NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 196, 11 January 1882, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

At the Land Board on Monday the expenditure by the Hawera Road Board of £100 on bridge on Clifford road was approved.

In consequence of the Public Works Department having been located at Hawera, it has been necessary to add to the railway station buildings.

The work of removing the Town Hall is proceeding satisfactorily, and the contractor appears to be making an excellent job. It may be added that the directors of the company have resolved to expend £'60 or £40 in improving the interior of the hall.

The picnic for the Catholic children of Hawera will take place to-morrow (Thursday) in Mr. Sweeney's paddock, behind Mr. Cameron's. The children are requested to-be ready to leave the Catholic Church ground, at 10 o'clock precisely, lor the paddock mentioned.

The Hon. Col. Whitmore has returned to New Zealand.

The Mayor of Patea has been voted a salary of iilOO.

It is proposed to introduce gas into Cambridge.

Mr. Glenn, of Manila, has just put 2600 cheep on to his Plains property. He drove them through from Napier.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Waimate Road Board will be held on Saturday next.

A petition against Mr. Watt's election for Wanganui Las been tiled, alleging bribery and intimidation by one of Mr. Watt's agents.

It lias been resolved to form a Town Board at Opunako. On Monday a meeting is to be held to consider question of confiscation.

A correspondent of the Wanganui Herald says that when Mr. Bryce entered Parihaka, he was covered by four rifle?, and had Major Tuke's order, " If a Maori flashes a tomahawk, shoot him down," led to a revolver being fired, Mr. Bryce would have left the pah feet foremost.

Mr. Noble, of High-street, met with a nasty accident on Monday. When returning from Manain, the animal which he was riding shied, and swerving suddpnly threw him off. Mr. Noble sustained severe bruises to one of his legs, owing to ihe effects of which he is obliged to keep to his bed.

The meeting of the Hawera drill-shed committee, convened for Monday evening, lapsed for want of a quorum. The only gentlemen who put in an appearance were Captain Bayly and Mr. M. D. King, the secretary. Unless a little more interest is taken in the matter, the £200 offered by the Government may be lost.

A large kiln of bricks has lately been burnt by Mr. Win. Box, on the Plains. The bricks have not turned out as well as was hoped, but are serviceable, and a fair proportion of them of marketable quality. Aa a good plant had been provided, and great care was taken in the manufacture, it is to be regretted that the enterprise has not met with better success.

It is stated in Southern newspapers that some of the Hawera cricketers are to be invited to play against the All England Eleven, at Wellington, but nothing official has been heard of the proposal here. The match, Hawera v. Patea, is to come off on the 21st, and the Manaia v. Patea match will probably be played the previous day on the Hawera ground. An alphabetical match is being arranged for Saturday next.

There was a large supply of cattle at Mr. McEae's yards yesterday, but bidding was very slack, only a few pens being quitted at the hammer. Some well-bred stock, offered, without reserve, by Mr. Peacock of Manutahi, fetched very low prices, and those present regretted that the enterprise shown by that gentleman in thus submitting them to the hammer was not better responded to.

The tender of Messrs. McLean and Bassett, £134, for the erection of cattle yards at ITawera station, has been accepted. The necessary timber, totara, is being brought from Manawatu, and as soon as it arrives, work will be proceeded with. The site for the Normanby yards has been fixed, and as soon as it is prepared, tenders will be called for the work of erection.

At a meeting of the Education Reserves Commission last week Mr. Gane was authorised to fence section 16, Whakamara, but in the event of any other person renting section, the successful tenderer is to pay at the rate of £1 per chain for the fencing erected by Mr. Gane on the road fronting the said section. George A. Marchant, Richard O'Donnvan, and Florence O'Donovan, of Stratford, gave notice of their intention to fence, and requested the Board to contribute one-half ot the expense or to do halt of the fencing. — The Secretary was instructed to write and inform them that the Board was not liable.

The following correspondence relative to Manaia drill-shed has been handed to us for publication. The letter on the subject from Mr. Yorke was in type on Monday last, but was held over: — " Telegram to the Hon. Major Atkinson and Hon. Mr. Bryce, Wellington. — Manaia, January 9, 1882. — At a voluuteer and public meeting held here on December 14, to consider the most eligible site for the erection of a drill-shed, it was decided, by a very large majority, that section 10, Block XIV., be applied for as the most suitable. A committee was appointed to communicate witli the Government. The committee have ignored the resolutions of the meeting, and are now calling for tenders to erect a building upon a different section, against the expressed wishes of the meeting. The course taken by the committee is contrary to all precedent, and it is requested that any steps in course of operation be stopped until your honorable Government becoinmunicated with by petition now in course of signature. — C. Days, F. McCarthy, H. Cockbnrn, and J. Jackson." Reply — " Messrs. Days, McCarthy, Cockburn, and Jackson, Manaia — Telegram received ; in hands of Defence Minister ; matter being inquired into. — 11. A. Atkinson."

