The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 89, 11 April 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL

on pige four of this Issue.' * *" The Committee entrustid with the Star Shorts on Easter Monday have everything well in banc, and nothing but fine weather is wan'el to mal'e the ga hiring one of the mcst successful ever held in New Plymouth. The New Plymouth Borough Council invite tenders for water supply, comprising intake tunnels, culverts, and pipe head at Mangorei. Tenders are also invited for snpi'-ly of st-inewa'e p'pes. The time for the clojing of tenders for the Brougham-street contract, silt-water taths, and iotake road, are extended until noon on Tuesday, 14th inst.

The Wesleyan Sunday School Anniversary takes place on bunrfay, April 19th, not April 12th, a* stated in advertisement in last issue.

Tenders are invited for the erection of a residence for Mr W. J. Shaw. A list of 'he attractions at the forthcomirg Giand Fancy Fair in aid of St. Joseph's School, which opens on Monday next, wi'l be found ia another co'nmn.

It is probable that a special train will run as far as Stratford on Easter Monlay night, leaving New Plymouth at 10 o'clock. This will give visitors from the country an opportunity to attend the Star Spor-s in the Becr-iat ! on Grounds in the afternoon and the Catholic Bazaar in the evening. Tbe poultry business is still on the up grade in New Zealand. The Government peultry-grader at Dunedin reports that the total number of birds paoked for export rturin? the year ended 3lst March last was 10,071, as compared with 8294 for the praced ng twelve months.

At a ball in Got borg, Sweden, a yoanij; lady Wi;s thrown by her dress becoming entangled with an officers spurs, and billed by a heavy hairpin, which penetrated her brain.

Hr Hogg, says his duties as a representative prevent him from taking six weeks heli lays with the other members whi are to be awiy for six weeks ia the South Seas.

Mr J. Mackay, Chairman o£ the Manganai Road Board and the Stratford County Council, is of opinion that no settler should be compelled to rate himself for loans for road-making, unless thera is some possibility o( the road being metalled right to hi 9 boundary.

A Wanganui pigeon fancier has adopted the electric bell to announce the homing of his pigeons. A pigeon on entering the homing teap lands upon a board which ia thereby depressed, and causes a bell in the house to ring. An indication of the careful administration of the Advances to Settlers' Office is to bp. found in the f«ct that the cash surplus for tho year, ciosing March 31st, will be ov r £'22,0)0. This sum has to be placed t > the creiit of the assurance food with the Public Trustee. The total amount now standing to the credit of that accjunt very nearly totals £68,000. Tradesmen and the public generally are warned to be on their guard against spurious coins A counterfeit half-sovereign, a pood imitation of the article, was successfully pas»ed o3f in Napier on Saturday. Mr T. E. Donde, head of the Tourist Department, will viwt Hawer* ou Tuesday, and the next ray, accompanied by Mr Wrii?ley and others, will go up the mountain, and see for himself some of the remarkable attractions we have in the dist ict. A committee of the Pate* Harbour Board, consisting of Messrs McKenna, Paterson, and Johnson, were appointed to enquire into tb»*»«se of delay in the forwarding of goed» thriving at Patea. They will interview the traffic manager of the local section of railway, with a view to getting his aisiatsuce to put matters on a better footing. The Olifton Ooanty inTites tenders for metalling abost four chains on tfce Mimi-Mokau-road.

Attention i< drswn to an advertisement of a monster sals of honsehold furniture and farm s<ock on Thursday next at Sranrfcroad by Mr Newton King on account of Mr W. B. Briscoe, who has sold his farm and is leaving the colony. Bell Block Hall Social on Thursday next, April lfith Oroi Music; Good Floor. 'Bus leaves town at 7.15 p.m. - Advt. For the quarter ending March 3lst, 1903, the following children of the Otato Bchnoi attsnded every day:—Marie Young, Avondale Gray, Ivy Baker, Blanche Eollo, StanBaker, Bertie Corbatt, and Inane! Gray. The following missed only one da":—Ronald Gray, Connie CJorbett, Bertie \'o .»», Larry Oaray, Frank Eustace, Staa Humphrey, Sidney Taylor.

On V\ edneeday Mr Newton King will hold aa undeserved clearing salo of daily cattle an*i farm stock at bell Block on accouDt 'of t:e Kdgar-M. Dell who hive sold I their farm.

The poll on the question of rating cn unimproved values in the borough of Htwera resulted in tho proposal being negatived, 129 voting for the prop sal, and nine against, but as one third of 602 vote' exercisable I «as tot recorded, the vote is non-effec'ive. Oppon'n*s of the piop-sal abstained from voting,

A your.g porter has been a rested at Al'ona for the murder of three womnn under eircum*tances rcsambling the While hapel outrages. It is reported that the Italian Govern--n :n j is organising a direct steamship line i'rura Gsnoa to Au tr-i'i;i, hoping to attract Ge man exportsjeia Genoa. DIRKOC TRADE WITH SYDNEY. | It may in'erest our readers to know that .vo' £61,000,000 are invested in Buildi k Hocifcties in the United Kingdon, altnouah they are of comparative rec ngrowth Nitißty psr cent, of the members are of the rvorling class, a fact which speaks for the popularity of these institution 3. Kr m what we hear, we think the Provident Building Society will not need to complain on that score— Advt.