NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1664, 1 July 1887, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The proposed return football match at Patea on Satuiday next between Manaia and Patea juniors has been unavoidably postponed until the following Saturday, on account of the inability of some of those chosen to represent Manaia to get away. A chess, draughts, and whist club has been formed at Manaia, with a membership of about twenty. A provisional committee was elected to draw up rules, &c, and report to a meeting. The club will probably use the Oddfellows' lodgeroom. If it is really true (writes the St James' Budget) that a Durham engineer has discovered a method of raising steam which will effect a saving ot 70 per cent of coal, the greatest reform ever known in the history of our naval and mercantile maiine is at hand. The Acting Speaker of the Legislative Council having been asked to stand for the Waivarapa seat, replied as follows : I feel gratified by the receipt of your letter of 22nd instant, and I sincerely wish I could accede to its n quest ; but the work .and the hours oi the Lower House are altogether beyond my strength. I feel with you the necessity of having good men in Parliament, nnd believe the only chance of salvatinn for this colony is iv the election of those who prefer the interests of the country to those of party or locality, and who will, in spite of all besetments to the couti ary, insist upon honesty, efficiency and economy of administration. — Yours truly. G. M. Waterhousk. Apropos of the Mangaoraka somnambulist reported as having been seen by a party the other ni»ht, we (Taranaki News) may mention that a young farmer residing at Egmont road, who some four weeks back was returning home on horse back at about 10.30, when he saw the figure of what he took to be a woman with loose hair hanging over a white gown that enveloped her, near the Mangaoraka bridge. He bid the figure good night, and received a similar salutation from it. Ou reaching honip, he informed his family oi tbe strange spectre he had seen, but they considered he had only seen it in imagination. The last report, however, corroborates his story, inasmuch as the two descriptions of the figure are ia the main identical. " Did you see what Stout said about his accepting the K.C.M.G. ? Yes, it's rather too good, is'n't it? He said he would i have refused it if he had not thought it would look something like snobbery on his part not to accept it ! Did you ever hear such a reason ? As if a man ought to do everything, whether its against his convict tions or not, which he thinks it might be s thought snobbish for him not to do ! I | think that's the most snobbish thing Stout t *ever said in his life 1 Truckling to the • Rails at Dunedin and dragging his own ' oider th-iough the mud, wh»-n everybody l knows he was as pleased as Punch to get it ! \ Yes, but the point is this, — the crucial I point ! When Stout was working his way | up and going in hot and strong for the ! horny- bunded business he denounced all l titles and said colonial statesmen ought to be ashamed to lake them ! He took hie l ' dying oath he never wonld.-nevare, nevare, 3 nevare 1 Then the first chance ho got, he f jumped at it ! Now, he says he'd have fc refused it, only he thought it might ' have semned snobbish ! I can't see i where the snobbishue ss would have come • in I Lots of better men than Stout have I refused these distinctions ! Nobody thought a Stafford a snob when he refused tbe 8 K.C.M.G. for years' Nobody thought » Dailey a snob when he refused' it after the 1 Soudan affair I Nobody thought Deakin, t of Melbourne, a snob when.be refused' it - the other day at tbe Conference on pre- [ the sa^iue grounds on which Stouf; pledged himself to refuse it and then did'n't ! .Ah, b but yk)'u. muatu't compare ,Stout with I cdmmon colonials like Stafford and' Deakiii t and Dafley I Well tbeVu nobody thought j Ga'rlyle" a'fsnob-'when'he refused the Grand y. Grds'8 f ;of Uiß Bath, or Disraeli whfen he I refused: the Garter !"— Puff, in the Well jugton Press.

In consequence' of the state of Mrs. Root's health, the Bey. W. H. Root is to-morrow taking her. from Hawera for a time. On Sunuay, therefore, the Rev. Mr. Fox, of New Plymouth, will officiate at Hawera and Normanby. Two honest farmers in the old country, riding along together, encountered a large number of clergymen, and one of them said to the other,' " Where be all these parsons coming from ? " To this his friend replied, " They've been at a visita tion." The other, no wiser than before, says, " What's a visitation ?" and the answer he received was, " Why, it's where all the parsons goes once a year and swops their sermons." His friend, on being thus enlightened, quietly remarked, " Dang it, but oor chap mun get the worst on it every time 1" Impounding notices are published. Mr. H. G. Pitcher has a new advertisement in this issue which should be read. Messrs. Budge and McCutchan publish first entries for Manaia sale. Warning of intention to lay poison on Mr. Goodson's Whereroa farm is given.