NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7046, 6 October 1900, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

On fourth page : Commercial ■ news, and Count Waldersee's Journey. The members of the Hawera Band have decided to obtain uniforms. Last week there were six bankruptcies in the colony. Stone-throwing by boys resulted in a lad named Barrie losing his eye at Invercargill last week. Motor-car excursions are now being run by enterprising English firms between Leeds and London. The next census of the population of New Zealand will be taken on the night of Good Friday. Captain Wellby, the well-known traveller author, of the 18th Hussars, has died fighting in South Africa. The Paris Exhibition closes on November sth. Something like 42,790 awards have been distributed among 75,531 successful exhibitors. In the Christchnrch Domain Gardens there is a fine cork tree. It is flourishing splendidly, and it is stated that its bark makes cork of the best quality. A syndicate has acquired the right to eighty acres of land in the Machau block, Coromandel, to woik blue granite, which is said to be plentiful. The steamer Kumara went as far as 48deg south in crossing the Southern Ocean on her way to Auckland from the Cape, and her passengers had some snowballing on deck. A large iceberg was seen. The census returns show the population of Greater New York to be 3,437,232.—The population of London, within the limits of the County of London, according to the 1891 census, was 4,232,118. The Pioneer of Allahabad discredits the rumours of a mobilization of the Afghan forces. Probably they owe their origin, it says, to some measures taken by the Ameer to increase the efficiency of his army. " The only fault of the Japanese," says Reuter's correspondent at the front, "is that they are too impetuous, and lose many men through advancing prematurely. As regards pluck, discipline, and endurance, they are fit to rank with the finest soldiers of any of the European Powers." According to an agricultural correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, it must be some time sinoe laborers cosld command such prices as are being paid in Lancashire this season. Sixpence an hour, besides a beer allowance, is quite a common wage. Mr J. Blackmore, Government Fruit Expert, is at present temporarily stationed in Nelson, where his services are considered essential in connection with the fruit growing industry, which has of late assumed large dimensions in that province. It is a year ago on October 11th since the state of war began in South Africa. On that date the Boers entered Natal, seized trains and cut the telegraph wires. Some people prophesy that the Boers will surrender on the anniversary of the declaration of hostilities. "How many teacturs are eligible for punishment," asked a householder at the meeting at the East Christchurch schocl last night—meaning, of course, how many were empowered to administer punishment —and the chairman, amidst the smiles of those present, very naturally replied that he could not say.—Press. To all appearances, the Stynes' benefit ooncert next Wednesday will be a huge success, and, as it is for a genuine cause, we hope to see a full house. The concert is under the patronage of the Mayor, and will be assisted by the Hawera Band, the Patea amateurs, and the leading lady and gentlemen amateurs of Hawera, which should be sufficient guarantee of success. Rumors of the Pope's serious illness are current from time to time, but it has been left to His Holiness to fix a time for his death. At his {reception of Cardinals) he hoped that he might live to see the closing of the holy door of St. Peter's at the end of the Jubilee year. "And then," he added, " I will hold myself ready to appear before the Great Judge. 1 ' An individual recently walked into a telegraph office not far from Masterton to send a telegram to his wife in the country. When informed that it would cost 3s in mileage to have the telegram delivered, he remarked; " Oh, let the wire stop at the office, and I'll write to the missus, tellingher to call for it." Particulars of the public debt of New Zealand are given in a paper laid on the table of the House. The amount outstanding on the 31st March, 1900, was £47,874,452. The Sinking Funds accrued were £944,375, leaving a net indebtedness of £46,930,077. The annual charge on the debt is £1,863,733. The Public Trustee in present issue ; draws attention of lessees under .the West ' Coast Settlement Reserves Act of 1881, and ; amendments, to the latest date for receiving applications fcr renewals of leases under the amending Act of 1898, to those leesces i who desire to come under the administra? i tion of the West Coast Settlement Reserves, ; Act, 1892. ' < Six settlers at Pomahaka who failed to meet their financial engagements with the '<■ Land Board teceived notice last week (says i the Southern Standard) to give up oc- 1 cupation of their holdings in seven days, f One settler, on receiving the sad news, ; commenced to cry, he being a married man with a large family, aud is supposed ( to have not a single penny. Much . sympathy is felt for him in his trying ; circumstances. . Mr Cresswell, a Napier solicitor, t addressing a Supreme Court jury on p behalf of a man charged with fraudulent o bankruptcy, said that the Bankruptcy fi Act on the Statute Book of this colony s was the most pernicious Act ever placed j there, and the public did not know it. 0 It should be called an Act for the Easy „ Manufacture of Criminals, or an Easier i Method of Sending an Innocent Man to Gaol. Under the Bankruptcy Act of 1892 P there were no fewer than 230 ways of v sending a man to gaol. Any man in this v colony who was not absolutely independent C( was liable to be brought under these 230 cL ways of getting into gaol. gi ir Bugler Dunne, jbhe hero of the first w Tugela fight, has gained profit as well as p] popularity by his bravery. Money gifts £, have poured in upon him from all quarters, +j. and his bank-book shows a balance of . nearly £300 in his favour, all accumulated ?f in this way. As has already been recorded, fv the Queen, when she commanded his * presence at Osborne, gave him a bugle. A ar Btighton lady has promised him a birthday I R gift every year, and among other presents \ hi has been a goat that chews tobacco, and is or now the pet of the drummer boys in the 1 » regiment to which Dunne belongs.

