The Daily News SATURDAY, JULY 13.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 July 1907, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, JULY 13.

On our fourth page: Parilinka Road Board, correspondence, commercial, provincial news, railway statement, church services, the mail s . Out ml and West Eud schools re-open on Monday morning. Plans have been prepared for the erection of a la rye parish school in connection with Si. .Joseph's Church. The Treasury has remitted to the Taranaki County Coumil .Cf>oo for the reconstruction of the Waipukuiti Bridge on tin, l .Mountain road.

Capt. Edwin wired yesterday:—Easterly strong winds to gale after J<l hours with gbi-is falling; tides high; sra consideiable; rain probable.

It is understood that the increase in the as>.esMiient of unimproved values in [iawr-ia borough, as showing by the new valuation. U aliout C/iiUIOO higher than it was set down at, three y-wrs ago,--Star.

The success of the Liberal and Labor Federation's social on Thursday was largely due to the efforts of Mr E. Arinitage. the sc.- tvtary, and to the strong ladies' committee. headed by -Mrs S. M. Smith. Amongst the decorations was a photograph of the Liberal party as at lirst organised. Mrs F. E. Clark was responsible for the decorative work, which was tastefully arranged.

A Dunedin telegram reports that in the Central Otago districts and around Oamaru. there has been practically no rain since August of last year. Gold mining is hung up in the mining districts with disastrous results. Snow, which usually provides liberal water in the spring, is this year frozen hard, and unlikely to be melted before January next. More serious, however, is the fact that farmers are unable to plough any but stubble and turnip land, i and only to the same depth as last year.

Anxious faces peering out from the Education oilice window yesterday afternoon led some of the public to believe that there was some excitement in the street below. Enquiries elicited the fact, however, that the ollicials were troubled i concerning the advertising "push'- of i "T/eare, the Shoeman/' the new tenant of one ot the shops on the ground-lloor. He lias commenced the erection of signboards over the verandah and in front of the Education oflice windows. Fearing that the light would be interfered with, and the public prevented from seeing the window signs, the oilicers had the work stopped pending the decision of the Hoard and the advice of the Solicitor.