NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7388, 14 February 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

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A special rHeetfhg of the Borough Council will be held this evening.

To-morrow afternoon, Mr E. O. Tetnpler will deliver an address before the Hawera branch of the N.Z. Farmers' Union.

At Feildiag the licensee of the, Manchester Hotel was fined £5 and the conviction to be endorsed on the lioense for Sunday trading.

It is reported that, in view of the imtne. diate acquirement by the Government of the Manawatn railway, a new time-table is. already in course of preparation^aj-wlli revolutionise the running "oh the Wel-lington-Napier Xgißa3&i : lines.

Wanganui Herald says:— The whereabsa'ts of a well-known looal public servant are being anxiously inquired for, he not having been seen at his usual post einos the beginning of the present week.

A fall in tbe pride of steel saves the German Government £50,000 on each of its five battleships laid down.

Electricity is to be used in lighting the ancient Egyptian temple of Luxor and Karnak.

London is rapidly being converted into a flat-dwelling city, on the New York system.

Of the 2,400,000 tons of meat consumed in England yearly, some 950 000 tons are imported in one form or another.

It is understood that at the express wish of Lord Kitchener, a volunteer company of electrical engineers is being prepared for active service. An unocoupied house at Hastings owned by R. McGaffin was destroyed by fire on Thursday. It was insured for £300 in the New Zealand office.

Queen Alexandra is to perform the ceremony of christening the new first-class battloship Queen, whioh will be launched next March at Devonport Dockyard.

Portsmouth ib to furnish the first crew of the Good Hope, the war vessel presented by Cape Colony to the Mother Country.

The city of Galyeston, Texas, whioh met with disaster in the great storm of September, 1900, is facing bankruptcy. In addition t® the cost of that disaster, the port has suffered through failure of the grain and cotton crops upon which the trade depends.

Ten miles of the Simplon tunnel, which is to connect Italy and Switzerland, have now been pierced. When it is finished in 1904 the tunnel will be twenty miles from end to end, and the longest in the world.

Of more than 26,165 persona bitten by mad dogs and treated by thp Pasteur Institute all but 107 were saved. Thus in sixteen years in Paris alone over 26,000 persons have been saved through Pasteur's discovery. A monument to Pasteur is to be erected in a few months on the Square de la Sorbonne.

A nine-roomed dwellinghouse, owned and occupied by Mrs Magnus, at Caversham, was practically destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. on Wednesday. The furniture was insured for £400, and the house for £500.

Reference was made during the hearing of a case in the Napier Supreme Court to the ignorance in which the Maoris were in regarding English law, and on his Honor's suggestion the Crown Prosecutor undertook to draw the attention of the Department of Justice to the expressed desire of natives that all laws affecting them should be printed in Maori and circulated through-

out their settlements.

Through an oversight in transcription, the words " Hawera and " were omitted from the paragraph in our report of the discussion with Sir Joseph Ward and a Chamber of Commerce deputation, regarding direct telephonic communication between Hawera and Kaponga.

How can one argue, writes a correspondent from Amsterdam, with a pro-Boer in Holland who gravely assures you that England has been so drained of horses by the war that we were forced to build the Twopenny Tube in London as a means of transit.

