LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8096, 27 September 1904, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. S. Canning reports the sale of three sections ot land at Normanby ut a satisfactory figure.

Dr PomaTe states in his annual report, that Hawke's Bay stands out pre-eminent-ly as one of the most progressive Maori districts.

Lambing this year is stated to be exceptionally prolific m this district (says the Poverty Bay Herald). One settler in Poverty Bay is stated to have obtained 900 lambs from a nock of 700 ewes.

A farmer from Killinchy states that of a flock of 200, fifty of his ewes have lambed, with an average of 200 per cent. He purchased the mob at Addington some weeks ago. — Christchurch Press.

Wisconsin milks more than a million cows,' and turns out 90,000,0001b of cheese per year, says the Breeders' Gazette. This conies from nearly 2000 cheese factories, all over the State. If this cheese were shipped all at one time it would make 3500 carloads, or 125 trains of 25 cars each.

There was a large attendance at Monday night's meeting of the Methodist Debating Society, Mr Gillman in the chair. The question discussed was, "Are New Zealanders too fond of sport?" Mr E. Dixon lead in the affirmative and Mr H. Foy took the negative. The motion affirming the over-fondness of colonials for sport was carried by a substantial majority.

Our Normanby correspondent writes : — "In Monday's issue of the Star I regret to nee a notice of the death of Mrs J. W. Adamson, of Wanganui, who passed away on September 21. Mrs Adamson was the fourth daughter of Mr James Hayward, of the Aubten road, Normanby, and sinrere regret is expressed at her death. Mr Hayward and family have the heartfelt sympathy of all in this district in their sad bereavement."

The hats worn by Korean State functionaries have brims of enormous dimensions, 3ft across sometimes, and are required to be made of clay. The reason for thib, Mr Hatch tells in his recent book, is that some years ago the ruler of Korea was annoyed at the habit of whispering that prevailed at Court, and so decided upon compelling his courtiers to wear hats that would make it somewhat more difficult to put their heads close together and exchange confidences.

The Polic* Court of St. Helier, the principal town of Jersey, is remarkable m several respects. First, the proceedings are always opened with prayer; second, it frequently happens that after prayers there is no more business, and everyone goes home. There is so little crime committed in the island that the police force (20 strong) is kept up only for visitors.

The Kah-gyur, or Thibetan Bible, consists of 108 volumes of 1000 pages each, containing 1083 separate books. Each of the volumes weighs 101b, and forms a package 26in long, Bin broad, and Bin deep. This Bible requires a dozen yaks for its transport, and the carved wooden blocks from which it is printed need rows of houses, like a city, for their storage. A tribe of Mongols paid 7000 oxen for a copy of this Bible. In addition to the Bil'le there are 225 volumes of commentaries, which are necessary for its understanding. There is also a large collect'on of revelations which supplement the mule. The London Daily Chronicle finds it ■somewhat difficult to reconcile a recent Magisterial decision that attendance at Church on Sundays is an unfair condition of employment with the actual law on the subject. By the Lord's Day Observance Act of Charles 11.. which has never been repealed, every Briton over nine years of age is required to attend church. Tlr's generally applies to servants, and. going back no further than 1865, in that year a coachman, Isaac Walton, was fined 9s 9d for refusing to go to morning service when ordered to do so by his mistress.

John Alexander Dowie, the szlf-styled "Elijah," in a sermon to his followers in Ziou City last month, declared that the oppressive heat in Chicago was due to tne presence in the air of "millions of little devils" sent by Satan to annoy sinners. Dowie incidentally formulated the following rules for courtship in Zion City : — (1) No suitor can walk after dark with his girl without her parents' consent. (2) The proper place for court : ng is the gill's home. (3) Every man wishing to court must ask her parents' permission.

Ofte of the least self-advertised of great men is Professor Rontgen, who discovered the marvellous rays which now bear h's name. The Professor has never been interviewed, never been banqueted, and he has even (according to Cassell's Saturday Journal) refused immense* sums of money offered him by American publishes for a book on what he himself has modestly styled '.'» new kind of ray." Though sixty, he carries his years gallantly, and looks more like a man who ha 3 led a healthy outdoor life than one who has spent the whole of his manhood in investigating strange physical problems.

The principal German medical journal has lately published an account of the marvellously efficient and successful manner in which Japanese aurgeoqs. have been treating their Russian patients. The Japanese have adopted Listerian surgery with the utmost enthusiasm, and add to their appreciation of the scientific side to surgery that peculiar manual dexterity which they have so long displayed in other directions. Thus they rank second to no surgeons in the world. One of them suggests that before an engagement crews should bathe and then don stenm-sterilised clothing: thus their wounds would be aseptic from the first.

The committee appointed by the New Plymouth Education Board to consider the question of a technical school recommend that a building bo erected at a cost of £10,000. Mr Allsworth detailed how it was proposed to finance the matter in order to raißO the £10,000, as follows : — Government gra^it £3000; Borough Council £3000; contributions from other local bodies and private sources £1500 ; Government subsidy on this amount £ for £ £1500 ; leaving £1000 to be raised, the expenditure to be spread over a period of from three to five years. This last-nam-ed sum could be financed by the Education Board, who would pay rent for the part of the building they used.