A football matoh, Fire Brigade v. the winning team of last Wednesday's match (grocers and ironmongers), is being arranged for Wednesday next, the proceeds to be in aid of the funds of the Fire Brigade. Mr L. S. Barraclough, who has just had his premises re-decorated and fitted with large incandescent burners, had a capital display of beef and mutton last evening. Home mission services will be held in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow. Preaohers; Mr T. A. Harris, 8.A., and Revs. Hammond and Bopata Tahu Potiki. We desire to call attention of our readers to a first-class concert which is advertised to be held at Matapu Hall on Tuesday next, in aid of the new organ which was recently purchased for public worship by the congregation in that locality. We hope to see a bumper house. Befreshments will be provided. Kathleen Fairhall, of Hawera, has just passed the elementary examination of the Associated Board of Boyal College and Royal Academy of Musio in pianoforte playing. She passed with distinction, getting 84 marks out of a possible 99. She is just six weeks over eight years old. This is probably a New Zealand record. The child's mother was her teacher. A choice specimen of a dutiful, loving hußband has been brought to light at Christohuroh. Refusing to support his family, an order was secured against him, but sooner than comply with it, he went to gaol. Being utterly destitute, the unfortunate wife then sued her father-in-law for maintenance, and the Bench ordered him to find sureties for the payment of £1 per week. So that the old man had to suffer for his son's conduct. Mr Arnold Forster, M.P., has gone to South Africa to study, on the spot, the question of getting British soldiers to settle there. He would soon get them to Bettle if he could get British girls to settle with them as wives. In nine cases out of ten, declares the Eastern Province Herald, the British settler in South Afrioa who marries a Boer woman becomes the ancestor of a generation of Boers. The British woman is necessary to the ultimate conquest and consolidation of South Africa. Each of the European Powers is known by a special name in China. England is Ying-Kwo, which means "the flourishing country," Germany is Te-Kwo, "the virtuous country," France is Fa-Kwo, " the law-abiding country," Italy is I-Kwo, " the country of justice," Japan is Ji-Kwo, " the land of the sun," and the United States is Nei-Kwo, "the beautiful country." Apparently the authors of these designations were no better informed as regards foreign countries than the average— even the averagely educated— Chinaman. At the age of 98 years a woman of Waterloo, N.Y., has just taken upon herself the vowb of matrimony, and is proud of the fact that she is probably the oldest bride in the world. In 1832 she was • first married to Thomas Preston, with whom she lived happily for many years, and at .the age of 68 became a widow. In 1873 she was wooed and won by Albert Brainerd, who died about a year ago. Then Samuel Decker appeared upon the scene, and immediately fell in love with the gay and festive widow, and a few weeks ago she was once again a bride. On June 15th last a remarkable flag was hoisted by the Royal Scots Fusiliers at Potchef stroon?. It was the identical Union Jack bured at Pretoria in 1881 after the Majuba surrender, and which, after being lowered in a coffin, was removed by Colonel Gildea. When the Royal Scots Fusiliers left for South Africa the flag was given them by Colonel Gildea's widow to hoist again. The Field says that harvesting operations began in the south of Ireland as early as July 20th, imported New Zealand oats being the first of the ceieals fit for cutting, even those fields seeded from the produce of last season's importation being as a rule considerably in advance of the bulk of those seeded in spring with ordinary homegrown grain. One of the trustees in the estate which is the subject of litigation in the Supreme Court in Brown v Brown, giving evidence yesterday morning, said, referring to one of the beneficiaries under the will : "Ho used to want to see the will about every nine months— or whenever the spirit moved him."— Christchurch Press. An extraordinary instance of the efficacy of the thumb impression method of identification is to hand from Bengal. Some months ago the manager of a tea-garden was murdered, the murderer getting away, a3 the crime was not discovered until some time after its commission. For a long time after the police could find no clue. Then it was discovered that the assassin, while rummaging among the papers of the deceased, had smudged a Bengali atlas with his thumb. The atlas was forwarded to the Police Bureau, where the thumb-marks of criminals are kept, when it was discovered that the impression on the atlas corresponded with the thumb record of a" criminal then at large. The man was very soon arrested, and the crime was fully brought home to him. A few weeks ago he paid the last penalty of the law. IT IS DANGEROUS TO NEGLECT A COLD. Pneumonia is one of the most dangerous and fatal diseases. It always results from a cold. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will quickly cure a cold and perhaps prevent an attack of pneumonia. It is in fact made especially for that ailment and has become famous for its cures over a large part of the civilized world. It counteracts any tendency of a cold toward pneumonia. Can you afford to neglect your cold when so reliable a remedy can be had for a trifle ? For sale at Hawera General Store. — Advt.