Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9618, 21 April 1900, Page 4

Local and General.

Lyttelton Borough Council will raise a £ 0,000 loan. The death is announced of Cbas. Christie, an old,Wpstport identity."' ■ The services of the Wakatu Mounted ! ifles, Nelson, have been accept id. J.JVJrs Jennings, motber of the Hon. Wm. Jennings, diedm Auckland yesterday. The bulding trade isiexceptionally brisk 'nDunedin and. Inyercargill at present. MuTdock McKe;izie is gazetted surceoncaptan of the New i Zeala"d Volunteers. W. S. Wilkinson^ carpenter, of Auck]°nd, is bankrupt. ■ Liabilities assets uil. The Governor opened the Auckland '■ h'ysanthemum Show at the Cho al Hall ■s (ißnmours of tVieappe..:ranee of ague at Dunedin has turned out to be false a alarm. ' • ' ; 'ihe Gazette notifies the dismiss 1 of P. R, Dewar, as cadet in the pot offi.es at Clinton. , S Hares in the Premier Dredging Company \ Bier River) are now quoted at 6d premium . The charges of false pretei3ce3 hea-d agtiost the scan Jonei bx, Paeroa, were dismissed Mr J- Livesey Upper Tairua, has been appointed district steward of the Thames ' iaers' Un'on. ; The Government. offices throughout the colony will be closed on April 23, in. celebration of !^t. George's Day, Dr. Batchelpr, a medico quarantined at Dunedin, says quarantining is an entwe mistake and should be abandoned. Captain Thompson has beec transferred f'.oni the Napier Eifie Volunteer's' 4'r'6 the Wellington District Beserve'-.Corps: f The official assignee acknowledges receipt •■•i|«J63, sent by some perscn unknown. " for benefit of creditors in C G' ;Daley's estate;" The' dismi-sal of Bugler Inglis, ,',vf-'tV,e PevoEpoit Arti!lery"¥o unteefs, for refusing to obey a command of a superior officer, is gazetted. .- ,;". ....„..' The -Public Wbrfis" Department; has a'ceeptedtheteriderof Mr J. E. Guthnefor the. erection of a school and t-iachec's residence at Rotoiti. '•■'■"■' ■■', ' ! ' Mr' J. UcLeniian, of ' WaiteVaur'i, has secured two" adjoinipg sections, Nos 5 and 6, 848; acres and 547,acres,in the. J>allot for : King Country lands. •. , „'.]'',. ; ' 'From'enquiries 'made by the Government it? •appears-that over £100,000 has been contributed to the patriots and more men fundol.in this colony. ,-