LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8061, 17 March 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Supplies of pigs to the Taranaki Bacuu Company's factory at Fitzroy arc largely increasing. Yesterday big loads came in from liahotu and the coastal districts.

The Premier lias rceived word tlio Japanese famine affects & larger area than previously imagined, and that the Japanese Government would be glad to accept assistance. Ihe Liardet street footpaths, between Devon and Gill streets, are being raised with soil from the trenches made in upper Liardet street, for the reception of the drainage service. White ley Church, Sunday March 18th.; Preacher: Hcv. J. X, Buttle, morning and evening. Strangers cordially welcomed.—Advt.

The Mayor of Now Plymouth will call a public meoling regarding the reliresentation of this district at the International Exhibition The work of wharf extension at Moturoa litis proceeded steadily duringthe past: month, and as soon as" the necessary sheathing is available the new wharf will be brought into line with the main structure.

The two clusters of electric light re. cently erected on the New Plymouth passenger wharf have been found such a convenience that another cluster is to be erected, the new lights to he silual ed on (he new portion of the wharf.

Foreign Mission .Secretary for the Methodist Church of New Zealand, in forms us that be has received a rheipie for £SO from a "Friend of .Missions,' as a special donation to the mission fund.

Mr 1. Henderson, harbor works

superintendent, has recommended to the Board that in i'liturc the chati ng pieces on the uiaiu wharf should be of ironbark instead of red pine, as experience has taught that the ironbark lasts three limes as long as the timber now m use.

"No wonder the French Consul didn't accept your offer to send a ship, l'ul of foodstuffs to Taluti," said aJS'ew [ Plymouth umu to the Premier the other night, "Whyasked the lion, gentleman. "Suppose he took it as a tirst step to New Zealand's annexation of the islands," was the reply,

Mr C. W. Browne, chairman of the Western Park Board, desires to acknowledge the receipt of donations to the funds from the South lioad euchre party, £8 10s yd ; a South Road dona-

tion, 10s; and Mr H. Gilbert, as. Mr Browne is well pleased at the ready response, and will he glad to acknowledge, privately or publicly, any further sums.

.During the month ending March ItHli, the New Plymouth breakwater has been extended a distance of 21. feet, and the total length of new work completed is now 1(50 feet. There are only enough concrete blocks 011 hand lo complete two more sections (21 feet), so the foreman of works intends to resume block-making at once, and to work at the end of the wall only while the newly-made blocks are selling. In this issue Messrs Bewley and Grilliths announce the sale of .Mr (•rays line herd of dairy cows. This , herd is almost entirely composed of two herds that had been selected with great care and used lo both hand and machine milking. Ilesides the ' ow s, there are some really good draught horses, which are guaranteed 1 staunch and quiet. There is a firstclass dairy plant and a number of good implements, the whole of which will be sold without reserve. The hay is a 1 particularly good and well-saved lot. Ij

There were forty-one berthings at the New Plymouth wharf during the past four weeks, the aggregate gross tonnage amounting to 44,947 tons. Imports were 3702 tons, including 759 tons of railway coal and 620 tons of local coal. Exports were 1475 tons, and the total cargo handled was thus 5177 tons.

_ Are the Japanese to become our rivals iu oratory loo? Viscount Hayashi speaking some short time ago at Colchester (England) of (he AngloJapaneso alliance, indulged in a bit of imagery. He said the laud of Rising Sun having joined hands with the laud on which the sun never sets, the two should secure peace to the world.

On Wednesday next Mr Newton King will hold a clearing sale of dairy cattle and farm stock, at Oniata, on account of Mr F. Putt, who has sold his farm. Anyone wanting choice milking cows should not miss this sale, Particulars are advertised in another column

In dredging out the inner borth at the wharf, the dredge has met a very hard deposit, necessitating the use of the grab bucket instead of the pump. Seventeen days' work was done here in the past four weeks, the dredge removing 3120 yards of sand and silt. Blasting may be necessary lo complete the inner berth.

At the Harbor Board's meeting on Fr.day, Mr Maxwell said that Mr Marchant had found that the tolara walings and braces at the New Plymouth wharf had withstood the attacks of the toredo better than the hard woods that had been used. Timbers had been tested, and the depredations of the insects had been found to have ruined through hard wood, and had not eaten any great distance into the tolara.

Ou Tuesday, Captain Hood, harbor master, made a survey of the dredged area of the bottom of the New Plymouth harbor. He reports that the dredge is making very slow progress in dredging out the inner berth, and that a large deposit of sand is forming round the end of the breakwater, and in the sheltered area oil tho inner side of the breakwater, and this is extending about 540 feet from the end of the breakwater, running along the wall shoreward and growing out eastward. The dredge will be employed during the next month in removing this deposit.

The unusually high price of copper I ;it present is hampering local bodies considerably, For instance, the New Plymouth Borough Council has had to reduce its purchase of copper wire for electric lighting purposes, and the Harbor Board has now declined to accept tenders for a supply of Muutz metal sheathing for wharf purposes. The engineer of the latter body suggests a trial of a mixture of haematite powder and boiling tar as a substitute for copper sheathing, for protection against the destructive attacks of the marine-bor-ing insects. This mixture, described by Mr King as «Mr Marcliant's patent medicine, is said to be etficacious, bill as yet there is no absolute proof of its merits. The foreman at the harbor works, Mr P. Henderson, has found that the piles and other wharf timber above half tide level have not been at all affected by the toredos, and therefore suggests that no sheathing be done above that mark. This recommendation has been forwarded to the engineer for his report, To-day free samples of butterscotch will be given out by Mr A. E. Sykes, New Plymouth.

The following playors will represent the West End Cricket Club v. Sash and Door, at West Eud ground on Saturday, play to commence at 2 o'clock sharp.-—Jumufi, Potter, Simmons, Hooker, Blyde, Way, I'orritt, Sadler, Waller, Whittington, Fitzpatrick. kuiergeueies: Clark, Prior, Chitty.

A speciality is made of Ladies' Hair Dressing and Ladies' Toilet necessities at the Egiuont Hairdressiug Saloou, Kgmoiit street. A very line showing of. ladies sundries oJfered. The proprietary have nidde quite a reputation for their skilful and pleasing attention to this department.—Advt.

ItHEUMO SOON CURED HIM. A tew doses of Ifheumo soon cured Mr Goo. Colledge, the well-known Wellington muster mariner. .He writes: " I was attacked with rheumatic gout. My feet wero much swollen, ami so very painful that I had to keep in bed. Hearing of your cure for gout, I sent for a bottle of Kkeitmo, and after taking a few doses the effect was magical—the severe pain left and the swelling disappeared. I was soon on my feet again and able to go to work." Khoumo is sold everywhere at 2s (id and la (id a bottle l