NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 2500, 9 August 1893, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Eatm and dairy notes will bo found on fourth page.

Tbe Auckland Bacing CJob bad a deficit on tbe year'B operations of .£635.

Captain Edwin telegraphs that there are indications for strong west to south and southeast winds, and muoh colder weather ; the glass will rise.

Owing to the heavy south. west gale at Manukau the b.b. Gairlooh returned to port after crossing the bar on Monday evening.

Wo understand that a petition has been presented to Parliament by certain natives pravinj? that tbe Native Land Court may be directed to make enquiries into questions of title affecting the Ngaire block.

In his epeech at the Bank of New Zea» land meeting, in London, the chairman, Mr Glyn, said tbe deposits withdrawn during the bank pame did not amout to £100. New Zealaod was the only country pouth of the Equator whose budget showed a surplus.

The Wellington Post says :— Not only has the Official Assignee been enabled — as already announced— to pay tbe crecliora in tbe estate of G. W. Goode 20s in tbe £, but the claimants aaramat theestate will also receive interest at the rate of 6 per cent, from the time Goode's affairs were entrusted to the Assignee. It is not often that such a satisfactory result is obtaioed, even from estates conducted under ordinary business rules.

The Rev. A. F. W. Ingram, who has been mentioned as a probable successor to Bishop Hadfield, has been interviewed by the London correspondent of tbe Canterbury Press, and stated that there was no probability of his accepting tbe vacant See, he having found hie life work at Honse in one of tbe moßt densely populated partß of London. In conversation, Mr lograrn recommended Rev. £. S. Haesard, of Dalton, as possessing every qualification.

A gun exploded on board a German warthip at Kiel. Two officers and seven men were killed, and 18 wounded.

Mr C. E. Major reports the sale of Messrs "Wood Broß. 1 Pnblio Trustee leaße, containing 225 acres on the Fraser road, to Mr E. Wasley of Midhirst,

It will be Eeen that Bey. H. Welshman, M.R.C.S., is to deliver a lecture on tbe Menlaoesian Mission at the Church of England Schoolroom to-morrow afternoon ann again in the evening.

At a meeting afc New Plymouth on Tuesday evening, Harold Thompson was presented witb a gold watch and chain and a purse of sovereigop, and young Holmes with a ring f in recognition of their bravery in atreeUDß the highwayman.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Cempanv have let the erection of two creameries to Mr Lloyd, of Eltham. The Kaponga Bite (a correspondent writes) ia nearly ready for the building to be erected. The Co. are to be congratulated upon getting such a favorable spot. — Tbe rain it raineth every day here, and, by jingo, there is no mistaking it tor dew, for it comes down in bucketsful. The grass growß a little, and, in fact, has never stopped ail through tbe winter. — Roadß : the same old tale — want of funds, or want of common Rense when spending what they had. Tbe Manaia ropd is a passable quagmire ; it wants ploughing out, and about 20 yards of good utone to tbe chain put in.

Tbe attempt of Wall&th to escape occurred (the Taranaki News reports) at 11 a.m. He was in tbe exercise yard of tbe prieon with two other prisoners (McLean and Young) who are awaiting trial. As tha warder bad his back turned the highwayman took his boots off, and made a desperate rush at tbe wait wbere a concrete waN adjoins an embapiiuient. Against the embankment boanliog waa placed, some in a slanting direction. Tbe highwaymar, witb his hands and feef, cat* like, climbed up the slanting wood-work— a very difficult feat — and reached the top wall which is between 14ft and 15ft high. As he appeared on the top of tbe wall be was seen by the lad who was attending Dr O'Carroll'e trap, and also by the warder inside the yard. The warder, with bis bat&n, tried to strike the highwayman, but could not reach within fonr feet of him. The highwayman was ordered to come down from the wall. He hesitated a minute, then jumped off tbe wall to the ground outside the gaol. The chase resulted, aa reported, id bis re-captnre.

A.tx impottaut notice to butter shippeta is given by the Shaw, Saville, and AJbion Company.

Farmers' Union sell Htocfc afc Okaiawa to-m. rrow.

Nolan, Tonka and Co.'s Kakaramea aale to-morrow.

Additions are made to Mr Major's lands advertisement on the fourth page.