NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70453, 2 October 1900, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

On fourth page: Rod and Gun, Farming in New Zealand, and Goods-shed at Te Roti. List of persons authorised to grant fishing licenses is advertised. Hawera School Committee meets this evening. The Constantinople correspondent of the London Times states that Turkish official sympathies are entirely with China in present crisis. ' Queensland is setting apart £50,000 for immigration this year. Some 500 immigrants who recently arrived in that colony have all been absorbed. The Hon W. P. Reeves has been ap- ' pointed a member of the Senate of the ; University of London, an honour he highly »appreciates. The increasing difficulty experienced by foreigners in obtaining letters of naturalisation was referred to in the House by several members. The Victoria Bifles, Auokland, the crack shooting corps of that province, are arranging a series of shooting matches with the leading corps in each of the principal districts throughout the colony. Tbe discovery has been made that certain Nelson butchers are only slaughtering a portion of their stock at tbe local public abattoirs. The municipal authorities are taking action in the matter. • Mr J. W. Hirst reports the sale of the property of Mrs Adams, Gladstone street, to Mrs Brough. A Masterton solioitor has prepared an information charging himself with that he did, contrary to a bye-law which he himself drafted, between the hours of sunset^ and sunrise, ride a certain vehicle, to wit, a bioyole, along a publio thoroughfare, without a light. Thd Minister for Railways is being urged by Mr J. Hutcheson to restrict the privilege of free passes at present granted to children attending private schools so that it shall only apply to the station nearest to the nearest Ktate school. Pawnbrokers take some curious pledges, but it is not often that they are offered one from another world. A London suburban pawnshop, however, exhibits in its window as an unredeemed pledge a magnificent aerolite, a mass of fused metal that fell as it were from Heaven to provide a poor man with his beer. A ticket bears the statement that it was brought from the Arctic region by a sailor. During the month the patients admitted to the Hospital were 16, discharged 8, died 1, remaining 12. The matron of the Hospital (Miss Furlong) acknowledges receipt of old linen sent, and desires to thank the Wesleyan choir, Miss Espagne, and Flynn family for contributions of music. Reefton was aroused the other day by the loud report of an explosion at the shop of a Chinese fruiterer. An examination revealed the fact that about 10ft of fuse, with a dynamite cap attached, the latter being inserted in a bottle containing kerosene, had been placed in the building by someone, and the outside boards also saturated with kerosene. The explosion did not result in very serious consequences. A quiet wedding was recently celebrated at the residence of the bride's parents, Hawera, when Miss Elizabeth Ecciesneld, daughter of an old and respected resident, was married to Mr Adam Hannah. The Rev. W. Philip, Manaia, was the officiating clergyman, and only the immediate friends of the bride and bridegroom were present. On the return of Mr and Mrs Hannah from their wedding trip last week, a number cf friends were entertained at their new home, Lake road. A statue of the late William Ewart Gladstone was unveiled recently, in Athens. The speeohes delivered on the occasion of the unveiling ceremony referred to the great service rendered by the great statesman in the interests of Greece, and marked reference was also made to the fact that England, the home of Constitutional Liberty, was the special benefactress of Greece. The nation, said the principal speaker, was not at all un- < mindful of her obligations to other Powers, but for the especial services rendered by Great Britain she was particularly grateful. People do peculiar things at fires. At Masterton on Sunday morning a man rushed into the Empire Hotel and emerged again with three fire grenades, which he conveyed to a place of safety I Two commercial travellers did an immense amount of work at the fires. One is to be recommended for his gallant rescue of a wet feather pillow. It was nobly done! A well - known Masterton resident wag seen rushing out with ' clean table serviettes and depositing them in the muddy roadway, whilst a member of the legal fraternity heroically saved a photograph of Maggie Moore, the well known actress. He is to D 9 recommended for a medal. —Star. 5 Alborne's hotel at Inangahua Junction i was burnt to the