The Daily News. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 August 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24.

The Teachers' Institute annual meet.ing is to 111 yt - vatfovd tUls a£t;!l ' I noon. The Stratford school is closed for _ a [fortnight, owing to an outbreak ot influenza. , Mr T. Bromnell Hundley* ot toll has been appointed editor oE the Marlborough jixprjsj. An outbreak of diptheria at \Mraiifc* momona lias resulted in the tempoiarj closing of the schools. The Hon. Oliver Samuel has consented ,o take charge of the BoiQUglj ot Nov Plymouth Loan Validation Bill m thLegislative Council. The woman who was arrested *&'■ other day in man's attire at the wharl is an old hand at the game. It is stated th.it, similarly attired, she li\«d amongst shearers in Australia for weeks

aiuTeseaped detection. _ Already eleven bands have nominated for the Band Contest to be held about March next. Of these nine hail from the South Island, Six are iir,lelass bands. . Mr Newton King reports having sold at" ltahotu on Thursday last two dairy farms at Opunake on account ot the Crown Dairy Company, one ot 150 acres to Mr M. llickey and the other (144 acres) to Mr \V* A. Guy. Those who intend joining Miss Rhodes' art' classes at the New Plymouth Technical School are advised to make a start now while it is yet possible to obtain the full quarter's instruction. Miss Rhodes is making a point of preparing students for the South Kensington examinations, and intends sending up as many as possible ai the forthcoming sessions.

The Cairington Roail Board has conferred with Mr Spencer, the engineer, concerning the manner of expending loan money on work at the Ratanui Hill, and has arranged regarding encroachments by lining. Complete plans of the widening and other road improvements are to be submitted to 1 lie Board at a meeting next Wednesday night, and tenders will be called shortly afterwards.

Rev. A. Harding, who has succeeded Rev. John Nixon in the Primitive Meth

odist Ministry in New Plymouth, was warmly welcomed by Fitzroy folk on Thursday night. Alter a tea, which was well attended, there was a. .public meeting, every seat being occupied, dsspite the wretched weather prevailing. Messrs l'ikett I'ud Cathro and Rev. Armstrong made welcoming speeches. ' -Musical items were given by Misses E. Linn. E. Bishop, 11. Armstrong, A. Connett, f. Foot, and Frederickson, and Mr Seott. The Chief i'usUnii.ter .* New Ply-

mouth forwards the following:—Doubtless Bay wires re the strike as loilous: "Existing conditions now are tnat the Anglo and Commercial are unaffected. The Direct and Western Union art cut off through the Western Union strike in Montreal and Toronto, as well as New i'ork. The French, whose business must circulate via New York, are alsf cut off by the strike. The German Atlantic Coy. is unaffected, as their business ciiculaUs via Canso, not touching the American line." A later message states that Bamlield wires:—"Mail probably late owing to thick fog. The result of negotiations with the strikers is that the embargo is to be strictly maintained." The latest from Bamheld, timed o p.m., states "the manager of Vancouver advises that all men have returned to work pending tlie result of a meeting to-morrow. Our business will go through in normal time. Wire 0.K., and we are up with homeward cables."