NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2419, 5 May 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

We have received telegraphic advic that a list of the successful tenderers fo the West Coast Settlement Beserve leases lately offered has been mailed to v from Wellington, and we hope to be in position to publish the information tc morrow. A great deal of interest is fel in the matter, and therefore we took step to get the information at the earlieipossible date. ; A. report of last meeting of Taranat Land Board, which contains matter c unusual interest, will be found on fourt page. On our fourth page will be found notices to lessors and lessees of datss of meet* ings to fix rents ■ under the West Goat Settlement Reserves Act in respect of lands held by the following:— Donald Clark, Waimate ; Felix Hanger, Hawera ; Frederick Augustus Eel ling, Waimate; William Morshead Symons, Hawera ; Farquhar Finlayson, Hawera; Henry Bettß, Waimate ; William Bigby Woods, Waimate ; Thomas Scott, Waimate ; William Murray Boss, Hawera ; William Thomas Wells, Waimate ; John Michael Hiokey, Opunake; and Andrew Hastie, Waimate. Olif ton beat Stratford in the Cup match on Thursday by 10 points (three tries and a goal from a mark) to nil. We hear of petty pilfering in the western part bf the town, suoh as the clearing of clothes-lines, &o. A boy named Parsons was badly worried by a dog at Ekstahuna on Monday, and is in a precarious state. The transposition of a decimal point in rainfall figures published yesterday ore* dited Manaia with a deluge during April ; 34'6in of course should have read 8*46. A telegram from Ohristchurch says that out of 15 men who had put down their names to go by the Hinemoa to a settlement at Chaslands only four turned up. During last month the estates of twenty* eight persons were placed under the charge' of the Public Trustee, their values ranging from £1 to £1450. It is rumored that another charge of cattle-stealing is likely to come before the court, and that some remarkable revelations as to systematic " lilting " may be expected. Mr F. S. Canning reports having sold section 12, township of Kaponga, together with Commercial Hotel, &0.,, thereon, to Mr. Charles Nicholson, of Gundtown, Auckland, and on account of Mr E. Gallinan, for £1700, cash. All sorts of absurd rumours are afloat about the Inangabua seat. 'We (New Zealand Timeß) have it on the authority of the Premier that Sir Bobert 13 tout has been unanimously selected by the Govern*' ment bb the candidate for tbe Liberal Party for the Inangahua election. A plea of infancy whb put in in the oass of a Maori in a debt case afe the Pafmerston Court on Thursday,' "but when it was stated that he was living in a place of his own, and was married and had two children when he got the goods, the plea was not' persisted in. The Musical Sooiety held a good practice last evening. The choruses of the " Pirates " were gone through, and afterwards the " Exhibition Ode " and the cantata. Mr. Higham has been successful in making a very pretty arrangement of the •• Ode." Auckland's name was on the unpaid forfeit list when be was nominated for the Egmont Steeplechase, consequently there is an objsotion to the horse starting for that race. Bule 81 deals with this matter, the latter portion of which roads thus : — " And bo long as any horse is in the unpaid forfeit list, such horse shall not be. entered or run for any race." The temporary bridge over the Kaupok* onui river on the South road will be completed sufficiently, tor traffic to be resumed to-morrow. The prinoipal span, which is 67 feet in length, was finished yesterday, and the stringers for the short span forming the approach on the Western side were in position, so that to-day should see the planking completed. The reopening of through traffic will be duly appreciated by tbe settlers. The trials of the sheop drenohes were duly commenced on Thursday at Messrs. Goodson Bros.' It was deciied by tbe oommittee to dose fifteen sheep with eaoh drench, apparently equal Bheep being picked out. These, with fifteen others not drenched, were turned out into a special paddock together, so that all will continue in similar circumstances. A similar test is to be made at Mr. McLean's and Mr. Moore Hunter's. It was decided, on tbe motion of Mr T. Pirani, at the Wellington Land Board meeting on Tuesday :—l.: — 1. That applications for blocks of land for small farm homestead associations shall not be entertained until tbe said land is declared open for suoh selection, and at least one month's public notice has been given of suoh fact. That when there is more than one association applying I for one block it shall be deoided by ballot I which association shall have first choice. 2. That with the application for a block of land the association shall forward survoy fees, whioh sum shall be repaid in conformity with sub-seotion 2 of section 05 of the Land Act, 1892. 8. Directly a blook of land is granted to an association tho administration of the affairs of the association, so far as, tbe board deems nooossary, shall vest in tbe Land Board, Provious to tbe ballot for sections, transfers of interests in the association shall only be granted at meetings of tbe Land Board, enbjeot to the following procedure : —A Hat of persons, desirous of becoming a tnombor of any association, who have ruiulo the necaseary declaration, shall bo 'kept byUhe Commissioner' -of CtoWn Lands, and upon a notification being re. oetvod by the board that any member of an association desires to give up bis interest, tho board shall seleot from such. lUt by bnllot the name of any person to fill the vftonnoy, such person to repaj to tbe orlßiri&l member the cost of survey and fitinsi of money he may have legitimately expended in connection with his member* ship. Owing to the Eemont *Bacing Club's Winter Meeting, the Egmont Farmer's' Union will hold their Manaia sale- 6n Tuesday. ' ' - 'i l&grapnt Farmers' Union sell timber, &c., to-morrow. *The cargo of the wrecked Annie T^ijson #ill v ba sold at beo to-morrow, by. Messrs Budge and Good. • - Messrs Nolan, Tonks and'Co's Hawera horse fair to-morrow. ~ : , f Eotherham's English Levers, £5 ss, £6 6s, £6 10a, J6B los, and £18, at H. G. Pitcher's. Chronographs. niekle,:sos,i T ,Asßot;;*6 5s and"£8 l 103; Waltham, JBI2. At H. G Pitcher's.~-Advt. „ - - I The Egrqcwt, 21d eaoh, a cheap and scr- , Yjceable watch, at H. G. Pitcher's..— Ad.

