LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81829, 23 August 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is the anniversary of tin birth of that " grand old man" Si: Georgo Grey.

Valparaiso advises that the line .to Santiago is restored, also that all Chilian trallic is going forward. The Melbourne-Naples despatch of the 18th July arrived in London on the morning of the 2UIU inst. (not 30th as advised yesterday.) The Recreation Sports Ground Committee met last night, and decided to call tenders for the removal of the trees on the ground required to be levelled or altered. Tie committee now looks like business.

About fifty vehicles and working exhibits arc already promised for the mouster labor demonstration now being arranged for October 10th by the Eecrealion Sports Ground Committee. At the Education Board meeting on Wednesday, a ballot decided thorotation of retirement oE members as follows: Central ward Mr Adlam 1907, Mr Wade li)0S, Mr Tisch li) 09; North ward : Mr Trimble 1907, Mr Fauli 1908, Mr Morton 1909; East ward, Mr Kennedy 1907, Mr Monkhouso 190S, Mr Morison 1909.

An application is to be mado to tho iNew Plymouth Borough Council to supply the town schools with water free of cost, This is done in Stratford, where the local authorities, like the school committee, fake a very live interest in school affairs. The Inglewood municipality will probably bo approached on the same matter. Where punctuation is important. In a letter received by the Education Board on Wednesday, referring to very old shelter sheds, the writer said : " The sheds have been in a bad state for some time. We hayc been patching up and repairing different members of the committee from timo to time, but they haye collapsed now." A dash before "different" aud alter "committee" makes the meaning clearer.

Among to.day's list of expected arrivals, there ranks one name, which is looked on in Wellington and the southern cities as belonging to a man who is a splendid orator. Mr 11, H. Bligh, who lias taken Wellington, as it were, by storm, has consented to give his powerful address in New Plymouth, and as lie gives helpful information in reference to the preservation of the body while in training, he should be listened to by a big audience. His exposure of medical quackery is especially interesting and should be listened to by all lads oyer 14 years of age.

The attraction for this evening is the Garrison Bund ball in the Theatre Royal. In Hie hands of an experienced and enthusiastic coiiiuiiti.ee all arrangements are now complete, aud the weather is tlic only thing as yet not decided on. Mr E. Humphries, DrumMajor Lister and Sergeant Flatt are the M.C.'s, aud Mr Turner's orchestra will supply the music. Ladies arc again reminded to have supper dishes ready to be called for to-day, which calls to mind the prophecy of orei of (.ho committee that the supptr is meant to eclipse any record yet established.

Pretty Tubular and other Silk Tie i 3 for Is, Merino Souks (id pair, Men's 'Army Bracps 0.1 pair, Men's White Kid Gloves Ls Od pair, Men's White Shirts (short bosom) 3s Od, Hoys' Felt Hats Gd eacli, half guinea Hard Felt Hats (latest shapes; 7s Cd, at the Melbourne during the wind-up week of the threat bargains sale.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease; But my sadness fled when a soft

voice said, "Here's your O.T. PUNCH, Sir, I'leass;,"

Mr Kennedy signalised Lis accession to the Education Board by entering a protest against tlie Board's failure to give publicity to the result of the recent election. The chairman said that the result had been advertised in the "Taranaki Herald," and ':i (he *' Gazette," but Mr Kennedy considered that some paper should hare been selected that circulated in the Stratford district. Mr J. D. Morrison backed up his colleague, stating that it appeared tho Board was only concerned about telling tho result to the New Plymouth people. Mr Wade closed the discussion by announcing the whole question was one of ways and raeuns. Mr Kennedy considered the result should have been advertised ~<i all papers that published the nominations.

Wo aro glad to see there is somo chance of New Plymouth advertising

itself. Mr Govott uttered a truism at last night's meeting, when he said that New Plymouth seemed less known as a holiday resort than any other place in the colony. Many of the travelling public were unaware that we had anything here for them to see. Years ■igo the townspeople used to do more

in tka way of adyertising the beauties )f tho town and district, but of later vears we have been asleep, to our own disadvantage. It seems New Plymouth is about to wake up again. The Scenery Preservation Society, whose duties have been curtailed by the appointment of the Scenery Commission,

is now turning its attention to tho commercial aspect of our scenic at-

raetions, and probably in a week or two a big notice board near the railway station will show forth the names,

locations, and distances from the town of our many beautiful and varied attractions for tho sightseer. The well-known eyesight and spectacle specialist, Mr A. Green, D.S.A.O. of Auckland, is now on a visit to New Plymouth, and may be consulted daily from 31st August at the consulting room in Messrs Bewloy and Griffiths' premises, Devon street. Mr C'jeen needs no introduction to this district, where there are many people san gratefully point to him as having given them renewed sight. Anyone who is suffering from defective vision, and who require tho use of spectacles, cannot do better than call at once upon Mr Green, who has come fully prepared to deal with any stage or kind of eye trouble. Sufferers would

do well to remember that where the eye requires attention delay is. danger ous, and that an opportunity does not o'ten occur of consulting a first-class specialist. If you have the faintest suspicion that your eyes are not just right, that your glasses don't suit your sight, if you have to hold a newspaper further from you than you should, or you cannot see at a distance, or if you suffer from headaches, painful bloodshot eyes, inflamed eyelids, crossed eyes, etc., then do not go to the average optican or spectacle seller, as he is unable to distinguish between optical defects and diseases, but consult a good eyesight specialist, who will thoroughly examine your eyes, and give you good glasses, which will improve and strengthen the sight, 'f ko optic nerves will secure rest, headaches will thus be prevented, and there will be an absence of dizziness.—Advt.