LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 192, 27 August 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An adjourned special meeting of the Borough Council will ba held on Tuesday, at 11 a.m., for the purpose of finally amending and closing the burgess roll prior to the forthcoming election of councillors.

Trains will leave for the Breakwater today, connecting with steamer mentioned below, as follow:—6 a.m., Gairlooh (from North); 9.30 p.m., Gairloch (for North).

Twenty bishops participated in the conj secration of Archdeacon White as Bishop o Carpentaria. The ceremony was most im" posing.

The Works Committee of the Borough Council met on Saturday, when the following tenders were received for digging trenches for water pipes to FitzroyW. Powley, 9s 6d per chain; H. Shirley, 6s; P. Eva, 5s (id; J. Jury, 5s 6d ; W. Hopkins, 4s unmetalled portions and 6s 6d metalled. Mr. Hopkins' tender was accepted.

Mr. W. J. Bhaw reports having sold, on account of Mr F. H. Jackson, part section 607, Young-street, with building thereon, to Mrs. W. R. Kusden, of Kakariki, Rangitikei.

The s.s. Oreti arrived at Wesfcporfc from thß breakwater on Saturday evening at 9.15.

We learn, on good authority, that negotiations are in progress which may result in the United Dairy Association acquiring the Moturoa Freezing Works. The Freezing Company has, we understand, offered very liberal terms to the Association, and ai early meeting af that body will be held to come to a decision on the subject. The Co-operative Society have an advertisement in this issue, calling attention to the success whicli has attended the exhibition of De Laval separators at the Paris Exposition, where they have beaten all other competitors. This just bears out the experience of everyone who has used these separators in this colony.

Mr. Taunton's many friends will be glad to see that he is extending his business, having, in conjunction with Mr. Waugh, opened out, in the shop adjoining his cycle depo', a large consignment of tobacconist goods aud sporting apparatus. Every class of sport is represented, football, cricket, hockey, bowls, golf, lawn tennis, fishing, boxing, fencing, etc,, etc. Indoor games are also well represented, everything being of the very best quality. Messrs. Taunton and Waugh are to be congratulated on their enterprise, and should do well in their new venture.

11l the June issue oE the National Waifs Magazine, the organ of the National Waifs' Association—otherwise known as Dr. 13arnardo's Homos Dr. Barnardo has a crowded story to tell of a huge task and of inadequate means to cope with it. " Each year," writes Dr. Barnardo, " the field widens; the youn»recruits from waifdom increase. To-day 1 have over 5300 recruits in my rescued army. Every week 00 more are added, and my gates can never be shut. Last year was the greatest year in my annals; it saw no fewer than SOU freshly and freely admitted to the Homes." A considerable space in this issue is absorbed by the annual report for IS!)!), just presented to the Council of the As>o-'. ciatiou. This document contains a wonderful series of statistics, indicating the progress of the Homes and the 'large development whicli ihey have attained. The " Personal Notes '' are, as usual, full of interest to all social reformers. They are admirably illustrated from photographs Announcement is made of the " Founder's Day " celebration in connection with the Homes, which is to take place at Stepney Causeway, London, E., on Saturday, 7th July, when many interest-in doings will occur A copy of the Mayazine will be si'nt gratis and post free to any address on application to the hcad-puarters of the Association, 18 to 26, btepney Causeway London, E,

The statistics of unoccupied lands in the Cook and Waiapu counties (says a Gisborne telegram) show that there is a total area of ],GU3,153 acres vet to be taken \ip, or half !a million acres more than the area at present 1 being utilised, which is producing from wool and mutton alone a revenue of over a quarter of a million pounds pet annupi,

On the application o£ Mr. Quilliam, on Saturday, the Registrar of the Supreme Court granted letters of administration of the estate of the late George William Wells, to Henry Wells, of Te Eoti, farmer, brother of the deceased.

The Eev. F. W. Isitt will go into the i press gallery in his capacity of editor and reporter of the Prohibitionist newspaper.

Mr. M Smith, proprietor of the Waimate Times, has, after an interval of some weeks, on account of the fire, succeeded in reissuing his paper under favourable auspices. The Palmerston North Agricultural and Paseoral Assooiation has already had over £6OO donated to it for prize money during the coming season.

At an evening party not 100 miles from Napier, recently (according to a local paper), each guest had to wear a badge indicating his or her favourite novelist or poet. One lady wore on her breast a gas bill. No one could guess its signification. All gave it up, when the wearer of the gas bill triumphantly announced that it represented the " Oharge of the Light Brigade." A first prize for this conundrum was awarded a couple of months ago in Christchurch.

