NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70455, 4 October 1900, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

».. The judgment delivered ai the Court on Wednesday in the case Steuart and Corngan v Murphy will be found on fourth page. ' * One of the most courageous marches ever taken was that of Colonel Willcook's, to Eumassi. We hear that during the maroh from Eumassi the whole party lived on bananas. On one occasion they even waded shoulder high through a river for two hours. Does anyone want a higher test of endurance on a vegetable diet than this ?—? — The Vegetarian. Thirty-three entries have been received for the leaping match at the Hawke's Bay show next week. Among the entrants is the ex-Hawera gelding The Sinner. No one who has not seen a kopje, says a South African, can easily realise it. It is not a hill so much as the stump of a hill— what is left of it after ages of denudation ; but the special feature of it is that it is almoßt invariably covered with a breastwork of boulders. Tropical torrents have washed away the earth and all the soluble components of the rock, and what i 3 left consists of heaps and lines of detached masses of sandstone, ironstone, or granite. The kopjes, as we all know, are the Boer's favourite fortifications, and he has many of them. The big bullock sold at the Egmont Farmers' Union sale on Thursday week was slaughtered yesterday, and was on view at Messrs Adamson and Co.'s shop to-day. The animal, a pure Shorthorn, was bred by Mr M. Roberts, and its dressed weight turned the beam at 10041b— not bad for a three-year-old. At Stratford, on Tuesday, Luoien Libeau, arrested on a charge of ' setting fire to his shop, was remanded for a week. Accused will be brought up at New Plymouth on Tuesday next, and then remanded for another week. It will be noticed by our Parliamentary report that the Prince of Wales' Birthday has been fixed as the day on which the peace celebrations .will take place. A wire has been received from Rev. Father Power, from Napier, to tho effect that he will return to Hawera on Thursday next, after a most enjoyable holiday. A public meeting at New Plymouth last evening endorsed the resolutions re Opaku reserve passed at a recent conference between the educational bodies of Taranaki. One of the speakers (Mr Roy) stated there was not muoh fear as far as the Minister was concerned that the reserve would be lost to Taranaki, as on two occasions he distinctly stated that it belonged to and should be retained for the district. Special thanks were given Mr E. G. Allsworth for the interest he had displayed in the matter, Mr E. L. Briant, of the Eltham Coach Factory, who has a new advertisement to-day, has in course of construction a nice Bingle hooded buggy, on American lines, which affords very easy seating accommodation, and is on Colling's axles. He has also a very nice gig (curved back), hung on three springs. This vehicle is stylishly painted in green and black, the pioking out being in white. In addition there are two Eltham gigs in natural wood (one with red wheels, the other tan colored), and a very useful delivery cart for a local storekeeper, besides several other kinds of vehicles, in more or less advanced stages of construction.