In connection with the war, it is interesting to note that the War Office is considerirg the advisability of supplying false teeth to the forces. Sixty per cent of the applicants for enlistment in General Baden-Powell's police have been rejected on the ground of bad teeth, and hundreds of applicants for service with the yeomanry were disqualified for .the same cause. The dental hospitals in London have notified the War Office that they are prepared to make good the deficiencies or entirely equip applicants who are otherwise eligible at £1 a head. A Russian diplomatist contributes a striking article to the January National Review, in which he strongly advocates a friendly understanding between England and Russia. He ridicules British fears of a Russian invasion of India, and suggests that we should do well to accept accomplished facts in China. •• A Free Lance," in the same review, urges that the only answer to the German hostility towards England is to be found by isolating Germany and ourselves joining the Daul Alliance. News has been received that Mr Tilbury, one of the basses of the Musgrove Opera Company, who toured this colony last year, committed suicide by jumping overboard from the steamer on which he and lother members of the company were returning to Europe. When he was in Dunedin Mr Tilbury, as the result of a long drinking bout, was hardly responsible for his actions ; indeed his behaviour on board the steamer which took the company to Melbourne was anything but that of a rational man. Referring tc a statement in a Wairarapa paper that Mr Pirani was retiring because he is afraid to contest Palmerston again, the Manawatu Standard says:— Mr Fred Pirani, however, is quite willing to put the is3ue lo the test, and if the correspondent in question will reveal his identity to the public — it ia well known to us— he is willing to resign his seat at once and conI test it with any candidate nominated on be- | half of the present Government or with the Premier himself if he has any spare time. The offer will be open for a week, and we will be able to ascertain by that time whether the unonymous scribbler is merely throwing mud with the idea that some of it will stick or whether he is really sincere in his vaporings. A romantic interest attaches to one of the contributions to the exhibition of South African stamps in the rooms of the Philatelic Society. This was an envelope bearing two Cape of Good Hope and six Bechuanaland Protectorate stamps, all surcharged, " Maf eking besieged," which was posted in April of last year by a 'sergeant in Mafeking to his Bweetheart in Belfast. After the little town bad been relieved, and the warrior h>id returned home, the recipient of his letter sold the envelope to a stamp collector, and with the money thus realised bought the | dress which she wore when the reunited lovers were married. Mr William Booth, of Wairarapa, now in England, informs a London correspondent that during his stay in the Mother Country he purposes carrying on a quiet but persistent investigation into the conditions and prospeots of the Now Zealand produce trade, particularly as regards frozen meat and dairy products. "It is of course much too soon yet for me to pronounce any opinion that would possess any real value. But even already I have seen enough, I think, to warrant my entertaining a strong hope and belief that New Zealand will not find in either Argentine meat or Russian butter a really formidable competitor to her own produce. My conviction is that New Zealand will be well able to hold her own against either of these rivals, provided only that her producers will maintain constant and unremitting care to ensure their products being always and uniformly of the high-class and unsurpassable quality that they can be if due care be invariably taken." It is announced in another column that copies of the prospectus of the company formed to take up Mr Trotter's patent range-finding invention can be obtained from the directors and secretary. It will have been learned from notices which have from time to time appeared that the contrivance enables a rifleman to get his distance automatically irrespective of tbe physical charaoter of the country he may be in. Apart from consideration of economy in ammunition, which is a comparatively small matter, the great advantage claimed for the contrivance is that when it is nsed it will be an utter impossibility for an enemy to advance on open ground even in extended order, and if this hope and belief of military men is realised, the invention must be most valuable, and have a revolutionary effect on future warfare. Dog owners are warned that unless their dogs are registered by Ist of Mar oh, | proceedings will be taken by the borough \ collector. "The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck." — Some irreverent person has declared that his reason for so doing was that it was too hot to sit down ; but this is a libel. The reason was that the gallant boy would not desert his post. With an implioit obedienoe to his father's commands he stayed upon the burning ship, and went to a glorious death. But suppose at the last moment young Casabianca had been saved, what then? He would certainly have been very much burned, "and the best thing for him would have been an immediate application of Holloway's famous Ointment, a certain remedy in all cases of burns, scalds, abscesses, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, bronchitis, asthma, sore throat, and the like. — Advt. WALL PAPERS 1 WALL PAPEERS 1 Just arrived, at F. J Wbiglky'b, 10

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BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN

Dnrirg the summer months children are subject to disorder of the bowels, and should receive the most careful attention. As coon as any looseness of the bowels is noticed. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should be given. When ohildren are teething -J&e^&ave more or less diarrhjga- wmoh oan be controlled by gim& Chamberlain's Cholio, Cholera. &nd Diarrhoea Remedy. Fnll dusetions with each bottle. For Bale at Hawera General Store. — Advt.

Yon can depend on ridding your chil dren of worms withj Wade's Worm Figß the wonderful worm worriers Price Is. —

Spectacles, Eyeglasses, Smoked Spectacles, Eye Preservers, and Goggles. Sight tested. R. W. Sargent, Jeweller, Hawera. —Advt.