ground on Tuesday night. The fire evidently originated in a room upstairs occupied by a young man engaged at the hotel of the name of Mutton, and a son of the proprietor. The fire spread rapidly, and Mutton was unable to escape, his body being found next morning in a terribly charred condition. Young Alborne escaped by the window, but was badly burnt in the lower part of tbe body. Every effort was made to rescue the victim, and in attempting to do 30, Mr Alborne, the proprietor, was badly burnt in the face. A Tokio correspondent, writing under date August 10th, says:—"ln ordinary circumstances a first-class volcanic eruption would be an event causing the spilling of much journalistic ink. At present it passes almost unnoticed. Twosan, in the neighbor of Bandaisan, that erupted with disastrous effect in 1888, became unruly last month, blew up a sulphur mine on his sides, and turned it into a crater, whence he has been belching forth fire and smoke and stonea ever since. Presumably the 80 laborers then at work in the mine were all killed; at all events, with the exception of some \to corpses that have been recovered they have all disappeared." The Public Petitions Committee of the Council has recommended to the considera620 teachers, who prayed that they might receive uniform rate of pay throughout ihc colony, and that they might be no longer liable to a general reduction of salaries. We would remind our readers in and around Normanby that the annual Wesleyan tea and concert takes place at the Normanby Town Hall to-morrow evening. The annual re-unions of this denomination are too well known by the general public to need comment by us, further than to say that a first-class programme will be submitted at the concert after the tea, which will not be the least part of the programme of the evening. The building known of yore as " Noah's Ark," and more recently as the Social Hall, has been purchased by the Wesleyans, and the proceeds of the evening' 3 entertainment will go towards removing the old building further back on the section, and building a front thereto, which in future will be used as tbe Wesloyan Church. Seeing that the object in view is a worthy one, we trust to see a very large gathering at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The name of Collier and Co. has long occupied a high place in musical circles on thiß coast, and the firm have recently opened a branch of their business in Hawera, under the management of Mr H. White, a qualified and competent musician. Tho establishment is replete with all the instruments from the best known and most renowned makers in the world, and tho display is most effective. Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons, W. G. Eavestaff, W. Maas, Hamburg, R. Gors and Kail tuan, Berlin, are " household words " to lovers of good instruments, and pianos from these firms are to be seen at Messrs Collier's Hawera branch. Organs are also on view by Miller, also Estey, renowned American builders. Guitars, mandolins, cornets, clarionets, banjos, violins —all from makers with high repute — are also stocked. Of the pianos, the tone of each is sweet and mellow, sensitive to the touch, and finished in the minutest detail m the most artistic manner. The Brinsmead 1900 model is specially constructed for the New Zealand climate, and is a. first-class instrument. Messrs Collier are musicians, and all their staff are similarly gifted; thus purchasers have the full benefit of knowing that the warehouse is stocked with instruments of the very best make. Musio of all kinds, from the compositions of the best known old masters to concert hall songs are kept in stock, and musicians are always welcome to try the instruments. Notice is directed to Messrs Budge and Tristram's list of properties for sale. Mr F. W. Buckingham, of Kaponga, has a replace in this issue o! special importance to the settlers in that district. Thoso in want of vehicles cannot do better than place their orders with him. Attention is drawn to the repainting and lining of old vehicles. Gatenby's Blue Flag Liver Cure Registered). The remedy for Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, , Flatulence, Bad Temper, and all Liver and ' Stomach disorders. Blue Flag Liver Cure stirs up a sluggish liver. 2/6 per bottle. From all Chemists and Storekeepers. Wholesale from all merchants,—Advt

