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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VXIL, Issue 7259, 23 July 1901, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES. . » Lieut.-Colonel Davies paaaed through lawera by thia morning's train. tb It is rumored that Mr Remington will ? mdeavour to upset the Patea election on bi he ground that canvassing wa9 illegally cI ndulged in. ' tt The mission service held last evening ll it the Presbyterian Chutoh was well a ' attended, and Mr Catberwood's earnest £ renarks rivotted tht, attention of his d hearers. 0 The billiard matoh, Boberta v. Memnott, 8 ' 7000 up, played at Melbourne, the latter 8i receiving 2500, was won easily by Memuott. c Roberts scored 5246. a At a meeting of the committee of the •' Egmont Gun Club, held last evening, the L date for the pigeon match was fixed foi I 28th August, full particulars of which will \ appear in our advertising columns to- £ morrow. % ] The following new 'books have been t received- at Public Library :— " A Sub- r altern's Letters to his Wife," '• The Sin of s Jasper Standish," by Bita; "Fields of ] Fair Renown," Hooking ; *' The Story of t an Untold Love," P. L. Ford; "The t Mayor of Littlejoy," F. O. Small. < There is a flock of more than sixty shagß j fishing in the waters of the Pohangina i river. The Acclimatisation Society will find their work of stocking the river with ' trout undone, it these black gertoy ai« ! allowed to continue undisturbed. — Masterton Times. It takes the evidence of five civilians j (according to the member for the Suburbs) to outweigh that of one policeman in a Court of law. ' " It is stated that the Westport Coal Company under the new law will have to pay nearly £2500 to insure thoir workmen. The company at the present time contribute £700 to the coalminers' relief fund. The progress of settlement in Taranaki was commented upon in the House by Mr A. L. D. Fraser, who stated that Taranaki, with a third of the acreage of Hawke's Bay, was within 2000 of the population of the East Coast province. Mr McGuire drew a fanciful pioture last night of what electricity iB going to do for the country settler. By that power and a small turbine wheel the settler would be able, he said, to cut his timber and his chaff— and he did not mean any " chaff " about it, either. The settler would even I have the electric light in the cowshed. I (Laughter.)— Post. During a recent performance of " Uncle Tom's Cabin " at the Academy of Music in New York, the horses altaohed to a coach, whioh appears in the play, made a bolt over the footlights into the orchestra, killing the driver, and naturally raising very much of a panic. Fortunately, no more damage was dona, and Mrs Yeaman, the veteran actress, who was in the coach, escaped unhurt. «' It will kill my poor mother." These pathetic words, whioh contain a volume of meaning, were uttered by a 12-year old boy who was picked up in a dying condition from under a Ghristchurch tram the other day. The poor little fellow, despite his fearful injuries, never breathed a word of complaint about the terrible pain he was enduring, but bis whole thoughts were apparently for his mother and the agony she would suffer when she learned of his frightful death. Jupiter sometimes nods. In The Times of May 21st appeared this cable from Wellington : — "Mr John M'Kenzie, late Minister of Lands, who has been appointed member of the Upper House by the Governor, has left for Sydney to confer with the Duke of Cornwall for his New Zealand tour." An English correspondent calls attention j to the ourioui requests that are made to members of Parliament, and asks if Rnyone can cite a claim that will beat this one : "We are the brass band of , and we played in honour of your being elected. A little girl sat on the drum and stove it in, and we should be very grateful if you would present us with a new one." Perhaps some Dew Zealand member may be able to cap it from painful experience. A Swede created some excitement in Cashel street, Christchurch, on Sunday afternoon. He was (says Truth) snowballed by some festive colonial youths, and, instead of replying by the same method, he drew a long naked knife, and started to chase his attackers. One boy was nearly oaptured, but he was swung out of the way just as his pursuer reached him. The man was thereupon set upon by the whole band, and sought safety in flight. A young man recently left Brancepeth station (Masterton) for South Africa, taking with him L4OO. He procured an appointment on the South African railways, and the first day he was at work he met with an accident which caused his death. Enquiries are now being made as to his next of kin. The d.iy prior to reaching Port Chalmers ColoneljDavies|(says the Dunedin Star) addressed the men, and thanked them for their services. He said he hoped to meet them in New Zealand. If they came his way they were never to pass his door. If called upon to fight again he would not wish to command a more gallant lot of men. The troopers responded with cbeers for the colonel, who is very popular, both on and off the field. A correspondent to a Christchnrch paper reports a shameful and contemptible act which took place in that city. Last v eek, while the snow was falling thickly, and the weather was bitterly cold, a household family— father, mother, and four children, only one earning 4s— had all their little belongings carried off at the instance of the landlord for the payment of a sum under £5. " Talk about Highland and Irish evictions," concludes the correspondent, " why, they are being carried out at your very doors under boasted* New Zealand legislation." To some persons Mr Hanlon's statement at the Police Court, on the law of husband and wife, may be news. Learned counsel said: "If a wife is not destitute there is no obligation on the part of her husband to support her. That she is his wife has nothing to do with it. Unless she is destitute she has no claim whatever; and if destitute she can be awarded no more than £1 a week, even though her husband were the manager of a bank at L 2.000 a year."— Dunedin Star. The Fourth Contingent claims one unique record. None of its then were courtmartialled. Only two of them fell into the hands of the enemy. They were Btripped of their arms, their overcoats, and their tunics, and then released, to find their way back, a matter of 20 miles or so, to their own camp. On their way they captured an unarmed Boer. They treated him in one respect as they had been treated themselves. They divested him of his overcoat (which was of the military pattern) and his coat, which was a civilian's. One donned the former and the other the latter article, and with their prisoner between them they resumed their weary tramp back to camp. The Southern Standard states that it is expected that nothing like the amount of ground will be cropped this year that was cropped laßt year in the Gore district. The universally low prices that have prevailed during the past two seasons have rendered oat-growing about the least remunerative of farming industries, for many who paid high prices for cropping land last year will not be inclined to make a similar mistake again. Farmers are more favorably inclined towards dairying than hitherto, and there is no doubt that next year, in districts where dairy factories abound, the latter will receive a large augmentation of their milk supply. Three members of the Ministerial front bench in the House of Commons had, it is said, recently to rush across the lobby to catch the division bell in a manner that was not perhaps wholly dignified. But it might have been worse. Members of the House of Commons have been known to vote in their shirt sleeves before now, and there is a well-remembered case of a member who rushed into the lobby straight from his bath in order to be in the House before the bell stopped. He had a blanket round him, it is true, but his appearance was hardly in keeping with the majesty of Parliament, and it is sad to have to record that tho enthusiastic M.P. missed his vote j after all. A number of Taranaki settlers engaged in the dairy industry passed through by the mail train to-day, going to Palmerston to attend the dairy show. Mr Major, when in Wellington, inferviewed the Minister of Lands on the question of the establishment of the dairy school at Waipapa. As already mentioned in our columns, the Minister informed him that Levin had been determined upon as the site. In answer to Mr Major's queries, the Minister gave as the principal reasons that it was considered more central and accessible at Levin, and that it was better to utilise land costing the Government about £10 an acre to that costing over double that price. Men milkers wasted. The Colonial Dental Company has a replace advertisement in this issue. Pater Bon's clearing Bale iB proceeding, and bargains are being secured. Ladies' hose, gloves, corsets, jaokets, capes, and mackintoshes all reduced at j A. Wilson and Son's Cash Sale.-Adyt, '