LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 281, 27 November 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Education Board meets to-Jav. The Opunake people have invited Sir J. G. Ward to open their new Post Office. The Egmont A. and P. Association's show opens to-day at Hawera, and will be continued to-morrow.

Mr. Spencer, of Greymouth, has been appointed engineer to the Melrose Borough Council (Wellington). Mutual congratulations were indulged in by the Bench (Mr. Stanford. S.M.), and the Bar (Mr. McDavitt) at the first sitting of the Court on Friday in the now Opunake CV urthouse.

We understand that an invitation is b<)ing sent to the Premier and his colleagues to I attend the Show at New Plymouth. The new Post Office at Inglewood is t > be ready for opening early next week. Siv Joseph Ward is expected to be present at the opening in his capacity as PostmasterGeneral.

Cheap parcels of groceries are to be procure* at Whitaker's Household Stores. See replace advertisement in another column. The entries for the Taranaki A. ami F. Society's Show on December sth include 152 horses. 98 cattle, 43 butter exhibits, aud 7 cheese. The other classes all show improvements on last year's entries. The management of dressmakers' establishments and other places which come under the heading of "factory" accor irg to the Act should take note the weekly l.alfholiday for women and youne persons under 18 years is compulsorily provided for Saturday. The authorities, we understand, int <=nd to see that this provision is strictly aih red to.

Some interesting Police Oourt cases, in which New Plymouth residents are concerned, will bs heard at Wsitara to-mor.ow.

A petition signed by between G1 an 170 property-holders has been received by the Mayor, asking that the Borough Council ta'e action to get the portion of Currie-street which runs through the Harbour Board property to the sea metalled. It is poi ted out that the greater part of the traffic from the railway goods shed will have to com.: ,by way of that part of Currie-street. | Mr. Piper, railway traffic manager, is to be congratulated on the arrangements he has made for residents along the railway to m ake a trip to the seaside. It will be noticed, by reference to our advertising columns, that from the 7th December to the 22nd February, 1902, excursion tickets will be issued from all stations between Hawera aad New Plymouth, every Saturday, available for return on Monday by any trains but the mail trains. This is a great improvement on the seaside trains instituted last summer and shows a real desire on the part of the department to cater for the wants of the public. We exppct these trains will become very popular. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held at 10 o'clock this morning to elect representatives to sit on the Hotpital and Charitable Aid Board. The Taranaki County Counoil meets at noon for the same purpose.

We hava bn«n shown a tplendid photo of Messrs. Sargood, Son and Kv%n's New I'lymouth warehouse. Owing to the limied spaci available to properly fogus each a large building, Mr. White had coosidsrable difficulty in doing justice to hia subject, but he has succseded in producing a photo in evt;ry way worthy of this ®ie establishment tnd his reputation as an artist. As a result of the recent earthquake, a patient at Hanmer Sanatorium, who had been suffering acntely from rheumatic g< ut, and could only drasr bis legs alon?, has yvtially recovered. He was outside at ihe time of the biggest shock, and the rocking of tae ground beneath him so affected his lower limbs that the mussuiar contraction disappeared, the loog disused sinews beca.ne pliable again, an.l the poor fellow, to his unspeakable joy and relief, found that he could successfully walk. He is still able to walk with facility and comparative freedom f om pain. His feet and toes still remain swollen and disfigured, however, and that is why he has not quitted the institution.

Per favour of Mrs 0. D. Whltcombe we have been favoured with a few copies of the Polynesian Gazette, published at Levc'ca, Fiji. The paper has psculiar interest for Taranaki people, as its proprietor and publisher is Mr W. A. King, while it is edi ed by Mr C. D. Whitcombe, both of whom ure old Taranakians, and have many relatives and friends in this district. The paprr is the same size as the Weekly News and contains six pages. It is published every Saturday, and is neatly printed and generally well got up and arranged, the pi toe being threepence. It is smartly and'vigorcusly written, and favours a closer uriori with New Zealand, and severely condemns the Crown .colony system now in vorie. The paper has a very bealty tone and is a oil supported with advertisements, and should materially assist in educating public opinion in Fiji. We wish it a successful and prosperous career.

Mr James Niven, M.A., teacher ef chsmistiy *t the Dunedin Technical school, has been appointed assistant in the Haw ra District High School. The greatest rainfall in the North Island! last month wa« put'up at Mangorei (Kor to road, Taranaki), where the fall for the monih, was 12.85 inches, the heaviest downpour for one day being 3.9$ inches on the 15th. i At the Timara District Gourt on Saturday] before Judge Ward, J. F. Parke, a Temuka farmer, was sentenced to one month's i n- ! prisonment with hard labour for contracting [ a debt while in an insolvent position without i reasonable hope of being able to repay it.

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