The Daily News. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 44, 23 February 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1900. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will meet at Hawera to-day. We have to acknowledge the receipt of complimentary tickets from the Oape Egmont and Normanby Horticultural Societies for their respective annual shows on the Ist and 16th prox. Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamers m manned below, as follow: (from North); 8 a.m., Rotoiti (from Sou li) ; 8.30 a.m., Mapourika (for South); 9.30 p.m., Rotoiti (for Ncjrth). There will be a pas-senger-car attached to the goods train, leaving New Plymouth for Breakwater about 8 p.m. The Otago Education Board has decided to make reductions in allowances to School Committees totalling £793 per annum. A feature of the Labour Journal's report for the month is that all over the colony the building trade is said to be remarkably brisk. The engineering trade is also in full swing. The Tyser Company's officials have been unable to find the three Chinamen who deserted from the Indralema, and have paid the £3OO poll tax. Owing to the bad weather on Wednesday evening, the patriotic concert to have been held at Ornata had to be postponed. It will be held in about a fortnight, but the exact date will be advertised shortly. At the Swimming Sports on Thursday next some of the members of the St. John Ambulance Association classes will give an exhibition of ambulance work in the resuscitation o£ the apparently drowned. The Ladies' Swimming race will also eveataate. Mr. E. M. Smith, M.H.R., received the following telegram on Thursday evening from the Premier in connection with the proposed Taranaki Guards Please forward details new corps forming New Plymouth. Owing to the spirited manner in which your people have contributed to Rough Riders Contingent, Government will with great pleasure accept its services.—R. J. Seddon." ,I'his will be pleasing news to those who' have taken up the matter of enrolling a second Volunteer corps for New Plymouth. We have received from Mr. W. Courtney a copy of the third edition of his pamphlet entitled, " Taranaki, -the Garden of New Zealand," published in England. An illustration is given of the Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth, and the work contains much useful information to intending emigrants. The Patea Freezing Works are expected to commence operations almost immediately. Wanganui has formed a corps of Volunteers to be called " The Wanganui Highlanders," and the uniform to be adopted will be that of the Gordon Highlanders. The New Zealand Dairymaii states that it takes 800 ounces of gold to pay for the daily output of cheese and butter in Taranaki during December, January, and February. The Wanganui Centre of the New Zealand League of Wheelmen has granted a permit to the Tariki Caledonian Society to add cycling events to the programme for their meeting to be held on Ist March. Mr. B. A. Hignett is doing good service towards aiding the Patriotic Fund. At Norfolk Road School on Monday last he delivered a lecture on the war, and raised £4 10s. At the annual school social atKaiauai by reciting " The Absent-minded Beggar " £ll2s 5d was. gathered in. Altogether he has succeeded in collecting over £3O. The only stipulation made by Mr. Hignett, in response to request for his services as a lecturer, is that the whole proceeds must be handed over to the fund. A Farewell Tea to the Rev. J. Olphert will be held in the Queen-street Church on Thursday, Ist March. Tea at 6 p.m. Tickets Is.—Advt. dw23,24 Since Briton and the Boer threw down ' the gaunlet to meet in deadly combat there has been a marvellous and unprecedented run on all our modern songs, " Sons of the Sea," and "Soldiers of the Queen," are the favourites, and in every city, town, village, and hamlet where the Anglo-Saxon tongue is spoken the soul-stirring refrains can be heard. We have also to chronicle another unprecedented run, and that is on Sykes' Cura Cough, which has rehabilitated thousands of enfeebled and run down constitutions.—All Chemists and Storekeepers.—Advt Fobbign Competition is olten declared to tie the cause of much of the suffering in this country, and we are told that the number of fareigners in England make it very difficult for the Englishman to get a living. However this may be, it is certainly true that the presence of foreign matter in the blood endangers the health of the whole system. To purify the blood and to correct disorders of the liver and stomach, the only certain, safe and agreeable medicine is Holloway's Pills. If you suffei 1 from gout, rheumatism, or lumbago, scalds, burns, or >ir.iilar evils, you must use with the least possible delay Hollowav's Ointment. For over lialf-a-re;it,ury these famous remedies iiave been the faithful friend of man.—AuVT.