LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 102, 13 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The visit to New Plymouth of Lady Ratifurly and suite has been postponed owing to other arrangements. The Waipawa Mail hears on good authority , that Mr. Cecil Rhodes has offered the Hon. J. G. Ward a lucrative appointment in South Africa.

A large and enthusiastic meeting at Wellington on Monday night decided to ask the Government to accept the services of an artillery corps. The Ml strength was readily ioitlneommg. Superintendent Gilberd, of the Napier Fire Brigade, has received a telegram from the Hon. J. G. Ward, intimating that the vote of £250 for the expenses ot the Fire Brigade delegates to Paris is available. The World's Conference opens on August 11th. At the conclusion of a speech recently delivered down south, the Hon. J. O. Ward said: "He hoped that the peopla of New Zealand would never again permit the aggrandisement of the individual or company by the acquisition of large estates. With our sturdy race, with cheap money, cheap communication, cheap railway freights, and a roads and bridges policy, with social laws calculated to raise the mass of the people, we had nothing to fear, and he hopod that Parliament would be able to build up a happy future and a happier country." The number of cattle killed at the slaughterhouse in the Borough was 31 large and 155 small. The quantity of kerosene in store on the reclaimed land is 86 cases, and in other shops 256 cases.

In the April issue of the National Waifs Magazine, the organ of Dr. Barnardo's Homes under their new title, Dr. Bamardo tells a woful tale of reduction in income, traceable without doubt to the existence of the various War Funds. In a period of three and a half months the receipts of the Institution, as compared with a similar period a Year ago, have fallen off no less than £10,8211 Naturally the editor makes warm appeal to the Christian and philanthropic public not to neglect home charities. He has a strong claim to urge, for the statistics are astounding. The rescued boys and girls now under the care of the Homes number 5300—t0 which GO fresh admissions are added weekly. Since the year 1866, when the Founder of the Homes, then a young medical Student, picked up his first arab, very nearly 40,001) destitute children have been saved by the Homes from destitution, suifering, vice and crime. Both State and Church undeniably owe such an agency a very heavy debt. The claim is not withont iustilication that these National Institutions have contributed enormously towards lessening the crime record of the country, that they have emptiecj the gaols and workhouses, and that they have swept the streets of the degraded, the vicious, and the habitual pauper. The "Personal Notes" teem with graphic illustration? of the need of such rescue work. The portraits from photographs tells their own tale, and some of them (for instance, that of " A .Remarkable 'Cripple") are of quite exceptional interest., | Among the other contents is "An Old Oon- ; troversy with a recent Chapter," which deals ' with the editor's attempts to arrange for the rescue of Roman Catholic children. Waif Saturday for 1900 is announced for 23rd June, or, alternatively, 28th July. The Spring party of emigrants, consisting of 254 boys and lads, have just left the Homes. In all no fewer than 10,914 trained young people have now left the Homes for Canada and the Colonies, and over 98 per cent, of them have done well beyond the seas. ]Tor other contents we refer our readers to the magazine itself, a copy of which will be sent gratis and post-free to any address on application to 18 to 26, fcjtepney Causeway, London, E.

It is no exasperation to estimate, as preceding statistics prove, the number ofi visitors to the Paris Exhibition (says a writer in The- Times) at 36 millions at least. If iiiie average expense of these visitors be calculated at £5, 180 millions of pounds sterling will represent the net expenditure oi' this vast multitude in Paris, the capital alone, and a third at least of this expenditure, £lio,'ioo,ooo, will cerlainly be made in Paris itself in tiie shape of cost of living, of transport, and of purchases. These figures tako ];g account ol' the items of railway and steai::boit to the ; capital, in which the-provinces will reap a i profit, and the great tjasaport companies. I This item may be li.\erf* t 5^40,000,000. isle, proud Mauriland, sky '-si; i>lur, and landscapes «rrand, | All radiant with liie summer's sun, \nil Luiiage greet., wlieu winter's gone; ■ 'l'll;jseason with its storm* and pales

The from the members of tho fire Brigade asking the Council to make uie oliicu ot "Captain" to. 1 be, held during U.e pLeasure of the Council 'was signed i»y twenty four out of twenty eight metnbeio. 'lliu petitioners slated that were convine 'd that the propustU .wouid tend to the .■ i i , ..xv-sis of the Brigade, and that the • . essential to the most effective | working of the Brigade would be more I fully maintained thereby.

The forthcoming Ball in aid of the City Band i« attraotiag a.great deal of attention, and has every promise of being a great success. This is as it should be for the Band are entitled to a large measure of support and encouragement. It it not generally snown, but none the less a fact, that the members defray the stipend of the Bandmaster out of their own pockets and have, in addition to giving their time for the public

good, contributed in a commendable degree to the cost of their uniforms. Possibly there i are some under the impression that the , members of the Band participate in the ' funds raised, but this is not the case, in fact ] quite the reverse as many of them on oc- < casions lose wages by attending to take ( part in special performances such as the recent jubilations. During last year about 1 £7O was expended in instruments and still < more are required. All that the Band look i to the public for is instruments and a subsidy for uniforms. Considering the excellent spirit displayed by the City Band, not only in helpiDg forward entertainments and other worthy objects, but also in their earnest endeavour to delight the public with first class music, they have a very strong claim for a hearty response to any effort set on loot to replenish their funds, and it is to be hoped that the opportunity which now presents itself will bs largely made use of by the Citizens for whose pleasure both the Town and Oity Bands cater. Mrs. Dockrill and Mrs. E. M. Smith assisted by several other ladies are actively engaged with the many details that go towards ensuring a thoroughly enjoyable evening, all that is ' wanted, is the hearty co-operation of the public, and this, under the circumstances, , should be exhibited in a very marked manner.

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