NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2738, 5 June 1894, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

A conple of Maori jnriea were empanelled at Napier the otber day. i A branch of the Football Referees' Association has been, formed in Wanganui. A half-caste Maori girl has died in the I Kiog Country, it is supposed from strychnine poisoning. Mr Angus Smith, son of late Dr Smith, formerly of Hawera, has paßsed final 1 examination of the Pharmacy Board. On Monday, Mr W. Higginson showed 3 us a sample of wool taken from a lamb of i his, not quite six months old, which was I killed by dogs. The sample is 17 inches i long, and exceptionally fine. x While following the hunt of the , Bangitikei hounds on Saturday, Dr. ' Skerman met with an accident. His 1 horse fell with him, and the doctor had 3 his collarbone fractured in two places. » Sergeant Neill, in charge of the Fort 1 Chalmers Police Station, died very ? suddenly on Sunday from the bursting of t a blood-vessel in the stomach. He was about 60 years of age, and came from ' Victoria when the Otago Police was firßt 1 organised in the goldfield days. 1 The Wanganui Borough loan of 3 i!55,C£3 has been purchased by the Bank * of New South Wales at par, the deben3 tares bearing 5 per cent., and Laving a j currency of twenty years, consequently there is no expense to ratepayers, who previously estimated that it would cost 3 £12,000 to float. 1 Ward and Co., brewers of Canterbury, , have decided, as owners of public houses, , to give a rebate of one-seventh of present rents in consideration of the fact that for ! the future there is to be no Sunday trading. The rebate will take the form of ? a bonus to be paid to tenants when the r owners are satisfied that the tenants are i scrupulously observing the law. i The Manawatu Farmer states that f. Otaki had a strange visit from the cold 5 regions on Wednesday. An iceberg some 75ft by 50ft was discovered stranded on » the beach by a party of young men out f shooting. The Farmer says that large 1 numbers of people visited the beaoh j during the day. The West Coast Mail, published at Otaki, ridicules the whole r story. The agricultural returns show that ' there are 137,097 cattle, inolndrng 61,501 * breeding cows, in Teranaki this year ; as 3 against 126,700 (inoluding 47,479 breeding 3 cowe) last year. The number of breeding 3 cows has thus iporeased by over 4000. Very suggestive figures these as to the effect of the dairy business. Forthe whole colony f the figures were 1892-3, 808,439 cattle, f inoluding 305,270 breeding cows ; 18934, j 884,091 cattle, including 327,612 breeding r cows. , The following is the revenue on the ' Napier-Tar an aki section of railways for four weeks ending 28th April, 1894 (28 1 days), and for corresponding four weeks.

I 1893 (29 days), shillings and pence

A Press Association telegram from : Wellington says that a letter has been ( received by Arobdeaoon Fanoonrfc from the Archbishop of York, in which he 1 states : — •♦ I am using my utmost eni deavers in consolation with the Bishop of ', Durham to select a suitable bishop for the , vacant See, but the high qualifications specified in the communications wbich were reoeived in the first instance have limited considerably the area of selection. I am not without hope, however, that very shortly we shall be able to communicate to yon the name of a satisfactory successor to Bishop Hadfield." A peculiar oase oame before the District Court, Oamaru. Some time ago a number of members of the Borough Council sued the Mayor in the Supreme Court to compel him to sign minutes containing a vote of censure on himself. The oase was dismissed, the Mayor being given costs. He now sued the Council for oosts and expenses incurred over and above the costs allowed. It was pointed out that there was no precedent in law for allowing such oosts unless there was a contract, and as plaintiff's solicitor could not find a precedent, the Judge nonsuited the plaintiff, The recent fiasco in the Magistrate's Court was tbe subject of a special meeting of the Stratford Town Board, the correspondent of the Taranaki Herald reports. It has now been ascertained that on|tbe night when these unfortunate by* laws should have been made, tbe Salvation Army was in possession of tbe Town Hall, and at the time of meeting most of tbe Town Board members assembled outside the clerk's office, leaving there shortly afterwards to seek a temporary committee room at Wilson's hotel. Here they got possession of a room and were about to start business when it was* Btated that one member bad refused to take part in a meeting held at the hotel. , As it was feared there might be trouble on this account it was decided to adjourn till another evening. The members consequently adjourned, but unluckily fov the by-laws, tbe fact of the adjournment was not minuted. The point at issue last niebt was whether sworn testimony to the above effect would not even now ' rehabilitate the by-laws in spite of tbe ' omission in the minute book, The board's solicitor says it would not, bnt the members of the board are unconvinced, and have snbmitted the point to Mr E. L. Barton. A general meeting of the members of the Egmonfc Gun Club will be held in tbe Empire Hotel this evening. The business to be transacted is important. A notice in reference to the Blue-cross Tea, for which Mr A. H. Moore, of Opnnake, is the wholesale agent, is given in another column. The tea is described as the leading tea in the market. A trial is also recom* mended of the Mandarin sauoe, the best, purest, and oheapest in the world. J. Murray Barcl.iy & Co.. general Commiss on Agents, Sharebrokers and Valuators, 4arWillif!-street. Wellington. Office hours j £h»«J2' to 9 p.m Loans negotiated, businesses The TCkfii^r 'on Labor Bore^i, for aM cla^gga otMmJfiojees and empWji^ra. Hoase andajwrMfents to > let. Rents land dews collecs3T. lw?rivate enquiry deDnrVaenf for nexjfoff knkarid missiEer tc"er}<w, uimer the sble\iapigemenfc of afrfexpcrienced expe^|. FireTlife, and mnrine insurance. — Adirt. Cebtain&y the best medierfne known is Sander and Sons' EuealypiarEs:tract. Test its eminently powerful^l&epte in coughs, coldSj influenza-the reUef is instantaneous. la serious cases, andjftsctdents of all kinds, be they wounds, buns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the s#est remedy — no swelling, no inflammftion. Like surprising effect 3 producidja croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflamnf iMonof the lungs, swellings, etc. ; difirrhcel/ dyaentiy, diseases of the feidn«ya and orinary organs. la use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majeßty the " King of Italy j crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others.

