SECOND EDITION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7872, 6 January 1904, Page 3

SECOND EDITION

There are a number of Xew Plymouth entries for the Exhibition water carnival The Patea Press was issued, on Monday under new management Mr W. C- Car gill is now proprietor. Mr Fantham contin-ies to progress lavourably. We may* mention that in i-he paragraph refening to the operation the name of Dr Maelagan was inadvertently -written for ihab of Dr Harrison. Geo. Hall, bootmaker, Buicided in the back room of his iather's shop Dee street, ■ Invercargill, during New Year's night by inhaling coal gas. He had been in -hhealth for a year. The act was done with great deliberation. He put the rubber pipe on the gas jet, placed a bag over nis head, introduced the other end of the tube, tied the bag, and lay down on the floor with the gas turned on. • This has been the best season Stratford district has experienced, and the hay crops are good. The recent rain freshened the grass for dairying. The dairy returns are still increasing. Farmers in and around Dunedin are *ip in arms and protesting against the use ' of the pea rifle on their land, and have determined, if possible, to put the nuisance down. New 1 York cor^eapcndenU telegraph that Mr Thomas A. hcuson, the inventor, is credited with having perfected a new electrical generator wnich will revolutionise the methods of producing electricity. The generator derives its power ' from" a new Kind of fuel, which Mr Juh- 1 son is keeping secret. Three pounds of I it is said to be sufficient to secure enough electricity to light a house or run an automobile for a day. Mrs Seddon, President of tlhe New Zealand Loyal Women a Guild, o>As received a" letter -from ■. Kimjberley in which the, . following intelligence appears s—"lts — "It t may perhaps tie of some comfort to the relatives of New Zealandora buried in the Kimberley cemeteries to know that .the local branch of the Loyal Women's Guild held its decoration day on November Ist, and on tfiat "day- 'the New • Zealaroders' graves were beautifully decorated with flowers." Mr Johnston (says ibe Press) has been energetically camassin^ Patea and district, with a. vie,w to resuscitating *~a poultry- industry. He has succeeded in getting 400 snares taken up in tho proposed new company; and expects, to place 700 shares before the canvass is ' completed. . The Acting Chief Government Veterinarian, Mr C. J. Reakes, says that the 1 xiawera abattoir, which was opened a few months ago, is working satisfactorily, and that tb, • quality of meat .supplied to consumers has greatly improved , since the rigid system of inspection now in voguo was instituted. .With ragard to the disease that broke out hi' Canterbury last ir.onth, a Taranaki ■ farmer 'has written to' the Veterinary Department confirming the diagnosis of the, Department's officers. The same -disease has, he says, been prevalent in Taranak : for years. It is not so bad amongst horses out on grass, those confined in ■ stables invariably suffering most. ' He adds that the disease was not brought by the troops from South Africa,, and that it is only a form of influenza, from which the horses soon recover. - As?, advertisement which had not been arranged for by the proprietors caused considerable amusement in Htigu street , this afternoon. A young rat had by some means got into tbo show window , of one pf the lofcal establishments' and ■ was- there diligently catbhing flies. j . We hear tfeat Mr D. C. C. Gebbie is i suffering from a broken collarbone as : tJia result of his accident the other < day. \ ' < Mr W. H. Lever ia building a new < Congregational church at Port Sum- j ligbt, at a cost of £25,000. He is up- • pointing the Congregational Union of i England and Wales (Incorporated) 1 trustees of the property. Tfl>e commit- '] tees of the union has accepted the offer. One important reservation in the trust . deed is that, in, the event of tfce pre- 1 J noises ever being 1 vQgjuirad by, Mr Lever's , firm for business purposes, he will re* t purchase them at a sunn of not less ] than £50,000, which shall be expended , by the trustees upon similar property ] on another site .'in the same town. J Mr L. M. Hancock, the Ampin can * engineer who was' engaged by the New . Zealand Government to report on the ' value of the rivers and waterfalls of j tho colony as a source of electrical energy, baa sent a preliminary report to the Minister of Public Works, but , his comlpletio report is to be prepared ' fey • him. during the voyage to San 'j Francisco, and will be forwarded to v ihe Minister Uy tho first meil-boat. < Mr. Hfejncock has been very favourably i impressed, and considers thai there ar* i ■ excellent prospects of important de < velbpments resulting from the uiulisa- ' tdon of the vast water-power liow run' J nisg to