LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8918, 6 November 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A reminder is given of Mr McGuire's political address to be delivered in the Opera House to-night.

In the Wellington Arbitration Court on Friday a cab proprietor said the cheapest cab that could be made in Wellington would cost £180. At Laery and Co.'s Wellington auction mart on Friday 5s 3d per 1b was secured v for grapes from the Auckland district. This satisfactory figure is a record.

Mr Livingston reports that rain fell on 17- days at Ohawe during October, 5.77 inches. The month last year gave 5.97 inches on 18 days; in latfl* 6.96 inches was registered and fell on 24 days. The average for the month for the last seventeen yeans has been. 3.50 inches.

For Bronchial .Coughs take- Woods Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d.

The mail train arrived in Hawera this morning a quarter of an hour late. The total of New Zealand's "self-denial" through the instrumentality of the Salvation Army amounts to £9282, being an increase of £1081 over last year. A telegram from Dunedin states that a house in Leith street, occupied by Paul Sonderhoff, was gutted on Saturday evening. The furniture was insured for £150 and the house for £500, both in the South British. .

In the Auckland University College examination results the name of C. T. Parkinson, of Hawera, appears as one of the successful candidates. He is credited with having kept the terms of the year at the University, with a pass in Latin, English, jurisprudence, and constitutional history.

The Age makes the statement that the other day a Gladstone native performed a hair-raising feat by jumping^ feet foremost, from a portion of the well-known McLauchlin cliffs into the Ruamahanga river., a distance of 102 feet ! The native was fully dressed at the time.

Count Edgar Wiltskeel, son of a Bavarian master of horse, and a lieutenant in the Bavarian Army, has been tried by a military court-martial for having contracted a marriage in London with an English actress, named Maria Thomas, without having' obtained the permission of his colonel. He was sentenced to forty-five days imprisonment.

The Bay of Plenty Times has noticed that the Maori women who of late visit the cockle Beds in the vicinity of the wharves to collect shellfish, are gradually ridding themselves of the notion that they must gather' the cockle with their backs turned to the sea, or else the next tide will wasb the beds away, as they may be seen in numbers nowaday? gathering while facing in all directions.

We hope to hear presently that the local police are interesting themselves in the "bad language problem. There are some "blackguards in this town who habitually pollute the air with their foul tongues, no, matter who is passing. A couple of plain clothes men on special duty could make a bag, and enable the S.M. to furnish an' object lesson. — Manawatu Daily Times. A message from Dunedin states that the Orange Lodges and Protestant Defence Association celebrated the centenary of the discovery of the gunpowder plot by marching inprocession to Victoria Hall, where the Rev. Trestrail held a united service. The attendance was only moderate. The mission conducted by Father McDermot at Okaiawa has been a great sue- i cess, 81 out of 89 adult members of the congregation, approached the Sacraments and attended the various exercises. The Very Rev. Father Clune arrives this evening to join Father McDermot at Manaia, and both will open a week's mission at St. Joseph's, Hawera, on next Sunday at ; 11 a.m., and of which particulars will be '■ given later. ! A Chicago inventor has hit upon a j method of putting -what are practically • stone soles on boots and shoes. He mixes ' the waterproof glue with a suitable quan- ' tity of clean quartz sand, and spreads it j over the leather sole used as a foundation. { These quartz soles are said to be very > flexible, and practically indestructible, and • to give the foot a firm hold even on the I most slippery surface. I During one of his political addresses in ' Wellington, Dr Chappie informed his , audience that in virile but despised Japan • theTe were 8000 medical school inspectors ; America had 500, Brussels 52, Paris 128, i and New Zealand none. These inspectors j visited schools, and examined pupils for : defects of hearing, sight and speech, as ' well as for signs of infectious or insidious ; illness, and thus prevented the development and progress of disease. The New , Zealand Public Health Department, he , said should be brought into line in this direction. $

An interesting story is told in the Lancet of the disturbance of the balance ■ of nature in Jamaica. Snakes were at j one time numerous in the island, but now j there are none. Rats amounted almost to | a plague. In order to keep them down the mongoose was imported from the east. This brave little animal soon made an end of the snakes, while the rats, in order to save themselves, took to the trees, and j became egg-eaters and bird destroyers. | This reduced the number of birds, and in | turn the cattle ticks increased and became j a nuisance. Now the^ ticks are worrying ( the mongoose by getting into his ears, whence the intruder cannot easily be dis- • lodged. j Speaking at Cheviot on Wednesday, the Premier, referring to the Shops and Offices _ Act, said he thought there was going to ! be revolution after last session, but they had now gone into things very carefully, . and everyone seemed to be happy. He al- < luded to the memorable meeting in Wei- , lington, "and be hanged if they did not hoot me," he said. Formerly had sung "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." But I laughed them out of it. I said, ; 'You are in a mess, and you can't get | out of it without me.' He declared that j Messrs Duthie and Aitken were* stirring | up the trouble. The shopkeepers were j now falling on each other's nacks, and he i supposed wie next time he met them they would again sing, Tor He's a Jolly Good ] Fellow.'" ' ! A party s of tDoukhobors who arrived in ! London last month from Russia are the j remnants -of the sect invited by the Oana- j dian Government about two years ago to settle in Canada. The Doukhobors believe in the., second coming of the- Mes- j siah, and are at times' given to vagaries which have slightly astonished the more ' sober settlers of other climes. A few weeks ago 2000 of these religious enthusiasts in Canada completely disrobed them- j selves in the market square and set out on , a hundred mile march to meet a great | prophet who, one of their priests had ' foretold, was coming-to greet them. The ; march was immediately stopped ; by a num- j ber of mounted police. Those of the sect ' recently in London were under tiie charge j of a white-haired patriarch named' Jamncy I PhiKpopsfey. They were eagerly looking forward to their arrival at their new home in Canada. . A point of considerable interest regard- _ ing the law of trespass by bookmakers at race meetings came up during the hear- , ing ofitheinformations laid by the Jockey Club against metallicianß at the Police Court on Tuesday, says the Cftristchurch • Press. A bookmaker has a Common Law right to go on the racecourse. To constitute a trespass it has been laid down that he must be twice warned after starting to bet. If the first warning is given before betting begins, and only one after, the trespass cannot be proven. During •tihe course of a certain case Mr Day said it was as well that a warning should be given every time the bookmaker was seen betting. This would cut the defence referred to from under the feet of the bookmaker. One defendant admitted that before betting he deliberately waited until he had been warned. Mr Day: "I give this as a hint to the men whose duty it is to warn the bookmakers." Mr Harvey : "I hope your Worship will not give them «nr more hints. They know top much alrVady." *Mr Day: "In the public.mtewrta, Jf r Harvey, the more hint* they get ttte better."

"The business of the country is conducted by two methods — bribery-and bullying." — Mr Massey at Pakekohe.

Two Chinamen were arrested on Sunday morning at Christchurch on a charge of having opium in thetr possession lor smoking purposes.

"A person unknown" has been stricken with lOd worth of remorse, and, as the Gazette records, has forwarded the amount to the Railway* Department as "conscience money."

Some very large blocks of white kauri gum have been unearthed in the Kai Iwi district, Northern Wairoa. Some fortunate diggers found 14cwt in one pocket, 10ft below the surface.

MR STEVENS' STORY.

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