The Star. NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 52, 9 October 1880, Page 2

The Star.

NEWS AND NOTES.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1880.

"We have been requested to draw the attention of all applicants for land on deferred payments to the legal necessity of stamping the declaration made on application with a stamp of 2s. 6d. It is, we believe, also necessary that the declaration should be signed before a J.P.

The site for the Normanby Town Hall has been conveyed to the directors by Mr. Hirst, who has very generously made a present of it to the company. All the necessary documents having been signed, the construction of the building will be pushed on as rapidly as possible.

Five thousand trout ova were expected to be shipped at Lyttelton in the Hinemoa, for the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society. What is the Hawera Society doing ? If there is not a little more energy displayed, we shall be several years behind our neighbors in the matter of fish acclimatisation.

Several allotments o£ Crown land near Stratford will be sx>ld by*public auction ia* New Plymouth at 11 a.m". to-day.

We note that Mr. Freeman Jackson's sale at Hawera, on the 15th instant, is likely to be a large one. More than 400 head of cattle are already advertised.

We have been informed that Mr. Furlong has sailed from the Old Country, and that he will probably arrive in Hawera about Christmas time.

It is probable that Mr. A. J. Whittaker will be a candidate for the seat on the the Town Board, rendered vacant through the resignation of Mr. "Winks.

It is said that the rails have been laid on the Waverley- Waitotara section to within two miles of the former place, and that the contractor hopes to get finished about January next.

A meeting of the committee elected at the late public meeting to take the necessary steps towards forming a separate county, will be held to-day at Owen's hotel,' at 3 p.m.

The Bachelors' Ball will come off on Friday, the 22nd instant. The committee will send a large number of invitations to Wanganui, Waverley, Carlyle, and New Plymouth.

We have received several letters criticising the manner in which the Govern-, ment propose to offer the Waimate Plains for sale. Pressure on our space compels us to hold them over.

A new schoolhouße will shortly be built at Whakamara, on the Ingahape road. In the meantime, the school will be held at Mrs Bremer's, on the Whakamara road. As soon as there is sufficient accommodation, attendance of forty children can be secured.

At nine o'clock this morning the Engineer, with two commissioners of the Hawera Road Board will attend at Robson's mill. The party wiH then proceed, with any settlers who may wish to accompany them, to inspect the roads in the Ngaire district. A report, founded upon this inspection, will shortly be presented to the Board.

The following were the tenders sent in for the supply of tip drays, horses, and drivers, to the Defence Office, Carlyle :—: — M. Mulville (accepted), 7s. 6d. per day. Declined : Gordon and Anderson, 7s. 7d. per day; P. McLoughlin, Bs.; C. Tait, Bs. lOd. ; O'Donnell and Murphy, 9s. 2d. ; J. Armstrong, 10s. Few will be found to .say that labor is dear, after reading those tenders.

The* second competition for the cup given by the officers of the Hawera Light Horse will be resumed this morning at 9 a.m. Any members who are not present for the first round will be debarred from firing. A mounted parade will be held at 3 p.m., and in the -.evening the Finance Committee will meat at Lloyd's hotel at half-past seven. Members of the force will have quite a busy day.

An accident happened on Thursday to two men working on Messrs. Berry and Newman's railway contract. They were putting in a cutting near the Mangawhero, so as to allow the ballast engine to pass ; but the precaution generally taken by diggers, of forming ." legs," was neglected, as is too frequently the case in railway and road cuttings. The result was that a large quantity of the earth fell on two of the workmen, who were so severely hurt ;.s to necessitate their being sent to the hospital at New Plymouth.

It will be seen, from our report of the County Council, that the subject of local government will be discussed at the next monthly meeting. The matter cropped up, on a motion of Councillor Hunter's, for taking over that portion of the road from Mr. McGuire's corner to the Austin road, leading up to Robson's mill. In the course of the discussion that took place, Councillor Bridge moved that the road boards and town boards should be written to, asking if they would be willing to maintain the main roads running through their districts, provided that the rates, and a portion of the subsidy, were handed over to them.

We ha*ve received a letter from Mr. Harry Middleton, of the Telegraph Hotel, Opunake, contradicting the rumor, to the effect that a row had occurred between some of the A.C.'s. whilst on their "way toManaia. He says :—": — " During the whole time that these men were in Opunake, I neither saw nor heard of, either inside this hotel or outside, any disturbance of any kind between them. I believe that every civilian present here at that time will second me in saying that a more orderly and well-conducted body of men could not be found." We have much pleasure in giving publicity to this contradiction ; but we heard so many different versions of the reported disturbance that we could not refrain from making reference it.

Major Brown has been informed that his services will be dispensed with at the end of this month, on the ground " of the necessity which exists for reducing the cost of the Civil Service wherever it can be done " — a necessity that Major Brown recognises, and admits the application of in his case, as the jrest of this month will amply enable him to wind up what business he has in hand. The Government expresses itself in very handsome terms of his past services, and the Native Minister expresses his regret " that the exigencies of existing circumstances renders it necessary that he should relinquish his (Major Brown's) seryices." It is satisfactory to know that there is no sense of grievance arising out of the transaction. As will be seen by an advertisement in our columns, Mr. Morton has entered into business at New Plymouth, in the premises ot Messrs. C. Brown and Co., as a transmitting agent, and we learn that, as soon as Major Brown's connection with the Government ceases, he will resume his position in the firm of which he was tbe head, and be joined by Mr. Morton, when the business will be extended to Waitara.

The Home papers report that a postmortem examination was held on the body of Miss Adelaide Neilson on tbe lGth August, and the doctors attribute her death to dropsy of the heart, accelerated by extreme indigestion. ' It is believed that the attack was caused by drinking a glass of iced milk. Her remains were buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. The greater part of Miss Neilson's property, estimated at about £40,000, is left by her will to Rear-Admiral Henry Carr Glynn, C.B. Edward Compton, tho actor, received a legacy of

Gas is a novelty that few people would expect to- see, introduced into Hawera at this early sta£e of its existence. We had the pleasure of witnessing the first gas-jet set alight in Mr. Pulford's shop last evening. Gasoline was used, and the light appeared equal to that obtained from a No. 4 burner.

The Government, through the Native Minister, have addressed an earnest appeal to Wireniu Kingi, as the head man among the released prisoners, urging them to submit to the lxw of the Europeans when set free pji the Plains. Mr. Bryce claims that the Government has clone its part by appointing the Native Commission, and by setting apart ample reserves for the use of those Maoris who accept the offers made, and are orderly and peaceful in future. Mr. Bryce adds that the Government desires to release the rest of the prisoners, and that the past will be buried in obvlivion, if the proposals now made to the natives are accepted.