NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Feilaing Athletic Club made a profit of £70 on last meeting.

Weighed at Kumara, the Premier scaled 20 stone 61b.

A mushroom 2£t 9in in circumference was gathered by a Masterton youth on Saturday morning.

It is expected that there will be half-a-dozen candidates for the Masterton mayoralty.

A young New Zealander — a girl of 20 — who was before the Wellington Benevolent Trustees on Tuesday was unable to sign her name.

The s.s. Mana arrived at Patea from Wellington yesterday, sailed for Wellington same night, and is expected back again on Friday.

The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company has deoided that the Mamari shall not call at the Cape as intended, as sufficient cargo is not forthcoming.

During December the estates of five deceased members of New Zealand contingents were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee.

It is the intention of the Naw Zealand Alliance to secure the services of Miss Balgarnie (of Great Britain), Mr J. Woolley (U.S.A.), Mrs Harrison Lee ( Australia), and the Rev. L. M. Isitt to lecture throughout the colony.

From the Ocean Accideut Company and the Phoenix Assurance Company we have received wall calendars of handy description. The South British Insurance Company has also sent us a very useful one.

The Mayor, at the Borough Council on Monday night, ndvocated that a conference of solicitors should be held in some central place for the purpose of arriving at a uniform set of by-laws for municipalities. — Taranaki Herald.

The Dunedin Star Wellington correspondent hear 3on good authority that the Government intend to send outside the colony for men to fill the positions of Secretary for the Marina Department and Chief Inspector of Machinery.

A copy of the first number of The Sun, a new balf-penny evening paper published in Wellington, has come to hand. The paper, for an initial number, is very good, and is of the kind that should attract the general reader. We wish the new venture success.

The Government has received a strongly worded resolution from the Canterbury Trades Council protesting against the Government importing steel bridges from America. The Premier has replied that there is no foundation whatever for the statement that the Government intended to make such purchases.

The New Zealand Times says it is expected that tha equipment; of rolling stock on North Island railway lines with the Westinghouse brake will be completed in about eighteen months. A beginning will shortly be made with this work at Auckland.

Among patents applied for are the following: — Bertram George Aiken Harkness, of Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand, mechanical engineer, an improved feedwater heater. Jose da Silva, of New Plymouth, New Zealand, hairdresser, an improvemeot in kerosene-pumps. Henry Hodgson, of Opunake, New Zealand, plumber, an improved process o£ tinning or retinning metal goods.

A Wellington wire states that important business had necessitated the recalling of members of the Cabinet now on tour. The Hon. T. Y. Duncan has accordingly had to abandon his trip to the West Coast and Cheviot, and will bo back from Nelson to-day, and the Hon. J. Cairoll is on his way back from Gisborne.

Even the Melbourne Age, one of the strongest supporters o£ Mr Barton's Ministry, has come to the conclusion that the Federal Prime Minister is a man of no enthusiasm. He is said to have never indulged more than one enthusiasm in his life. That was for Australian Federation. With th 9 achievement of that success, he seems to have exhausted a somewhat cold and lymphatic nature.

The question of the chaining of the wheels of milk-carts which are allowed to stand on the streets caused a little discussion in the Police Court on Wednesday. A defendant said the objection to chaining the wheel of a milk-cart was that the drivers' hands were bound to get dirty — a state of things not desirable in the case of a dispenser of milk. The Bench suggested that gloves could be donned while the chaining process was being performed. In face of reports (he did not know whether they were true or not) as to dirty stockyards, the desire of the defendant to carry out his business in a cleanly manner was worthy of commendation. In the ordinary course a fine of 5s would have been inflicted ; in the case under review the fino would bo one shilling.

The Horowhenua County Council has resolved " That the Fitzherbert Road Board and the Hutt County Council be asked to appoint delegates to act with this county on a deputation to the Eight Hon. the Premier to obtain some measure of compensation for tho loss of rates to local bodies in the event of the acquisition of the Manawatu railway by the Government."

