WAITARA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1924, 8 May 1888, Page 4

WAITARA.

[By Amateus Casual.] The salvage claimants in tbo Bellinger ease have obtained judgment for i'3so. with £50 costs. Football.— New Plymouth challenged Waitara, and played them to-day on their own ground with disastrous results, being beaten by four goals and three tries, or fifteen points to nil. Nothing worth sending you occurred during the match, the local men simply " smothering " their visitors. Whitehead and Hine played in excellent form, but "Bob" Tato was a long way off bis usual efficiency. Huirangi play Tikorangi next Saturday, when a good game is expected. Oar postmaster's assistant is of an artistio mind, and dotes on flowers and ferns, and loves to decorate the office with ornamental growths. It has in consequence assumed lately an appearance quite Arcadian, and altogether foreign to the surroundings of pigeon holes and sealing wax. The Waitara and the Masonic Hotels are both being renovated, and painted inside and out, much to the improvement of town in general, and the hotels themselves in particular. The Salvation Army has a laßt given us np fox a bad job, and in consequence, we

enjoy our Sundays in peace and quietness, undisturbed by the hideous dm, with which that organisation thinks fit to show its spasmodic piety. Ingle wood is still afflicted with them. Captain McCarthy has been discharged from the s.s. Waitara. Mr. W. Lumer takes his place. She goes to Tongaporutu on Tuesday with survey goods and stores, calling in at Mokau on her return for coals and pigs. Ma3 7 5.

We regret to hear that Mr. O. S. Brodie, lately of Manaia but now a resident of Wellington, is suffering from the effects of cancer. Three operations have been performed, but his medical attendants say the case is very serious. The first trial match of the representatives of the Taranaki fifteen who have been picked to meet the English footballers, will be played to-morrow. The representatives will play all-comers, and it is hoped that the latter will bring a strong team into the field, so as to give the picked men hard practice. The match team has gone into hard training, bo that, although time is short, they hope to come up to the scratch on the day of the match in good form and fettle. The Taranaki News regrets to hear that Mr. Rogers, who sustained a severe sprain to his right ankle while playing in the county match on Wednesday last, is still nnable to get about, and his medical adviser states that he will not be able to play football again inside six weeks. The News adds :— This is unfortunate, as Mr. Eogers was selected to play for Taranaki againßt the English Footballers. It is generally conceded that he is the beßt quarter-back on the coast, and his place in the team will be hard to fill. The followiDg patents have been applied for during the week: — Henry Perriman, of EssendoD, near Melbourne, clerk, and Charles Fred. Alger, of Melbourne, engineer, for an improved implement for straining wire, by a new method, and for other cognate purposes ; Cornelius Lot Wheeler, of Chris tchurch, miller, for separating grain and Beeds and other mixed material, to be known as "The New Departure Wheeler's Botary Retention Sieves ; " Walter Greenshields, bracist, anil Joseph James Craig, contractor, both of Auckland, for preventing tores on the back ot horses, to be called " The Automatic Draypaddle ;" Arthur Buck Kitchener, of Dnnback, Otago, sheep farmer, for shearing sheep or other animals bearing wool or hair, by means of a wire heated by electricity. Notices of applications for publicans' licenses are published. Opunake Licensing Committee invite applications for licenses. Hawera Eoad Board will summons defaulting ratepayers on Tuesday May 15. Skinny Hen. — "Wells' Health Benewer" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility. At chemists and druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Agents Wellington. 2