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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2350, 11 February 1893, Page 2

ALFBET) B\TJ#K LAND IND SOW, Eatmarkkt, AJbsland. aUCTIONEEBS AND* COMMISSION AGENTS. Parriculariv engaged in sale of Live Stock Grains, Hides, Wool, Sheepskins, Talum, and all Farm Produce. Jsf Eligible Farms and Sheep Runsi^Fsal?. Established lßs4^|r n (JBBR ftjFT AIT, ■*-*' Chemist a|:f DBUGGtisjr, will ehirtlyN remote to iwe^autes in Messrs VtajJOner aVI SuUon's Buildings^^igh-Htree^jJttvTwa'r

NEWS AND NOTES — «. Pressure on space and shortness of time, the Star being published at 2 o'clock on Saturdays, compelß us to hold over articles on Brisbane by a gentleman in Hawera who has recently visited that city ; Okaiawa Correspondent's notes ; Waitara correspondence ; letter on silver question ; and other interesting matter. The Hawera Band give an open-air concert this evening. The Minister of Public Works is expected to visit Taranaki next week. Mr. E. Blackburne to-day showed us a duck egg weighing 50z., a record one, we think. Rouen is the breed. Key. Mr. Tudor, who for 20 years has been in Wanganui, is resigning his position as incumbent of the Anglican Church tbsre. A Manaia lady begs to acknowledge, for the Cathoho bazaar, the following prizes : — Mr. John Muir, bullock ; Mr. Barnard, silver jam Bpoon ; a lady, pair silver butter knives ; a gentleman, velvet-pile table cover ; Mr. M. Bolger, £1. On Friday Messrs. Fairs and O'Connell were driving on the Normanby road when the horse suddenly became restive, having, it is supposed, been attacked by a bot fly, and swerved down an embankment. The occupants of the vehicle were thrown out, but escaped without serious hurt. A "surprise party" of ladies and gentlemen visited Mr. Pierard's farm near Normanby on Friday afternoon. Two or three trap loads and about sixteen on horseback made up the party. They were well received, and the afternoon was spent in a very pleasant manner. The visitors returned to town about 8.30. A telegram states, that Olive Jago, the little daughter of T. Jago, of Masterton, was very seriously burned through her clothes catching fire while changing her dress in a bedroom. Her screams attracted her mother's attention, and she was also badly burned in rescmug the child. The house caught fire and narrowly esoaped destruction. A meeting of members of tbe Hawera 'Cycling Club was held on Thursday evening. Rales were adopted and officers for the ourrent year elected : Mr. Major, president ; Mr. Trimble, captain ; Mr. H. Elliott, secretary and treasurer ; and Messrs. Fantham and button, committeemen. It was resolved that tbe uniform be gray, with navy blue stockings, and that the club colors be blue and black. Club runs are to be held fortnightly, commencing on the 19th instant. We hear that a great many of the houses in Brisbane are built in a peouliai manner. The white aut is very troublesome and very destructive to timber, and it is tbe custom with many builders, we understand, to drive piles for a foundation and cover the top of the piles with zinc oi tin, with overhanging edges, to prevenl the ants working to the super-structure On this the buildiDgs are rested, with nc fastening in many cases but their owr weight, any punctuie of the metal coveriog being avoided in order to mini' mise the cbanoes of the ants ascending In such cases the flood waters would nc doubt very Boon life the buildings. We gather from our exchanges thai Mons. Blouett's (" Max O'Rell ") toui through New Zealand is quite a con tiuuation of the success that has attendee him since he first delivered his now-famec humorous lectures. He i 3 described bj many competent critics to be a more entertaining and quaint lecturer than tbe great American humourist Charles Farrei Browne, better known as " Artemuf Ward." " Max O'Rell " paid a bi«h com pliment to New Zealanders t when at ont of his entertainments he said that be found their literary and perceptive facul ties were, so far as he had opportunities o judging, of the highest order. No doubl but that bis Hawera audience will b( quite up to the above statement. A correspondent has forwarded us the following for insertion :—": — " We are asked to state, with referenoe to our paragraph of a few issues back criticising the actioc of the Wanganui Education Board it letting a reserve in the Ngaire districl without public notice thereof, that the whole of the board's reserves consist oi Bchool cites of small area, and that the board has usually avoided advertising or these grounds only. The expense oi advertising almost any of those let for the past year or so would have swallowed uj the iacome from them for perhaps twe years. There may be some mieappre beneion (it is suggested) in supposing that the Eduoation Board has the contro of larger reserves, for these are managed by the Education Commissioners, not by the board." There is a good deal oi misapprehension about this paragraph There has been no reference of tbe kind to the Wanganuf Eduoation Board, oi any other Education Board, nor to re. serves of the character referred to. Oui remarks applied to a section of 200 acre* or thereabouts. We understand that a letter has beet received from Mr. Tennjson Smith making overtures for holding a four or sh nights Temperance Mission in Hawera, tc oommence on Sunday evening, the 26tL inst. In order to try and secure the lecturer not only a hearty welcome, bul also support in his wofk, (for he is bearing the entire financial ii'sU), a publio meeting has been called for next Monday evening which is to be held in the Presbyteriar Church at 8 o'clock, when it is to be hoped that not only temperance worker* and friends, but others who may value Mr. Smith as a lecturer, will be preseni and give tbeir assistance towards organ, ising a successful campaign. As most ol our readers have heard of the wouderful successes that have attended Mr. Smith in every town he has visited in this colon y during his lecturing tour, it will be needless for us to add more ; no doubt, he will be well supported by the residents oi Hawera and surrounding districts. Mr T. Hall has a notice of interest to persons who owe longstanding accounts. Miss L. G. Harrison announces pre peredness to give tuition on violin. Furnished apartments wanted* Egmont Farmers' Union Manaia stock sale is postponed on account of Hawera races. , , _ Grand selection of Engagement and Dress Rings, at H. Gr. Pitcher's.— Advt. Eotheram's English Levers, £5 ss, .£6 6s, £G 10a, £7 10s, and £22, at H. G. Pitcher's. Serviceable cheap Watch, The Egmont/ at H. G. Pitcher's. 21s each.— Advt. On account of Hawera races, Mr. Newton King's Eahotu cattle sale will be held on Tuesday, 14tb, instead of 15th, as on cards