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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7396, 24 February 1902, Page 3

TELEGRAMS. ■ — » (PBB FRBSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, February 24. The repairs and alterations to the Hinemoa, which are being carried out by Fraaer and Sons, Auckland, will cost £2070. The Wellington Asylum and Caver* sham Industrial School have been fitted with an eleotrical fire alarm system, invented by Mr May, late Government electrician, Dunedin, and adopted by the Government for the various State-owned buildings. The system is also to be installed at once at the Surnner Deof and Dumb Institution and Nelson Asylum. UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. (PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, February 24. The University Senate, by nine votes to eight, decided that students for the B.A. degree will be allowed to take Latin or Greek as one of the two compulsory subjects for that year. THE PRICE OF FLOUR AM) TRUSTS. ♦ (PBB PRB& ASSOCIATION). Christchurch, February 24. A mass meeting carried resolutions against the action of the Millers' Trust in raising the price of flour, also against the necessaries of life being monopolised by private individuals, and urgiDg the 'Government to introduce a Food Trusts Bill, providing for the State taking over any trusts that may be formed. SUPREME COURT. « (PBR PRBSS ASSOCIATION.) Wanganui, February 24. The Supreme Court opened this morning. Judge Edwards, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said. the charges were agaiost twelve persons, in addition to which five persons had pleaded guilty in the lower Court. His Honor congratulated the jury on the gratifying absence of offences against women and children, a class of crime frequently before the Courts in the colony. COMMERCIAL. ♦ ■ London, February SI. Butter : Firm ; colonial 110s to 112s, New Zealand occasionally 114s. High prices ate checking business. Danish firm and unchanged. Wellington, February 24. The Agent-General, in his cablegram dated London, 22nd, states :— Mutton market very dull. Trade for all classes is slow, and prices are barely maintained. There is a scarcity of prime quality. Average prices to-day: Canterbury, 3Jd; Dunedin, Southland, and Wellington Meat Export Company, 3Jd; other • North Island, 3|d ; Eivcr Plate, 3 1-Gd. Lamb: Weak. The weather lately has been very unfavourable to the sale of lamb. Competition amongst holders of Australian to dear stock has lowered values. Canterbury lamb, 5Jd ; other brands, s£d ; Australian, 4d. Beef: Firm. At high prices, i There is a restriction of business in New Zealand beef, of which there is some really • prime quality now on the market. Hinds, ' 4§d ; fores, 3&d. Butter : Firm, and good demaud. New Zealand butter is giving ( satisfaction to buyers. Price to-day, 112s. There is a better demand for oheese. , Small supplies on hand. Price, 50s. Hemp : Firm. " Good fair Wellington," i L 39; March-May shipments, L 37. Cocksfoot: Quiet. It is reported that the quantity of cocksfoot Bhipped from New Zealand to London this season will be { small. Holders are firm. ' New Zealand, 171b standard, 435. ( SWIMMING. ( • (PBR PRBSS ASSOCIATION.) I Wellington, February 23. The Australian champion swimmers gave an exhibition at the swimming sports yesterday. They also competed in an invitation race, in which M. Champion (of Wellington) also swam. The result was a dead heat between . Lan 9, Cavill, and M. Champion. The i 100 yards was covered in 62 4.5 sees, j Champion won the Inter-Club 100 Yards i Race. Wanganui, February 24. f . The weather promises to be tine for * j.he Swimming Championship meeting, o ommencing to-morrow. .. ] VOLUNTEER NEWS. « The second competitions for Kelly's Cup and the Captain's Champion Belt were fired last Wednesday and Saturday, * The weather on Saturday was all that ' could be desired for shooting. The fol- 1 lowing are the scores :—: — < Wednesday Squad. 300 500 600 Tl. Private Blair ... 29 34 25 88 „ Fraser ... 27 32 28 87 ' Lieut. Paterson ... 29 31 22 82 Private B. Webby 24 .22 16 62 Saturday Squad. 300 500 600 Tl. j Private Poole ... 30 34 28 92 , Sergt. Ekdahl ... 33 32 27 92 ' Oorpl. Somervire 26 82 81 89 j Private W. Hudson 25 30 30 85 ' — ~ I SPORTING. ' » The following weights were omitted from the list published on Saturday for the Wanganui J.C. Meeting : — Wanganui Cup, Skobeloff 7.10 ; First Hurdles, Nea 9.3; Stewards' Stakes, Bowman 7.9, Tukapa 7.3. Ostiak has been scratched for the Flying Handicap. BOWLING. «—,« — , At Hawera Green, on Saturday, in Senior Handicaps, Nicholas (scr) beat McNiven (received 2) by 21 to 13 ; JFoy (received 2) beat J. Syme (scr) by 21 to 17. _ _____ _ CORKESPONDEffCE. AN INCONVENIENCE. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — May I ask space to call attention to a serious inconvenience to visitors to your very progressive town. I myself am leaving in a few days, so I am pleading for other visitors rather than myself. I find your Post Office is open from 7 to 8 p.m. for telegrams, but not for delivery of letters. Seeing that the express arrives at 5.80, it seems un" reasonable to have to wait for letters until the next morning, and as I write now, Monday morning, I quite expect important letters are in the office since Saturday morning that I shall not get until 9 this morning. I have resided for years both in Palmerston and Master ton, and in each place there is a counter delivery from 7 to 8 p.m. Why it should not be so here is one of the official mysteries needing explanation. Whilst writing, and not to be thought a fault-finder, I wish to say that I was pleased to notice that visitors are at liberty to use your library, and the lady custodian the other day, probably recognising that I was a visitor, very politely suggested that the library was open to visitors. This is as it should be, and is very much to the credit of the managing body, and will, I am sure, be duly appreciated by many visitors who come, like myself, from higher motives than attending. races, etc. — I am, etc., Pro Bono Publico. r The local lodge of Oddfellows will tender Bro. A. Worsfold a farewell social this evening. Housemaid wanted. Bag lost. Ladies in want of dresses for the Easter holidays should place their orders early, and customers may rely on first-class work and moderate charges. Economic, Hawera. —Advt. BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. Durirg the summer months children are subject 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 Diarrbooa Bemedy should be given. When children are teething they have more or less diarrhoea which oan be controlled by giving Chamberlain's Cholio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy. Full directions with each bottle. For sale a Hawera General Store. — Advt. DARK RINGS. Dark rings under the eyes with a pale ■and sallow complexion are not points irr beauty but the symptoms which indioate the approach of nervous prostration and paralysis. When you feel weak and run' down, and have lost the vitalitynecessary for health and happiness, take Wilton's Bovo-Ferrum, the new tonic. It is the latest scientific discovery, and is the most effective preparation obtainable for restoring riohness to the blood and vitality to the nervous system. All ohemißt and stores.— Advt.