lINEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1816, 29 December 1887, Page 2

lINEWS AND NOTES.

+ The librarian, Mr. S. Dixon, » fixed up" a bit at the Institute for Christmas Eve, putting & transparency in one ot the windows, decoratiog the interior, and giving all the light possible, and so added to the cheerful appearance of the place. And we may take this opportunity of once more pressing the claims of the Institute on public Bupport, especially as this year there will be no Government grant, withdrawalof subsidies to public libraries being we ate sorry to say, one ol the economies of the year. The membership of the library Bhould, therefore, be strengthened as much as possible, and if people who ' freely make use of the reading room would acknowledge the convenience they anjoy by sometimes cutting into \bt contribution box, even " the smallest coin of the realm," theyjwould materially help the institution l

Mr. Thomas Bayly's household furniture is advertised for sale in the New Plymouth papers, having been seized for non-pay-ment of the harbor rate. Mr. Bayly as a protest against the rate, has permitted bis furniture to be levied upon under distress warrant. The annual sale of the Sylvia Park yearlings is announced for 4th January, when Messrs Hunter and Nolan, in conjunction with Mr. Alfred Buckland, will offer a lot of fashionably bred ones. This will be the last opportunity of purchasing young Musket stock. Stewart and Co., sawmillers, of Wellington, brought a claim againßt the Corporation for .£94,000 for deprivation of water frontage in connection with reclamation works carried on by the Corporation. The verdict was for £5000, claimants to pay the bulK of costs. The North Otago Times states that Messrs. A. and T. Burt have completed tbe work of fitting up tbe refrigerating machine taken from the ship Lyttelton, wrecked at Timaru, and a satisfactory run has been made. This will enable the New Zealand Refrigerating Company to store 11,000 carcases at Oamaru. The Palmerston Times states that a nondescript animal, captured near Dunback, has been on view. It has a terretlooking head and a symmetrically-shaped body, with a long tail, resembling in appearance tbe AushmYian opussuzzi. Tbe animal has a beautiful coat of fur. The general belief is that is a cross between a ferret and a rabbit. There is in the Caversham school a bright-faced cheery-looking damsel who has made what we Bhould think may be | i regarded as a champion record in respect \ [to attendance. Jane Leal — that is her ' name — baß never once been marked as an absentee during tbe eight years she has been on the roll, and for about five years of this period she has had to walk three miles to the school and three miles borne ! again. The teachers have subscribed for a medal to be presented to " Jenny," as a token of their appreciation of her zeal and general good behaviour. — Exchange. Special train arrangements are advertised for Monday, 2nd January. Accounts in the estate of the late Farquhar Finlayson are to be rendered aud paid by 6th January next. Messrs. Robbins and Pierard have a new advertisement announcing success of their hard cash sale, and continuance of the same. During the current week, in order to meet the convenience o£ customers who desire to select New Year presents from Innes and Co /a stock now on view, tbe Star office will be kept open every evening. The Star Almanack and Wanganut and West Coast Directory for 1888 is now published. It will be found to contain very full information on all matters of interest in connection with tbe calendar, such as hi?h water time tables, hours of sunrise and sunset, dates of sittings, and also fees of the general courts, hours and dates of closing of mails, postal and telegraphic rates and regulations, full statistics in connection with matters agricultural, with local bodies, and with New Zealand and Australasian finance, population, &c. The directory has been extended so as to embrace the whole of the coast from the Mokau down to and inclusive of Wanganui. The volume will be published at a shilling 1 as heretofore ; a special edition containing a standard ref e - rence map is also issued at Is 6d.