It is proposed (says the Melbourne Age), as part of the scheme of union of the Methodist churches in Australia and New Zealand, to extend the term for winch ministers may be appointed to a charge. At present the term is three years, and the proposel is to extend it to five years. As little time as possible will be lost in bringing about by State Parliamentary legislation changes in the model deed to legalise tho union, which, at present, is an ecclesiastical but not a legal union. '

Mystery attaches to the deposition or resignation of Mr J. E. Blair from the chairmanship and a seat on the Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand (says the Dunedin Star Wellington special). It is surmised that the divorce has been occasioned by incompatibility of temperament betweea some of the members of the Board, which rumour says has not been a happy party of late.

The Wellington correspondent of Truth says : — As showing the type of men being given commissions in the Wellington section of the Eighth Contingent, two cases reay bs quoted, one a youth 17 years of age, getting 15s a week as junior clerk, appointed lieutenant, and another of a man who was Clerk of the Court on the West Coast, and who had never done a dny's drill nor was physically qualified, also being appointed lieutenant. Both are purely political appointments.

j The following are the revenue returns for the Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth Bection of railway for the four weeks ending December 7th, 1901, and for the corresponding four weeks, 1900 (shillings and pence omitted) • — £ £ Passengers .. „ 13,006 11,333 Parcels, luggage, & mails 2,162 2,047 Goods 25,742 21,967 Miscellaneous . . . . 503 456 Rents and Commission . . 428 292 Total . . . . £41,844 £36,098 The following excellent specimen of Baboo English is given in Cycling— " Honorable Sir,— This poor one, who is passed 8.A., desires bisicle, but where to obtain or how he knows not, having no damned rupees, nor even pice, he beseeches your Honor to advance him rupees fifty that he may buy one of second hand, and for such an act of loving kindness and mercy he will as in duty bound ever pray world without end, amen, for these and all other mercies, now he is laugh slocked of all neighours for being without the velocipede which is desideratum est, and should your Honor grant this poor one's prayer he will always pray for your groatness and past and future progeny."

With reference to the " vanishing trade " with tho colonies, "R.T." writes from New Zealand to one of the London dailies as follows : — " I am midshipman on a firstclass British sailing Bhip from London, and the following is an excellent example of the kind of cargo that we are carrying to our colonies. Iron from Germany formed the bulk of our freight. We had French nails, glass goods made in Belgium, aud cocoa from Holland. The British part of tho cargo consisted of cement, mustard, starch, candles, and some Highland whisky. This is by no moans an isolated instance, and the only crumb of comfort there is to be found is that it was necessary to take these foreign exports in a British ship."

Lovers of Dickens will welcome tho proposal of the London County Council to call the new open space in Southwark "Little Dorrit's playground." The spot is quite close to the old Marshalsea Prison, which figures so conspicuously in " Little Dorrit." Near it also }B St. George's Church, where Little Dorrit uaed to sleep on the cushions, and where afterwards she and Clennam were married. Indeed, this particular corner of Southwark is alive with memories of Dickens. Over the way is Lant street, where Bob Sawyer lived , close by is Quilp street, which recalls the «• Old Curiosity Shop"; while in the Borough High street adjoining used to stand the White Hart, that Rare Sam Weller to tho world.— Chronicle.

Lord Salisbury is one of the very few statesmen of to-day who has had a long experience of life in both Houses of Parliament. He sat through thirteen sessions of the Commons. He was elected for Stamford five times, though he has never had the excitement of a contested election. The House of Commons of his day was not the House hia nephew now leads. When Lord Robert Cecil beoame a member of Parliament many of the leading politicians of to-day were .unknown or unborn. Mr John Moiloy was at school, a boy of fifteen ; Mr Chamberlain was a youth of seventeen, who had never been in Birmingham ; Mr Balfour was hardly out of frocks ; Lord Rosebery was six ; and King Edward was twelve. Pour members of the present Cabinot were not born.

A nice present for Christmas— Solid silver brooches two shillings each. R. W Sargent, Jeweller, Hawera.— Advt.

It is reported that an irate teacher abused and assaulted the secretary of the Taranaki Education Board, and legal proceedings are spoken of.