A special meeting of the School Commissioners was held on Saturday morning for the purpose of dealing with applications for lease o£ education reserves and other business. It was decided that the following applications for lands offered for lease by auction on 26th August, 1899, be accepted, at the rental and otherwise on the terms upon which they were then offered, and that the half-year's rent deposited in each case be applied in payment of the half-year's rent for six months from Ist September, 1900, no rent to be chargeable until that time, and the time for making improvements be as from and for Ist September, 1900, instead of from the commencement of the term (Ist September, 1899) vizSection 3, block 1., Mimi, 151 acres, Arthur Henry Condon, Uruiti Road; section 9, block X., Mimi, 91 acres, George Payne, Tongaporotu; section 10, block VIII., Ngatimaru, 110 acres, Albert Neilson, Huiakama; section 19, block VII., Omona, 300 acres, William Russell Mackay, Stratford; section 9, block X., Omona, 210 acres, Frederick Small, Midhirst; section 4, block XII., Opaku, 700 acres, Kiehard England Mcßae, Patea; section 1 and 3, block X., Pouatu, 421 acres, George Wyndham Henderson and Albert Henry Cock, New Plymouth; section 3, block W., New Plymouth town belt, 2 acres 1 rood 12 perches, W. G. Beale, New Plymouth. Leave to transfer leases was granted as followsJ. F.P. Pease to A. O. Pease; R. Wright to J. Colesby; E. A. Shaw to H. P. Mills. Subleases : Executors of J. Gaylard's estate to J. Wisnewski, and A. O. Webber to J. Edwards, each for seven years. Under the heading "Imperialism and Humbug" a correspondent remarks in the Otago Daily Timesl see that the Mokoia has arrived in Wellington with four Hindoos on board, and that the authorities decline to allow them to land in New Zealand territory. What a commentary a little fact like this is on the common cant about the 'unity of the Empire,' of which we have heard so much lately. I need only add that the compatriots of these four Hindoos are now fighting in China on behalf o£ the Empire, and that I have not heard of any New Zealanders offering to do the same." Mr. T. Pollard, who has returned from his Sydney trip, has arranged to take his company to Australia for a short tour. His opera company will tour the West Coast after finishing the present Christchurch season, and will pay a return visit to Christchurch before leaving for Australia, when, amongst other attractions, there will be a revival of "Djin Djin," with enhanced spectacular effects, amongst which will be a representation of the Highlanders storming the heights of Dargai, in which over IUO performers will take part. The many friends of Mrs. Milburn (nee Miss Maud Bcatty) will be pleased to hear that she will rejoin Mr. Pollard's company on November Ist. One of the French officers wounded, writes a correspondent, had on a handsome patro. jacket of ( white stuff, with sporting buttons stamped with a dog's head. As he was dying he asked that it should not be taken off him, as he wished to be buried in it. Our men replied that only Boers robbed the dead; and as he closed his eyes for the last time he smiled and said," Bury me in it; it was at Fashoda." His wish was gratified.

There has been withdrawn from the United States public funds for war purposes since the outbreak of , hostilities with Spain £97,000,000. This sum has paid not alone for military operations, sustenance, and transportation, and defonce, but includes the expanse of the Paris treaty, and £5,000,000 given to Spain for the Philippines. Notwithstanding this immense outlay, the revenues of the United States are said to accumulate at the rate of £1,000,000 a month.

£5,000 Bonus would not bo thought too large an amount to pay for tlio blessing of health by many wretched sufferers who by day and night are tortured with the racking pains peculiar to gout and rheumatism. Belief, however, can be procured at a much less oost by tin aid of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. The former are of so purifying a nature, that a feiv doses taken in time are an effectual preventive against an attack of either. The Ointment should be thoroughly rubbed into the parts affected at least twice a day after they have been sufficiently fomented with warm water, whictopens the pores and facilitates the introduction of the Ointment to the glands.—Advt. We are now in the football season, and during the short winter aftornoons the welkin will ring with the loud and vociferous shouts of the barrackers. It behoves all players to be careful of colds, which they are liable to catch through getting over-heated in 'and then cooling oil rapidly after their exertions. Whenever the player is attacked by a cone or chill he should seek some remedy, old that has proved its efficacy. We cannot do better than recommend to him Sykes' Oura Cough. All Chemists and Storekeepers.— Advt.

Zsalandia's sons have shown snch pluck And steadiness when under fire, That more are off to try their luck Against the Boers in war attire. It's my advice that ere they start, Sound health and strength they will secure, All coughs and colds will soon depart On taking Woods' Great Peppeimint Cure, 6