LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 199, 4 September 1903, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting reacting matter will befound on page four of this issue. The pure Clydesdale stallion " Clydesdale Willie " by Robert the Bruce, is advertised for sale or lease. The Borough Oouuoil invite tenders for forming the extension of Brougham street to tha gaol quarry, alas for forming fendarves-s'.reet, from Liardet-street to (Jarrington-road. Messrs C'arthew, Thompson and Company report having sold the. following properties for tho month of August: On account of Mr W. Oourteney, acres Glenarvon estato, to Mr Jenson ; £ acre situated corner Eliot and Lemon-streets, on account of Mrs 801 l of Cambridge, to Messrs W. and B. Martin, who are starting a wood and c oal yard ; Messrs Chas. and Alfred Hunt's fine farm at Oakura, containing 452 acres, to a Stratford buyer ; £ acre at Te Benui to a local investor; ivfr George Perrott's suburban farm at I Stratford, containing 103 acres, to MessrHunt Bros.; Mr NiohoTs valuable allotj ment, with Bhop thereon at lnglewood, to Mr George Fox, of New Plymouth ; and Mr L. I'. Beere's CO acre farm, Kentroad, to Mr Georae Svyan, of Egmont Village. "

An annual pension of L3BO has been granted to Mr Hansen Turton, of tha Land Transfer and Deeds Department, to commence from Mar*h Ist, 1904. Captain Jackson Barry is lying seriously ill in Wellington. At Omita on Tuesday night, Mr Allen, the schoolmaster, who has been appoi ted to tho Toko School, was presented with an illuminated address by .v!r C. Reilly, chairman of the Omata School Committee, on behalf of the Committee and householders.

Yesterday (September 3rd) is the sixty- ; second annivorsary of the arrival of the Amelia Thompson, the second ship to : arrive with immigrants. There are a , number of tho settlers still left, among : them being tho Bullots, Mr Isaac Bayly, Mrs Goldiag, Mrs Middleton, Mr A. J. Hoskin (Bell Block), Mr Josiah Hoskin, Mrs Leatham, Mrs Oxenham, tha Olivers, Mr W. Paynter, Mrs T. Bayly (Waitara), the Bundles, Mrs Douglas, Mrs Skinnei, Mrs Black, the Veales, Websters, and others. The police will lay information against I a Waitara publican for alleged breaches of the Liconsing Act. 1 here is a charge i of exposing liquor for sale during pro , hibited hours, and a second charge of selling liquor for consumption off the ■ premises during prohibited hours. In tiie Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, J. F. Jones was sentenced to eighteen months for obtaining goods ; under false pretences ; William Daniells to six months fo; attempted breaking and entering. Both had pleaded guilty in the lower Court. Mr Hyde, the poultry expert, states that there is an unprecedented demand at I the present time for New Zealand poultry, to supply the South African markets. One firm lately received an order for 224,000 head, aud othar enquiries for large quantities are being made. There is to be a Ca'hclic Socia} this evening at St. Joseph's schoolroom. The following unclaimed letters await collection at tho local Post Office :—R D, Briscot, Miss Brusa, H. Collensplatt, 0 A. Jacobson. Mr Lassay, A. Levin, David MoDonaid, F. Mehertbns, Mrs Marton, , E. D, Moulton, Thos. Munro, W. Nichol , son, Mrs H, Spratt, Mrs W. Svme, B. ' Taylor, J. Tronie, E J. White, and John J, Callanan (Kiponga). Mr George Musgrove's Comio Open Company is meoiing with a splendid success in Auckland, " The Fortune Toller" drawing crowded houses night after night. The inusio is safd to be surprisingly beautiful, and the comedy immensely taking. Miss May Beatty is excelling all previous efforts, The Now Plymouth Harbour Board Empowering Bill has gone to the Local Bill's Committee, and will be oonsidered at as early a date as possible, probably next Tuesday. At. the Auckland Supreme Court, Judge Coopor awarded three Austrian gnmdk'gers LIOO damages against Michaei Freeman, of Mercury Bay, a storekeeper, for niah'cious prosecution. Tho Austrians took gum to his store for silo, but as no sale was i fleeted a fow days later they took it aw .y. and sold to another buyer. They owed Fre»man money, and ha had them arrested for stealing the gum. Tho S,M., the Clerk of the Court, and | Sergoant Oaddrell were at Waitara yesterday in connection with the quarterly meeting of the Egmont Licensing Com mittes. Mr Ad Goldwater iefc by the express for Wellington this morning. On fcoptember 9lli he will be married t > Miss Lily Hart, daughter of Mrs IS. Hart, late of Uunedin,' at tho Synagogue, Wellington. In Thursday's Gazette, a proclamation j is published of the Government's inten- j tion to acquire the wholn of the Mount) Vernon estate, under the Lani?s for. Setilement Act. The area of the estate is put down as 15,056 acres, classified as second class. At Lyttelton on Thursday H. C Geigo, an A.B. on the R, tnmabnn*. was fined L 5 aud costs, or six. m»\ ills imprisonment for neglect of duly. He was found asleep while on lookout duty, and subsequently was in a condition unfit for duty. During August 119 cases of scarlet fever were reported in the Canterbury Health district, and of these 75 were in Christchurch and suburbs. The figures show a considerable increase on those for July. The Morshead Nursery Company still have a fine lot of Burbanks and choice! well grown apples for sale. Also silvertrees, Pohutukawas, Lawsoniana, Macro* carpa, Barbary, aud other leading lines of hedge, shelter, and flowering trees and plants. Plant now the gales are over Nurseries: South road, Branch, Lemon street.—Advt. ■ No Othbb Liniment will heal a cut or • bruise so quickly as Chamterl.iin's Pain i' Balm, No other affor ,'s such prompt reli. f.' from rheumatic piins. No othar is so v .la-' J able for deep s»ateil pains like lame back } and pains in ihr oaost. Give tlih linimoi.t | a tiiil ard ie (.uii acquainted with its re- * msr'-'able <j'i iiities and you will n-i\erwish '1 to be., wictiout it. S.-ld by Ner/ Pivmonth E Co-op. Societv.—Ad\t ; Gone 11 VanisbeJ 11 Absolutely !* The old man's cough is gone; for years he i was troubled with asthma; now he ia quits ■ I cured ; Back's balsam cured him 1 It has cured others; has caved thousands, Bock's Balaam ' cu-es Bronchitis in all its stages, old stand- v ng Ooughs, Ordinary Colds. Heals Cuts, t Dracked Hands etc. Bock's Balsam is free I from Narootics I Relieves everybody 1 Thous si inds testifv to it I Many a blighted life made c lappy.by it. Price Is 6d, at allohemhits s' ind leading stores,—Adft, Si