NEWS AND NOTED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7384, 10 February 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTED.

The District High School re-opened this morning.

The Patea Press reports the oontinued illness of Mr J. Pater son, of Kakaramea.

A native, said to have reached the age of 110 years, died at Puketeraki (Otago) last week.

At the last meeting of the Otago Education Board, 398 applications were received for 31 vacancies.

A paper chimney 50ft high, and fireproof, is" one of the curiosities ofßreslau, Germany.

The new cable which has been laid across the Atlantic weighs 6501b to the mile. This iB the biggest of all the cables.

Every horse in the British Army is numbered, and has a little history kept for it all to itself. The number is branded upon the animal's hind feet— the thousands on the rear hind foot, and the units, tens, and hundreds on the off hind foot.

A three-year-old daughter of Mr Frank Squire fell from a high fence on Sunday, and had the misfortune to fracture her thigh. The little sufferer is doing as well as can be expeoted under the circumstanceß.

A parly of eight men, while attempting to ascend Mount Egmont from the Tariki side on the loose scoria track, had a miraculous escape from severe accident. The leader of the party, in stepping on a scoria lump on a steep grade, found the scoria give way, and warned his mates just in time. They were barely able to move to one side from the falling mass. The last man, Mr Morris, was hit on the thigh with a piece of rock, but was not seriously hurt.

In literature and art Lord Dufferin thinks that our plays and books were till recently free from offence, but that this has ceased to be the case, and that "educated and clever women have been the first to break through the barriers of propriety, and lead the way into the sickly groves of ABtarte."

The will of Dr. Yon Jirusch, a professor of pharmacology at Prague University, has just been opened. He has bequeathed nearly £3,000 to the National Museum of the city on condition that all his belongings— furniture, clothes, plate, linen, library, manuscripts, and letters — shall be packed into airtight cases and kept for 200 years. His object is to enlighten the people of the 22nd century as to the manners and habits of those of the twentieth.

An experiment with electric traction for the towage of barges is to be made on the River Loa. A pair of rails is to be laid down on the towpatn of the river, upon which will run a small haulage trolley propelled by the overhead system. It is anticipated that by this means the transit of barges along the river will be considerably accelerated and cheapened. If this experiment proves successful, it is intended te establish a similar system in connection with the canals and waterways of England. The traffic of goods by barges is very extensive, owing to the cost of transport being much lower than that of the railroad.

It was M. Duuant's terrible description of the sufferings of the wounded at Solferino, where 300,000 men fought desperately for fifteen hours, which led to a convention at Gene\a on February 9th, 1863, and the day may be considered the birthday of the Red Cross, which has now become sadly too familiar on battlefields by land and sea. Fourteen Governments were represented in the Convention at which that society came into formal being, and at a second conference twelve men signed the International Treaty which the world knows as the Geneva Convention.

There is a strong feeling in the country districts (say the N.Z Times) that a stop should be put to the export of brood mares for remount purposes, and it is felt that the time has arrived when an instruction should be issued forbidding the purchase of mares by the officers whose duty it is to make purchases. It is pointed out that it is quite useless for the Government to expend largo sums of money in importing stallions into the colony for breeding cavalry horses if we Allow the pick of the brood stock to be sent away. This is a matter which ought to be at once brought under tha notice of the Premier, whose practical mind will no doubt quickly grasp the importance of the point raised.

The seventh annual meeting of the District Grand Lodge of New Zealand Druids was held at Masterton on Thursday. Among the delegates was Bro. Sutton, Hawera. Bro. Clarke, New Plymouth, was elected a District President. It was resolved that a special levy of Id per member per quarter for the extension of the Order be continued, part of the fund to be used in assisting new lodges with supplies. It was reported that several new lodges would be opened at an early date, notably Dannevirke and Waitara. Some discussion took place on proposals to limit the Bpecial death levy to £50. It was ultimately decided to allow the by-law to remain as- at present. The executive was authorised to issue a oircular to lodges, asking for their opinion as to whether annual meetings should be abolished and biennial meetings substituted. The question of amending the clearance law was discussed, but it was decided to defer aotion. The next place of meeting was fixed for Wanganui.

