NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7048, 9 October 1900, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

Letters from Troopfcrs Meuli and Morrison on fourth page.

To-morrow is Labour Day.

Regulations for trout and perch fishing IB Hawera and Patea counties are gazetted.

Ropata Tahu Potiki (Mr Haddon) is set apart by the Wesleyan Conference to assist the Rev. T. G. Hammond on the coast.

Mr William Monkhouse has been appointed to be auditor of the affairs of the Lowgarth Co-operative Dairy Company.

Feilding Borough Council is talking of a loan of £10,000 for street and footpath improvements.

Mr J. S. Greig, of Stratford, has been appointed an officer under The Fisheries Conservation Act for the counties of Xaranaki, Stratford, and Clifton.

Farmers having pigs for sale are invited to communicate with W. Dimook and Co., bacon ourers, Wellington, as Mr Y. Dimock will be in this district in a few days.

Mr C. Messiter is prepared to take pupils for piano, and will coach pupils for practical and theoretical examinations. Mr Messiter was a pupil of Herr Edouard Scharfe, who, it will be remembered, toured this colony as Ovide Musin's pianist.

We remind our readers in the neighborhood of Matapu of the concert which is to take place this evening. It promises to be a very successful affair, and we hope the performers will be greated with a bumper house. Tea and coffee provided.

At a meeting of the National Dairy Association, the step of purchasing the Taranaki Freezing Company's works at Moturoa was decided upon, subject to twenty of the associated factories giving in their adhesion to the proposal.

The express train running between Wellington and Napier will shortly be accelerated. The journey is to be performed in an hour less than at present.

The Whakatane, leaving Wellington for London on Thursday, takes away 11,000 cases of butter. In this issue the Public Trustee gives , notice to native owners and lessees of meetings to be held at the reserves agent's office, Hawera, Rt 10 and 11 o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 31st October, 1900, to fix the rents for new leases to Arthur Sidney Tonks and Frederick Riddiford.

Private information received from Awakino is to the effect that prospecting for gold has been carried out vigorously for some time, but so far the results cannot be called satisfactory. — Egraont Post.

Trooper Sam Taplin, of the Hawera Mounted Rifles, who went from Pahiatua to the "front," had a severe attack of the dreaded enteric; but is now, bis many friends will be glad to learn, in the convalescence ward at Pretoria. He hopes to be back in New Zealand some time in November.— Herald.

The Waimate Road Board hns received advice f rcftn the Treasury that the OpunakeStratford Loan of £550 has been granted, and the money will be available at any time it is required. Also that the Colonial Treasurer approves of the Taikatu and Glenn road loans, conditionally that the necessary steps as required by law are taken to raise the same. In connection with these two loans, statutory meetings will be held on Monday next to consider and disouss the proposals.

Messrs A. Wilson and Son, Glasgow House, have an important announcement in our advertising columns.

Borough Council has two notices in this issue.

It is not generally known (says the Otago Daily limes) that included in the colony's list of exports are small birds, but fcuch is the case. True, the trade is, so far as is known, carried on by one business man only — a well-known bird fancier in Dunedin, Mr Charles Bills, to wit — and it is not of very extensive dimensions. The birds, comprising linnets and gold' finches chiefly, are sent to Melbourne, and Mr Bills declares a good many hundreds are thus exported. They are caught by means of a large trap. As many as 140 were obtained at the racecourse in one haul, while Mr Bills has secured 400 in oue morning. He is of ..pinion that if half the money expended in poisoned grain was devoted to trapping, the country would hear little of the small bird nuisance.

A little boy, Cyril Wilson, son of Mr A. F. Wilson, of Eltham, got burned rather severely about the bead and face, on Monday afternoon, through setting fire to some blasting powder. Another little boy, Harry Cattanaeh, who was with him at the time, also received injuries of a less serious nature. It is a mystery where boys get such dangerous combustibles from, and if purchased at the stores the authorities should see to it that such a practice is put a stop to.

A point of some interest to stock owners was raised at the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, on Wednesday morning, when Wm. Gardiner, manager of the Bukuhia Estate, was charged on the information of the police with having committed a breach of the railway by-laws on Sertember 7th, by allowing seven head of cattle to trespass on the railway line at Bukuhia. Mr Gardiner admitted the offence, but said ' that the railway ran through his property and was untenced. Therefore it was impossible for him to keep the animals off j the line. His Worship said he would like to go into this matter. If the Government ran a railway through a property and left it unfenoed they could not possibly ex- j pect the owner to keep his cattle off the line. If, of course, the cattle strayed on after the line had been fenced it was a different matter altogether. He would adjourn the case aine die in order to go thoroughly into the question.— Auckland Star.