NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2436, 26 May 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Cable news printed on fourth page.

The Dunedin butchers, owing to the shortness of stock, have raised the price of beef a half-penny, and of mutton a penny.

The Hokitika-Greymoutb railway was opened on Wednesday. The event is reported to have been a splendid success in every way.

The following is the estimated strength of political parties in Brisbane :—Ministenal 38, labor 16, opposition 8, independent 8.

Progress is very slow in the horsestealing cases, aod, as will be seen by the report, it is feared that the oases will dra«* over a long period. °

Messrs John McNairn and Co. report under date, May 8 :— Cheese— Prices are now 54a; market better; good enquiry The butter market is dull, and it is difficnlt to sell.

A deputation from the Otago Education Board waited on the Minister of Education this week, and asked that the working average instead of the strict average should be reeorted to in calculating the capitation paid to boards, and that this should be taken into account in the payment of capitation for the current quarter. The Minister said he thought the request of the board required consideration, and be wonld confer with his colleague, the Colonial Treasurer, as to what could be done.

Saturday's elections in Queensland were favorable to the labor party. At the E.M. Court this morning Mr Harre and Mr Walter Wilson were each £n6d 20s and costs for having driven sbeep infected with lice.

Tbe following will be the Hawera team to play Patea at the latter place tomorrow : — Wray, E. Lucena, .Smith, Babbago, Collins, Boyd, Holmwood, Livingston, C. Baker, J. Bnahanan, A. Ooffey, Moore, J. Hobbs, Bartlett, and T. "Winks.

Settlers at Meiemere complain with a deal of justification of^ the Btate of tha road leading through Hie Maori reserve. Eecently a good deal of formation has been done on the road, and the result ofl\ tbe past bad weather has been to make' the road a perfect quagmire, impaseable' for vehicles and almost likewise for* borßemen. Were a track formed through the bush it would remedy matters, and tbe road should be attended to at once.

At the R.M. Court this morning a case was called on in which the plaintiff, ft Bettler at Otakebo, bad travelled 15 miles to appear, but the defendant was absent, tbe summons not having been served. The R.M. demanded the reason, and was informed tbat owing to tbe urgency of police duties, there bad been no time to serve the summona. Mr Caplen, who appeared for plaintiff, said that the way in whioh the bailiff work was carried out was really scandalous. Tbe police, he admttted, were not to blame, as their police daties occupied B&j.::'+jpasvy °f th 6^ ti me *bsi fche^f^P^olutely unabte to gi& proper attention to tbe ba^Jiff work. Mr Itettle 6aid he had' already made representation to the Justice Department on tbe matter ; and be would again, bring it under attention. He quite agreed tbat tbere ought to be a baiiy|. Tbiß was an especially bard case. £ The Union Steam Ship Cotopany list now arranged for a regular service between the ports of this colony and Calcutta and Singapore. Auckland, has been fixed as the first port of call in New Zealand, and Wellington will probably' be the place of departure for the outward voyage. The steamers will bring general Indian merchandise, and the return cargo of the first steamer will consist of horses. The movements of tha steamers, so far as this year's operations af<^ concerned, sire as follows :— The chartered cargo-steam!? Maori, 4000 tons, loads at Calcutta in Jo^e or July, and is due here in August. After discharging at tbe various Southern port's, she ljeaves Wellington with horses in September, iq time to reach Jpalcutta and complete^her outward loading again early in November. The s.s. Eotokino, now under charter to the Net** r Zealand Shipping Company, and on a voyage from London to Australia with general cargo, goes ap to Calcutta to participate, in the November loading. She clears the Hoogbly a fortnight after the departure of tbe Maori, and will therefore put in an appearance here in December. — Auckland Star.

The Tyson drunkenness cure received i, " showing up " in a Melbourne Dourt the other day which is not likely ;o improve the business of the Company .rhich is running tbe concern.' The case irose through the Pharmacy Board mingr Harry Edwin P^ate/ secretary to 'Dr Tyson's Sanitorium Company," ou i charge of having sold a medicine or | i compound containing poison without laving labelled it as such. The evidence sailed by tbe prosecution show»yci that Vfr Charles C. Oke, contractor^ of Beechvortb, purchased of the defendant when in Melbourne two small^jottles of Dr Tyaon'B Irunkenness " curV" for ,£lO, He took hem home, anctf some of the medie'ine was [iven to a brother-in-law' named George Jtraughfair, an engineer in the Kew ißTy'lum, who was on leave of absenoe^nd staying withanother relative, aMr Warren, also of Beechworth. Shortly after 'taking the cure Straughair died, and though death tvas not attributed to the medicine the both bottles were seized by the police, and ;he contents analysed, and an inquest held, rbe medicine was found to be composed shiefly of tinoture of nux vomica with strychnine and brucine, and a tablespoonul would prove fatal to anyone, whilst iccording to the directions sent with the nedicine the patient was to take doses of our drops from one and two drops from he other bottle. Counsel for tbepros6ouion also eought to prove that the comneroial valae of the two bottles of modiine was but 2s, but the Bench disallowed he qaeation. The Bench held tbe case iroved, and fined tbe defendant £5 and 210 10s costs. Nolan, Tonks and Co. sell sundries toQorrow. The Eginont Farmers' XTnion will hold a torse fair in the Union-street yards tolorrow. Owing to the numerous entries, he time for starting the sale has been ltered from 1 p.m. to 12.30. Mr D. N. Scott, bookseller and stationer, as a now advertisement in this issue. Messra Budge and Good will hold a sale l their rooms, Manaia, to-morrow. Opunake poundkeeper has a notice in his issue. Rotherham's English Levers, £5 sa, £6 6s, 16 10a, £3 10s. and £18, at H. G. Pitcher's. Chronographs, nickle, 50a ; Ascot,'.£6 5s nd £8 10a; Waltham, .£l2. At Bf. G. itcber's.— A.dvt. The Egmont, 21d each, a cheap and sericeable watch, at H. G. Pitcher's.— Ad.