SECOND EDITION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7871, 5 January 1904, Page 3

SECOND EDITION

The proceeds of the Calodonmn con cer t 9 amounted to £84 Is Qd, th© ox J^llturo to £60, Is Gd, lewving a nefc isjBBOO of £24 10s. " Swim.'m'er " again writes .*—" Ti* tyuiili wearor would dony to others thi very Privilege he claims for himself loainely freedom of choice, in tho mat ter of wearhvg so-called clotWitng-. ] geelc only to make ftt optional. What about tho sanitary aspect of these articles in public, uso ? What dififerenct does it make if ho disrobqs outtside foj hie usual Bwifoath ?• Does ho fear the appointment of a lady attendant to wait upon male bathers as in good, t»im|ple New Plymouth ?" ." Scotchman " writes a letter with refemico to the late Hawera Caledonian Society mooting, in the course of which he complains that the prizes for music and dancing are not as large as they should be. He thinks that when £4 and £5 prizes oan be given v ' for ruiming and cycling there should 1 be given decent prizes for the mjusic and danoing. He finds fault" with the ; judging and holds that if large sums ' can be spent in bringing singers from \ Wellington and other places for th© evening concert some migiht be spared 1 for getting experts from afar for judging the dancing and mwsic on the day I of the sports. The writer tdvinks too I that more atttontion should be paid to. encourage young danoerß. If our cor1 respondent looks more closely into' the ! mattor he will find that* the prizes for j mußJc and dancing compare very favor- [ ably with those given by other t societies, that caro was taken to get outside opinion in the Judging, and that thoro is general satisfaction seems to Le proved by the fact that the entaiee for musio and ■dancing are increasing*. A statutory meeting is to be held on Wednesday ovening, 13th mat., to fix tho date upon which tne haHf-holiday required l>v the Shops £nd Shop Assistants Act will be observed diiring the current year. In consequence of the fire that occurred at Eltham yesterday morning, something in the shape of an agitation for a high ' water pressure has been set on foot. The local paper points' out that had the tire 1 happened in the main block Eltham would practically have been "wiped out." 1 A correspondent in the Eltham papc , wonders how much longer the bakers if Eltham will continue to charge 7d or 8d for the 41b loaf. He points out that tho high price was put on when wheat was more than 4s per bushel, whereas it U now about 3s. A deputation from a meeting of dairymen interviewed the Minister of Agriculture at Timaru, on the question 01 the testing of dairy cows for tuber 0 Uosis. M> Duncan, in Veply, deprecated a scare. Ji read a return, showing that at Christchurch only 40 out of 400 cows had been slaugntereot, and if the inspection had to be made over again, after the experience now gained, not more than half that number would be condemned. In connection with the visit of Sir A. J. Cadman and Mr Farmer King, who have gone to Parapara on ironworks business, Mr T. W. Walder has shown the Nelson Mail specimens of fire-clay obtained at Motupipi, on an area bordering on the coal measures. Before «nbjecteJ to heat the clay is slatey white, and very saponaceous. After being, subjected to heat, however, it is extremely hard, and it marked glass quite easily,, just as a diamond would. Westport fire-clay was smelted in a furnace lined with this Motu pipi fire-clay. The deposits covfir an area fuily sixty feet widel W. H. and A. McGarry will .sell a large consignment of fruit at their Eltham ' mart on Wednesday. *