NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2454, 15 June 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

On the fourth page is printed an interesling letter from fcbe pen of Mr A. C. Fookes, New Plymouth, on tbe taxation question. A meeting of the general committee of the exhibition is to be held to-morrow eveniDg when a statement of accounts will be submitted, and tbe affair wound up as far as possible. A deputation waited on the Mavot of Chrißtchurch on Tuesday and represented that great hardships were experienced by a number of men with families, who were unable to get work. The Mayor at onoo telegraphed to the Minister for Labour asking if anything could be done for the men. At a meeting at Pahiatua on Tuesday resolutions were passed calling tbe attention of Government to tbe fact that there are a very large number of unemployed in the district, also urging the Government to aesi-t io constructing the main road over tbe range from Pahiatua to Palmer* B ton, and a dray track from Makoci to Pongaroa.

The Marton B.M. has decided that under the New Zealand Btatute a parson cannot be imprisoned a second time on a judgment summonß. ■The Stc&k Bill and other matters which are of interest to the farming community will be considered at a meeting of the A. ami Society on Saturday afternoon At Carterton the other day, after dismissing a charge against a publican for Sunday trading, Mr Hutchison, R.M., directed the police to take proceedings against the man served for falsely representing himself a traveller. The Egmont Gun Club will hold a handicap sweepstake match to-morrow afternoon on the A. and F. Association grounds. Intending competitors are requested to send in their names by T o'clock this evening. The handicapping is in the hands of the committee, and will no doubt give satisfaction. Speaking at Fortrose on Wednesday evening Mr Ward, Colonial Treasurer, said nothing would be more suicidal than to go on .the foreign money market, and he did not believe that the electors would sanction it. Any amount of money was i procurable in the colony at 4 per cent. The following team will represent Normanby in their matob against Hawera on Saturday : — Grant, J. and G. Hayward, V- and F. Riddle, Dale, Moore, Parrant, Portbouse, Williams, P and F. Meredith, Robson, Miller, Porangi. Emergencies, Doherty, King, Hunger. To start a^2.45. Mrs Hale, wife of the teacher of the Egmont Eoad Sohcol, died suddenly on Wednesday from apoplexy, induced by a fright. It appears (the Taranaki News reports) a Maori went to her and aßked her to go to his wife, who was dying, and the sadden shock caused her to (all down in a fit, from wbioh she never recovered consciousness, Now and again reports are ciroulated about phenomenally big pumpkins, potatoes, &0., but an agricultural fact gathered from the Manaia Town District is worthy of record. The Board of that flourishing little town collects £31 10s per annum for grazing fees of 42 cows, which are depastured on the Board's reserves, which comprise an area of three-quarters of an acre. — Correspondent. In the course of his leoture last nighi the Rev. Mr Morley took oocaoion to remark upon the public press of Hawera. During his couple of weeks .visit to the district he had been a careful reader of the newspaper, and he must say that it was very creditable to the distriot, and its style and tone were fair and consistent. We may reasonably feel pleased at such remarks oomiog from so oapable a critic We understand that Mr Osmond who has so Buooessfully represented the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society in this district tor some time past, is now going to Melbourne to make arrangements for the investment of some large boobs of money for his sooiety in the Teranaki Province. In ths event of a large sum of money being lent out by this sooiety it should tend to bring down the prevailing rate of interest. A Dunedin Press telegram says an express train was derailed at St Leonard's, but fortunately only the engine left the rails. The passengers reached town at 10.30. The Palmerston train bad passed over the same spot half ac hour before, therefore there is little doubt that there was deliberate shifting of the points. The train happened to be a few minutes in advance of its time, wherefore the driver slowed down before reaching the town, which he approached at the slowest pace for two years. The passengers apeak in the highest terms of the driver's coolness. Mr Donald Morrison, of Normanby, writes : — I wish, through the columns of your valuable paper to tender my heartfelt thanks to Dr O'Carroll and staff for the skill and kindness with which I have been treated during my stay in the New Plymouth Hospital. I entered that institution with a completely chattered limb, No one who witnessed the ghastly sight doubted for a moment but that I would lose it. I soon discovered that Dr O'OarrolPs foria lies in saving limbs. I am fully convinced that anyone who may bo as unfortunate as I have been cannot be more skilfully treated than I hava bsen under Dr O'Carroll and bis staff. Messrs Budge and Good's Kaponga sale to-morrow. Poison laid on land described in advertisement Borough pouncil invite tenders for breaking ston». Mr G. Parker, advance agent of the Great Surprise firm of photographers— who hays been doing very large business in the South Island— ai rived here yesterday, and is now busily engaged making the necessary arrangements to open in Hawera, for a shoit season. It "will be seen by the business notice in another column that sample pictures can no\r be seen in the shop next door to Mr McNiven, plumber, Regent-street. Ladies' gold watches £6, £7, £8 10s, £10 10a, and .£l3, at H. G. Pitcher's.— Advt. Chains, rings, pins, studs, brooches. &c, made to order at H. G. Pitcher's, Hawera. —Advt. The "Egmont" 21s each, gives general satisfaction, strong, useful, and cheap, at H. G. Pitcher's.— Advt. ENGRAVING of all Jesciiptions executed by McGee & Gambia, N.Z. Press A?enc.v, Wellington. Advert sing Blocks, Brass Door Plafes, Stencil Plates, Copper Plate an) all other kinds of engraving 1 . Send for Quotation