NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 182, 7 December 1881, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Report of the Hawera Town Board meeting appears in the supplement.

Both candidates are in Hawera to-day. Mr. Hutchison addresses a meeting of the electors at the Town Hall this evening at 8 o'clock ; and Major Atkinson will probably be in Manaia this evening. In the Star supplement this evening will be found a full written address from the Major to the electors.

A number of letters to the editor are unavoidably held over; also report of Ngaire Koad Board meeting, and Stratford correspondence.

The Bishop of Wellington arrived in Hawera yesterday, and met the vestry in the evening to talk over church matters relating to this district. He, was rather surprised to find the church so far advanced, and arrauged, though at some personal inconvenience, to remain in the district till Sunday, when he will open the church. A conversation took place with reference to the location of a clergyman in Hawera, and the vestry was able to make such satisfactory offers that his Lordship promised on his part to en/leaver to induce a gentleman now at Goulbom'a, N.S.W., to take charge. A meeting' of Church of England people is called for Friday evening, when no doubt something definite will be done.

It is almost needless to remind our readers that the Parliamentary elections take place on Friday next all over the colony. The following appointments have been made in connection with the Egmont election : — Hawera (diief polling place), C. A. "Wray, returning officer. Deputies — Patea, W. L. Dean; Kakararnea, Gr. N. Baggett ; Manutahi, John Black ; Woodville, R. Willis : Normauhy, W. H. E. Wanklyn ; Mangawhero, John Cunningham ; Manaia, G. F. Robinson ; Opunake, J. Maysmor ; Stvatford, C. S. Curtis ; Omata, George Potts ; Oakura, Wm. Richards ; Okato, R. J. Cattley. The poll will he opened at each place at 9 a.m,, and will close at 6 p.m. The returns, as soon, as made up, will he telegraphed from each polling place to Hawera, aud the result will therefore be known here with tolerable exactness the same evening. As announced in another column we shall on Saturday issue an. extra giving the results of the elections throughout the colony. -

A prospect from a Tairua reet the other cLiy £- lye sJ7oni'fes to 'he l/m.

At Auckland City E:,st, the "how of hands wab — Clark, 25 ; Sir Geo. • . "ey, ICJ.1 C J.

Mr. A. C. Milne will probably be nominated for the Waimate Riding of Hawera County.

At the Patea Court yesterday all applications for billiard licenses to 12 o'clock were refused. «,

The Manaia people have put out a capital programme for a sports meeting to be held on Boxing Day.

Mr. Bryce and Colonel Reader are expected in Mauaia to-day, aud the faettlers nropose to interview them re drill shed and capitation allowance.

The Post understands that it is now almost definitely settled that the Rev. Mr. Daseut will succeed the Rev. W.Ballachey in the incumbency or Karori and Makara.

At the last moment an opponent was nominated against the Premier, at Selwyn, Mr. Lock head, a local farmer. He got the show of hands too, whatever that may be worth.

Mr. W. Hoskins, the well-known actor, married Miss Douglas of the Pomevoy Company, on Sunday. Mr. Hoslrins is very ill, aud was lifted from his bed for the marriage ceremony.

A license has been granted to Mr. Prossei's new hotel at Opunake. An application to license a hotel at Punga.rehu was also granted, but one for RallOtU ordered to stand over.

The informations against Hugh Hughes and C. Retford, members of the Mounted Rifle Corps, who were charged with stealing greenstone from the natives, were dismissed, the natives declining to orosecute.

Taiaroa, the first member returned for the new Parliament speaks English perfectly, has onp son in training as n, barrister, and another going to England to walk the hospitals in training for a doctor. He is strongly oppositionist.

The cricket match, Hawera v. Patea, will be played at Patea on Saturday. Six of the Hawera men have been chosen :—: — Messrs. Riddiford. G. Bayly, Wanklyn, Mason, Parrin<*tou, and Southey, and the others will ho chosen from Messrs. Hanson, Lyssight, Lvilris H. Bayly, Johnson, King, White, and Bell.

