NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1894, 3 April 1888, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr. O. Curtis, R.M., Nelson, is to be " retrenched."

Taranaki School Cointnissioners have been brought under the operation of •' The Public Bodies Leaseholds Act, 1887."

Mr. Jas. Davidson has been appointed a member of Patea Harbor Board, the ratepayers ot Hawera sub-division having failed to elect a member.

The rainfall in Hawera during last month was unusually heavy for March. The total registered was 4-28 inches ; the heaviest fall having taken place on tbe 10th, when 1-lin was registered. Rain fell on no fewer than 21 days.

The Wanganui Chronicle.hears that Mr. T. F. Rothorhain, formerly manager of the Wanganui railway line, has received the appointment of locomotive superintendent for the colony. Some local changes in the department are said to be pending.

The following telegraph and telephone offices are not to open between 7 and 8 p.m. unless otherwise ordered : — Eltharn, Kakarainea, Manaia, Manutahi, Midhirst, Ngaire, Normanby, Okaiawa, Otakeho, Patea, Pihama, Pungarehu, Waitotara, Waverley. Three or four hundred stations are similarly treated.

A correspondent writes : — The steamer Bellinger will be ready to take up her regular trade between Waitara and Onehunga about Tuesday next. She has undergone a thorough overhaul, and the wants of passengers have been attended to by making considerable alterations to the saloon. Captain Leys, the popular Wanganui skipper, takes command, which is sufficient guarantee that both shippers of stock and the travelling public will be well attended to. The Jubilee Company are determined to secure a fair share of the Waitara trade ; the rates of freights and passages will be fixed as low as possible.

The Gazette contains several columns of removals and appointments to the Greymouth and Westport Harbor Boards. The members of the old boards having refused to resign, they have been removed, each one being individually removed, and in his place there being appointed clerks of courts, railway stationmasters, engineers, etc. In this way the Government have resumed control. Mr. Reeves, M.H.R., in a letter to the Wellington Post, says this is a dodge on the part of the Premier to make a precedent for taking over tho New Plymouth Harbor. Would that Mr. Reeves were right.