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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7398, 26 February 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES. «_ A branch of the Fanners' Union has been formed at Toko. ' '/ Since its formation the Dunedin StarrBowkett Building Society has advanced £32,000 to shareholders. Mr Harkness, of Midhir9t, has issued a circular calling a meeting to form a society for the improvement of Jersey cattle. We acknowledge receipt of copy of the annual report and statement of accounts of the Patea Harbor Board. The booking for Rldlle. Antonia Dolores' (Trebelli) concert is exceedingly brisk. We would advise all to book their seats early. Box plan, Cole and Donnelly. The Tasmanian Mail estimates that approximately 230,000 cases of Tasmanian apples will be shipped from Hobart for the English market during the next three months. The number of marriages solemnised in New Zealand in 1901 (excluding those contracted between Maoris) is estimated at C 075, giving a rate of 7 81 per 1000 of the mean population, against 5860 and 7.67 in 1900. At a mee'.ing at Timaru, at which 1 were present, it was decided to support the testimonial to the Premier, accompanied by a colonial purse of sovereigns. A colonial, who has returned from the war, says one of the New Zealand con-tingent-5 captured a Boer who turned out to be an ex- resident of the Waikato named Evans. This season has been about the best, 1 a3 far as crops are concerned, that has been seen about Martinborough for years, and fifty and sixty bushel crops are quite common. Information is slowly coming to hand from Westmoreland (England) as to the extreme violence of a recent storm. Sheep have been dug out of 14ft of snow, poultry were frozen to de>ath and a large number of sheep are still lying many feet beneath the snow. At Flemington, New South Wales, Ann Maria Dibney was fined £2, with £13 damages, for smashing, up a buggy belonging to her son. Defendant was under the impression that the buggy belonged to her husband, and that he had been driving out another lady. The following inquiries for missing friends appeared in Lloyd's of January 5 : — Anthony (Sarah J.), of Tintern Abbey, Mon., left London eighteen years back, supposed for New Zealand. Mother and sisters ask.— Wright (Mrs Susanna), nee Edis, left Stamford for New Zealand about 1877. Sister Martha asks. The Tnapeka Times saya that a wellknown settler in the Lawrence district has a forty-acre paddock of oats completely stripped by small birds, and that com- , plaints of similar depredations by the pest are heard from almost every quarter of the district. 1 L. C. M'Lachlan, the Auckland professional half-mile crack, has written to the committee of the Christchurch Cycling Club, asking that body to arrange a match with a cyclist over 100 yards for a stake ol £50 a-Bide, preference to be given to George i Lewis, the Christchurch bike sprinter. A Masterton angler informs the Times ' that rainbow trout are fast disappearing . from the Makuri river. This is attributed to the fact 'thnt anglers are in the habit ol ' taking abnormal bags away, in some cases 1 getting the fish frozen and sent to Sydney, ' A sub-committee has been appointed J by the Manawatu A. and P. Association tc j communicate with all pig-breeders in the [ North Island with the object of forming a Pig-breeders' Association to promote 1 the interests of stock and the foundatior > of a stud book on the same lines as adoptee } in England. On Tuesday morning, a young mar ) named Jones, employed at Mr Higginson'f I stables, had a very narrow escape fron , meeting with a serious accident. He was engaged in breaking in a young horse when the animal on which he was mounted 3 reared up and fell backwards, and, before 3 the young fellow could clear himself, th< I hor^e came on top of him, but fortunately he escaped with only a few bruises. The Waimate Horticultural Society's show, which commences to-morrow, 1 should prove a great success — a result the I enterprise of the Society entitles it to. The ) show will this year be a two days' one, anc I on the second day there will be a special attraction in the shape of a monster wheel 3 race. To - morrow evening there wili 1 be a conceit under the auspices ol 1 the Society, and on Friday evening s dance. ' Mr I. R. C. Cunninghame-Graham, oi • Ashburton, died at his residence a fen t days ago. He was a very old colonist, , having arrived in Auckland in 1862, at Deputy Assistant Commißsary-Genera] attached to the British forces engaged in 9 the Maori war then going on. In thai i capacity (says Truth) Mr Graham speni a some time in various parts of the Nortb q Island, chiefly in Wanganui and Taranaki, i When the war was over he settled in 1 Canterbury. About seventeen years ago he { gave up his farm and station, and went to . reside in Ashburton. Mr Graham con- , tested the Bangitata seat in 1893, but was unsuccessful. B i A West Coast visitor, who arrived in Nelson a few days ago, has shown the 8 Nelson Mail samples from a large seam of i coal which is lying undeveloped in the . southern Buller district. The coal, which is described as an anthracite, appears to be ' of excellent quality, and is very similar 1 to the samp|es just brought from Pakawau. l The informant states that the seam is 30 3 feet thiok, and that there is a " mountain " , of it lying about nine miles from the water's edge, where a harbour could be ' formed capable of accommodating the fc largest vessel afloat. He is taking the 3 specimens to Wellington and Christchurch, f with the object of getting a syndicate formed to exploit the coal measures of the 1 locality in question. J According to a Blenheim paper, the train . on the line from Picton is not exactly a l "FlyingDutohman." On a recent occasion the 6.30 train from Picton reached Blen3 heim a quarter of an hour late. Though i very lace, at first it seemed almost imj possible for it to mount the Elevator, ■j owing to the drizzling south-east rain making the rails greasy and slippery. Twenty-five minutes were occupied in l negotiating the first two miles, after whioh, r however, good progress was made. During , the exciting period jof the prolonged crawl upwards, the guard and his assistant : rendered yeoman aid to the panting I locomotive by getting out and pushing j behind. It at one time looked as though [ all the passengers would have had to L emulate their example, by putting their s shoulder to the wheel. This is almost as bad as the Nelson railway where, at Jenkins's Hill, the guard is said to follow up with blocks to put under the wheels • to prevent it from running back. S. B. Hunter, of the Kickapoo Co., j wishes to give notice that, beginning with February 26th, he will visit Eltham every ' Wednesday instead of Friday, and, begini ning with February 28th, will visit Kaponga . every Friday instead of Wednesday. All r other places as usual. — Advt, . ° Spectacles, Eyeglasses, Smoked Speota ' ales, Eye Preservers, and Goggles. Sight t63ted. B. W. Sargent, Jeweller, Hawera I -—Advt. i BEDSTEADS 1 1 BEDSTEADS 1 ! [ I have just landed ex Buapohu, four i esses 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 Bold at less than city prices for cash. Everybody in want of a good value bedstead is invited to inspect these goodß at F. J. Wrigley's, High street, j Hawera. — Advt. Ladies in want of dresses for the Easter holidays should place their orders early, and customers may rely on first-class work and moderate chargei. Economic, Hawera. —Advt.