NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7373, 27 January 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Talune, which sailed for Sydney on Saturday, took 160 tons cargo, including a quantity of produce.

An up-country farmer in New South Wales was the other day charged with working on Sunday. He pleaded that he had forgotten what day it was, but a hardhearted Bench fined him 5s and 7s costs.

The Aorere sailed from Patea on Saturday, for Wellington, with a cargo of wool and hides. She returns, and sails again on Tuesday and Thursday.

The Wairarapa Star assures its readers that a farmer recently compromised a claim under the Workers' Compensation Act with a swagger, who had cut his foot while doing a little wood-chopping, by the payment of £10.

The annual picnic of the Methodist Sunday School will be held at Mr Winks' bush on Wednesday, 29th. Dinner and tea Is 6d, tea Is. Conveyances leave church at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Beturn fare Is.

Lord Curzon's salary as Viceroy of India is L 15.000. Next to him in point of salary come Lord Minto's position, with £10,000 as Governor of Canada, and Lord Hopetoun's in Australia with the same amount. Sir J. West Eidgeway, Governor of Ceylon, gets £8000 a year. Lord Eanfurly, as Governor of New Zealand, receives £7500 a year.

To Japan belongs the credit of being the first Power to tell this vital truth (that peace will come with reform) plainly to tbe Chinese, and to tell it in such a form that it is certain to come to the knowledge of the Emperor himself. Her manly and statesmanlike action stands in rather remarkable contrast to that of the great Powers, who deliberately ignored this vital aspect of the Chinese question throughout the Peking negotiations, and to the extreme caution observed by Lord Lansdowne in his advocacy of Chinese reforms. — London Times.

The census statistics dealing with the sickness and infirmity of the people are now complete. They show that of the 772,919 persons in the colony on March 31, 1901, there were 7173 laid up by sickness or accident. Of these, 2505 were entered on the schedules as <f sick," 3207 as suffering from specified complaints, and 1461 injured by accident. In addition to these, 5574 persons were afflicted with certain specified infirmities — viz., 226 deaf and dumb, 453 blind, 2675 lunatics, 105 idiots, 113 epileptics, 392 paralytics, 271 crippled and deformed, 927 debilitated and infirm, and 412 deaf only.

A ship dating back to the time of Christopher Columbus, yet still sailing the $eas, may well be considered a curiosity after a life of several centuries. The Anita, as the caraval is called, is, oddly enough, engaged in the carrying trade between Spam and the United States. She recently went to Baltimore with a cargo of Spanish wines and other articles of a non-perishable character, and has started on her return voyage to Spain. It goes without saying that she has been frequently repaired during the course of her life, but the original style has always been preserved, and she still presents tbe high bow and stern and the elaborate carvings of the old days.

Commenting on the method of Turkey's treatment of plague victims, the St. James's Gazette says :— " There is something to be said for the practice of confining the ' accused,' as recent disclosures have shown us, in a species of cage unfit for animals, compressing them into compact masses together with immigrants of unknown antecedents, and in a state of nudity, and dressing them (while their own clothes are being fumigated) in the garments— or sacks, to be more accurate — previously worn by hundreds of filthy sailors. These methods make it certain that if the ' prisoner ' comes out of the lazaret alive, and without contracting some fearful disease, his bodily health must be so extraordinary as to be above suspicion." Boy wanted. Hawera Borough Band will entertain Mr T. H. Hughes, bandmaster, at a farewell banquet on Friday next. General meeting of members Kaponga Horticultural Society to-morrow evening.

A gigantic sale of men's and boys' cloth ng now raging at the Economic. The firm's half-yearly distribution is a popular one, and they are going to eclipse their previous effortsj|if possible. — Advt.