AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8637, 25 November 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Albany, November 2y. The P. and O. Co.'s s.s. Britannia has arrived. Passengers for NewZealand : Messrs Ansdcll, Miller and wife, Milne, Brand, Hammond, Crombie, Rose (2), Moore, P. Hethcar, Spencer, Tanner, and Partington, Misses Morton, Tiller, Shortens, Alsworth, and Roso, Lord and Lady Combe, Rev. Mr. Beva'n and wife. Mblbouuxb, November 25. Typhoid fever has again broken out in Melbourne, and is increasing daily. NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. MOVEMENTS OF IRISH DELEGATES Gueymouth, November 25. Mr Dillon arrived here yesterday about 6 o'clock, accompanied from Ngarehere by a very large cortege of horsemen and vehicles of all kinds. Hundreds of people were waiting his return to the town. The Foundry band were playing and there was immense cheering. He spoke out a few words from the balcony of the hotel. He will address a public meeting to-night. His reception at Little Grey Junction and Ahaura was enthusiastic. THE FIRST PIANO IN TARANAKI. A writer in the Canterbury Press gives the following amusing account of the first piano introduced into this settlement : ' The writer well remembers seeing a party of Maoris, under the directions of the Rev Mr Woon, shoulder a full sized cottage piano in New Plymouth about the year 1846, and they carried it in safety, all that journey to Waimati, on their shoulders. It was wrapped up and slung upon poles, which were carried somewhat in the style of an old-fashioned litter, but when we remember the road and that, in many places, it appeared impossible for men to move in other form than single file, the labour and patience required in such an undertaking seem very great. White men would hardly accomplish such a task, except upon compulsion, or " on tbe touch of the game as some of them express themselves. This memorable piano was the first instrument of its kind to reach the province of Taranaki, if we except a jangling, tin pot old thing out of which no music could ever come, nor could any nerves be found to bear its liideous attempts at squeaking melody. Yes, this piano was, I believe, the first to reach the settlement, and after bucli a journey it deserves a niche in the temple of fame, especially as it was imported by a family so well known as the Hursthouses. It was the property of Mr C. W. Hurthouse's father or perhaps I should say his mother. Possibly Mr Charles Wilson Hursthouse is less known in your island than his brother Richmond, however that may be, families should not distinguish themselves in colonial history if they do not want to see their names mentioned in our great papers. If they had not brought a piano out in the early days of the colony, I would not have mentioned it, or perhaps them, just here.". General satisfaction is expressed over the nominations for the Boxing Day Race Meeting. Judicious handicapping now ought to ensure good fields. Mr J. Gilmour wishes us to state that his Bhops will be closed on Thursday afternoon next, the occasion of the Band of Hope picnic at Bell Block. The settlers in the Tarurutangi District were troubled with fires all last week, and in some caseß great precautions had to be taken to prevent houses from being ignited. A great deal of grass has been destroyed. A watch had, it is said, to be kept on the Chain Bridge one night lent the fires in the vicinity should spread, and set fire to it. It is to be hoped that these fires arc not forerunners of worse ones during the coming summer. Mr Cripps, the Molbourne sportsman, has purchased Tartar for 445 guineas, and Bravo, the Melbourne Cup winner, for 975 guineas. Remember. — Last four weeks of the great Hale at Jones & Co.'s. Those wishing to obtain real bargains should call at once. Everything further reduced in prices. A splendid lot of boots and hliocb at further reduced prices at Jones & Co.'s. UoI-^OWAy's OINI'MISNT AND Pl[iT,S. — As spring approaches a most favourable opportunity offers i'or rectifying irregularities, removing impurities, and erasing blemishes which have arinon from the piesence of matters forbad by winter from being transpired through the pores. This searching Ointment, well rubbed upon tho skin, penetrates to the deeply-seated organs, upon which it exerts a most wholesome and beneficial influence. Well nigh all the indigestions give way to this simple treatment, aided by purifying and aperitive doses of Holloway's Pills, round each box of which plain "instructions" are folded. Bilious disorders, loss of appetite, fulness after eating, lasaitudo, gout and rheumatism may bo effectively checked in their paiuful progress, and the seeds of long suffering eradicated by these remedies.