NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 55, 20 October 1880, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Several natives have returned from Parihaka. One of them informed our reporter that Te Whiti's speech was the "same old thing — no difference." He also stated that Major Parris was at Parihaka, but " no korero."

A. good many strangers have come to the district during the past few days. The hotels and boarding-houses are again crowded. The visitors, with scarcely an exception, condemn the cabbage-garden policy, and some, after taMng a look round, have gone away, disgusted at the poor prospect of obtaining a reasonablysized farm.

We learn from the Westport Times that an agitation is going on in the Lyell and Hampden districts just now, having for lbs objeek bhe separation o£ Ujimpcleo. from the Inangahua county and Lyell from the Buller, and the erection of the two ridings into a new county. The proposal seems to meet with approval amongst the Hampden people, and we are not quite sure that the Inangahuaites would be sorry to lose them.

We regret to learn that Captain Marshall's medical adviser has deemed it necessary that he should proceed to the Hot Springs for a month. He has been suffering from, the effects of a cold contracted last June, and blisters and other things connected with the healing art have failed to make him better. In common with Capt. Marshall's many friends, we trust that a short sojourn at the Waiwera will quite restore him to health.

The time for receiving entries for the Patea Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show is fast drawing to a close. We have been requested by the indefatigable secretary (Mr. T. Eyton) to impress upon exhibitors the necessity of giving all particulars of stock entered for the show, such as age, color, pedigree (where required), name, sex, &c. The secretary wishes to place each animal under its proper class and section in the catalogue, a»d oan»ot do so unless exhibitors are precise in furnishing the necessary particulars. Entry forms can be obtained at this office.

The Rev. G. W. Warr, of Childwall Vicarage, Liverpool, writes to one of the local papers : — Many of your readers will, I am sure, be interested in the fact that the telephone proved completely successful in transmitting to the room of an invalid parishioner of mine, whose house is about half-a-mile from the parish church, the whole of the morning and afternoon service on Sunday. The semi-choral services, the hymns, and the sermons were followed word by word as though the worshipper had been in church. I ought, ifc justice bo the inventor, to add CZiaC Bell's instrument was used without any extra effort on the part of the officiating clergyman, or, indeed, without any disturbing consciousness of its existence in the church.

For the building of lunatic asylums throughout the colony, was voted, and in aid ot construction and repairs of hospitals £4000. These amounts would be charged against loan money. Out of ordinary revenue, £40,000, plus for fittings for Wellington hospital, were voted for charitable purposes, and £35,178 for lunatic asylums. The total amount to be expended on the indigent sick and insane out of public money would be £136,178 during the year. To this is to be added the vote of £75,000 for the unemployed and the numerous works undertaken by tbe local hoaies bhroughoubbhe colony, with alike object of finding worlc for those in want of it. In addition to this, a very large revenue ( is yearly derived from reserves', towards defraying the expenses of hospitals .and benevolent societios, especially in Otago and Canterbury. Even in New Zealand, although it is kept well out of sight, it is clear that the text of " The poor always ye have with you," is strictly applicable.

To-morro-w -will be the last day for ye- 1 ceiving tenders for the gravelling contracts on the Mountain road.

The cost of making reductions is heavy. A vote of £10,000 was taken last year for compensation to officers for loss of office.

Mr. Skeet, surgeon dentist, will be in Hawera on Thursday or Friday next. He has been unavoidably detained at Patea.

in fl-xe district of 'Wellington was voted for the purchase of native lands* and in the district of New Plymouth, £12,000.

Mrs. Newman Hall, divorced wife of the Rev. Newman Hall, has been married, at the Yarmouth Registrar's office, to one Richardson, a groom.

.£SOO was set aside last year in aid of the establishment of sailors' homes in Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin.

Six thousand feet of timber was conveyed from Mr. Robson's sawmill at Ketemarae on Monday to the site of the Norrnaucby Town Hall. No time will be lost in jiushing ahead with the building.

