NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7376, 31 January 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The latest novelty is a ping-pong ball picker-up, which is said to be a' really good contrivance.

The Armstrong Gun Woiks employ 25,000 men, the German Krupp Works 50,000, the French 25,000.

The Aorere arrived at Patea from Wellington on Wednesday, and sailed on Thursday, with wool, skins, and fungus,

The 'Frisco mail clo:es at Hawera this day, at 5.15 p.m. Letters may also be posted on the express train up to 5.45 p.m., bearing one penny extra fee.

Japan does not go in very largely for sheep. In 1900 she had the following stock :— Sheep, 4,200; cattle, 125,000; horses, 1,528,000; pigs, 160,000; goats, 46,000.

Prior to the social on Thursday evening, the Borough Band played several selections..

The annual meeting of members of Hawera Public Library was held last evening. Our report is held over.

Among the presents received from personal friends by Major Bartlett is a fine dressing case given him by Mr J. W. Hirst.

The Premier and Mrs Scddon passed through by express last evening, en route to Auckland to witness the departure of the Eighth Contingent.

The News says that the Premier, on arrival at New Plymouth, on Thursday night, received a cable message from the Imperial authorities, stating that a large order for New Zealand produce, principally oats, for use in South Africa, would be placed in the colony.

An Auckland wire slates that during the past three weeks the' remainder of the gold returns required to complete the total for 1901 have come to hand, and amount to £12,933. This brings the total for the year to £758,600, which exceeds the total for 1900 by £123,560.

At the Foresters' Hall to-night, at 8.15, a farewell banquet and presentation will be tendered to Mr T. H. Hughes, Bandmaster of the Hawera Borough Band, who is about to leave for England early in February.

At Hokitika yesterday, Mr W. G. Murray, Chief Surveyor of the Westland district, who is promoted to the charge of the Nelson district, was presented with an address. Mr Murray and Mr F. B. Wither, road surveyor, the latter transferred to Christchurch, received presentations from the local Lands Department staff.

Major Bartlett was somewhat unkind to the war correspondents on Thursday evening. He said one oould not believe half of what one saw in the papers regarding the war. As a matter of fact, the correspondents were often not within twenty miles of engagements they wrote so brilliantly about. No doubt they gleaned some facts from those who were there, and their fine imaginations helped them through.

Mr Bell, of Sunday Island (Kermadecs), has recently been to Eotorua. The object of his" visit was to dispose of his last year's harvest of mutton birds. He •brought with him thirteen casks of salted birds, eaoh cask containing 600. He thinks the Maori must have been in occupation of Sunday Island during the stone a.se, for lie has found when preparing the ground for his crops Maori weapons, stone adzes, and chisels. The bush is teeming with bird life, the tui, or parson bird, being very plentiful.

Field -marshal Waldersee has summed up the result of 700 years of fighting between France and Germany. The rival nations are quits, if figures prove anything. The Germans have killed or wounded 1,100,520 Frenchmen, and the French 1,057,780 Germans. The French have gained 235 victories over the Germans, and the Germans 240 over the French. Waldersee thinks that the extra German victories may be accounted for by the fact that the French have nearly always fought single-handed, while the Germans have had from two to three allies.

At the recent Science Congress at Hobart. this story of the North Queensland natives was told by Dr. W- E. Both : He wa3 met by several leading men of a tribe, and, in order to cultivate plsasant social relations, offered pieces of plug tobacco to them, at the same time indicating by signs its use. Unfortunately, the natives misunderstood him, and proceeded to eat and swallow the plug, with the result that they hastened to quit the presence of the white man, who, on his part, soon made tracks for his boat, lest the natives, in their wrath, should wreak vengeance on his head.

IN.Z.L. and M.A. Company, Stratford, has desirable dairy farms for sale.

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