NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7401, 1 March 1902, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Nominations for Waverley Sports close •with the Secretary on Monday, 3rd inst. A tender of £19,987 has been accepted for the erection of His Majesty's Theatre in Queen street, Auckland. The tenders rangod up to £23,368. The as. Kanieri will call at Kawhia and Raglan on her way to Onehunga, for which port she leaves from Waitara at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, 4th inst. Nine pastoral runs were offered at auction at Dunedin on Thursday, but four had to be passed in, the upset not being reached. Five wero disposed of at upset. The runs not disposed of are in the lower Wanaka district. Mr L. Erhensen, Fohangina, is the winner of the extra Id per lb given by Messrs W. Dimock and Co., Wellington, for the best quality pigs delivered at their factory for the week ending 27tb February, 1901, having secured 39 pointß. It is said that one of the large South Island companies lost £45,000 last year in the purchasing and shipping of lambs to the London market, while another lost £30,000. Altogether, over £100,000 was lost in freezing speculations last year. Mr Frederick Villiers, the war correspondent, says : — Kalgoorlie even now is liable to a water famine, which perhaps accounts for the notice which X saw in the rooms of a prominent hotel there, and which ran, " Please don't use soap when washing, as the water is required for tea." What is probably the most extraordinary plant ever disoovered has now been found by Mr E. A. Suverkrop, of Philadelphia, in South America. It is an orchid that takes a drink whenever it feels thirsty, by letting down a tube into the water, (the tube, when not in use, being coiled up on top of the plant. Mr Suverdrop came across the plant by the side of a lagoon on the Bio de la Plata. Angus M'Millan, who was a " piecer " to Dr. David Livingstone, the famous African traveller, when the latter was a weaver at Blantyre, has died in the Old Men's Asylum, Rottenrow, Glasgow, at the age of 80. He was only eight years old when he was Eet to work with Livingstone. The attempt to raise a subscription for the erection on the field of Waterloo of a monument to French soldiers killed in that battle has proved a fiasco (says a London paper). The plaster cast of the proposed memorial, which was to represent an Imperial Eagle with a broken flapping wing, is lying broken and forsaken in the cellars of the Grand Palace of Fine Arts. The Taranaki Herald is informed that in the Ohura Valley, twenty miles or more beyond Whangamomona, there is a patch of 400 acres of nothing but ragwort. An Egmont Road farmer was bewailing the scarcity of labour on Wednesday, (says the Taranaki Herald). " I can't get anybody to help me at all ; everybody is getting so independent in Taranaki," he exclaimed. " Why," he continued, " I asked some Maori women what they would pick peas for, and they said 4d a peck ; they used to do it for 2d a peck. 1 said I would sooner pick the peas myself, if I had to do it by lantern light, than paj them 4d for peas that would only fetch lOd a peck.' ' Someone suggested that the Maori women were probably working on a Uni"E log rate, but the farmer could not gee the force of the remark, and simply replied he did not know. The latest additions to the Hawera telephone exchange are 112 H. T. Lovell agent for Lovell and Christmas, and 11£ the Hawera Club. Though less than three years since this exchange was established, it has already over 38 miles of wire stretched within our streets, and the subscribers pay a rental of £540 pei annum, besides fees for bureau communi cation. The .Hawera sub-exchanges alsc number 48 subscribers, namely, 18 a 1 Patea, 18 at Manaiu, and 12 at Eltbam There are 52 country offices connected with the exchange. At the Police Court to-day, before Mi Bobbins, J.P., P. Butler, who was remandeti on Monday last for medical treatment was charged with drunkenness, and finec ss, and 10s 6d medical costs. Our Eltbam correspondent writes:— The forthcoming meeting of tho Elthan Athletic Club promises to be a big success Amongst the runners will be the New Zealand champion, McLachlan. Trait arrangements will be suitable, Mr Free E. Hardy (the secretary) having receivec advice from Mr Piper, Railway Traffic Manager, that sufficient cars will be attached to the goods train from south tc bring visitors. At a meeting of the Council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, a lettei sent by Mr K. Kronfeld to the Premier was read. The letter stated that the writer who had been engaged for 12 years in business relations with merohants in the Pacifio Islands, was of opinion that differential duties on articles manufactured in foreign countries, and the proposal thai New Zealand coal should be carried in British ships only, would detrimentally affect our trade with the Islands, whicn had of late years grown considerably. This trade, without doubt, would be jeopardised if this country should take up an attitude entirely adverse to the interests of the industries of foreign nations. Pathetic evidence was given at an inquest at Melbourne by the husband of Mrs Emily Blackmore, who died from the effects of excessive drinking. Questioned by the coroner, Blackmore said he often got his wife pint bottles of whisky. The Coroner : " Was that the proper way of curing her of drink?" Witness: "No." The Coroner : " Then why did you do it ?