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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1334, 16 June 1886, Page 2

The Star.

(published daily.)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 188 G.

NEWS AND NOTES.

Fully 2000 natives are expected to be present at Parihaka on the 17th in*t.

The Court was adjourned this morning till 2 p.m., to allow of the R.M. coming up by the train from Patea.

On Tuesday afternoon, heavy booming reports were distinctly beard in Ha-wera, due, no doubt, to further eruptions in the Lake district.

The Australasian says : — We are convinced that the world's production ot wool per head is not appreciably greater than twenty years ago.

A young fellow, named Taylor, living near Inglewood, has had his hand shattered by a gun-shot. He fell o\er a log while carrying the gun, and it exploded.

The "Wakatipu again calls at New Plymouth, en route for Sydney direct, on Monday next. It is clearly to the interest of farmers to maintain this communication, if possible.

Tbe Volunteer Cadets mustered in great force at the Dnll-shed on Tuesday evening, and were given some elementary drill by Captain Trimble. The instructor from New Plymouth will be down on Wednesday and Thursday evenings in next week.

There is more trouble brewing in New Plymouth over the Btreet through the harbor board's reserve of Mount Eliot. The borough council thinks that it has been treated in a high-handed cavalier manner, and talks of interdicting further progress with the work.

A fall of gravel occurred at the Te Eoti ballast-pit on Tuesday, burying one of the men, [named Boorman. Fortunately he tell alongside a large boulder, which saved him from serious injury, but he is a good deal bruised, and Dr. Chilton expects that it will be three weeks before he is fit tor work again.