NEWS AND NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2755, 26 June 1894, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

■M,l ' * Vffywera Sofaool Committee meets this fiVßpmg. Members of both Honses have received [railway passes, the leather ones having been withdrawn. '

Captain Edwin telegraphs that there are indications for frost to-nigbt.

Enquiry into Eetemarae fire on Thurs* ! day, at 2 p.m., before Mr F. H.Bretfc,J.P.J

Ex- Sergeant Major Anderson, who was; recently discharged on aooount of ill*? health, receiving one year's payi is petitioning Parliament in consideration or his 26 years' Bervice. ,

At New Plymouth on Monday a settler was fined £1 and costs for failure to make a return of his sbeep within the prescribed time ; while another was fined in a .similar amount for failure to notify the Department that he no longer owned sheep.

The inquest on the bodieß of Kennedy and Lasher, killed by the explosion of a cylinder at Apckland, lasted nearly five boars. The jary, after half an boar's deliberation, brought in a verdiot of accidental death, with a rider tbat they were of opinion that the cylinder was faulty in construction, and tbat Kennedy erred in farther testing the cylinder after knowing each to be the case,

We hear that Miss Margaret Dive won the senior scholarship and Master Gilbert Dive the janior scholarship ac tbe examinations held under the Wanganui Board of Education last week. The former, from Hawera school, won tbe junior scholarship a conple of years ago, which she now holds at the Girls' College ; and tbe latter is still a scholar at the Hawera sohool. Congratulations to all oonoerned.

Tbe Wellington Benevolent Trustees bave decided to close the shelter and restaurant, which they bave kept open for the anemployed for some time past, at the end of the present month. Although the work provided by the formation of the Qoeen'a drive has absorbed a large nnmber of the unemployed, there are still about one hundred men for whom the trustees cannot find work, and tbe number is swelled every day by men arriving from other districts, '

The statement filed by F. S. Kalstoni bankrupt, shows the following figures :— » Unsecured creditors — Badge end Good; £815 ; A. A. Fantham, .8132 ; Oaplea, £103; Foy and Sons, £9; Mnrchie, £5 15s ; creditors nnder, £5 making up total £599 10s Bd. Secured creditors—Bank of New Zealand, Manaia, overdraft, £1589 18a lOd; contingent liability for a third party, £48 15s 3d ; Budge and Good, £100; H. Olimie, £250. The value of securities is estimated at £1996 ; amount of Jebfc £1998 14s Id. Assets to meet the unsecured liabilities are estimated at £212; made up of traps, horses, cows, &c, £132 and furnunre, £80.

Beplying to a letter from Mr G. P. Baker, tbe American Consul at Auokland says :— " I know of no instance where the United States Government pays a bounty od exported goods ; if such is the case lam not aware of it. There are, however, cortain artioles of export, such as kerosene, for instance, upon which is charged ao export duty, which is again refunded to the shipper, upon a proper certificate from tbe United States Consul, and the master and mate of the vessel carrying such cargo that it was duly landed in a foreign country. This refund of export duty is evidently wbat your newspaper ' correspondent mistakenly seeks to convert into a bounty. 'g

Mr T. L. Joll calls for tenders for the erection of creamery. Mr J. Yeats, in bis advertisement on first page, offers carts, &c, for sale.