LOCAL AW GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9068, 14 April 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AW GENERAL.

Constable Clark resumed duty on Thursday after bang laid up for abovft ttisee months owing to an injury to the lower part of his leg. "Accountant" writes: "Re my letter on the subject of Mr Gibbs' statement about bank charges, I wrote '5s per cent./ not as printed, '5 per cent.,' which may be taken to read as 'JBS per cent.' "

Services in connection with the ope"hing of the new Methodist Church in flawera. will be conducted to-morrow by the R-ev J. G. Chapman, of Wanganui. Special music will be- rendered by the choir. These will be the first Sunday services in the new Church.

The Ruapehu, which left Wellington for London' on Thursday, - took 15,613 boxes of butter and 4392 of cheese. The butter includes over 8000 cases from New Plymouth, 3000 from Wellington, and 3000 from Patea. The bulk of the cheese, over 20CO boxes, is from the Bluff, and 1400 boxes are from Wellington.

Mr J. Craig McKerrow, of Wellington, has purchased the Tiraumea estate (Eketahuna district). The estate comprises 10,100 acres. The price paid, including the stock, is reported to be £51,000. The property has been Under offer to the Government, aud it is iinderstcod that its purchase ,for close fce^leriiierilt was reconv mended by the Land Purchase Board.

. An interesting fact in connection with railway construction was mentioned by the Minister for Public Works to the Cheviot •settlors who took charge of him on his recent to McKenzie. He stated that thirty -six years ago there were only forty-, six miles of railway open in the colony, but^to-day^tbere are 2400 miles. This record of construction is regaaxled by the Minister with pardonable pride.

During March, the Labor Department assisted 730 unemployed, of whom 174 were married. Of these 139 were sent to private employment and 591 to Government works. Of those assisted 81 were from Australia and 52 from Great Britain. *

So far as the export trade is concerned, the butter season has practically closed. The Ruapehu's shipment on Thursday will probably be- the last of any dimensions. Most cf the butter that is now arriving in Wellington is going into store for the winter.

Rev. Gibson announced on Friday night that a> great number hail requested that the "Messiah" should be repeated, and this had been agreed to. The committee have arranged witlh Mr Hamilton Hodges to take part. It i£ expected to take "place al.out the first week of next month.

Beauty shops are to be found in every street to-day. It is not generally known that the oldest .one in the world was. kept! by the monks of the Santa Maria Novella convent in Florence four hundred yeaars ago. Famous for beauty balms andi perfumery, it was patronised by Popes, princes and dukes, and all the recipes were made from herbs cultivated in the convent gardens. There were waters 1 for whitening and softening the skin, cures for tooth and other aches. Even the health and beauty of fh» hair ■were studied . hy~ these old monks, who were at once doctors, chemists, and perfumers, and whose work was the cultivation of human healifcn - and beauty. The orris powder of Santa, Maria Novella is the finest in the world.

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool has (says the Times) issued a pastoral letter to hie clergy on the subject of church music. He says he has come to the conclusion that the most satisfactory way of promoting the ideas of the Holy Father is (to issue a Hast of approved church music, to be made ooiigatory at all church services, and 1 to forbid the use at any religious service "whatsoever held in any public or s convent church or chapel of the diocese of any music which i& not found on .this approved' list, or which in future has mot been specially approved by the Diocesan Commission. The singing of solos must, by direction of the Holy Father, now cease. As to instrumental music, the organ may be used, and on some. special occasions other instruments, but never "without ithe special license of the Ordinary. It as understood that all the music on the Bishop's lost is new; these is not a single mass by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Gounod, Hummel, Schubert, or any of the so-calfed theatrical composes*.

Another case of scarlet fever has been reported at Eltham. La the course of a. conversation this morjqag'fsays the Stratford Post of Thursday), with! Mr F. B. Gardiner, Government Sanitary Inspector fo* Taramaki, a reporter "wds informed tkat six cases of J scarlet fever 'were now under treatment, ion? coming from, .Eltham one from Ngaire, and two from Stratfordf The Eltham and Ngaire cases were under treatment at the' HaWra Hospital, and the Stratfforii ones were'ie&!at£f ldiaßy. The Inspector added that no' SmxM' the disease was being kept alive in ihe' district by the' failure to report cases, and h&had good reason to believe there "ttere unreported cases. If any, suen v were discovered,. . proceeding© woul^'be taken, by the Health Department. fn ott^ places he had! known of case© of c&il&r^' who'yrnite 'actually 1 peeling tferd afokJ^'tiKooT and milkiiig. "Ear maiiy inSbiifod*," odntantted Mr Gardiner, "where fher.- attack*' afre ■ slight,, medical, aid ifc.inot .called' -in, amd .very inefficient precautions are, taken/ to minimise the risk of infection/, wbic|ft is ( a« great witK a^sMht as .wife* a severe^ cape. Anxiety to avoid 1 tihe t&uffie'and'eixp&ise isolation would' involve largely for the 1 ' failure ti& repbft cases. Whenever a medical man' is* called in" the •case, is duly reported., and' $he officers- of the department are enablexj^tp take proper precautions to preraxt the. spread of the disease. AH' their eoorts however are nuUined"whenthey : i& n©t"ac^uki»&a •with the' existence' of the dJs%se". L ' H&Vy penalties are' provided' in .sucTt cases', but lit i 6 very difficult to obtaitt 'evidence." BY THE RIVER BANK-. "Ihaye used your Impey^May Apple , with'great success. Sonje time ago I was suffering acutely wifcE bilious, tuck headaches. I used a few doßeo.'oflnipey'B May -Apple with" excellent results. ; A*m ple&»ed to say have had no rffetu-rhi' of €Be trouble- since.''— J. RbbtnSon, storekeeper, River Bank, uangariui ' . Storekeepem as, -well aa chemists caray a large and varied stock of .med^oinee. • 1 When a storekeeper picks out .a Remedy from the nundreds on hm shelf for has j own use, there' is aareifiiW^ He is a f busy 1 man, afrd must tßerefdM" M^e i &se% that will cure whale you wait. Ana 1 Inipey'e May Apple will* dto tine, v Cures whether, sleeping, waking or working. 2s .611 bdttffe;-, Shaiftand'and Co., Ltd., wholesale agents Mr R. Fortune had ataTCetr business in Ha wera' .as. a' machinist, &BWWSt. &pert. He has secured commodious premises next to Messrs GiUies arid' NaMter*s, and in- » stalled a plant suitable for turning' out | first-class wofck. ; Messrs Nolan, Tonks arid Co dell stock at Mantua on April 17: Mr H. jr. Eaves, Otafoefco, draws attention to his new stocks of i&nswtovers and oats. ' :