LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7812, 3 May 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

The diamond jublieo ; celobra'tion of the founding of the venerable little- church, Hol.V Trinity, Te Hcnui, will take place in Trinity weak. On Thursday, May 4til, Air Newton King will hold a cattle sole ut llahotu, when a nice line of all-aged cattle will be offered, besides sheep land 100 lambs.

The Hawcra Hospital Hoard have decided to 'erect additions to the hospital, providing for the enlargement of the women's ward, to accommodate twelve patients.

One case of druiikinncts comprised the police court list lor Tuesday. Mr Hutchison, S.M., recorded a conviction and discharged the oitehder, bert Home.

The statistics in connection with St. Mary's parish show thai during the year ending March 31 there were 153 baptisms, 29 marriages, and 40 burials. The number of celebrations of Holy Communion was 226, and the number or receptions 4337. The crops in South Canterbury are yielding remarkably well—better even than was generally anticipated. Oats are threshing out GO, 70, and' up to 100 bushels per acre, while wheat is yielding 40, 50, and 60 bushels' per acre.

The Hawke's Bay province is in a cry psosperous condition at the pre-

sent time, farmers generally have had an excellent season. Food for stock is> plentiful, whiilst the harvest has been a very satisfactory one.— Gisborne Herald.

A strong committee of ladies has in, hand the arrangements for the annual ball to be held by the Taranaki Hifles in the Drill Hall on the 24th May. The music will be supplied by Mr i). McKinnon Bain's ordiewtra, while for non-dancers' u room for bridge will be provided. The newly-elected Council will assemble to-morrow evening at 7.30, when tho 1 cerumouy of »\v©aring.in the Mayor and Councillors for the year will take place. This will be followed by the appointment of the various Committes. The Works Committee will meet on Thursday evening, and deal with the estimates for the ensuing twelve months.

It is nol often that householders get such a chance aw that afforded by Messrs I). Merry and Co.'s clearing sale, at which a very largo stock of hardware, cutlery, house furnishings and agricultural implements is being quitted at very low figures. As Mr Berry intends to retire from business the freehold land and business premises will be sold, or the whole may be purchased as a going concern.

Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.H., has received a telegram from the Premier statijig that he is afraid prior arrangements will prevent his being present at the openiog of the consumptive annexe at the hospital, but if possible he will do so. Mr Seddon says: "It is a work of a humane necessary character, one in which 1 take a great interest, and which I will So my best to encourage.

General liooth, the founder of the Salvation Army movement, will pass through New Plymouth on Thursday evening en route to Auckland. The Mayor and Councillors will meet the distinguished visitor on the railway station on the arrival of the mail train that evening, and accord him a. suiliabie weffcomp on behalf of the citizens. Considerable interest is being manifested in his New Zealand tour, and all well-wishers will ■)0 pleased to learn that the ficner.lili, though well o\er 70 years of age, is well and hearty, and addressing meetings with his accustomed spontaniety and vim.

Some commotion was occasioned In the railway yards on .Tuesday afternoon, by the boiling of a Iraught horse attached to a dray, the turnout being owned by Mr George Knight. The horse, which was left unattended whilst feeding, by some means got rid of 'ho winkers, and. startled, made off at full pace, heading for the' liuatoki stream in the yards. Fortunately it averted a plunge down the stop embankment by turning and making in the lirection of the railway gates. When lashing through the entrance the runaway was pulled up with a sudlen shock, as an impact with the side of the gate completely overturned horse and vehicle. Mr Knight, with the aid of Mr M. Jones and others, extricated the kicking animal from its plight, and it was found to have escaped without a scratch. The lray was but slightly damaged by 'he collision.

I'rom Algeria comes an account of .11 extraordinary outrage perpetrated by a native at a mosque which contains the tomb of the Marabout Sidi-Abdallah, which is held in great veneration by the Arabs, and it is the destination of many a pious pilgrimage. The Mohammedans, indeed, often take the most solemn oath on the shrine of thin saint, and Uicre is a legend that if the vow is broken death at no long interval awaits the offender,... Every year there is a religious festival, which is: attended by the local nobilities, as weill as by hosts of people who Have conio from far with sacral standards to the (jpot. On a recent Sunday, while one of t.liese ceremonies was in progress, several hundred persons: being engaged in prayer, the native who has been the author of this scandal entered the mosque and horrified the assemblage by declaring in stentorian tones that Mahomet was an iniposter, and that his teaching, a nd, for that matter, all the other ivligiions as well, were nothing but a tissue of impudent falsehoods. Whether this individual was the worse for liquor is not explained, but, at any rate, after having delivered himself of this opinion, ho produced a bottle of wine, which had been concealed finder his cloak, a nd taking a, long pull at it, poured out the ronwindcr of the contents as a libation to Ilaechus and thon dashed it on the floor. I'or some time the spectators of this extraordinary scene were so bewildered that they remained mute and passive, but pre. sently they were giving full vent to their indignation. A number of them rushed at the man, and they would have torn him to pieces if one of their chiefs had not intervened and shielded him until Hie arrival of the police, who carriixl him off', it is added that he Mfihtvmniodnns regard the, mosque as having bejsn desecrated, and are much distressed at an'event which is said to be without preceacut is the annuls of their religion

