NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70454, 3 October 1900, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Farm and Dairy news and report of Land Board on fourth page.

A recent invention enables the marble carver to strike 6000 blows a minute, as against 30 by the hand prooess.

Annual Wesleyah concert, etc., at Normanby this evening.

From Friday to Wednesday no mail reached Hawera from Auckland.

Owing to the severity of the winter frost, all the eucalypti trees in the Beefton dißtrict have perished.

A Berlin journal states that the Tsar has given permission for the transport of German troopß to China through Siberia.

The receipts at Dr Barnado's Homes for last year were £147,049, and the record number of 13,288 children were dealt with.

At a meeting in New Plymouth, the project of a tramway to Opunake was discussed heartily, and steps will be taken to have a flying survey made.

The question of establishing a scientific dairy school, and the most suitable site for such a purpose, will be considered by the Government during the recess. — Post.

Ministers are considering the question of passing legislation to enable local bodies to borrow against " thirds " without striking a special rate.

At a meeting of the Fire Brigade last evening, Foreman McNiven was appointed lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Saunders, who is going to South Africa. Fireman Greig was elected a branchman.

A daily flow of about 1,000,000 gallons of water has been struck at a depth of 3579 ft in the bore on Anderson's selection, on the Dagworth resumption, Queensland.

An electrical generating plant is to be established at the Assuan dam, in the Nile, to carry the eleotrio current 100 miles to operate cotton factories to be built under British enterprise and British capital.

New Plymouth, says Mr Donald Maodonald, has a beautiful garden (the Reoreation Ground)— a credit to the people of the township who take such an interest in it ; but I've seen no other worth the name in New Zealand yet.

A meeting of the Hawera School Committee was held last evening, when a vote of thanks was accorded the Caledonian Society for their kind donation of gymnastic apparatus.

The Governor of Queensland spoke the other day in favor of some religious instruction being given in connection with the State school teaching. So far as he was aware, no State education system in the world has been able to survive long without some religion for its basis, Rnd in Queensland there ought to be some attempt made to recognise that religion must be the basis of national character.

A one-legged boy arrived in Masterton on Tuesday, having walked from Christchurch to Nelson, then stowing away to Wellington, and doing the rest of the distance via the fiimutaka. He is en route for Auckland.

Patrons of places of amusement should bear the following in mind : — Any person who disturbs any audience in any theatre or other public place of amusement is, by section 3, sub-section 30, of "The Police 'Offences Act, 1884,;' liable to a penalty of £5.

We understand that at the conference between the members of the Education Board and the local School Committee the question of the establishment of a district high school in Hawera received careful consideration, and the opinion was unanimously in favour of such nn institution. The board members will report j to the board at next meeting. Mr Wilford, speaking in defence of his client in a palmistry case before the Court the other day, Baid he considered the police would do more good if they gave their attention to the suppression of the practice of tea-cup reading, which is extensively practised in the city. Credulous people are charged one shilling for a cup of tea, and after the the tea is drunk the fortune-teller reads the tea-leaves. — Wellington Post.

In British naval and military circles it is regarded as a settled fact that Commandant De Wet is a renegade Britisher who was formerly a Major in- the Eoyal Marines. His true name, it is said, is Black, and he was dismissed from the service in disgrace for assaulting a subaltern in his regiment. Yet many who have seen him assert that, in appearance, he is a typical Dutchman.

Thirty petitions have been presented to the Council this session asking that measures be taken to suppress the growing evil of gambling. The Publio Petitions Committee has reported that the number of petitions presented goes to show that legislation on the subject is required. It recommends the prayer of the petitioners to the favourable consideration of the Government.

A new terror of courtship has, according to one of the London medical papers, been developed. A young woman for some days had been suffering from a supposed attack of pleurisy. When a doctor was called in he found that one of her ribs was fractured. After much questioning, the girl blushingly admitted that her fiance had inflicted the injury while giving her the usual tender embrace before parting on his last visit.

Signor Verdi, the composer, has almost brought to completion the philanthropic scheme on which he has been engaged since 1888. Outside the Portu Magneta at Milan he has bought a large piece of ground, and on it has built a House of Best for musicians. This building, which was begun in 1896, covers an area of about 2000 square yards. It will shelter 100 needy musicians (60 men and 40 women) of not less than 65 years of age.

A strange funeral scene took place lately at the Portuguese Cemetery for Jews, Mileend road, London. The deceased was an unmarried woman. The ceremony in the synagogue was of the usual character, but at the graveside the body was removed from the coffin, wrapped in a white sheet, and lowered into the grave. A light covering of earth was placed over the body, and then the coffin was placed on the top of it.

