LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 293, 11 December 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Education Board does not meet today, but will do so on Tuesday, 17th insfc. Poultry asiociations for the purpose of going in for the export of poultry are being formed in several centres. New with its many advantages, should certainly make a more in the matter.

The annual installation and investiture of efficers of the Mount Bgmont Lodge takes place at the Masonic Lodge-room, Kobestreet, this evening at 7.30. Sister Lodges and visiting brethren are invited to be present.

On Thursday afternoon the Rev. F V? and Mrs Bennett ara giving a picnic to Maori children of the district in the picturesque grounds attached to their residence at Bell Block. Amongst other attractions for the young natives, in addition to a good tea, will be a Christmas tree laden with gifts sent to Mr and Mrs Bennett from all over the colony, in which each child will participate. Any ladies and gentleman interested in Maon mission work will be heartily welcemed, and Mr Bennett will be gla« to receive contributions either for the Christmas tree or in the shape of refreshments. Visitors from town will be able to reach Ben Block by the 1 o'clock train and return by the 5.80 twin; and visitors from the south by the train arriving in New Plymouth at 2 p,m. and that leaving Bell Block at 4.30. At a meeting of the Bell Block School Committee held on November 30th it was resolved:—That a policy of assurance be •aken out to cover any risk of those employed by the committee from 20th November, 1901, to Ist May, 1902, and that the coat of such be defrayed out of the capitnlibn grant. That a copy of the above resolution be sent to the Board with a request that the Board on or before the 21st December next place to the credit of the committee the sum taken from the capitation grant for that purpose, the Board failing to do so the committee will resign as from that date.

Messrs Carl hew Brittain and Company report having sold Mr W. Ooad's nice farm of 130 acres at Mangorei to Mr H. Huthnance, of Omata, at a satisfactory price. Monday's Patea County Press says:-The total butter for shipment from Patea by the Tongariro is nearly 5000 boxes. At the invitation of Captain Westrup, the editor ofi that journal was a paweager on this auspi-1 cious occasion. r

To-day (Uth December) is tin atniversary of the discovery of New Zealand in 1642 by Taeman.

Owing to their missing the steamer at Onehunga Mr. and Miss Paul did not arrive home yesterday. They are expected this morning by the Ngapuhi. A London cable reports that at the woo] sales prices are firm, and competition keen for all sorts.

The Otago Daily Times says:—Mr H, Pope, who. with Mr J. McNab, left the colony in March last to try his fortune iti South Africa, returned to Lawrence on Saturday evening. After landing in . South Africa he joined an ambulance corps and served with it for six months. He experil enced no difficulty in getting work, but the cost of living was so out of proportion to the wage current that thera was no advantage in remaining, and so he decided to return to (few Zealand.

The steamers trading from Patea to Wellington have reduced the freight on wool 6d per bale. The freight is now 3s per bale at Patea as against 2s 6d at New Plymouth,

Daring the four weeks ended November 29th, the Waitekauri Gold Mining Company treated 2045 tons of ore for a return of bullion valued at £3666. An invitation has been extended to Mr William O'Brien, M.P. for Cork City, by the Irish National Federation of Auckland to visit that city, but so far no reply has been received.

Edward Wilson, who escaped from gaol a couple of months ago, and broke into a whare and stole some of the contents, and I made an attack on a constable nith a tomahawk when being re-arrested, was triei at 1 the Wellington Supreme Court on Tuesday, and found guilty. In his address to the jury, the prisoner made charges of harshness against the warder in charge o£ the prison gang, which both the jury and Judge Edwards considered should be inquired into. The Judge also considered the constable had exceeded his discretion in the conduct that provoked the assult. The prisoner wis sentenced to one year's imprisonment, to be cumulative upon his present term. The Taranaki Sawmillers Co-operative anponnce that their mills will be absolutely closed from Saturday 21st inst, till Monday January 6th, except for delivery of timber from stock.

The Pollard Opera Company open a season of three nights at the Theatre Royal on Monday next, when "Florodora" will be staged, followed by " La Perichole" and the "Casino Girl." Kach of these pieces has been drawing crowded houses elsewhere, and no donbt will do so here.

The Mangatoro estate, Hawke's Bay, will be opened by the Government for selection abont the middle of January. At the Wellington Supreme Court on Tneiday, afyouth named William Draper pleaded guilty of breaking and entering, and was remanded for the probation officer's report.

The papers tabled at the Borough Couscil meeting on Monday night showed that the accounts passed totalled £473 3s 4d, and that the overdraft inclusive of accounts was £4092 15s Id. The receipts totalled £779 Os 4d, made up of rates £737, rents £2O, and sundries £22 12s lOd. '

At the Feilding Police Court Charles Moore, on a charge of cattle stealing, George Edward Prebbles, horse stealing, and Roderick Mac Donald, breaking and entering, were committed for trial.

Francis Thompson and Walter Elliott were convicted at Woodville of taking trout from a river with a pitchfork, and fined £5 and £lO respectively, and costs £llßs each. In the course of a speech at Chevii t, replying to Mi. Meredith's attack on him, the Premier stated that the time would conie when they would find that he had not ma le anything out of his position. It would have been better for him and his family if ha hud never touched politics.

A GOOD COUGH MEDICINE. It speaks well f r (lumberlain's Cough Remedy when druggists use it in their owa families in prefereoee to any other. ' I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for the past five years with complete satisfaction to myself and customers," jays Druggist J. Goiasmith, Van Etten, N.Y. "I Have alwiys used it in my own family both ior ordinary coughs and colds and for the cough following U grippe, and find it very effiti 1cioua " Price, la 6i ; bis; size, 3s. It is for sale oy the New Plymouth Co-operative Society.—Advt.

AT THE BAR, The greatest compliment ever paid to -a meiicine*was that paid to Impbx's " May Apple," when, during the recent Tariff 1 eM's.H.B. testified openly in the House the efficacy of this great remedy as guaranteed cure foralllver diosrders, At Dottle was subsequently presented to every member of the House, and Members now speak in high terms of its goo effects, All chemists and store* stock it per bottle.— Advt,

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