NEWS AND NOTES.
Tbe Wanganui district is entitled to £Gd of the Government rifle prize money. Hawera Rifles will come in Tor a share of this, based on their strength on 80th September.
The annual treat to the children attending the Wesleyan Sunday school will be given on Thursday next. Mr. Syme has kindly granted the use of his paddock for the occasion. Parents and friends of the children are invited to bo present and assist.
The fifth meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association opened at Dunedin on Friday. R. Ballinger was the highest scorer in the Nelson match (300 and 500 yards ; 7 shots at eacli distance) with a score of 59, the ten next highest scorers being Wellington and Dunedin men. Hoskin, of New Plymouth, made 59, and Nutsford, of Patea, 50. Ballinger finally takes Nelson Cup, having won it at Nelson last year, and £15 in money. In the Canterbury match (200 yards, 10 rounds) Harding, of Oamaru, made 48, the highest score. Both tbe above matches count in the aggregate for the Rifle and Carbine Campionships, and the highest aggregates at present are : — Carbines : J, France, Wellington, 102 ; W. Harris, Wellington, 99 ; L. Holmes, Wellington, 95. Rifles : Ballinger, Wellington, and Brooks, Dunedin, 100 ; Coventry, Dunedin, 99 ; L. Smith, Dunedin, 98 ; Hogg, Clutha, 97.
On Thursday evening last, at the regular meeting of the of the Hawera Lodge of Good Templars, the report of the secretaries were presented and were of a most satisfactory character. We extract the following items :—: — Members initiated dunug the quarter, 42 ; received by clearance, 4 ; re-obligated, 1 ; expelled 2. .By the treasurer's report, we notice that there is £2 18s. in hand. The following were appointed officers for the ensuing quarter : — W.C.T., J3ro. Robbins (re-elected) ; P. W.C.T., Bro. Jackson ; W.S., Bro. Thompson; W.F.S. Bro. Ross ; W.V.T., Bro. Purdey ; W. Treasurer, Bro. T. F. Jones (re-elected) ; W.M., Bro, Buchanan (reelected). Tho officers were installed by Bro. Brunette, D.G.W.C.T. During the last quarter the meetings have been well attended and throughout the interest has been sustained. An open lodge meeting will shortly be held, aud a pleasant, profitable evening is anticipated. $
The Manaia School Committee met at the scliool-liouse, on Saturday at 4 p.m. Present — all the members. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence was read from the Secretary, enclosing £5 10s. as school fund ; also enclosing £2 195. 9d. for Langley ami cartage account ; also £119 Bs., payment on account of schoolmaster's residence. The following accounts were passed for payment : — Bolger, cartage, 155. ; Louis Vent and Co., straining posts .£3 11s. 5d. ; C. Tait, 200 posts, £5 ; Simpson, cartage, £1, Resolved, that Mesdames Martyn, Days, McKay, Bulmer, O'Brien, Mitchell, Hughes, Hall, and Coxhead be asked to arrange for a school feast on the day following the examination, after the distributions of prizes, the above ladies to be a committee with power to add to their number. Resolved, that the chairman pay in the balance of moneys received to the Bank of New Zealand, Manaia. Resolved, that the parents be asked, through the Rev Mr. Wilks to contribute, say one shilling per head for a prize fund for the forthcoming examination 18th and, 29th December.
The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times under date of 23rd inst. wires— "Considerable attention has been attracted by th 6 somewhat unsatisfactory rusults shown by the railway returns for the first six months of the current financial year, but a retyrh which has been prepared proves conclusively that these are not due to any falling off the traffic ; for in the 24 weeks ended 16th ult. the passenger traffic, as compared • with the corresponding, period of 1881. showed an increase of 128,000 persons, or 10 per cent. ; pare.els an increase 10,500, or 7 per cent:' ; cattle and sheep an increase of 66,000, or-- 45 per cent. ; goods an increase of 8000 tons," or 12 per cent. But the gross receipts showed an increase of only £28,000, or 7 per cent. ; so that the increased traffic i was carried at a diminished proportion-, ate profit. And this is not only ■ all ; for the working expenses exhibit an increase of £39,000, or more than 16 per cent/ Of , this increased . expenditure, , , over ££5,000 belongs to the Hurunui-BlufE ; 1 section, on which ' the receipts ' with increased traffic are' at the fate of '£3 155 -.. pei\n*jle, }es.6 .thattiilast year, and the expenses £4 per mile larger.^ .; „. . (j •
Sergeant Cahill finally left Hawera by this morning's train.