A singular incident happened the other day in one of the main thoroughfares of Adelaide. A heavily-loaded dray was passing along, when the water main burst, and the wheels subsided through the macadam. A strong volume of water was thrown up, and before the horses could be removed from the harness, one, which got its head pinned close to the ground, was drowned.

From a well-informed journalistic source in Sydney, we (Wyndham Farmer) learn that there are good reasons for entertaining the belief that the leading cities of Australia will shortly witness a new departure in newspaperdom— to wit, the establishing of half-penny evening dailies in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. It 4 is said that Mr David Syme, of Melbourne Age, and Mr Harmsworth, of.London Daily Mail, are among the promoters, and that no less a person than Mr Cecil Rhodes, the South African magnate, will be one of the financial props of the proposed undertaking.

BEMARKABLB CORE OV BHEUMATISM.

Kenna, Jackson Co., Wa., Ya.

About three years ago my wife had an attack of rheumatism which confined her to her bed for over a month and rendered her unable to walk a step without assistance, her limbs being swollen to double their normal size. Mr S. Maddox insisted on my using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I purchased a fifty-cent bottle and used it according to the directions, and the next morning she walked to breakfast without assistance in any manner, and she has not had a similar attaok since. — A. B. Parsons. For sale at Hawera General Store.— Advt.

All of the Kickafoo Indian Remedies oan be obtained at D. Nimmo Scott's.— Advt

A monster demonstration of Sunday- 1 school children will be held on the Basin ! Reserve, Wellington, on New Year's Day, j to mark the beginning of another century. (

A hotelkeeper at Palmerston, summoned for supplying a prohibited person with liquor, stated that there were so many prohibited persons in the town that he could not remember them all! He was not fined.

The Indian Famine Fund at the Mansion House (London) totalled £358,500 on 24th August.

R. B. Pearoe, a fireman on the dredge working in Manukau harbor, was found dead in his bunk on Monday morning.

The agricultural statistics are to be collected a month earlier this year than last, viz., instead of from November 15th, from October 15th to November 10th. In his annual report, the InspectorGeneral refers to the Hawera Hospital. He says : " This hospital has suffered in the death of Miss Tyers, a conscientious and hardworking matron. . . All was in excellent order."

Referring to the New Plymouth Hospitali Dr MacGregor says : — " The general conditions of this hospital are fairly satisfactory, but reform of building and management of the Old Men's Home within the hospital grounds is urgently required. A site ought to be chosen with 50 acres in the country."

The Electoral Aot Amendment Bill, which has been introduced by the. Colonial Secretary, makes provision for the complete registration of eleotors, and removes the disabilities arising out of temporary absence from the colony. The issue of mock ballot papers is to be prohibited. Where less than fifty votes are cast ballot papers are not to be opened and counted till they reach the main polling booth. In future no person will be permitted to occupy the dual position of Returning Officer and Registrar.

Mr Gillenders, the curator of the Momohaki Experimental Station reports that the rainfall there for September was 5*95 inches, the maximum being I*6o on the 29th, and the minimum '02 on the 27th.

" The majority of the oases set down for hearing at the Magistrate's Court this morning," says the Dunedin Star, "were for unpaid calls on mining companies' shares. The claim by one company alone amounted to close on £500. In nearly all the cases defendants confessed judgment." For the first time in the history of the British Militia, orders have been given for part of the force to be trained as mounted infantry. The experiment is to be tried at Aldershot with two companies formed from the Manchester Regiment, and if successful will be generally adopted. A well-known Free Church minister was lecturing his flock on non-churohgoing. After he had gone over a long list of the excuses he was in the habit of receiving, he concluded thus: "And some say the church is cold ; but perhaps those who now urge that excuse will be thankful to get a cold seat yet 1"

A member of a Wellington firm of house and land agents is quoted by the Christchurch Press as having stated his opinion that New Zealand was never so prosperous as at the present time. He has a personal experience of Auckland, Wellington, and Christohurch, and he says that the demand for houses in these centres is remarkable.

Dr. Temple, now Archbishop of Canterbury, tells a good story against himself. He entered during a popular service in an East End church one night, and, standing in a back pew, joined in the singing of a Moody and Sankey hymn. Next to him stood a working man, who was singing lustily hi tune. The working man stood the dissonance as long as he could, and then, nudging the Bishop, said in a whisper, " Here, dry up mister ; you're spoiling the show."