At a meeting of the Palmerston North Farmers' Union on Saturday, the Veterinary Sub-Committee's report recommended "That a Veterinary Association of Farmers' Union be formed, consisting of subscribers to the fund raised for securing a veterinary surgeon's services in the district; also that the proposed association uhould appoint an executive committee to draw up a suitable scale of charges." The recommendations embodied a proposal that three lectures should be given by the veterinarian yearly, dealing with diseases common to sheep, cattle, horses, etc. The Chairman remarked that the association would have to pay a certain proportion of its earnings to the union. During the discussion which followed, the fact that the guarantors' list is steadily mounting up to the required sum (between £200 and £400) was favorably commented on. The report wao adopted. - Hansard is loss a record of what members Bay (says the Wairarapa Daily Times) than it is of what they afterwards think they should have saip. Each nipmbpr is supplied with a "proof" of his speech, and has full liberty in revising it \a add to, «what hp really Hid say, nf to fake ftway from if. Thjs alone discounts its value an a record. Hapsard has become a costly sham, which Is hardly worth retaining. Better to spend the thousands of pounds wasted upon it in building a few bridges in the back-blocks. The I Press Asociation and the leading newspapers of New Zealand give reliable reports of the dreary debates of both Houses. Ninety-nine peoplo out of a hundred are satisfied with this, and the hundredth who wants more is usually a "crank." — [Speaking with very good knowledge we can Bay that the material amendments made in the "proofs" are few in number and of very little importance.] As a result of pppresentatiqns made by the committee of thp Hawera Ba.nd\ the celebrated Spqttjah. Entertainers, Miss Flora F, Donaldson (English and Gaelic prima donna) and Mr Gavin Spence (tenor, elocutionist and humorist) have decided to pay Hawera a visit and will appear in the local Opera House on Friday, October 7. Their entertainment rivals that given by the never-to-be-forgotten Kennedy Family. The fact of their having just finished a big season in the Garrison Hall, Dunodin, where over 2000 people paid for admission to their final concert, speaks volumes for the performances submitted by these artiste. The southern critics speak in very flattering terms of Mr | Spence and his fair associate. For turnips, rape, grass and clover seed, the "Little Wonder' Broad Cast Seed Sower cannot be equalled by any 1 now in the market. Price 20s delivered. Morrow, Bwielt .ntf Co.. ChnttcVrctf^-AdH.

fjshJng tackle.

F. J. Wrigley announces the arrival of * very extensive assortment of 'BarWt and Sons' fishing taxikte. An especially hwkflrv; fi all nrippilfpm^ ft 7§ & YFv* «.tt* l rmk » wecmlity, & U, wA 12 feet tang. T toerafa «w justf/ celebrated throughout (his tjiitrjoj, A TOT; large assortment of flies, including a»Tei«? new vatwtwi Star minnows, n*w casts new traces, everything new. Inspection Invited. Bartlett'i best oasts, at Is, 1* 3d, U 6d each, or 6s, 6a, and 7i 6d the half- 1 dozen. Flies, minnows, casts, etc., sent post free. Postal orders receive prompt attention, and must be accompanied with cash. Rods prepared by competent workmen. Fishing licenses issued. F. J. WBIGLEY, HswKft.

The English mail was brought down by the express train this morning.

Mr F. Lawry, M.H.R. for Parnell, was in xiawera yesterday, and left again tor Wellington this morning.

Mr John Heslop's many friends will regret to hear that he is still confined to h's room, but is now on the mend, and should be about again soon.

The Mokoia, which sailed on Saturday for Sydney, took 4 casks of skins from Patea and 37 sacks of hides from New Plymouth.

The Parliamentary party, which hid been for a trip, passed through Hawera this morning on their return to Well'ngton. They speak in the highest terms of the beauty of the Mokau river.

We learn from a relative of Mr G. S. Bridge that the telegram in reference to his condition as being "hopeless" was to some extent misread. It was meant to convey that as the operation revealed cancer in the stomach recovery to perfect health was hopeless, but he is getting through the operation very well. We are sorry we are unable to give more satisfactory information.

"I would ask your Worships to observe the witness' demeanor," exclaimed a solicitor at the Christchurch Police Court on Friday; "her face is as red as fire." "So would mine be if I was in front of you," was the unexpected reply of the presiding Justice.

Susan Fowler, an octogenarian dress reformer, of New Jersey, is engaged to be married to an Englishman forty years her junior. Her trousHeaVi, according to the fashion journals, consists of one pair of brown wedding trousers, made by herself, which she proudly exhibits to all callers. For twenty years Miss Fowler has worn male attire.

