LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At Inglewoed a movoment is bes;un to secure the erection of a Wesleyan Parsonage. Efforts are being made to hold a Horticultural Show at Waitara. We trust the movement may be successful. From tho Inylcmuotl Record we learn that Constable Montgomery, accompanied by his wife and family, was a passenger by the early train on Tuesday morning till route to Napior. His many friends trust tho chungo will prove of benefit to him. Mr. Buxton, District Railway Traffic Manager at Wanganui, was in New Plymouth yesterday, atui by arrangement met Messrs. Connett and two of the three members of the committee appointed by the Harbour Board to discuss with the tratßc manager tho question of retention of tho key i»f the points at the breakwater. The three gentlemen above named visited tho locality and went fully into tho matter, after which tho Bo ird's representatives draw up a report which will be presented on Friday. The following trains will leave New Plymouth station for the breakwater to-day, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as Ifollows:—6 a.m., Ngapuhi (from North); 9.30 p.m., Ngapuhi (for North), j Robert Rewan, J. W. Deem, and A, K. IBlundelJ, Inspectors of Stock, ljave been ;ip . i pointod Inspectors under the Noxious Weeds Act passed last session. Tho Sydney Bulletin mentions tha fact that live steamers are building in Sydney for the Mokau Hirer trado. j With their usual enterprise Messrs. H. Brown »nd 00. are determined to take full advantage of the present demand for timber. \ The Record says:—" Tha electric light has been installed at Messrs. Brown and Co'si mill, and operations will be carried on there, j night and day, for, soma considerable tiiao to come."

' We learn on excellentauthority that tbei'e " is every probability that Mr. Balfe will after ■ all bo able to see bis way to again oifev his j services to thi ratepayers of the Stratford District a-i 4 number of the New Plymouth . Harbour Board, ' We hope thjs la so as cvery- ' one will be glad to see Mr. Ralfe again re- ; turned. 1 At the inquest held at Inglewaod on Tues--1 day, touching tho death of tho late Mr. John » Streot, who live I on the Windsor hoad, tho j Jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes, tho medical evidenco being to tlio effect that tlie deceased had died of heart 1 disease. The Jury gave a practical ovidenco ■ 0£ their sympathy with the widow, t<.v requesting thoir fee to be hahded over to her, A meeting of shareholders of the London and Glubo Finance Association agre»d upon voluntary liquidation. Mr. Wjight stated 1 that a plan of rßCoustruction was being pre- ' pared; that all creditors except ono had agreed to accept £485,000 in payment of all ! obligations. The directors are arranging to raise £SOQ,OQO t)y the na!o of th# Company s intorost in the Bikof stroos railway, Kar) 1 Dalferin has resigned the chairmanship. Later cablo intelligence is to the effect that a hitch has occurred with the creditors, sotno refusing to accopt the composition which it has transpired is. only ten shillings iu the £. Rotums of tha llogis'rar-Ooneral's office show that 2753 persons arrived in the c douy and'l6'ffj left, a§ spoGtively in Deceinhsr, 1899. 1 ' Mr. Alfrod Vandnrbllt has ra'irried Miss Elsio French, of Nowporfc. The bridegroom settled £750,000 on the bride. Tho North Sligo Executive of the United Irish Leaguo has stopped hunting all over Sligo until Colonel Campbell, Master of the Hunt, reinstates evicted tenants.

Mj\ Copoland, having eliminated the superfluous provisq, has signed tho Eastern Kxtension Company's cable agreement. s>r Andrew Clark, Agnnt-Gtmerdl for' Victoria, is awaiting instructions from his Gov rriment. Arrangements arc being made by the Oovernmetjl to ty'ing jijtq the market the lsfflds tho Midland authorised area, six mijlionacras in all. These will be open for selection aftor Ist February and in tho meantime the Commissioners of Crown Lands for Nelson and Westland are hgarins; applications from persona already in occupation under temporary license or under any airangement with the Midland Company, oa whose cases reports will bo made to the Minister of Lands. The Tadmor hfeck of C,j300 serqs will be placod on tho market aWut'the (if March, and a survey in being mado of a'bliici: at Mataroa, south of Ross, and several'other blocks. Slatin Bey has arranged with Sheekh Alydinar to administer the province of Darfor under Anglo-Egyptian control An explosion at Wilson's hat factory, Denton, lUnchester, killed twelve and mutilated forty porsons. The census of New Zealand will be taken on the night of Sunday, March 31st. The Registra'r-Cfenetal is' uqw making arrang'r ments. The Postal Department has advised that the colonial malls per Miowera, which loft Sydney on 6th December, reached London on January 12th, three days late. The Star Football Qlijlj h'W? decided to hold thab' gpoi-ts on Easter Monday. An attractive programme has been drawn up three of the running events hgitig worth 610 esolt Too Oorjimittee intend 'tq in'ai(t? the as itjtchsfcing ta-the public as possible, 1 !he : full programme will be advurtised shortly. The members of the Uniled Tenuis O!-;h are reminded of the official opening of the ' courts this afto-noon at 2.30. Afternoon tea will bo provide j. —Advt. The Australian Boiling Team to visit j England is in course of formation, and will ; leave in April. !

