LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 4 May 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

W'O are pleased lo j;i vi . ~„,,,;<.;,,. ~, | the chinch services of tho district i„ our Saturday's issue. We would, however he more pleased if sunn- of ilie churches l onval-Avl particulars (o rcricli (his office not liiU-v thiin !).:«) a.m. 011 tin- Friday. Jlr. \V. T. .leniiiiigs, M.11.1i. for K K . niont, has received iuliniathm that every!liin K possible is heinij done to establish telephonic coninmiiication will] -Maiiff'.papa and Okaiu but frreat difficulty was lieinj; experienced ill procmi'im null's etc. ■ h 1

Waitara narrowly escaped aiiotlu-r serious lire uu Thursday. A blaze occiirred hi „ cottage occupied by .Mrs. Copestako, but it was put out before it liiul spread past the wall above the kitchen chimney. A g0,,,! breeze W as b|, nv _ ing at tin; time, ami had the lire not '■ overcome in its incipient stages (here must have been a serious conflagration, for (lie cottage almost adjoins a business block of old wooden buildings, in which is a two-storeyed lioimlin---'

ilr. W. (J. Uiddell, S.M., gave judgment ill the Holmes v. Bishop case, on Wednesday afternoon, in bis writlen judgment, bis Worship slated that lie had carefully considered the evidence, whicli was conllicting, but on tin; whole favored the plaintiff. He accordingly gave judgment in his favor for Cl';>,' (he amount claimed and costs r;j lj) s . }[,-. (.'. 11. Weston (Weston and Weston) appeared for the plaintiff, and .Mr. iCovett ami Qulliain) for the defendanl.