LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Subscribers and , advertisers will please note that ther© will' be no issue of the Hawera Star on Good Friday and Easter Monday. "Do- you speak Maori?" asked the opposing couneel of a native debtor at the Hawera Court on Tuesday morning. On Tuesday afternoon (aays a Press Association telegram from Wellington) a fire was discovered in the hold of the Tyser steamer Mimiro now loading a homeward cargo at the wharves. The outbreak was promptly extinguished by the or>ew. The fire originated in some hemp which had been sifipped at Auckland. About eight balfiS were charred and 28 bales damaged by water. ' Those interested are finally reminded of the meeting to be held m the Fire Brigade Hall this evening to consider the advisability of forming an Association Football Club in Hawera. * The game is making excellent progress in .Northern Taranaki, where there are already some five or six clubs in existence. One of the •main objects of,,tlje formation of a olul. here is to provide an outdoor game in the football line for those who get their halfholiday on Wednesdays,' and who consequently are now debaiwed ■ from joining the Rugby Club. A large meeting is anticipated. The 1 Tarauaki HeraJd reports that a local trader was victimised on Saturday, nig-t by a- simple confidence trick. A man. entered his shop and tendered a cheque dirawa on. a. Napier bank and bearing the signature, or what purported to be the signature, of a well-known Napier gentleman;, in payment of the account of a local solicitor due to the trader. The latter wondered "at a stranger paying the awount, but was assured that the solicitor was ill in bed and had commissioned the stranger to pay. The account was duly receipted aad £4 change given. This morning the tTader met the solicitor andi enquired about his health. Explanations followed, f«>m which it appeara that the stranger must have entered the solicitor's, office and found the account. The matter is* now m the hands of the police. A similar swindle is. reported to have occurred in Masterton recently. The Japanese express disapproval of a play, not by hissing, but by turning their, backs to the stage.

Arrangements am being m.ide to form ! an Amateur Theatrical Club in Hawera. Judging from the talent already available the club aliouW be able to give a good account of itee-lf. . * Seven thousand thiee hundred .attendances hare been recoroed at the Municipal Baths this season. On* Knndred and seventy-six season tickets were issued. The receipts for the season, £66 18s, are £1 better than la&t season. At Hokitika on Tuesday. evening a dwelling, house, owned by W. jffihibten and occupied by A. D. Macßsifene, w^s completely gutted. The» was no insurant on the house. -__> I On Tuesday morning the headmaster of the pubhc school took paina 'to find out how many pupils had; learheajto iwim this season, and ascertained tihat 47 had acI quired the useful ,'art, injost-, of -course. [ as the result of attending the municipal baths. I .The nominations for the Egmont Racing Club's winter meeting on May 2 and 3 fiiftt May 9 and 1Q as stated in Toesdays issue) or© less -than las* yeatfe. there being a faffing off. of' 72." It "should be borne in m&d, however, that" last year's w<»i* exceptionally 'swg* -Tnis~yeaA are very good, averaging 15 horses in each race. A .press .telegram fuqm - Dunedin state* > -that on the tbe exp.ress from OKnstchiirch Betebtivjes Ctonnolly'ahd Mitchell arrested a young, woman named •Lilian MoMahon on. a •^harge of stealing £69 in. gold and no^es, Hob property of .