The Taieri County Conaoil intends to strike a charitable aid rate, of one farthing for the year. At 1.8 to-day Captain Edwin wired : — Indications are for strong north to east and south east winds, with rain, after twenty hours from now. The glass will fall. B We are informed that Mr C. E. Major is appealing against the decision given in the Magistrates Coart, Wellington, on •Monday, in the case Dwan Bros. v. himself. The eeoretary of the Hawera Acclimatisation Sooiety has received a wire from the t Masterton Society Btating that a consignment of twelve Una of trout will be sent by Friday's express train. The tront were to have arrived by thia evening's train, bat the consignment was delayed owing to a break on the line. The Stratford Settler reports that Mr Hugh Coutts met with a very painful accident on Friday evening. He wasgoing home, and took a short cut, and was crossing^ log over a creek when he fell and dislocated his shoulder. Dr Paget was called in, fand, the patient being under chloroform, put the bone in again. A receot visitor to the Hot Lakes district informs an exchange that the Pink and White Terraces, which were destroyed by the Tarawera cr option, are rapidly reforming, but that the Maoris express the opinion that it will be ten years before they will rival those which were destroyed. It is expected that the formation of the new terraces will be nearer perfect than those which now lie buried, but it is doubtful whether the color will be other than a dirty grey. Immense damage baa been' done to the roads and bridges in the Manawatu district by the floods. There is hardly a bridge which has not been' more or lees seriously damaged. The work of restoration will involve a heavy tax upon the local bodies' funds. Railway communication to Napier and Wellington remains uninterrupted. Communication with Wanganui was restored by means of coaches connected with the trains on either side of the damaged places. It is not expected that running will be resumed on the Palmerston-Foxton line for a coaple of days. At a meeting of the Corporation ol Foreign Bondholders, Sir John Lnbbook, t who presided (sayß the London correspondent of the New Zealand Times), devoted some considerable space to foreigr finance and currency questions, and the failure of certain foreign oonntries to fulfil 1 their obligations. And then be came tc the inevitable New Plymouth Harboi Board affair. Sir John "said be always observed with regret this name in the 1 list of committees. He certain]; thought the holders of bonds bad s Btrong moral olaim,aud even a legal olaim ; ' against the New Zealand Government 1 His opinion be considered confirmed. bj the report of the Committee of the Nevt , Zealand Legislature, and inasmuch as tht whole of the arrears of interest at the i present moment amounted to less thar £7000, he really thought it was a greal mistake for a country like New Zealand to allow this shadow of a shade o: , discredit to attach to it for such ar infinitesimal sum. The Corporator, agrbed most heartily with Sir John. Mr Joseph Higham, professor of music and organ and pianoforte tuner, .has ai advt. in this issue re organ and pianoforte tuning. Goodwill of native lease for sale.

omitted : — 1894. Passengers £6,787 Parcels and luggage 755 Goods 8,558 Miscallaaeons ... 251 Bents and commission 477 1893. £7,851 913 7,810 292 • 499 Total £16,830 £17,366