Nominations for the County Council close on Thursday, at noon. Each candidate must be nominated in writing, the nomination paper to hear the signatures of two electors and the candidate himself. For the purposes of the first election, any person entitled to vote at a Road Board election, or Parliamentary election is a County elector.

The regular fortnightly mpetmsr of the Loyal Union Lodge, MiU.1.0.0.F., took place at their lodge-room, on Monday evening last, when there was a good attendance. N.G-. Ero. Max IX King presided. After business of a routine character bad been disposed of, it wns decided that the next meetiug should be a summoned one for the purpose of electing officers, &c.

Mr. Pinches has just prepared plans of a new hotel to he erected at Opunake, on the corner opposite Messrs. Midclleton's. On the ground floor there ai'e to be a bai', dining-room, two sitting-rooms, kitchen, &c. ; upstairs, a hack room, ten bedrooms, and a sitting-room. The studs on the ground floor will be 12ft., those on the other floor lOffc. The building is to be finished off in good stvk, aarl triM he & handsome addition to the street.

A capital entertainment is promised to Hawera people next week, the Lyon's Tourists having arranged to appear at the Town Hall on Monday and Tuesday evening. Ju&g'mg from what papers in Other pai'tS Of the Colony report we helieve the company is one of the best that have visited Hawera for a considerable time past. Good companies so rarely come this way that we hope the Lyon's Tourists will have large houses if only for the encouragement of others.

The Pungarehu correspondent of the Auckland fcitar wives " The Maoris are not inclined to make any obstructive movement. They simply trust that some steps may be taken to redress their wrongs — supposed or otherwise — by the Queen, and pertinently remark that .they can expect nothing from the New Zealaud Government, which has been foremost in harming them. The feeling is universal that the Queen is the one to protect them, and their policy is qaietly to await until some expression of opinion is received from England."

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Committee of the Rifle Association was held last evening. Present — Messrs. Johnston, Kempfchome, Innes, and Purdey. After discussion, it was resolved to appoint Messrs. Meredith, Kempthorne and Innes, a sub-commitfcte to draw up a a set of rules, and submit them to a meeting to be held on Tuesday next. A conversation took place in reference to commencing class-firing at once ; but it was thought better to allow the matter to stand over until the rules had been adopted.

A circular has just been received by Captain Bayly, and no doubt by other volunteer officers in the district, from the Wauganui Rifle Association containing a proposal for holding a rifle competition at Wanganui, iv which all corps from Poxton to Normanby iuclusive are invited to take part. Among the items set down is a team match on the following conditions, subject to arrangement by a committee elected by the various corps : — A trophy to be shot for of the value of .£4O, Each company can send one or more teams. Each team to consist of five members of any company or troop in tbe district. Each company to subscribe £5 towards the purchase of the trophy ; the trophy to be held for the year by the captain of the winning team or company The whole of the entrance fees (less onesixth for expenses) will he devoted to the purchase of trophies for the members of the winning team to become the absolnte property of such members. It is contemplated that the annual shooting will be held in the first or second week in February, aud that it will last three days, and at the conclusion to hold a review. It is expected that free railway passes will be granted to country competitors. The association invites suggestions on various matters, and adds that although a date has been temporarily fixed it can be altered, if the convenience of the majority will b<J served thereby.

We havo I'eceived an advertisement from Messrs. Walter bright and Co., announcins; t^at "The Bazaar" (the title of their new premises in Iligh-street) will open on Wednesday next, 14th inst. Unfortunately, it arrived too late for insertion in this issue.

Mr. Kowe, of the Normanby nursery, invites an inspection of his roses. The Hawei-a Masonic Lodge meets tomorrow evening. Mr. w. H. Slreet, dentist, announces that he rrlll visit Hawera on the 13th instant, and may be consulted from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Mr. Freeman E. Jackson holds his next stock sale at Hawera on Friday. There is a large entry.

Tenders for removing the Town Hall close to-morrow.

Tenders are invited for additions to the Hairera school. A mounted parade of the Hawera Light Horse is ordered for Friday, at 6 p.m.