^fr-. Caitb«rin&,Bnokky, a boarding-house keeper 'ai Lytte^on. "I us^d ,to f j?e opposed ,io.it, M , said the Mayor. (Mr Bobbins), in'JbgaJdng at the Swimming Club's social; oTJJBdb petition to ■the' Borough Council to aQoV- svrimxaers t# bja,tlie.. without trunks, '/but I .have been converted- and £he]^st£i^& r it,.wjas;brouglrt< I forward I supported it. ~^e^ v hammering ■ away/ arid some day, .p^rnipa, you will gain H favor at" "the Cotmcil table, and fcnen Mr Stevens will be a happy man." The new Methodist Chardh will be opened on Good Friday, the'idedication I taking place at 3.30. p.m. The sermon I will tie delivered by tile JUsr. J. J. Lewis, .of Auckland, who ie described as "the oratoi-" of the Mettifldist Churdh. He will be assisted by the Rev. 8. Gibson, T. G. I Hammoud, 4 J. p. Chapman,^ajnd.B. Hadj 'don. A tea nsP^g v»UI b© ' held from five to seyen. at -idiicii adßris^es Will -.he -.given.- hy <yisitmg^mnw(i(t)ei©*a«M : "music . by, a., full, choir., . -^ An ad«3ortisem«nt. i«ip*«u® Un<..ihts > issue that there are over 180 ol tbeee machines - at ' in' New Zttfed^tSa&yV' The fpHowing.is. an opihiw^fnom a -leading - M» r *^f^ (H? of Cajinperdown): sut ..L^^neijee^Ken-neay-Gill:es macfiines aire <kaßgsp&n&&bf, more so -season thab"is«i; f&e cows , being more used 'to tkoßto. She: improved t,macb#ie ls, f a, ggf/d milker, .easily leaned, •' and non-in]^ridus to .the, om, besides beI ing a big saver of *vnt&' Half tlie , labor. I milß'over 200 emr& in 2^ hours | with six handsi wAenaas^'tl-eimployedlZ previously. Vory few icowaigo wrong in th<>ir quarters;. for ev)ray.,.ca»,l hairo now i I had ten by hand-inilßng.*' " At the Court' on TuraSay nwrnine there were two applications " lar •' prohibttion ord«ei», .In. the first caseia^oung -wife appeared, with a. baby lax anns, and asked • for the Tdnewal , of a« «rc^r .againefc her husbflhd, who, since 4ba expiration jof t-fce ordev, showed that ba had -nofc' re'J^rmed. A renewal .was granted. -.TbarsecoZ^Gaee was,_ onerin whicK- a pTpmineat p^dhibitionißifc,applied, for aoi'nrder against an elderly' man who was employed as a driver .^ The -applicant, stated ffiafc.^a' defendant asked, him if he woulii take ith© order out and the appHcaot ootosented. Later the . man returned and asked that i.-c order be made for six months, not la.monifchs. The man, he said, was a '(real godcf man, a competent man with- horses and-a fiTst-ckes driver, but the drink int^rfenpd . with his work. The respondent now objected to the order being made and said that if he were prohibited he would be prevented from going into an hotel even when he wae i driving out of town. Mr TusrnbuU, S.M., | suggested that the case stand down for a j month and ii the,deiensaßt dad tw*fc ke«p steady, the, application oouJd A bje ,then. Te>newed. The applicant UMama&A- that he would endeavor to persuade •the' respomden'b to .join, the Good Temjigaje' >Leg|ge> and agreed to adopt the Ma£issra&e's suggesX10u« In the, course of his x speech at 'Timaru the -other night the 'Pvsmier'descrdbeci a. combine that existed in GhrusUihu'rch.'limiting, the.sale and .keeping. np.ttfaa price of fisjh, which had prevented a v aupply of fish from being -profitably' brought from the Chathams, "where tKe seae were beaming. If that sort of thLng should ootrfdnrae, v h« woaild not consider it outi'of>piati6i-fOT,th.e Governmenit to start n^hr§hoj»j-(]aiughl*T and,. applause)— with Pariiame^airv fjskuig boat-s and nets, to overcome' such obstacles as the Christchurch fish' combine. They had close to TimaiTu two spJeaud^a freezing wprks, and the colobv was dotted with •the like, all sending Home th»..besfc =mutton, and it was being sold at Home cheaper than in Timaru. (Applause.) The surplus musfc be exported, but was a pfoy that they had to pay- more >here for what, to put its mildly,' was not the best of the meat. It must be due to a "combination" of some kind. And it was not het yond the duty of the Governmentto establish, if .necessary, butchere' shops. (Laughter and applause.) His remarks might be open to adverse ; but wae it not a sensible idea that the State should in- -.. terfere to prevent improper interference with the natural price* of .the, necessaries of life of the workers? The way his remarks had been received told him that his hearers saw that there woe something -good in. them.