The Grovemmenb had to pay £500 for rates levied on unoccupied Crown lands, under the Rabbit Nuisance Acts, for the year ending 31st March last.

A gentleman writing from Gisborne to Wellington says the Kerosene Company expect to strike oil in about six months. Shares, 6d. paid up, are selling at Is. to Is. 3d.

The declaration of the loss of a Crown grant to the .township of Hawera for part of section 35 is gazetted ; and notice is given that unless caveat be lodged before the 28th instant, a provisional certificate of title will be issued.

The votes take» for the Edneaijou department, exclusive of buildings, &c, this year, amounted to £276,102. Of this amount, £14,950 was for native schools. For school buildings, £106,031 were voted out of loan, making a total of .£382,193.

It is stated that Kiinble-Bent has taken his departure for Auckland or some other place. His wife (a daughter of the chief Tatnatawa) has taken unto herself another husband, and it is presumed that Bent has, in consequence, left the district.

£16,000 was estimated to be chargeable against the Land Fund aa one-ilm-d of proceeds of sales of deferred payment lands, and £3000 against the same fund as twenty-five per cent, of proceeds of lands sold within the provincial district of Taranaki.

Signor Canizio, who was recently arrested at Genoa, has been amnestied through the m diation of General Garibaldi, his father-in-law, who went to Genoa to use his influence with the authorities to obtain a pardon.

To cover the expenses of the West Coast Commission, £2000, for the Local In.dastri.es, £590, for the Civil Service Commission, and for the Railway Commission, £2850, was voted last year. £1000 was also appropriated as a bonus for the encouragement of local industries.

A Dnnedin gentleman writing from England, says : — "I saw some New Zealand oats in the Mark Lane Corn Exchange London, the other day : there was nothing at all to compare with them from any other part of the world. They had sold at a very high figure."

The Court of Queen's Bench lately de, cided that the English railway by-law-wliieli provides that a passenger who loses his ticket ov daes uot k&ke one is liable to-Tbe charged the fare from the place whence the train started, is ultra vires and inoperative.

An emergency meeting of the Hawera Masonic Lodge was held on Monday evening, the R.W.M., Bro. Finnerty, presiding. Nominations of officers for the ensuing year were received, one brother was affiliated, one candidate initiated, and two were raised a degree.

According to the Wairarapa Standard, the increased tariff for sheep on the Fea-therston-Wellington line will have the effect of inducing at least one man, a Mr. McKenzie, who is in the habit of sending, to Wellington by rail 600 to 700 sheep per week, to abandon the rail in favor of the road once moro.

Constable Pleasants, Normanby, charged Charles Carter with having been illegally on the premises of Messrs. Brett and Johnston, between eleven and twelve o'clock on Saturday night. Mr. Johnston stated that, whilst reading in his room, he heard a row in the fowl-house, and upon proceeding there, he found the accused, who had dropped two hens from the roost. Carter stated tliat he was drunk ; but the Senoil took a diffei'eui vi&woi bhe raabber, and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment, with hard labor, in the Taranaki gaol. Major Brown and Mr. F. McGuire were the presiding justices.

Referring to the Queensland proposed trans-continental railway, the Otago Daily Times says: — "It would shorten the route from Brisbane, and ultimately, no doubt, from Sydney, .by several days, but would not much affect New Zealand. Our great hope of future improvements in our connection with the rest of the world is the Isthmus of Panama Canal, which would bring us within something like 30 days of England, without transhipment. But we cannot be indifferent to the peoaUag of Northern. Australia, as our climate and productions are such as will probably lead to a future extension of commerce between New Zealand and that part of Australia, we taking in return semi-tro-pical products such, as our climate cannot raise. We have often been surprised that so little interchange at present goes on between New Zealand and Queensland." Mr. Milne, agent of Messrs. Grant and Foster (says the Auckland Star), has received advices by the mail that the reports on New Zealand have been sent out fey the' Orient Company's steamer Cuzco. The report has been very favorably noticed by colonists in England, and has been largely circulated. Sir J. Vogel took 1000 copies. Mr. Grant writes that his time is almost wholly occupied in answering enquiries. The result is, that several large capitalists are coming out at once ; others are only now giving up their farms, and cannot come until next Spring. The harvest prospects in England, which at one time looked promising, are now as bad as ever. The heavy rains have done terrible damage. The wheat crops in many places is completely destroyed. In one large village in Yorkshire, the whole of the tenants are giving up their farms in a body,- and coming to New Zealand.

