NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7749, 19 June 1903, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Parliament meets on the 29th inst., and will be opened by Commission, elect its Speakers, and then on the following day the Governor's speech will be delivered. I The new firebell at Dannevirjke can be heard 3£ miles from town. The straits to which school committees are driven to find Junds for incidental expenses was shown on Monday last (says a Christchurch paper), when the chairman of the Kaiapoi committee said that in order to pay the caretaker it would be necessary to borrow from the prize fund. A Palmerston North baker is arranging to deliver his bread by a' motorvan. The motor will be of 4£ horsepower, to be driven by steam, and will burn kerosene. The Industrial Exhibition Committee at Feilding voted the Feilding Band £2 2s from the exhibition surplus, and the Band returned the cheque, pointing' out that some of the members were put to inconvenience in fulfilling their engagements at the show, and that the cost of the upkeep of a Band is considerable. A Masterton herbalist has communicated with the Hawke's Bay Stock Office relative to a specific that he has patented for the eradication of ragwort, which has been declared a noxious weed by the Hawke's Bay County Council. It is probable that the specific will bo given a trial. Even in Australia there are clergymen who are almost as much isolated as if they were on mission stations in New Britain. The Eev. A. Hey, Presbyterian minister to the aborigines at Mapoon, North Queensland', did not address a white audience for more than six years until May 24, when he spoke at a meeting in Sydney. Since the formation of the Cairns Memorial Church, Melbourne, in 1881, the congregation has raised £51,507. Of this amount £24,185 has been spent in maintaining the ordinances of the church, £22,213 on the church property, a"nd £4109 on the schemes of the General Assembly and philanthropic and other outside objects. Lady Weld, in religion Mother Mary Gertrude Dolores, died last April at St. Scholastica's Priory, Fort Augustus, N.B. She 'was the widow of the late Sir Frederick A. Weld, who was Governor of Tasmania from 1875 to 1880. He was afterwards Governor iv West Australia, and at the Straits Settlements. A banquet in honor of Mo<sri A. W. Hogg and Wi Perc, M's.R.R., was given in the Club Hot--], Masscrion, on Tnursday, by the Muori Liberal Assoektiun, and was a hugo success. The annual show of tbe Gnn'cibury Poultry Society waa opened, on Thursday, at Christchurch. The et.try was a record for »he - colony, birds comiog from all pats of New Zealand, and including a large number of iuipotted. The quality all round was escollen 1 . Having considered the legal opinions, the Marlborough Education 80-rd, at a special meeting on Thursday, resolved to apply to the Supremo Court for a writ of certiorari to quush the dec : sion of the Tenchrr3 f Court of Appeal i-i ihe Blenheim headmsstership case. The cirenms'anefs are that recently ihe Board dismissed the headmaster on vaiinns grounds, including the necossi'y of a fresh appoinrmeru- in connection with 'he forthcoming aiua'garaation of tho boys and girls' departments ; and tbe Teachers' Court of Appeal found on all points that the dismissal was wrongful and thut the master should b^ reinstated. The application to ihe Supremo Court is a precederu. On Thursday aftprnoon Mr Major, M.H.R , addressed three senior closes of the Hawera District High School on hin recent trip to the South Pacific Islands. Desks nnd chnirs and farms were placed in the large central hall, nnd a 3raall platform erected fit one end. A capital chart showing the route of the steainor Mupourika was prepared by the art master, Mr Richardson. Mr Major spoke for over an hour to a most interested and attentive audience. T,he objects of the trip, the products and the capabilities of tbe islands, the forms of government, the different races of natives and their modes of life, the flora and. nature of the islands, we all explained in a pleasant and descriptive manner. Mr Sa<gent, the Chairman of the School Committee, and Mr Struck, the Headmas'er, both thanked Mr Major for his excellent address. There is a feeling of unrest and discontent among tbe Dairy staff (says the New Zealand Da ; ryman). A. few weeks ago Mr Singleton came to Wellington with his portmanteaux packed for Canada to take up an appointment there, and was only induced to stay by offer of an increased salary. Mr McGowan has been offered a much higher salary by a syndicate tbat is going (o operate a number of factories in this colony ; and it is an open secret that one of the great dairy firms bave been angling for the services of Mr Cuddie for some time past. This means that either better salaries must be offered or that the services of our men wiil be lost. Mr J. W. Kenah invites tenders for the purchase of a dairy farm on the Hastings Koad. A seven roomed house (to be removed) is offered for sale by Mr A. T. Wills. Sobb And Swollen' Joints, sharp shooting pains, torturing muscles, no reßt, no sleep— that means rheumatism. It is a stubborn disease to fight, but Chamberlain's Pain Balm has conquered it thousands of times. One application gives relief. Try it. W. K. Wallaoe, Chemist, sells it. The Labour Party has now a big say In all political movements, And if it governs wisely, may Make many great improvements ; We hope to have some better" laws, And better health, that's sure ; If you feel ill, a cold the cause,

