SECOND EDITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8106, 8 October 1904, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

The final dance of the season in con nection with the Fire Brigade assemblies is to be held in the Foresters Hall on Tuesday evening. It is to be tendered 1 by the gentlemen to the ladies who have attended the assemblies during the winter j-.and a large attendance is expected. V. Mr McCurdy, organising secretary of vfhe New Zealand Farmers' Union, who W'to address a meeting at Normanby on Monday evening, is to spend about a fortnight with Taranaki branches. As briefly mentioned in our telegraphic newt on Friday a steerage passenger was lost overboard from the Takapuna just before reaching the Manukau Heads on her trip to New Plymouth on Thursday. Irom the statement of a lady passenger and the forecabin stewardess, it appears that Scully got behind a heap of sacks on tho forecastle, and looking round to see if nt were observed made a deliberate plunge overboard. The lady rushed up to tho officer on duty, but was so excited that ihe could do no more than gasp out "Man," clutching the officer's sleeve. By this time several passengers had seen Scully striking out just as ue was lost to view in the wash. Captain Holford at once stopped the engines, and lowered a boat, but half an hour's search was rewarded by nothing more than the unfortunate man's cap. Nothing cou dbe gam%d at to his relatives, as he brought no effects on board, though it is stated ho , was a remittance man.— Taranaki News. • Steuart and Corrigan will hold a stock | tale at Stratford on Wednesday next. The annual general meeting ot the Hawera Lawn Tennis Club is to be held on 1 Wednesday afternoon next. Improvers to dressmaking wanted. { For ChUdren'i Hacking Cough at Night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is M.