The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 189, 20 August 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A musical treat will be provided at the Theatre Royal on August 30th, when the celebrated Madame Belle Ooie and the famous baritone, Mr, John Prouse, will give a concert on their way through to Auckland.

The following trains leave New Plymouth station to-<?ay for the Breakwater, connecting with steamers mentioned below, as follows: 10 a.m., Rotoiti (from south); 9.30 p.m., Botoiti, (for north.) A passenger car will be attached to the g' ods train leaving for the Breakwater about 3 pm. On the application of Mr. Hughes, the Registrar of the Supreme Court granted probate of the will of the late Peter Peterson, of Waitira, to Joachim Haverbier, one | of the executors named in the will. The Industrial Exhibition and Flower Show, to be hald in St. Mary's Hall, is not confined to Sunday School scholars, but is open to all comers.

At the Boys' Institute on Monday evening Oaptain Taunton again attended and put about 36 of the cadets through some very useful drill. Previous to dismissing the lads he accorded them a very high measure of pnise for their smartness. There is no doubt the boys are enteriug into the spirit of the drill in a whole-hearted manner, which augurs well for their future. Some people's notion of cleanliness is toler ably primitive and crude. For instance, a man in an evidently unclean condition, recently presented himself for admission to the new Befuge, and on being questioned maintained that he had washed himself on that and the previous day, but further questions revealed the fact that the washing he attended to was confined to face and hands, the remainder of his body not having teen washed for over two years, while his whiskers were said to have been an eighth of an inch thick in solid filth.

Lord Banfurly returned to Wellington from Napier on Saturday. A meeting of Petone railway employees, held to consider the question of being brought under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, was opposed to the idea, on account of the loss of present privileges which it would entail. No vote, however, was taken.

A siDgle woman, Elizabeth Smidt, aged 27, in service at Hastings, gave birth to a child on Saturday. The infant was subsequently found smothered in her bed. The mother admits the child was alive when born. A churge of murder of the infant will be preferred against the woman. Tenders are called by Mr. Frank Messenger for additions to Messrs. Burgess, Fraser and Co.'s store at Waitara.

Mr. Ensor, Wellington, inserts a notice calling attention t.i a consignment or colza lamp oil and machine and lubricating oils which.he has in stock in various sizes of drums.

The opening of the Opunake Oddfellows' Lodge takes place on the 29th inst., when memners from most of the Taranaki lodges will be present

The constitution of the Rahotu Domain Board is gazetted and the first meeting is fixed for Saturday, 24>h inst, at the office of the Parihaka Koad Board. Messrs. W. 0. Phillips, H. Langman, W. R. Wright, T. A. Bradley, and W. Howell form the Board.

The greatest pleasure has been evinced over the exp cted visit to New Plymouth cf Madame Belle Oole, the world-famed singer whose concert eventuates on the 30th inst. Further particulars will appear shortly.

" Motheb, I am Out of SoiiTS."—He who uttered these words was a strongly-built young fellow, with clean-cut, intelligent features, but a glance was enough to show that he was run-down by work and worry; his head was heavy, his eyes hcked bightness.be was laugoid, and the fi nd of indigestion had printed its marks upon his face. " My boy" replied the good and who mother, " be advised this once by me ; let me doctoryou." The lad readily assented, and in a trice Holloway's world famed Pills were produced They soon did their work, and in a day or two tlia young follow went about, his work like a new man filled with strength ar.d ene gy Advt. Ned Kelly in his suit of mail, Was proof against all lead, And how lie laughed when all did fail, To lodge it in his head. Then let us all be on our guard, While long life we assure, For coughs and colds have some regard, I i Take Woods' GBEA? PJifPPBJIINT OUBE. —Advt. o 1

Mr. J, Mynott has handed as a sum of 18s, which he has collected for the funds of the Boys' institute. He has also two seats for presentation to the Institute. j It is reported anthoritatively that a peti-1 tion has been lodged at the B'eotion Court, which will hold a sitting at Patea short] f. The grounds alleged, on which a fresh election will be asked for, are that the first finding of the Returning Officer by which a majority of one vote was giv n in favour of Mr. Heslop was correct, and that the subsequent recount by which two vot->s * ere oisallowed, was incorrect,

A disgusting instance of the b'acVguarilly spirit of some person was brought to no ice last night at the Town Hall. The miscreant had obtainel eotrauce to the ladies'room [downstairs, and written an inscription, couched in the most filthy language, across the bottom of a large framed picture of a lady who, by a life devoted to efforts for the amelioration of the condition of her fellowmen, has earned world-wide esteem. The perpetrator of this outrace should, if detected, receive the severest punishment possible. " Flogging," and " tar and featheis," were among the expressions used by those indignant persons who saw the writing, and the case would be barely met by such inflictions. AFTER THE ROYAL VISIT. After exciting times the health of children requires very speoial looking after. That the child is father to the man,' physically as well a« mentally, is one of those truths that can never be too often insisted upon, and the thoughtful parent will be careful above all to Bee that her child has the proper nourishment to establii-h its constitution. A good constituiion is a rock on which alone success and strength can be built. Among the various foods that science commends in these days for this purpose, none holds a higher place than Nbaves Food fou Infants and Invalids. Vccording to trie] best medical testimony, and, what is perhaps better still, the grateful testimony of thousands of happy mothers, this food containfall the essential elements of strength, and while it is pleasant to the taste and eagerly taken by children, it may also be used by persons of all ages with decided benefit. It is a bone-building, health-sus-taining product that cannot be too warml? recommended and we gladly add our words of praise to that of the numerous medical journals and experts that have recommended it. Neavh's Food should have a prominent place in the dietary of every house where there are children or invalids.—Advt. THEIR CLAIMS SET AT REST.

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