THE HOSPITAL EXHIBITION.

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

THE HOSPITAL EXHIBITION.

Now that the holidays arß over it is necessary that the promotion of the Hospital Exhibition be pushed forward if the affair is to be a success. Time is rapidly passing, and there is not muoh oj it to be lost if there its to be & creditable display arranged by the 24th May. So far as we are aware only one committee has yet met, but others ought to be up and doing. It may not be generally known that the first member of each subcommittee was appointed to act as convener, and that therefore he is in the main responsible for the work of the subcommittee. In regard to help from outside the borough, we think that may very reasonably be hoped for to a considerable extent, in the first place because tbe subscriptions already received are an earnest and a<proof oi widespread interest in the projoct. In the^nex't place, we suggest that there is a claim to support because the whole district will have a voice in the control and management of the institution^' At the outset, indeed^ the whole of Taranaki hospital district will have power in the matter, but we take it that practically this will resolve itself into a system of management on the advice of the representatives of the borough and oounty. But 'should the day come when the institution would have a separate board of management, fcbis will have to be made, representative of the whole of the contributing district. The hospital will be a district hoßp\t,a\, m&aagecL by the people of tbe district ia the interests of the district, and therefore the appeal for assistance is to the whole district, and we have no doubt that the institution will be made worthy of the place. Bat whatever may be tbe merits of a proposal or the strength of » claim, there must be a definite lead given by some who are willing to do the work, and that is why committees have been appointed... These, as we say, should lobo no time in getting matters into shape for the exhibition, the mote especially because a start ought soon to be made with the building. The sum in hand, together with a vigorous start tor supplementing it, wonld quite justify a commencement.

The main break on tbe Eltbam-Kapcnga road, we are informed, received the engineer's (Mr Stewart) immediate attention, ie bo far as having suitable tiribe* sent to the soene for tbe reconstruction of a new bridge, but, alas ! the materiaUieß by the road side awaiting the "artfeaßi while settlers and others are loud io their complaints at the unnecessary delay in opening the road ; and jdstly so. "Why should this work be held back, overlooked, or neglected ?

On Saturday night when the Palmer Company gave us (our Normanby correspondent writes) their promised return visit, the hall was fairly crowded and the reception most cordial ; aye, even to enthusiasm, every vocal item being encored and in some cases doubly. In faot if Mr Palmer would or could only sing and tell 11 yarns " till Normanbviteß were satisfied he would have to continue till Doomsday. Besides which tbe programme was as promised (another unusual thing) entirely changed in every particular, the scenes being new, varied, and beautiful, and tho audience showed their warm appreciation from begining to end of the entertainment. Mr Palmer and his colleagues oan come back when they like : there is a house waiting for them.

The unemployed in Chnatcburoh are taking a very bigh hand. The Lyttelton Times of Tuesday, recording a meeting at tbe Cathedral square lamp-post the previous day, gives the following utterances by a Mr Whiting :— " He was satisfied as long as the men remained quiet nothing would be done for them ; the only way was to keep on agitating. He thought that the offer to find work at Bealey was a most dastardly one. and he called upon the men to keep away aLd demand work close at band. He remarked that it was better to die fighting than to die starving, and said that if they found it necessary to take Buch a step, there was no State army here to oppose them. Mr Powell also spoke, and said that since Mr Wbiting bad been speaking, news had reached bias that Mr Seddon would meet the men at the Bureau at 12 o'clock on Wednesday. That mußt not interfere with tbe agitation, Though ho was not satisfied witb what was being done, be must admit that the present Government was better than any preceding it. He called on the men to stand firm and not go to Bealey." The Minister, after hearing of these utterances, absolutely refused to see Powell, who on a previous occasion had been ordered out of a deputation by an officer of the Labour Bureau. Tbo result of the Minioter's firmness was that when Powell and Wbiting appeared as usual to demand from the lamp-post that they be given work in Ohristchurcb, and not at the Bealey, they were without an audience.