NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2318, 5 January 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Bad weather spoiled tbe attendance at the Wellington Concert Company's Patea concert. The Taranaki Herald understands that the dredge Progress will leave the breakwater for Oamaru about January 14. There being no nominations for member for Hawera Bub-division on Patea Harbor

Board, Mr. Walter Wilson has been recommended to the Government for appointment. A telegram cays that St. Hippo and Tbe Dancer have been scratched for all engagements at Wellington Kacing Club's summer meeting. Senator has also been Scratched for the Wellington Cap. The rainfall in Hawera from the Ist instant till 8 a.m. this morning was no lees than 3*15 inches ; very little fell on Sanday, and not a great deal on Monday, but the downpour on Tuesday and Wed. nesday was very heavy. A feather in the cap of a local industry. Mr* A. J. Kirk, baker, of Hawera, has been requested by a well-known business man in Wanganui to forward a dozen of his Frenoh bread to Wanganui as he has backed the Hawera bread. It is presumed that there is a contsst for a wager in respect of tbe quality of Hawera and Wanganui bread. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following cablegram from London, dated 30th December : — Frozen Meat — For New Zealand mutton the demand is good. Canterbury mutton is worth 4£d, and Wellington mutton 3gd per Ib. The beef market is dull. New Zealand beef, forequarters, is worth 2Jd, and hind quarters 3£d per lb. The Otago Daily Times states : — Mr. H. S. Fitter, one of the '-.rgesfc salesmen in the Central Meat Market, London, is about to send out to Australasia Mr. R, B' Bennett, with instructions to approach the chief graziers in the Colonies and arrange terms with them for tbe sale of their frozen meat in London without tbe intervention of tbe middleman. The Oamaru Mail says —Mr. John Isdale, Weston, has now grown twenty acres of the new rust-proof wheat Cereo. It is a hybrid between Tuscan and American No. 1 hard wheat, and it is now

grown in quantity for tbe first time. The

wheat is a splendid cropper and throughly rust-proof. The crop is over sft. 6in. high, the heads being 6in. long, carrying from seventy to eighty berries each. The paddook is throughly free from rust, although surrounded by crops more or less rusty. A French economist, who is visiting Russia for the purpose of prosecuting inquiries with respect to one of the social questions of the day, frrnishes some interesting particulars concerning the condition of the operatives in the highly protected manufactories of chat country They work from thirteen to fifteen hours a day, and the men earn 83 8d per week, tbe women 4s 4d, and operatives under twenty years receive 10£ d per diem. Strikers are almost unknown, tbe avthority of the employers being so absolute and the repressive power of the polioe so irresistible.

The hon. secretary of the Taranalri Jockey Club notifies in another column that nominations tor the club's Autumn Meeting (23rd and 24th February) will close on Saturday next, 7th inst. Tbe events oalling for attention are — First Handicap Hurdles of Second Handicap Hurdlea of £70, T.J.C. Handioap of £250, Welter Handicap of £60, Flying Handioap of £75, Grandstand Handicap of £80, Autumn Handioap of £150, Tbe Shorts Handioap of £50. The nomination fee for each of the above events is fixed at 1 soy., and large entries will doubtless be received, - A Southland sheep-farmer has sustained some heavy losses through lung worm in bis sheep, but lately another disease has manifested itself. He says : " Last week a four- tooth ewe was found dead, lying in a perfectly natural position (as indeed they are nearly always found), tbe wool parting from the ekin at tbe least touch. My shepherd examined this ewe carefully and on opening the windpipe there was no appearance of the usual lung worm, bnt, strange to say, there were two grub-like insects of a yellowish color, half an inch long, and the thickness of a lead pencil. This is tbe first time that I have seen or heard of such a thing infecting sheep." Hawera poundkeeper inserts a notice. New Year's Gifts and Christmas Presenfa afc H. G. Pitcher's.— Advt.

Estra strong Silver Case Eotherams at H. G-. Pitcher's. Price. .£6 63, £6 10s.— Ad. Serviceable cheap Watch, "The Egmont," at H. G. Pitcher's. 21s each. — Advt.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills are beyond all doubt the roost valuable and most convenient medicines that travellers can take across +he seas to distant climes, for change n? climate and the new conditions and surroundings of life to which they will be exposed p ill assuredly give rise to great disturbances of the system and to puch eapecial morbid states of the blood and constitution generally as will render the use of these effectual remedies highly necessary, for tbe/ will find in them a remedy and safe mea^s of relief in most of the diseases which afflict the human race, and with them at hand they may be said to have a physician always at their call. — Advt.

The SUN BAKING POWDEE eclipses all others.— _

A^serious fire occurred at Akaioa on thelJrd instant, which destroyed tbe wholesale store belonging to Mr. Daly, together with the Akaroa Boating Club's shed. The store was insured for £300, and the contents for £350, in tbe Liverpool, London, and Globe. The working apparatus of the Sports and Regatta Committee and four out-rigger and four four-oared boats were destroyed. The insurance on the boats and shed is £50 in tbe South British. The loss is estimated at £60.

At Wednesday's meeting of tbe Taranaki County Council, Mr. Kyngdon asked the chairman if he had taken a solicitor's opinion with regard to the rating of native land. The Chairman replied that he had instructed the aouncii's solicitor to take the necessary steps for the recovery, if possible, of the rates under "The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act." Tbe clerk remarked that he had already had one native gentleman wait upon him in a great flurry. Mr. Gray enquired if the claim would be made the natives. The Chairman said it would be from the Public Trustee.

The Sanday Sohool picnic in connection with the Church of the Brethern at Manaia did not take place on Tuesday as originally planned, but was, owing to the roughness of the day, held under the friendly shelter of the Drill Hall. The games were, therefore, necessarily re. Btricted in tbeir number, but the slippery state of the floor perhaps was the innccent cause ot quite as muoh merriment as would have been had at an outdoor picnic. The huge iced tbree.decKer cake, which had been on show in Mr. Stevenson's window for the previous week and there causing no end of speculation into the next marriage, was sampled as only hungry children can try a delicacy. Tbe tables were very liberally supplied and all the children Beemed to enjoy themselves wonderfully well considering their cramped playground. — Manaia correspondent.