The Taranaki Herald.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11663, 24 January 1901, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald.

•^HUKS'DAY, JANUARY 24, 1901.

All local Court procedure is suspended till Monday next. | The news of the death of William IV took four months to reach .'Australia while that of the Queen was known in as many hours. The clever Corrick Family /are now .touring the Taranaki district. t The dates that' they have published are' not subject to alteration. Mr James Bufcterworth has on view in his shop window a- panel pourtraying a number of striking incidents in the life of the late Queen. At the present moment it is of special interest. The coach in wnich the late Prince of Saxe Coburg, when Duka of Edinburgh, i was conveyed from Wellington' to the Hutt over thirty years ago, is still preserved at Masterton. The adjourned meeting of the EducaBoard was held to-day, but beyond pass ■ ing a vote of condolence upon the death of the Queen little business was done and a further adjournment was made to Wednesday next. •' i Mr S. Oliver writes from Sentry Hill: — '' On several occasions lately I have found dead trout in the Waiongona river at Sentry Hill, but cannot find any cause for same. Yesterday (Tuesday) I found one, and as the dimensions may interest some of your numerous readers, I here 1 " ctfve particulars : — Length, 27 inches; girth, 14 inches; weight, 71b. lOoz." The Committee of the United Sunday Schools Picnic met on Wednesday morning and decided in view of the grave rifyws from England to postpone indefinitely ih : picnic ;iminged for to-day. Positive news of Her Majesty's lamented death reaching New Plymouth immediately after, arid the consequent cessation of business account's for the slip by which public announcementwas not made in our columns last evening. The public are requested to accept this "explanation for any inconvenience caused thereby. We arc requested Id suggest that the public would render help to the 'executive by calling on Mr May, the caterer for the picnic, who will sell the provisions pro vided at a low rate, and thus avoid loss to Committee. Due announcement of further arrangements will be made.

Of the deep 'debt of gratitude the Imperial troops were under to Mr Arnold for the part he took in forwarding comforts to " tho front " from the Cape, a perusal of his scrap-book ' affords convincing testimony. It is full of acknowledgments of his good offices. Here is a -telegram from General Frehch from Rensburg, where the New Zealanders were, acknowledging the , receipt of a consignment of grapes; above it-is a wire •from the Modder River expressing thanks for the receipt of 80 baskets of this fruit ; the acknowledgments from Do A sir are numerous ; from Belmont the Canadians, through Colonel Diter, acknowledged Mr Arnold's kindness ; General Clements, from Arundel, wired his troops' appreciation of presents of fruit; Colonel Hoad, the Victorian commandant, wrote gracefully from the same dusty spot; from Beaufort West, Victoria West, Cradock, Belmont, Naauwpoort, Orange River, and other camps are similar acknowledgments ; and Mr Arnold was successful even in getting gifts of fruit sent as far as Kimberley, from which town he received telegrams, warmly 'expressing the 'soldiers' gratitude to him from Colonel Kekewich, who' 1 commanded the beleaguered garrison. Mr Arnold was indeed, as the letters and telegrams show, a good friend to the «" Tommies " in South Africa. And the colonial troops were his first care. , . New Zealand's warm and lovely clime .Is not without its sudden changes, More noticed in the winter time When hail and snow fall on the ranges. The wind blows hard and' biting cold. And finds our weakest parts for sure, And gives us coughs until we're told To take soirn? Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Fresh drugs and chemicals are imported into Pykep 1 Pharmacy every three months from the best English drag houses. Sykes' Chemist (opposite ThcitreV 0 " You can depend on ridding your children of worms with Wade's worm i figs the wonderful worm worriers. Is*"