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

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 57, 23 March 1900, Page 2

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

,—« The s.s. Upolu having been detained, the s.s. Rotoiti, which arrives at the breakwater to-day, will bing her cargo. Some time ago the Taranaki Scenery Pre servation Society made representations to the Government tor a grant for the purpose of fencing spots of historic interest in the district, the result being that Parliament voted £SO. This sum is now available, and the Society will start by enclosing Whakarewarewa and Kairoa .Pahs, the former in Stony River and the latter in Maiaitawa district. Probably the amount will also enable two or three other pahs to be fenced. About £13,000 has been collected or promised towards the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Buckle-street, Wellington, which is expected to cost £40,000. It will be built of brick and Oamaru stone. The ladies of the committee again held a most successful sewing meeting for South Africa on Wednesday afternoon. A large amount of work was laid on one side as finished, though there is still plenty more to be done. As the case has to be packed without.fail on Tuesday next, what will probably be the last meeting will be held this afternoon (Friday), beginning at 1 o'clock. The committee will feel greatly obliged if all those ladies who have taken home work to finish will leave it at the residence of Archdeacon Govett as soon as possible, but in any case not later than Tuesday next at noon. In the Supreme Court, in Chambers, on Tuesday afternoon, before His Honor Mr. Justice Conolly, Mr. C. L. MacDiarmid was admitted ai a barristtr and solicitor of the Supreme Court, on the motion of Mr. Kerr. At the same time, on the motion of Mr. Hutchen, Mr. F. T. Bellringer was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. The London correspondent of the Cape Times, cabled on February 6th, as follows: —Mr. G, Wyndham, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, states that General Sir William Butler has applied for permission to take legal proceedings in regard to certain allegations which have been made respecting him. The War Office has raised no objection. Commenting on the New Zealand Contingent's war cry a London evening paper says:—" The New Zealand Contingent, of 204 men, which arrived in South Africa by the Waiwera, and proceeded to the front in two .trains, made an impression upon the people of Capetown that will not be easily effaced. This was because they gave their famous Maori battle-yell before the train steamed off for De Aar. It is a terrible war cry, a era before which the best disciplined troop, living could not be expected to stand. General Joubert will, of course, protest When the charge rings out, and the New Zealanders rush the enemy's kopjes, what cold steel and Lee-Enfield bullets do not accomplish the colonial war-whoops will." The Tablet, referring to the proposed visi o£ the Queon to Ireland, says : —The Irish respect for the virtuous ruler of the Empi re has in no way diminished since the days of 1835,1849, and 18til. And from her Irish subjects the Queen-Empress may expect the genuine Irish cead mille failte ten thousand hearty welcomes. The welcome will be rendered all the more cordial by the fact that the aged ruler brings with her a grateful acknowledgment—the first that ever i came from Royal lips—of the part the Irish! soldier has played in bearing up her Empire, and a message of sympathy for the widows and children of the gallant Celts who died fighting for her, and whose bones lie beneath the sun-browned veldt or up the boulderstrewn kopjes of Cape Colony or Natal. The Irish people are quick to forgive, if to resent, a wrong. But they never forget a kindness. There lies, too, in the coming Royal visit the hope that it will nob be merely a detached incident in a long reign, but that it may open a new epoch in the relations between the Irish and the English nations. Among the invalids sent Home from South Africa is Private James Williamson, of the Black Watch, a native of Montrose. He was struck by six bullets at Magersfontein. One bullet hit a Testament which was in his breast pocket over the heart. The ball glanced off the Testament and passed through his left arm, which is broken. He thus owes his life to the possession of the Scriptures. Williamson was shot through the left foot, left thigh, right shoulder, right leg, and back. The competition of Australian and New Zealand butter is making itself felt even in Deumark. The Copenhagen Butter News of January 19 says :—" The present price is moderate for this time of the year; in fact, ' the farmers grumble at its being too low, considering the high prices ruling for the different feeding' stuffs, and that the hay crop was exceedingly short last summer, so much, indeed, that many farmers will run short of fodder long before the grazing period commences. In tact, it is a very great question, which is at present eagerly discussed between the farmers of this country, j if, with the prices now ruling for butter, it is' . not a losing concern to make it." In a letter from Orange River, dated the 7th February, Mr. A. li. Paterson, special correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, says : —" The New Zealanders arrived yesterday, dusty and travel worn, but carrying themselves with all the swing of a regiment ' that has earned distinction and means to earn more. Their horses are standing work bolter than any other Australians.' ! "Why do the South African Dutch beai the British so much animosity 1" has beer an oft reiterated question. It is because their rancor has been inbred and nurtured for ' generations. They won't reason and argue, and be sensible, and livo with us peaceably in aland where there will be plenty of elbow room for the next thousand years. The only solution of the question is to conquer them by force of arms. This is what Sykes' Cura Cough is doing to all competitors, as it is healing them out the market.—At all Chemists and Stc rekeepers.—Advt. "Cruel only to be Kind.'—Much un| r necessary suffering is inflicted under the above excuse. If one is not very well, feels out of sorts, has a touch of the bile, and ex- ' periences an unpleasant giddiness, one is ' immediately teld to lake some disagreeable medicine. It is kindness in the guise oi cruelty we are told. As a matter of fact 1 disagreeable medicines arc no fonger necessary. Holloway's Pills and Ointment—the world-famed remedies—will soon put one right, and, moreover, they are pleasant and agreeable restoratives to health. Thousands can attest this, thousands have attested it. For disorders of the stomach and liver, takf the Pills; and use the ointment for gout, umbago, rheumatism, &c,—Advt,

The following additions have been made ;o the Telephone .Exchange list: —No, 181, Mr. J. Johnston, grader; No 182, Mr. T. Heldt, cabinetmaker, Devon-street; No, 183, Mr. 0. Ahier, private residence, Devon-street „ West; No. 184, Mr. E. Snowball, private residence, Oarrington Boad. An advance shipment ofdress serges and coatings has been received by Mr. S. B. White, and is now being opened up, p Walter Morey fr Son respectfully intimate t the arrival of an early shipment of five cases, ~\ ex " Waimate," consisting of 1 case Ladies' Capes, 1 case Ladies' Jackets, 1 case Ladies' Hats, 1 case Furs, 1 case Tickings and Sundries. The bulk of our winter shipment c (invoices to hand) are on board the " Whaka- g tane," when due notice will be given of their arrival. —Advt. After a long ride or fatigu* of any sort, nothing tones up the system so quickly as , Liebig Company's Extract. Its effect is ' more lasting than alcohol. * '!■ „ •! i 1 3