NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1882, 17 March 1888, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Waverley is reported as sheltering under Kapiti. The -will probably arrive at Patea on Sunday, leaving for Wellingon Monday, at noon.

Taranaki zephyrs 1 Tuesday's gale (the Herald reports) removed as much as three feet of sand off the beach in the vicinity of the New Plymouth railway station.

The taking of evidence in the Bellinger enquiry has been completed, and the Court is to gwe 3U&gement on Monday. M. the District Goxxtt, probate has been granted in respect of the wills of tbe late Susannah Wilson and Richard 3Siag\es (Mr. Caplen appearing for the executors) and H. S. Clement (Mr. Matthews ing)A rumour is prevalent in Wellington to the effect that the post of Commandant of the New Zealand Defence Force will be i offered to General Schaw, R.E., and that it may not improbably be accepted by i him. ' The Maoris belonging to Koznine'fi aad I Y\tobovjßT\V6 pahb Yi&A a. \virV\ time \x\ ' il/aaa/a on Wednesday last, they having ( I on that clay disposed of fungus to tbe value of no less than £105, according to their own statements. It is said that they have yet a large quantity on hand. It is rumoured (says the New Zealand Times) that Mr. Hannay, AssistantGeneral Manager of New Zealand Railways, will probably be one of the new Railway Commissioners, and that another will be either Mr. Maxwell, the present General Manager, or Mr. C, Y. O'Connor, I Secretary to the Public Works Department. A rapidly falling glass on Friday afternoon intimation of. the approach of an unusual storm, and certainly the evening did not belie barometrical indications. The lightning was intensely vivid and frequent, the wind violent, and the rain heavy. The storm seems to have covered a wide range, reports having been received from many places of telegraph lines being down. To-day there seems a proBpecb of finer weather thau has been experienced during the past week. At Wednesday's meeting of the Hospital Board, a letter was received from J. B. ATendeison, of Hawera, with reference to tbe board's account against him for the maintenance of his wife in the hospital. Mendelson said his wife disappeared with from £12 to £20 about her, and he had not found out till the other day through tbe police that she was in the hospital. The eecretarv was to ask Mendelson to

pay up. J. S. Greig, of Opunake, who had a little boy four years old in the hospital, wanted a sister, aged 9, to be allowed to keep her brother company. He offered to pay 3s per day for both. It was agreed that a charge of 3s for the boy nnd Is for the girl be made per week. Dr. Alexander reported on two cases that had been treated at the Hawera Cottage Hospital — one a man named T. Lawton, suffering from acute bronchitis, and the other 11. Sherny, who got some broken limbs when felling bush. Tbe report was adopted.

Mr. W. Clarke's advertisement, announcing arrival of new goods, appears in another column.