A parcel of toys reached San Franoisco from the Black Forest. The consignment consisted of oats and dogs, warranted to makb their natural noises. But a careless workman executed a curious mixing up in regard to the mechanism for producing sound, with the result that the canines mewed and the felines barked. The toys have been sent .back to Germany.

A mysterious disappearance has been reported to the Melbourne police. A German named Frank Hildenbnrgenden,

employed ai theChiltern Valley No 2 mine, left there on July 28, telling one of the

shift; bosses that he would not work there again, as one or two of the men who were working in the same shift intended to kill him. Since then no trace of him whatever can be obtained.

A giant — said to be the tallest man bui

one in the world— figured as defendant in the Marylebone Police court recently. He was described as an actor — William Henry Augur by name, of 40, St. Mary's Square, Kensington, and he stands 7ft 4in in his socks. When in the dock his legs reached the topmost rail. He was prosecuted by a diminutive woman, to whom he was ordered to pay certain arrears. At a meeting of the directors of the Caledonian Society, all the committees for the ensuing year were set up. It was decided to hold the sports on the Recreation Ground on New Year's Day, and that the annual concert be held in the evening. The balance of the gymnasium plant was presented to the Hawera Public School. The committee was empowered to have a shed erected for storing the club's plant at the Recreation Ground, and to purchase new hurdles. . Sinister reports were current in England

a few weeks ago as to the health of Lord Boberts. It was stated that the FieldMarshal had been confined to his bed forten days, incapacitated, owing to the effects of an operation, rendered necessary by his taking long rides. All this (says Beuter's

correspondent at Pretoria) is absolutely unfounded. Lord Roberts has not been confined to his bed one whole day since his arrival in South Africa ; he has never

undergone an operation in his life, and is in perfect health and vigour. When not hard at work, he is daily seen in the saddle.

Describing the advance of the British troops, the correspondent of the Daily Express, London, says:— lt has been a wonderful march, I find a note : " General Kelly, D.A.G., said to me to-day,

' I hope you correspondents will lay some stress on the wonderful absence of crime during the march. In my opinion this is largely due to the fact that there has been no strong drink. This campaign has been run entirely on teetotal principles, and the experiment has proved wonderfully successful.' " Indeed, the absence of crime makes a record of which any commander might be proud.

Mr Finn, in proposing the toast of " Farming and Agriculture " at the Industrial Association banquet on Saturday evening, referred with regret to the inflation of the price of land, due to the dairying industry. Mr Miilward, Manager of the Gear Meat Company, in responding to the toast, agreed that the fictitious prices of land sold for dairying purposes was likely to result in serious consequences. He knew where land in Taranaki had gone up to over £30 per acre, and he contended that the average settler who gave such a price was capitalising the labor of his own family. If prices went down the result would be disastrous to those who had paid fancy prices for dairy land. — Post.

" The Coming Race " is the title of a pamphlet by Mr E. C. Reynolds, of Akaroa, who propounds the proposition, " Is flesheating consistent with the laws of Nature," whioh he answers emphatically in the negative. On the face of the evidence he puts forward he argues that it is a mistaken idea to regard flesh in any form as necessary to life ; all that is necessary to the human body can be supplied by the vegetable kingdom. The author's contentions are well put, and the authorities quoted are eminent. No one will dispute the argument that a man can be a vegetarian and live, but it is as palpable as is the nose on one's face that beef has done much for the British race, and that it will take a lot of talking and writing to turn the AngloSaxon from his chop, steak, or even that startling mystery the sausage. Vegetarianism* is well enough for those who like it, but it is hardly probable that it will become fashionable.

Mr Donald Macdonald has been inter viewed by a Wellington Post reporter, who records that on the journey down from Auckland Mr Macdonald came through Taranaki, and was much impressed with the development of the dairying industry. Be observed that New Zealand had dropped into modern dairying with the same enthusiasm and immediate profit that farmers had done in Victoria, and the ideal pastures in the long stretch of country between New Plymouth and Palmerston North attracted him greatly. The old fields of blood in Taranaki,* he found, had become fields of butter. He could well understand Taranaki being called "the garden of New Zealand"— it was a remarkably appropriate term, but for one thing, the striking absence of orchards and gardens right through. It is an undeveloped garden, but with the richness of the soil, the fine artificial pastures, and the mellow, moiet summer climate — when Australia's poor dairy herds are almost perishing, New Zealand has all the best of the comparison.

MILK. MILE MILK,

Soon the busy milking season will be here, and it will be all at it, and always at it. Now, husbands study your wives' health, ease, and comfort, save the drudgery of a washing day, and purchase a Sellers' Labour Saving 'Washer— Adit .-