NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2395, 6 April 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

There was a good attendance at tbe Gymnaßmm laßt evening.

We have to thank the Railway Department for a oopy of the time-table for April.

Tbe rainfall at Manaia for March was 9 09 inches on five days, tbe maximum being 6 35 on the 11th.

Mr, Brooker, of Manaia, is, we are glad to say, convalescent, and wai able to be up yesterday for a short time.

The ordinary meeting of the Mueioal Society will be held this evening. Members of the committee are particularly requested to attend.

Tbere was no meeting of the Borough Council last evening, only his Worship tbe Mayor and four councillors attending ; and tbe adjourned meeting will be held on Wednesday next.

A well-known Hawera " sport " has just returned from a two-days' shooting trip, He dealt considerable havoc amongst the feathered tribe, coming home with between 50 and 60 pigeonß hanging to hiß beU.

Messrs John McNairn and Co., Glasgow, in their fortnightly cable of the Home markets, dated London, 23rd March, report :— " Cheese holders are very firm at 545. Butter market dull ; difficult to sell."

At tbe fourth sitting of the Postal Conference, the Hon. J. G. "Ward said that unless some company would carry a cable through tbe Pacific, the interests in Canada, America, and England were bo great that it would be necessary for these countries to construct a cable line themselves.

The watch- guessing competition in connection with tbe Hawera Fire Brigade picnic and sports caused a good deal of interest, and Borne of the guesses were very near the mark. The time at which tbe watch stopped was 16$ minutes past seven; and three persons guessed a quarter past seven, which time was tbe nearest 6ent in. Two ladies were amongst the successful entrants.

At the session of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, sitting at Auckland , a resolution waß passed assuring a deputation representing the New Zealand Alliance that the members of tbe order were determined during Parliamentary elections to vote only for candidates who were prepared to give direct veto in connection with the liquor traffics, and that without compensation. A telegram irom Dunedin says that the skull and bones of a man have been found near the Sew Hoy Big Beach Company's dredge. Tbe place were they were found was an old claim which had not been worked for over 20 years, and which had been filled up by the great flood in 1865, when several diggers were drowned in tbe Shotover River. It is surmised that tbe remains may be those of an old digger named John Gribbe, a native of Hackney Wicks, London, who was drowned 20 years ago.

All hope of the safety of tbe threemasted schooner Maile, which left Launceston for Wangaroa. Bay of Islands, in February laet, and has not since been heard of, has been abandoned. Tbe master of the vessel was W. S. Lane, whose wife and family live in Ponsonby. There was a crew of 10 men. The first mate, Mr E. T. Lair:!, was a young man, and his wife and child were passengers on board tbe schooner. Amongst the crew was C. Earquhar. eon o? Captain "W. Earquhar, of the welf-known Auckland steamer Clansman. Tbe Maile was insured for £500 in the New Zealand Insurance Office.

At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery on Tuesday, a letter was received from the authorities of the Anglican Melanesia Mission, offering to take on their vessel, the Southern Cross, any help which tbe Presbytery might wish to send to the authorities and to send to natives of tbe Presbyterian mission at New Hebrides, in view of the recent cyclone there. Tbe Southern Cross, however, left for tbe islands on Monday : thus the letter, tbongh received in time, was too late wben laid before the Pre3bytery. It was resolved to forward it to the General Assembly, and communicate with the Committee of Belief in Sydney.

Messrs. Budge and Good sell stock at Kaponga. As will be seen by advertisement Mr. D. N. Scott has taken over the business of Messrs. Newton Fairs & Co., booksellers, stationers, &c, which will be resumed on Saturday next, >vhen subscribers can receive their usual newspapers, periodicals. Ac.

Mr. A. H. Moore, Opunake, the wholesale agent for the 'Slue Cross tea, has an announcement in this issue. General servant wanted. Messrs J. Boyd and Co. have an impoitant notice elsewhere. The New Zealand Clothing Factory have a replace advertisement in this issue.

Rotberam's English Levers, £5 ss, £6 6s, £Q 10s, £8 10s, and J6lB, at H. G. Pitcher's.

The Egmont, 21d each, a cheap and serviceable watch, at H. G. Pitcher's.. — Ad.

Barometers, 18s, 203, 30s, 48s, 60s, and 67s 6d, H. G. Pitcher's, Hawera. — Advt.

PROFESSOR LIEBIG sxye:— "We shall never know how men were first diectei to the u=e of Coffee, but we may consider the article so remarkable for its action- on the -brain nnd the substanceof the orgaas of motion as an element of food for organs yet unknown, which uvi dcs tined to convert the blood into nervous subs' ances and tbns recruit; the energy of the moving an 1 thiakiog faculties:" If jou wish to benefit yourself you could not do better than drink Crease's Al Cofs-ee. it is everywhere in lib and 21b tins. For Sold the beat.

Mr. W. Sutton, of Otakeho, has been missing from hie home since 6 o'olock yesterday morning. He had then left his house without a hat, and has not since been heard of, though search parties were out the whole day.

An error crept into our contributor's notes of the encampment at Palmerston. The Hawera Mounted Bifles arrived in camp at 5 o'olock on Friday morning, not 10 o'olock on Thursday evening. Tbe troop were travelling in trnoks all night, both going to tbe encampment and returning from it.

There was a fair attendance at Manaia bazaar yesterday afternoon and evening, and eatisfaotory business was done. Towards the close of the evening, Mr Budge auctioned off a number of basket suppers, whioh proved a novelty, especially to those who purobased. A basket was filled with edibles, and a ticket enclosed in it, with a young lady's name thereon, with whom tbe purchaser had to sh&re the supper. One gentleman, going by the size of the basket, invested half-a-crown at the hammer, and on exploring the contents found a well stripped ham bone, laid in a couple of cabbage leaves, And surmounted by a baked potato. In order to give the ladies who have been coidnming the bazaar a rest, a grand prmfenade concert will be held to-morrow when all sales of goods will be suspended and tbe hall thrown open free of charge from 7 o'clock. A number of ladies and gentlemen ftom Hawera, as well as the best local talent, have promised to contribute vocal aud instrumental items, so that an enjoyable evening may be looked forward to. On Saturday evening tbe bazaar will terminate, and all goods which ore not sold or raffled will be stored away with a view to holding a sale of work at a future date.