PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1897.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 11013, 2 September 1897, Page 2

PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1897.

Tho rainfall at Wellington in August vas 4 inches, the average of previons years being 5*20 »'nohe<». Archbishop Redwood leaves next month for Melbourne to attend the opening of St. Patrick's Cathedral thero. J. Corbett, the ex-champion boxer of the world, has retired from the ring. '■■ 'The annual meeting of the Bowling Club will be held at the Criterion Hotel this evening. Mr Hawkins, who has purchased the Sed House Hotel from Mr H. Hammond, takes possession to-morrow. A committee meeting of Archdeacon Govett's memorial will ba held in St. Mary's Schoolroom to-morrow at 8 p.m. Mr James L.owin, Messrs Christmas and Lovell's buyer, arrived at Hawera. on Tuesday evening. He speaks encouragingly of the prospects of 'the dairying industry. Toe United Societies Band's promenade concert will bo held ia the Drill Hall to-night. The art union of the Associated Sports Committee will be drawn at tha concert. A full dress rehearsal of the Pirates of Penzance will bo held in the Theatre Royal this evening. An endeavor will be made to take a flashlight view of the Society on the stago. The Union S.S. Co.'s Bteamsr Brunner leaves Greymouth at midnight to-night, with a cargo of coal for New Plymouth I and Auckland, airiving here early on Saturday morning. ' Mr Wolham, the vet., states that he has treated over a dozen horses for sand in the stomach during the past few months, j Many horses have probably died from this cause, and the owners havo put the death down as due to gripes. In another column Mr Mullens direct* attention to the fact that his tea is not only purchased with tho greatest care, kut that it i» tested in Colombo before shipment by a trained .expert from Mining Lane, and again examined here beforo being offered to the public by the importer, who baa also a Mining Lane experience. Under • the New South Wales new fiscal policy, which its opponents pre dieted would ruin local industries, ihe Sydney Boot Trade Co-operative Society has grown in eighteen months, the full term of its existence, into an industry employed 54 hands, with an ' income of nearly, £4000 for the last half-year. It is stated by the Daily News that the British Exchequer will benefit appreciably by thedeathdntiesderivtsd from tho estate of Mr Barriato. • It is said ii reaches the amount of five millions sterling. Of course, only a portion is invested within the reach of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the amount is considerable. Captain Edwin received a telegram the other day from Adelaide stating that a fall of ashes had been recorded in Western Australia, i s this is probably the result of the volcanic eruption in the Philippine Islands, the circumstance is worthy of some notice, owing to ths distance the ashes must have been carried, which would probably be from 2000 to 2700 milos. A telegram from Nancj (France) to the Si. James's Gazette states that a fatal blunder was committed there during some cavalry manoeuvres. Several squadrons of Hussars wero ordered to charge at th« same time, but through a misunderstanding two of the squadrons dashed into one another. Dozens of troopers were knocked over, one man was killed, another had his skull fractured and was .carried off to the hospital in a dying condition, and three others had arm* or legs broken.

Captain Edwin wired this afternoon: — "Wind between north-east and north and west at all places; barometer further fall everywhere; sea heavy on western coast northward of Hokitika ; tides high on all western coasts of both islands, and on eastern coasts southwards of Castle

Point; northerly gales, with rain, are to be expected at all places north of East ('ape, Taupo. and New Plymouth, and strong northerly winds in all other parts of the country." The weekly meeting of the Mutual Improvement Society was held on Monday night in the Whiieley Hall. Mr R. C. Hughe's presided. Th« programme for the meeting consisted of readings /rom " The Courtship of Miles Standish," the readers being Misses Taylor, Johnson, M. Ahier, Messrs J. O. Burrow, R.,C. Hughes, and Dr Hutchinson. The readings were prefaced by an interesting leoture apropos of the programme by Miss Drew. Mr Blyth gave a recitation "Jacob Keller," a tale of the American war from an incident in the battle of Mt. Lookout, 1863. The Waikaremoana Lake road ha 3 now

been constructed for several miies along the borders of the lake, and tho scenery from tho carriage drive is described as

magnificent. Some 75 men are employed, and 25 more will be at work within the course of a week (sa/rt the Hawke's Bay Herald). Mr Mbuat hai received instruc-

tioug to proceed across the lake, and select a line of road through the gap of unsurveyed country between the road from Rotorua and the lake road, and it id evidently the intention of the Government to hasten the completion of the through tourist route as speedily as possible. From the Poverty Bay end, Mr Llewellyn Smith, district surveyor, has been engaged ia starting men upon the road from Hangaroa, which will probably connect with the lake at a point six or seven miles round from the outlet.

Half sick people— just sick enough to feel lazy and listless, no appetite and with what little to do eat lying like lead in the stomach, should tako Nurse Woodward's Health Byrup if they wish to regain health. Of Teed &Co , chemists, New Plymouth — Advt.

On the morning of Feb.2o, 1895, 1 was sick with rheumatism and lay in bed until May 21st, when I got a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The first application of it relieved mo almost entirely f om the pain and the second afforded complete relief. In a short time I was able to bo up and about again.— A. T. Mobsacx, Luverne, Minn- Sold by. the New Plymouth Co.epwrtiv* Society.— M*b