the colony. Mr Hutchison, S.M., remanded the man for a week, for medical examination.

The chairman of the Education Board mentioned in his report on Wednesday that so for no reply had been received from the Premier in refere ice to the Board's request to him to state whether or not the published reports of his speech were correct, dealing with his romar';s on the Waitara school. Mr Mackay moved that a letter be sent to the Hon. the Minister for Kducation informing him that the board had as yet received no reply to his letter re remarks he was reported to have made at Waitara, in reference to the hoard's administration, and that as the board considers his remarks, If correctly reported, an unmerited reflection on the members individually and collectively, the board will he pleased to receive his reply. The mi* occurrence of a convicted person successfully applying to be imprisoned in a particular gaol took place at the last Metropolitan Quarterly Sessions held in Sydney, Chas. Henry Parker, the old" man who pleaded guilty in the recent banknote forgery case and who gave evidence against two other men concerned, explained 1o Judge Backhouse that by his action he had made enemies of all the prisoners in the largo gaols, say, in the north, where he was known. He said that although strict discipline was maintained, his life among prisoners' who knew him would be torture. His Honour realised the truth of Parker's statement, and ordered that he bo imprisoned in Arinidalc gaol for live years, for which the old man thanked him. The ,Judge also said that in consideration of the prisoner's years he would express a wish that he should not be compelled to undergo separate treatment.

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