A St. Petersburg, cable to the Australian papers, that did noi find its vay to this colony, says that tho state of the late (hand Duke Serfitis is valued at twenty million itcrling, and that he bequeathed •hree millions to his widow, the irand Duchess Elizabeth. The largest tank engine of its kind milt south or the equator is now beng constructed at the J'etone Itail.va'v Worktops. It is a double coin- I pound engine of Mallet articulated j and \vi ; ll he used on tl'.e tuc'lion runway between I'eothcrston and the Uimataka incline. It is hoped to have the engine running in about L\\o months' time. It transpires that, the yacht presented to the Australasian Methodist Foreign Mission Society for island work is the Privateer, recently purchased in England on bthalf of Air .1. 11. ISurke, Tiie owner disposed of the vessel to anonymous pure'iasjis on behalf of the Methodist mission. The Privateer is said to be well ad.ipted for vhj work she Is intended for. A (Jhristchurch poulterer and fishmonger imports gray ducks from Australia. These birds are closely identical with native birds, which arc absolutely protected. The question came up before the council of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society the other night, and it was resolved to take some action with a view tc securing legislation restricting the importation of such birds. "If the municipality were to tak< over the milk supply," declared i candidate for civic honours, "the cos to the consumer could be reduce* from a shilling per gallon to nine pence, the price given to the. farme could foe raised from fourpence t fivepenco, and after allowing for al working expenses there would still b

a Rood prolit left to pay into the municipal exchequer for the benefit oi tho people."—Auckland Star. The authorities in Norway- have dis covered a novel way of curing drunkenness. Tho "patient"' is placed un der lock and key, and his nourish inent consists in great part of brea< soaked in port wine. The first d«: the -drunkard eats his food with plea sure, and even on the second day h enjoys it. On the third day bo find that it is very monotonous, on tr. fourth day he becomes impatient.an at the end of eight days he receiv the wino with horror. It seems tl riisiriist increases, and that this cui

gives good results. I In connectinn with the recent cases ia the South' of breaking open safes by means of explosives, the Times states, that during last year there was a considerable increase of this crime, as compared with previous years. Tolice 'officials of experience • express tbc opinion that if there is not a lessening, of the crime, some check must foe placed upon the means of obtaining explosives. There, is great difficulty in that, however. It is the general public belief that the safe dynamiters are Australians, hut that is nol the case. Tne majority of them are New Zcalanders, and that they obtain their expolslves by on works where cxpolsives are use:l. It 1s from such works that the gelignite or dynamite empolyed is stolen, and to prevent that, would l;e extremely difficult.

Speaking at the Victoria Street Barracks, in Chrislchurch the other day, General Booth re-told a story of a horse-trainer, an illiterate man. of drunken habits, who had been converted to better things. The man had found his Avay to a Salvation Army mooting, and had gone to sleep during the lirst half of the service, but had roused himself to hear the speakers later on. Mis heart had been touched, and besought the penitents' bench, clamouring to lie saved. The man had been told that he must pray for himself, but had replied that he knew no prayer. I'rgcd to pray in his own words he had at last been inspired to recite : "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, hold the horse while ] get on." "He wanted to ride out of hell on to the high road to salvation." exclaimed the General.

An interviewer of a novel kind went, to the Salvation Army Barrack's, on Victoria Parade, Melbourne, professing a desire to interview General Booth. Ho announced himself to Brigadier Hirkenshaw as a representative of a New Zealand newspaper, and was very anxious to secure a personal interview with the Uenernl. The brigadier sent the guard in search of Commissioner Nicol, through whom alone the interview could ,'be arranged,, the would-ho interviewer being offered a seat in the vestibule. While the guard was absent the General's bell rang, and Brigadier Birkenslmw rushed impetuously to answer it. The stranger, who was left alone, walked into the brigadier's office, where there lay on the table a purse containing 27* in silver. Ho took the silver, and had left the barracks before cither the guard or the brigadier returned. Most politicians need a box Messrs Ainbury Bros., drapers, intimate that from date, and extending throughout the winter months their establishment will I'close at 5.80 p.m. daily.* To jirown their ravings in.

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