The Ngarilii and Rahotu Committees having written that they had no objections to the proposed boundaries of the new Kahui road school district, the Taranaki Eduoation Board on Wednesday decided to take steps to gazette the new district.

Thurston, charged with breaking gaol, was before the Police Court at Wanganui yesterday. He said the reason lie ran away was because he had been half-starved and bullied. The gaol officials, he asserted, spoke to persons as though they (the persons) were animals, and added that an official had said he would make it warm for him if he complained.

At a meeting of the Egmont Licensing Committee, the News reports, an application for a conditional license for the Caledonian Sports meeting was refused, the committee being averse to granting licenses in cases where meetings were chiefly attended by women and children.

It is pleasing to learn that the horses bought in Taranaki district for the Eighth Contingent aud for remounts have given great satisfaction. They were a nice, even lot of a good stamp. By the way, pay day is on Saturday, and sellers will get thdir cheques on calling upon Mr J. W. De«m between 9 and 12, and 1 and 3.

We regret to hear that Mr G. IT. Wilson, of the firm of A. Wilson and Son, who has been laid aside in Auckland for a considerable time by illness, is in a very low state jusl now, and that hopes of his recovery are not so bright as they were. Many friends in the town and district will be sorry to hear such bad news of him.

During the hearing of the case against one of the men who escaped from Wanganui gaol, and who is awaiting his trial on a charge of theft, the gaoler said the man would have .to wait for three months before he could be tried. In reply to Mr Kettle, S.M., the gaoler said he did not think that a desirable stats of things. Men sometimes had to wait for six months before they came to trial. The cost of keeping a prisoner was £7 or £8 a month. The Magistrate Baid it was time the Act was altered.

Word has been received by Mr A. Paterson, member of the Patea Harbour Board, that the chairman, Mr McKenna, has been advised that the Government have taken up the Board's new loun. Nominally the amount is £25,000, but that pays off £13,000 already owing, and leaves £J 2,000 for expenditure on new work. It is expected that with other funds to comn the Board will be able to spend about £15,000, and the principal work will be an extension of the western pier. This loan does not involve liability for any rate on the harbour district.

We direct attention to Messrs W. H. and A. McGarry's sale at Eltham on Saturday, when an assortment of travellerf| samples will be offered ; also fruu.

Everybody ougnt to mow that Messrs Hardley and Sons have on viev. tLe largest and best selection of cookirg ranges in the district, including amerg others Barningham's and Shacklock's, makes of high and low pressure, suitable fT brick chimneys or op9n kitchonß at Dunedin pricoa — Advt CAUGHT A DBEADFUL COLD.

Marion Kooke, manager for T. M. Thomp son, a large importer of fine millinery at 1658 Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, says: During the late severe weather I caught a dreadful cold, which kept me awake at night, and made me unfit to attend my work during the day. One of my milliners was taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a severe cold at that time, which seemed to relieve her so quickly that I bought some for myself. It acted like magic, and I began to improve at once I am now entirely well, and feel very pleased to acknowledge its merits." For sale at Hawera General Store. — Advt. Mr Spence, of the Economic, will commence hia half-yearly sale on Thursday. 18th inst, continuing it for one month, His London buyer advises a large ship ment on the way, to make room for which some wonderful bargains will be offered for sale. — Advt. PINCHED AND PUNY.

Humanity's mad rush for an existence induces many ills. The "eat and run away " method of living is accountable for more of the pinched nnd puny faces than almost any other cause under the sun. Dyspepsia, Indigtstion, Constipation, Sick Headache, Foul Breath, Irritability, and 1« ervousness are the everyday ills of everyday people. Nature foretold the strain thatjwe would be compelled to live under, and has revealed to medical science and research the correct formula— lmpey's May Apple — and its daily joy is to put back the bloom of health in the faces of thousands who do honest toil. Impey's May Apple is an id^al family medicine, and may be taken with absolute confidence by the most delicate women and children. Sold by all Chemists and Storekeepers at 2d Gd per bottle.— Advt. Wade's # Teething Powders for babies are soothing, reduce fever, and prevent blotohes. Price Is. — Advt.