NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3292, 3 December 1892, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Mr. J. C. Yorke returned to Hawera, from bis visit to Englaqd, on Friday.

We are indebted to Mr. C. A. Budge, local agent of New Zealand Insurance Company, for a copy of ornamental calendar for 1893.

It is said that at Feilding rricoa tho other day a partnership of two took nearly i! 300 out of the machiofl on one race.

It is reported that Nakora, a well known native, who for some time pust has resided in Wellington, has purchased Mr. T. Tp-igg's 100 acre fnrra.

As the small sum supposed to h/tvo been missing from the county office was not lost, the, belief that th^re whs no felonious intent in connection with the visit to the borongh buildings on Thursday has been frtrengfbenetj,

Still they corue. The Union Compauy have been advised that the Waihora left Melbourne for the Bluff on Tuesday with 150 passengers. The Mararoa sailed from Sydney for Wellington with 300. The Talane left Sydney for Auckland on Thurs day with a large number of passengers.

Mr. James Oampbell, evangelist., will preach in Davidson's Hall to-morrow night.

On Wednesday next, at Opunake, Mr. Newton King will hold a clearing sale of the whole of Mr. S. A. Breach's well-known dairy, consisting- of 250 quiet cows, together with hia extensive factory plant, all in first-class order. The reputation of Mr. Breach's dairy is so well-known that no further comment is necessary in these columns, and the fact that the sale is entirely unreserved should have the effect of drawing buyers from all parta of the coast on the day of the sale.

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In the crioket match Manaia v. Hawera, Hawera in their.firet innings were scoring well when we went to press: Parrington, 6; Syme, run out, 26; G. Bayly, not ont, 31.

English mails leave Hawera per Tamui on Wednesday, 7th inst., at 5.50 a.m., and are due in London on 17th January ; and via Brindisi on Friday. 9th inst., at 6 p.m., due in London on 24th January. The inward English mail via 'Frisoo should arrive in Hawera on Monday.

Captain Preece, formerly R.M. at Napier and latterly at Kaiapoi, has filed a declaration of insolvency. The total secured debts are i-8883. and the estimated value of securities is Tbe other liabilities nmount to £730, and the assets are set down at i-278, the deficiency being £432.

We (Manawatu Times) learn on very good authority that there is no truth in the statement that Mr. Freeman B. Jackson will contest the Wanganui seat at the next general election. Mr. Jackson's business will not allow of his seeking Parliamentary honors.

The Hawera Caledonian Society haß arranged for two concerts on Saturday and Monday, December 31st and January 2nd, by leading Wellington amateurs. The party is to be arranged by Mr. Williams, well known as one of the Jubilee Singers, and will be a strong combination. The programme will be composed of popular music of a mixed nature.

Strained relations between tbe Greymouth Harbor Board and the Railway Commissioners. The tormer have decided to hold an inquiry into the Commissioners' management of the looal railway, and to that end have summoned the attendance of all and sundry, including railway officials. The Commissioners, however, have forbidden the attendance of their employees.

Mr. Myles Campbell, who has lately purchased 6ome 600 acres of Mr. Alex. Simpson's property in the Paraekaretu (the RaDgitikei Advocate says), and who is an acknowledged expert in the judgment of sheep, does not consider that the Lincoln breed is well adapted for early maturity for freezing purposes, and what be states must be considered as well worth consideration by all sheep owners. As a proof, it is only necessary to state that since the Wanganni Freezing Works were started less than a thousand lambs have been frozen there — the product of the finest grazing country in New Zealand, whereas from the port of Lyttelton no less than 156,899 irozen lambs were shipped during laet season alone.

An interesting' will case is now being tried in Melbourne. The teßtator, who was a successful tobacco manufacturer in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, died in England in 1891, leaving all his property, valued at about JE40.000, to the Melbourne University, for the purpose of founding .-cholarsbips, with the exception of i-9000, which was settled by Bond on his wife for the benefit of herself and tbe family. This will Mrs. Dixson and other members of the family dispute, alleging that at the time it was made the testator Buffered from delusions, and was mentally incapable of making a will. According to counsel the testator and his wife lived very unhappily together, his tastes lying in the direction of literature and commerce, and hers in the direction of society and gaiety. One of the incidents of their married life, after numerous violent quarrels, was a judicial separation, and the testator at that time made the most serious allegations against his wife's family, and even against his own sons. On her side, Mrs. Dixson alleged cruelty and adultery against the testator, and the whole story, as foreshadowed by counsel, showed most Unfortunate and unusual relations as between a father and his family. A commission agent in Dunedin has blundered, to bis cost. He was employed by an Akaroa farmer to Bell grass Beed, at a minimum of 4£d per lb. Somehow he got it into his head that the reserve was 53, and refused an offer of 4}d. The seed was shipped to England and realised less than 4|d. The farmer sued the agent for proceeds as at 4f d, and Mr. Justice Williams, in concluding his judgment in favor of the farmer, said : "If you have this established, that a commission agent, a business man, has a commießion entrusted to him to sell goods at a particular limit, if it iB made clear that he has misunderstood that limit through his own carelessness, and if before any question arises between the parties he admits in writing that he could have sold the goods at that limit, and did not, tbe inference that ought to be drawn is that by his own admission he has been guilty of negligence in not ao disposing of tbem. In dealing wi th business o.en you must assume, and the court ought to asßumo, that they know their business, and will conduct it in a business- like way ; but if they do not, and if they choose to make blunders, and to make admissions against themselves, those admissions ought to be taken into account, because generally they are perfectly able to protect themselves as business men. I think, therefore, that tbe farmer is entitled to succeed, and is entitled to judgment as if the goods had beeu sold, as the agent says in his letter they could have been sold, before shipment to England, at 4fd a pound."

There recently arrived at Liverpool ao ostrich, which Mr. Cross, the great importer of animals, pronounced to be the fineßt he had seen. The ostrich wbich is 10ft high, came from Central Africa, and walked a distance of at least 600 miles to Sierra Leone, \Ve6t Africa. The bird was sent by the great Mahonsrnedan Chief Alimamy Samadon to Mr. Alfred L. Jones, ot Liverpool, who has had the coaling cßtablisunaent at Sierra Leone. It came down with a caravan ot tbe Alimamy'e headmen and trader.-, who arrived in the British settlement with tboir produce, ivory, gold, &c. It ia a most unusual circumstance for an ostrich to be found in Central Africa, and when it reached Sierra Leone tho whole population turued out to see it. Tho traffic in the streets was stopped, and the Governor had to send a special company of native police to escort v 10 the Sierra Leone ooaliug oouapHny'fl premises. As the Alitnamy Samarlou is a great Mahommedan, it ia thought that the bird may bo regarded in eorae religions connection. Knowing the great reverence the Alimamy iias for Queen Victoria and the English people, Mr. Jonoß decided to offer the bird to her Majesty as a present from the great Mahommodan Chief, and the OBtrich was sent over by the next Alrioan steamer to Liverpool. Her Mnjosny accepted the preeeur. which is to bo temporarily located at the Zoo.

Tenders arc invited for erection of ISfrraonfc Hotel, by Mr, Urodrick. architect

Wo direct attention to the advertisement of tho T'utea. Horticultural Show in another column Theio will probably bo a good many visitors from this end of the district.