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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11647, 2 April 1901, Page 2

The Tauvxaki Hekam) will not be published on Friday or Monday next.

The Bunc.KT will go to press on Thursday night this week. Advertisers and correspondents will kindly forward cipy to reach us by 6 o'clock oa that evening.

Captain Edwin wired this afternoon : » Moderate north to east and southeast winds; glass fall; tides moderate.

CSS r3 M. Mills. A. Bayly, G. Hoby ; A. Mace, and J. Glynos were present during the deliberations of tho Taranaki County Council on Monday afternoon.

The Premier says the statement which has. found publicity that Mr Ward is about to take over the office of Colonial Treasurer is without truth.

At the kind invitation of Messrs Nielsen & Son, the inmatus of tho Old People's Uonies will be present at the Biograph entcrtainmont to night.

A Maori defendant in Court this morning was asked why he did not pay a debt, and ho gave the satisfactory reply, " I have no money." In other words it was trying to draw blood out of a stone.

Continuation of the report of tbe Taranaki County Council, and report of the discussion on thy tollgate question, at the Council meeting, appear on the trout page of this issue. Concert in the South Road Schoolroom by pupils of the West Infants School, ii-sirited by friends, to-morrow (Wednesday) eveniug, commencing at 8 o'clock. Admission to all parts Is. To morrow morning Mr Newton Kins; will sell a large quantity of fruit at his Mart, principally peaches. Persons wanting to make peach jair or preserve should not miss this opportunity of obtaining the fruit. At the taranaki County Council meeting on Monday Mi B. Morris was appointed collector of tolls, at the Mountiin Road South gate, till the gat 3 is let 3y tendev. The wills of living persons deposited in the Public Trust Office for execution of trusts after death now exceed 1000. For so-.ne time past the average number of such wills received has been two per d.iy. 'I he Govornment has decided to raiso in the colony half of the million loan authorised last session in aid of public works. The loau will bo issued at four pjr cent., aid b 3 for a torin of three years. A pired of 142 shares in the Brnk of New Zealand belonging to. the estate of the l.i to Mr B. Blower, was sold at auction on Thursday at Wellington by Messrs M irdoniid, Wilson, and Co., at £1 6s 6d per share. A sitting of the District Court will be held ou » bursday by Judge Kettle. A commission case, Corkill v. Lang, £100 I for commission will ba heard. The con I tinuation of W. D. Scott's examination I will be held, and an appeal under the Fencing Act heard. At St. Andrew's Schoolroom on Monday evening the Rev. S. S. Osborne, on behalf of the choir and Sabbath School teachers, presented Miss Hay wood, who is leaving New Plymouth for Foxton, with a handsome pookot satchel of fine Russian leather, silver-mounted. The Wellington Bowling Club held a smoke concert on Friday evening, among tho guests being Mr James Paul, Mr Bennie, of Wanganui, and five members of the Wellington Club who are going Home with the Australasian team. The proprietors of the Biograph Com-, pany desiro to express their warm appr.ciationof the action of tho Town Band in postponing their concert last night, and wish us to state that any membow of the Band will bo heartily welcome I by the company at their evening's entertainment. Before leaving the meeting room on Mond.iy the members of the Tarinaki County Council wrote out their resignations and handed them in to the Clerk. Mr McDonald, who had left to catch the evening train, was not present when tho Council decided to resign, but it was expected that he would forward in his resignation aa soon as he learned of the decision of his brother members.