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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8754, 16 April 1890, Page 2

In our notice of the farewell social to llev. T. Farley, published on Tuesday, we unintentionally ommitted to mention that Miss Richmond played a piano solo. This young lady is a most finished pianiste considering her youth, and will in time be far abnvo the average player. The adjourned meeting of intending subscribcrß to the Now Plymouth Assemblies will be held on Tuesday evening next. The report that tho inward 'Frisco mail, for the future, will be carried direct from Manukau to Wellington has probably been founded on a note which appears on the the Union S.S. Co.'s time-table for tlie month of April. This note reads : " Wanaka returns from Taranaki to Onehunga on Friday, April 25, proceeding thence direct to Wellingtoo with 'Frisco mail." This certainly looks as if a new departure is being made, and as such a change will aifect this place it ought to be protested against without delay. It is understood, says the Canterbury Press, that a farmer near Amberley, who has an aversion to the hounds of his district crossing his lands, one day last week when the Brackenfield pack was out, and it having divided after several hares, one of which took a part of the pack on to this gentleman's property, brought forth his fowling piece, and before the huntsman could get up, he had shot one of the hounds — poor old Resolute, the prize hound, and invaluable to the pack for stud purposes — in the rios. At present Resolute is under veterinary care, and expected to recover. The Mayor of Wangaratta has a pet cockatoo in his possession, which has parsed over 33 years of its existence in bondage. "Cocky" first fell into Mr Thomson's hands near Deniliquin when a young bird, and after spending much of its time as a pet in the families of his sisters, each of whom have been called to their long account, the bird, who is now quite hale and hearty, has been accepted once more to share the vicissitudes of the Thomson family. Nearly 20 years ago he caused quite a commotion amongst his admirers at Beechworth. through partaking of a box of Holloway's pills and a pot of ointment, while in a mischievous mood. The feat told considerably on " cocky's " digestive organs for a time.* His plumage has never graced him in its former brilliancy, but cocky ptill lives to testify to his ability to withstand the potent effects of well advertised patent medicines. On Sunday morning last, in the Wesleyan church, the Rev. P. W. Fairclough delivered his first sermon as pastor of the congregation worshipping there. He took for his text the words, " One soweth and another reapeth " (John iv. 37.) Mr Fairclough's treatment of his subject was suggestive and practical. In pertinent sentences, fraught with wide meaning, he pointed out how closely woven and interwoven one generation was with another ; how impossible it was to escape the effect and consequences of the past on the one hand, or to free ourselves of responsibility with regard to tho future on the other. Not the least effective part of his discourse were a few homely, manly sentences at its close, in which he introduced himself to his people, bespeaking their sympathy and co-operation. Mr Fairclough will take up a useful position in New Plymouth, and the community be a gainer by his stay amongst us here. — Communicated. To show what a slight alteration in a word makes of the sense of a sentence wo may mention that we published a cable message a short time since, which said that " Sydney and Melbourne hud allotted Jones for photographic work in connection with a chart of the heavens." Tho Timaru Herald had it that '• Mr" Jones had been choson for " lithographic" work in connection with a chart of the heavens ; and the Daily T m s says zones have been for " philographic" (whatever (that might be) work in connection with'a chart of tho heavens. All three papers were wrong. The message should have read that Sydney and Melbourne had allotted zones for photographic work in connection with a chart of the henvons. Our telegram was published as we received it, an 1 no doubt the Herald and Times published theirs as they received them. Cureless telegraphing must have beon tho cause of the errors, lor to nothing else can they beitraced, As a specific for rheumatism and neuralgia, Renshaw's Monarch of Pain, by ito wonderful resolvent properties, disperses and eradicates the morbid conditions from which such diaeuees spring, scientifically combating the cause, and therefore must not be confounded with nny of tho so-called remedies which only tinker with tho effect, without dpiutf my luutvrwl wr fMrnwut tfvydi