The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1902.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11933, 5 April 1902, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1902.

Next Friday a oharge of alleged Sunday trading against a local hote! keeper will b3hetrd. Mr J. H. Bennett has a replace advertisement in this issue, to. which attention is directed. . . . - Messrs Callaghan & Co. report the sale of section No. 26, ia the Ahuroa estate, to Mr G. Bell. " ■•■■,- A meeting of creditors in the estate of Mr J. Abbott will be held at 3 o'clock on Monday. • The hearing of the alleged sly grog selling case, in which Mr R. O'Donnell, Tongaporutu, storekeeper, is concerned, is set down for next Friday week. Messrs McEwen Bros, notify the arrival of a large consignment of the noted Bostock boots. An early visit is advised to secme the best selection. " Interest " writes in connection with thft next election of the Town School Committee, but no good purpose would be served by publishing his letter. Mr Smedley, the English temperance lecturer, opened his \ew Zealand tour in the Baptist Church Wellington, on Thursday night. At the Municipal Ratepayers' Association meeting on Friday night when the chairman explained that they had been playing Micawber, Mr Govett remarked •' We are like a lot of fireworks — we've been kept till we're damp !" The Sergeant of Police informs us that oat of over 100 factories, "under the meaning,*' in .NeW Plymouth, only about 60 have been registered. As April Ist was the .day for registration, factory owners are now liable to prosecution. ggThere is evidently an " absent-minded beggar "in New Plymouth. The Post Office advises us that five Budgets of dates March Bth, 15th, 22nd, and 29th are lying at the office unaddreased. The papers were probably intended for the 'Frisco mail. , • : That eminently useful and deservedly popular monthly, The Triad, still appears to prosper. The current number is well worth more than a casual glance, as it contains much information of an up-to-date nature. The pictures are very Well execute?, and deserving of high commendation. We understand that Musgrove wanfad dates in New Plymouth, but as they were embraced by the time set apatt for Alterations to the Theatre Royal, he hid. to be refused. It probably means, however, that we- will, at some not far -Jistant date, have the pleasure of attending a Musgrove Co.'s performance. ; Thursday's Stratford Post says :— lt took our smart and up-to-date telegraph department three houra and three minutes (9,27 to 12.30) to land the first cablegram in our office this morning. Such enterprise is worthy of being known to the world. It almost equals the lightning speed of the train from P.atea.to Stratford on Monday night, when the 36 miles were travelled in three hours and a half. The receipts of the Wangantri Municipal Opera House for this, year have reached £600, and the expenses have amounted to £440. This, the Mayor informed the Coudcil at its last meetirfg, was owing to tbe " house " being run on business lines. If they had acceded to all the requests they had had for free houses or for the use of the house at half-price they would never have shown a profit. The social and dance that takes place on the Prince of Wales' Birthday in connection with the United Friendly Societies, is meeting with the approval of the members of various societies. The committee which was elected by the various societies are all hard-working members, and can be relied on to do well the work entrusted to them. The committee will meet shortly, and full particulars will be advertised in these columns. A-t the Police Court on Friday morning, before Mr R. L. Stanford, S.M., William Isaac Massick, for failing to provide maintenance, was convicted and ordered to pay £7 16s arrears ; in default one month. He was given three weeks mi which to pay. William Lee pleaded guilty to a charge of fighting in Devonstreet on Sunday morning. He was fined £2 and costs 9s. There were ten cases under tho " ychool Attendance Act " down for hearing; three were withdrawn, and Willi-im KendalJ, Alfonso Wood, William Parsons, Charles Sorensen and Gedrge Martin were each lined 5s and 7fl cost.", Frederick Carrington and William McKoy were each fined 10s and 7s costs. Dr Dawbarn, one of the surgeons of the New York City Hospital, has been awarded a prize of tw6 hundred guineas by the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery for tho most notable modicai achievement of tho year. Dr Dawbarn has discovered a new method of treating cancerous growths in the head' where they cannot oe out out. The operation consists of cutting out the external carotid arteries on both sides of tho neck, thus depriving all tbe head, except ihe brain arid the eyes, of tho main supply of blood.' Cutting off! the blood not only stops the cancerous growths, but by continued de- , privation of- nutriment causes a gradual but steady- lessening of the growth. Several patients have been cured by this daring operation. Ball programmes, invitation cards, and tickets', at the Herald, .OSicej,