LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 191, 22 November 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The adjourned annual meeting of the New Plymouth Amateur Athletic Club, called for Saturday evening, a'gain stands adjourned, owing to the want of a quorum. At a_ meeting- of the Pioneer Settlers' Memorial Committee on Saturday afternoon, it was reported that funds were coming in satisfactorily, and the Mayor was authorised to obtain designs and cost of a suitable memorial. The traffic returns on the North Island main lines and branches for the four-weekly. period ending October 1-') amounted to £12],?,71 against £104,807 for the corresponding period last year. Passengers accounted' for £47,107 (against £41.112), and synods £OI,OOI (against £.50/128). In, the_ "Observer," a new weekly paper printed at Johannesburg, there appears an extensive pawnbroker's advertisement, carefully headed with the sign of ''the three spheres pendant." But the most important portion of thr "ad." is a statement that the firm is "patronised by rovalty." The Duke o) Connaught, was the onlv roval personage in the vicinity when the "ad." appeared.