The Daily News. SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 60, 30 March 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Countess Bussell has obtaiaed a divorce ! There waa no defence. The strike in Marseilles is in reality a a Socialist movement engineered by agitators. Amongst the plague cases at Capetown are 8 three soldiers of the British regular army. President Loubet reviews the French and j, Italian gqnadrona at Toulon on tha 10th i April. In oonaeotion with the riots 2000 students s have been arrested at St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kbarhoy, since the 4th March, The students of Paris and Borne held meetings and expressed sympathy with the Russian student*. Beveral photographs of Thursday's proceedings at Stratford are on view in Mr Q - H. White's window in Brougham Street. One in particular is interesting as showing the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones in his shirt sleeves in the act of turning the sod. Eight thousand deaths from plague are reported in a week in the province of Bengal and in the city ef Calcutta. There was great excitonust at Woodville on receipt of the news as to the Rifle Championship. Lusty cheers were given for Nelson, flags are flying, and everywhere arrangements are being made for a great reception to-day. Lord Selbourne, speaking at the Liberal Union Olub, denounced the current agitation against Sir A. Milnor, whe, he said, had ; stemmed two invasions without infringing the constitution. Mr. Napier, M.H.R., at the request of the Volunteer officors, is urging the Government to spend L6OOO in the erection of a new Drill Hall at Auckland. The officers consider the site of the eld hall unsuitable, and recommend the site belonging to the Harbour Board adjoining the proposed Victoria Park, in which the Volunteers could carry out field manoeuvres. The Dunedin Harbour Board have been applied to fer a grant to J. Jameson of the use of the waters at the head of the bay fer the purpose of using them as motive power to generate electricity applicable to many useful purposes in the vicinity. The Beard were evidently not up to date in scientific matters and were in doubt whether to treat the application seriously or not, but eventually shifted the responsibility on the Works Committee whe will possibly inform themselves of the feasibility »f the proposal before reporting on it. The Town Band acknowledge with thanks a donation of £1 made by Mr. Jas. Butterworth. The Town Bund will give a concert in front of the Government Beildings on Monday evening. Dr. Valintine has forwarded a sum of £8 ' 15s, from himself and other Inglewood resi- i dents, towards Mr. E. M. Smith's mission te , London. ' Mr. and Miss Paul left town on Friday morning for Wellington en route for Enu- ! land. There was a large assembly at the railway station to bid them good-bye, the 1 Town Band being present and "playing off" 1 their President with," For He's a Jolly Good ' Fellow" and "AuldLang Byue." There is j no doubt Mr. Paul will bo greatly missed, and that a most enthusiastic welcome will await him on his return. < The attention of householders is directed ! to an advertisement in another column 1 wherein Mr. W. J. Shaw, chief enumerator i for the Taranaki and Clifton counties, asks to be informed at once of the non-receipt of schedules by any persons who may have ' been accidentally overlooked by the sub- 1 enumerators. ( Whiteley Memorial Oburch.—Key S J. t Serpen's subjects on Sunday will e Morning at 11 a.m. : " Contentment taugbj; ' by experience '; evening at 7 p.m. " The c truth taught b Christ and the world's un-! ( belief." v A labourer, who recently died at a work- I house in England from the effects of arseni- [ cal poisoniDg, admitted that he had drunk \ on an average 12 quarts of beer a day. Now Plymouth scenery should be well-j f i known ero long, ks specimen views are api peariDg in most of the illustrated papers, p tboso in a recent issue of the Otano Witness jj toeing good. ' e J Mr. Havolock Green, representing Impey'sl' l »May Apple is e.t present Utewa. L

The directors of the Wellington Woollen Company havedaclaved an interim dividend of 8 percent, per annum. For the anniversary boat race the betting is two to one on Oxford. At the Baptist Ohurch to-morrow the Rev. James Ings will preach both morning an;! evening. The subject for the former service will be:—" Questions of the day, and the question of tha day." The evening subject will be strictly in keeping with the occasion itbsing: "A unique consas—its lessons." Non-church-goers cordially invited.—Adyt. Wesleyan Church Anniversary, Tataraimaka, Good Friday; grounds of Mr. Wilson, jun. Open at 2 Tea from 4. Musical social in church 7.30. Admission either, Is; both, la 6d. Leave town 1 30, return 9.30. Double fare 2s 6d. Secure places at once G. H. White's studio, Brougham<strset _ Advt 30 1 2 HE OWES HIS LIFE TO THE FORE THOUGHT OF A COMPANION. While on a camping trip 1 in Webster county, Mr. 8.1. Stump, of Ndrmantown, W. Va., had asevere attack of bloody flux. He says, " I firmly believe that I owe my life to the forethought of one of the company who had taken along a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy." Moral.—Procure a bottle of this remedy before leaving home. It cannot be obtained when on a hunting, fishing or prospecting trip. Neither can it be obtained while on beard the cars or steamship, and ac such times and places it is most likely to be needed. The safe way is to have it with you. Thousands af travelers never leave home on a journey without it. For sale by New Plymouth Co-operative Society.—Advt. ■ AT THE BAR, The greatest compliment ever paid to a medicine was that paid to Impbx's " Mat Apple, ' when, during the recent Tarig De bate, M's.H.R. testified openly in the House to the efficacy of this great remedy--a guaranteed cure for all liver diosrders. A bottle was subsequently presented to every member of the House, and Members now speak in high terms of its goo effects, All chemists and stores stock it per bottle.— Advt

Hollow ay's Ointment and Piils Sudden changes of temperature sorely try persons prone to rheumatism, sciatica, tic doloureux, and many maladies scarcely less painful, though ef shorter duration. On the first attack of stiffness or suffering in any muscle, joint or nerve, reconrse should immediately be had to fomenting the seat of disease with hot brine, and rubbing in this remarkable Ointment, which will assuage the uneasiness of the part, subdue inflammation and wince the swelling. The Pills simultaneeusly taken Will rectify constitutional disturbances and renew the strength. No remedy heretofore discovered has proved so effective as the Ointment and Pills or removing gouty, rheumatic and scrofulus attacks, which afflict all ages, and are commonly called hereditary.—Advt.

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