LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9187, 6 September 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' ». *. 'jt #* . ,-• "* The Hibernian Society's social has been ' postponed. The Rev. Father Duffy has beer; ap- • ! ; t PWate4.p^ris|i f |^est at.Pa^ea., CoDßtable Heddler arrived from Wanga- £ nui on Wednesday night to take up duties 1 in Hawera. | The Auckland Association football team ' played a match against a Hawera team . at Bayly Park on Wednesday afternoon. r Auckland won by 6 goals to 2 goals, but f, Hawera put up a game fight The AuckJ landers were very fleet, and, of couirse, . had combination and conditikm. They : heartily congratulated Hawera on their ? play, and some of them affirmed the local ' players gave them a harder struggle than . the Taranaki reps, did, at Kaponga. The I -Hawera team wa& composed largely of . juniors. Mr Mayall, manager of the Auck- . land team, refereed. The team .left for 1 homo by Wednesday night's mail train. 2 About 200,000 sheep pass each year from 5 the country' north of the Waiau to the Canterbury markets. This is typical fatl toning country, but the sheep depreciate > so much on the journey of three days > with only spaxse food that they arrive at r the railhead in "store" condition. Some- ) times large mobs have to wait days at a $ stretch to get across the river. A Cheviot ) farmer told Mir Hall- Jones that the differL ence between the value of a fat sheep at Cheviot and a "store" at Cnlverden was i 4s, so the loss to the farmers, if only half I their surplus were fat, would amount to • £20,000 a year.

A reminder is given of Messrs Gillies and Nalder's spring horse fair, which opens at 9 a.m. to-morrow and continues on Saturday. Large entries, including pome of especially good breeding, have been received. Clients are therefore asked to have their entries yarded early. The Stratford Post says' that in consequence of the scarcity of milkers in that district several farmers have invoked' tie assistance of the Jjalor Department, and its local agent, Constable Ryan, and secured a number of men in Wellington ior work in the Stratford district. A country clergyman's work is indi-\ oated by the expedience of Rev. H. T.'V/ Bawnsley on Ta&day~'. --At 10 a.m. he had -/ a wedding to celebrate at ManiM road, 10 miles north of Opuaake; at 2.30 p.m v . another at Ma'hbe."- • -TtiW -erigagemen6£"l^ involved a drive' of forty -miles. Mean-^v' time he had been'^askecf to fake a funeral service at- Opuiwike tSie" sattie afternoon, but was unable to do sol ,t; " . That the, extra cost of ' living should be met by increased wages by those employed in clerical duties has, been .recognised by at least one leading commercial institution. The 7 annual report of the Bank of New Zealand states ,-,tiat . the increase in expenditure .is partly diw 1 to "additions to salaries rendered necessary by the increas-ed-cost of living*.". In speaking to 1 the \ report at the annual meeting,- .Mr Benni- ■ ker, one of the shareholders,' supported tlje action of tta directors in the, matter, -" expressing 'himaeli to tlje.eflect ,tihat officers ; "should have a salary which .should enable them to live in a- better state than they '• ''A Tasmafida farmer^ visiting s '^Victoria writes 1 to th^'BauiSc^onGoTirief: Of all 'tile good laild.l cafte over there .none was better than that found in the A J WeSt«m ffisiri<&,'^^'s#etfcE'lor spleifdid fcoil/ whicK^oonitJrißei "ClSn^exclowh,- Cofec, iantf< W&raifitomi^ -TbisM iFi*noift douit some of the richest soil'' : oi(e H '-" has seen', - btft- the pric« f ai^'y' utikva one Ihuider. Only think of- a f p66r falser HJaritfg id pay any price 5 pi^'ifefc 1 tibA* £60'tt>> £100? "Rent 'in the fooai&.f"Jßi'ci course", etfeeed.^ly^h%hi'an*'l^«^^v«l *£c peo£fe pay at much -as' 1 ■$# -26 oo^'fier* actfe fot grizmg land only fe' than 'one can tfntteifctand., Y-e^Kfrge 1 ' nuinbSftH'of cows are ( beii£g milked <&& s laiid? 1 refifc» ~at the .' prices *am6d: Tti& VeeK v Kefore ; I was \ at" W&Vrriahibool a'farm'oi'ttkPacree agri- ' ;<^tUTai land was solff 4 at 1 JBloo* per^'acre. While I have not sem be&er' lalnd, I fail to see how it is 'worfli' £100 per acre. ', - ■,--} „-• ■ .f-' ' . -'•■> ..A,, Timaru t»legrajji- says t— At- the Jlagistrate's Court L qn?iMonday, '^Captain , Milne, of s.s. Tweeddate > -was fined '£25 for- bringing an Tineattstoaned vbicycle aAhoje here. The, charge *ja& Ssia&ibyi Mr Nixon, Qollector of- Qustomaj under: 1 section 210 of 0 the Customs ;? £a.