NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3084, 26 March 1892, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Tbe English mail was brought down bj ' train tbie morning. ' T. V. Shepherd, settler, late LieutenantColonel commanding Auckland Volunteer district, has filed a petition of insolveooy. Liabilities, £2070 ; asßets, £100. Tbe Postal Department haa written to the Borough Council agreeing to grant JGIO towards the artesian well experiment. We hope that other departments will be as liberal in proportion to their interest in the matter, The rumor which reached us that Te Whiti had expressed himself favorably to the Maoriß leasing tbeir land to Earopeans' has received confirmation since we wrote; and we have now no hesitation in saying that we believe the report to be correct. At the spot where Mrs. Stook, tbe newly married bride, was killed, at tbe work, of forming tbe road is fn progress, and there io an embankment about 16 feet deep. Tbe road suddenly narrows at oqe pQJnt. Efere the horse and trap fell over tbe embankment. Mr. Stock jumped clear, and escaped injury, but Mrs. Stook was caught by the trap falling across her back and fastening ber to the ground, with ber face buried in tbe mud. Mr. Stock succeeded in lifting tbe trap a little, but tbe poor woman, after murmuring a few words, expired. At the inquest, held at Waiuku, the jury censured the Manku Boad Board fqr having neg. leoted to place a light) at the cutting, Special fares are advertised for Taranald Anniversary races. Oddfellows quarterly meeting to be held on Monday, when important business will come forward. Mr. Wm. Fox Omahuru, licensed interpreter, and commission agent, has a f business notice in another column, A new advertisement from Mrs. Dunne, draper, High street, will be found to-day on the front page. Ladies are specially invited to call. Mr. Eowe announces new grasß and clover seeds to hand and about to arrive, the list being a choice and comprehensive one. THERE IS ONE THING every bouse wife should know and that is that Hxbculbs Baking Powder is the best. Why P ft is the cheapest because the Best for making breads, pastry, cake? puddings, scones, &c. Beautifully light and wholesome, In 6d and Is tins. I^rom all grocera

At 2.30 p.m., the match Opunake v. Hawera had progressed so *<« th a' H<l : wera's first innings had closed for 43 and Opanake had lost six wiokets for 22.

The 1 Patea Press says, in reference to Mr. E. C. Homer's dismissal from tbe office of agent of the Pablio Trustee:— "An old and well tried^ agent, who, without blemish or complaint, ana one in wnomi,he public has— and justly so— the mo>t unbounded confidence, has carried out the supervision of the district agency, is at fourteen days' notioe, and with the acme of discourtesy dismissed from his position." The Press says tbat the true reason for Mr. Homer's dismissal is that he ie not of the " right color."

With reference to tbe statement of the New Zealand Times, published the other day, that the New Zealand and River Plate Mortgage Company has withdrawn irom the colony for the purpose of confining its operations to the Argentine, i,he Times now further says that this determination was arrived at before the new taxation scheme was heard of, and the sole reason was that a much higher rate of interest could be obtained in the Argentine than in New Zealand.

A correspondent of the Wellington Post, referring to the sale held by the Manawatu Eailway Company tbe other day, Ba ya : — «• How now about capital not having taken iright? Offered 60.0C0 acres, in 70 sections; sold 6121 acres, in 12 sections. It should be stated tbat six sections in the Tokomaru Block were not offered. These comprised something over 8000 acres." Editorially, the New Zealand Timeß replies :—": — " To anybody who knows anything, three facts are apparent about that land sale. (1) There was a great crowd of the very best classes of buyers, who all meant business ; (2) the company's reserve was too high ; (3) in view of the he ; gbt of tbe reserve, tbe s&le was phenomenally good."

The New Zealand Times gives tho following; particulars with reference to the proposed industrial farm : — Negotiations are now well advanced for the acquisition of about one thousand acres of land olose to thb Manawatu railway line, and not far from Waikanae, for the purposes of the projected industrial farm in connection with the Labor Bureau. Once the land is obtained, the farm will be started, and probably provide employment for a hundred men. These, of course, will be drawn from the ranks of the unemployed The scale of remuneration will necessarily be somewhat lower than tbe ordinary rate of wages. Men of steady industrial habits will very, likely after a time be permanently engaged, and then, besides receiving payment for their labor according to scale, will also be entitled to a share in the profits of the farm. It is a social experiment, the working of which is sure to be watched with the greatest interest both inside tbe colony and outside its borders.

Commenting on tbe finding of the court in reference to tbe wreck of the Elginshire, the Timaru Herald remarks : — Tbat current on the coast of New Zealand is a very old friend, or perhaps we should say foe. It has cropped up in innumerable shipping disasters during tbe last twenty or thirty years. It always mates its appearance just in tbe nick of time and at the place where it is wanted to account for a wreck. It is bere to-day and gone to-morrow, but it is a very substantial reality when it is present. Do we doubt its existence on any particular ocoasion — the wreck of tbe Elginshire, for example ? Certainly not; there is every reaßon for believing in it, for it has been frequently sworn to by trustworthy people, and it was so sworn to at the Elginshire inquiry. The point which we desire to make is tbat as so many wrecks on the New Zealand coast have been attributed to currents not marked on tbe chart or alluded to in sailing directions — currents which are not constant — it iB the duty of mariners to take them into account when their ships are in dense fog and in olose proximity to the land. It should not be deemed necessary to know that there is an insetting current in that particular locality ; it should be assumed, and a wider berth given to the shore. Possibly seamen may ridicule suoh a dictum ; bat all that we need say in reply to the scientific and nautical scoffers is that if it had been acted on daring tbe last 30 years very little time would have been lost, very little more coal burned, but scores of valuable lives would not have been sacrificed, and almost countless thousands of pounds, representing hulls and cargoes, would have been saved to owners and shippers.