The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 23.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8163, 23 July 1906, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 23.

The Gazette notifies th.it Parliament will meet at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, August. 21st. Sydney Vancouver despai.il 12th June arrived in Loudon on the nnrnmg of the lUth inst.

The tender of F. White has been accepted for the work of widening the I'apuae tunnel. The contract price is

It is understood that the MotupikoTadinor section of the Midland Railway will be opened for trallic on Ist August. The section is ten miles long.

The New Plymouth G.is Company's I mains are now being laid along the Eliot road, and Ike head of the pipes is about opposite the Ngiimotu Golf Club's links. It is understood the service will bo extended to YVestown when sullicient inducement is forthcoming.

Messrs Glegg, Bigelow, Wills, Home md Good icre were the members present at Saturday's meeting of the Eliot Road Board, Mr Glegg presiding A general rate of Jd in the £ was struck. Accounts amounting to £lO los were passed for payneut. The outbreak of fever among the Maoris at Russell, Bay of Islands, was, according to Dr. Norman Murray, undoubtedly due to the insanitary condition of the settlements in which they lived, but with tho precautions now being taken there is little likelihood of the fever spreading. Toe hope is expressed by the "Otago Daily Times" that when the Bank of New Zealand revised its salaries some consideration will be shown for subordinate officials, who, while they uvupy positions of great trust, arc not in receipt of salaries commensurate with the responsibilities of office.

The meeting this evening of the Loyal Eginout Lodge, 1.0.0.P., M tj , promises to be of an interesting nature. The District Oificers will pay the Lodge an official visit, after which the members will try conclusions with the brethern of Hie" Excelsior Lodge at cribbage and euchre. It is hoped there will be a large attendance of the members of both Lodges.

Satisfac'.ory progress is being made with the erection of the derrick at the No. 2 Moturo i bore, and also with the erection and iltling up of the machinery, which is of a much better and later type than that used in connection with the Birthday lure The piping has arrived from Sydney, and it is expected to commence operations in earnest in t' e course of a few days.

The director, of the Taranaki Petroleum Company inform us that tho 10,0-Xt shares allotted to Taranaki have been fully subscribed. The full list of applications ui other parts is not yet to lianl, bit li un.ler stood to be very ■uiisfaetory. The directors meet tolay, but probably will not proceed with ill.lment for a few days. Mi' Frel Bellringer, in his electric light iuvasnqilioas Ins found tli vt the current used in the municipal olliees is . Ii lrged to the street-lighting accounts. At to-night's Council meeting, he will cn-ieivnui' to hive each department debited with its lighting expenses, so : hat the reading roo.n, circulating library, Town Oierk's oili-e, and so on, will ail bear their proper share.

rl ui' Mr ileikt's one of the ii.nv.v.iu.'iit \ .'lena.iry Surgeon;, on the recent lie.ivy mirialiiy among inoculated calves in Ta'iuaki, has been foiwariled lo the head of the Agricultural 1). p rtiiunt, and will be c: ns dcrcd i n the return of .Mr Ititchie, Secretary fir Agriculture, to Wcllinaton. 'lne report is said to be mcon•lusivc, except that it exonerates the stock inspectors (who inoculated the calves) from all blame.

The Customs duties collected at the ports of I In.- colony during the .June quarter totalled L'iii)2,'.lll, as compared with for the corresponding quarter of llioj. The revenue from the principal ports was: Auckland, mV-l'.D ; Wellington, .tloli.lilli ; Lyltednii and L'hi'istcluircli, ft) 1,277 ; Dunklin, CH7,The excise duties amounted to L'J as' against I'-M.iilW for the corresponding quarter of 11)1)5. Wellington contributed t'i,Srs, Auckland CS,M'J, Ch 'istchuich tfl'.ltW, and Duncdin £7,7J i

" Australasian fruit mak.-s ft splenlid s'.t.w at the Royal Horticultural Society's Exhibition and gets nearly all tlie prize runs the sub-heading of an article in tlie British Australasian of 7tli June. Xew Zealand won a silvergilt Knight i.in medal for apples described as a " magniii xnt display" of ;eigUty varieties. 'Jhis country also sent samples of ruined and bottled 1 fruit of all sorts. With the large development of fruit-growing now proceeding in New Zealand, it is submitted that there should be a surplus for regular export to Great Br,tain. -At about !•.:!') on Sunday light the East I'.nd li '"!>.•!! trikled an alarm, and the clanging of the Cent.ul bell a few 1111111111'.- later attracted Itig crowds into tlie streets. The lire, however, was in t a very serious one, the alarm having been given 011 account of a blaze seen in the window of a inuse in Dt v 111 street, near the Red House R to:, oc-upied by Mrs C'"X. Tile brigade extinguished the blaze, but not betiire it h id destroyed tlie ceiling of one of the rem s, The ho ise which is owned by Mr Arrowsmith is insured 11 the lioyal fir £liO, The furniture which was uninsured, damaged to the extent of about a couple of pounds.

rile fiiu.'rnl took place at Bell Block 011 Saturday of the late Air Hubert Tale, who died in the Old People's Home 011 Thursday. Tli- »<• Mr Tate was a very old co'on : st. He arrive,] m X inv fl-aland in the e-ii'ly si\jvs. ail i saw liviubleis times In"""-: ill" Ma„n w ,r. !: i, ivlaled j' l; li I" "•'■ !-l .11. ■.li'l'll I 111. M K.fjs

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■: 1 i| 1 1' I'einpsey and [he i iln-i'ollicers Ihe luls-iM-ii. ami asking | hem |„ u' : l in 11,, w ihfir iv-iguaii -n-. Afier 11 i :l res.,ln, I ■ .1, v, :. , i 1J: 171 i - ::;"! ly ■ "i'.'l'i I '. 1. tolloA- "Thai hie 'lie ISoard lor l] u . M . ]> e--lun ul culifid n:-e in Major Pemp-ey and olli.-ers of !he Cadet li'i'ialion, we would respectfully point. o-.1l thai on mir pari there has been 110 HiiMiiiiler-laiiding id' the ami I li:i 1 uii'il (he Board ileei les lo rescind (lie resold: on of .May liHrd, linn;, we iMiinot in self-re.-]ieet recede from the position taken up." O. T. PI WCII is aleiiipcraucc ilnnk And all :;ood stores supply it;

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