-ysf3 €sonsd3idati6n Act, 1,882/ -XJaptain Milne' admitted'a^technieal , breach, but .-sa^ he }ia4 .-broken the> law quite unwittingly., . Heofcad owned the bicycle- .in;\questipßr for. -years, - and had; 'ridden .&■ uuvajl parts,*! of the world without e^pe(c^encipf. any^rouWe from, the C)ustoms Department. • 'When his boat left Timaru on .the ,la^t voyage he left 'the ,bicycle behind for 'intending to get it on- his return trip, but found on arrival it- had been, seized ■ by tihe Customs. Mr Nixon- said tlhe Customs !}<£>_>. partanent had reaWi-jSo .believe jsihip's <X^f , fleers >>had <m^ several r -occasions • .ta^en bicycles .to ■ Timaru , and left them there, no *duty being paid, and, the Bicycle in question bad- beeni^ lef£ without . his authority. The Migiefcrate said: he .had no option in the' mattery and; imposed £he minimum fine. - The bicycle: was confiscated. .* .■ > - ' .. r '' , i«oU«rn? b^ll-irdbm? tnatioexs coft^ Utfde¥"'rev^T. Si' 4h#' ptthiic pfifiW. eifinsiobAfircn Truth' iM'TM&f- been'odto^ rtigntiigupontjrieM. Q^kriolißof competent critics' we^toagliij^^'v4)ifi'cf*« 1<»talfe' to many oT^lte 'ftie^feifttas of - "social functiona." "To<fa,y," remairked o£el^£y,"y»tt Bee' pllntjjf I&«'#Si6 hxti 'Very ,f^r gracee',' and 'impudence wi'l - off ■ ft»"g>)6a ' b*eeaii^ if it be aufficfently hatw&o&f-ft'* u l aay," venttered a gentleman of the^old school, "that 'polite socdety'-i^-noW'ijwa&lSsa by a vulgar "and atfrogfuntf bogus society which belongs to no fefaas. '- W't& idle-, to ignore ■faots, and the facft is thfii 1 ' modern coiameTcialism and 'indukirialism has given ri&i to a new and exceedingly' "objection-- - •We class wMoh I call the 'wealthy lower order — a -class withoujti breeding, without refinement, w^>Ko4i ejegant manners or deJicacy of mind, a c^a« which, in spite of ' evil manners and woqnee taste, has ritea. up bjr its purse,' a cWas' which worships the geM calf .because that; is the only thing that appeals to it — the only thing it uiKierotands'.", A correspondent of the Wanganni Chronicle -says :— londe'«^netfd 'in'libera*ing a Hring toad from-:a t aoKd rock of mountain limestone, within' two miles of *my old English home. A quarry for lime-fetfrnjng bad'.bew-,woxkea^f6riag^' on- a projecting .spur of tlho mountain, and at the.t une I speak of tihe facing was about 150 feefc highly 300"feet;.tf5deV^EThad Be** S» tiit habit of calling} a*Lsiho) quarry at 1 tftrta»»to o!*an-jne>the intaresting^ilieila {b3^terbt>ja,U*<of K«w-oryitail»y6fetihiitaißcient ftutna^ ikm. Here I migbA explain that tbe solii jrotfcj^blnisfedifronrltha oKSHwifoh were too large for breaking w&h the sledge ifeam-mer-Imdr.a small fir© kept- alrghl'ton tifank separately for , -ifsom' txcmrrp aftof whicl tlhoj split, up resdHy.. On tte'Aiy oftbi visit of which. I am abourt to write, a solid rootiabout six feet aiqoftre by five' feet deep was lying on iM tftoty .'wfecli BaH 'been blasted -from theoenfre of the oliff'libovej and 100 feet' from"' ibeT original- sivtt*6& ■ A. couple of quarrymen witn myself were look- , ing >?.n while another man used the preat hammer. The rook was split in two, and one half fell away, ano* a very lively and fnll-grown toad fell oatfrom a wetl-ahaped " cavity in tihe cenlJre of it, and immediate!* , sat up. Its nostrils were distended, and its large eyes exhibited! a marvellous lustre. We noticed that its lips had grown together, and on my turning it over on one side for close examination w» found il» mouth completely sealed up. The animal sat up again in a sprightly manner. This all took barely a oouple of minutes, but then suddenly its eyes faded, and it turned over on one side, and stretched out at foil lengfk and was dead. The smooth hole in which the creature I«ad lived without anr, food or water for minions of years was oval, and about 10 inches long by 8 indue* wide -and 6 inches deep, j! few years afterwards I saw an account in a Home paper of a similar discovery, and comments Chereon by some leading scientific men, but now Uie creature had lived imprisoned in rtchx j a state for such a time deep in tE* soKd 1 rock they left entirely witfc the "nn&nowable.'

