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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8926, 12 September 1905, Page 8

-_lt is notified in the Gazette that the next' examinations for junior national scholarships and for free places in sccond.•vry.jmd technical schools will be held on 12th and 13th December next. A hailstorm of quite startling severity visited Waverley on Sunday (says the Pa tea Press). Heralded by a heavy noontide shower, which came ' suddenly from th.c North-ea6t, later by portentous thunder peals, and them by its own distant' mysterious murmuriugs. as of a tornado 'nftd a forest, while yet many chains away, it was quite sufficient to satisfy all feelings of expectancy which these forewarnings aroused. A ten minutes appalling fusiJade wns succeeded by heavy rain which found roaUs and paths thickly coated with hailstones, which lay 'nenth the eaves of buildings and in the lee of fences from two to four inches deep. The young lambs, whose first taste of the ungentle elements this was, must have suffered severely, as a'so must the early fruit buds. The rainfall which succeeded was a torrential one. Water-tables were flooded and roads washed clean within a few minutes. In several case*, nutters became blocked with the hail and~r«oms flooded. " The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., notify that they have been instructed by the New Zealand Land Association, Ltd., to offer for sale by private treaty tlie remaining portions of 'the Woodlands Estate. Tlv? land has been divided into compact farms, and will l>e -offered on exceptionally easy terms, so fhatthe opportunity is excellent for 6inall farmers in search of a holding. - Good milker wants srtuation. .. Exporienced person (assist housework and milk) wßnts employment \ BETTER THAN PILLS. You will never wish to take another dos« of pills after having once used Chamberlain's Sfcomack and Liver Tablets. They ara easier to take, more mild and gentle in their action and more reliable, as,, they can always, be depended upon. They aiso cleanse and invigorate the stomach a<id lea-ve the bowels in a natural condition, while pills aTe more harsh im effect and their use is usually followed by constipation. "Just what you need." Only Is 6d. Sold by W. K. Wallace, Hawera. — Advt. Japanese Silver-mounted Bangles. — Just arrived, the very latest. 3s 6d each. ft. .W. Sargent, watchmaker and jeweller, Hawera. — Advt