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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2393, 5 April 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND, NOTES. > 9 ♦ On tho front, page of< this issue will be found a budget of interesting " Wayside Notes.'.' Notice is given in the Gazette of the laying off of roads in the Huiakama block. The proceeds at; the Catholic bazaar at Manaia last night, as far as returns were made up, exceeded £40, The price of the Melbourne baß been reduced to a penny, a great innovation for tbe leading paper ol Victoria. The flaxmill at Tongaporotu is starting again. The hands were to leave Waitara on Tuesday, our correspondent reports. The rain fall at Kaponga for the month of March wbb 12*25 inches. Eain fell on seven days ; maximum fall, 10 inohes, on the 9th. Messrs N. Fairs and Co., booksellers and stationers, have disposed of their business to Mr Nimmo Scott, and the premises will bo closed for a few days to permit of stock-taking. An advertisement in another column notifies that the Taranaki Agricultural Society, in conjunction with the Horticultural Society, will hold o combined Autumn Flower and Produce Show on Thursday, April 13, in the Drill Hall, New Plymouth. Coghlan, tbe Government statist of New South Wales, estimates that during 1892 the population of New Zealand increased by 16,375; New South Wales by 31,750 ; Queensland 10,952 ; South Australia 10,935 ; Viotoria 9,525. The increase for Australasia is 85,452. Blocks v., ix., and xiii., Nsatimarn Snrvey District, have been proclaimed as set apart for settlement. Tbis is a preparatory step to allow of raoney being spent under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act in opening up roads. The blocks contain 49,,10Q acres, In a cricket match played the other day between Clifton and New Plymouth, our correspondent reports, Clifton made 126, of which Wells contributed 32, McKenzie 15, Skelton 29, and Knight 17. New Plymouth could only respond with 62, of which Attrill put up 22, and in tbe second innings were not out for 29. Ogle and Wella did tbe bowling for Clifton. Mr. W. Nelson writes to tbe Napier Telegraph : — Sir,-Some six months back a paragraph appeared in your paper to the effect that Nelson Bros, propose a tax on New Zealand meat, J wrote to London with the object of ascertaining the source of tbis absurdity. I have now received a reply from my brother, Mr. E. M. Nelaon, as follows: — "I know nothing whatever about this suggestion. It is true I have advocated for many years past a commercial federation of the Empire, which means Free trade as nearly as we can get it witbin the Empire and Protection outside. With such a policy Argentine | mutton would be tased, and New Zealand j come in free." | Young girl wanted at Opunake. Notice re cab and cart licenses is given Messrs Hogg Pros and B,reehen, tailors^ Wanganui, have a notice elsewhere. Manaia sale by Messrs Nolan, Tonka and Co. to-morrow. Mr C. E. Major has several alterations in his advertisement. Mr J. Henderson, saddler, has a replace adrertisement in this issue. Meeting of Hawera Beohabite Tent has been postponed till Thursday. : Rotheram'a English Levers, 55, £6 6s, £6 103, £8 10s, and £18, at H. G- Pitcher's. The Egmont, 21d each, a cleap and serviceable watch, at E. G. Pitcher's..— Ad. Barometers, 18s, 20s, 30s, 48s, 60s, and 67s $d, H. G. Pitcher's. Hawera.-A.dvt.