NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3289, 30 November 1892, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Dakes of Sutherland are hereditary Directors of tbe London and Northwestern Railway, and~ if the bead of the family does not care to join tbe board himself, be has the right to nominate one Director of tbe company. Tbe late Duke was a Director for more than forty years, having been nominated by his father in 1852. In 1826 the first Duke of Sutherland (then Marquis of Stafford) subscribed .£IOO,OOO towards the construction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which was' then regarded as a most chimerical undertaking. In return for this contribution he was granted the right to nominate three of tbe Directors of the company. He afterwards subscribed towards the Grand Junction Railway, and in 1846, when that line was amalgamated with the Manchester and Liverpool and the London and Birmingham, the Act of Parliament specially provided that the Dukes of Sutherland should always have the right to nominate one director to tbe united company. — World.

It ib well known (saya the Daily Telegraph) that physicians have often to urge upon ladies equipped with weak nerves restraint from over-indulgence in strong decoctions of the precious prodocts imported irom China, Assam, and Ceylon. But till quite recently tbe medical ban has not been evoked by consumption of tbe tea leaves in a dry state. Nevertheless it appears on undoubted authority that cause for prohibition in this respect has arisen. It seems that there is a spreading idea among women, and especially among domestic servants, that a pinch of unwatered tea leaves is an infallible aid to the acquisition of a good complexion. In many instances the believers in this internal cosmetio have taken so many pinches that they have become seriously ill. Nevertheless, they have still elected to suffer to become beautiful, and strong looks have had to be placed on tea-caddies by stern mistresses and housekeepers. Indeed, the desire for tea leaf seems gradually to assume the form of v craze. It resembles opium smoking or dram drinking, and is thorougbly pernicious. Is it po6Bible that the appetite may have originally been created by the "facing" ot Chinese teas with arsenic— a longreputed skin improver ?

The American correspondent of the Dunedin Star writes : — The rapid way in which the American people are turning away their sympathy from the demands of the labor organisations and their foolish, reckless strikes is founded on reason and the impulse of self-defence. The Union of Amalgamated Iron Workers numbers 60,000 members. The iron of the United

States is, next to coal, God's greatest gift to bis children who may oooupy this continent. It is the greatest source of wealth,

the largest and most profitable field for tbe employment of skilled labor. Every child born in the homes of 63,000,000 Americans is entitled to have a chance in the field of employment and income which God has placed in this land. But the 60,000 members of this union say that they have poesesßion of that field, and propose to keep it for themselves, and that tbey alone shall be employed in it and make a living out of it. That the children cf the other multiplied millions may starve for laok ot employment, but they must not touch the iron field as a source of labor and income. That position is simply cruel and barbarous. It is a declaration of war by the 60,000 against the 63,000,000— a war chat will not or cannot win. Tbe growing recognition by the people that this is the real issue is rapidly turning the public sentiment and sympathy against the warring labor unions. Amerioa means fair play in the battle of life for all tbe children of

Americans, and a few members of labor

organisations will not be permitted to take each field of labor and source of income to themselves and their own and shut everybody else out.

The Mayor baa received a cheque for £2 from Mrs. J. H. Siggs as a donation to the new hospital fund, and Mr. J. Wallace has banded us 7s (expenses in a court easel for tbe same fund. At the district meeting of the Methodist Chnroh, held at Wanganui on Tuesday, there was a long conversation on the boundaries of the Hawera, Waitara, and Opunake circuits, but no resolution was passed. We call attention to tbe advertisement from Mr. Courtney in another column. Mr. Courtney, it will be seen, proposes to again visit England, and issues an invitation to people wbo have friends at Home, or want partners, to communicate with him. The Hawke's Bay Herald records: — Tho wool which haß hitherto been delayed is pouring into Napier from all points. Tbe provision in the bay in the shipping line is this year very inadequate to the demands that the district might fairly make. There are now only three ships in the bay. Of these, two are full, and the remaining one, the Zealandia, is quite unable to take all the wool which is offering. In consequence of this, wool which should be shipped and credited to this port has to be taken to other ports, to the very great detriment of Napier as a shipping centre. A manifesto issued by the Lancashire Tenant Farmers' Association states that " on some few estates rents are fair and conditions reasonable, but on the bulk of the farms tbe tenants are borDe down by excessive rentals," and they deßire therefore to induce landlords to " make permanent reductions of rent as shall meet the reasonable necessities of occupiers." It is said that rents in Lancashire went up between 1834 and 1883 twenty per cent., and that they have not come down in proportion to the reduoed price of produce. The farmers complain, "We cannot plead face to face with our landlords, and their agents are seldom ready to listen to our appeal." Mr. Napier, of Patea (says Monday's Press), met with rather a serious accident when driving home from Hawera yesterday. It appears he had just given his horse a drink at the trough at the )Ottom of the Manutabi hill, and when wishing to resume the journey the animal turned restive, and after it had ascended the hill a short distance suddenly turned and plunged violently, and jumped straight over tbe edge of the road into the gorge. The occupants were thrown out of the #i#, Mr. Napier falling heavily against a Btump or post, breaking his "leg in three places below the knee. The other occu pant, a gentleman from Wanganui, escaped unhurt, and strange to say the horse received only a few skin-deep soratches, being caught and closely imprisoned in the fork of a tree, and the trap sustained only trivial damage. The unfortunate sufferer was at once conveyed to the hospital, where his injured leg was set.

By the return to England of Major Clark another stage in the crofter colonieation scheme has been reached (says the Manchester Courier, October 4.) He lias completed the negotiations with the commercial company which, in coojunction with the British Columbia Govern, rnent and the Treasury authorttieß at Hoinp, is arranging for the traDsf9r of 1000 families from Scotch and Irish congested districts to the Pacific coast of Canada. According to the arrangements first made 500,000 acres of Crown landa are ultimately to be placed at the disposal of the new comers, and the company's business is to Bee that the croftera fihall be able to start in a fair way of business immediately upon their arrival. One of the most interesting features of the scheme is the proposal to include in its working a number of Royal Navy Reserve men, and if possible to retain their services for the Empire in their new homes. Kakaramea stock sale to-morrow. The sale of Messrs. Lucena's stock is fixed to take place on the premises, on 16th mst.

It is announced in another column that Mr. R. A. Kemp has purchased the business hitherto carried on by Mr. Mouldey s and in this issue Mr. Kemp asks for a continuance of the support given to Mr. Mouldey, and hopes for extension of ouamess in the, town and district;.