NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7399, 27 February 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Aorere arrived at Patea from Wellington yesterday, and sailed last night with wool.

Four ffironauts made a balloon ascent through a snowstorm at Paris recently, and remained up -for four hours, above them being a blue Bky and beneath, obscuring the earth, a dense layer of clouds.

The Foxton Herald says that the highest price yet received by a miller for flax was reached the other day, when a contract was signed for £31 per ton at Wellington.

It is said, on what may be considered reliable authority, that the value of the property belonging to one estate in Masterton has increased to the extent bt fully £10,000 since the water supply has been inaugurated. — Times.

Messrs Hannah and Co. announce a big sale of boots and shoes. When in England Mr' Hannah purchased very extensively, and customers may therefore look for quality as wpU as bargains.

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

The exportation of rabbits from Otago promises to be greater this season than for some years past. Supplies came forward at the port freezing works last week considerably ahead of the period usually adopted for starting the season's operations.

Mr J. B. Gow has introduced quite a novelty in stack-making. At his farm at Waiotahi, Opotiki, he has just had completed a monster stack, containing the hay of 40 acres of land. The process of pressing was performed by means of a hois", which was hoisted on top of the stack, and made a most effectual tramper.

On Ist May next, an international exhibition is to be opened at Cork by King Edward VII. This will be the third exhibition of the kind that has taken place in the " Fayra Cite," and will far surpiss in interest and magnitude its predecessors.

Regulations framed by a Maori Council, and published in the Gazette, speak of " Assyrian " hawkers. A correspondent of the. Wellington Times asks whether it is not Syrian hawkers that are meant. He inclines to the belief that the Assyrians are ]ÜBt about as extinct as it is possible to become.

" Tho Wanganui river, beautiful as it is, is not a circumstance to it." That is the opinion expressed by Mr T. E. Donne, Superintendent of Tourist and Health Resorts, in regard to Lake Waikaremoana.

