LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7907, 24 August 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gas consumers are reminded that tomorrow is the last day for discount.

Messrs McEwen Bros, ennounct til a they are now selling boots re-.-■aidiess of cost.

An express and business, with good connection and turnover, is for sale. Particulars may be obtained at this ollice.

At the ofßco of the D.O.A. at 11 a.m. to-day, Mr Edgar Watt will be examined, under oath, fn connection with the property transactions in the estate of ilr F. \V. Richmond. Mr I. P. Corkill has received a ca,ble from Home stating that his mother died on Monday last, at Ramsey, Isle of Man, her eightylirat year.

The teachers of the Walrarapa schools have prvsentui a hamlsonr silver challenge shield for a shooting lompeUtion among the companies farming iho Wnir-a.apa battalicn of .he pui.liC'sehool carets.

The l ending Borough Council >iinve decided to a.sk the ratepayers' saneton to a further loan of xtooo t,, complete tile waterworks. It is cxpectod that yet another loan will necessary to complete the sewage scheme. The Rgmont County Council gives notice th it nt a meeting to l.e held on Friday, .Sept. H, it i s propyl to strike a general rate of fiw farthing: in the £ in the Oeo riding, on ! three-farthings in the £ in_ the Opun ake and Rahotu ridings, for the CurTent year, payable on Oct. 1. Messrs llewl'W ami Griffiths will sell to-day, at the residence of Storjrnn I homos, Elliot ](ord (opposite t?e golf (inks), household furniture, without reserve. A free "bus leaves the Imperial Hotel Corner nt I.HO and 2 p.m. Full particulars are advertised in this issue.

This evening th*> Rev. Leonard M. Isitt, the well-known temperance lecturer, speaks in the Theatre Royal, tiie Mayor (Mr R. Cork) to preside Sympathisers of the "No-lici-nse" Cause will meet Mr Isitt..it a reunion and welcome social at Whiteley Mall in the afternoon. The rep. match gate receipts at ilp racecourse on Wednesday totalled £ll3, or £8 more than in 10(13, and no charge w-ill I'C deducted ior the

groun I. To achieve the S'ln-'' net result on the Hccreation Ground. an,:! pay the percentage deniun:l(<l for li t use of the ground, the t'nion would hive had to take £l.">n nti the gtite. The raCwour.sv has its financial advantages. at least from th»" I'mon's point of view. To-niclitS at the Army UaiTtvcVs :Ik' first evening marriage service Conducted by the Salvationists willta : e place. Adjutant. Dickens, in ohnr.-e of the lecal corps, officiating. Tie contracting parties- are -Miss Finlt'y, of Aurkland, and Mr A. Walk ins. o' Fiankley Koad. 'Considerable interest is being taken in the event, and th" \ isitors will include Adji.timt and Mrs Dixon, ol Kltham. Captain Woisdell, Walitara, and other paU'. and 1 re-ent otl'cers. Special musical items will lc given throughout, the service. Mr J. l)a\*lson, of I'owdetham Street, announces that he is prepared to sell high-class pianos at reasonable rates. These pianos are specially manufactured to Mr Davidson's S]e('i lien t-ioiis and a written guarantee is given with each instriii nient. They are lilted wHh the best under damper pctions, ivory keyboards double sconces, and double oblique stool frames. Mr Davidson holds a number of agencies for le-ad-inij Itritish and German makers. A specialty is made of repairs, which uro eflrOted at moderate rates. In admitting Miss Greig as a member of the Victorian Bar, the Chief Justice (Sir John Madden) said "I would like to express the gratification of the Bench at the graceful incoming of a revolution, and to express its hope that the success which has attended you in your efforts as a student will attend you also in your career as a barrister and solicitor, and that the noble profession ol which you are tile first lady representative admitted in this country may be in your hands as well sustained as it has heretofore In thr hands of the other sex." Later in tite day Miss Greig appeared in Court on behalf of the Australian Women's Association. Jerome K. Jerome, having allowed his finger to remain some time in a closed steel rabbit-trap, and having recounted his sufferings theretonu, all sorts and conditions of people are protesting against their use. The "Society for the Suppression of Steel: Traps" has recently made manifest its joy that through the intervention of King Edward no more of those useful implepiepts are to lc used in i Richmond I'ark, Tile editor of the I Animals' Guardian concludes p. lpttpr I to the Morning Leader recounting (liq fact thusly "His Majesty's loyal subjects will, I am sure, be glad to follow so splendid an example." It may he that they will—but at least, as concerns Victoria, some doubt may he entertained on the subject, since in one week some 750,00 ft rabbits were trapped in that State by His Majesty's local subjects. M(' McKenzie, the Daily Mail corirspmiileil) jp the Russo-Japanese, war, declares, g.s png having author- | ity, lhat if Australia Will not (hfow i open its unpeopled northern :eiijiiii- i ies, Japan will insist on a free en- ' try. Many months ago a like as.ser- | lion was published on the authority of a Japanese Minister in London. I

Japanese naval officers before <he war declared that a day of reckoning with Australia fox j's exelusiveness would eome. That, day kaya tfy* Uritish Australasian) is'not likely iu come with the declaration of peace, as it will be the day ihe Fngli.sh,Japanese alliance is extended. For its renewal .the British press is already ciamouitng. Mf Cliapibcilain has advocated it, and apparently Japan is willing. Australia lout; at;o determined on the exclusion of 'Chinese, not so much, the late Sir Henry Parkes contended, because of their vices or cheapness, as of their natural ability 10 intermix by marriage, and otherwise, or to becopie citizens of an English-speaking' community. Are the Japanese placed on the same 'lane ?

A lew days ago a Westport merchant wired to ihree different provinces for potatoes, receiving the reply in each case mat none were obtainable,

The following memorandum has been forwarded to the Under-Secre-tary of the Colonial' Secretary's Department by the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department "It has been decided that 'collect' telegrams lor any Minister of the Crown or heads oi departments arc no longer to 'He accepted unless specially authorised by this office, mil you be good] cnoug ii t u note this, and advise the several departments. ' Copies of the memorandum have been forwarded to heads of departments.

I'or five centuries and a ,ialf the drum lias ibee n to tihe French infantry what the bu&le j s ij-dny to t<he English s„ldier. It has beguiled, (.he weary match, and wherever the Ibnttalion was, under whatever circumstances, the drum h a s never been aJ:> sent. It has now to,disappear as ;boing U-8S handy, smart and portaflilo than the bugle, and its- place will know it no more, unless the deep leeling which the order of suppression has evoked throughout the army may avail to turn the War ' Minister from his purpose, From 13-17 to 1905 is a long record.. As a curious detail, it may beadded that the French soldier borrowed the drum from his cTfiny, th e Snracfn. It nvay, therefore, be regarded as a relic of the Crusades.

Everyone Is on the lookout for bargains and bargains of the best) kind in clocks, watches, jewellery, solid silver and electroplated goods of high quality, by best makers, may be secured at J. H. Parker's, next railway crossing, Devon Street, New Plymouth. Note carefully—Only a few Cases left of very fine American B*day striking clocks at 12s 6d each*

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