LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9065, 10 April 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Patea Sportsman" eends us a paragraph for publication. The name of the sencter should have been forwarded as a guarantee of good faith. Mr C. Goodson has in his garden' a beautiful collection of ■chrysanthemums. One 'large white' one of the Miss May Seddon variety is a particularly fine specimen. ' It measures fully deven inches •across.

Eumor has it that two of tlie "ABblacks" are about to take up residence in Okaiawa, namely, Mynott and Abbott. Thp latter, it is said, has accepted employment there, and overtures are being made, the rumor proceeds, to Mynott to open a business in the town.

A team of Hawera- footballers has decided to enter for the seven aside tournafment at Eltham on Easter Monday. The following are the playere : Forwards, •H^ Whittiiiigton, J. Glenn, and H. Goodwin; backs, Xj. Beamish, A. Goodwin, T. A. Blyth. and J. Colman. The team is a pretty light one, but fairly fast., and should give a good account "of itself.

Charles and Lilla Watson, who were arrested in Hawera on Saturday last on charges, of stealing sums totalling £9 6s from Rasmussen's boarding-house; Patea. were brought before Mr Turnbull, S.M., at Patea on. Monday, and found guilty. The male accused strongly denied tinat the woman was in any way guilty, and asked that lie be dealt wifch leniently, as it was the first time he bad been in trouble. The man was sentenced to four and the woman to two months' hard labor.

The new brick building on the south side of Higlr street has been leased by Mr A. Blair, who, on Thursday last, opened aoi ironmongery business. Mr Blair has a full stock of furnishing ironmongery, builders ironmongery, farm tools, bushmen's tools, and requisites for the shooting season. The shop occupies a central position and is well lighted and being commodious the stock can be displayed to great advantage. Having been eight and a-half years in business in Hawera,- with Mr Wrigley, Mr Blair has gained a thorough knowledge of the trade requirements of the town and district and his stock will be found to be very complete. The shop is being connected with the telephone exchange (No. 106).

An incident has been reported to the Southland Times which shows how careful one "should be in 'handling domestic pets, especially the household cat. One case' of diphtheria was reported to the Inivercajgill Health Officer during March, and i lie medical attendant and Health -Officer, after investigation, came to the condlisibn that the patient, a child, caught '•the disease from the feline pet,- which he had been in the habit of fond King. Pussy died just about the .time of the outbreak', and a post mortem disclosed the fast that diphtheria was the cause of death. It is no uncommon thing for cats to contract this disease, so owners should keep a wary •eye on the health of the cupboard protector. Experienced bodice hand wanted at the Economic. v

Luck has been agakjefc the iocal footballers who were wishing to practice to be fit to meet Kia Toas an Saturday next, two wet Saturdays in succession being encountered. Last Saturday a practice was obtained, but there wsa «u3y a fair muster. The team chosen to oppose the Palmereton fiftean is : W. Cowpeir J. Colman, Andrew Hunter, A. Goodwin, L. Beamish, H. Ckxxiwin, R. Sp-ratt, J. Glenn, S. Baird, G. VffiarF, Bassett, H. Whittington, F. TurnbuM, F. Baird. and J. Cowpear.

At the Wiestport golf Jinhs on Saturday afternoon Mr MacWey, a member of the club, was engaged cuttdiAg out the 6tump of an old rate txee, and strildng something hard wit-h the axe, made an investigation, and found embedded an the roots of the tree, and a foot below the surface of the ground, a piece of a sharp Maori greenstone axe. How long this relic of a bygone age had been secreted there it would be hard to say, for the broken part had a time-worn- appearance. Mr Mackley was of the opinao» that' a Maori, in the far-back days, had 'broken the axe when cutting the tree, and that he bad been unable to extract the broken piece. The edge of the axe w^ .unusually sharp. The relic, with the his&ry 1 ot ife discovery, would (says the Westport' News) form on interesting exhibit for the Christchurch International Exhibition.

