LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7850, 16 June 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr W. A. Collis mentioned at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday evening that at soon as it was seen the Government intended to provide for the complo. tion of the road to the mountain house, steps would be taken to issue an up-to-date guide book for tho information of tourists.

The Czar, it is reported, has ordered the pardon of seventy-two persons banished to Siberia for refusing; on religious grounds, to undergo military service-, and also ordered the release of 332 prisoners now serving sentences inflicted for religious offences. It is decreed that 142 Poles expelled from the Russian Polish provinces shall be allowed to return, while /sixteen others subjected to police surveillance are freed from that surveillance. The Czar has ordered the Minister of Justice to rcjease 27® doukhobors, sentenced in 1897;, and the Minister of Justice has taken steps to have the records searched in order that all persons sentenced for these offences may be pardoned.

Tho Thames correspondent of the New Zealand Herald states that a rather strange incident occurred in connection with the fire at the Brian Born hotel on Sunday. A young man named Clark was sleeping! in ono of the rooms [downstairs, and, strange to say, was not awakened, but slept throwgih all the concision/ although the water was pouring down on him from the ceiling, and he was c|\iite wet through when he woke between seven and eight o'clock in ihe morning.

This is how the Christchurch Truth regarded the Prince of Wales' Birthday :—To-day is the Prinoo of Wales' Bisthday, and consdqjuent'y an excuse for 'a holiday. But in order that .■business may be suitably dislocated, half the Community is going.Ao celebrate its holiday on Monday, and the other half is rejoicing over its es>cape from work Tho banks have been shut ull day, greatly to the inconvenience of tho people who remain open, and the shops will be shut on ifandny while thebanks will be hustling for business.- It reminds! us of the sort of thing the labour laws have brought about at tho freezing works. The butchers, under the award of the Court, are bound to get a holiday on Empire Day,and us the rest of the works ain't go on without the mrtchers, the whole estabrithment has to stop work. The

freezers, on the other hand, must stop work on the Prince of Wales' Birthday, and lor the same reason the workers have to stop once more, although none of the workers tire entitled to both ■days. The holiday Huestionin this country is getting to be more complicated than the birth problem.

"Do you elect to be dealt with summarily or to be tried by n jury?" was the usual question put to a man charged with an offence at the Magistratio'sv Court' at Christohureh on. Saturday morning, says the Lytteleon Timea. "I will bo tried by the reverend gentleman there," replied the accused, indicating' the Magistrate.

An exchange says that a private letter received by last week's English mail stated that Lieut. W. S. Atkin, R.N.R., late commander of the White Star liner lonic, has been appointed to tho command of one of the largo Atlantic liners, tho Cyinrit. Captain Atkin is one of tho younfcj est masters in tho White Star line service.

As soon as possible after Parliament assembles it it the intention of tho W'ellington Chamber of Commerce to deputationiso Ministers on matters or importance. The Mimistcr of Riblic Works is to be urgted to push on with greater expedition the construction of the North Island Main Trunk line, and to bring before Parliament the question of taking over the Wellington and Manawatu Company's, line (between Wellington and Longburn). Tiie Minister of Railways is to be approached with the recfliest' that the Government line between Wellington and the Butt be straightened more expeditiously than at present. He will also be asked to supply Wetter goods-shed accommodation at the Wellington station that at present exists. The Postmaster-Gen-eral is to be urged to provide telephone oommunication between the «ty and the principal towns in the Wellington district.

The march of the motor is everywhere apparent. It has to a Considerable extent supplanted the horse on the road, and in some countries it is reported to have displaced the. horse 'in the field as a result of a, genius having adopted it to supply the .power for driving ploughs,, harvesters, and other agriculture implements. From Germany comes the «t o ry that the farmers in that Country havu utilised the motor cycle t ( | "IH'rate threshing machines and mills ilie motor cycle, it is stated is iplucou" in a stand fastened to the 'floor or wall and a belt is connected with he drive wlii-el of the thresher. Whilo the miller feeds the hopper on one side, the wife, relieved of her former duty of turning the handle, stands by and sweeps the threshed and freshly winnowed corn into the bin, which lis just below the floor. In addition to being labour-saving and expeditious, there is the advantage ,of having a machine a t hand to run into tn e township whenever necessary, We would remind! our readers of the Qt I™™* Church wiii''i 1 l C . VOning - ' A co"ec«oH nil l, e taken during the service for '•he purchase of new books for thu choir.

WHAT CAUSES RHEUMATISM. The real cause of Rheumatism is to he found m the blood, which has become poluted through excess of uric awdand in order to Cure the disease Uie Wood must be purified and restored to a healthy condition. Liniments and plasters may give tempory relief, but can never remove the cause of the disease. The real remedy ,s RIIKUMO. 1,. has Cl ™ thousands of sufferers from Rheumatism, Rh e „m«t:c (Jo.it, Sciatica and kindred discasos. It will cure vou •rust gave it a fair trial. The.'o is nothing equal to RWEUMO as an antidote to Rheumatism. AM chemists and storekeepers sell it at is fid and 4s 68 a bottle-. WfcoJesale agents. KemptUorKe, Prosstr and Co* '"

A meeting 6J rtteMjrers at the tiorougb will be held id the Ccraneijj Chambers on Friday, June 14, for the consideration it a proposal to raise a- itan of £12,000, being £7OOO for the completion and extension of the waterworks and of electric lighting, and £SOOO for the extension of Gill Street across lie railway into St. Aubyn Street.

Subscribers to the first group of the ] Suitable iiuilding Society are re- ] minded of the ballot and sale .by iten- * dcr to be held in the Town Hall at 7.80 this evening.* | On Tuesday an'd Wednesday, the 27th and 28th inst. Messrs Bcwley and Griffiths are holding an auction, sale that should attract a very large concourse of ladies. The goods to be offered consist of eight cases of fashionable dress material and silks cut up into suitaWe. lengths. They are all this season's stock, and'have been imported direct by the vendor. Messrs Q. A. Adtifn, W, Monkhousq and Jas. Wade rotire, by rotation, from the Taranaki. Education Hoard. An election to fill the vacancies wi'J be held on Monday, July 24, nominations to be in the hands of the secretary of the Board by 5 p.m. on! Monday, July 3.

The manager of the Old People's Home (Mr A. Farrar) wishes to thank Misses Collis (*), Black, and Messrs S. Collis, Lawry, Heath, J s Gray and others for a most enjoyable concert given at the institution on Thursday night. These '■' Good SaimarrtiaßS'" are to be all the morel complimented in that stress of weather in no ways interferes with their good works. *. MOST HONOURABLE DISTINCTION.

The Western Medical Review, a medical publication ot the highest standing, says, in a recent issue : "Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract is not only reliable,, but that it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus." Your health lisj too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon; you by unscrupulous merceneries, and insist upon gettiig Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation recommended by your physician and the medical press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diarrhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. Wounds, ukjers, burns, sprains, etc., it heals*"without inflammation. As a mouth wash (5 drops to a glass of water) it prevents "decay of teeth, and destroys all disease germs.* Urgent to school two urchins sent, Tne truant played and fishing went; One caught it).hot, his pants were thin, One caught a cold ; for he feM in ; The cold grew worse, and caused alarm, 1111 some kind neighbours brought o cHarm, A charm it proved, that did endure, They called it Woods' Great Fcppormint Cure.* 12