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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7820, 20 October 1903, Page 2

The water supply will be cut off from I until 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon io ;nable certain lepairs to be done. The Hawera Commercial Agency reports ihe sale of five acres on Waihi Road and .hree excellent building sections on th.?. Main South Road. A fhst offender, arrested on a charge of arunKenness, bailed himself out in the sum of 10s, and upon failing to appear in the Magistrate's Court this (Tuesday) morning the amount of the bail was estreated. Mr A. Haughey, J.l'., was on rhe bench. Mr Buckrell, of Whakamara, ploughing the other day, turned up an oddly fashionad stone, which on examination proved to be a native oil lamp. It seems the custom was for the Maoris to scoop out one end of a stone, pour fish oil into the hollow, then fix in a wick, and the lamp was ready. Mr Buckiell has presented the curio to the Havera Museum. It is a rare specimen, and n:uch covet/ed by collectors. The Stine and Evans American Comedy Company brought a very 4 successful two nights' season to a close at the Opera House last night, when "Brown's in Tot/ii" was staged. r ' here vas a crowded downstairs house, i.nd a fair number in the dress circle. Judging from the continual applause the efforts of the Company were warmly appreciated by the audience. Queen Alexandra (says M.A.P.) is an indefatigable Jotter-writer. She has been known to write as many as forty letters in one day with her own hand; and Miss Knolly.B, her favourite lady-in-waiting, often gets through a hundred, all written under the Queen's personal supervision. After a passion play a-t Oberamuier-g-nu Mr Andrew White (an American Ambassador) ,had a talk with the actors. Far the best of them was the representative of Judas, who related an experience. While ho was working at his carving bench, the door of his workshop opened, and a peasant woman from the mountains came in, stood still, and Razed at him intently. On bis asking her what she wanted, she replied :— "I saw you in the play yesterday ; I wish to look at you again. You look so like my husband ! He is dead. He, too, was a very bad man." "I wish you would also mention rather | iiu interesting cure which has been "ifected at the Aix massage baths at Rotoj rou," said Mr Donne to an Auckland Star j reporter. "This is the case of Mr Frank Preston, who had his neck dislocated, anil I who lost the use of his right arm in conseI quence. He was treated at hospitals without avail, and finally sent to the massage baths at Rotorua for treatment. A week sufficed, and he is now, much to his surprise and elation, a completely cured man. The case was so unusual that Dr Wohli man took a plaster cast of his dislocativl neck for record. Then I myself had a spill from my horse on the way to Kawh'a. He went through a rotten culvert, ant.' rolled over on me, and 4L got my knee severely sprained. The Aix massage bath treatment fixed me up very quickly." The steamer Heathbank, which arrived last week from Kobe, Japan, had some' difficulty in finding Auckland. The master of the vessel was only provided with a -general chart of New Zealand, and had noL any sailing directions as far as New Zealand was concerned. Cape Maria Van Diemen was sighted on Tuesday, and tho steamer proceeded down the western coast, reaching Manakau Heads. Finding his mistake the master of the steamer headri back again, and passed Cape Maria Van piemen, bound east, on Wednesday; but although the steamer had been reported passing south she was not again reported as having returned and passed to the eastward. Passing Tiritiri on Thursday afternoon the steamer proceeded on her jour- . ney, and the master, finding he was m difficulties, anchored under the Noisies, where the steamer remained until the trawling steamer Minnie Casey picked her up, and transferred one of the crew cm board, who piloted her to Auckland. A smart young fellow was looking for,' an empty compartment in an excursion train which was nearly ready to start. All were full. Coming to the rear carriage, he Aung open the dooi 1 , and cried in an authoritative manner, " All change here ; this carriage isn't going!" There was a scuffle among the passengers, and the whole carriage full of people turned out grumbling, and stowed . themselves away forward. He then selected a compartment to his liking, and seating himself in a corner lighted a cigar, and said ' within himself , "It's a grand thing for me that I was born clever. I wish they'd hui'ry up and start." Presently the stationmaster put his head in at the window, and snid, '• I s'pose you're the smart young fellow who told the people that tfriscarriage isn't going •? " " Yes," said the clever young man. " Well," said the stationmaster, with a grin, "it isn't. A porter heard you telling tho people, and so he uncoupled it. He thought you were from; the head office." Professor Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago, reiterated in a lecture his belief thut tiic American people are fast developing into Indians. Professor Starr examined the descendants of a small colony of Germans who came to the United States years ago, and found that the fourth and fifth generations had developed marked Indian characteristics, such as black ey>is and darker coloured sk-in. The changes noted take place invariably, said Professor Starr, through the influence of the potent American climate and environment. Fur thermore, they serve to illustrate what forces are at work on the people of tht United States of America. At Dunedin the other day Mr Edmund Cook, late Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, told his staff lhat when he first joined <he servics it was very small, and the work naturally was not very heavy. In fact, he had known times when the officers had to resort to a game of marbles to fill in tnc tiime. (Laughter.) In those days there was only one English mail a month, anl it was very irregular. The whole mail would then consist of 30 or 40 bags — two of letters and the rest of newspapers. There were no postage stamps and no receiving boxes. All mater to be transmitted was handed in at the post office, and the officials weighed it and received the postage fee ovev the counter. With the advent of the seat of Government at Wellington things underwent a change tnere, and when the Otago goldfields were discovered inward mails were also made up for Dunedin as well as Wellington. Since then many alterations / had taken place, and he foresaw the time when the Postal Department would absorb other branches. The public had every confidence in the post office and in the faithful work of its officers. i Messrs Whittaker, Wfrittaker, and Co. will sell, at their Central Auction Mart, on Thursday next, the contents of a fiveroomed house, without reserve. Anyono furnishing will find this a splendid oppor . tunity. The saie will commence at 1.30 p.m.