LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7798, 14 April 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The second 1-1- feet section of the breakwater extension work was completed on Thursday. This makes 28 feet of tho 100 feet authorised. Messrs Morcy and Moore have in stock a cheap line of all-wool bloomers, which were cleared from the Hawkc's Bay Woollen Company in tho summer.

Since tho blackleg regulations came into force in < the Stratford County, 24,000 beasts have been inoculated by the Department's local officers,and inoculation is still being carried on.

A meeting of the provisional directors of the Moturou Petroleum Company, L,t'd., was held at Mr Kelsey's office on Thursday, Mr Teed, in the chair. Messss Govett and Quilliaiu were appointed solicitors to the company. It was decided to proceed with the registration of the company forthwith.

Messrs Ha'trick and Company have advised the Tourist. Office that in consequence of the low level of the Wangi.nui River the Thursday steamer has ceased running till further notice. The writers state that the rainfall of January, February, and March ,has been the lowest for the past -12 years. Anyone wanting furniture should bear in mind the unreserved sale by Mr Newton King this afternoon at Cambridge House, on account of Mrs Herbert, who is giving up the boardinghouse. Among the articles to be sold is a piano, only six months in use, instead of the organ previously advertised.

Old identities will learn with regret of tho death of Mr William Sands, which occurred at Fitzroy on Wednesday. Deceased, who was 76 years of age, was in the employ of the Taranaki Provincial Council for many years, afterwards joining the New Zealand railway service, in which he soon became a ganger.

The Railway Department advertises that the 11.10 a.m. train from Hawera to New Plymouth will not run on Good Friday or Easter Monday. On Easter Monday a train will leave Stratford for New Plymouth at 9.2."> a.m., returning at 5.18 p.m. On the same day a train will run to Patea from New Plymouth, leaving hero nt 0.30 a.m., returning at 5.30 p.m.

Tlio XgauipUf flolf Club will open the season to-morrow, when friends of members are invited to he present. The following programme has been arranged A tpainp match, skies to be chosen by the captain and secretary, nine holes, starting at 2 p.m. At H. 43 p.m. a mixed foursome teams match will be played, players to choose their own partners. Entries, to close on the ground, should Ik: made with the captain or Mr Hamlin,

The West Coast Tjmes states that a number of those interested in the flaxmilling industry in South Wealland are taking steps io produce a suitable steamer for carrying the product of the mills from the ports of shipment tp WjjlJlngton, A special feature o[ tho iwideviakHng Is that tfie steamer, which will draw more than 6ft, is to trade to Wataroa. This river has never yet I«;ii entered, but like tho Cascade l!]ver, which! was recently navlgaited by tire Jane Douglas for the first time, it will probably be successfully navigated.

Joint A/buckle, a New York coffee and sugar iin\rchant, has turned Lhe barque Jacob A. Sjtamler, which he owns, into an hotel for gsrl£. Phe ship lies in t)ie dock at the foot of Wesj, Twenty-lirst-street, and A-'ili accommodate 125 guests who !>a.v at the rate oi iH yd a day. Ilaths are 'included and a three:ourse dinner. Great care Is exercis»

e.-l in selecting guests, and, as the payments are made day 'by day, any breach of the rules for maintaining proper 'bcliaviour will lead to the immediate marooning of lhe offender on Manhattan Island. Two other vessels are to be titled up similarly

for men. tlje charge in their case being 2s Id per day. In the summer pne of these thj'ee ships will jnpkc c-'dt'cs ja Uls ijaj',.

"Arc yoxt satisfied with the leas© in perpetuity ? " asked a Land Commissioner of a State tenant at Timaru. " Oh, yes," replied the witness, " I suppose 1 can get a renewal when the lease runs out."

Francois Dumon, a young French waiter, has just left Denver on his way home to France, having made £B,<JOO in tips in live yearj, Of this.he made £I,OOO last" year at Si. Louis. He speaks six languages'and ■his fa her and grandfather were wailers all the,ir lives.

