Local anil General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9604, 4 April 1900, Page 4

Local anil General.

The o'ose season for seals in New Zealand has been extended to June 30th, 1901.

P. Eyan has been ariested at Taupo for criminal assault on a native woman named King. Lieut.-Colonel Bmks last evening in spected t^e Thames Navals and Haura'ti Kifles.

A North Island syndicate is chartering a vessel for a prospecting cruise amorigthe Otago fiords.

The steamer Doto is on an experimental trawling cruise between Banks Peninsula andOamaru.

The forteith anniversary of the battle of WairoTca, Taranaki, was celebrated by a picnic on the battle field. The Canterbury and Auckland men of the fifth contingent went by the Maori, in charge of Captain Major. The new post card designs include pictorial reproductions of Major Robin and Captains Maddocks and Davies. Cheap Lamps for the winter under cost price at Hanseu's. Also several itfoyclt-e sh^iD. —A.dvt.

Four hundred and sixty model rifles lent by the Government have been apportioned among the several Wellington schools. The steamers Maori and Waimate, which took away portions of the lart contingent, wore bu It in 1893 and 1896 respectively.

The question of wage 3 and conditions in the butchering trade is likely to come before the Wellington Conciliation Board

Three.Danevirke ,men, selected for the fifth contingent were each presented with a gold maltese cross by their fellow citizens. The suspected typhoid patient who came from Waihi by Monday evening's train was, itb are informed, allowed to tiavel in a ca'riage full of people.

A. man named Anderson, remanded at Paeroa fer theft, wa3 brought down by traiu by Constable. Parsons and lodged in the look-up. ■ *!■: ::' In Chi iatchurcb.. f our pairs of boys are' paid £4 per week to sweep the streets'; aud the sale of the refuse foe manure pays their wages. Eecrui'.s are being enrolled at the Cape for an Irish Squadron of one of the irregular regiments, composed of I khmer-, and to be officered by Irishmen. .New uiillinery und matitleF, corsets, an. 1 underwear, ribbone, laces, hosiery art'l gloves at the Beehive corner of Mary street. Alfred Court direct Importer, idvt

fit James' Gazette thinks that au all > ance between Britain, United fctafr.s, and Kussia, practically isolating Germany is by. no means unlikely

' During March six births and four deaths weie registered in the Borough, and seven births and four deaths in the County. Total, 13 deaths and 8 birth«.

Egypt has subscribed;jfi3OUo towards the 1 aal war fund, fr Of the various nationalities who hare contribute! this the Greeks are eapecially genirous.

The record to data of theTJniverity Boat race since the first contest in 1829 is:—Total number of races 57; Oxford, 32 wins; Cambridge, 24 wins; dead heat 1.

The illuminated add' ess presented by the Kuranui-Caledonian miners to Mr S. S dorenson was designed and written by Mr J. 'Patterson; Owen street, Thames

During January 445 young New Zealanders saw the light in Auckland- Wellington. Canterbury t and Dunedin; during.February, 367. Deaths in Janrijr.y 1.5;0n February, 166.' '*■■'•■ ' - '-■ •'■•'. : ■ ' ' -

It appears that Mr Goo Hutchison I'atea's chosen, is now in Nat il imbibing impressions for some of the newspapers. Premier Seddon wouldn't mind if he stayed there. „■■■■ Major Georye has gert :n a letter to Ih..Auckl*nd Racing Club asking the committee to; decide on the printed, conditions what impost Seahorse .carries -mo.-,,, the Century Stakes.

Winter dress materials, silks', a? tins velveteens, . mantle-cloths and skirtings aiJ iti old prices at the Beehive, corner of Mary street.—Advt. During the month of March the Harbor Master collected !the following revenue — Wharfage' >*95 7sr 9d, port?charges £9 14s 7d; rent £77 6s 2d, ,water £6, cab,toll £2 15s; total, £\sl 3s 6d.' .' . .. ,' Weliingtori districtscholarship candidates evidentlydoii't: know.-much about '• the general; government' of..New .Zealand. Aquestion asked under this head at a recent examination "received very unsatisfactory answers. ' ; ' , " A young patriot, aged slightly urdor sixteen,^ tiled .to. ..enlist in thj 3rd. West! tiegiment, .and,,, represented ..his, age as. seventeen and ten months. For this he.was sen^tencrd ip , a month's imprisonment with batd labor. !- •• • ' ' •

Some members of the fifth.contingent by .th^ii behaviour compelJed< several.ladioe to lea,Ve a Wellington tram Cjir,the other day.; The ladies had paid their fares arid the troopers were present as the tramway company's guests,' >..-■;•• .-; In the.House o£ Commons .a Bill has been! introduced by Mr Goulding, member for the Devizes' Division of Wiltshire to r provide compensation for' accidents'to agricultural labbri rs and was read a second time, the Governmentls-pporting it. . „ .'<-.

,-, 'I,he : Wellington .inspector, noting ,the ;faot of the fiv&fc inspection pi' .Roman .Catholic Schools by Education Board 'officials, says^that good-work rwas done in "some subjects,, and in all there was promise ' ©f h good record next;y.ear. .-.-.• , : ; ,'i Alfred Court, has just 'opened up a special purchase of XSoloiial rußsat lOa I'd .worlth 18s6d:—Advt. :! . : : * fljlarlborough Education; Board has not 'enosugh'money, its school- buildings, j many of which for,lack,of :( paint are in dadger of premature decay—besides •which, iut^rnal painting Lof ihe'.c'ass rooms' is. held to be necessary for sanitary reasons: 1 •'

jjr Chris. A Harris has offered to sell to theiAucklapd Harbour, Board his splendid' i?as| engine .yacht, Queen of Beauty, as a^ launch'for 1 harbour purposes. Mr Harris"! has!also applied to ihe Board for pernnssioh to wharf at Tamaki to give acce3s,to his property there.. ■■ > ■>:'..<

They ;were discussing t the. collection of deb^s at the Harbour Board meeting last evening. he , Secretary, .eaid it.;was a mistake to let'debts over-lap from month to month, >a 8; the ■ • overlap' would* become chronic The Harbour Master :'' That is a system tl-at has been here so long that it hasjgrown with the -place." ...... CJvil servant pro-Boer .Gr-ittan G"ey writes to a Wellington; paper that his reading; on Souths African' affairs has bean neither meagre nor one-sided: "My researches have been so profound as to Jesuit in the opinions I now hold with reaard to thisicruel,r.most unjust, etc," : If the profound Mr Grey's profundity rests on no better ovidenoe than his opinions, hia case will indeed requite a heap of proving. ■

Nearly every other person is snSering from some form of cold j .colds are<3angerbus,' and when neglected lead to consumption. Neglected colds give, more work to ijhe doctor and.undertaker then arid other complaint. Have Sykes' Cura Cou^h i'«ady to use as soon as you begin to sneezy -hiver, or feel that;you are taking cold <yk6s Cura Congh if taWn aa soon aa th 6 'old-manifests itself will break up any 'furm if cold ir ■ few; hours. Hundreds of estynor.ials fronv all parts of New Zealand old by J. and 8. Kobebtb (sole agent) in I« eit bottle? 'Advi Wade's Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant. Children thrive after iatong lm\ ha