A large Hunt Club has been formed in the Wairarapa. In convection with the heavy damage to roads iv the Stratford County during the late consistent rain, a deputation from the bu'uiforii County Council wailed on tho Minister for Lauds in Wellington, and the Minister piatuisfd to bring bofote thu Cauiueu ihe uj alter oi £ fur £ grant asked for. In a sjueech at tho smoke concert to the deleeraieu to ihe iuianaki i'loviucical Conference of the Farmers' Union, Mr T. b. VVebton, according to tlie New Plymouth News, spoke ot iuo Premier us "the greatest man tho woild possesses." " When the cowd couiu iv," is a matter which country banUoiiitn n»vt» to cousictci. At the meeting on Tuursday tivtnlug Baudßim»Bur MuCouucli taia ho fouud that August was tho most t>uuub.e dtvte for OulUiug a baud cuato^c m tuid dis.nci, ao the uiiiktug bcu&oii Lmd iv bd c^n* uidd'ed. Lieut. Leveson-Gower, the victim of the rcceub " ragging" in the Guards, who is now siationcU at Aldershot, has been selected ior special service with the King's Airman liiiles. The Kuniara Times says : — Either Minorca fowls must be valuable, or some men have more money than they know what to do with, for it is reported that a trio of these black favourites were recently pub up for salo , by tender in Greymouth, and were sci cured by a local fancier for £25. Several other tenders were received, tho ' lowest being £12 10s. J All who have sent in their names, and other intending members oi the Mounted Cadet Corps, will parade on Saturday, at 2 p.m. sharp. Tie members of the Hawera troop will fali in at the Drill Shed, and ol" the Manaia troop at the Manaia Drill Shed. The preliminary roll will be completed, and acting-lieutenants elected. An lnvercargili lady met with, a ypcave misfortune recently in a very simple way. According to the local paper, she was visiting- in a northern town, and, in ieaving a house, stumbled at the door-step and fell forward upon thu stalk of a dahlia., which broke, and tihe jagged end pierced her eye and destroyed the sight. The Colonial Secretary has refused a totalizator permit to the North Canterbury Steeplechase Club, whidhi intended altering the annual meeting to July 12, at AinberJey. The present plant at the Hawke's Bay Woollen Company's mills is unable to cope with requirements, and. additional machinery is being obtained from England. Seventy-live h,ainds are now employed in the mill. One of the hotelkeepers of Dunedin has been a victim of the reduction vote in a marked degree. When a reduction committee was in office in 1897 Mr A. Owen lost his license for tme Ship Inn Hotel, and now the committee have taken away that lor I the Club Hotel, of which he is the licensee. Somewhere in the back blocks, not a thousand miles from Eketahuna, where no licensed house has yet appeared, is a barber's shop, where the price of a shave is sufficiently high to provide alcoholic refreshment in any quantity.— Express. Among the patients at the Greytown Hospital is one of the Valdares, who ! received a severe spinal injury wihilst performing the cycle whizz in. Fitzgerald's circus. We suppose it is characteristic of the Maori race that no great function takes place which is not accompanied by feasting, but, nevertheless, it seems strange to read tihat after the Tauranga Maori Council had completed its sitting the other day "a ! substantial repast was provided by the chairman." What is probably the New Zealand machine-shearing record is held by James Capel, who at Station Peak (South Island), in 1880, did 273 big sheep in 9 hours. On the same day 14 shearers sheared 2792 big sheep, or an average of 199J siheep per man. At Galpin's station, Marton,, L. Pully and A. Griffin sheared 229 and 204 sheep respectively, in nine hours. The writer of Volunteer* Notes iv the Auckland Weekly News says :—: — A visitor who saw the Hawera Mounted Rifles in camp recently was much struck with the splendid mounts, and expressed the opinion, having seen most of the troops in New Zealand, tohat the Hawera Mounteds possessed the finest horses, collectively, of any in the colony. Detective Livingstone came across a curious habitation at the end of Victoria Wharf (Dunedin) about midnight on Thursday. In a wooden box about three times as large as a piano case he discovered no less than six men huddled up asleep, entrances having been gained by an opening 18in or so square. When the detective appeared on the scene this opening was closed up with a cloth to keep things warm inside. One of the men remarked later on that they were quite warm—^hey kept it warm with their breaths. The air in the box, almost needless to say, was anything but " sweet," and for the benefit of their health, as well as for other reasons, the men were removed to the lock-up. Three of the men had used, the box for the last three weeks. A Chicago cow named Sadie haa been attracting notice in late American papers. It is stated that in 30 days, during which Sadie was put to the test, she produced a' fraction over 2754 pounds of milk, from which was extracted 123 pounds 8£ ounces of 1 butter. In other words the milk that Sadie gave during, the 30 days' contest would have been siiffioieiit to drown her had it been tanked, and" she thrown in, while her month's supply of butter, if packed in the ordinary bricks, would have served to make around her a wall so high that she could hardly have jumped over it. Sadie is certainly a wonderful cow. The Wellington Post says :— Among the questions which will have to be ! considered by the new Parliament 'is t one as to whether liquors Bhall be sold , at the institution known as Bellamy's. On the fourth Tuesday after the Address-in-Reply has been determined by the House of Representatives, both branches of the Legislature will vote ou the question, the poll being conducted by the Clerk. If there is a majority of Councillors and members of the House against the sale of liquor then during the remainder of the Parliament prohibition will obtain in Parliament Buildings; if the majority is in favour of liquor being sold, then the sale of liquor will go on until another , poll is taken. In case of equality of I votes the Clerk of the Legislative Council will have a casting vote. There I is practically no doubt that there will j be a majority in favour of liquor bei ing sold, although, in view of what has occurred in the past, a considerable number of members are auxious to see Bellamy's turned into a temperance institution. Hoabskness In A Cuild (hat is subject to oroup, is a sure indication of the approach of the disease. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon ns the ohiJd be- ' comes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough has appeared, it will prevent the attack. It always oures and cures quickly, i W. K. Wallace, Chemist sells it. j