'J he Duiu'din Star states that on Tuesday travellers on the North line had their fill of sensation. Those proceeding northwards by the ;eeoml e.q ress had an almost miraculous escape at Oawaru, and what in a small way w<as ahuoSx as miraculous an ■•.•scape was experienced I>\ the occupants of a lirsl clas; coiu|)iuimcnt on the iirf-t express Iront t'hri.sichuiciv. Tile train Ivad just left Orari, twenty mil>. s on the l.'hristcliureh side of Tiniaru, when a bulletl wliistk'd through the compartment, narrowly missing one gentleman and piercing the coat of another at the shoul.ier before making its exit- b\ the "window. At the next station the police were communicated with. From the nature of the hole made ■in the glass it is iiekl that llu 1 shot, I came from a pea-i ille. When running into Tiniaru the same train ran into a horse which had got. into a catUestop. 'lhe animal, which had its harness on, was killed.

A correspondent writes to the Napier Telegraph Having gust heard ,ol! the death of a very much esteemled friend in Auckland caused through dysentery, and as there are a great number of people suffering from that distressing malady, I should be pleased if you would give publicity to the wonderful curative powers of the wattlfl bark, which has never 'been known to fail even when the patient was in extremis, and the death glaze upon the eyes. Strip a piece of bark of wattle. Place it in a cup ana pour boiling water on it, let it stand for a few minutes until it becomes the codour of tea. Strain it. For an adult two teaspoonfuls two or three times a day. For children a desertspoonful, and for infants half a teaspoonful, sauic numbes of times. One day 'will be quite sufficient in any case, and in many cases one dose is all that is necessary. It is ani infallibly cure, as I can testify to, many people in Napier and other districts having been cured by its use.: '

Writing oil things in general, in Uic New Zealand Herald, " Tho General " says "We hear from day to day in New Zealand of burglaries, thefts, and suchlike crimes; but, they, are generally commonplace affairs. There is a pitiful lack of romance about them. This is not so everywhere. For instance, , I read the otlv.T day in an English paper that just as a Passion play was going to begin at Fomach (in AlsaceLorraine) it was found out that the person cast for the part of Judas ilStariot hail ascondcd with the takings. Happily the culprit was caught, and now languishes (if, indeed, prisoners ever do such an twld thing as languish) in gaol. The young actor is often told that he ought to realise his part, but clearjly there are perils in the path or the conscientious artist. Better, after all, to bo a good man if « poor actor, than a good act6r if it 'leads to your being a bad man." In the course of an interview with a Christchureh journalist, Mr Geo. Musgrove, tile well-known theatrical manager, said : —" lam endeavouring to arrange for the visit of a grand opera company next year. Thev will play operas in KngjHsh, and I * have had agents all over the Continent for some time pencilling, as it were, artists for engagement, subject to my approval .when I go Home directly. This time 1 intend to drop out the 'Bohemian Girl,' etc.. and guvo ' Carmen,' ' Trovatore,' and the Wagnerian operas we plaved i n the former season, with the addition of ' Siegfried ' and ' Tris-tam and Isolde.' I would have liked to include 'The Meistersingers,.' but the Ca »te is too great. I shall also' bring Gounod's opera, ' Romeo and Juliet. Ihe artisLs will principally from South Germany, and will lie 25 per cent, better than the ones lyou saw before." Mr Musgrove added that he intended to make New Zealand one of his permanent circuits.

Ihe Wairarapa reader considers Mr John Hutcheson fras good cause for complaint against the people and and papers of his own parly, -p. to the by-election, those people and papers • soolod ' Mr Hutcheson at the Premier, encouraged what they called his ' vigorous style,' spoke of his l]earlessness, and gleefully repeated oven his most wanton attacks. Now that Mr Hutcheson is defeated, tho leader of the Opposition, Mr Massey, and the Conservative newspapers, are vying with each other in kicking the man who is down.- They now tell a wondering public that Mr Hutcheson should not 'have been so violent*. and the Post goes the length of reminding the man it boomed that the language of tho fo'c's'le is not suitable for the quarter-deck of politics ! Has Mr Huteheson learned anything of the Conservatives yet ? They encouraged him to come out, they laughed and cheery when he hurled his epithets at the I 'rem leer, they deserted him when they knew his power was on the wane* and' now they tell him that he is too coarse and vulgar foi their polite society !. "

Do you droad washing day ? Then buy a tin of Washine and cheer up. bee a list of storekeepers who stock ■t. A 6d tin sufficient for a week's washing."

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NEW A-P VJSHT) SSEMEX'J'S, Frank Messenger—lnvites tenders ior painting'.

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