NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3231, 22 September 1892, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

In South Australia there are 7,646,239 sheep, the wool exported last year being 51,551,585 lbs, valued at L 1,618,487.

The largest artificial reservoir in the world is about to be constructed in Texas. It -will be sixteen miles long, and contain one hundred and three billion fifty -eight million forty thousand eight hundred cubic feet of water.

The Palmerston North Standard says : —The Stratford Connty Council has accepted the tender of Messrs. McColl and O'Connor of Palmerston, for 5£ miles of metalling at £1427 12s Ga. Work to commence two months hence.

The Napier Telegraph understands that there will shortly be an alteration by whiob it is intended to start the express trajn Wellington.Napier and vice versa at 8 a.m., thus paving Wellington people from getting Dp at night to patpb the Napier morning express, and allowing Napier people to get to Wellington before everybody else has gone to bed.

At Wellington a seven-year-old girl died from the effects of a peculiar accident, She fell, and a email stick entered her neck to a depth of an inch. The stick was extracted but blood poisoning set in and the child died three days after the accident.

A telegram from Dunedin states that it is considered almost certain that the Otago cricketers will make a tour of the colony during the season — probably about Christmas. — Dr. W. G. Grace is favorable to a visit of an Australian eleven, and believes that the majority of the English cricketers agree with him.

That unfortunate local industry, the Milton Pottery, is Btated to be again in trouble. The Bruce Herald suggests that the attention of Staffordshire manufacturers should be called to tho opportunity which these works afford for the profitable investment of combined oapital and skill in a manufacture and which should bave a large field in this colony.

The case of J. Traynor v. E. McElwain, in which plaintiff, claimed £57 Is 6d for wages and winning and losing fees in connection with the training of defendant's horses, was heard at Wanganui. Defendant denied any liability except so far as percentages were concerned. After considerable evidence had been taken, judgment was given for £10, in addition to that paid into court (£lO 103), each party to pay his own costs.

There should be an unusually interesting entertainment at the Church of England school room to-night. There will be the annual distribution of prizes to the St. Mary's Sunday scholars, an ever interesting incident in juvenile life, and " Gieamß of Light in the Dark Continent," as illustrated in missionary work in Africa. Rev. Melville Jones will speak on the latter subject. He should be able to speak pointedly, being himself one of the missionary adventurers who bave laid themselves out for work in Africa. Also music by the choir. All these should be entertaining variety.

The Canterbury footballers were delighted (the New Zealand Mail says) with their treatment up north. Le Quesne (Napier) they consider one of the best full-backs in the colony. If ever a New Zealand team is needed it wiU be interesting to note who will be chosen as full-back, seeing there are such splendid candidates as Le Quesne, Thomas, and D'Arcy. They thought very little of Alf. Bayly (Taranaki), for whom is claimed the proud title of " the beßt centre three-quarter in the colony." BayJy is certainly a good man, but there are better.

Mr H. J. Gilberd, of Taradale, H. 8., writes to a friend at Hawera, re artesian water, as follows: — "You will be pleased to hear that I have got a good flow of splendid water at 316 feet at the Ruataniwha well. Red conglomerate and boulders continued all the way down, the last few feet, where the best flow was, being just a boulder bed. The 3inch pipe bent at 272 feet, and I had to blow 10 feet of it clean away with dynamite, and then • telescope ' with 2-inch piping." " Telescope " means the insertion of a lesser-sized pipe in the main pipe, the new bore being consequently smaller. Mr Gilberd is likely to tender for the Wanganui contract.

A genuine treat is in store for lovers of sterling music and song. Mr W. H. Jude, the eminent organist and composer, will give one of his choice entertainments at Hawera on Wednesday next. Amid the many and varied first-olass musical performances now being given in Wellington, the three leading newspapers do not hesitate to beetow upon Mr Jude the highest praise as a composer, musician, and elocutionist ; whilst for several nights at Dunedin St. George's Hall was thronged to overflowing, fullproof of thegentleman's abilities. We are assured that only through hearing that Hawera is a musicial plaoe has Mr Jude decided to perform here, as it is his general rule to miss the smaller towns.

In its report of the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Monday, the Taranaki Herald says :— Dr. Richards, of Hawera, waited on the board with reference to patients admitted to the Cottage Hospital who olaimed to be under the board, but who, he considered, should be his private patients. — A long disoussion ensued, and finally the following resolution was passed; "That a committee consisting of the chairman and Messrs. Corkill and Davidson be appointed to enquire into the case of Dr. Richards, and the provision for better accommodation than is afc present provided at the Hawera Cottage Hoßoital, and report to the next meeting of the board." Among the aocounts paid was one for Hawera Oottaee Hospital, £2 4s.

Yesterday morning, aboot 10 o'olock, while bush falling for Mr. Godkin, of Eltham, Mr. Donald Morrison, met with a severe accident through a falling tree. The tree fell and pinned him to the ground and against another tree or stump, the sharp edge of the falling tree cutting him immediately below the knee joint and caused a compound commuted fracture. The gash in the flesh is quite four inches loog. Several pieces of bone were removed by Dr. Lightbourne, who rode oat through one df the most dangerous bush tracks. The total distance is 16 miles, of which Beven is bush. His enly light being candle and lamp light. He got back to Eltbam about 3 a.m. and saw his patient off to New Plymouth Hospital by the first train this morning. So far he is doing well.