It may be remembered (says the Dunedin Star) that last year • the" -agents' of two New Zealand steamers trjsd the experiment of temporarily div.ertkig .them from the New Zealand trade during .the "off season," and sending tfiiem over to the Australian ports to iHt - whatever cargo might be offering- for :*bs' United Kingdom or the Continent. , . Some, .interest was &- roused by the new depWiure' ' and those who we>e "outside tKe" kifioW ° nfcturaHy wondered what fortune attended the enterprise. ' One. of these, vwfeelg, the-Ma-mari, being in pott, the <n>ijprtunity for making enquiries presented ftself.' It was learned that 'the steamer shipped one of the most valuable cargoes ever exported from Sydney. It comprised oire, wool, copra, bark, lead, and timber. ' The wool alone was valued at' '£300,060. A- very interesting' j3e*nliSny v Wok place at Russell, Auckland]' on Thuisday when one of the guns belonging to the H.M.S. Hazard, which was ufeed tffrainat'the Maoris in. defence of ir Karorares£. daring Here's m 'frout^f thefpStlc- hßt^dSK feast •had' \m& p*lpared."by ifc^^ffipes? ,{& food? being cooked' in^the cl* Maori style sqnd,. seTyea. -out in BBj^H-fbx Bfejtte«s,,aß was. ' usual fin the < 3^C^^a^L , T^^f^Aiy^ carried i out • accorau^i.<^9d <Msaim custom. Mr Horace IWft1 Wft j tjCMtj, chdir•Una Judge Jones, of the Ifasive Laiufa Court, Ho Hotijfene, XaßfiP*>wani, aid Mita'Wepiha addvesߧa ther'^Wteria^'in suitiable; .Na^g^jpaSc : ®urop«an» from all parts' of the dma^^flaiherecT here to take part in tlw fmUjeraoxffaß^eTOl huijr dred being present. Bgfoft" IKo "people dispersed the gun was fW*d, r "wMch'bfough* to a close a most ißtecre^tingi cy v eafc. Locajl hockey players hai^fc^m, spending the short time at taeia 1 dwposaa since the ground was' available" pr^t«iHg assiduously in .pxepafatdon! for thtir meeting I v?ith .the Palmeiston OM Boj« team here on^ Saturday next. A yery ." gqod j practicel was held on Satvurday aftiernoop, the team" composing one side ' aind~ ' ! the other. Ib was v'*ry i#iidc>uragtog to i note that although one' ctr t3H»;oJdr players ! were absent;,, the team dispjbjred much of that combination for which it acquied ; some' fame. The fiaal eeSectioii;; has^ot I yet been made but- the? t*ain r will 1 be picked from, the following,:, Stfocker, Swij* biirne, W'hiltoker, SaDrgeat», Welham, 1 Thompson, ,PScat^, k McCarthy, N. Caplen, Wood, l)ingl|'sSii3 K WigglM. The left' half posdtioh hari ' xiWvie^TSeea I " filled, Thompson, Dingle and Wiggins being the players from among whom the half will come. ■ - • The annual, meeting/ of tbsk Ta;ranaki Hockey Association 4 w£fr.be held "at' New Plymouth on the lSMTftiefc'" The annual report states' that the M&^coemetaft • Committee was engaged durisj£*ti}e,,year with the consideration Qf { ,the, v ßrgtest,of the Cao'rin'gton Road Club agauisi ' toe New' Plymouth Club, which '-^Bl ifi I ' favor of the latter. - The commitWjVQaltts dot' the necessity- for the amen^meiu) s>f- v^rioue rnjei, . Thf prpj^" of. Be^ne^^re^ tative team. to< Auckknd . MI through for want of "support. naki noatch was played J ajtJ^'BSwete,. and resulted in a win for TsStßZ^kJr; The Nc^herachampionehip^tjraa^jwMi by New Plymouth, ami the Southern by Haw«ra. In the .play-off Hawera /woa eas&y, . Five teams nominated for the Northern division', and two for the Soutbeafe; ( The Executive recommends that tbo two divisions amalgamate for the ''forthcoming season. The veport concludes wij^ an. exprossioitt of pleasure at the uicreafiihg number of players. The balance-sheet" fhows a credit balance of £6 3s lid. Interviewed by a rapo&or. waiVa request "for particulars. of the work already done by the recently appointed . Aotea Maori Land Board, Mr T. W.. ' Fisher said that the Ohutu Block, which is veefced in the Board and is situated <xa the Wangamii River, containing 80,000 acres, was dealt with by the Board at its Wanganui sittings, and applications for leases- have now been accepted for over om»-'half of the area. In regard *o the improvements in the Act of <last session, as compared, with the "Act of 1900, Mr Fisher said the greatest advantage is iso [connection "with the leasing. Applications' for leases can be much more promptly dealt with by the Board under the new Act. Already greater activity is being manifested ioi the taking up of Maori land oa^leQee, and the ! competition ds keener. A^'to -the. work done by the Bbaiird, though it only started; on the. 27t>h of last -month it had granted twenty Leasee. The Board has also, had before it seven applications for either, removal of restrictions or exemption ,frbjri the operation of section 117 of -fcbia Native Land Court 'Act of 1894, and. certain imfLndshed transactions left over by, the Maori Land Council have been completed. . . Mr Fisher .said' the trouble in the past of 'the' natives to approach the Maori Land Council with the view of • -having their lands dealt with. .They often feared the cost of administration, but under the Act of last year the cost of administration cannot exceed five per cent on the rental received^ The'aiew Board arranges for the survey, which is another improvement. Leading English Fire Insurance Co. invites applications for the position of representative for this distoiot. Gillies land Nalder have, three straight leases for sale, no goodwßl.J. H. Kidd advertises tomatoes for sauce-making for sale. Brown mare lost, reward. Mr G. H. Gibson yrefilk.. 'owner for a block' ma-re brought to bis stables "with new saddle on.