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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8925, 11 September 1905, Page 4

I LOCAL AND GENERAL. Mr T. W. Kirk estiihates the annual loss to the colony from potato blight and tomato diseases at £158.000. The busy season _with the farmer is commencing,- and all machines for saving time and labor are in demand: Dixon and Bates have sold fully one thousand ofthe Sellers labor-saving washing machines. This alone speaks of their popularity, and the verdict from many that use them is they would not, be without oneA man was driving a five-horse waggon through a Carterton street- one evening last week,__when the wheels went into a drain, and the whole concern, which was timber -laden,- capsized, the driver being thrown over a fence. 'He escaped without receiving-any injury. The horses were unhurt,- and very little damage was done to_ the waggon. At a^special meeting of the Normanby Town Board last week the Chairman was authorised to ascertain if satisfactory arrangements could be made to instal electric light, in the Town Hall. Tho Clerk produced estimates to show that the electric light- would-be lose cost.'y than kerosene. If it be decided to instal the light three- fittings," each -having three 8 c.p. lamps, will be fitted in the body of the hall, one 16 c.p. lamp inthe Clerk's office, a similar-one in the supper room, and one of 8 c.p." in the lobby. A light-hearted bachelor applied to (he Auckland .Crown Lands Jioard for possession of an additional section of land adjoining — his own farm at BickersUrTe. Commissioner "Mackenzie pointed out that the law only permitted, a- Grown leaso- - holder to obtain-a second Crown section if the area he already held was insufficient to support himself and his family. "You see, you have no family, "isa id Mr Mackenzie. The reply was- as telling as it was unexpected. "What's tho use of me getting a family if I haven't, enough land to support them.',' The applicant gained the sympathy of' the members of the Board, and it wae decided to ascertain from headquarters if there was sufficient elasticity in the law to enable the "applicant to qualify for the desired family. .Mr Ronayne, general manager of railways,- speaking at a reception given him by the railway officer6,_alhulcd to tho advances made in the application of electricity to" tTain6.-" At Vancouver a line 12 miles in length had Us electricity generated by water 150 miles away. - That was the "sort- of thing -they ought to bo doing in New Zealand.- The CanadinnPacinc rolling etook and carnages could not be improved anywhere. One feature of American trains was the use of bells instead -of whistles. Another was the absence of platforms and verandahs. On the latter score, everywhere in this respect New Zealand was ahead. " Locomotives 'in America were not so well maintained as' in England and New Zealand. He scarcely' ever saw a clean engine in the Statee. The carriages, however, were a decided contrast. At Pittslmrg he saw an electric locomotive being "turned out weighing 135 tons. People were rather afraid of it. The Westinghouse and General Electrical Company had promised to keep New Zealand well informed of the latest developments in electrifying railways. - . • . " - ~ A remarkable story -is told (says the People's Journal. Dundee) of a former partner of Dick Seddon, "the present Premier of New Zealand. The two worked on the goldfields together and prospered. The man's name JsJThomas Burt, "and he lost- his wealth' through repeated appeals against an unjust verdict that, was given against =him in Tasmania. One result of the old man's agitation is that he has succeeded in getting thejaw altered. He came to England^ to prosecute his suit before the Privy Council, and .he does not intend to return until a. decision has been given one way _or" the other. Up to the present he has spent over £20,000. A remnrknble feature „,,is that Mr Seddon (although. Burt is reduced to sellIng matches in the Strand gutter) recognised his old partner when he was visiting this country, and look him to the Hotel Cecil, owing to his straitened circumstances,- but he was assured that so long as he cared to come he could obtain his- three meals there every -day. Since then the "old man-has duly found hi 6 way _ to the hotel, and at night sleeps at a common joagmg-nouse in the East End. An umbrella _ went astray at the football match on Saturday, and is advertised for. . . jyou turn an extra furrow every round with a Benicia. Disc Plough, thus saving a IgTeat amount of labor. Ag<mt : P. J. Wrigley, Hawera. — Advt. ! Woods' Great Peppermint Cute, for Coughs and Colds never ftilt. 1m 6d.