The Rev. N. D. Boyes has been gazetted honorary ohaplain to the Stratford Mounted Rifle". Mr Henry Hodgson, of Opunake, has applied for a patent for improvements in milk serators and coolers. Mr Val. Meredith, who died at Ladysmith, was 23 years old. Mr A. K. Blundell, Inspector of Stock at Wanganui, has been appointed enumerator under " The Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics Aot " for the Hawera and adjacent counties. With this issue is published a plan of rural sections in the Woodville district to be offered for sale by publio auction on the 17th inst., at the Alexandra Hall, Woodville, by Messrs Baker and Tabuteau, auctioneers, Napier. A charge of incendiarism was heard on < Monday, atStratford^gainstLuoienLibeau, • a storekeeper of that town, for setting fire |to his premises on Saturday last. The accused was remanded on bail (two suretiesat £250 each), and has to appear before the Bench to-day. Improvements in the motor-pictoroscope are about to take place, Messrs H. J. Jones and J. Baker, of btratford, having lodged provisional specifications with the Patents Offioe. A Chilian training ship, at the present time engaged on a cruise round the world, is to visit Sydney. She is named the General Baquedana, a vessel of 2,500 tons. In addition to officers and crew, there are on board 20 midshipmen and 120 apprentices. Accuracy even in the smallest matters seems unattainable in South Africa (says the London Star). The other day we were thrilled by the news (conveyed by a Reuter telegram) that " the Union Jack which was hoisted on the Courthouse at Standerton is the identical flag which was hauled down in 1881 after the retrocession of the Transvaal." Major-General Montague, late in command of the troops at Standerton during the Boer war of 1881-82, writing from Ilfracombe, says : "On that occasion that identical flag was hauled down by myself, and at present hangs on the wall of my dining-room here." j Sev. John Watson (lan Maclaren) has told the following story in the course of a lecture on his recent visit to America; — An illiterate negro preacher said to his congregation : "My brethren, when de fust man, Adam, was made, he was made ob wet clay, and set up agin de palings to dry." "Do you say," said one of the congregation, " dat Adam was made of wet clay an' put up agin de palings to dry?" "Yes, sir I do." "Who made de pailings ? ' « Sit down, Bar," said the preacher, sternly, " such questions as dat would upset any system of theology." " The subject we are to discuss is whisky," said the temperance orator of the evening, << and I trust that in the short time allotted to me I shall be able to give my hearers a taste of the subject." Loud applause from the audience. After describing a deer stalking expedition in the Wanganui district, a correspondent of the Country Gentleman says : — " Good deer stalking can be had almost anywhere in the North Island, and all for LI, and the trout fishing in New Zealand is the beat in the world. The New Zealand Government and Wellington Acclimatisation Society deserve all sorts of credit for the way in which they have stocked the country with game. . . . At the present time I know of a place where such excellent sport can be obtained at such small cost. It only requires to be better known for hosts of Australian visitors to go over every season for the sport to be obtained, and this so cheaply." The tremendous strides taken by the dairying industry throughout New Zealand have had so marked an effect upon land prices, that on the West Coast, and in other districts where dairying is being pursued extensively, land suitable for this class of farming has reached an almost prohibitive figure. The rioh Poverty Bay district has so far been almost unexploited in thi3 respect. The Poverty Bay lands are oapable'of supporting a vast number of dairie?, and we look forward with confidence to see many more establishments of this nature dotted through the district. Undoubtedly a great fillip will be given to the industry by the exceptional facilities offered to dairy farmers in the cutting up of Buch estates p-s " Lavenham," " Maretaha," Mr William Cooper's Kaiti property, and Mr H. Goodwin's Whataupoko property. These are all choice spots, and we look forward to see the sale by Messrs Williams and Kettle, Limited, and Messrs Wyllie and Mason, on 27th October, mark a new era of prosperity for Poverty Bay. All of the properties are favorably situated, and offer special temptations to new settlers by the fact of their proximity to schools and creameries. Already many inquiries are coming in from outside the district, and we expect to see Gisborne very full at show week in anticipation of the Saturday's sale. Messrs Dimock and Co. are giving 3Jd per lb for bacon pigs. W.C.F.T. Association announce great sale of furniture. Manaia sports programme in this issue. Plain and fancy dress ball at Kapuni on Thursday next.