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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7366, 18 January 1902, Page 3

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LONDON MARKET.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Co., Ltd., under date 16th, report : Wool : We look for a Blight improvement at next Bales, about 5 per cent. Tallow: Mutton tallow has advanced about 9d per ewt.

The Hawera Borough Band will give a sacred concert in the Hospital Grounds tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m.

The Wellington Education Board reoeived applications from about two hundred applicants for forty-eight vacancies oaused by the re-organisation of school staffs.

Monster trout, taken from Lakes Botorua and Botoiti, are being sold at Botorua daily at 2d per lb. Large quantities are sent to Auokland. They are taken in nets. Eight to twelvepounders are quite common. A " rainbow " weighing 18 l-21b was taken from Lake BotorunT recently.

Volunteers in the Otago district are going to play " high jinks " on the 23rd March. They intend to have a mimic battle, one Bide to represent the Boers when every arm of the service will be used. Trainwrecking — according to the Boer method — will be demonstrated in a practical manner.

Dr. J. Takamine, a Japanese, claims to have discovered the possibility of bloodless surgery through the medium of a chemical composition called abrenalin. By the looal application called abrenalin in solution operations may be performed, it is said, on the nose, ear, and eye without the spilling of a drop of blood. Thus has it been demonstrated that the discovery is the most powerful medicine known, and at the same time it might be said to be the most expensive. At present it costs 4s a » grain, or £1,400 a pound.

The Chairman in his annual report at the Sarboar Board, New Plymouth, on Friday, stated that the overdraft now stands at £4,840 133 Id, as against £8418 16s lid on J&uuary Ist, 1901. The large expenditure of over £2000 on wharf extension, with unusually heavy coats for maintenance, accounts for the] increase. The total revenue from wharfage and dues is £9(538, against L 6530 in 1900. Daring the year 445 veeflflla en* tared and left the port, aggregating 105,020 tons, against 415 vessels of 177,221 tons in 1900. k The imports W6re 33,611 tons as against 28,726 in the previous year. T The total exports were 10,971 tons, against 11,682 tons. Batter and oheese exports made up 8163 tons, against 7733 in 1900. So far in 1901 there was a considerable fall in other exports.