A young man named Thos. Richardson, lately engaged driving lor Mr. J. Stevensou, haR been arrested for horse stealing. The horse was the property of Constable O'Halloran, No. 3 company, stationed at Parihaka. The accused was at one time a member of the force, and is said to be respectably connected in Napier. He was brought up at the Court yesterday, charged with the offence, before Captain Wilson and F. McGuire, Esq., J.P. The evidence was to the effect that about Ist October prosecutor lost the mare, and when looking for it fell in with Richardson, whom he authorised to search for it. Subsequently he was informed by prisoner that he had found it, but when he went to get it, prisoner said he had sold it. Arrested him for horse stealing, and took him before Captain Gudgeon, but acting on Captain Gudgeon's advice, he decided to lay an information against Richardson. Subsequently he took an order upon Mr. Johnston from prisoner, in payment for the horse, £10, plus the £1 reward he had offered for its recovery, but this order was not met. ,In reply to Mr. Pan-ing-ton, who appeared for prisoner, witness said if the order had been met, the present information would not have been laid. After the case was partly heard, a remand was granted ou tho application of the police.

In a telegram to Mr. Kelly, Mr. Bryce says — Both Tawhiao and liewi protest strongly against a Court beiug held at present in respect of Mohan laads, and in such circumstances it would be worse than useless to force it on.

The number of persons willing to join the Eguiont ltacing Club continues to inciease. Already there are about &ixty names e'tlier enrolled or to be ballotteil for, and from the general support accorded, the movement seems likely to ensuie success.

Our Stratford correspondent writes : — When Major Atkinson was last in Stratford he promised to see if auytliiug further could be done to the Opunake road, from Stratford to the Waingongoro, as improving the road would much enhance the value of a very huge area of Crown land further up the road. Correspondence has beeu passing on the subject, and ou Wednesday evening Mr. Marchant received a telegram from the Major to say that the Government had authorised further expenditure on the terms uamed in Mr. Marchant's letter, viz., £150 lo be paid by Government, aud £50 by the road board. The ranger, Mr. liobiuson,

will lay off the work.

Try England's Normanhy ten. at 2s. — Ad.

Mr. W. Wilson's pure-bred Lincoln rams will be sold by Mr. Freeman R. Jackson, at Waverley, on 10th February.

The Patea ram and ewe fair will be held on 16th February, the sale being conducted by Mr. C. hl.h 1 . Barker.

Messrs. R. H. Nolan and Cn.'s next stock sale will be held on the 19th instant.

Mr. Freeman R. Jackson will sell stock at Waverley on Friday.

District orders are published by the officer commanding the district.

The Misses McCutchan announce that their young ladies' school will resume for the autumn term on Monday, 23rd inst.

Mr. J. S. Adams announces that he has added a millinery department to his establishment.

Attention is directed to Hawera House advertisement, on the front page. Tenders are invited for uniforms for the Hawera liifles. Also, for fencing in land in Hawera ; and for the formation of part of Albion-street.

In consequence of alterations to the Hawera Town Hall, the ordinary monthly meeting of the Masons will not be held to-morrow evening.

It will be seen hy our advertising columns that Messrs. Pugh and Suiter, of New Plymouth, are about to start a branch in Hawera. "We are informed that they •will occupy the premises now occupied by Mr. Ecclesfield.

Try England's Normanby tea, at 2s. — Ad

How then shall we make good bread P Not with yeast, nor bi-carbonate soda and tartaric acid, nor cream tartar (the latter often adulterated with sulpbale of lime), and certainly not with Baking Powders containing alum, for this is a slow poison. We say, use the Baking Powder that is analysed and certificated by a qualified analytical chemist. The Moa Brand, maie by Sharland and Co.. is pure and wholesome, and has stood the test of years. It makes light, sweet bread, good cakes and pastry ; it is rich in the phosphates, and restores what is removed in the separation of bran from Lhe flour. All stores keep it, for they can sell none else, when Sharland'B is once tried. — Advt.