The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1902.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11881, 1 February 1902, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1902.

» The Nelson City Council has decided to dismiss its recently appointed engineer. A contributor of tho Manaia Witness says Messrs* Clealand Bros, received a cheque fcr 1250 for their December milk supply. * f ■•'„'" The disputed native land succession case was tiot resumed on Friday, counsel intimating that the parties had come to some arrangement. According to" the Chronicle theWWarn r ganui Garrison Band estimate their expenses in attending the Band Contest at New Plymouth at £90. Three members of the Wanganui River Trust Board have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of money to try and, make the Tangarakau Rivef a tourist, route or a highway for commerce. Mr G. Rutherford^ of Rutherford and Sons, flaxmillers, was in town to-day. He states that the new mill at Raglan, is torning out from 10 to 12 tons of fibre a' week, the fibre being shipped to Onehunga by the Kanieri. Anyone in want of a nice handy suburban section should bear in mind the sale, by Mr Newton King, en Thursday next, of several sections in the Tukapa township.. The sale will be held on the property near Westown, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Seven Chinese occupants of a house in Haining-street were convicted at Wellington on Thursday for playing pak a poo. The keeper of the establishment was fined £50, two of his assistants £15 each, and four others £1 each. Notice of appeal was given. , The Rev. W. R. WoQlley (late of the Thames), .who has accepted the invitation to the pastorate of the Gill-street Baptist Church, will commence his ministry on Sunday next, February 2nd, andonTues diy, February 11th, a public meeting will be held in the church to welcome Mr and Mrs Woolley to the town. Mr W. F. Brooking had quite an arduous task set him on Friday night when he had to explain the Works Committee's recommendations on tho loan proposals to his brother members on the Couucil. Ho fairly demonstrated that he possessed the qualities of a fluent and deliberative speaker, and he spared no effort to make his seinftfks as clear as possible. A well-known Wellington auctioneer, speaking of values obtained at public auction for freehold properties, told the Compensation Court on Tuesday (says the Times), that there was a lot to do with the mannej in which a sale was advertised. »Sometimes" only a couple of pounds was spent on advertising, and the sale tamed out a comparative failure, whereas by spending £10 a successful result would have been assured. The Post Office officials made a new departure for the payment of old age pensions to day (Saturday). Instead of paying the recipients over the counter a small room near the entrance was utilised in which to transact the work. This innovation prevented a crush at the counter, and allowed the ordinary post and telegraph business to bo carried on with some degree of comfort. Mr 11. Fookcs was busily engaged all the morning in paying out pensions. Baptist Church.—On Sunday next Rev. W. Woolley's subjects will be :— Morning : A Tribute to Observe, and Lowly Workers in the Church. Evening j Thje Fatherhood of God, and the Lignt It Throws Upon Life and Religion,* Steams' Headache Cure, —A certain and speedy remedy, whatever the pause. All chemists. Thousands keep it always in their homes. Insist on having Steams' 0 Whiteley Memorial Church —Rev. S. J. Serpell'fl subjeots for Sunday are ns follows:—11 a.m., "The Sealing of the Believers"; 7 r^.j "Tha Wrath pf

Captain Edwin wired at 12.40 p.m. to- 1 day : — Moderate to strong westerly winds; glass fall; tides increase. Messrs Bewley & Griffiths advertise the sale of Mr H. Barnitt's property opposite the Waterworks. The property has been cut up into suitable allotment?. Attention is called to the advertisement of the North Egmont Forest Reserve Board relating tp the Mountain Cottage. Those desirous of taking the cottage should make early application as the season is short. Attention is drawn to the alteration in the time of the sailing of the Takapuna on Tuesday next, 4th instant, for Wellington, from" noon to iO a.m. The Upolu, for Wellington and Southern ports, leaves the same day, about uoon. Mr R. W. Hill called at the Herald office to day (Saturday) anent our paragraph, published yesterday,' as to his appeal against dismissal by the Taranaki Education Board. ,He Btates that the Education Board did object to his appeal until hat body was over-ruled by the Minister for Education. A private telegram received in town from Raglan this afternoon states that the s.s. Kameri has been delayed in coming down the coast. She left Raglan thi s afternoon for Waitara, and will leave the latter port again shortly after midnight to-night for Raglan direct. In reply to a telegram from Mr John Stevens, M.H.R., the Minister for Public Works sent the following : — "Cannot say definitely when the purchase of the Manawatu railway will be completed. In terms of the Act of last session it must be before the first May next." Mr P. Eva, of Westown, brought to the Herald Office to-day (Saturday) a branch of a Barbank plum tree literally loaded with fruit, there being some 22 line, big luscious plums on it. The branch was cut from a one year old :tree, which carried over 100 plums in addition to those on the branch brought to this office. A store and dwelling at Huiakama township, on the Ohura Road, were destroyed by fire about midnight on Friday, 24th January. The building, which it is understood, was owned by Messrs Sells and Biernacki, of Strathmore, was un-> occupied at the time, everybody being away at a dance at Strathmore; and there is nothing i to indicate how the fire occurred. Mr Marfell wishes us to correct a wrong impression that may have been created by the report in our columns that Mr Smith, recently from Aberdeen, had taken over his farm at Westown and the milk run. Without entering into details of the arrangement it is sufficient to s>ay that Mr Smith will carry* on. the business for Mr Marfell, and that customers may rely on the same attention that they have received in the past. Mr Brooking's oft- repeated, " May ifc please your Worship," at the Borough Council meeting on Friday mght, would lead a stranger to the belief that the gentleman was in the legal profession and that he could nob iorgeb the tagal formalities even when out of Court. The belief would be heightened by the frequent removal of his pince nez, with which he stroked the air as it were when wishing to lay particular stress on auy part of his remarks. » Replying to the representations of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that the dismissal of men on public works had forced some traders into the Bankruptcy Court, the Premier pointed, out that it waa quite a new doctrine that the interests of traders were to be studied as a factor in public works. He respectfully suggested that the Chamber' had overlooked the fact that the losses in question were included in the risks of trade. The Government had paid the men, and concluded they would settle with the storekeepers, and if they had not done so it was surely too much to biame the Government for non-payment of debts between private persons.