LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 221, 30 September 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Attention is drawn to the advertisement of, the Garrison Band Ball, fixed for October 10th. I

On Saturday afternoon the new links of the Auckland Golf Club, situated atOne Tree Hill, were formally opened by Dr J. Logon Campbell, president of the club. An "at home " was held to celebrate the event, and a largn number of friends were present.

The themal springs at Taupo are exceedingly active. The Crow's Nest Geyser at Tpa is continuously in eruption, giving a I very magnificent display of geyser action ■t i The 1 \mbing results on the East Coast are said to be the best ever known. \ farmer a few miles from Martinborough who docked his lambs finds the increase reaches the unprecedented percentage of 165. I Eleven Masterion barmaids have petitioned W'e Legislature against the passing of any Bill that will interfere with their employment.

There is considerable mortality amongst milch cows tbis year, presumably drop. | The operative printers of Taranaki have formed a union, and served their demands j on employers for higher wages and shorter hours. , ,

Provisional specifications for patents have been lodged by Manson Tkeodpre West, of Ngaire, dairy factory manager, for a milk cm lid, and by Frederick William Buckingham, of Kaponga, for improvements in the shaft-tugs of harness. In the Defence report, Colonel Pole-Venton says of the system of volunteer corps electing their own officers: —" It is the worst me'hod I know of for obtaining officers, atid entirely unsnited for any military organisation."

In connection with Hawke's Bay Show on 10th and 11th October, the Railway Department will issue holiday excursion tickets.

The examiners of ' the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music have begun their tonr through the colonies for this year.' Candidates from tbis district were examined on Friday last by Mr H, W. Richards, Mus. Bm. of 1 who is. going through New Zealand, and part of Auat'alin, while Dr Charles Wood takes the otUer colonies At the theory .examination in Jane last, Miss; Ethel Black,-Miss Goodacre, and Mr D. Wells passed in elements of music, and Miss Alice Barnjtfc passed in the difficult subject of counterpoint. At the practical examinaUon on Friday, the successful, candidates were as follows :—Local jjentra examination, senior grade, Lilian Goodacre (singingi;, junior grade, Ethel Black (piano). School examination, higher division, piano, Amelia Walter and Hannah Grey (Sisters of 'Mission School); lower division, Annie Madder (Sister of Mission Sch 10I), Beryl Nolan, (teacher Miss F Sherring), Kathleen Fairhall (teacher Mrs Fairhall), Irii O'Leary (teacher Miss B. Drew). Elementary Division, Eva Baird (teacher Miss M Scherring), Dorothy Whitcombe (teacher Miss I'. Drew), Olave O'Leary, violin (teacher, A. P. O'Leary). The examiners repo-t that they j have their hands full, the number of entries baring increased rapidly during the five years since the colonial examinations were inaugurated. We hope to see a larger number from this district next year, and that we \nay secure one of the much coveted medals riven by the Board for highest honours.

The revenue on the Wellington-Napier and Taranaki section of railway for the last four weekly period compared as follows with that of the corresponding period for previous year (shillings and pence omitted :—Passengers, L 10,566 against £9556; parcel*, luggage, and mails, L 1641 against £1362; g0cd5,£15.045 »giinßt£l6,264;mi cellaneous £298 against £368; rents and commissions, £368 against £288; total, £27,911 againßt £27,838.

The Glasgow Weekly Mail says: -Th r Oity Council of Auckland placed-a price on the head every rat in the ci'.y, and a grocer boy. became a perfect Niwrod, and flew about 20. At the contracting tbfe"' plague, he carted his dead along, obtained his scalp money, and came back jubilant it? his master and told how much life'Kad mafle. The master cast upon him ian eye of Abfer-' deen grey, and then remarked quietly,- " Weel, weel, ye'll just pay r the money to our cashier, for, .ye kin, the rats is mine, not yours."

" Eight persons were declared bankrupt;in the'colony last week—a farmer at Cambridge, two grooers at Hastings, a fruiterer at Wanganui, a cabinetmaker at Levin, a teacher and sharebroker at Chistohurch, find a farmer at Glenranich.

, At Ballarat, Victoria, on September 11th, attbe stock sales, bnllocks sold at £22 5s per head, and cows £l6 12s 6d; caliy brought £6 18s. At Bendigo on the same date, an extra prime cow sold at £2l fis and another cow brought £lB. In our report on Tuesday last of the proceedings at the S.II, Court a typography al' error occurred by which-the name o£ Janje.Hooper read Hooker. The Garrison Band did not hold its usual outdoor concert on Saturday evening in order that the attraction might not clash with the theatrical pe-fonnance by the Sheridan Company. Weather permitting the band will play on Saturday next. ' Hollow a y's Ointment and Pills. During piercing winds and excessive variations of temperattfre'everyone is mora or less liable to internal and external disease Throat, chest, liver, bowels, kidneys and skin all suffer in-some degree, and they may be relieved by rubbing in this Ointment, aided by proper doses of the Pills, for administering which full directions accompany each box; in .troth, anyone who masters Holloway? instructions will, in: remedying disease, exchange the labour for the profit of a life time. bronchial, pulmonary and'throat disorders require that the Ointmenl should be thoroughly well r'hbbed upon the skin twice ,a day .with regularity, considerable briskness, ana much persistence.—Aeivt. •

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