LOCAL AND GENERAL/

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9067, 12 April 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL/

The Customs Department supplies the following figumes for ,th|ei exports from faranaki ports during March:— Agricultural Products: New Plymouth—Butter 12 000cwt (£56,444); cheese, 1874cwt (£4685). Patea— Butter, 8817cwt (£43,201); cheese, 5487c\vit (£3,1,522); frozen mutton, 17 terekes>, totalling 9cwt (£14) ; frozen lamb, 1190 carcases, • totalling 363 cwt (£77). -** ' , ■- „ - An auction sale of sections was held in Wilson street, on Wednesday afternoon, when the property of Mr -F. S," "Cooper was offered. A street has been cut through, and splendid sections of fr'q'uarter of an acre each obtained; There .^as a fair attendance, but the reserve was reached in only two instances, Mr E: liucena being the purchaser. Beginning at' thersections facing the road, one reached '• £92, and that at the corner of Wilson 'and Cooper streets was withdrawn. a£ ; £102. Proceeding further back the sections "were withdrawn- at £92, £92, £90, £$, £88, £88 The homestead with, tforee-duartera of an acre reached £775. The section behind was sold for £90; tine next wag withdrawn at £91, and the following one sold for £90. The agents, Messri> • Atkinson and Jay, report that a good enquiry ha* set in for sections since the sale!' ■ The headmaster of the Napier school (Mr J. Hislop) has reported to Ms committee on -the question/ of. 1 ' uniformity in sclkx>l books'. A uniform set of school books, he says, is hot advisable. -.The whole trend of thought ''in the educational world is to get away from stereotyped methods, and to encourage individual development in the teacher- and in ■the pupil This is practically the aim of the syllabus uinder which, we are* now working, and to bind teachers thjfoughoiuft the color.y" ' to - one set. - of^books would simply have the opposite effect to that desired. On the other hand, from t!he parents' . point of view, it sometimes be- ; comes a great hardship when they move froai one part of- the colony to another, ; and probably have, to purchase fresh sets of books for the children in -each district I Addressing a Maori gathering at T« | Hauke, Mr Fraser, M.H.Ik, : touched oh i the question of native representation in Parliament, and urged that serious consideration should, be given to the,question as to whether it was not in the beat " interests of the race that special' represen- •- tat-ion be abolished. At""piresenf : "the natives were represented by four -member^ as against seventy-isix 1 European.- Representatives, and under- these circumstances they could not expect that measurer, of retention and justice that must inevitably accrue to them if each member, of the House represented, inter alaa, Maori con- ' stituents. He' suggested, they sJßould apf proach. Parliament and ask fchat'aa a first ; step in this dare'ation a Maori roll be com : piled for the elections, leaving it to the natives themselves to decide whether thejf would enrol- with the Europeans or re* main Maoris. This experiment, tlhe speaker felt sure, woul demonstrate to Parliament that the wish s of the" great majority of the Maoris was to be treated as Europeans.' " • \ It is not often that a case of the following nature i is met with. ' A Taranaki resident had a judgment obtained against him in the court 'for debt,- but failed to liquidate- the debt and was ordered b^the^ Court to .pay up or spend a week lm Jhe New Plymouth gaol. He apparently made. jto effort to pay but appToacbad'and eveai woixied' the local- police officer to take" him to New Plymoiitih. and allow him tjo "do his Weeks and get it over.'" He explained that' employment" at which he in£ tended spending. the winter was about to open, and he wanted <to go to gaol at once | co as to "be certain of .not being disturbed 1 a in His wor£ with a risk to him of losing the job. At length a day wob mu£uallyj arranged by the constable' an^^'^Wdebifer to make the journey *o New Ply^nouitiH; The latter .amved in town' on' the appoiidt- • ed,, day, accompanied ■by his' wife 1 to see [ him off, but luck was against him as, the constable, was delayed on very important I bTOipess.' The' disappoMed.^btor,. evidentl^^de^ternuoied' riotfc to"*alfow r . his. pl^w to" Be % interfered'with moTe^hai* possifele?' pnt up at- an hotel in the tovrin :* lift It£e constable was ready. Eventually' huSrwish' was gratified-^-he did his "vreek^" ' ? " • Gas Company's last discount day on Tuesday, 17.th inst. • • ' '• " . It is notified tlhat offertories in Anglican Church, Waimate district, on Easter Sunday, will be handed to the curate. BHEUMATIC STTFEREBS. Many sufferers from rheumatism have been' surprised and delighted at the prompt relief obtained by applying Chamberalin's Pain Balm. -In advising you to use Chamberlain's Pain Balm for Rheumatism, we know it will give you perfect satisfaction, as the "first application will relieve the pain, and'its continued us© for a short' time will effect a cure.. For sale by W. X ' Wallace, chemist, and H. E. Harris, grocer. — Advt. .

Subscribers and advertisers will please note that there will be no issue of the Hawbra Star on Good Friday and Easter Monday. The Public Library will be closed tomorrow (Good Friday) also on Easter Monday. The public school breaks up to-day for the EasteT holidays. The school rec-peoa on Monda.y ; 23rd insfc. "It's just another case of Mrs and Mr Caudle," complained a husband in the Lhristchurch Court, when his wife applied for a separation order on the ground of cruelty. "It's a case of pitiless and re lentless nagging," he went on. in a grieved and tared voice; "I get it 'every meal, I'm sent to bed with it, and I wake up with it in the morning." The Magistrate granted the order. Land booming was a curs© to the colony, said the Premier in # recent speech. He .warned. the people that there was booming going on .in rural and, urban lands, 'and booming meant ft burst. Framed photographs of the New Zea> land football team are to be presented to Mr Rhodes, , Christchnrchi, President of the New Zealand Rugby Union, arid • ,tfoe four selectors of the team : Messrs Harris (Ot&go), Evans (Canitrbuiy), Faoho (Wellington), and AH. Bayly (Taranaki).