LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 117, 7 June 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Timarn Supreme Court on Thursday the man McCarthy, charged with manslaughter at Waihuo in 1895, was found not guilty. A New South Wales po'itician writing to a local conespondent Eays " You do Weil to stand aloof frcm our Federation, as you would be absorbed by us, as Scotland has bsen by Engiand. The Dresden Piano Company have an advertisement in this issue to which particular at'ention is drawn. ; Air. Chambers, of New South Wales, has been elected Ch tirman of Committees in the Federal House. 'lhe report of the fire on the Oruba shows that one bag for Wellington and one for Chn»tehurch were ba'ily damaged, and one lor DuLcrfin slightly, all newspapers. There is no mention of any damage to letters. The lire is supposed to have been caused during fumigation. Owing to the alteration in the siliuticn' through the enlargement of the Commission the Midland lta.lway Commissioners postponed their sittings at Wellington 011 Thursday morning till Tuesday next. A char-a-banc proceeding to the races at Epsom (England) met with au accident, one , person being killed and twenty injured. The cable leports that a sensational occurred at Toronto. Three hundcuit'e i bur- ! glfiis were- being conveyed in a cab by a ■ constable when accomplices threw loadad j pisiois into the vth cle. '1 he prisoners managed to shoot the policeman dead, and [escaped, but wore afterwards recaptured. The suitability of the Wanganui roadstead for lightering direct horn.; vessels was again demonstrated (says a l J ress Associatio.i wire) by the Insiramayu, which was only here 54 holirs altogether, and took .11,000 oarea s es of mutton, and 000 bales of wool, valued at £12,700 from the Wauganui Freezing Coropauy.

Ob ! what would Tommy Atkins do If we had nut mill«.l him through; :ieir best, uuudiuirtu S i ra u uuui-age ia the-test. We all require a little aid, And danger makes us oft afraid; A cougli won't mate your health secure, So buy some Woods' GaKAi e umaiMiNi Curd.—Advt. 11

In April 13 30 persons arrived in the colony and '27015 left, as against il<J7 and 1885 respectively last year, Two sto'itly-built and well-dressed young men—l'd war l Burrows and Tlios. Ramsay —were arre-ted in Wellington on Thursday morning on suspicion of being 00.-.oomed in the burglary at Campbell B own's premises at Lyltelton, May 24th. Tl'ey \ve r echarged at the Magistrate's Coil t with this offence, and also with bei.-g rogues and vagabo. ds, inasmuch as they had a pick'oc'< in their pos-essi n. After a complaint by the defendin.' counsel (Mr. ttilford) a 1 out not t eing allowed to see the accused together, a remand until June 14th was granted. Hail ] was refused. Emigration returns for April show that, one Chinaman arrived in the colour and and lift.en departed. j There is a great shortage of West Coast «oal in Wellington at present, dealers being unable to meet demands. Householders have lia i to f.ill buck on fl.c Ncwcastc-i article. I A th<.'Ck of eartl qu-dte was felt at Wellington at 1.22 yesterday, which seemed to ber lather severe, but the seismometer at the museum recorded but little ruction The direction south-south-east. The Auekl nd masters-carters associat'on have received liofcioj from tha AucK'and Carters Industrial union that the demmils n ade by the latter will be taken before the Conciliation Board. Tha benefit concert tendered to the widow of the late W. 11. Sluriney, under the auspices of (he Town Band, took place at the Theatre Koyal last evening, and wasone of the mo.-t successful were held in New Plymouth. The ') heatre was packed, and an excellent programme was given and received frequent an i well-merited appliluse. The Bund is to be coneratulated on the success of its effo ts mso deserving a cau ; e, special praise is due to the ladies' committee—Mesdames J'anl, Watson, and Misses Humphries aud Teed--vvho were latgely responsible for the very complete arrangements made which induced such satisfactory results. Owing to pressure on our space our reporS is unavoidably crowded out of tbis issue. When will the British officers learn the fully of marching in column formation Nearly all the disasters which have occurred have been when marching in column. , The officer responsible for tha loss of life thus occasioned should tra at once mailed and oourt martislled. 'Among the passengers by the mail train last mgbt were Mr Watdegrave, UnderSecretary for Native Affairs; Dr Mason. Ohief Health Officer, Dr. l'otaka, Mao'i Health Offloer; Commissioner Tnrnqri'ge and Inspector Gillies, of the P lice Departmen; and Colonel Hume, Inspector of Prisons, Those gentlemen are ali oil their way to Auckland, on business oouncctad with the fo thcoming lloyal visit.

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