NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 76411, 12 January 1903, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Borough Band gave a concert in King Edward Park on Sunday. The weather was fine and there was a fair attendance. Voluntary contributions amounted to £2 11b.

It is expected that surveyors will be at work 'on the Levels estate within four months at tbe latest. The" Opawa estate should be ready for settlement within six/or seven" weeks, An area of Grown lands will be thrown open with the latter.

It is probable (says the Wellington Times) a number of Justices of the Peace will be appointed in scattered districts where commissions have lapsed or the holders have died.

One of the settlers in the Wellington Fruitgrowers' Block has had a rather sad experience. About ■ ten years ago be seleoteu as a oaßh-puichase 8? acres, and this, under the conditions, he was bound to improve within' seven year*. Unfortunately, be did not commence the im-' provemente till a year ago, and now, besides paying for the land, he has ex.ponded £45 on improvements, On his application for a title coming before the Land Board to-day, the members decided that under the Act they had &o power (o issue a title, as tho land and improver ments had reverted to the Crpwn.— Pout.

The 2'Dannevirfce Advocate states that practically no cocksfoot will be saved ia the bush districts this year. There ia an upward tendency in the cocksfoot market, and every prospect that seed will realise, high prices this season.

A humorous reference was made to tbe climatic conditions prevailing in Dunedio of late by the Rev. W. Cuff at Hanover Street Baptist Ohuroh. He said there could be no greater variety in the world. It had been dusty, freezing, raining, blowing, hailing, and sunny. It was a httle bit damp and a little bit dry. He had been assured the weather was quite exceptional, but he was also told that in Melbourne, where bacon could almost be fried on tbe asphalt, and where it was so cold at night that he required extra blankets. And in Sydney and Brisbane, and now in Dunedtn, be was assured the weather was quite exceptional. A Masterton poultry-keeper, during) the last year, obtained some 3500 eggs from twenty fowls. According! to the market price of. eggs/ he cleared about 8s on each fowl.

The outward colour of H.M,S. Royal Arthur and H.M.S. Katoomfoa v being changed at Sydney from black to French grey. The Admiralty has issued an order "to alter the colour of the whole fleet. Already a number of patients are accommodated in the sanatorium for consumptives at Cambridge. A shocking death occurred at West Melbourne on the last day of the year. Mrs Amelia Griffiths, while leaning out of a second storey window to see what her children were doing, overbalanced herself, and fell head downwards. She died soon after.

From the Dairy Commissioner we have received a copy of the revised list of dairy factories in New Zealand, compiled by "tho dairying 1 division of the Agriculture Department, containing all creamery registrations up to the end of the year 1902. The list is now ready for distribution, and will be forwarded to any address on receipjb of the cost priofe (6d). Orders, accompanying 1 remittances, may be sent to the Dairy Commissioner, Box 484, Wellington. " Major "W. B. N. Madocks, of th© Royal Artillery, who was staff-officer to Colonel Penton as Commandant of the New Zealand forces, has been married in London to the only daughter of Sir Walter Buller. Major Madocks was very popular in New Zealand, and distinguished himself in the South African war. He has since rejoined his regiment, and is now Staffcaptain of Artillery ..at Yorks. The bride is also well known and popular in Wellington.