Mr Paul Fountain, who has studied the house-fly in nearly every part of the globe, comes to the conclusion that if all the house-flies in the world could be exterminated the average of human life would be nearly doubled. They cairj infection from tne sick to the healthy in a thousand ways. Lost in a Mexican jungle while on a pleasure trip, a month or two ago, Mr Lewis Wettling, a wealthy banker, of Lincoln, \ebraska, could not establish hi 3 identity on returning to civilisation, and had to live penniless among tramps in the city of Vera. Crews for a fortnight. At last some friends met him barefooted, bearded, ragged, and tanned like a negro. They guaranteed that he was not an impostor, says the San Francisco Call, and he drew on his bankers for a sum sufficient to take him home. There has just been arrested in Pans a young woman named Anna Chirch. She wept at funer&ls, and while condoling with people who were mourning, picked their pockets. She was known to the police as the "weeping pickpocket" and on Tuesday last her display of grief at the funeral of the wife of a rich manufacturer so wrought upon the feelings of the widower that he offered her a place as housekeeper. She left him next morning, however, and with her had vanished a pocketbook containing £1800 in bank notes. The poultry and pigeon division of the Xovember Show of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association has been licensed by the North Island Poultry Association. The prize list is a very liberal , one of 203 classes, with prize money 7s 6d and 2s 6d throughout ; good entries are anticipated. A special trophy of one guinea is donated for the best Wyandotte cock or cockerel by Mr W. Rirhings. of Wanganui. Dog fanciers — and they are lesion — are provided with a prize list of 54 classes, with challenge awards and prizes up to £1. The dog judges are Mr John Horrax for collies, and Mr Clifford Bramah for other breeds. Entries close on October 14. A story with the full bloom of rusticity upon it comes from Dorsetshire. One market day in a Dorset town, a small crowd of farmers and their wives were reading the war lines in a ' contents bill of one of the local newspapers. An old lady, anxious to know the cause of their interest, questioned a bystander. "They're only reading the war news," he said. "Be there a war on, then?" was the next query. "Yes; the Japs is lighting with the Russians." "Oh!" she exclaimed, with a long drawn sigh of deep thought; "well, they've got a nice fine day for it, anyhow!" 'Ih3 Bank of England generally contains sufficient gold in l6lb bars to make 20,000,000 sovereigns, i'he bank, which stands in three parishes, covers three acres of ground, and, as the current price of land in the vicinity works out at £1,000,000 an acre, it is easy to form an idea of the money value of the home of England's wealth. Tlia rateable value is nearly £1000 a week. . The bank employs about 1000 people, and pays £250,000 a year in wages and £35,000 a year in pensions. There are £25,000,000 worth of notes in circulation, which have been handed over the bank's counters. In some of the patents taken out sixty years ago we, find (says Engineering) «learly stated all the essential points for the construction of an excellent turbine. Many of these early inventors seem to have such very clear ideas as to essential features of a successful steam turbine thac their failure to make their ideas commercially successful is somewhat singular. A discovery of great archaeological interest has been made at Cheddar, England. In the course of cutting a trench for drainage purposes through a bed oi cave earth, the skeleton of a man of great antiquity was excavated. Although the skull could only be removed in pieces it was possible to determine that it was that of a man of a period intermediate between the paleolithic and neolithic ages. The bones of the legs exhibit the characteristic flattened peculiar to those of that period. The frontal bone of the skull is thicker than that of the present day, while over the eyes a decided boss of bone demonstrates that the brows were very prominent. Judging from the size of the skeleton, the height of the man was about sft 3in. In close proximity were found several flint flakes and knives. The New York World enquire*: "Why should the Government object to raising the Maine? If these mysterious hints from Washington co.utin.ue, people will begin to think that there is some secret the authorities, do not want to see uncovered." The Government, which has WAily nq control now over the wreck of the Maine, since it is merely an obstruction to navigation in Havana harbor and subject to the jurisdiction of the Cuban Republic, has created this and other comment by its refusal to permit a contractor to raise the wreck. The destruction of the Maine 1 caused the war with Spain because an American commission decided that the battleship was blown up by a mine. Does the Government fear a complete examination of the wreck, above water, would disprove the commission's verdict?

The services in the Royal Church at Sandringham are thus described in tine Sunday at Home: "The choice of hymns is invariably submitted to Her Majesty one of her greatest favorites being 'Lead, kindly Light.' At the end of the morning prayers the bell of the church sounds six clear notes, and this is the signal that His Majesty the King is about to enter, followed by any relatives or friends who may be visiting. While the intermediary hymn is being sung tite Majesty quietly takes his sea,t, and the ante-Communion service is proceeded with. Occasionally a noted divine may be Miiongst the King's weekend guests, and if so, he preaches the sermon, but otherwise it falls! to the domestic chaplain," As. is well known, the King is, in. tavor cf short and practical lepmoqs.. and fie service at Sandrinftham >a never unduly protracted. The tiotting stallion Coolgardie is this season to travel in the district. Particulars appear elsewhere. Gold cable bangle lost, reward. ( Lady's fur necklet, lost. W. Hawkins and Co., dyers, make a speciality of feather work. A farm of 76 acres, at Inglewood, is offered for sale. There's dozens of remedies mother has tried, If we hadn't been strong, I expect we'd have died. » For weaks^ we've been. n\pjOng and swallowing trash, And when there's a lot It walks into the cash. I agreed with my Dad, who says "Woods is a brick For showing the world how to cure a cold quick; No need to be laid up for weeks, when

you may Take, Peppermint Cure, and be well in a day.