NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7378, 3 February 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr T. E. Taylor, ex-M.H.B. for Christchurch, is to leave on a visit to England on 21st February.

Among the names mentioned for the command of the Ninth New Zealand Contingent are those of Lieut. -Colonels Newall, Robin, and Owen.

The Botorua special of the New Zealand Times says that during the last two months the weekly weight of the trout netted in the lake and railed to Auckland has totalled over 8001bs.

Mr O'Meara, M.H.B. for Pahiatua, has been informed by the Government that a surveyor will shortly take a survey of the proposed electric railway to tap the back country.

Sir if. Sargood has written to the Inveroargill Harbour Board regarding the beauties of Stewart Island, where he has recently been rusticating. Paterson Inlet, he pays, compares favourably with Sydney Harbour, Auckland, or the West Coast Sounds.

The Minister for Public Works states that the new sections of railway from Stratford to Toko, from Blenheim to Seddon, and at Waipara, although not quite completed, are sufficiently finished to enable them to be used for the carriage of produce, etc., for settlers.

The relations between the Wanganui Education Board and the Catholic school authorities throughout the district have always been of a cordial nature, and another instance of the fact is that two Sisters from the Palmerston North Convent are taking part in the work of the summer school now being carried on at Wanganui.

In an address delivered 1 to the police in the south, the Commissioner of Police is reported to have said that the Police Provident Fund was in a flourishing state, there being about £14,000 in hand, and that he hoped to see the premiums shortly reduced, particularly in the cases of men over ihirty who were paying more than 5 per cent.

At Cbnstchurch next month an important conference will be held in connection with technical education. Two motions will be submitted to the conference. One will urge that the industrial efficiency of the colony should be developed to the highest degree, and the other that abrcader system of technical education in Canterbury is desirable.

Tobacco has been grown iv no fewer than twenty-five centres in Ireland, and the leaves have been cut and dried, and are now offered for sale. Its excellence for smoking is vouched for, and there seerus no adequate reason why the weed should not boom contemporaneously with the new Irish literature. Quite possibly here and there the growing may bring wealth to the cultivators, and eventually — who knows ?— become the envy of American trusts. — Daily Graphic.

At the village on Studjanka, on the River Beresina, the historic Bpot where Napoleon's Grand Army crossed during the retreat from Moscow, in 1812, a landowner named Kolodcieff has had a commemorative monument erected at his own expense. The monument shows medallion portraits of the two Emperors, Napoleon I.>nd Alexander L, crowned with laurels, and bears the following inscription in Bussian and French : — "Here the Emperor Napoleon and his Grand Army crossed the Beresina on the 26tb, 27th, and 28th of November, 1812." The ceremony of unveiling the monument was attended by the Governor of the province, the principal civil and military officials, and several military deputations. — Beuter.

At Sotheby's auction rooms, London, recently, many interesting coins and medals have been Bold. A Mary I. sovereign, 1554, one of three recorded specimens, brought L3O ; a Commonwealth sixpence, 1659, fine and extremely rare, also one of three examples recorded, L 7; Charles I. Bristol twopence, L 8 15s ; James I. crown of first coinage, L 10;1 0; Charles 1. Oxford pound piece, 1642, LlO 15s; Charles I. Shrewsbury half-crown, 1642, Ll7 5s ; William IV. pattern penny, 1830, struck at the Soho Mint in proclamation of Princess Victoria as HeirPresumptive to the British throne on the accession of her uncle, King William IV., L 4 4a; another of the same, but with different reading, L 6 10s; an official medal by T. Brock, 8.A., commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of her late Majesty, 1837-1897, Lll 12s 6d.

On Saturday night, in the Egmont Hotel, a pleasant little ceremony took place. Members of the Hawera Cricket , Club met to make a presentation to Mr P. M. Pratt, who is about to be married. Mr G. T. Bayly, President of the Hawera Club, in making the presentation, referred to Mr Pratt's long connection with Taranaki cricket. He had done, he said, yeoman service for his club and his province, and his clubmates felt that they could not let this occasion pass without in some way recognising those services, and he had therefore very great pleasure in presenting Mr Pratt with a small token of their appreciation. Mr White and Mr McCarthy (Star Club) also spoke, eulogising Mr Pratt for his keen interest in, and his great service to cricket. Mr Pratt briefly replied, thankiDg the members for their great kindness. The present took the form of a handsome dinner service and complete set of table silver. Mr Bayly also, on his own behalf, presented Mr Pratt with a bat. After Mr Pratt's health had been drunk, with musical honours, a pleasant evening waß terminated by the singing of " Auld Lang Syne."

WALL PAPEBS ! WALL PAPEEBS !

Just arrived, at F. J Wbiglex's, 10 bales, containing 3000 rolls of English and Canadian Wall Papers. A splendid variety of golde, satins, pulps, tints, balls, etc., in all shades at right prices, to ensure a rapid turnover. These papers are all of the very latest styles and choicest designs, and the Canadians are especially uniaue and artistic. Inspection invited, and samples willingly posted to any address supplied. The finest stock of Wall Papers on the Coast. — F. J. Wkiglsy's, Hawera. —Advt.

Nelson is gay, a great many visitors having arrived for the jubilee celebrations.

Major-Genetal Babington, Commandant of the New Zealand forces, went south this morning by express.

At the Te Ante (Maori) students' annual conference, now being held, a resolution was passed condemning the attacks made on England by the foreign press, and expressing the willingness of the Young Maori Party to maintain at all hazards the " mana " of England,

After the end" of the present month the daily shipping service between New Plymouth and Onehunga will be suspended, and steamers will run four times a week, as formerly.

The Borough Council at Campbelltown has sprung a surprise on the Bluff Harbour Board. Many years ago the Board constructed a reservoir on Bluff Hill, and laid pipes to the wharf for supplying the shipping. The works are all within the borough, and the streets are used for reticulation. Some of the inhabitants purchase water from the Board. The Borough Council now informs the Board that legal opinion has been obtained that the Board never had any right to create the works, and asks the Board to meet on the subject, a hint being given that the Council will take the works under the Public Works Act if the Board is refractory. The chairman said the proposal was audacious, and a committee was eet up to ascertain the legal position of the Board.

We draw attention to the fact that the time of sailing of the Takapuna for Wellington on Tuesday next, 4th instant, is 10 a.m. The usual morning train, which arrives in New Plymouth at 11.5 a.m., will be too late to connect with the Takapuna, and intending passengers will require to be in New Plymouth the previous evening. The Upolu, for Wellington and Southern ports, will sail about noon same day (Tuesday), in which case the morning train will connect.

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