The Daily News. MONDAY, JULY 2. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8146, 2 July 1906, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, JULY 2. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In proposing tlie loast nf liic Indies on Friday nigh! :il (lie Poultry Society's dinner, Mr ISiHrlifl'c askcil, " Who looks nflcr tin' broody hensp" The meding responded, "The ladies." " Who feeds I lie chicks ?" "The lad. ie>." " Wlio collci'ts tlie eggs?" "The ladies," again came the reply: im-.v growing more vociferous. "Who sell; I he eggs and i akes all I lie money?" "The ladies!" roared the meeting, hugely en joying the trap into which they had been led. IIV •(. I[. Bent ley's big drapery sa'° continues to-day.

M<wy and Sou don't believe ill making tivn biles at a cherry. There's not an article in the store that escapes the great price reduction. That is why this linn hud an unprecedented selling last week. The price*being cut to the very slimmest of margins, Morey and Sou anticipate even bigger sales than ever this week, as tV pt'iecs are so low that those who come to look will buy quickly,

An important announcement regard- . ing the price ot bread appears in our advertising columns. Livingstone's first auction sale is to be he'd at his mart, opposite Bed House Hotel, on Wednesday. Newton King holds an auction sale of pure-bred poultry in the Drill Hall at 1 o'clock to-day. A giant auction sale of the complete furnishings of a superior house is advertised by Mr Newton King to take place on Friday. Last Saturday the British General Post Office, having heard of Sir Joseph Ward's sUteniCT t reg mling wireless telegraphy between Auslru'ii and New Zealand, wrote I lie Ooloinl Department, asVnj, lu be given " .in opportunity of offering I'li'i.- obs nations on any applicatßi ior the installation of a wireless telograph system which may possibly communicate with similar systems in foreign countries." It was stated that the Governors of other colonies had been asked not to grant or promise any licenses for such stations without previous reference to tho Secretary of State. "Is there a market for meat at Genoa P" said Captain Hollingsworth, of the Indraghiri, in conversation with a Dunedin "Star" representative, "No doubt about it. The Italian market is one of the finest, if you go for it in time. I have been three times into the Mediterranean with the Indraghiri. The last trip we put ashore 150 tons of Queensland beef and 140 tons of New South Wales mutton at Genoa. It opened the eyes of the natives—it was far better stuff than they rear on the Apennines or in the Maremma. If steamers can serve them, tho trade ought to open fast. Already they have got freezing works at Genoa, but they have a lot of detail to learn "