The rink opened on Thursday in the Drill Hall was largely-patronised, and all present enjoyed themselves thoroughiyY 3?ha floor and skates: were 4% first^ML order.. The season stioul^be a 4ffll|| fuceejßftil one. s : "*"**, Miss 0 ' Davie, who has ? been assistant mistress at the Manaia school for the pact seven years, has been appointed bead teacher of the Te Roti school. She has proved herself during her term of office at Manaia, an earnest, capable, and very successful teaoher, and will no doobt acquit herself in her new district to the satisfaction of parentß and ohildren.

As an inetanoe^of the wretched mail* arrangements at H%wera Post Office, we may mention tbatjpn Thursday evening the mails per 7.ss^r&irt -did not reaohithe Post Office until 20 mintttea to 9. The mail was a heavy one, as it usually is,{ and the lad who has to draw jfe op in a hand-cart of course m£de very slow progress. In the day time a friendly -cab or cart often gives a band, burstiU,thV mails are frequently late sorted. liTa 1 time that a change was made, and in" Baying so we are only expressing the opinion of nearly every business man in I tho place.

A suddon death occurred at Tauranga: on Monday night. John' Donnelly,' an old military settler, bad been working on the Opropi road and had, gone home. Wbile unharnessing his horse he fell down. He was oarried into the house, where he died without' recovering consciousness. The cause of death was aodplexy, : for which be bad previously been 'attended by Dr. Bulien. He was 60 yelrf oFnge; snd leaves a widow and son. He Had belonged to the 40th Regiment, bat joined the ' Ist Waikutos in 1868, and qaw active service all through the Maori war.' He, went to Tauranga in 1865, and fought at Te Ranga And the Gate Pah.

The Melbourne Argaq publishes a report, of an extremely interesting interview' which one of its reporters has had with the venerable Dean of Melbourne, who a few days ago eotereS upon his ninety-fifth year. The, aged ecclesiastic is hale" and vigorous, with his memory and mental, faculties undimmed. ., He remembers perfectly, being,-wh«nAohild, in the company of- his |ro^ssKt grandmother, who was borj in*i7(B»,_thufl donstitnting a link of only^wailHpr'flonncictiDg the present epoch wisWibVi/reigtf of Queen Anne; Wben I)etnK*ciir£n©y was.horn id Ireland at the otow^-.iß/t oenjjmsr^he norrors of the FreDo|^y^6lji|ai^v(rere still upon every Tongue. He thinks great or tehible events made more impression upon the public mind in those days. "We did hot forget things so rapidly then"," he remarked to the reporter; 'When Waterloo was fougbfe Dean Macartney was a youth seventeen or eighteen years of age; One of the most striking portions of the interview is that in which Dean Macartney deals with the Irish qae&tion. ,His eminiscencafi go back to the time before the Union, when Grattan's Parliament still flourished on College Green. There must be very few people living who have actually seen Ireland under Home Ru>e, and have survived to see the present attempt to again confer on the country the power of self-government.