The Star. [published daily] SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1893.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2462, 24 June 1893, Page 2

The Star. [published daily] SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1893.

NEWS AND NOTES. ♦— On onr fourth page will be found, under the heading of " Fiction in Brief," an instalment of a serial entitled " Dauntless Kitty," by James Payn. Sir Julius Vogel bas folly recovered the use of his limbs. The Wellington Press' report of the football match on Wednesday says that A. Bayly played a grand game. Mr C. E. Major reports the Bale of Mr W. Carmicbael's property, on the Main So«tb road, to Mr A. B. Pricbard, of Canterbury. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Te Awamutu, Eugene Sullivan, charged witb ely grog selling in the King Country, was convioted. Declaring his inability to pay any fine, he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with bard labour. Some large pigs Lave recently been killed at the Gear Company's works. | One carcase weighed 4261b5, and another | turned the scales at 4971ba. The two hams of the latter weighed exactly one hundredweight. Mr Fraok Watts, of Kaponga, states that he has a horse showing similar symptoms of disease to those described round about Hawera. The beast is a 2-year-old filly, and be has isolated it from the others, being afraid that the dißeaee, whatever it may be, may be infectious. We regret to bear that Master Watson Pair man, eon of Dr Pairmaoi of Manaia, met with a nasty accident on Thursday evening. He was riding at a smart pace round a corner, when the horse fell witb him, dislocating his 6houlder and otherwise bruising him. The man Willis, who was burnt to his leggings at Danevirke the other night, through a lamp exploding, has died in the Waipukurau Hospital. It is not so long ago since this unfortunate man, under the name of Black, was tried at Auckland and acquitted for the murder of Streeter in Poverty Bay. , Two hundred and forty stud sheep \yere shipped from Canterbury by the Wakatipu for Sydney on a recent trip and also rema from D. Tanner's flock, Napier, and 19 Lincoln and 7 Romney Marsh rams from Blenheim. Since the removal of the restrictions on the importation of stock a large business in sheep has sprung up with Australia. There were ten competitors in the handicap glass ball match yesterday afternoon. The shooting, with the exception •f G. T. Bayly, who broke sis out of a possible seven off the 23 yard marks, was not good. There were five ties for second place with three breaks, which H. Southev won in the firing off. The handicapping was in the hands of Mr C. R. Bayley. A Thameß butcher, who had been drinking heavily for a month, dreamt the other c'ght that he was going into the slaughteryard to kill some sheep. He got out of bed, took hold of a knife, made endeavors to lay hold of some imaginary sheep, and then proceeded to slaughtet the same by drawing the knife across hie wrist. This caused him to wake with a start ; and, arousing some neighbors, he had the wound, whioh iB not serious attended to. The Oamaru Times says :— Frost fish have not been very numerous this winter. but a rarer fish than this has put in an appearance. This is known as the kingfish, one of which cams aehore on Sundaj in the harbor. This is a much shorter fish than the frost-fish, and is evidently a deep water fish also, as is evidenced bj the eye and the skin. It is said to be c better table fish than the frost-fish. Th( king-fish is occasionally, but not often caught in Timaru water. It is decidedlj inferior in flavour to frost-fish, but i£ superior to most of the other kinds. In a recent lecture on " Biology," at th( Auckland University College, Professoi Thomas gave an interesting account of c recent examination of a Bank of New Zealand £1 not through the lantern. He first showed a photograph of the note remarking thht it was chiefly characterised by its soiled condition. Next be threw on the sheet a view of numerous bacteria obtained from it. There were 6ome ten oi twelve different varieties, among them figuring very plainly the yeast plant, which was regarded as suggestive of the idea that at least one of the sometime posessors of the note bad been a frequenter of public houses, or at least a lover ol boer, or, to be more charitable, perhaps only a baker. Then there was present a bacterium responsible fur decayed teeth. Evidently some people count their notes with the help of the month. In a speech at Christchurcb, the Hon. Mr W. P. Reeves said a bill to be introduced would go in the direction of making contracts under Government or local bodies to be properly estimated, and providing that any contract which was 25 or 30 per cent below that estimate should be rejected He had succeeded in inducing the Government to put a very liberal earn indeed on the estimates for school buildings. Then he had a bill drafted on the subject of traancy, which he did not tbink would be found oppressive to parents, He bad also a bill dealing with the secondary schools of the colony. It was proposed to inspect them, so that the effectiveness of the schools might be laid before the taxpayers of the colony out oi whose estate they were co liberal^ endowed. There were some clauses alsc in that Bill which would bring home tc those schools that they were not tc provide education only for the children ol the middle and wealthy classes, but thej must open their doors to the children from the primary schools. They would not like this, but they had better agree whilst they had the chance. He would not like to see these valuable institutions swept away, but it they were not prepared to accept rational and moderate reform, they might be brought faoe to face with changes which they might not think either moderate or rational. A change will be found in the advertisement of Gibson's Cash Warehouse, on our third page. $y advertisement in another column, Messrs Mason, Struthers and Co, Christchurch, sole agonts for the De Laval Separator Company, notify that Mr Hermann Olsen, a Swedish expert, will travel through the colony pointing out the great superiority of Do Laval's machinery. Mr William Cowern, auctioneer, will, on July Ist, sell land at his warehouse, Patea, particulars being given in advertisement;. A clearing sale for Mr Lomax, at Okaiawa, is to be held on Monday, by Messrs Nolan, Tonka and Co. Mr C. U. Warden has an announcement in reference to evening classes, Chains, rings, pinß, studs, brooches. Sic 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. Ladies' gold watches £6, £7, ,£3 10s, jeiO 10s, and JSI3, at H. G-. Pitcher's.— Advt.

A concert and tea meeting in aid of the Presbycerian Church will be held in the Town Hall, Normanby, on Thursday next. It will be seen by business notice in another column tbat Mr A. J. Kirk is starting in another line of business in Hawera, and will at once commence operations as a merchant and commission agent. For tbe present he bas secured temporary premises, and a further announcement will be made in a short time. Meantime Mr Kirk is calling in aocounts dae in respect of his late business. A very pleasant evening was spent in the Manaia Drill Hall on Friday when a farewell social was given to Miss Davis, who has been transferred from Manaia school to the Te Koti, and Miss Slattery, who has been transferred from Kapuni to Momohaki. There were about one hundred people present. Dancing was the principal order of the evening 1 , interspersed with a number of vocal items. Mr Stott, chairman of the Manaia School Committee, presented Miss Slattery with a ladies' companion and writing desk.