LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 226, 19 November 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following trains will leave New Elymouth station to-day for the breakwater, connecting with steamer mentioned below:— 6 a.m., Ngapuhi (from North); 9.30 p.m., ijgapuhi (for North).

The Hospital and Charitable Aid Beard and the Land Board meet to-day. We regret to learn from the Rev. James Ings, that the excitement of laat week proved too much for him, and that he is confined to his room. All his engagements for this week are therefore cancelled. We trust the rev. gentleman will soon be about again. The difficulty of forcing a button or stud through a starched buttonhole may be overcome by rubbing the back of the buttonhole with common paraffin wax. The X Rays are continually being put to some fresh use. Recently in Calcutta thoy were applied as a means of ascertaining whether an Indian thief had "pouched"a diamond. The rays revealed the presence of an obstacle in the throat, but its precise identity could not be discovered. At the summer residence of the King o Roumania a fine water power on the river Prahova has been developed, and its energy will be transmitted 29 miles and distributed to a number of industries, in the petroleum fields in the neighbourhood a considerable demand for the current has arisen. Possibly at no distant date the waste power of the New Zealand rivers will be utilised with similar advantage.

At the Paris Exhibition was one of the most extensive applications of electricity for cooking that has yet been made. Over 100 meals a day were served with all the complicated menu neeessary far a high-olass restaurant. The installation worked regularly since May, and demonstrated the practicability of electric cooking on a large scale. At a meeting of the Committee of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, at Christchurch, to make arrangements for the championship meeting, next month, it was decided to communicate with Stanley Rowley, the Australian champion, inviting him to compete at the meeting, and the secretary was instructed to ascertain whether there was any likelihood of M. M. Roseingrave, tho famous Irish athlete, visiting Christchurch in time to compete. The Department of Labour states that, with possibly one or two exceptions, allVjhe Kanstead immigrants who have so farpassed ■ through Wellington are now in work, about 30 on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, aiad tho balance working for private employers, who express themselves well pleased with the men. A girl named Maggie O'Brien, who ha* been for some time employed as laundress a Stawell (Vic), has just received au intima' tion that she has inherited over £15,000 from an aunt in San B'rancisco. A young man noticed an advertisement in the " missing friends " column of a metropolitan paper, and sent it to her, and she replied to it, with the result stated. Thrift, as represented by friendly societies, was in strong force at the annual gathering of tho Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, held at Portsmouth this year. The meeting was the largest of its kind ever held there, There were 700 deputies present from the United Kingdom and the colonies, such as Australasia, the Gape, Canada, and the West Indies. The Grand Master stated that the total membership on January Ist last was 961500. The income for 1899 was £1,235,425; the payments for sick benefits amounted to £704,777;. funeral benefit to £171,527; the increase of funds in tho year being £359,120. The total capital of the Older has now reached £10,074,410. In referring to the colonies, the Grand Master stated that 20 per cent.of the members in Natal had volunteered for service in the South African war. The contributions of those members were paid by tho other members.

The New Plymouth Ministers' Association lias sent a circular to all tho ministers in town, askine ihoui, in view of the open desecration of the Sabbath, to devote the last Sunday in November to drawing attention to the matter. At St. Mary's Church on Sunday evening, the Rev. V. (r. Evans said he should devote next Sunday evening to dealing specially with this question. It is quite time this matter was taken up, as it is scandalous the way the Sabbath is being desecrated. It is a common thing for people 'going to or coining from church to meet young men with cricket bats or lawn tenuis 3'ackL ts in their hands, the greater portion of tho Sabbath being devoted by them to Janiuscißont.

At St. Mary's Church last evening, the Vicar made a touching reference to the late Mro. Boswortli, and the value of her'work, lnoro particularly in the Sunday school. She was, he said, one of the many useful lives, in which St. Mary's Church had been so rich, who were rapidly passing away, and it was cheering to know that as these a»ed hands druppud the flag there were young hands i ready au'l willing to take up the good work and. carry it on. Mr. Evans said it was im- | possible to estimate too highly the lons, failhful, and self-sacrificing; devotion shown by these veterans, in some cases extending ore)' a period of half a century. | A VERY KVSURKABLE REMEDY. L -'lt is with a good deal of pleasure and IsiiSW action tijjj-., f recommend Chamberlain's i Colic, Cholera and ].H".rrhLca Remedy," says ; Druggist A. ~N. Kd.vtelie, of Hartford, Conn, ■■ A laoy customer, seeing the remedy ox[,csc.'i for s.tU on ii,y show case, said to uie: j- 1. .e.ihy heliovo that rcri.c'y saved my life he p .stsunmior while at the shore,' and she .-HOsiue so ciiiJmeiastie over its merits that I ■it 'jnco maiii?. up my mind to recommend it ■.a th;-. future. Recently a gontlauian came :.de zuy store so overcome with colic paius .j;.'. ho sank at once to the iloor. I gave . hisn a dose of this remedy which helped him. ,T repeated the dose, and in fifteen minutes he loft my store smilingly informing mo that j iio felt as well as ever." ' Sold by N&W Fly- -' moYitb, Qo.operativa j

r After an abteace of several weeks, the Rev. 8.3. Serpell occopied the pulpit at Whiteley Memorial Church yesterday. There were large congregations both morning and evening to welcome his return. The Government have deoided to constrnct a salmon rearing station at Hakateramea ' stream, North Otago, where an area o! 20 1 acres has been acquired on Robert Campbell , k Co.'s Station Peak property, and also a temporary station on Laka Ohaa. Mr. Ayson, Inspector of Fisheries, went south on Friday ' to superintend the work. The Agent-General i will send ( eut regular supplies of ova, which mil be hatched out at the station, and the fust kept until three years before liberation. The first consignment of 800,000 is expected from America shortly, being tho gift of the United States Fish Commission and the Canadian Government. Mr. Ayson is confident of the success of the scheme, inasmuch as the fish will be big enough to fend for themselves when liberated, and as they will be full of spawn and will deposit tho eggs before going to sea they may be expected to return to their original habitat. The Bev. G. Clement, of Stratford, occupied the pulpit at Queen-street Ohnrch yesterday, the Rev. J. Nixon being on a visit to Stratford on connexional business. In consequence of the indispos'tion of the Bev. James lugs, the Rev. Drew took the morning and Mr. O. E. Bellringer the evening service at the Gill-street Church yestorday. What Monby Can Do.—Money can do a great deal, but it cannot do everything. It cannot stop the passing of time, it cannot make us young again, it cannot renew with health the enfeebled frame. In the face of the demon ill-health, rich and poor are on an equality. Rich and poor have to seek the same remedies, and wise indeed are thoy if, in their sorrow and suffering, they turn to Holloway's Fills and Ointment. These are within the reach of the poor as well as of the i rich, and it is no idle testimony, bat the i natural result of long experience, which has declared Holloway to be the poor man's ' friend.—Adrt. , BEWARE OF A COUGH. A cough is not a disease but a symptom , Consumption and bronchitis, which are the most dangerous and fatal diseases, have for their first indication a persistent cough, and if properly treated as soon as this cough appears are easily cared. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has proven wonderfully successful, and gained its wide reputation and extensive sale by its success in caring the ' diseases which cause coughing. If it is not > beneficial it will not cost you a cent. For ' sale by New Plymouth Co-operative Society, . -Advt.

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