LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 221, 1 October 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

! The following trains leave New Plymouth] station to-day for the Breakwater, connect-! ing with steamers mentioned below, as' follows—9.Bo a.m.,; Botoiti (from south);] Rofcoiti (for north). S.B. Takapuna is waiting at Onehunga for inward 'Frisco mail Time of connecting train; will be posted op at railway station .when'probable time of arrival is known. A passenger carwill be attached to the goods train leaving for the Breakwater about 3 p.m. 1

Mr Messenger, architect, invites tenders for the erection of a cottage in Bullerstreet.

We desire to remind our readers oftho clearing sale of furniture to be held this afternoon by Mr Newtnn.'Kinp, on account of Mr N. Moloney, Particulars will be found on reference to our advertising columns. Mr Day, stationmaster, returned on Wednesday morning from a day or two spent in Auckland.

Mr Raneon, manager of the Northern Steamship Company, was a passenger south by the mail train on Monday morning. Mr J. 0. George returned from Auckland by the Ngapuhi on Monday, Thomas Oonn was charged in the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Monday with converting to bis own use at Lyttelton in July, 1899, a sum of £7O belonging to the Bank of New Zealand, and was remanded to October 7th.

At a meeting of the Queen's memorial fund committee at Dunedin, the subscriptions were said to have totalled £2322. It was decided to accept a design in marble nf tbe late Queen Victoria, with two panels in bronze, at a cost of £2400, in Dunedin, subject to the plaster model meeting with approval.

The award in the Forest-Gate compensation case was given on Monday morning on the basis of £5 10s per acre for 8783 acres. The claimants asked for £5 16s 9d, and the Government offered £4.

Colonel Webb was presented with a purse [of sovereigns on Monday at Dunedin by [members of the Otago Olub on the eve of his [ departure to take up the command of the [Canterbury district. I It is understood that Mr Oarncross, mem[ber for Taieri, has purchased the Eltlwm Argus, and will take up his residence in Taranaki at the elope of the session.

His Honor Judge Conolly arrived by the Ngapuhi on Monday morning. The Supreme Court opens on Wednesday. It has been arranged to run a special train from New Plymouth to Waitara after the performance at the Theatre Royal on Thursday by the Johi if. Sheridan Company. This concession should be a great boon to our Waitara neighbours.

Holloway's Ointmbnt and Pills. During piercing winds and excessive variations of temperature everyone is more or less liable to internal and external disease. 'I hroat, 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 truth, anyone who masters Holloway's instructions will, in remedying disease, exchange the labour for the profit of a lifetime. All bronchial, pulmonary and throat disorders require that the Ointmpni should [be thoroughly well rubbed upon the siin twioe a day with regularity, considerable