NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3143, 7 June 1892, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

No meeting of the Hawera Literary and Debating Society this week. Constable Lester has been placed in charge ot Hawera polioe station. At Normanby to-day, a new license was granted in respect of each of the houses. The population of London increases at b the rate of 100,000 per annum. Mr. E. M. Smith is moving to have New Plymouth breakwater furnished with 3 electrio light. * At the examination in systematic 1 surgery reoently held in the Edinburgh ? University, the name of Mr. G. Home appeared in the senior honour division. We hear that Mr. W. Cloggie, formerly of the Egmont Hotel, Hawera, haß sold out his interest in the Caledonian Hotel, Wellington, for £2000. He has left, or is about to leave, on a trip lo England. As aD instance of the bad state of things in Melbournp, places in Collinsstreet rented at £2000 a year not twelve months back can now be had for £600. No wonder that people who have money do not care to invest it. Mr. C. M. Gray, of Christohurch, has just completed his annual investigation of the cost of tbe drink traffic in New Zealand. The result reveals an increase last c year of more than £14,000 in the total amount spent in drink, but the increase in population shows that the average cost \ per head has decreased about one shilling. Another old Taranaki settler (reports the Herald) died on Friday, Mr. John Crocker, at the age of 90 years. On the formation of the Plymouth Company he came to New Zealand in the ship William Bryant. Of a family of four daughters Q there are two survivors, Mrs. Bead, widow of the late Bey. A. Eeid, Auckland, and Miss Crocker, whose home has always been in New Plymouth. A man named John Davis had an ankle broken last Wednesday whilst engaged bush-felling on the Mangammgi block. g The accident was caused through a portion of a tree falling upon him. He was conveyed out to Eltbam by some of his _ mates, the time occupied being from 10 in the morning until seven at night. He was brought in to the cottage hospital, Hawera, and is progressing favorably. Ten days ago Mr. Mair sent in his " resignation as master of the Hawera School ; a week ago the Board, according to the published reports, decided on a c oertain course of action ; but so far the " Board has not communicated with the 0 Committee. Very slow. Meantime, it is understood that one of the gentlemen \ f mentioned at tbe Board meeting as suitable persona for tbe Vacancy will not be an applicant. Speaking of oar new Governor, the c Wanganui Herald says : — " His landed statates comprise 34,356 acres, and yield a rental of £40,276 por annum. Lord Glasgow is tall in stature, has an easy unassuming manner, and is of that genial disposition which attracts those with whom he com&3 in contact. He is what may be termed, a moderate Conservative, with broad opinions and no convictions as veD on colonial matters, which he has been both taotful and discreet in venting his opinions on the questions of the day, preferring that time and study alone shall - dictate his convictions in that direction. At the Agricultural Conference at Christchurch, Mr. E. Chapman said be could not but think that tbe people who were on the juries before whom persons - were brought charged with sbeep stealing had an idea that it was uo crime to take . a sheep. Mr. Grigg endorsed Mr. Chapman's statement as to the difficulty of obtaining a conviction for sheep stealing, and moved — " That the attention of the Government be drawn to the extreme difficulty of obtaining satisfactory trials in tbe Supreme Courts of the colony in a cases of sheep stealing; that in theopinion of this OonforeDCu, juries should be em- '• panelled consisting oi mto who hnvo some 8 knowledge of sheep and Bheep farming, . and should not be drawVi from men totally 3 ignorant of everything appertaining to 3 the subject." The first thing a sheep stealer did when put on his trial was to j 1 challenge all but men taken off the street, * who did not probably know a sheep from ' a goat. The result was that there was ) a direct failure of justice. Ie was just the 1 same as if they in that Conference were I asked to decide en a question of boot I manufacture. Until the state of tilings he 1 hail referred to was altered they would find that sheep stealing would flourish as } a business. They knew that elipep " stealing was carried en to a very large 3 extent, 80 much po that one man who had , started with only a lew pouuds was now I worth thousands of pounds, and had become so daring in Bheep stealing that nt » laat he was caught. I Concert at Pihama to-night. ' On Saturday and Monday Nolan, Tonfcs ■ and Co. held a successful sale of drapery in L the Town Hall, Hawera, on behalf of 1 Gtonsarge Brothers of Manchester. Tbe hall was crowded with buyers on both occasions. There is to be a sale at Manaia 1 on Friday and Saturday. f "Bdchu-Paiba." — Quick, complete cury , all annoying Kidney, Bladder, and Urinar 1 Diseases. At chemists and druggists : Kernuthorne. Grosser, and Co., agents Wfllincrton 1 THERE IS ONE THING- every bouse ' wife should know and that ip t}int Hercu- ) leß BAKrNQ Powdkb is the best. Why ? I [t is ibe cheapest because the Best for making breads, pastry, cakes puddings, scones, &c. Beautifully light and whole1 Borne. In 61 and Is tins. From al ; grocers