The most remarkable eleotric plant in the world, exceeding even that of Niagara Falls, has just been completed in the interior of California, 2CO miles from San Francisco. Its water wheels and generators are the largest ever bnilt, while the electricity is carried farther before its use than such power has ever been carried before. To get the electricity to its destination, the conducting cables had to cross a strait about a mile wide, where there is at all times a heavy and dangerous current, so that it was impossible for the cable to be laid under the water. The engineers therefore determined to build a great suspension bridge consisting of four cables. Two slender steel towers were reared on the land at opposite sides of the strait, the Government stipulating that the cables should be at least 200 feet about the surface of the water, for the peak of the highest mast of the largest vessel of the Amenoan merchant marine is 194 feet above the waterline. The cables are of steel, about an inch in diameter, but only three of tbe four are used at any time, the other being held in reserve in case of accident. By means of this cable eleotrioal power is carried to San Francisco, 200 miles away. Before the ereotion of this cable, the largest span for carrying electric power over water was that of a company at British Columbia, which spanned the Columbia river in a stretch of 1,500 feet.

You can depend on ridding your chilj dren of worms with Wade's Worm Figs ilie wonderful worm worriers. Price Is.—

Those who are adverse to early marriages should have no reason to complain on that score of a wedding reoently celebrated not 100 miles from Hawera, the bridegroom being a deserving bachelor of 72, and the blushing bride a buxom widow of 68. They start under the advantage of both being in receipt of old age pensions.

Mr Bobbins, one of the deputation which went to Wellington in connection with fire insurance matters, returned to Hawera on Saturday. He reports that the Underwriters' Association received them well, and gave them a good hearing, but deferred Riving a reply. However, the deputation have great hope that their mission will not have been unsuccessful.

" Woomera," in tbe Australasian, writes: The ear is after all a greater organ than the brain. I am not saying so with any special idea of lauding musical professors. The fact came home to me after reading a schoolboy's version of a familiar poem of Cowper's. This was his idea of it: — "I ham monao of all I searve, theare is none heare my rite to dispute from the senter. hall round to the Sea I hame lorde of the fouls to the brute all solshitude ware are the charmea that sages have seen in thy face better dwel in the miste of a larme than in this horibel place. I am how of umity reach i must finish my journy a lone, never hear the swete musio of Rpeaoh, i start at the sound of my hone the Beasts that Rome over the plane, my form with in drifence, see they are ho unocnt with men, Tameness is shocking to me." If one ware to say that such a boy was unacquainted with the English language, he would confound you utterly by spelling unacquainted as " unocnt," and asking whether you could improve on it. BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN

Durirg the summer months ohildren are subjeoj: to disorder of the bowels, and should receive the most careful attention. As soon as any looseness of the bowels is noticed, Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should be given.

When ohildren are teething they have more or less diarrhoea which can be controlled by giving Chamberlain's Cholio, Cholera and Diarrbcea Remedy. Full directions with each bottle. For sale at Hawera General Store. — Advt.

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I have just landed ex Ruapehu, four oases of brass rail and ordinary bedsteads. These bedsteads are a very fine assortment, and especially well finished. They were bought when the English market was very low, and will be sold at less than city prices for cash. Everybody in want of a good value bedstead is invited to inspect these goods at F. J. Wrigley's, High street, Ha warn. — Advt. TENNIS GOODS 1 TENNIS GOODS I

F. J. Wbioley has now landed tbe new season stock of Tennis Rackets, Balls, Nets, Poles, Markers, etc. Rackets by Siazenger and Forrester from ICM to 30s, all weights. Slazenger's Balls, Nets, and Poles. Inspection invited. — Advt.

GOOD OPINION.

Merit tells. Wilton's Bovo-Ferrum must stand or fall on its merits. This marvellous preparation instills into the blood the most potent blood-forming and nerve-invigorating elements which have ever been found in nature. Here is a tribute to its merits. Miss G. Compton, McEenzie Terrace, Wellington, writeß :—": — " I have been taking Wilton's Bovo-Ferrum for poverty of blood, and 1 am delighted at the effect of it. I had previously persevered for some time with doctor's medicines without getting any benefit, but the Bovo-Ferrum did me good from the first bottle, and now 1 am a different woman altogether."

Everybody ought to know that Messis Hardley and Sons have on view the largest and best selection of cooking ranges in the district, including among others Birmingham's and Shaddock's, makes of high and low pressure,* suitable for brick chimneys or open kitchens at Dunodin prides — Advt