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NEWS AND NOTES.

♦ — — * It will be seen that tbe Loan and Her. oantile Agency Company has again resumed business. The announcement is of great importance oommercialy to the colony as well as to the shareholders, but the notification reached us too late \.io permit of further comment today. Waitara letter on fourth page. Bailey has acknowledged bis identity to the polioe in New South Wales.

School winter vacation lasts over this week and next.

Mr Bonayne, of the Bailway Commissioners, is laid up at Invercargill with an attack of influenza.

Mr T. Hanson, an old Canterbury settler, formerly chairman of the Education Board, died on Friday.

Mr Thompson's lantern leoturein aid of Normanby Horticultural Show, ad* vertised for this evening at Normanby, has been postponed to Thursday.

In reply to a deputation of women the Premier of New South Wales has promised to bring the question of female franchise before the Cabinet.

An enquiry is to be held into tbe oiroumstanoes connected with tbe burning of tbe Eetemarae Hotel, but the date has not yet been fixed.

Mr Thomas Weldon, formerly Inspector of Police, has died at Dunedin. He served in Victoria in tbe early days, and was present at the Ballarafc riots.

The stud sheep sales in Sydney, whioh open on 2nd July, will be the largest ever held in Sydney, tbe entries being three times greater than the average for the past four years.

A London syndicate has offered to purohase the Manawatu County Council's tramway line for the sum of i-6000. They intend extending it to Greatford. The oounoil will probably accept the offer.

Auckland Agricultural Conference has decided that the owners of stook be advised to brand all stock on tbe least valuable part of the bide, instead of on tbe e'des and rump, and that no tar be used in the branding of sheep.

The southerly gale appears to bave been general throughout the colony. A Wellington telegram Bays :— A heavy southerly gale has been blowing since Saturday night, aocompaaied with heavy rain. The weather is bitterly cold.

The OtakeLo concert on Tuesday evening is to be given in the, schoolroom. We bear that the committee have been fortunate enough to secure the assistance of a number of ladies and gentlemen from various parts and that an excellent concert is confidently expected.

It has been decided by the Auckland Agricultural Conference to eend to the members of tbe House of Representatives ft resolution embodying tbe opinion that all machinery, wire, tools, fencing wire and farming appliances should be admitted to the colony free of Customs dnty.

Entries for Budge and Good's stock sale at Ofcafceho are published.

The doctrine of materialism teaches us Fiat the creation of the world is the result of a gradual aggregation of matter floating about in infinite space, which, in the course of c.>antless ages, has gradually developed or evolved into the state we now see it. Evolutionists, o£ whom Darwin was the fotemoat apostle, affirm that the human race has also been subjected to a process of evolution, parsing from the lowest stage of animal existence to the highest developments of human life. One puny intellects are unable to solve the great mystery. We ,do know, however, that the gradual evolution of a blend of tea by many and varied processes is a thing which is accomplished by experts. The Empire Tea Company's blends are cases in point. By skilful manipulation these blends, after ihflnita trouble and paina, are at last turned out ready, for the market, and the universal verdict ia that the blender has evolved a most delicious article out of the various leaves with which he works.

Fat ballooks are being sent from the North Island to Danedin.

Mr A. Munro, Inspector of Stock, has sworn informations against a number of settlers who have failed to send in their sheep returns within tbe time prescribed by law.

Tenders are invited by Hawera County Council for erection oi cart bridge over ligahape stream. The qualitiei essential in a good blend of tea are detailed in another column by the Empire Tea Company. Messrs King and Thompson, photographers, announce that, for a short time only, three richly - enamelled or mattsurface portraits may be had for ss ; and one dozen ditto and 16-12 enlargement for

W. D. Scott advertise a large ari unreserved sale of general drapery in tbe Vown Hall, Uawera, on Friday and Saturday, ihe 22nd and 23rd inst. Tne whole of good 3 offered have been imported direct from the manufacturers. One< special feature of the sale is tnat any tweeds purchased will, if required, be made up by a first-class tailor from the London Tailoring Company for 25s per suit.

J. Murray Barclay & Co.. general Commisa 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 and. employers. House and apartments to let. Rents and debts collected. Private enquiry department for nest of kin and missing friends, under the able management of an experienced expert. Fire, life, asd marine insurance.— Adrt.

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2749, 18 June 1894, Page 2

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NEWS AND NOTES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2749, 18 June 1894, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2749, 18 June 1894, Page 2

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