LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 201, 14 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow's supplement will contaiu many interesting features. ''Facts about | Clichuos" are full of information, ana "Business Life" is also useful matter. There is the usual budget under the heading "The World of Sport," In' "jl'oUiroii." Fiction is well supplied, and there are several topical articles -f interest. The "Wit and Humor" column contains some laughable "hits." The Taranaki Guards and the Maugorei Rille Club fired a match at Mangoivi yesterday,'with twelve men aside. The Guards won by 50 points. Classes for instruction for non-com-missioned olticers are to be, held week'y in the Central School gymnasium, under Si'igeant-Alajor Sanderson, commencing this evening. The English mail . despatched from ' Wellington via Brindisi on the 3rd July arrived in London on tho morning ol the Dili instant. The English mail despatched from Sydney via Vancouver on the 7th July arrived in London on the morning of the 10th instant. Through choking while eating his dinner at an hotel in W'aipawa on Saturday last a .Maori named Hilly nearly lost his life—in fact, it was only sav-.d by the prompt action of a doctor who was summoned, in cutting the throat in order to remove the obstruction. The native is recovering satisfactorily.

Our readers are notified that in fi'iture, to meet the requirements of the grocers and dealers in farm produce, the baying prices of eggs, butter, etc., published in each Friday's issue, me subject to alteration "that afternoon for Saturday's btisiness. Information concerning Saturday's prices will be published in Saturday morning's issues.

The volunteers engaged in the football match yesterday afternoon adjourned to dinner at the Taranaki Hold. After disposing of that item, a "singsong'' was proposed, but it remained m tho'proposai stage, owing to the intervention of llu- licensee, and the gathering rapidly dispersed early in the eveu-

An advertising agonev, through its solicitor, Ims forwarded to the Xew Zealand Uuubv Union a claim for ;C315, alleged to'be the amount hist by the agency (tenderers for the supply of ollicial programmes of the Anglo-Welsh mnhhes) timing!) the Union's action in giving information to the press before ilie plaving of matches. It was decided a I last'meeting to place (he matter -n the hands of the Union's solicitor.

I for Hie season commencing November and ending in August, nvcnly-one vessels have loaded meat and 'other produce in the Waitifra roadstead! This (say.s the AYailara Mail) is an increase of live-us against hist season. The cargo of the Whakata'uc, which left this week, includes 2238 quarters beef, 5784 carcases mutton,-2S| carcases lamb, 405 carcases pork, 1475- boxes sundries, 1-10 bales wool. 153 casks tallow, 03 casks oleo, 27 casks pells, Mil-sacks horns, etc. More Queensland territory has been bought by New Zealanders--1200 acres of it—rich, black, deep, mellow soil on the Darling Downs, and .£12,000 worth of Xew Zealand gold will be transferred to the banking account, of some retiring sijuiiiter of the great sugar-cane State of the Commonwealth. The charms ...f Queensland are evidently still powerful. The purchasers of this new block are Messrs. S. Campbell (Stony Creek). .1. McDougal (I'Yatherston), A. Harris (Masterton), and W. 11. Cruickshank (Masteilon). The half-yearly ineetiiig'oi' the Roland Catholic Club was held on Wednesday evening, when there was a good attendance, of members. The iiiiancial report was satisfactory. Ollicers were elected as follows:—President, Mr. W. G. Milone; vice-president, Messrs. (j. drey, .1. 11. Parker, and M. Jones; spiritual director, Rev. Father MacManus; secretary, Mr. -I. O'llagan; treasurer, Mr. J. licnnotl; sub-editor, Mr. ,1. J. Sullivan; vice-secretary, Mr. U Ryan; librarian, 'Mr. ■ Croon;' steward, Air. .1. McCabe; executive, Messrs. M. llansbury, 11. Duller, \V. dunes, Yv. Donoliue, and A. j .1. Wt'hierny. j

An old man called at a jeweller's shop in Wellington on Tuesday and asked to see some greenstone trinkets. .Mr. freeman, the jeweller, showed some, and was turning to get otheis out of the window when he espied the customer putting something into bis mouth. Seizing the old man by the wrist, Mr. Freeman summoned his assistant, and together they compelled him to disgorge. In 'addition to the trinkets 'that were concealed in h's mouth a brooch was found in his pocket. The thief proved to be an old hand, with a record, and aliases, such as William Burns, or Munro, or Wilson. He pleaded guilty .before Dr. McArthur, S.M.. the next morning, and was sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment with hard labor.

One effect of the big fall iu the price of wool has been, it is slated, a marked falling-ofl' in the.demand for motor-cars in the country. The motor-car has goi'c a long way .towards making country lii'e attractive'to run-holders and tiiei'r families, whose sphere of social lii'e was necessarily restricted bv the endurance of the hoi-se anil the railway iinie-table, but Ihe advent of the automobile, apart from the pleasure of motoring, made it possible to lake in a visiting radius of iil'ly or sixty miles with the same case and with greater comfort than a ten mile journey in a trap or on horsebach-, due cilv agent for minor-cars, who was consulted (says the Dominion) staled that country business was ocrhinly slack at the present lime, and sales were not nearly so frequent .as (hey assuredly would have been h'ul the price of wuoi kept up. These men's -Ills lid lo 05s tailor-made Kuilsi at 'The Melbourne" are made up of precisely tlio same fabrics as those sold and supplied by to-mcasure tailors for'at least £:•! more. The style, cut, and finish of these suits are above reproach, and no matter whether you .no proportioned on the generous, medium, or slim side, we can fit you, and lit you well. Come and see the'eamples.—Advt.

The quid re; 'ts of Chamberlain's Tabids m (.lie clue of biliousness, and prompt relief o' all its bad symptoms 9 something unequalled by any other medicine. They cleanse the s'tomach, clvar out :i7«l stimulate tile liver, drive away every symptom of pain, distress and discomfort. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers. For biggest variety and lowest prices in men's warm underclothing "The Melbourne" undoubtedly lakes the palm. Consider these prices: Koslyn flannel undershirts 2s 3d, IVtono knitted underpants ,1s (Id, plain seamless Koslyn socks I'M pair, Kaiapni heavy ribbed seeks !id p.iir, merino singlets Is iid. Is lid, 2s fid. merino umlei'paels Is lid. hrilYV InmbsI wool shirts ami panls 2s (id and lis iid.Advt. IT DA/.Z.UCS Till', AVOIU.n. N" discovery in medicine lias tver "wai.'d nui. (|ui w |,.,- (| u . jiHere-.t that ''-'-' b-'eu caused l,v Or. Sheldon's New UiJVovory for Cough*,. Colds, and Conj i'"u-u'uptiou. It iias brough relief in i I lie "aost hopeless eases, when all elese I ''■■"■■ f'ilvfl. Obtninnbl,. eycrvwhor 1 . ! Inl'iiciiß, is • •'.••!! "I 'lin v,,, ( ini, of I he. war. This .t.casc is very imail.nr t„ a V, ~, ~,,r, ■ d i f allowe-l !r ta'-e its course i |: ' ! ''.■' !o en use ivrio,* r suits. 'Hie i-.t, irealnrail, ft ■ ieilcurza 's 1... avM-j c\ '':., are ami take Climnb.rla.;.i'i! Com? 1 ' meiiv. 'J'liis medicine f.ivea immedii'l" relie.". and !f used as directed will '■ ard on: all diuurei'oui consequences. T leaves lln.3vs.tem in a natu.ul and tivllhv condition. It. always euros and .qi;jew cmickl.y, 'J>ov mlp;;W;a!l,<jhomiats'