NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1639, 1 June 1887, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Rain fell at Inaha during the mouth ot May, on fourteen days. The total amouut registered being 3"64 inches. We hear that Mr. W. E. Dive has leased his farm, at the Lakes, to Mr. Robertson, ate of Waitotara. The lease i 9 for a period of 21 years. It was noted that when the division on Sir George Grey's Legal Practitioners Bill was taken, the numbers being 35 and 34, uo less than ten of the nops were lawyers ! Of course, they were perfectly disinterested. The New Zealand Times says : — While we are glad that workeis of all classes should have ample rest and relaxation, we must confess that the proclamation of three whole days' public holiday in celebration of the Royal Jubilee seems to us altogether excessive, and calculated to cause considerable and needless inconvenience to business. The Jubilee cry is really being pushed into a serious public nuisance. At a general meetiug of the Dunedin Jockey Club, it was resolved to amend Eule 23 in order to deal with the recent complications re totalisator. An addition was made to the rule bo as to enable the stewards to determine all questions re totalisators and investments made thereon and declare a person betting totalisator odds or repudiating his investment on the totalisator to be guilty ot corrupt and fraudulent practices on the turf. There was a very poor muster of the Hawera Cadets at inspection on Tuesday evening ; but sufficient Yoluuteers were present to count as ft parade. Captain Burlace was in charge ot the former and Captain Trimble the latter companj'. Drill-instructor Castles was also present. The companies were drilled the usual time by Capt. Trimble and Sergt. Castles, and then dismissed. The next Government parade is on Monday. Richard Dwyev, aged 72, recently ad ruitted to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, told the committee a striking story of the vicissitudes of life. Twenty years ago he was a passenger by the illfated steamer London, which founded in the Bay of Biscay. He wns one of the survivors, but he lost his wife and two daughters, £11,000 in money, and cargo worth £250. He never prospered after, although he worked hard. He stood before the committee, aged, infirm, entirely destitute, and alone, and the mi mbers considering the case a very piiiful one, at once granted the shelter he craved. According to a well-known Belgian journal, a strong syndicatehas been formed of Belgian and English capitalists for the contraction of 1500 miles of railways in China. The proposal, which has been made to the Chinese Government through the Belgian Minister at Pekin, and which will doubtless be accepted, is to place a sum of thirty- two millions sterling in the hands of the Government to be repaid in ten annual instalments, Two lines — the material for which shall only be Belgiau or English manufacture — are to be built, one from Nankin across the Tein-Tsin and along the great cuoal to Peking, 800 miles in length, and another from Canton to Hanoi, 700 miles in length. The Sydney Morning Herald of 14th April says :— The oldest policy on the books of the Australian Mutual Provident Society has just become a claim. The policy, which was the fourth issued by the society, is dated 28th February, 1849, and is for £250. The bonus additions, including that for the year 188G, estimated, amount to i"570, the total claim beiDg £820. The annual premium was £6 18s 4d, and was paid for 38 years, making a total paid of £'282 16s Bd. The result is that the member has bad an investment yielding him about 5£ per cent, over the whole 38 years, while the assurance, ranging from £250 to £820, has been carried on meanwhile for nothing. A recent Napier paper says : — A report was published recently to the effect that, in the event ot the defeat of the Ministry, Sir Julius Vogel would be provided for by his appointment to the management of the Government Life Luurauce Department, The result of that report was that a country settler, whose proposal of insurance had been made out, intimated his refusal lo take up the policy; and the policy that he does hold he intends to allow to lapse. The short experience policyholders have had of Sir J. Vogel's influence over the department is quite sufficient to create alarm. This is the more to be regretted, because Sir Julius was the founder of the Government Insurance Association, and for that alone he deserves well of the country. The Government resident at Wyndhara, Kimberley district, telegraphs to the West Austialian Government that the prospects of the field are improving considerably. Good patches of alluvial gold have been found up the Panton river, and almost all diggers now returning bring from 50 to 300oz with them. Gold reefs have also been discovered, the specimens being magnificent, especially from Panton and Mount Docksell. The diggers ore satisfied with their prospects, and are returning to the field. Packers are coming daily to Wjndharu, and loading up for the fields. The machinery for the Lady Margaret reef is expected in June. A meeting was held at Wymlharo urging thf> Govrrumf-nt to make a mil way to the field from that town. Reliable reports state that a lode has been found 80 miies from Wwulham. Mr. Peacock, writing to the Colonial Tieasurer on Ihe proposed import duty on green fruit or pulp, says: — If the duty is designed for revenue purposes it must fail of effect, for the simple reason that it is absolutely prohibitory. If, as I have reason to believe, it is iutended for the encouragement of the grower, I have advanced enough, I trust, to satisfy you that, po far fiom he'ping, it must grievously hurt him. It may be that jam manufacturers do exist iv New 2seahn<l who fa\or this duty, and say tliey can supply ihem.-elves within the colony. Possibly they can, but a-Miredly not with fain; and the Government, J am sure, will hesitate before putting a premium on aduUeration, or, rather, making adulteration inevitable. You are probably aware lhat the Petonejam factory has decided to suspend operations anil wind up ; the chief reason being " the difficulty in obtaining a sufficient quantity of fruit at suitable prices."

Hollow at's Ointment and Pim-s.— Rheumatism and pout. — These purifying and soothing remedies demand the earnest attention of all persons liable to gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The Ointment should be applied after the affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water, when the unguent should bs diligently 'rubbes upon the adjacsnfrfc •kin, unless the friction cause pain. Holloway's Pi'ls should be taken simultaneously to reduce inflamation and to purify the blood. This treatment abates the violence, and lessens the frepuency of gout, rheumatism, and all spasmodic diseases, which spring from hereditary predisposition, or from any^ accidental weakness of constitution. This ointment checks the local mischief. The Fills restore the vital powers. 16