NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1786, 22 November 1887, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

In order to meet the convenience of country sett)ers who may wish to enter stock for the cattle show after the ord'tnare office hours, the secretary will be in attendance from 8 till 9 p.m. this evening. The following are the Opunake team selected to play against Manaia on the 26th of November :— Langtry (captain), Major Tuke, Dcs Forges, Connell, Rogers, W. Bead, L. Bead, Richardson, Edmonds, ' Skeet, and Shearman. "Waiting men Callamler, Kuir, and Knowles. * The Australasian reports that the New South Wales Agricultural Society recently met at Sydney, to make the preliminary arrangements for the proposed intercolonial show, to be held in January next. The Governor presided. The suggestions of the council that £3000 be awarded in prizes, that .£ISOO be devoted to the erection of horse stalls and loose boxes, and the same amount to enlarging the grand stand so as to enable it to accommodate 3000 people, were passed. It was stated that the show would not bt a purely agricultural one, but that the exhibition of machinery of all kinds and colonial manufactures would be encouraged.

A serious accident occurred to McCullam's coach on Saturday, by which it was upset, and the occupants had a narrow escape. McCuZlum was driving his coach into town from Okaho, and, on reachias* the Mission Hill, near Moturoa, his coach came at a more rapid pace downhill than Eobinson's, which was also coming to town, tbe consequence being that McCullum, in order to avoid a collision, had to draw his horses to one side off the metai at a point where the road slopes very much. The suddenness of the movement caused the coach to overturn, and the top of it was almost completely smashed. There were eight or nine passengers in the coach, the majority of them being natives, but fortunately no serious injuries were sustained ; the passengers, however, received a serious shaking. — Newe. $£3k

Every acre of cultivated ground in Egypt yields on the average £1 a year to the tax-gatherer. * • Sir Michael Hicks-Beach states that affection of the eyes prevents him rejoining the Government. Pearson's Australian rubies, under a carat in weight, are selling fieely at the rate of 35s per carat, and the heavier stones from to £6 a piece, the average beiug £2 per carat. The Hawera volunteers and cadets paraded for inspection on Tuesday evening on the cricket ground, where they were put through evolutions by Capt. Trimble and Colonel Stapp for nearly three hours. Nine months after the closiug of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, the balance-sheet is published. The total surplus is £35,235. The cost of lighting and illuminating the Exhibition and its gardens night after night was £33,000. The commemorative medals and diplomas cose £2,500, the music £12,856. Young New Zealand can claim a curious kind of originality at times. Several school children, independently of one aaofi&er, ia repZy to Che question, " What do you know about Tioiaru ?" replied, " It is the place where a man tried to poison his wile." It has been suggested that this cause celebre was impressed upon the youthful mind by its connection with the case of Captain Cain. The humaa family living on earth to day consists of 1,450,000,000 individuals— not less ; probably more. The extremes of the white and black are as five to three ; the remaining 700,000,000 intermediate brown and tawny. Of the race 500,000,000 are well clothed, 700,000,000 are semi-clothed, and 250,000,000 are practically unclothed. Of the race 500,000,000 live in houses partly furnished with the appointments of civilisation, 700,000,000 in huts or caves with no furnishings, and 250,000,000 have nothing that can be called a horne — are barbarous and savage.

Mr. Major advertises in another column that he has been appointed agent for a large firm of Wool Brokers, and is prepared to make cash advances upon wool consigned to his principals. From a perusal of the scale of rates Mr. Major has supplied it would seem that growers would do well to acquaint themselves with the rates and terms, he is prepared to offer them.