The Daily News. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 194, 8 September 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Liverpool firm is shipping a million tons of coal to Uordeaux and Marseilles. A shipment of unfrozen beef from Argentine in chambers, the air of which had been sterilised, proved a failure. Lord Ampthill has been appointed Governor of Madras. The French steamship lines are reducing the number of voyages and lajing up a portion of their fleets owing to the dearness of coal. The £20,000 required by the Wellington City Council for the purchase of the tramways has been subscribed locally at par. The Trades Union Congress at Hudderslield, by asinall majority, carried a resolution Lliat the South African war is cruel and unnecessary. I On Wednesday, Mr. Newton King will 'hold a clearing sale of furniture on account] jf Mr. D. Wood, who is leaving the district. The furniture is of first-class manufacture and will be sold without reserve. The quarterly Licensing Meeting was held i by Mr. Standford, S.M.,on Friday, when the following transfers were sanctioned: —Taranaki Hotel, from H. It. Campbell to Mr. Kelly; Kahotu Hotel from U. K. Buckthought to Jas. Hawkins. Messrs. Bewley and Watt having sold privately the four half sections in Bullcritreet (next Mr, Brash's late residence) and Jie two lots on the seaward side of the foregoing, these six lots will be withdrawn from cue auction sale advertised for the llthinst The Dunedin Commission for enquiring into ihe cost of closing certain streets for a railway station found that the sum of £32.000 ,vas estimated for &tuait-street. The traffic was found' io be much heavier than was at first thovgM*

The Italian Government, for 27 years, has guaranteed to the Pope an annual income of about £35,000, which he has steadily refused to accept. The arrears of this annuity amount now to over £4,000,000. Mr. A. B. Atkinson, the young member for Wellington City, in the debate on the proposal to Increase the number of Ministers, said there ought to be a Minister for Billets, and another for Banquets. If in addition to these there was a Minister for electioneering the ordinary Ministers would be able to get through the work ot their departments easily enough. It is gravely asked," If a British soldier and a Boer were locked in the same railway carriage which would get out first!'' The answer is, '• The British soldier, because ha has got the khaki." The Wellington Evening Post states that prospects for the butter export are very favourable, and it is expected that, given suitable weather, the quantity shipped from Australia to London during this season will exceed that of last year, which was the largest yet recorded. A Milton paper states that at a Registrar's office, not a thousand miles from Milton, a couple were being married, all tie preliminaries had been settled, and the woman was about to sign her name, when she threw down the pen and said, "No,I won't have you," and ran out of the office. Not everyone is aware that the opening years of the next century will the completion of the first milliard At minutes since the beginning of our chronfiogy. For approximate calculations, it woulctaeem that the one billionth minute will be reached at 10.40 a.m. on April 30th, 1902.

Mr. Seddon has received the telegram from the Auckland Railwiy League: —"The Railway League desire to'thank you for your definite statement to the deputation re Central Railway, and trust youj may see your way to reduce the time neceßsary for construction."

The military veterans, who accepted the invitation of His Excellency the Governor to be present at a luncheon at Government House, Wellington, this (Saturday) afternoon, left by the mail train on Friday momling. Amongst the company were:—W. Apployard, late 70th Regiment; M. Moore, late 57th; J O'Donnell, late 57th; N. Golding, lata 65th; and J. Pycroft, Koyal Navy. Most of these Crimean veterans wore three or more medals, and presented an imposing appearance. It was a great disappointment to those, who were jinable to travel so far, as the compliment paid by the Governor to ihe remnant of the heroes of that eventful campaign was greatly appreciated by all who received it.

Mr. Leo Carri notifies that owing to extraordinary pressure of business with his Wanganui pupils he cannot arrive in New Plymouth till to-day (Saturday).

Five thousand rainbow trout were released by Mr. D. McAllum, Secretary of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society, la the Heaui stream yesterday. At a meeting of the members of the Star and Tukapa Football Clubs held on Thursday, it was decided to erect a monument to the memory of the lato Troopers Enderby, Wiggins, and Hempton, formerly members of the Clubs. A Committee was set up to (further the object and obtain sanction to erect the monument in the Recreation Ground.

Whiteley Memorial Church.—On Sunday, September 9th, services will be conducted as under; 11 a.m., Hev. S. J. Garlick; 3 and 7 p.m., Rev. C. H. Garland. On Monday, September 7th, at 7.30 p.m., the Rev. C. H. Garland will conduct a meeting on behalf of the Century Commemoration Fund.—Advt.

Too much stuess cannot be laid on the fact that in the whirl of unnatural excitement, and in the struggle for existence in this generation, no attention whatever is vouchsafed to the most ordinary rules of health. When the muscles becomes relaxed, the nerves over-sensit;ye and delicately strung, and the brain wearies at the slightest task, these symptoms are part of Nature's warning that the delicate organism of' the human frame is out of gear. In mostrcases a gentle stimulant and mild restorative is all that is required to impart fresh vitality to the jaded nerves, and it is a well-known fact that a few doses of Holloway's Pills work wonders and restore the lost tone of the nervous system. —Advt.

We are now in the football season, and during the short winter afternoons the welkin will ring with the loud and vociferous sKouts of the barrackers. It behoves all players to be careful of colds, wh.ch they are liable to catch through getting over-heated in and tben cooling off 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.