At Invercargill, on Tuesday afternoon, "* for about an hour, the town was under a ai tropical deluge, such as is rare so far ft l South. It commenced with a thunderstorm, not violent, but long continued, and di in 90 minutes over three inches of rain B fell. gi Speaking at the Christchurch anti- J< gambling meeting, Bishop Julius said s[ there never came a race day in Christ- re church without tradesmen having to wait I ti for the payment of past debts while c , gambling debts were being paid. The same 0 remark might apply to every place in the colony. I The strength of the Weatinghouse brake p was illustrated, on Monday afternoon at I h PalmerstoD. One of the carriages at- I Q tached to the Woodville train had the D brake hard on when the engine attempted I j to start, but so tenaoious was the grip that I . the locomotive failed to move the train I until the brake was released. I v In New Zealand, a yonr.g country, there I t are no less than 40,000 more men than , women. Hostesses who mourn over the I dado of wallflowers in their ballrooms, and I fi mothers who watch their daughters grow- j ins old waiting, like Mariana, for the tardy I ' suitor, may be incredulous, but it is true. — I ! Chrlstohurch Press. ' A survey party under Mr Barron, of I j Rotorua, engaged traversing Rotoiti Lake, I ' recently came across a cave on the northern I side. They took their boat some two or three 1 chains into the cave, but owing to the want 1 of artificial light were not able to proceed any further. It is thought that there may be a connection between this and the I famous abyss on Matawhauri Mountain, I used by the natives as a sepulchre for the bones of their deceased chiefs. I The following is the list of South Kensington certificates awarded to Miss G. E. I Browne, who succeeds Mr Babbage as I teacher of the Hawera Technical School : First-classes in freehand drawing (elementary), model drawing (elementary), modelling in clay, practical plan* and solid geometry (art), drawing in light and shade (elementary), drawing in light and shade (advanced), model drawing (advanced), perspective, freehand drawing from cast (advanced), practical plane and solid geometry (science), painting from still life, and principles of ornament, and secondclass for monochrome painting. In the following subjects thpre are no classes, the sheets forwarded being cither accepted or rejected, Miss Browne's being accepted : Outline of ornament, shaded models, - shaded drawing from cast, geometrical sheet, foliage in outline, perspective. The question of dealing with dairy factory sewage when the factory or creamery is on level ground is a vexed one in this district (says the Palmerston North correspondent of the New Zealand Times). Factory directors and managers are in a * perfect quandary, as they are quite 1)1 helpless, and the sanitary conditions of the i 3 factories and creameries are drifting y from bad to worse. Under such eire cumstances, the utmost care on the . part of the management cannot pre- * vent the surrounding soil from n becoming saturated with the matter, c thereby creating a hotbed for the develop- „ ment of unfriendly organisms. A solution f of the difficulty, given by Dr. Valintine, oi '» the Health Department, and printed in n this column the other day, has been c adopted in a modified form by a Vic- [. torian factory with conspicuous success. , Dr. Valintine's idea, it will be rememn bered, is to have a number of sub- * aidiary drains running off the main drain •a of the factory, a different subdram to be \j used every other day. The Victorian idea is to use only two subdrains. At the . mouth of each of these drains, which are I- used alternately, is a tank, and when one h of these is filled the stream is shut off, lime fl or some other agent is thrown in, and the solids in the mass are precipitated. The liquid is then drawn off, and the solids are I taken out, and removed from the factory d by a cart, to be buried at some distance. 1- Mr Hursthouse, Chief Engineer of Roads, tt is at present on a trip overland to West Taupo, where a large and extremely valuable totara forest has been handed •© over to a lucky syndicate of Auckland and U Wellington speculators. Now tbat the a railway is being prosecuted, the syndicate [c is about to erect sawmills and other appliances. At one time it was hoped that )C this splendid block— whioh would have p yielded a royalty to the State of some y scores of thousand of pounds — would have been preserved as a national asset to compensate for the construction of the northern >• trunk line. The consideration, so far as II the State is concerned, is very trifling, i_ being about four miles of tramway, over 1Q which the timber will be taken to the , railway, but which is to be left behind for a the benefit of the settlers, after the land I- has been cleared of the most valuable crop n that it is ever likely to yield. It is most j_ likely that when Parliament assembles an enquiry into the way in which the rels servation over this valuable property has ie been removed by the Crown will be 3, demanded.— Masterton Times. 3, A correspondent of the Auckland Herald , r with the Eighth Contingent writes from ' f Sydney, under date 7th February:— We >" anchored in Neutral Bay at half -past two kB p.m. on Thursday, after a glorious passago g across. Shortly after we came to anchor j a hot wind sprang up from the west. ' It was very trying for the horses. It ■** was followed by a cold southerly buster -t This was a pleasant change. The sea l 8 soon sprang up. Colonel Davies and , r Major Bingley were returning from the i shore in the gasoline launch Doris, and got broadside on ; a wave came right over 0 them, soaked them to the skin, and stopped j, the engines. The launch was now helpe less. They cast anchor, but it would ' not hpld. We saw this from the ■ » troopship. Major Bartlett manned a ship's 4 boat, and a scratoh crew put off to the rescue. They got the Colonel and Major aboard the boat when only 50yds separated them from the rocks. The sea and wind were too strong to make the ship again, so they made for a cove to the west. There was groat excitement aboard while the a danger lasted. They were well treated by c the people ashore, and eventually arrived on board at half-past nine p.m. or S. B. Hunter, of the Kickapoo Co., wishes to give notice that, beginning with February 26th, he will visit Eltham every V Wednesday instead of Friday, and, begina ning with February 28th, will visit Kaponga B every Friday instead of Wednesday. All other places as usual.— Advt. j Wade's Teething Powdeis for babies * are soothing, reduce fever, and prevent t blotohes. Price ls. — Advt. 1 „ - ALLAYS THE PAIN. b Charlotte A. Mackay, Queen street, Masf ferton, says :— " For more than three years k I had suffered severely from sharp pains in my arm, shoulder and spine, so that it i was almost impossible for me to obtain any > sleep. Seeing Chamberlain's Pain Balm t advertised, I obtained a bottle at Mr T Eaton's chemist shop. By following the directions— l had the Pain Balm well » rubbed on to the affected parts— and almost : immediately I experienced relief. After . several applications, the pain was so al- [ layed that I was able to obtain my" regular sleep and perform my household duties. I consider it a wonderful medoine, and think so much of it that I will , never be without a bottle in mv home." t Chamberlain s Pain B.alm is on sale at Hawera General Store, — Advt. THE VITAL FORCE Of tha body is the blood. Keep the blood pure and clean, and you will be free from siokness. Bile poisons in the blood is one of the everyday troubles of the people of the colony, Once the liver grows sluggish and fails to filter the bile poisons from the system there comes pain and trouble. The digestive system is thrown out of order, and foul impurities that should be expelled find their way into the blood, and so reach the weak spots of the body, fclmpey's May Apple, the ideal family medicine, will keep the blood pure* It aots directly on the liver and kidneys, keeping them aotive and strong. Sold by chemists and storekeepers at 2s 6d. Everybody ought to know tbat Messrs Hardley and Sons have on view the largest and best selection of cooking ranges in the district, including amocg others Barningham's and Shaoklook's, makes of high and low pressure, suitable for briok chimneys or open kitchens at Dunedin prices — Advt

WALL PAPERS! WALL PAPEERS ! Just arrived, at P. J Wbiglkx's, 10 bales, containing 3000 rolls of English and Canadian Wall Papers. A splendid variety of golds, 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 unique and artistic Inspection invited, and samples willingly posted to any address supplied. The finest stock of Wall Papers on the Cgast.— F. J. WaiaLßtfs, Hawera. ■~"AvVtf