Progressive euchre party in Oddfellows" j Hall. Kaponga, on Monday, September 10. > The same lodge purpose holding a novelty sports meeting on November 9. In defending a case at Christcboroh in whioh a money lender was suing for an alleged balance of interest, Mr Dougall, in addressing the Bench, stated that the plaintiff had actually been paid 60 per cent., and was .charging from 80 per cent, to 10 per cent. Considering the circumstances .of the case and the provisions of the Money-lenderb Act, it was so exorbitant a charge that the Court ought not only to refuse what was aued fox, but n should order a refund to tfoe defendant of r m, portion of what was already paid. Twenty per cent' would be a fair thing, and evetm that was twice' as much as the ' legislature sanctioned 1 at present. Mr V. s G. Dayi S.M., said that the Act certainly ■< - provided for a refund in certain circum- ; stances, but he was not. sure that the . : Court procetiuie provided for such a case. * Whale giving judgment for the defendant, . he did not deem A refund necessary, and the question of procedure .need not/therefore, to be gone into,— Lyttelton Times 1 . A remarkable, case of resuscitation has ■ been officially /reported to the life-saving , service at Wellington. The case is that ' of Bob'ert Moiihey;" whose boat capsized off the coast of Rhode Island. Mooney remained uncler'' water for 23 ininutes. The 7 body, whjch was to laQ appearance that " of a dead man, having been, • recovered, first aid was given, in the couree'of which f three and a half quarts of water were ex- i pelled from Mooneye lungs, and; a second r operation caused the expulsion of one ' pint more. Mooney still appeared dead, and. artificial respiration was" then employed for an hour and 48 minutes, after which the first signs of returning, con- v scaouan^ss became visible. Recourse wasthen had ' to friction and the ' application of a hot stone, while the artificial respiira-' ' tion movements were continued by means '< of bellows. By the following day the t patient had recovered complete consciousness. . „ ,h ;.-.>.; • Of all the difficult occupations to'- take on without capital, rfjuwftiirig is probably the worst {efge «n exobring*).!- It'jequirefi , ancaasant labor, a lairg^^^mountrof capital,to'make a 'start with, and anfficient to proTide the necessaries until the letunns come in, and the crops are in a sufficiently forward condition to materially assist in the domestic upkeep of the farmer. Yet it m quite a common thing to find men going blindfojded ? into •the-businsesß; 'heaping up piles of debate they axe never able to pay, 1 ' and) enduring misenes 1 , for which there i^.,l no parallel in town life. An instance of. 'f ti-s. came oat in bankruptcy proceeding- * at New PlymoutK on Friday, when a b*ank>i 1 rupt explained' that, he had bought the a goodwill of; a. leasehold farm, his sde i capital beidg a bpss& and trap, hut: he fl owed debts totalling between £35 and £40. A friend guaranteed ■ him to the extent , of £100, but three yean* operations Tesulted in a loss of £100, besides ; <tlhe £100 E fuaaaateed. - He ihad' paid- no interest on 8 the farm, hie' cattle ', were removed' under r bill-of-sdle, and thliteen'of his cattle had -v died. He had no assets, no money, and 4 no expectations of any, and'Jie araiputed \ ius position to the poorness of the' land and loss of cattle. -Could anything be more utterly hopekaß? Singing dheers greeted the Bey. E. S. Jlugbee, of Melbourne-^ws he stepped into l l^the ling of the Victorian Amateur Box- £ , ing Championships on Saturday evening, t 18th met. The hall was filled, and the 1 the gentleman hod been asked t» c •pen the toonuunent. "I do not know of g any- country in <tibe"*wixld," he said, . "that needs the «ncotHagemeait of amateur spoXte more tharj Australia. (Applause). We%ave very little to keep us up to the * marfk — no frointiar*foeß-or other influence * of that descripioon to otamulate our fight- i ing 'qtialifcies: '^There are' some people who < think the' Ten'^^mmaninients are. not „ enough. (Langß6er' i :^l applause.) They j want mor*. - (Laug*fii»r») I cank» keep the .Ten Co&^kn^n^Binyifelf, and don't ' wanjfc anyfn^feV ,^©tiniueel laughter.) ' ljegrbimsfce^-^pßn^sooiQd nave the support * of aH right^tbinfciai^; man 'in *- -Auefcralia. 1 (Lo^d apAlatfce^*^Wfcf' called vptai to , svesch Cbnstiaffityr^J may haVe to ask , men? to pot off '^ old. ni|ii,' bat it doesn't follow that they- ttouW^put* on the old woman in^tepJaoe, ffcSufhfcer.) I thank : you "for th>-p*fffle^:.yliJ«itibave "given me tn allowing me to open tiese contests, and hope we BbaD -see aome good sport" G&meneasi and good temper characterised * tiie contest* that followed. H. J; Eaves, Otakehb, has new seed potatoes for sab. J. Shore, Kaponga, invites attention to his stock of saddlery. Mrs Kime, Kaponga, advertises several fines of goods in stock at cut prices. Messrs Pratt and Co. announce the ar ' rival of new season goods. ' Long night in Biverlea Public Hall on September 1L T. EoclesfieM lm Brown Leghorn eggs iar sale.