The Daily News. FRIDAY, MARCH 28.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8066, 23 March 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, MARCH 28.

The annual general meeting of members of the Tukapa Football Club will be held ou Tuesday evening. The Borough Council is quite -willing to remove earth from the front of the New Plymouth Technical School site, when requested by the Education Board. Mr J. Hunter has been re-elected captain of the Hawera Club. H. L. Abbott will play for Inglcwood this season.

At an examination in bankruptcy at Sydney of an employe in the Government Printing Office, evidence was given that he had been paying at the rate of OtJO per cent, interest to a money-lender.

A practical result of the good work being accomplished by the boys of the Industrial School farm at Levin is the sale of butter made on the farm in the local stores. The butter, which is selling at current market rates, is of excellent quality. Mr Dooley ou stamp collecting: " Tli' British Guriueul issued a uoo series larst week with a line study ov th' Noo Zealand footballers ou it. But they wer' withdrawn as they found they couldn't lick 'em." The high price of potatoes was a subject discussed by the Trades Couu. cil at Wellington on Thursday night, aud it was decided to ask the Minister of Trade aud Customs to move iu the direction of placing potatoes on the free list of imports. One of the recommendations of the Works Committee to the New Plymouth Borough Council, is that the engineer be authorised to procure a hydrant and hose, for use at the electric power-house. The report of the borough engineer on the condition of the Maugaotuku and Huatoki streams, running through New Plymouth, has been referred to the Sanitary Inspector, with "instructions to abate the nuisance. It is understood that the Borough Councillors will hold an informal meeting this evening, to discuss the matter of staff re-organisation, in order to bring down, if possible, some definite scheme of retrenchment to the ordinary meeting on Monday night. St. Mary's harvest thanksgiving services will be held on Sunday next. The thanks-offerings promise to be of a beautiful nature, and the Vicar, Rev F. G. Evans, notifies that donations will be thankfully received during Saturday.

Mr C. Carter's first floor has been transformed into a big crockery showroom, for which it is excellently suited ou account of the light and space available. Preparations are now being made to display a very large consignment of glass and crockery ware to be landed direct from .English makers. The Matapu arson case that has been occupying the attentiou of the Supreme Court for the last three days has caused considerable interest all over the province, aud particularly in the southern parts. It is doubtful if another case of its kind, presenting so many extraordinary features, has ever beeu heard iii the colony. The disagreement of the jury means a re-trial. This will take place at the next session.

On the application of Messrs Weston and Weston, His Honor Mr Justice Edwards made an order empowering the administrators of the estate of the late Gottfried Strauch to sell the real estate belonging to the deceased. On the application of the. same firm, His Honor made an order allowing a certain instrument by way of security to be filed, although the 21 days after execution had elapsed.

An episode of the Blackball floods, (juccnslaud, as related in the " Barcoo Independent " : By daybreak we made fast to a tree and found Mr and Mrs Sutton, with eight children, and Mr Daker, a carrier, roosting up aloft on iwo tables upside down. The tables rested on poles fixed iu the forks of the tree. There they had been for 40 hours, braving the torrents of rain.

Mr Kerr had a laugh turned against him iu the Supreme Court ou Wednesday. He was examining Mr S hidden as to (he possibilities of his visual organs, aud asked him if, when he was tiring iu the volunteer shooting, he had been able to distinguish a marker at the 3(ll)yds range.. Mr Sluddcu said that most of his shooting had been directed at targets, and the markers were iu a trench out of sight. At the New Plymouth Hospital on Thursday moruiug, the death occurred of Mr Khody Slaltery, of Manaia. Deceased, who was 74 years of age, leaves three grown' up sons and three daughters, Mr William Statlery, late proprietor _ of the Waimate Hotel, Manaia, being one of the former. Mr Slaltery has been ailing for some time. The iiilei'mcul is to be made in South Taranaki.

The issue of honorary members' tickets iu connection with the. Recreation Grounds improvements seems likely to prove a remunerative idea. All subscribers of £lO aud upwards are entitled to free entry to any sports or other Functions held in the grounds in the seven years during which the committee has control, Some local gentlemen, who intended to give only five pounds, changed their minds and increased to a " tenner " when they found they could get such value for their money.

Mi' Xewlou Allen has set up in Mr C. Carters bulk store-room one o[ the novelties which will form a big attraction si Ike forthcoming All Nations Uazaur, organised in aid of the New Plymouth Oams„u (jam) funds. This novelty in <|uestiun ranks high amqng those to he produced, and is nothing short of a miniature phantasmagoria, depicting well known figures in the life of Christ. The whole idea is splendidly conceived, and should be a most successful means of catching spare coin, as ii is intended to use this as a side sho». .U the conclusion of the bazaar, the whole mechanism and pictures will bo disposed of bv means uf a rallle.

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