NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1636, 28 May 1887, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr. Duncan McLean reports (o us that i while working upon hi^ farm, close to the Waingongoro, he noticed his dog worrj'ing a dead sling which had evidently been poisoned for the dog took ill and within three <]unrters-of-an-hour died. Mr McLean thinks someone has laid the shng as a bait for hawks but haviug given no one permission to lay poisou on his land he is justly incensed. He valued the dog at £5. This week's Egmont Star will, wo think, be found quite up to, if not superior to, former numbers. The serial story " A Heart's Bitterness " is concluded happily. And a new well-written serial story by E. Southworth is commenced. The other thrilling novelette " Morna Dale "is carried on a step further. There is a full page of farming matter of general interest to country readeis. Under the heading " The Day of Rest " an address by D. L. Moody, some special Sunday reading is provided. Extracts from the Jubilee ode and from Mr. Lewis Morris'o Long of Empire, will be read with interest at the present time. The Humorous column is full of amusing extracts, and there is a large quinsity of general reading, short articles, and other matter. In the course of a public meeting at the Wellington Athpnieum the M.H.R's were very roudy. Thus Mr. G. Fisher alluning to Mr. Dargaville, said the country backed that gentleman's bills for i-50,000 that was the extent of Mr. Dargaville's interest in " the flower of the youth." The Kaihu Valley Railway purchase, he said, was a gross swindle. Here Mr. Dargaville rose, and, shaking his fist excitedly in Mr. Fishor's fare, sad: — "Mr. Chairman, I wish to object to what Mr. Fisher says. It is not only an offensive term, but it is a lie 1" (Laughter a,ntl applause.) The Chairman hoped for the credit of Wellington that the meeting would not degenerate into a rabble. They were not there to discuss whether A B or C had been connected with railway swindles, and he hoped speakers would not cast imputations on each other's honor. (Applause.)