Received May 6, at 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, May 6. Ladies Ranfnrly, Constance, and E. Knox, Major Steward, and Captain Russell, members of the N.Z. Federal Commission, were passengers, by the Warrimoo on Saturday.. The departure of - the Sonoma has boon 'fixed for Thursday.
ADVANCE, PATEA!

In the bankrupt estate of the Syd ney Cash Drapery Co., Messrs George and Kersley were the- successful tender ers. The amount of stock at cost price, ,was .£6540, and Ss 8d in the £ was paid for it. This will be realised At once in their Wellington and Wanganui houses'. Further particulars will be announced shortly. •

(Per United Press Association. 1 )

PATI3A, May 6. The necessary number of residents of Patea have decided to have a telephone exchange. The connection embraces the whole of Taranaki. Efforts will be made, . also, to get connection with Wanganui.
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
The ironmongery department of the" U.F.C.A. is. now fully stocked with every requisite necessary for the house hold and for builders, amongst some of the items displayed in the windows be ing garden took, lamps and glasses, Scott's and Dover ranges, bedsteads, American novelties, etc., the very best and cheapest in town.
A LITTLE GIRL KILLED. (Per United Press Association.) WESTPORT, May 5. A little girl named Josephine C»r rick, 3i years of age, was killed this afternoon through a cement culvert in .which she was playing collapsing. Her skull and thigh-bones were fractured, and she died a quarter of an hour after the acoident. ,

THE TOWN CLOCK.
