The Daily News. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 158, 26 July 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In our report of the complimentary dinner tendered to the local retarned troopers en Wednesday evening by the Rifles, we omitted to mention that Mr. D. McKinnon Bain presided at the piano during tbe evening. During the trip of the Monowai to Sydney, a seaman named R. Saunders, a native of Fort Chalmers, fell from the masthead and was killed. Measles have rapidly spread an the Britannic at Perth, and there are now ever 500 cases. The heat in America ranges from 105 to 110 in the shade. Farm work is largely abandoned and vegetables are at lane; prices. The poer are living on canned geods. The Doke of Cornwall on Wednesday unveiled a memorial in St. George's Ctfhedral at Perth (W A.), t» soldiers who fell in South Africa. He held a reception in (he afternoon. At night there was a splendid display on the river. Land speculators should' bear in mind the sale by Mr. Newton King on Saturday of Mr. F. A. Whittaker's valuable estate at Tarata, consisting of 1698 acres. Mr. Wbiiiaker, having decided to leave the colI ony, is determined to sell the property, and, if required, leave a large portion of the purchase money on mortgage at i\ per cent. Notice is gives that Mr W. Hopkins has been authorised to receive entrance f-es and applications for shares in the KquiCable Building Society of New Plymouth. | The Countess of Ranfurly, who has been suffering from influenza for the last fort- [ night, is now much improved in health Lieutenant-Colonels Pitt (Nelsoi), Eobin (Dunedin), and Slater (Christchurch) have been appointed to enquire into the Newtown Park scandal. The Governors of the Wellington Col'ege have agreed to a proposal to surrender about ten acres of the npper part of their grounds to the City Council to compensate it in the event of its setting apart a portion of its reserve on B»lamanca-road as a site for the Victoria University College. • In connection w.tta the reception to be given to the returned contingents at New Plymouth on August Ist, the Railway Department has intimated that cheap excursion tickets, available for return on following day, will he issued on Thursday, Ist August, from all stations between Hawera and New Plymouth. It has also been arranged that| on the day of the reception a special train will lewe New Plymouth for Waitara and Hawera at 5 p.m. Messrs Pennington and Tuck, of Inglewood, announce thit they have received instructions to sell by auction £6OO worth of drapery, &c, on account of Mr. B. Semloff on the 27 th and 29th inst. A deputation of auctioneers waited on the Minister for Lands yesterday at Wellington, and protested against the Land and Live Steck Auctions Bill. The Minister requested that they should put their arguments in writing, but agreed to endeavour te delay the Bill for three weeks in order to the auctioneers time fct communicate with persons carrying on similar business in ether parts of the colony. The Bill chiefly aims at suppressing " trotting" at sales. During the three months ended June SOth the deposits in the New Zealand Po«t Office Savings Banks amounted to £1,188,883, and withdrawals to £1,068,885. The corresponding figures for the sune quarter last year were £1,075,876 and £966,881. During the month of June there were 20 deaths from phthsis in the colony, and seven from cancer. It is reported that a man connected with the dairying industry in the Hawera district disappeared yesterday. Enquiries are being made as to his whereabouts. The best medicine known is Bant>br & Bons' Eucalypti Extbaot. And its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, the rel'ef is instantaneous. For serious cases, and accidentß of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of lungs swelling, etc., diar, rhcea, dysentery, diseases the kidneys and urinary organs. Sandeb k Sons' Eucalypti Extract is in use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy; crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and reiect all other.—Adrt.

The tetal gold "returns for Auckland district for the past six weeks are £65,715. The returns for the first six months of 1901 exceed those of the first six months of 1900 by £49,815. The present total of £66.715 is made up as follows:—Ohinemuri, £46,979; Tuames, £4202; Coremandel, £4533. The Te Aroh* Borough Council has written to the Fiako County Council asking its co-eperation in urging on the Assets Realisation Board the desirableness of cuttingup the Waitoa Estate, with a view to inducing closer settlement. The Piako Oouncil decided to join in any reasonable agitation in the matter. Two buildings in Wright-street, Wellington, one a seven-roomed houss in course of construction for Mr. Adam-on, sen., and the other owned and occupied by Mr. Adams >n, jus., were destroyed by fire this morning The former was insured for £SOO in the Royal, and the latter for £4OO in the Commercial Union. The death is announced at Ohristchnrch of Mr. Charles Fairweather, a well-known resident of Kyreton, who armed at Wellington in 1840, and went to Canterbury in 1886 He belonged to the firm who conveyed the poles for the first telegraph line between Christchurch and Nelson. He leaves a widow and 12 children. The Ger»rd Terlingen Metal Works at Aberhausen, employing 3000 hands, have suspended work. The liabilities are 10,00 ►.- 000 marks. The managing director, who is accused of fraud, has atsconded. A Wanganui paper says tfeat at the native school at Koroniti (Corinth), up the Wanganui River, the chairman of the local school committee, Te Awe, is a diligent pipil. "We venture to assert," ssya the paper quoted, "that the fact of the chairman of a school cammittee being a pupil of the school is[a unique experience for even democratic New Zealand, ' There was some excitement in the Parliamentary lobbiea 6a Wednesday over ihej newi that a recount of the votes ii tin Pate* election had reduced Mr. John Heslop's majority to one, and a strong Ministerialist frankly admitted that "he 1 did not know how it would go low." It appears tint the returning officer omitted to open a polling booth at Makirikiri, an important portion of the electorate, containing about 100 voters, and this may possibly upset the election. ' Notwithstanding the non-success hitherto of pstreleum prospecting at Taranaki and Poverty Bay, the Grey River Aryus thir ks that a united effort should be made to test the Kotuku Springs, and adds:—" We cannot help recalling the remark of Mr. McKay, Government Geologist, when he said th»t it did not say much for the enterprise of the Greymouth people that they did not do something before this to ascertain the value of the petroleum prospects at their Ooor." The New Plymouth friends of Trooper Draper, of Auckland, who since bis arrival by the Tsgus has been seriously ill in the hospital at Dunedin, were much relieved yesterday at the receipt of the news that he was now out or danger. That great illusion, ' Pepper's Ghost," Belongs to days of yore, The smartest conjurer cannot boast He's puzzled people m >re. Many ailments now-a-days Are just as tricky sure. For coughs and colds we'll sing the praise Of Woods' Gbbat Peppermint Cuub. - Advt. I*> THAT MEAN} RHEUMATISM. Sore and swollen joints, sha'p shooting pains, torturing muscles, no rest, no seep. That means rheumatism. It is a stubborn disease to figh f , but Chamberlain's Pain. Balm has conquered it thousands of tima* It will do so whenever the opportunity is offered. Try it. One application relieves the pain. Prioe, Is 6d; Dig size, 3*. For sale oy New Plymouth Co-operative Society.—Advt, " The British Constitution is going to pot, sir I and that's a fact." " Dear me 1 Do you really think so? "Do I think sj I Don't I know sot Why, sir, in auotbar ten year' y?.ars there will be nothing left of it' "(Well, sir," said the other, when he could get a word in, " I am very sorry to bear what you say about the British Constitution, bub V> be quite frank with you, I am most concerned about my own constitution. I seem to be going all to pieces; what do you advise?" "My dear sir, why diiln't you sty so before 1 Holloway:s Pilli, to be sure; they will keep your system in good order, and enable you to discuss with vigour the questions of the day. lam never without th jm."—Advt. AFTER THE ROYAL VldlT,

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