News and Notes.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3425, 16 December 1896, Page 2

News and Notes.

Ac the Court this morning Mr Barton attention to the dirty state of the tables and office furniture in the Court room, and the paucity of good pens and ink. The Bench said the matter should be referred to the clerk. • Things were without doubt a little gritty. Stephen Bosher, who is now serving a sentence of two years, will be charged in about thiee weeks' time with the murder of Mr and Mrs Jones, at Petone. Bosher's second wife (now Miss Recce) is in better health than she has been for some time past. When the trial comes on there will be between 60 and 70 witnesses. The police are adducing very strong evidence, and the case is likely to cause widespread interest. -» Those who wish to improve their poultry stock cannot do better than look in at Mr Robbins' auction mart, where Mr Walker, of Mount Albert, Auckland, has on sale a fine collection of well-bred birds. Various breeds are represented, including silver laced, w.yandottc.3, white leghorns, brahmas, buiif cou'iius, Plymouth rocks and others ; while of pigeons and cage 1 birds there is a great variety. The quality of all is firstclass, Mr Walker being a constant priz<3taker. He also has for sale a very choice collection of pot plants — foliage and flowering. At Patea Show, for _> is poultry birds and plants, he took 00 fewer than 60 prizes.

Aneit the fossilised saurian fouiJ at Taranuki, the Feilding Star finds in Mr Tregear's very interesting Maori Comparative Dictionary there w.is a large order of reptile or lizard k'ods, apart from the leaser malignant spurns, which could assume the lizard fun us causing death by gnawing tl>e hint m vitals. The inokoroa were sfirpenm or lizards of huge size which came across the sea 'from Hawaiki to New Zealand. The lizard has always been an object of awe and dread to the Maoris.

At his final meeting at Timaru the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones said that in Elective Executive would have bis support if Ministers were given a certain tenure of office ; otherwise there would be continual intriguing to obtain and keep portfolios. This was his objection to Major Steward's Bill.

The nominations for the Eastern Maori electorate are : — Wi Pere, Tare Meta Maika, Tainate Tautuhi, Ereata Nopera.

Nominations close for Normanby sports this evening. A reminder is given of the benefit entertainment at Manaia this evening. The programme is a first-class one and the object a most worthy one. There is not the slightsst doubt a packed house will be the result. Taranaki A. A. and CO. Sports tomorrow. Special train arrangements have been / made. The Primitive Methodist Bazaar and Gift Auction commences at 2.30 in the Athenaeum, Eltham, to-morrow. A return laid on the table of the House last session states that 3276 people applied in the aggregate for loans of £l ,256,583 under the Advances to Settlers Act. Taking the electorates, Rangitikei was the highest — 153 applicants for ; Maeterton next with 273 for £88,365; and Egmont third 234 for £84,010. At a conference between the employers and employees in the furniture trade Dunedin a log was agreed upon. The minimum wage was fixed at 8s per day, and the proportion of apprentices was fixed at one to three journeymen or a fraction thereof. The Public Works Committee of the Wellington City Council direoted that the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's circular with reference to charitable aid taxation be sent to the Charitable Aid Board, and the council was recommended to express its sympathy with the suggestion. The balance-sheet of the Wellington A. and F. Association shows a credit balance of JGI9I 19s 5d on the last show. A £100 prize for sheep is talked of for next show. How fiat, stale and unprofitable would life be without variety. How tired we should get of our daily food had we not the means to vary and flavor it by the aid of essences and spices. In this connection Boyal Flavoring Essences will be found extremely useful. It looks very much like a hot summer after all, and therefore cooling drinks will no doubt be greatly sought after. For cooling summer beverages we hear that Boyal Cordials are hard to beat. It is a great pity that a more systematic effort is not made to teach " our girls" the art of cookery in the public schools. It is true that a little is being done in this direction, and shortly, with the aid of Dragon Baking Powder, it will no longer be a reproach that our girls can do quadratic equations, but not plain cookery. Messrs Berry and McAllister are still doing Cabinet Photographs (enamelled) at fifteen shillings per dozen ; Enlargements, from Ss each, equal to any n the Colony. — Advt. Smoked Goggles and Eye Preservers (various patterns) atß. W. Sargent's, watchmaker, Hawera. Just landed, a large stock of Boots, Shoes and Slippers, suitable for summer wear, to be sold at cheap prices for cash. — L. Hill's Boot Warehouse, Manaia. — Advt. Boomerang brand Australian Brandy (Joshua Bros, Ltd, Melbourne, proprietors). After cruoial tests admitted by the British Admiralty, Offioe, Army Hospitals and House of Commons, won highest award at the Exhibition of Bordeaux, beating the famous produots of the Cognac centre. Recommended by The Lancet, British Medical Journal, and London Times. Obtainable from leading wine and spirit mer chants and first-class hotels. Our people are gr owing more and more in the habit of looking to J. Davidson for the latest and best of everything in the drug line. They sell Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, famous for its cures of bad colds, croup and whoopingcougb. When in need of such a medicine give this remedy a trial and you will be more than pleased with the esult.