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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8004, 24 October 1887, Page 2

Members of the New Plymouth Lawn Tennis Club are requested to attend the annual meeting, time and place of which will be found elsewhere. The -s.s. Macgregor leaves Wanganui to-day "for Waitara, via the breakwater. She will load a full cargo of stock at the Waitara for Onehunga. To-morrow... being the -fiftieth anniversary of Mr. Thomas Gilbert's marriage, he intends .celebrating his "Golden Wedding " by a ' large party of old and esteemed friends. Mr. Gilbert landed here in 1851, taking up land at Omata. On the outbreak of war he went to Nelson, but returned here in 1885 to enjoy a wellearned repose amongst old friends nnd associates. A letter received by Mr. P. 0. Hawkes, of Bendaberg, Queensland, from Colonel H. P. Hawkes, Commissary General-in-Chief of tLe Forces in India, says :— "We ar<j about to send to Australia for 200,000 lbs, weight of preserved meat, and if this gives satisfaction, we shall probably get all our tinned meat from Australia and New Zeuland in future, in preference to the American Chicago moat. A gentleman, residing in the East End, whi!9 walking in his flower garden on Monday, disturbed a duck sitting on a nest of eggs, and what on nep:er inspection proved to be a litter of kittenß. The ■cat htyd evidently chosen this spot as a receptacle for ; her= offspring}- ea aocount of .its warmness, during a temporary absence of tho; duck. _.- We'wojild. remind our readers of tho lecture to be given ia tho Wesleyan Church this evening by the Rev. A. G. Danielle. From accounts of lectures given by this gentleman elsewhere, we can 'promise a -.treat ' to all who attend. The illustrated diagrams which will be exhibited arersaid- to-be the beßt ever shown -in the colony. ' A' procession in connection with the above will start from the new street at 7.15 p.m. • « The following civil business is set down for. hearing at the Supreme Court session : McGregor v. Stott; Saxton and others v. Spence and others; Brown and others v. King and others. Appeal cases : Official -Assignee- in" Bankruptcy ot John Mynott v..Moa Dairy Factory Co., (Limited), respondent ; T. Bayly v. the Now Plymouth Harbor Board respondent. Divorces: Lloyd, petitioner, v. A. Lloyd, respondent, 1 and M. Carroll, co-reapon-deot; McLean, petitioner v. E. G. McLean, re?po.nden'f, 4n<i F..lredale co-respondent. Mr. Philps'.is rapidly pushing on. with the construction of the whaif at the breakwater. Ten more tiors of piles, representiig a distance of about 120 feet, havo to ba driven in'yet ; nn-1 as the wharf will be something like 400 feet long, it will bo aeon that the completion of tho work will be at no remote date. Superslruction work on the piles already in, is carried on as vigorously' as the pile-driving. The planking, or flooring o£ the wharf, however, will not ba put in position at present, as all material used in bracing the piles together haß to bo passed down where the plank& will eventually be. J Wanted, — The merits of Crook's American Dried Yeast to be well and widely known ; it is>old in 2d and G 1 packels by all grocers. ' Careful housewives Rhould not fail to enquire for it at R. Cock'h, .Brougham-str,eet, Wholesale Agent for TnrAnaUi.-A.pvT. 1 — " Tho best value for money is Crook's American Dried Yeast. Ou>;ht to bo n every household, either in twopenny packet 81 ' sixpenny packets, or 7lh tins. A",sk <yo.nr grocer for it. — R. Cock, •'orough'fl;fti-BtreGt; "Wholesale Agent for Taranaki. — Advt. 3— • •"At the library. — Lady : I'm getting tirred of modern liotion ; can't you rocommend too t a good exciting standard work?" Librarian: "Have you read 'The Last Days of Pompeii ?'" Lady ; " No, I believe not. Can you tell me what he died of ?" Librurinn -: "An eruption, I bolieve.'" 1 It ought to be in every home. Crook's American Dried Yeust has only to bo trie>4 to havo its first-class value appreciated Do not fuil to nsk your grocer for it. — U Cook, Brougham-Btreot, Agent for'Turanalii. — Advt.' 4—