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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2321, 9 January 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES. i : i

+ The Manawatu Kaoing Club balance* sheet shewed an estimated profit of on the recent meeting. '.; Daring the past season the Wellington Acclimatisation Society have oolleoted over 100,000,000 eggs, and over 80 per ceut. of them were hatched out. Nearly \ 800,000 fry have been distributed. The proposal of Lord Onßlow to legislate in the direction of requiring frozen mutton 1 to be branded is being criticised in London. Mr. Perceval, Agent-General for New 1 Zealand, ridicules the idea of branding or dyeing carcases. In reference to the recent walking match at Normanby, it is stated that Hayward's backers were willing to agree to a postponement of the event provided the amount oi the stakes was doubled; but the proposal did not come to anyL thing. A bore at the Wanganui Freezing Works having been put down 365 feet without striking artesian water, operations r have been abandoned. It is now intended ' to pump water for the use of the works, as it rises to about eight feet from the Eurface. I, A Wellington architect is reported to have recently patented a useful invention, whereby the sashes of windows can be turned completely round, so as to enfible the panes of glass to be cleaned from the inside of the building. In the invention the stops and parting headings are hinged, allowing the window to be swung round on a pivot. s In connection with an advertisement in i another column, offering ostriches for sale, '_ ifc may be of interest to our readers to ' know that the last sale of feathers m London realised The best feathers brought i>ls per ounce, ani a good bird will give 6oz of prime feathers and 14oz of second and third quality. Any ordinary fence will keep the birds in. The annual guessing competition at the Hawera Bakery came to a successful a conclusion on Saturday night. Several nice cakes were offered as prizes. The. bottle on being opened was found to '" contain 493 lollies. Mr. Falkner took first prize with a guess of 495, and Messrs , Sole, Bone, and V^ers an^ Master * Whittaker also received prizes for other near guesses. 3 The Mayor of Wellington has decided to call a public meeting at the Opera I House for the 24th ioßt., for the purpose a of discussing a proposal that the great public services of the late Sir Harry Atkinson Bhould be commemorated by a 1 statue to be ereoied in Wellington. After r the death of Sir Harry Atkinson there was a generally expressed desire that the services of the deceased statesman should be recognised by tbe ereotion oi a statue, and the Mayor has reoently received several communications from various parts of the colony suggesting that a meeting should be called to consider the matter. Tbe Blip on the Manawatu Gorge is at the mouth of the second tunnel from the Aehurst side. About a thousand tons of earth partially blocks up the entrance. , To-day 20 men were engaged in removing tbe debris, and it is expected that it will take them ten days to conclude the work. The train from Palmerston stopped a few yards from the slip, and passengers i alighted and proceeded half wav through I the tunnel, tbe train from the Woodville side picking them up, and the journey thus being continued after a quarter of an hour's delay. Judging by the loose appearance of the earth near the present slip, it is probable that another one may take plaoe shortly. The Wanganui Railway Sick Benefit Society's annual report for 1892, states that the expenditure has been heavy ; the committee found it necessary to call in a 2s levy to meet tbe claims on the sooiety. £280 10s 8d has been paid by the treasurer up to November 12th. Three applications from members have been made to the committee for assistance from the benevolent fund; after oarefal con* sideration by committee, the sums of £5 and £8 were given in two cases. The committee consider application for assistanoe from this fund should only be made in oases of real distress, or long illness of a member. Appeal is made to all nonmembers to join. The following officers have been elected for the ensuing year : — Messrs Sewell, President ; Ewing, vicePresident ; Startup, Secretary ; Pepper, Treasurer ; Evans, Allan, Curtis, Meacbin, Liddle, Gichard, and White, Committee ; Barm and Bartlett, Trustees ; Fergusson and Wright, Auditors.