The formation of the main street in Manaia the full width is proceeding rapidly,, and the work, is being weli'Mid carefully^do'iie. I|* is a great imp»6velnent to the appearance of tbe town.
Settlers about Te Koti are thankful that they are to have a station building, but they think that while, this- js -being erected the. department ■'might &£Lk|mt down a few yards of gravel, so that in winter, - time .-they- might ■ -be -able ..-te approach the station without wading through fliud. A few .loads on the reserve at the approach to Sk'eefc road would also fas JUjyesk convenience-
Skitville is a place somewhere on the T.e*aß and Facific railroad. ' Evidently it is not a veiy .populous town, but it has a newspaper with an editor who dares to assert the rights of his fellow-citizeus. He writes '. — " This is the last time we shall allude to the persistent omission to stop at this town of the trains on the Texas and Pacific railroad. The old excuse of the conductors that they wouldn't know Skitville if they were to see it, appears singularly thin in the face of the fact that this, morning we planted a large painted' stake beside' the track which could be readily seen by the engineer for the distance of half a We. This evening a nail will be driven into said stake, and MoClure's stable lantern hung thereon. If the night express also ignores this signal, it will be time for the American people to fully understand the malice of this infamous blow levelled at the prosperity of this growing metropolis by a bloated and cowardly monopoly;"
A raft of a highly novel construction was the object of considerable curiosity to people visiting the breakwater on Tuesday (says the Timaru Herald), and many were the conjectures as to the purpose for which it was intended to be utilised. On making enquiry we learnt that it had been put together by a sailor of tbe barque Gerd Heye, lying at the outer anchorage, to enable him to desert. from his vessel, and that he had early yesterday morniug got on shore by means of it. It consists of a small ladder, along which a plank bad been placed. Near each end a handspike had been securely fastened across, and round the whole long life-boat floats had been attached by being lashed to the projecting ends of the ladder and handspikes. Frail as it looked, it really was not so in actual fact, but possessed no little strength and buoyancy, as may be believed when •we state that the sailor had not only brought himself safely ou shore by it but a tub coutaiuing his clothes and other private belongings. On landiug on the wharf he was j^oticed by the night watchmen, but managed to get clear of the town, and despite the efforts of the police, had not been captured.
The presidential address of Dr. Carl Siemens in opening tbe fifty -second meeting of the British Association at Southampton was a plain recapitulation of scientific progess since Last meeting, and dealt with such subjects as the conversation,' storage, and transmission of energy, with gas as fuel, steel as a ship-building material, and with electric lighting |and its developments. There were no startling theories or uncomfortable prognostications, but such homely matters as London fogs, electro-plating, and ship and railway canals came under review, As a Continental, Dr. Siemens advocated the universal adoption of , the metric system for weights and measiii'es, and while admitting the quite unlimited sphere of electricity as a motive power, as an auxiliary in agriculture, even as an artificial ripener of fruits and' cereals, he expresssed his trust in a still wider field of usefulness for coal gas as the coming heat agent. He looked forward to the day when coal would never leave the pit's mouth, but would be there prepared as gaseous' fuel, and as a consequence he anticipated the annihilation of fog and murky air in> cities. That alone would be a great gain, but Dr. Siemens has in his mind's eye a steelclad shipping, canals' across the Isthmuses of Corinth and Panama, as well as a gunpowder that will resist the action' of ■water. Another year, may show us some of these anticipations realised. • • ■ ' ' '
Mr. Ecclesfield wants it known that he hns on hand Hobarfc potatoes. Lost, gold chain, &c. Reward to finder. Mr. W. Dixon, painter, gives a notice re his business.
Mr. W. Nicoll, Nornianby, wants road men.
Storekeepers, Hawera and Manaia, keep open on Wednesday, in consequence of Thursday being holiday. Mr. Cook gives fencing notice to owners of land, Kaupokonui.
Mr. \V. Murray Thomson advertises horse sale.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 338, 6 November 1882, Page 2
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