waste. ! Says the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age: — It need- hardly be said that the "dollar power" represented at the .Rorburgbe-Goelet wedding was not overlooked in the published* accounts of that carefully rehearsed ceremony. The eigat bridesmaids, all doubtless aspiring to be Duchesses* themselves, owned "at least £18,000" between them.' But this is a { trifle compared with the combined wealth , of. all thote who took an official part in the wedding, including the bride and the bridegroom. ' The grand total is estimated , at £150,000,000, and surpassed even that ! which added' to the notoriety of Mr Regi- ' nald Vanderbilt's marriage in April laat. ' The money element appears to have bco.i ' the chief interest of the Boxburghe cere- ' mony. Instead of "0 Perfect Love" the' choir, if thoir sentiments* had been in keeping with thote of the congregation, would have sung "0 Perfect Trust. But ' -when tbo American people leflect on sba : financial aspect of Mich events they .;et : mote and more discontented. The "dwiin kof fcha dowries" has indeed become a lrettfle& grievance with them. It is founi > rtfiatjthe American brides of foreigners have within, a. comparatively short period taken out of the United States 208,000,000 dollar*— about £41,030,000, The new Duchess of Roxburghe is said to be possessed of » fortune of £6,000,000. One of the most serious allegations in connection with the collision between the . Coogtti and an Italian sailing ship in Bass Straits is that whin the ships swung together after the first impact the whole of the officers and the crew clambered into the barque,' thinking that the steam- < ' er was doomed, and that the passengers. to quote the statement of one of then, were left without boats and without any one possessing nautical experience ■ ;o gukfe them. From the owners' office tnere eaine subsequently an indignant denial of the truth of the statement that the steamer was deserted, and it was .explain- , ed that tin officers and men went on to the barque not to save themselves, -but to get, boats . with which to rescue the pas- ; sengers. This was not deemed a satisfac- > Itory explanation, but very little comment was 'offered on the -natter pending the ' •opening of the official, enquiry. It will , be teen from cable messages that evidence ' is being given on the subject. > At Patea on Christmas Eve (says the ? Press) the -electric light went out on ,- strike aboj-^.U, o'clock. It was on its ; best behaviour until Wednesday night, when about a quarter past 9 the light began te get dim ; "A#d dimmer, dimmer i ever .^rowing," speedily plunged the resi- * dences Mid businesses, which relied on it ' for iilumtattipn, into Cimmerian damnefss. TSapj* who were fortunate enough <■ to possess kerowne lamps at once brought ! them into requisition, some people, like ; the fooiish virgin^, had lamps and no oil,* and their remarks were strong; otheis ; used candles because they had neither : lamps nor oil, and the sight of the hotel i bars fainter iftominated by a lengthy row ' of candles'; ' ; whics*. pnly $erved to show up , ihe darkness, was 4 ftpvel spectacle, and - not altogether unamugiag to the onlooker. ; The proprietor of the vartats hostelries i did not see the comical side, and what they said about the electric light was neither brfef nor weak, but very much to (he pcinfc, '■ Christchurch firms connected with the flax-milling industry know nothing about the report from Wellington that the rprevsotative of a large American hemp firm W purchased extensive areas of flay land an 4 js prepared to buy the whole of the New Zealand output for the next five years. !*♦ report is viewed with a good deal of sceptipiwn, especially in view<ol ihe fact that not very long ago a Ohristehurch firm received an order for immense .quantities of flax for Bohemia, but juo business resulted. It- is quite true* however, that American dealers in hemp are closely washing the New Zealawf industry, Tsifonnation from the best sources. is. te the effect that the Americans would be willing te buy the colony*! output if the price was slightly lower, The price asked, it' if stated, Would pay well, but it if rather higher, than th« price ruling in New Zealand at present Th industry on the wnpla i» i». a betfctj] position than it has ever occupied before says the Wanganui Herald. A gentlemai from Soutli Curterbury went to the Norti Island a faw years ago, and erected A a will, ne had practically no capital, b*# }ie jfttgr works his mill about eight months in tiie ypar, and, it is reported, snakes a f.et f>r«fit ffhile working of £60 a^week. , ; Four loosj[ bakers have an ndvertisp^ racvte with r*%&cd to the system to be %t«edfced for ike weekly payment of bread. This departwro is owing to the ftiiid ftew»? rt the Flourmillcrs' Association.