The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1888. NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1845, 3 February 1888, Page 2

The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1888. NEWS AND NOTES.

Lacrosse club to be formed in Wanganui.

Wanganui library spent £89 in books last year.

Sydney centennial regatta prizes amount to £1000.

10,380 rabbits killed last year in the Carnarvon district. Cost £275 19a 6d.

The Property Tax, says the Post, is coming in freely in all parts of the colony.

Scarcely an apple tree in the Dunstan district has escaped the ravages of the codlin moth.

During January, rain fell in Hawera borough on ten days, the total fall registered being 1f94l f 94 inches.

Mr. I. Bayly, chairman of the Hawera County Council, left for Wellington this morning to interview the Government with respect to several matters connected with county work.

Mr. E. Beetham, Eesident Magistrate of Cbristchurch, the otber day caught in Hall's creek, Leeston, a trout weighing 241bs-

Auspicium melioris oevi is the motto of tbe Order of St. Michael and St. George, and we may accept it also as the motto of Sir Harry Atkinson's Administration. — Napier Telegraph.

The rainfall at Inaha during January amounted to 1*76 inches, as against I*ol inches in January, 1887. Bain fell on eleven days last month.

An amusement of the Wanganui larrikius is to stand on the railway bridge as the Tuhua is passing underneath on her Moonlight excursion, and drop rotten eggs and other filth on tbe people below, to the general annoyance and the detriment of the clothes of both male and female passengers.

The Lynch family of Bellringers have just left the colony. They report that they are very pleased with their tour in this colony and purpose returning in about eight months time, and revibiting tbe principal towns en route to San Francisco. Mr. Harry Lynch estimates tbe profits of the New Zealand tour at over £3000. Still, times are very hard !

When the Bank of New Zealand shut down on the Taranaki County Council the other day and asked that the overdraft be reduced, the Chairman of tbe County, on his own responsibility, stopped proceeding with getting tenders for contract for metalling two and a half miles of tbe Mountain road. There was complaint from members specially interested, but the Council generally appeared to approve the action of the Chairman.

The Melbourne Daily Telegraph of Dec. Dth states : — The Premier has directed enquiries to be made into the case of James Watson, of Oxford, who was the otber day fined at the Koroit Poiice Court for a breach of an Act ot Parliament of Charles I. Tbe offence is described as " driving a loaded wool waggon tbrough tbe township on Sunday, Oct. 23." The Act passed in 1627 provides " thatno carrier with any horse or horses, or waggonman with any waggon or waggons, nor carman with any cart or carts, nor wainman with any wain or wains, nor drover with any cattle, shall travel upon Sunday upon pain that every person or persons so offending sball lose and forfeit 203 for every such offence." Tbe case was mentioned in the Legislative Assembly recently, and Mr. Charles Young asked what was to be done. " The law was made," said he, " for times and circumstances altogether obsolete," '' and probably tbe next thing will be that we will have men prosecuted and convicted for driving cattle and sheep on Sunday, altbough our legislature compels men to travel cattle a certain number of miles each day." Mr. Wrixon said he would investigate tbe circumstances.

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