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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7543, 19 August 1902, Page 2

The annual 'examination of the Hawera District High Sohool commenced yesterday. We learn that the new issue of shares in the Northern Steamship Company, Limited, have been over-subscribed for by present shareholders, who will receive about 10 per cent less than the numbers applied for. —Auckland Herald. At a meeting of twenty unemployed at Westport, the following resolution was passed : —** That the meeting respectfully wishes to draw the attention of the Minister of Labour to the faot that the Labour Office being attached to the Police Department completely robs it of any virtue it was intended it should possess for the advantage of those most deserving of benefits. In short, that the better class of unemployed absolutely refuse to reoognise this office while under police supervision." In the House, the attention of the Acting-Premier was drawn by Mr Fisher to a cablegram from London published on June 19th, which reported Mr Seddon as saying, "Love of the Motherland and nothing sordid prompted the preferential trade resolution of Parliament, and it 3 communication to Mr Chamberlain in December was proof of it not being connected with the corn tax." Mr Fisher wanted to know to what resolution of Parliament Mr Seddon was referring. Sir Joseph Ward's reply was brief, though somewhat significant. He thought it was desirable to allow the Premier to answer for himself as to any statement he might have made in the Old Country. Mr Massey pertinently queried, "Will he have the opportunity this session?" v I hope so," waa the enigmatic reply, j There was a stormy discussion at the meeting of the Waihemo Council over the case of a Chinaman who waß reported some time ago by Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, to be suffering from leprosy. Dr. Ogston, the local health officer, wrote, pointing out that the Council, by letting the man escape, had rendered itself liable to various penalties. Nearly all the councillors expressed the conviction that the man was not suffering from leprosy, but from frost bite. The Chinaman himself said that he had received injury at Nevis from " too much snow," and that he had been in the same condition for 20 years. The raw finger and thevstumps had now quite heated, and the man worked occasionally. It was decided to take stepa to provide an isolation hut, but councillors stated that it would take a castle to keep the man from going to Macrae's when he desired to. The Publio Petitions Committee has reported on a long-standing claim made by Mr Justice Edwards, who asked for relief on account of being removed from his position as Native Lands Commissioner and also as Judge of the Supreme Court. The appointment was made by the Atkinson Ministry, but was cancelled by the Ballance Administration on the ground that Judge Edwards' salary was not provided for before his originul appointment was made. The report of the oommittee is that the petitioner's salary and law costs, amounting to £3916 19s, subject to correction as shown by the petitioner's memorandum on July, 1902, should be paid; and they therefore recommend the petition to the favorable consideration of the Government. The Napier Herald Wellington special writes: — A good deal of feeling exists against the Education Department, ns was evident to-day by what happened during Mr Mills' reply to Mr T. Mackenzie, who raised tbe question of the closing of country schools through the adoption of the Public School Teachers' Salaries Act of last session. Mr Mills (speaking for the Minister for Education) said the Department had no knowledge of the fact, to which Mr Mackenzie retorted that the Department ought to be wiped out, a statement which was received with cries of " Hear, hear," and v Order." Mr Mill 3 met with so many interruptions that the Ac:ing-Speaker had to interpose, by requesting members to allow the Minister to speak. The Hawera Football Club dance tomorrow evening, in the Opera House, should be largely attended and prove an enjoyable affair. The members of the Wanganui representative team have been invited and local footballers are likely to muster in large force. The joint secretaries, Messrs Glasgow and Stow, have been very busy, and the committee of management are all working hard, and ably seconding their secretaries' efforta. The floor will be first-class, and the hall prettily decorated. On the stage will be easy chairs for resting after dances, and the small rooms will be arranged as cardrooms for non-dancers. Good music has Leen arranged for, and everything possible devised for the comfort and enjoyment of all who come. The supper is in the hands of the ladies, and that fact assures, its excellence. Okaiawa Football Club's annual social on Friday. ■ The poultry industry is a growing one and has come to stay. Now is the time to buy Prairie State incubators, Mann's green bone cutters, grit mills, fine and coarse grit, clover cutters, feeding troughs, wire netting 3ft high at 8s 6d a roll, Neponeet and liuberoid roofing for fowl houses. You will find a good stock of these and lowest cash prices at P. J. Wrigley's, High Btreet, Hawera. Inspection invited, and all information given. — Advt