Mr, F. Pirani, of Palmereton North, baa been appointed a member of the Wellington Land Board. Mr. J. Kenwortby was in Hawera for a sbort time to-day. His many friends will be glad to learn that he is so far able to get about, bt.i> the effects of the accident are still very inconvenient. The Manawata Standard eayg it is certain that another Minister will be appointed in the Upper Honse before next session from amongst the recently nominated members. We should not be surprised to learn that the choice had fallen on Mr. Montgomery. The other day (sayg the Foxfcon Herald^ the baby girl of Mr James Liddell, aged four months, died under somewhat peenliar circumstances. Mrs Liddell had given the baby a piece of rag eoaked in a mixtare of sugar and oatmeal to suck, and, the baby being quiet, she took her breakfast and went out to a neighbor. On her return the baby was dead, with the mass of rag stuck fast in its mouth. How many people in New Zealand, we wander, knew how the Bell Coleman refrigerating machine came to be invented, and thus added an industry to the export trade of the colony? Singularly enough, it appears to have sprang up out of the distillation of shale oil, although the two undertakings seem at first sight to have as little connecrion with each other as Tenterden Steeple with Goodwin Sands. It was id devising refrigerating maffiinery for condensing the volatile products of shale that Mr. Coleman was led to the invention of the machine which has worked bo important a revolution in the fortnneo of New Zealand. Such, as least, is the statement made by tbe president of the Fharmaceutioal Congress of New Zealand, and it is worth making a note of it. — Hawke's Bay Herald. The Warngar correspondent of the St. Arnaud Times (Victoria) draws the attention of shire connoillors to the new roadforming machine introduced by the Stawell Shire Council into those parts. This j machine, under the management of Mr. Fletcher has just completed the formation of three miles 70 chain of road-forming in my immediate neighborhood in the short spaoe of four weeks and a half at a tost of about 6s per chain (loading or gravelling to be let by tender). By the usual mode of letting by contract it would have taken a few years to have that much work done, in a continuous line, ont of tbe funds available by the conn oil. This is a long span to do at one time, and it is finished in workmanlike manner. The council are to be complimented on becoming the owners of such a machine. The inspection of this piece of road forming would repay anyone interested in having good roads if they would pay a visit to the spot, and judge for themselves as to what can be done at a nominal cost. The Wellington Post is severe on tbe Minister for Lands. It says : — Tbe state of disorganisation and arrears into which tha Lands Department has notoriously been permitted to drift is well exemplified in the faot that the Wellington Land Board has been permitted to become reduced to a number barely sufficient to constitute a quorum. The accidental or unavoidable absence of a single member now puts a stop to business. There is no emergency man available. Mr. MoCardle's seat has been vacant for months. Mr. Fitzherbert's seat has now also been vacated. Tbe Minister is, perhaps, unaware of the fact. In ordinary course, so much is correspondence and business in arrear, we do not suppose he will become officially apprised of the existence of these vacanoies for a long time yet to oome, unle&s some special non-offioial means of attracting hifi attention to their existence is resorted to. A deputation from the Board and those having business to do with it might profitably interview Mr. M'Kenzie on the wharf when he next arrives in Wellington, and represent to him the inconvenience arising from the continuance of the present state of affairß. It is no use writing official letters on this Bubjeot, or on any other which demands prompt attention from the Lands Department. An ex- convict named Meikle, who some time ago was sentenced by Judge Ward for sheep stealing, is now lecturing on what he applies very rough terms toThe Wellington Presß thus same up the main features of Meikle 's lecture, and expresses the hope that the matter will be brought before Parliament: — " The main features of his caee as disclosed by him, and which he brought prominently forward, are that he was prosecuted by a wealthy company with whose represntatives he had been on very bad terms ; that tbe counsel engaged against him were solicitors for the company ; that the sheriff who struck the jury was auditor for the company ; that tbe ohief witness was a man who was promised £50 by tbe company upon a conviction being obtained; that the evidence, except of this witness, was very weak ; and that the Judge who presided at the trial was heavily indebted to tbe company. Mr. Meikle claims to be held in the high respect by his neighbours, and the fact that about 800 people were found in a small town listening to and applauding him through a speech of three bonrs' duration demonstrates that there was something in his remarks wbioh commanded respect and sympathy." Orchardisfcs who have suffered — and who have not ? — by the ravages of the little beetle which has attacked the apples this year, will be interested to learn that Mr. Eowe has been in correspondence with tbe Victorian Department of Agriculture oq tbe subject. Mr. Eowe thought he identified the beetle with one described in French's book on the destructive insects of Victoria, and in a letter said so, but this is not agreed with by the expert. The Victorian Secretary for Agriculture writes under date, 29th December :—": — " I ha-ve the honor to inform you tbat the Entomologist states the insects referred to are not Doticus pestilens as supposed, but belong to .the Group Halticidae, to which the well-known turnip ' flea ' <t beetle also belongs. The best plan /or its riddance is to poison the leaves and fruit of infested plants, and as the eggs are deposited on tbe underside of the leaves care should be taken that the spray reaches there, as tbe young, when hatched, commence to eat greedily. BlundelPa Paris Green lib to 180 gallons of water for spraying. In the early morning shake the beetles on to sacking dipped in kerosene and to en destroy them by boiling water. Keep tbe orchard clear of weeds and rubbish as these beetles breed on weeds especially those introduced." We understand tbat in this district spraying of kerosene and soft soap considerably watered down, has proved successful." Married couple wanted for farm at Tongaporuta. PROFESSOR LIEBEG says: —"We shall never know how men were first directed to the use of Cofiee, but. we may consider the article co remarkable for its action on the braic and the substance of the organs of motion as an element of food for organs yet unknawn, which tire destined to convert the blood into nervous Bnbstaoces and tbus recruit the energy of the moving ani thinking faculties." If you wish to benefit yoursalf you could not do better than drink Crease's Al Comtek. Sold everywhere in lib and 21b tica. For it is the best. PERSONS OF DELICATE CONSTIrUTION, who are obliged to abstain from jrdinary coffee, should try C&kasb's Tabmaoum or Dandelion Coffee, which is •ecommended by the highest Medical Authorities as a very valuable beverage 'or those suffering from weak digestion, latulency, nervousness, etc. Not to know s aot to have.