In Dnuedin aufi ChMsfcehureli, money is quoted at 7 to 7| per cent.

We understand that Major Parris is on his way back from Parihaka.

The English mails, via San Francisco, arrived in Normanby and Hawera yesterday.

The timber trade in ATickland is said to be brisk, and in the Wairarapa to be improving.

Ms. H. A. Sisatferd safcfcfefetb Mr. Zas. Mackay as Hesifie»i; -Magistrate on bhe West Coasfc of the Middle Island.

Messrs. H. A. H. Monro and J. J. Symonds have been appointed judges of the Native Land Court.

Beer duty stamps are now procurable from the collectors under the Act. All casks have henceforth to be stamped. •

. There were during September 13 deaths in Wellington, from the six principal zymotic diseases, as against 7 in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

The appointment of Mr. J. P. Maxwell, as general manager, and of Mr. W. M. Hannay, as assistant general manager of New Zealand railways, is gazetted.

The Tomaley property in qhanceiy in England is said to be worth £10,000,000, and to have £3.0,000,000 accumulated rents in the Bank of England.

According to the Wellington Post, all the reductions in the police service will be made on the principle of seniority only ; the oldest officers being dispensed with.

The Wairarapa Daily thinks that, thanks to the measures taken for destroying rabbits, when next winter comes round, they may begin to talk about extermination.

Mr. Wetere TakerGi writes to ihe T&vanaki Herald to say that he wishes - it clearly understood that there will be no obstruction either for Maori or European at the Mokau river.

A correspondent of an agricultural paper in England states that by careful attention and feeding from the day of birth, Hampshire Down lambs, at seven months old, averaging about 201bs. per quarter, can be marketed, and sold to the butcher.

The dismissal of Mr. Henry Jackson, late chief surveyor of Wellington, has been cancelled and V"g resignation accepted. Mr. Jackson, will now, we believe, receive retiring allowance. It will be remembered that the report of a select committee appointed to consider Mr. Jackson's case, reported strongly in his favor.

Nine tenders were received for building the private residence designed by Mr. O'Neill for Mr. Bartlett. The highest of the tenderers asked over i>loo more than the lowest, and as Mr. Bartlett supplies the timber, the difference appears to be very considerable. Mr. Weddell, who built the audition to. Lloyd's hotel, was the successful tenderer.

The following summary of the freight charged from Ngaireto Waitara by the railway department will probably be of service to many of our readers. There is a remarkable difference in the relative cost of haulage as compared with carters' rates. For timber, for instance, 4 the rates by rail a..c about one fourth of those by road : — Agricultural produce, 8s 8d per ton over two tons, lls 2d under ; timber, Is 6d per 100 feet ; minimum, 1500 feet ; any quantity under 800 feet, 3s per 100 teet ; from 800 feet charged as 1500 feet at Is 6d., Cattle, 26s 4d per truck ; sheep, l&s 9<3. Coal, ancL all minerals, 6s per ton. All kinds of glassware, sashes, glass doors, drapery, &c, 19s 5d per ton. The greater part of groceries, 16s 6d. Wharfage, 2s per ton, besides the rates. Wharfage on timber, 3d per 100 feet, in addition to loading. Stratford rates, slightly less.