*' Witness : " Well, we have been real good chums all our lives, and we might have helped one another to drink." Medical evidence was that death was due to chronic inflammation of the kidneys, accelerated by alcoholism, and a verdict was returned accordingly. The Coroner remarked that however wrong the husband's conduct was it did not amount to a orime. A rather remarkable mistake was recently made by an English bank official. A tradesman sent a man to the bank to obtain £2 worth of coppers. The packages were handed over, and the man tcok them to the tradesman. They were put away without being opened, and later in the day another bank official called to inquire if the coppers obtained were all right, offering no suggestion or comment of any kind. An answer was given in the affirmative, as the packages appeared all right on a casual examination. When oponed later they were found to contain gold to the amount of £100. The tradesman sent his man back with the money. JOHNSON SfiJD " The pleasure of living depends upon the liver." He had a liver, and knew all about it. • How'b your liver ? Feeling a bit irritable and despondent ? Got a fit of the " blues " ? This is how the liver lets you know there's something wrong. Don't trifle with your liver. Its dangerous. Get the liver into^working order and regain your sunny, amiable disposition. Impey's May Apple will put the liver right. It acts as nature acts, gently and painlessly. It helps the digestive orgatoa to assimilate food, stimulates the liver, and is the most valuable and successful remedy t for all stomach troubles. All chemists and' storekeepers, 2s 6d. BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN During 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 Diarrhcoa Remedy should be given. When children are teething they have more or less diarrhoea which can be controlled by giving Chamberlain's Cholio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Full directions with each bottle. For sale a Hawera General Store. — Advt. Spectacles, Eyeglasses, Smoked Specta , cles, Eye Preservers, and Goggles. Sight I tested. R. W. Sargent, Jeweller, Hawera —Advt. One of the finest exhibitions of carpenters tools is now on show at Gibbon's Cash Wauehoure, Princes street, and will interest carpenters and amateurs. Every article is priced with plain figures. Many new ideaß. — Advt. TWO STRONG REASONS. W. JMcllroy, Esq., Kumara, N.Z., said recently : — " From actual use in my own family, and remarks made by all who have ever used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy I know it to be the best cough mixture in the market. I have had the agency for over four years, have sold many dozens, and have never had a single complaint. For sale at Hawera General Store,— 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 charges. Economic, Hawera, —Advt. WALL PAPERS ! WALL PAPEERS 1 Just arrived, at F. J Wbiglby'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 ohoioest 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 j on the Coast. — F. J. Wbiqlby'b, Hawera. i —Advt. ! You can depend on riddiug your ohil ; dren of worms with Wade's Worm Figs ' the wonderful worm worrierp, Price Is.— '

Messrs Tristram and Co., of Eltham, advertise a rare chance for investors in borough property. They invite tenders for the purchase of 136 acres on the Conway road, within a few minutes' walk of the centre of the town. The property ia | admirably adapted for either dairying or cutting up. Tenders will close on 17th March. The second largest butter factory in tbe world is the Beatrice creamery Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. They run one hundred and thirty-five-power Alpha separators and 1000' hand separators. For last season they paid £400,000 sterling for butter-fat to the farmers of Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado. Sergeant Gordon, of Auckland, will succeed Sergeant O'Donovan as instructor of the police probationers' class in Wellington. BEDSTEADS !1 BEDSTEADS 11 I have just landed ex Ruapehu, four cases 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 caßh. Everybody in want of ' a good value bedstead is invited to inspect these goods at F. J. Wrigley's, High Btreet, i Hawera.— Advt.