LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8115, 10 November 1904, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The weather for the holiday on NVednesday looked anything but promising early in the morning, but later on the sun came out and the weather was perfect. Reports of various functions will be found under their respective headings.

On page 4 to-day "Orpington" has some remarks about dirty fowlyards, to which reference has been made in the Borough Council. Messrs Abraham and Williams stock report is also printed.

The Taranaki Executive of the- New Zealand Farmers' Union arc meeting today.

The sum of £2000 has been placed on the supplementary estimates for the inoculation of calves for blackleg.

At the meeting of the Jfawera Hifle Volunteers on Tuesday evening Mr Ramie was elected sub- lieutenant of the corps.

The postmaster, Mr Stevens, and the stationmaster, Mr Day, leave Hawera today for a fishing excursion in the Pohangina river. Mr Day will be away for three weeks, and Mr Stevens a month.

At the Sydney Wool sales there is great activity, and competition in all sections is spirited. Greasy sorts to-day sold to 16d, lambs 12$ d. The Melbourne market is similarly active and firm.

Mr Thomas Nicholas, late of Hawera, who has returned from a visit to Australia, has taken possession of Has tie's Family Hotel, Feilding, lately purchased by him-

A cable message says that it is expected that the Argentine's crops will give 30 ncr cent, higher yield this year than last. Fifty thousand immigrants have enter _<l the Argentine during the pafet. three months.

All entries close for the Taranaki Agricultural Society on Saturday, 12th November, with agents throughout the district or with the secretary at New Plymouth. The prize for the leaping competition lias been increased to £13.

On the supplementary estimates a vote of £44 appears for refund of duty on a statue to the memory of the late Mr A. A. Fantham, Hawera. A provision is also made for £200 for the Manaia road, north of Kaponga. i

A representative of the new Socialist paper, recently started in Wellington, addressed a fairly large crowd in High street on Tuesday evening npon the principles governing the publication.

There are only two cases to be heard at I the District Court to-morrow — a compensation action and an application for discharge from bankruptcy. Jurors have been" notified that t'iwy will not be required to attend. Deputy -District Judge EyreK^nny will preside. Mr A. E. Djmock, of Kaponga, of the firm oi vy:* Pjmock and Co., Wellington, bacon curers, boOght'three very fine purebrcjd pigs (a Yorkshire sow, a Berkshire sow an,d> Tamwqrth bopr) at the- Palmerston .show last we»ek, with ? view to improvjng H\t breqd of pigs in Taranaki. . Vfj- W: £tt d MM F 8 PV 8t » of Hawera, t#tfiM JfiivinsL shortly on a' tour round the woriy. They wijl l e £ve 'th» mailboat at Cojomby an^J will tour thpough India, aftepwafds visaing pln'pa and Japan. They wUI cross America by the Canadian-Pacific railway, The Old World trip will include toura in the Holy Land and Egypt. The Government have appointed Mr P. Heyes, accountant in the Land Tax Department, Commissioner of Taxes, in succession to the late Mr John McGowan, and Mr G. F. C. Campbell, Deputy Valuer-General, to the position of ValuerGeneral, each at a salary of £650 per annum. Mr Heyes will also be Superintendent of the .advances to Settlers Office. The curtain was finally rung down on the Parliamentary session of 1904 at 20 minutes past eight o'clock on Monday night. The House sat on 82 days— s63 hours 21 minutes before midnight, and 121 hours 34 minutes after midnight, giv- ; ing a daily average of 8 hours JH. minutes. Eighty bills received the Crown's assent, I a rip 95 were dropped or otherwise disposed If' :> 'T.h"e*e tfiire 957' petitions presented during tjh'e session of which 98 were from 'Maoris:' Altogether t i here r - were 993 divisions j 788 questiohl We, «4tted of Ministers; 290 papers were laid on the' table, and 474 reports were made by Select ComAttention 44 directed to several changes in Mr Wrigley s implement advertisement. He is now agent for McCormick celebrated mowers and rakes, and •'„ also Jtaqjta ,*9^' °«Mt«>way .8»» I^V

At a special meeting of tho Borough Council on Monday , night, Cr. Whittaker took exception to a remark made by Cr. Sargeson at the provious meeting, namely, that 12 months ago the inspector was instructed to see that certain broken verandah spouts were repaired, that these instructions were not carried out, and that verandahs continued to be in the same bad state — some owned even by Councillors. Cr. thought the insinuation was directed against himself, and resented it. Ih reply Cr. Sargeson denied that he mentioned a Councillor in the matter.

Among the many whibpers current just now in the lobbies of Parliament (sa\s the, Wellington Post), it is being &aid luat the Premier may bid farewell to the colony before the end of the current year, and that in that event he will be accompanied by a very capable and popular secretary. Then would, of course, follow the advent of Sir Joseph Ward as Premier and consequent Cabinet reconstruction. It would be invidious to mention the names, of probably retiring Ministers, but those who profess to know more than their political fellows say that there will be tnrec vacancies, and that they may possibly be filled by representatives of the middle district of* the North Island, Southern Otago and Auckland City "respectively.

A rather warm discussion took place in the Borough Council on Monday night concerning sacred concerts. The question arose out of an application made by Mr Conroy for permission to hold a sacred Sunday night concert in the Opera House as a benefit to Miss Gertie Campion now lying ill in South Africa. The applicant was willing to submit the programme for the Council's approval, no charge would be made for admission to the hall, but a collection would he taken up. Alter being debated, a motion was put to the meeting, and carried by one vote granting the application. The Mayor then ruled the motion void on the ground that the Council had been called for a special purpose, it could not take other business, 'ami that as there was not a full Council their action might !><• challenged at the nrxt mcrting. The matter is to again come up for consideration.

There is on view at A. 11. Arthur's furnishing warehouse a large collection of furniture which has been manufactured to local orders. The design of a sideboard is decidedly quaint. At the back is a polished mirror lianked by cupboards with the usual large cupboards lower down. The whole is dull polished, and mounted with antique brass handles. A handsome duchess chevalle in polished rimn with p'.iriri facings also attracts attention. Both of the firm's windows are filled with articles recently manufactured, including upholstered chairs, hall stand, carved bedstead, which are well worthy of inspection, and go to show that work can lio turned out from Arthur's as satisfactory as from any factory in the colony. The ('ollinson curse, says the Wairarapa Leader, seems to hang heavily over the Martin borough district. Since the night when the bushman was shot dead in the lonely Te Awaite bush, tragedy after tragedy, accident after accident, has followed " with almost ferocious regularity, and it appears as if the curse would continue till the murderer is brought to justice. Tn the little Martinborough cemetery lie twelve mounds covering the forms whose owners were victims of violent deaths. During the past nine months South Wairarapa, and Martinborough in particular, has supplied more tragedies than any district of its size in Australasia. '