NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VX, Issue 7102, 26 January 1901, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

■ — ♦ „ tJfMHSFS'*?' MlH<R n- arrived in Wellington, from Sydney, on Thursday. inatoobt? 6 " 5 SeVen bankru P tcies ion/! 16 tot al Production of kauri gum for 2S H X *« »« A loan of L5OOO is to be raised for con SSLST " Mk " ""» »*» »E It ia not generally known that the Post cS ee T a r th w U i ce \ ha . ye b * "faction of « /* Ward ab olished the fine known as •• double deficient postage." Over 10,000 application forms for old age pensions had been received in Mcl bourne up to a fortnight ago. Patea Press hears that at the annual meetm X pf the Western Pachng Com pa ny a resolution was carried in favor ofTeK the property as a going concern. S In consequence of the special nature of the services to-morrow, it has bean arranged for fiev. J. Dukes to oSupvthe «« P vlSng! £ Weßleyan ° hUrch visUed ft? A er n° r i fineB ' Mr McGowan, visnea the Auckland gaol the other d*v £J complimented M^'sSS. upon the' com±L°H aUthe ? 70 P^oners nooneh?d I tSSfSZmB?"* treatment MMived j

Another instance of oarelessness in the use of firearms was furnished during th'j hearing of a case at the Dunedin Court, when it was shown that two boys, who were rabbit shooting, shot a young lady in the groin. Medical men have, so far, failed to extract the bullet.

Samples of stories told by De Wet to encourage his burghers -.—The Queen has fled to Capetown to esoape the Chinese, who have captured half of England : Lord Roberts has been buried under the Heilbron Town Hall, and General Bullerhas gone Home and been presented with a gold Bpear.

The Westport Times says : - Mrs Simms, the lady who has assisted Judge Martin in furnishing the colony with its greatest society scandal, was, prior to her marriage, a nurse in the Christchuroh Hospital. The lady is petite, and has what oar informant desoribes as eloquent black eyes and a fascinating personality.

The Hon. Mr Ward, speaking at Ashburton, said we had in this colony a good newspaper press, but it ought to be run at a lesser cost than at present. He hoped to effect reforms in this direction in order to give newspaper proprietors facilities lor distributing news to the general interest of the public at a lesser cost than at present.

The Queen's walking-stick, which had been her hourly companion for many years, has an interest that is not generally known. It was made of a portion of the famous oak tree which so successfully hid Charles 11. from his Cromwell pursuers. A Worcester citizen caused a branch to be thus manipulated and presented to the King, from whom it has deacended to its late Royal owner.

That colonial life does not always consist of rapid changes is proved by the experience of a North Cantebury settler, with whom one married couple remained in his service sixteen years, and another couple thirteen years. One man at day work kept on twenty-seven years, another twenty-four years. A shepherd attended to his duties for thirty-three years, and another as boy and man thirty years. Others of his hands have reoords of seven years and upwards. — Press.

Of the extraordinarily plentiful manner in which the Chinese waters are stocked with fish it is difficult for foreigners to form an adequate conception. It may be mentioned, however, that, according to zoologist b, there are at least a thousand different specimens to be found along the seaboard. At Hong Eong, too, it is said that one can eat fi&h every day in the week for a year without twice being served with the same sort.

Owners of factories and workrooms will bear in mind that their returns under the Factory Act must be sent in to the local inspector, Sergeant Bernard, not later than 31st inst.

We have to chronicle, with regret, the death of the infant son of Mr and Mrs John McHardy, of WatinoJ road, which took place on Monday, after a few hours' illness. The parents and grandparents (Mr and Mrs O'Rielly, of Hawera] willhav.e the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their bereavement.

The Fiji Times of January sth acknowledges the receipt of no fewer than fifty-one separate New Zealand papers, commenting on the speech of the Governor of ittji in reference to New Zealand's treatment of the natives. Of the fifty-one, it selects the Hawbba Stab's leader for insertion as the best defence of New Zealand. The editor of the Fiji Times is evidently a man of discrimination — knows a good thing

when he sees it.

A Wellington paper relates : — While Mr 7. J. Brogan was tolling the bell in the Post Office tower on Wednesday announcing the death of her Majesty the Queen, a pure black pigeon flew into the dome and allowed itself to be captured and made a pet of. When liberated the bird flew straight away, and was not again seen. A clerk in the Government service, who was examined in the Wellington Magistrate's Court a while back, deposed that he was only a temporary clerk. It was subsequently established that his temporary employment had lasted twelve years continuously 1 Coincident with the rise in coal, there is likely to be something of a reversion to peat as fuel, even in high places. At Haverthwaite, near Windermere, a great peat bog is about to be turned to moneymaking account. Machinery of great power will be laid down at the bog, and will compress blocks of peat into bright burning fuel, whioh, it is said, will compete against coal in every respect. The tenth of December witnessed the

tenth anniversary of Sir John Forrest's

Premiership of Westralia. By retaining office for this lengthy period the Forrest Administration have established a record, which is unique in character. Of the

original Cabinet only Sir John himself now remains. In the ten intervening years

he has had no less than thirteen colleagues, which is in itself another record for Australia.

Alessandro Tisini, the bellringer of a church in Bologna (Italy) has just had a startling adventure. He was standing in the upper storey of the bell-tower ringing the full peal when one of the ropes slipped from his hands, and the bell swinging round in a wide curve knocked Tisini out of the window of the tower. He pitched first on the roof of the priest's house, and then rebounded into the street. Strange to say, he wa3 not killed, but half an hour after entering the hospital he declared he was no worse, and begged the dootors to

let him go home.

Lieutenant - Commanding Colquhoun, who last month was personally decorated by the Queen with the Distinguished Service Order, in recognition of his service in South Africa, is well known in New Zealand. He oame out as a fourth officer of the Rotomahana, and, staying in that vessel during the whole of his service with the Union Company, he rose to the position of fir<st mate, under Captain Carey. The company had a good opinion of Mr Colquhoun as a thorough sailor and a man of wide resource, and when he resigned in order to join the Victorian Navy it was generally predicted that he would make a name for himself.

A meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce was held on Friday afternoon. Present— Messrs J. Hardley, Ekdahl, Worsfold, Dixon, Arthur, W. A. Parkinson, Hendersoo, and Halliwell. Before business commenced, a motion wa3 passed placing on record the sense of the great loss sustained by the death of our beloved Queen. A sub-committee was appointed to go into the matter of improvements at the local railway station. It was deoided to make strong efforts to have a *"~ a — ♦»Miah«d_in_ Hajrera. Messrs

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