NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 5, 28 April 1880, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

On Saturday Sir Dillon Bell, accompanied by Majors Parris and Brown, paid a visit to Tito Kowaru ; but the interview was entirely of a friendly nature, and so far as we have been able to ascertain, no discussion of any importance took place. The three gentlemen have gone to New Plymouth, where it is understood that the Hon. John Bryce, Native Minister, will have a conference with them.

The Normanby police station received its last coat of paint on Saturday, and the contractors were engaged yesterday in giving the finishing touches to the building. Whoever receives the appointment will have comfortable quarters to go into.

Four Sisters of Mercy arrived at Wanganui last week from Wellington. The Rev. Father Yardin, Vicar-General of the Catholic Diocese of Wellington, and the Rev. Father Ginaty, were passengers by the same boat. On Sunday the new Convent was solemnly blessed and dedicated by the Rev. Father Yardin, Vicar-General of the Diocese, the Revs. Father Ginaty and Kirk assisting in the ceremony. In preaching the dedication ceremony, the Vicar-General took for his text, " Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and he will dwell with them." There were large congregations both at the morning and evening services.

It is notified in the last Gazette that the services of the Hawera Rifle Volunteer Corps have been accepted, from the 14th April, and that the Nos, 1 and 2 Companies been disbanded, at their own request.

The eruption at the Sugar Loaves has ceased. Writing on the matter, the Taranaki News says : — " The vapor arises from the face of the breccia taken from the Fishing Eock and deposited in the bay, and is the result of chemical action in the rock on its exposure to the air after long ages of burial. More precisefy , it is caused by the oxidation of pyrites contained in these rocks."

Mr. A. R. Pye, who for some time carried on business in Carlyle as plumber and tinsmith, has come to Hawera, where he intends to settle p rinanently. He has taken the premises in High-street, fo - merly occupied by Mr. James Bridge, draper. We trust that Mr. Pye will find the change he has made a ben ficial one.

The young trout are beginning to show themselves in the Tawhiti. A gentleman informed us that he has seen hundreds of them during the past week, and that they vary in size from one to three incnes in length. The disciples of good Izak Walton have " a good tune coming."

The last issue of the Patea Mail, and its reprint, the Hawera (!!!) Times, contained a curious error. It was stated that the Carlyle station had been defined by proclamation in the Gazette, but in publishing the schedule, some land which had been set apart for educational purposes in the Ngaire Block was substituted for the land set apart lor the railway station at Carlyle. There were many anxious inquiries during the morning at our office, but it was not until after the arrival of the Wanganui coach,, which brought up our Gazette, that we were able to quiet the anxiety which the curious announcement created. It may not be altogether the right thing to fix the station in the Carlyle Extension, but it is an improvement on the Ngaire Block, at all events. The ways of compositors are sometimes mysterious, but we have seldom seen a more curious exemplification than that contained in our Carlyle contemporaries. The station will be placed on the site selected by the Government engineers.

We are glad to find that the Government are fully alive to the importance of taking steps for preventing the turther spread of pleuro-pneumonia. The counties of Raglan, Waikato, Waipa, Piako, Kawhia, and West Taupo, "with such islands as may be adjacent thereto," and all cities and boundaries within those counties, are proclaimed, under the Diseased Cattle Act, 1871 ; as are also the counties of Tauranga, Whakatane, and East Taupo. The counties of Taranaki, Patea, Wanganui, Rangitikei, Manawatu, Hutt, Wairarapa East and West, Hawke's Bay, Wairoa, and Waipawa, are also proclaimed, and Cattle Boards and Inspectors have been appointed for the several districts. The members of the Taranaki Cattle Board are — Messrs Robert Trimble, Thomas Bayly, William Bayly, H. D. Vavasour, and John Elliot. Mr. Wm. Hately has been appointed a deputy Cattla Inspector fox tbe Taranaki district.

The estimated yield of grain in the Canterbury district shows an increase of 70 per cent, on the previous year.

The resignation of Mr. Henry Adams, Crown Solicitor for the Nelson district, has been accepted.

Mr. Murphy, who met with the accident at the gravel-pit on the Wainiate Plains last week, is, we are glad to state, progressing very favorably.

In the last Gazette it is notified that the season for shooting cock pheasants, within the coivnties of Taranaki and Patea, will be from the Ist May to the 31st July.

During the Auckland races, Detective Jeffreys arrested the proprietor of a totalisator on a charge of altering a figure 4 to 14.

Mr. Dalrymple has purchased Mr. Waring Taylor's Waitatapia station at Parawamu, consisting of about 7000 acres, with 4000 sheep and 300 head of cattle, the price being £30,000.

A New Zealand Gazette Extraordinary, published on Saturday, contains a proclamation, fixing Friday, the 28th of May, for the meeting of both Houses of Parliament.

The Advocate states that rumors are still rife in Marton with regard to a candidate to oppose Sir W. Fox, but none has announced his intention of coming forward.

The patients at the temporary hospital at Normanby are all progressing favorably, with the exception of Constable Sheehan, who has been ordered to New Plymouth. Mr. Sheehan was in a very low state of health, and his commanding officer has given him a month's leave of absence, in order that he might be able to go to the Hot Springs, if he wishes to do so.

The Fielding Guardian thus discourses on the subject of larrikinism : — " It givts us pain to be compelled to state our candid belief that, for a town of its age and population, as regards the development of crude larrikinism of a defiant and unbashful character, Feilding has no equal among colonial towns. This is a humiliating admission, but the truth must be told."

In our fourth page we reprint an article from the Dublin Freeman's Journal in reference to the gift of the Baroness Bur-dett-Coutts. The following paragraph from the London Graphic puts a very different complexion on the matter: — "The various relief funds continue to increase daily. The total sum from all sources now amounts to about i 5150,000, which, however, is not nearly half what will be needed for the effectual relief of the sufferers. The astonishing statement that the Baroness Burdett-Coutts was about to devote half a million ol money to the relief of Irish distress, seems to have been the result of a clerical error. The Baroness had already contributed .£450, and has now engaged to contribute £500 towards the formation of a harbor at Sligo. The addition of three noughts converted the .£SOO into half a million."