NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3291, 2 December 1892, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Mr. Rolfe should have been Credited iv the show prize list with a Ist for lettuce aud 2nd for collection of gooseberries. The apple trees in Masterton have been attacked this season by a foreign insect resembling a flea, which is doing a tof damage. At Oamaru Show a yearling filly by G-lengyle took first prize ; and a colt by him was fourth. Such positions in Buch a district speak well for Glengyle. The balance sheet of the Waitara boating fatality fond (Mr. F. Bluck, treasurer) shows that the collections were £180, and after defraying funeral expenses (£lB 15s) there was paid to Mrs. Harris, £54 ; Mrß. Petersen, £54 ; Mrs. Eeavey, £54. From Tableland, Victoria, comes the story of a man who saw a snake and kept his eye on it while he reached for a stick close by. The " stick " turned out to be nothirg more or less than another snake, which bit the man, and he died two minutes afterwards. Wo hear that Mr. J. Hicham recently received a tempting offer from a city in the South Island to undertake the conductorship of Beveral musical institutions, a large private practice being also assured him. Mr. Hiebam, however, has declined the offer, his connection with this district having caused him to regard it as a " second Home." With reference to the settlement of the longstanding Samoan case, Cornwall v. MoArthar and Co., a telegram from Auckland says that Mr. Cornwall is to receive £20,000 from MoArthur and Co., besides the lands in dispute, in settlement of all claims, our of which he pays £5500 and interest for seven years to MeArtfaur for goods supplied. Mr. Cornwall will receiv« about £11,500 in caßb. The case has lasted eight years, and cost £30,000 in legal and other expenses.

The Hawera and Manaia cricket clubs meet on Saturday. The following will represent Manaia:— -Shove, H. M. Good, A. Young, Matheson, Selling, Molntosh, W. Young, Sutherland, A. Good, G. A. Hurley, and Hilles. Emergencies: Glenn, Hushes, and C. F. Wordsworth. Hawera team will be chosen from the following:— G. Bayly, J. Goodson, Dr. Westenra, Brodrick, Lysaghr, Jackson, Giesen, Parrington, Eiddiford, Scott, Cunningham, Syme, and Moore. Play is to commence at 10 a.m.

An "intruder" was ia the Borough Buildings on Thursday evening between 5 and 10 o'clock. At the former hour all was left as neual ; at 10 p.m. it was noticed that doors were open which should have been shut and that papers were scattered about, that a drawer in which odd cash is ordinarily kept whs half opeD, aad that the iron safa hore marks caused by a hatchet. The hatchet had been taken out of the storeroom. The county office had also apparently been entered. No money is missed from the borough office, but from the county office 10s out of a sum of 14s left on the table is missing — half a sovereign was tak«n and 4s in silver remained— but as Messrs. Badge and Hirst have been away at New Ply. mouth show it cannot be definitely said when the money was takeD. It is evident that entrance was obtained through the back door, which had been kept unlocked to enable the caretaker to get in, and it would 6eem that the visitor must have been someone acquainted with the plaoe. There is, indeed, a suspicion that the affair ib a practical joke, intended as a warning against leaving back doors unfastened. If the lossof the 10s from the county office could be accounted for, this ! explanation would be very readily ac- | cepted, for it is hardly likely that any person would go safe-breaking expecting to find the tools ready to baud. To-momm Nolan, Tonks & Co. sell town sections; also sundries, '

At the Wesleyan district meeting at | Wanganui, it was resolved, " That in accordance with the present usage of the British Conference, we reqpmmend that the name of the Distriot Meeting be changed to District Synod." The Rev. T. Q. Hammond mentioned that a native home missionary would be necessary for the extension of tbe Maori work in t_9 province. Ha stated that no extra coat would be charged on the Home Mission Funds. There are native schools, and it is proposed to start an educational establishment with two female teachers. The meeting expressed the upinion that young women sboulcl be employed to further work among Maoris on thiß coast. Mr. Hammond could find employment for fully a dozen workers. The genera! returns for the Wanganui district showed an increase in every circuit, au increase of owe cburch, Sundayschool scholars increased by 71, local preachers by 4, church members by 59, communicants by 31, attendants by 813. Snndaypchool returns and temperance returns were considered satisfactory. It was resolved that the next district meeting be held at Palmerston North in the third week of November, 1893.