The Star. [PUBLISHED DAILY] MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1894. NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2738, 4 June 1894, Page 2

The Star. [PUBLISHED DAILY ] MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1894. NEWS AND NOTES

[ _ . F. A. Cramer, baker, of Stratford, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Tbe liabilities are £248 ; and the assets, £102. The principal unsecured creditors are Hd&n and Go., Wanganui, £50 ; Newton King, £47 ; McGill, £28 ; W. and X, Dickie, £21.

The price of kauri |gum shows an increase of £2 per ton. Gratifying news for the north.

Messrs Carroll and Artindale's tender (£287) has been accepted for building Opunake Catholic Church.

The Town Clerk advertises for designß for laying off the hospital grounds. A bonus of two guineas is offered for tbe best design.

Tbe railway receipts for the four weeks ending 28th April were £99,517 9a Bd. In the corresponding period of the previous year the figures were £113,250 7s Id.

A tailor named August Waller, of Napier, who lives alone, was not seen for some time, and the door of his room was. broken open on Friday evening. He was found dead in bed, and had apparently been dead about SO hours. A cup with some crystals in it was found by the side of his bed.

A very painful accident befel Mr Gomer, railway guard, on Saturday. He was on duty on the train from New Plymouth to Hawera, and, having occasion to jump off tbe train at one of the small stations, landed on a loose stone, and badly sprained bis ankle, which will incapacitate him from duty for a time.

The Wellington Land Board has decided to ask the Minister of Lands to agree to state a case for the Snpreme Court to ascertain whether the Land Board or the Commissioner alone bas power to deal with village settlements, special settlements, or small farm homestead selectors.

At tbe Supreme Court, Chrißtohnrch, late on Saturday, Edward Parkerson, accountant to tbe late firm of Harper and? Co., was convicted of embezzlement. Tbe defence was that Leonard Harper ha,d authorised accused to take the money fearing that if Parkerson filed the collapse of the firm would be oaased. A sentence of two years with bard labor was passed.

The Public Tiustee (the New Zealand Times says) has completed arrangements for inviting tenders for leasing in sections of convenient size several thousand acres of land on the West Coast, chiefly in the neighborhood of Hawera, and forming part of the West Ooast settlement reserves. Tenders will be invited about a week hence.

A lantern lecture by Mr B. S. Thompson, on behalf of the Ncrmanby Horticultural Society, is announced to be given on Saturday, 16th June, at Normanby. The subject is an interesting one, a trip through the Hot Lakes district ; and from tbe literary and artistic ability of the leoturer we should say it will be one of the best entertainments of the kind yet presented on the coaßt.

The Wellington Post quotes an incident showing the extraordinary force of the gale on Tuesday. An engineer was working at the rudder o£ the s.s. Mahinapua, at the Patent Slip, when a fierce gust lifted him bodily from the staging, and threw him with great foroe to tbe ground. In falling he struck a heavy hammer lying on the ground, tbe shaft of which hit him on the ankle, breaking one of tbe small bones.

With very great regret we record tbe death cf the eldest daughter of Mr W. Bowe, of Normanby. The deceased young lady had been ' in weak health for a considerable time past, but alarming symptoms manifested themselves early in March, and since then the disease, ultimately discovered to be dropsy, complicated by heart disease and lung trouble, rapidly progressed, despite every effort of medical men and careful nursing, for part of tbe time at New Plymouth and part at home. For some weeks past her case had been regarded as hopeless. Mr and Mrs Bowe will receive the sympathy cf a large circle of friends and acquain* tanoes in their loss.

The Wellington Post says the time has undoubtedly come when ' the public interest demands that the colony should acquire the Manawatn railway line. No more favorable time than the present is ever likely to oocur for doing this. The purchase could easily be financed, and it would be a most profitable transaction to the Government, as well as beneficial to the settlers in the whole of the sootbern ! part of the North Island. As the price to be paid when the purchase is made is practically Battled by Act, there can be no advantage gained by waiting. The property will not become cheaper, because its value as a going concern is not under the statute an element in the price. A general meeting of the members of the Egmont Gun Club will be held in tbe Empire Hotel on Tuesday evening. The business to be transacted is important. Meffrs BrowO and Co. announce that they are retiring from business, and previous to selling by auotion, are offering their stook at greatly reduced prices. Mr W. T. Styles, importer of papers and colors, advertises the arrival of large new stocks ; and reminds the public that tbe working department of his businesc is still carried on with, the best workmanship and material.

It will be seen by advfc. in another column that Mr G. Maule has opened in new premises built to the order of Mr Morrish and opposite Mr A'Court's. The business to be carried on is that of seeds, grain produce, and general agency. Mr Maule, who has been in business in Canterbury, has special KnowleJge of all kinds of grasses and clovers, and brings firstclass credentials.

J. Murray Barclay & Co., general Commiss'on Agents, Sharebrokers and Valuators, 48 Willis-street. Wellington. Office hours : 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Loans negotiated, businesses exchanged. The Wellington Labor Bureau, for all classes of employees ani employers. House and apaortments to let. Rents and debts collected. Private enquiry department for next of kin. and mi&srng friends, under the able management; of an experienced expert. Fire, life, and marine insurance.— Advt.