LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 28, 2 December 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Special attention is called to the sessions ofWesleyan District Synod being held in New Plymouth this week. A trial sermon by a probationer will be preached this and to-morrow evening, while on Wednesday night the church anniversary is to be held ' as per advertisement. The Garrison Bend played an excellent selection of music through the streets nn Saturday evening. The fat children, the load-speaking phonograph and a blind organ grinder, were amongst the other attractions of the town.

Dr. Mason, chief health officer of the colony,is issuing a very interesting series of papers relating to the public health. We lately noticed those on typhoid and scarlet fever. The subject of the next paper will be diphtheria. It is anticipated that New Zealand will be flooded with fruit from the Islands, as the 1per bunch on bananas imposed by the Federal tariff excludes the fruit from Australia. AMr Hunter, of Tonga, in order to encoursge a greater consumption in New Zealand, suggests an import duty on all fruit arriving from the Commonwealth, A log raft is being put together inPuget Sound which will comprise 14,000,000 ft o f timber, and be about 650 ft in length. It is intended to tow it across to Japan. The Chronicle says: —We understand th>t Mr. A. A. Fantham's red Shorthorn bull 'Southern Cross, which gained second prise at the Show last week, is to be shipped to tl le Argentine. Mr. Fantbam values the bu'.l, which is only a yearling, at 300 guineas. According to the mail news from the Cape, rinderpest is wor'ting havoc in many distiicts of the Orange River Colony and of the Transvaal. For a sufficient supply of good meat the Jobanneshurg population ha« to rely upon cold storage importation. Shipments of Australian meat to South Africa are likely, therefore, to be well maintained. Where is the enterprise of New Zaalanders, somuch talked of ?

The Health Department does not consider it necessary to quarantine vessels arriving from Sydney as a precaution against plague, but there will be a rigid examination of all such sbips, and rats oaught in the chitf ports will be frequently examined, their speci il susceptibility to the plague bacillus rend, ring their condition an excellent guide as to the degree of danger to the public. A meeting of the Otago Executive ' of tl e Farmers' Union decided to accept the tender of the Commercfal Union Assurance Company for insuring farmers under the Workers Compensation for Accidents and EmployI ers Liability Acts, and to cover the liability at common law.

The report as to the cue of a suspected Ohinaman at Palmerston South atataa that he is suffering from leprosy ia its early stage. He has been isolated in a place two miles distant from any other habitation. A new half-penny evening paper is announced to be published at Wellington this month, under the title of tbe Sun, with a Democratic and Labour policy. The following New Zealanders hare passed the first examination of surveyors under the Australia# Federal system:—A. W. Creagh (Auckland), F. H. Jordan (Tauranga), M. IT. Haezard (Waihi), H, T. Mitchell (Auckland), H. M. Kensington (New Plymouth), G. Outhbertson (Invercjrgill), B. 0. Bassti. n (Invercargill.) A Lyttelton Times reporter who vi ited the Magnetic Observatory in the Public Gardens had a very curious insight into the caprices of magnetic science. When being shown round the establishment by Mr Bkey, be was a little surprised at a request to di - gorge any iron or steel that m:ght be about his person. Keys, button hook, pins, pen*, a counterfeit threepenny piece, a watch reputed to be silver, knivei, and a pencil cas and similar oddments were removed ai d placed in a hat, but even the dismantling process was not at an end. Mr Skey requested the visitor to remove his brac< s, which was accordingly done, and in a rath r uncomfortable condition ths reporter w>.s allowed to inspect the sensitive instrument.

The Taranaki Jockey Olub has engaged the Garrison Band to play at the February meeting.

At both morning and evening services at the Whiteley Memorial Church yesterda? there were very large cons relations. Rev. H. R. Dewsbury gave impressive and interesting sermons on each occasion. The choir rendered special anthems in a very pleasing manner. The Synod meets on Tuesday, an< I there will be a public meeting on Wednesday evening.

Equitable Building Society shareholder (Btar Bowkett) are reminded that fortnightl, subscriptions are payable to-night (Monday) up to 9 o'clock p.m.—Advt. als;:

The local Volunteers and Cadets, and Garrison Band, attended a church parade at St. Mary's on Sunday morning [.Quean's Birthday.) Rev. F. G. Bvans (chaplain to the volunteers) preached the sermon, which was listened to with interest by the fairly large congregation present. The Kauri Timber Ooaipany pays a dividend of 4 per cent and carries forward £30,659.

At a meeting of Hatuma settlers the Hod. W. O. Smith stated that the Government had contented to revalue the settlement, which is now valued at £60,000 more than when it was owned by Ur Purvis Russell. A fire was discovered at midnight on Friday on tb* steamer Weka at Onehuoga. The Fire Brigade quickly suppressed it, but the interior of the steamer was guttsi, and a large cargo of general merchandise was seriously damaged. The fire is supposed to have originatea in the bunkers. I Speaking at the dinner of the Post and Telegraph Officers Association at Wellington on Saturday night, Mr Gray, secretary of the j department, said tbe revenue for the past three months, notwithstanding peony postage, showed very suistmtial results. He explained that thePostmsster-General hoped within twelve months to make one or two amendments in the direction of benefitting the rank and file of tbe service. The Premier has received a cablegram from the'Agent-General intimating, wiih reference to contracts for the supply of meat for the army in South Africa, that the War Office will receive oifers by cable, if to hand by January Bth next.

A pickpocket was caught red handed on Saturday afternoon outside the Princess Theatre, Dunedin. He dropp d a purse and boltel, but was captured by the const ,bl», two ladies' purses being found on him, one of which has been ideatified. He gave the name of Frederick Matthews, la'ely from Ohristchurch.

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