A fur costume displayed at tin; Paris Exhibition, and made to tho order oE the. favourite wife the of Shah of Persia, cost 7,000 guineas. _ slr W. J. Lyric retires shortly from the St&te Premiership. He will be succoodod ? y M P l '2 ald Ihemsoo probably taking the

South Wale.- jrolil yii'ld ls>«l yew! < lift ;i. "falling ot£ of £557.000 Compiled; wiHlh'i prev <iks yuar. { t.ho Jion-O(iti>mis',iv,o'l uilircrs i for tin- ;-!>■>.,< i.l, ;r-i ;hi:i f,plotting New I'ivimmth :ri"n : -Hmviitiit.s ■ Sidiidjj .Sni'tii, ,!. 1 r'.'.'jo, and lii.-lo've, ' mono J The leling-Vrwnior, the Hon. J. (i. Wr.nl, sent aAiegram yesterday to tlis Worship tho MS*, to the effect that tho War Offlce had re *mended the Admiralty to make or Imperial troops low !in Aust.Ka, to visit New Zealand, and pru- | raising tl acquaint Mr. Dockrill as to any further arrangements made. Possibly this may mealthat there is a likelihood of the troops visling New Plymouth, especially as from intelligence to le fouud in aiioihet column, tlw troops will, as far as pus.-iljle, travel overland. They would be heartily welcomed hero, and it is to he hoped sufiioient public spirit will he shown in the right quarters, to arrange foi' their vioiting New Plymouth. Sir J. Forrest app-.oves the idea that tho States Post Office should be oonl,rolled by each State, nndor iiijitruetioiis Iroui th» Federal Post Ofiaeo, rathev than by direct admiui-t'-ation. He Hays live years nm»>!. lapso before there can b : a postage stamp ourrent throush ut Australasia. \\ iiv this should be he fails to make clear. Tho Attorney-General lil-h furnished Kir George Turner witii an opinion that in accepting the Foderal Treasurership ho liad accepted a position of profit under tlie Crown. Sir George Turner resigns his seat in the Stjta Assembly to-day, A very fine and extensive stook of Engagements Rings, Wedding Rings, Keepers and Dress Rings, new century Watohes, in gold silver, genuine rolled gold and nickel cases, Clocks, Spectacles and Klectro-plate at J. H. PAUKfili'S, Watclnnakor, Jeweller and Optician, next Railway Crossing, Devon-street Central, New Plymouth.—Advt.

Holloway's Pills and Ointaitjnt. Reliable retnedies. Id wounds, bruises, sprains, glandular swellings, enlarged veins, neuralgic pains and rheumati-m, the application of this soothing Ointment to the affected parts not on y gives the greatestease, but likewise cures the complaint. The Pills greatly assist in banishing the tendency to rheumatism and similar painful disorders, whilst the Ointment cures the local ailment. The Pills remove the constitutional disturbance and rogulato every impaired function of every organ throughout the human bidy. The cure is neither temporary nor superficial, but permanent and complete, and the disease rarely recurs, so perfect h>s been the puntieation performed by these searching yet harmless preparations j The mo t 4«H- a e may take Hoiloway's i Pil) i » | with perfect confidence.--Advt. Willis Str el, Wellington. Mb. M. Impey. -• ■ »lstJuly, 1900. Dear Sir,—Please send me thru* niorbottles of your "MayApplk." 1 cannot speak too highly of it. It hasrmiroiy lvlieved me from the headaches wh eh to distress 1110 011 busy dxyp;nd a member of my family who us-d to Miff r from chronic palpitation and indigestion has beon restored to perfect health through tailing ImpkvJs " May Apple."—lam, yours gratefully, E. W. Wilton, Butcher.—Advt. . | UNNECESSARY LCS3 OF TIME

Mr. W. S. Whedoti, Cashier of the Firs; National Bank of Win tercet, lowa, in a re cent letter, givqs sqmv experience with a carpenter in hij employ that will be of valu. to other mechanics. He say?; " I had a car penter working for me who was obliged t" stop work fur soveral days on acoouDt o.' being troubled with diarrhiea. I mentioned to him that I had been similarly troubled and that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhcea Remedy had cured me, He bought a bottle of it from the druggist hero and informed me that one dose cured him, and he is again at his work," For sale by Now Ply mouth Co-operative Soolety.—Advt.