NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2460, 22 June 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Mr Marshall, of the Cardiff fa3tory, it is said, has accepted an appointment as manager of the Marlborough Dairy Factory Company. Electricity is a queer thing. For some years continuous records of the natural earth-currents have been kept at Greenwich Observatory. But Bioce the South London Electric Railway has been working these observations have got less and lees reliable until now, except during the night hours, when the line is not working, the records are so disturbed as to be quite valueless. This demonstrates to what a great extent the electric current strays, when there is no insulated return tor the railway runß nowhere within four miles of the Observatory.

On our fourth page is printed correspondence from Waitara, Normanby, and Eltham. Owing to the drought hay is at £7 per ton in England.

A warrant has been issued to secure the appearance of Te Whiti before the Bankruptcy Court.

A farewell to Misses Davis and Slattery, late teachers at Manaia and Kapuni schools respectively, will be held in the Drill Hall, Manaia, to-morrow evening.

A sweepstake match will be fired by the members of the Egmont Gun Club tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock, on the show ground. On Saturday, also, a match will take place.

The late spring in England was an extraordinarily mild one. A Home paper of April 27 observes : "Two years ago we had winter weather up to the end of May; this year we have midsummer in the lap of spring."

Mr A. J. Kirk returned home on Wednesday after a holiday trip, during which he haß kept the hospital fund in view, and has been met cordially by several old residents of Hawera and by some others. Mr Kirk's complete list of subscriptions is—Dr Alexander, £1 Is ; Mr W. Ologgie, £1 Is ; Mr J. B. Innes, £1 Is ; Messrs Couchman and Stuart, £1 Is; Hogao aod Co., £1 Is ; Mr P. Lundon, £1 Is ; Mr Dustin, £1 Is; Phcenix Insurance Co., £1 Is—the last five all of Wanganui. As tbe subscription will no doubt carry subsidy, Mr Kirk's exertions have added a substantial amount to the funds.

A new mode of sinking pomp pipes haß i been experimented on in this district. 1 Messrs Hardley and Sons, who have had considerable experience in this line both : in Canterbury and tbe West Coast of the 1 South Island, decided to give the principle i of driving pipes a trial, as the sunken well has many drawbacks owing to the 1 drainage of surface water flowing in. A pipe was driven at tbe back of their premises, and reached a depth of 30fc, with the result that a good supply of water has been obtained. The idea is highly spoken of by southern people, and will doubtless be largely adopted in Hawera. A feminine contemporary has been setting its readers to work to answer the question: " What are the four best qualities in a man?" This is rather a question-begging form of interrogatory, and it is hardly surprising that a cynical lady should have replied as follows :— "(i) Truth; (2) Temperance; (3) Unselfishness. I never met a man with four good qualities." Most men would be the better for having the three, but there are plenty of others whioh in the opinion of more merciful judges a man may and ought to possess. Another correspondent sent four of a very different character. According to her view, a man " ought to smoke a good deal; to take a cold bath every morning; to have a good moustache ; to be amusing." As for the other replies, they were mostly of the sentimental order. After all, the search for the ideal is never vainer than when the thin_ sought is a husband ; for as the editor of our contemporary quotes : " Husbands are made, not born." In another column Mr George McKenzie, the manufacturer of the instantaneous furniture polish renovator, thanks the ladies of Hawera for their patronage on this and pievious visits, and states that tbe polish may be obtained from Mr , Arthur, cabinetmaker ; Mr Fake, chemist; and Mr Wilson, cabinetmaker. The fact of 1 these business men having taken supplies of the polish speaks well for the genuineness of the article. Ee*mont Farmers' Union's Stratford sale ; to-morrow. : Messrs Patterson and Keogham have a . notice in reference to unpaid accounts. I Chains, rings, pins, studs, brooches. &c. made to order at H. G. Pitcher's, Hawera 1 —Advt. L The " Egmont" 21s each, gives general ' satisfaction, strong, useful, and cheap, at 1 H. G. Pitcher's.—Advt. , Ladies' gold watches j£6, £7, JEB 10s, £10 10s, and £13, at H. G. Pitcher's.— Advt.