LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8938, 3 July 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• ti Five teachers hi the Wanganui Educa- 'f tion Board district were married on Wed- t4 nesday last. n A concert and dance in connection with the Church of England will be held in the Otakeho Hall on July 19. v During the first year ol its existence the ii i Federal High Court reversed, approxi- f j mately, three out of every four cases ap- c i pealed from the Supreme Court. t I It is announced that Mr McArdle, a j 1 member of the Land Commission, will contest the Franklin seat against Mr W. F. - Massey, leader of the Opposition. "We have got into the habit of nursing j a surplus in this colony," said the Hon. ' j Mr Louisson, "and when a pressing need is 1 neglected the reason is stated to be lack j . of funds. i The number of youths prosecuted under the Juvenile Smoking Suppression Act, 1903, from the Ist January to the 30th Juno, 1904, was five, convictions being recorded in each case, but no fines were imposed. A movement is on foot in tho Masterton district to concentrate the stock sales into one commodious yard. The new yards aro proposed to be conducted on the same lines as at Addington. Probably the yards will be near tlie Kuripuni railway station. At a meeting of' the committee of the Taranaki Jockey Club it was resolved, in accordance with a letter from the Racing Conference, to cancel the licenses of the following clubs : — Egmont Hunt Club, Eltham Hack Racing Club, Okaiawa Racing Club, Stratford M.R., "Urenui Hack Racing Club, they not having held a meeting during the past 12 months. Tho petition presented to Parliament praying that the sentence passed upon Thomas Brown, at New Plymouth, in September last, for an illegal operation on a young -woman, should be commuted, is on the grounds of the prisoner's previous good character, his age (sixty-two years), and tho fact that immediately upon his arrest ho confessed. The petitioners express the opinion that the sentence was

too severe. One of the men employed on grading work in Belvedere road, Carterton, dug up the other day a coin a little larger than a penny. It was cleaned, and found to be an English coin, bearing the date 858, and issued in the reign of Ethelwulf, son of Egbert, first King of all England. The coin is much battered. Judge Edwards, in giving judgment in i tine case of Alfred Bayly, of Stratford, v. Alexander Campbell^ of Toko, a claim for specific performance in regard to an agreement for the purchase of land in the Toko district, said : It is to be hoped that the parties will return to common sense, and that no further proceedings in the action will be necessary. It is lamentable to see two respectable farmers squandering their money in litigation the subject matter of which does not exceed £10 in value. x A disillusionised Dowieite writes from Zion City to Adelaide: "Men's wages are from nine dollars per week. He would not mind this, only that X>r Dowie lives on the best of everything. He has a house like a palace; even his stable is like_ a mansion. He rides in his carriage with showy horses and silver-mounted harness, and nis guards draw up at the tabernacle to receive him as though he were a king." Recently a deputation from the Employers' Federation interviewed Mr Seddon. With reference to the compensation for accidents, it was suggested that there should be an examination of injured employees by medical men appointed by the Government., and persons injured .should periodically report themselves to the Government officials. It was also represented that various technical requests that had been made by the Trades Conference would greatly hamper owners of enginering works. The Premier, in replying, urged that both sides should stand by the Arbitration Act. Since February 21, 1903, when the Christclmrch Drill Shed was burned down., a good many fires, more or less destructive, have occurred on the same site- among rooms belonging to the volunteers. At an enquiry held on Thursday before a coroner and jury, a verdict was given Ihat the fires were wilful, but no evidence was given as to tho incendiaries. The evidence of volunteer witnesses showed that the greatest sufferers wero the volunteer com-, panics themselves, as the insurance companies refused to take risks after the first fire. There are tricks in every trade, and gome are full of art and some are not (says the Wellington Times). One of the most clumsy was worked off at the expense (for the time being) of one of the largest woolbnyers in the city a few days ago — or vainer it was discovered a few days age At the beginning of the wool season forty bales of wool were purchased by the firm and stored. A preliminary sample examination sihowed nothing amiss, but when sorting commenced it was found that weight had been, given to the wool (pur- i chased at ao mu6h a pound) by a generous addition of sand. Fully a ton of seashore was distributed throughout the forty bales. " Hie firm's staff is now busily engaged in finding the wool. "The shouting 'customs' of New Zealand arc the danger and menace to the young life of this new and rising colony," said Father Hays at the Wellington Town Hull. Jle would, he said, like to comiiK'noc a new crusade saying men should never accept a "shout" and never give one. That would strife at the root of a great evil, but even in doing that work 'he would be wasting his time. He went on to explain that if he could get men and women from higher motives to become , total abstainers he would be doing work of infinitely greater value than denouncing i "shouting." * From the mass of figures contained in a Departmental return may be gathered some idea of what the average New Zealander eats, drinks and smokes, at any | rate so far as certain articles in common ■use are concerned. From this it appears that last year the population consumed ■647,155 gallons of spirits, at .a cost of £1 19s 4d for overy adult in the community. '■ The tobacco that went up into smoke weighed 1,955,563 pounds, or 7.431b per head, and at a cost per head of £1 5s lOd. This 'does not include cigars, cigarettes and snuff, which cost the community 8s 5d per head. Turning to wine, it is found that 120,120 gallons were consumed, at a cost of Is 2|d of the male and female population over fifteen years of age, which also spent 8s 5d a head on ale and beer, while the sum of Is ljd per head of the total population, including Maoris, was spent on tea. Only a penny three farthings per head of the whole population was spent on coffee, cocoa and chicory, but tho consumption of sugar went up to the large total of 94,522,080 pounds, or 104.9 per head, and averaging 4s 4£d for every man, woman and child in the colony. Finally the figures show that the 'male and female population of the colony over fifteen years spent 3s 3d a head on New Zealand brewed Deer. Now that an effort ie being made to start fiwe classes at the Technical School it is to bo hoped that the young people will tako advantage of the opportunity offered and attend this evening or Tuesday,evening to have their names enrolled, so that the director will know what classes to commence. Altogether there \yill be ten instructors fox the various literaTy and technical subjects. With the exception of 5s for gymnasium class, there will be ao fees for students who have passed the Sixth Standard, whilst the fees for other students have been reduced more than one half of former fees. Free students must enter into an agreement to pay tho usual fee if they do not make twenty hour attendances during the year. The Education Board ihas placed the science apparatus, art room, woodwork tools, cookery utensils, gymnasium, etc., at the disposal of the technical classes. In Temuka, South Canterbury, there are over 100 students, while in Wanganui there are nearly 300 young people attending similar classes. In the literary subjects, tho work will be from Standard VI to lnatriciilation standard, and in the technical subjects the work will be up to the South Kensington standard. In the science clues practical work will bo done, and au effort will bo made to get lectures on dairying. In the woodwork class, boys will work from plans taught by the art instructor } in the cookery room practical work will bo douo; at the three gas ranges and eight rings; the dressmaking class will be taught by a practical dressmaker; tlio .book-keeping class will be instructed by a practical business man, and tho gymnasium dads will be taught by special experts, whilst the classes for English and Maori, Latin, and methematics (arithmetic, algebra, and geometry) will be taught by teachers of experience and ability. Altogether tho classes" promise -well, and if business men urge their assistants to attend the success of tho technical classes should bo assured. : ',''*>, Sick Headache positively cured by Dr Sneer's Tamer Juice. TAMER JUICE also relieves distress from dyspepsia, indigestion, and too hearty eating. A per- ' feet remedy for dizziness, nausea, drowsiness; bad taste; in the mouth, coated tongue, torpid livec. A purely vegetable compound. , /