Book debts of £5000 in an Auokland eßtate were recently sold for £2Q. Mr. Hutchison had a very good meeting at Eltbam on Monday evening. The late Mies Steven, of Beilaboustont has left nearly £500,G00 to Glasgow charities. A very succeßßful plain and fanoy dress ball was held at Waitotara the other evening, over 50 couples being present. Mr. R. Smart, of the Bank of New Zealand, Manaia, returned home to-day, after a Biz weeks trip to Auokland and the north. The Brace Herald has been informed on the best authority that the cost of taking tbe property tax valuation in New Zealand ia £70.000. Mr. "W. Smith, petroleum expert, has left New Plymouth for London, and it is hoped that his Home-going ia the prelude to a renewed attempt to get oil. Mr. Looney, of Oakura, has, the Taranaki News is informed, an apple tree (Irish peach) off which he has taken two crops each year for the laat five years. He attributes this productiveness to tbe fuct that the tree had been well manured, a dead cow having been buried under it. It is reported by the Taranaki News that the following are candidates for the seat at the County Council for Parihaka Riding, rendered vaoant by the raeignation of Mr. Strauchen — Meesrg. G. W. Gane, J. J. Elwin, Fleming, E. J. Morgan, S. McGloin, and W Welle. Tbe manager of the " Original English itiAy Cricketers " has completed negotiations, aocording to the Spotting Life, wiib the Australian Ladies' Cricket Club, and will send over thirteen ladies to play in a series of thirty matches in Australia and New Zealand. Contradictory reports are current as to the result of the Native meeting at Whenuakura. On the one hand it is said that the Natives condemned the West Coast Reserves Bill ; on the other that the Patea Natives placed matters unreservedly in the bands of George Broughton, who iB in favour ot the Bill, and that the Natives nearer Hawera decline to commit them selves pending further consideration of the matter. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as really among herds and horses. Eduoation may do much to check evil tendencies or to developegood ones, but it is a great thing to inherit tbe right proportion of faculties to start with. The man is rich who has a good disposition, who naturally kind, cheerful, hopeful and who has a flavor of wit and fun in his composition. The hardest thing to get on with in this life is a man's own self. A cross, selfish fellow, a despondent and complaining fellow, a timid and careburdened man, these are all born deformed on the inside. They do not limp, but their thoughts sometimes do. — Exchange. The wilderness of Koolan, in the Sandwich Islands, contains a forest of native wild apple trees, countless in number, stretching from tbe sea far up tbe mountain Bide 3. The trees vary from 40 to 50 feet in height, and in the harvest season, from July to September, are loaded down with fruit, some white, but mostly red. A person standing in thß midst of this orchard can look around for miles up the mountains and towards the road, and the only thing in view will be one vaßt grove of apple trees, literally red with ripe and ripening fruit, the branches of the trees bending to the ground with the bounteous harvest. The crop of this extensive apple orchard, which Nature planted in the solitary waste, would fill a fleet of 100 steamers. The orchard stretches over a country from 5 to 10 miles wide by 20 miles long, and many of the larger trees bear at leaßt 100 bushels apiece. A writer in The Worker (a labor organ published at Brisbane, Q.) says : — The Black Labor wave rolls steadily nearer, and we may as well understand what it means from the beginning. Playford says that India is over-populated and wants an outlet, accordingly he is providing her with one in tropical Australia. There are some 250,000,000 people in India who can increase easily at the rate of 25,000,000 yearly. If this torrent of colored labor is once turned upon Australia the result must be plain to everybody but born fools. The continent will speedily be lost as a white man's continent just as South Africa is being lost ; Queensland will slide from the kanaka to the coolie as eaei'y as a carpet snake slides off a log. And the men who sold their country will not be Griffith and M'llwraith alone but every one of us who let them break their pledges and defy all public decency. We may as well understand that as a starfc-off, for it is the solid truth.