LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In future no road cycle races can be held in Stratford after 4 ,p.m., and all races, must finish north of Seyton street.

A Press Association message from Sydney states that the wholesale pride of butter has been increased by 4s 3d to 186 s per ewt. A cull-cow drive was held in the Marti nibo rough district last week under the auspices of the Farmers’ Union, and resulted in 100 head being taken to the Waingawa Meat Works for killing. The Hawera Star’s Patea correspondent telegraphed last evening : —At the inquest, touching oai the death of the late Mr. Harold Hamilton, who was found dead at Manutahi on Tuesday, a verdict wa« returned that deceased met hi.s death, on March 9 at Manutahi through the accidental discharge of a gun which he was carrying. Two concrete mess-huts, each accommodating about 450 men, have just been completed at Topuhopu, near Ngain a vahia, the site of the permanent mobilisation camp for the Northern and Central Commands. In the centre of the huts is a fine big “cookhouse,” on which the Public Works Department employees are still engaged. Apart from the .meal .point oif view, the long huts excellent buildings in which to hold cannip conceits. The trial of 53 AVestern Canada fruit jobbers and individuals charged by the Federal Government with conspiracy and illegal combine ended on Tuesday with the completion of the defence evidence (says a press message from Vancouver). Several days will be occupied with the defence and Crown addresses and the judge’s charge to the jury. The trial is the lengthiest and most extensive in the history of criminal prosecution in British Columbia, lasting 32 court days. PRESENTATION RUGS. We have just opened up a new range of New Zealad’s best travelling rugs from the best mills in the Dominion. Wanganui, 65/-; Mosgiel, 45/-, 65/85/-, 95/-. These are new in pattern and make a nice present for your friend, and buy it at the New Zealand Clothing Factory, Hawera. —Advt. Always nsc Magic Ner.vine for toothache.—Advt. . Rheumo (4/6) removes the cause of rheumatism. —Advt.

A newspaper, published in the Yugo-i siav language, appeared in Auckland' on Friday. The new journal is called the Nova. Doha, which, in English, means The New Era, and contains not a word of our language. The first istsue was edited iby a visiting journalist and Press correspondent, Mr N. B. Marinitch, and ran Into three thousand copies Preparing the paper for the press was on onerous task. .It involved translating material from Italian, French, German, Russian and English into Yugo-slav language —a task which gives an impressive klea of the editor’s knowledge of .foreign languages.

Mr. A. T'onnoir, entomologist at Canteiibury Museum, has begun some interesting researches into New Zealand's glow-worms. He has returned to Christchurch from a visit to North Island caves, in which those insects live. Amongst them are the Waitomo Caves, “the heavenly splendour of which,” he states, “cannot he surpassed 'by .any others.” Thanks to the obliging help of Mr. Cook, manager of the Caves, Mr. Tonnoir was able to take back from Waitomo several hundred live glowworms, which are now spinning their webs oil tlxe cement roof of an underground tunnel specially prepared for them in Canterbury Museum grounds. These specimens, which he intends to keep under close observation, will help him to solve many points of their lifehistory, and, chiefly, to make researches into the nature and the mechanism of their wonderful light. The. ballot for the position of workers’ representative on the Court of Arbitration closed .at noon yesterday, but no official announcement will be made as to the result immediately, as the appointment is one which has to be made by His Excellency the Governor-General on the advice of the Minister. It is unofficially reported that Mr. Monteith has been returned. In the event of - Mr. Monteith being appointed, and his new duties taking, him away from Wellington to such an extent that lie will be unable to attend to his duties as a City Councillor, he may resign from the Council. In that case there is some talk in Labour circles that Mr. C. H Chapman, who unsuccessfully contested the Mayoralty at the last municipal election, and- formerly on the council, may be selected to contest the vacancy which will be created if Mr, Monteith resigns.

Hr. O’Brien, of Christchurch, gave a timely warning in an address to the conference of licit aria ns at Dunedin. He said (that- a mother had come to him with a child to have its eyes tested. He had found nothing wrong with the o-irl’s eyes, and the mother, in conversation, had then told him that the girl was very slow in .her lessons. She was indeed onlv in the same class as her sister, who was two years younger. Till is information moved the doctor to ask further questions. He supposed Maggie, we shall say, was often told that Mary was much the smarter child. The mother agreed that that was so. “And I .suppose father als.o rubs it in, and that Maggie has come to imagine that she is quite a duffer.” Mother ao-ain agreed. “Ls there anything that Magpie can do ?” asked the doctor. The mother admitted that Maggie was very useful, iaibout the house, that y! mahe the (bods, and so on. well, said the doctor, “why don’t you praise her .and keep on praising her for this. I tell you, if you allow the girl to ge.t the imlpresision that .she cannot do anything, when she reaches the age of about 14 she will probably run away. Then the mother hung her head, and said that Maggie had already done tins once. The parting advice from the doctor to the mother was to go home and praise her girl for the good work she could do. and not to hold her up to ridicule because she was not as good a scholar a.s Ma.ry. Later in his address Hr O’Brien wanted to know why girls reaching the age of puberty were taught algebra? Euclid, and rubbish of that sorb instead of the principles of motherli do cl. . .