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he railway station at Mosgiel was burriously entered on Saturday morning. > Bafe was blown open by dynamite and te £9 stolen. Two explosions were i, one to open the outer and one the ar compartments. There were two » in the station, one above the other, in ; concrete. The burglars selected the jest as likely to prove most productive, , in this they were mistaken, the bulk the cash being in the smaller 6afe. ["he following resolutions were carried a well-attended conference of represenive citizens in Auckland convened for > purpose of discussing the disastrous :ct on the community produced by the Is of betting and gambling, and the rnicious influence of the totalisator: — at this conference deplores the wideread evil of gambling and betting praces of the present day, and is of opinion it more earnest efforts should be made combat this glaring evil." It was >ved that the Government licensing of mbling through the totalisator should made a test question for politicians at c coming elections. Mr Speight said lat was wanted was a monster petition favor of its abolition. He had not much Lth in questions to Parliamentary candates. They should appeal to the whole iople. Racing had ceased to be a sport, id had become a gamble. The motion wing been altered in accordance with r Speight's suggestion, was carried. Complaints are occasionally made to and Boards that the particulars conined in the oificial pamphlets concerning le land taken up have proved inaccurate id fallacious. One man recently applied ir a refund of his deposit, saying he found a inspection that the section he had rawn was entirely unsuited for his reuirements. although from the pamphlet ■> appeared an ideal one for his purpose, mother said it was stated that there was constant supply of water on the holding c had. taken, but such he found by exerience was not the case. The Commisioner, however, read an extract which is nvariably inserted in the pamphlet's waning intending applicants to visit the placet flered for selection, as the Crown conic lot be responsible for the accuracy of ih< nformation in every; particular. He als< nformed tho complainants that ho person illy would not take up even a quarter icre without inspecting it, and that thej sould get no redress, as tho fault wai Ine as much to themselves as to the De lartment. Says a London contemporary : — Ti hose who have been alarmed by the re ent earthquake in the Midlands, and it oincidence with the Indian disaster, ther 3 something very reassuring in the infot nation which Professor Milne, the well ;nown seismologist, gives in the Expres o ; day upon the subject. He explain n the first place that there was no cor tection between the two events, the Eng ish earthquairr being simply Avc to a sei lenient of okl fault'" lines. Countries Hk Fapan and the Himalaya region are sti ;rowing; the process of mountain i\\ leavals is still growing on, and so the tre liable to severe earthquake shocta England, however, has passed the stag >f adolescence, and the consequence : ihat we have comparatively peaceful tim< sut of some thirty thousand earthquake ivhich visit the world overy year, we onl *et six or seven. There arc distinct a< ' i _1 i. «,JJJI« ..„» fimm +1

vantages about, middle age, from the scismologieal point of view."