LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9188, 7 September 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

! The Maoris are now catching considerable quantities of lamprey-eels. Quite a camp of \ the- natives- has sett/led on the i banks of the Waingongoro between Okai■awa and .Nornuraby, and -there is great feastdng. The Nelson, Evening Mail publishes the extraordinary statement that a Wellington agreement forces grocers (Nelson grocew, presumably) to accept butter at fourteen ounces to the pound. We may add that we are in receipt of a complaint that in Hewera lib of b.u*ter often weighs only 15 ounces. In a case heard at the Magistrate's Court at Gishorne it was decided that an hotelkeeper was liable for damages done to a buggy while the owner was staying at the hotel. The defence set up was that the liability should fall on the owner of the horse that had caused the damage. Attention is directed to a replace advertisement and inset in that, issue from \R. Hannah and Co., Ltd. This firm is well and favorably knowr, and their system of selling boots and shoes direct from the factory to the wearer is the main factor in their ever-increasing -business As their space is somewhat limited it is necessary for them to make toom, and the mesas to that end are reductions in prices of all goods that must effect a clearance. But buyers will do well to peruse the inset, while personal inspection is always de- } sired. . * ,

At Nolan, Tonka and Co.'s last Maaaia sale Kaupokonui shares sold' for 19s 6d, a considerable rise on prices previously quoted. Edward Kelly, an old age pensioner, had his pension cancelled this morning by Mr Turnbuli, S.M. Kelly, who fc 83 years of age, was recently 'convicted of drunkenness, and in consequence was called this morning to show cause why he 6hould not lose hie pension. He gave no reasonable explanation and the Magistrate said that he considered the only thing" he could do was to take away the pension, a course -which he was reluctant to pursue. { From an advertisement elsewhere it -will be seen that Mrs J. W. Hirst is endeavor- . ing to form a league for the benefit oK*tr hospital patients. At the present time i > certain number of ladaes " carry cheerfulness into the. wards, but the idea of the . promoter of necrt -Wednesday's meetaa%-{ j is to extend the sphere, of usefulness, ao&Jf } the circle of workers. By organising the hospital work. wiU be carried on in a systematic way; and it is expected that as a result the patients' r-w2Br -w2B feel themselves to be amongst friends who .have a personal interest- in- -their welNbeiag. Messrs Gillies «nd Nalder!s spring . horse' fair opened -this ..morning under very favorable circumatanees. The attendance of Duyezß is good, outside dristricte being weU- arepßefietttadi Among themi fere: Messrs Hocking -and Holt (of Fielding), Knight, Stevenson, and Simmonds (PaJnjerston), Bjgby, James, ,Ba!chi» (Wood- . ville), and Billinghurst and Jeffereoo (Waa- - gaaui). The class of stuff offered up t» noon was of the best and' indeed the homes t entered, especially in draughts, are co»sjdered the beat 4bat* 4&ve been in -ike •yards. Unbrokens frere the first to. pass voder the hammer., and anything at aH heavy went for good prices. Animals were sold at £34, £22, £19, £15 f £11, £17, £16 10s. Patrons noted a big. i»provement in fbe state of the yards,. Tb* ■ firm have coveted the- ground -with torn ■ and cinders, making it clean and pleaaaat. One of the moot serious sheepAWDjrying cases on roaord ©counred on Mr. Alex BeaogeV Owaierßank '"Farm during Twbnight (says 'jk» : Hfctitiam Herald,. Mr Beangehadvacane 720 breeding ewes, and of this number only 290-caa now \m found alive, ho.Jfeal.over 40C bra bees destroyed, anpawmtly; as the veault oi worrying by doge. The flock was evidently caught ; in a corner where the i Ownre stream intersects' tfce land, and th» ■ brightened animals Tuebed over the hank to a wholesale death, by smothering ami drowning. In one note 125 carcases- war« found, and 70 were got on Mr C. Minor's, a mile down stream. Carcases were seea in the Wyndham River, a distance of five miles away, and a great many more mwt j have been earned away by these tributary streams into the Mataors* The carcases recovered 'are being skinned, and the value of tihe skin 6 will go in reduction of the loss, butf'maHng every "allowance, ' 'Mr Beang©% kes must be between £500 and, £600. , Is goree to be considered as a noxious tweed or a thing' of" beauty? The'W»»ganui Herald TOperte tnat Mr Bluhdell, of- the Agricultural Department, wrote to > the local County- <3tmno3i stating that "tJ» for Agsioultjure has diiawn my attention to the growth of goree wfthia your country, more- especially near tfti* ■ railway line between- Axamoho and FcfrdeU, and I may mention that the s^n/f fact is being continually brought under my notice- by the travelling public, and Bttrprise expressed that so much valuable •land should be'-aUowed to go to waste. ■ Under the cbxttafetanoes I feel it my duty to resp^tftilly 'suggest to your Council a the advisability of declaring thio > plant (J to be a noxious-weed."- Or Fletcher said ihe-was opposed 1 to declaring game a oori- '< one weed. In many instances the gone waa a detriment only to the land on Which it grew/ and those Vho objected to it wer« some who did not like to see' a little hft of yellow at this time of the -year. Ik was, he thought, quite time enough for them to call out about the weeds which they knew to , be a omisarice without bothering about gorae. He moved that Mr Blundell be informed that the Council d» not feel inclined to declare goree a noxious weed. CrWaray. seconded the motion, declaring -that /gore© was pretty to ' look at from a soenic point of view at this season of the year. The motion was ciwJried. The Napier Telegraph has brought t» light an extraordinary incident. It says it has in ita possession the broken wrapper it a package of ballot papers used in tfo* feat election. 'The wax of th* seal is "" »till on the paper, the package Saving been opened, , apparently, by the tearing across of one of its ends. The official label on the package runs as follows: — 'This parcel contains the voting papers , "which have been used in voting for the ' local ,pption poll arfulihe booth at. which 1 presided at Capieston polhng place, in the Eceosing distriofc of BuUer, on the 6t\ : <rf Decepiber, 19D6. James. Greeve. deputy, returnjng. officer; Prancis .Rogers, ' ClhArle«' McArthur, BCTutineera.' We do kpow why tiie wjapper, still intact, . .and. containing the' ballot papers referred to, 'should ' not <be in p^6Beseaon of t!he (jterk of the House instead of lying before us, as we. write. What, we do know is that the circumstances, indicate the need ,for an enquiry of some kind. How the wrapper came, into ccav-poaeesaio/i is. soon told. A resident in ' Wangaoui took a. pair of boots to be imonded. ' When he went for them agajin they were handed to him tied up in' the wrapper aßuded to. That wrapper was posted to us with a oihiort statement oi -how it came into our correspondent's pessession and an expression of wonderment that what ought- to he in the safe custody of the Clerk of £h« House, awaiting destruction by fire va. December next, could find its way ift^ Wanganui to be need as wrapping paper by a working shoemaker. We confess that the position is a strange one. Even if a Court had ordered the production oi the particular bundle of ballot papers originally sealed up 'in this wrapper, one would naturally suppose that after tlhe Court had done with the papers tlhe package would be made up again and returned to .safe custody. Bat so fear aa we can discover no Court ever oxdered tih« package to be opened." Messrs Blenr.erhaaeett and Sons advertise paftioalara of goods to be auctioned at Eltham on Saturday. - Nixon, Baddeley and Forlong sell stock at Wanganui on Wednesday next. Train arrangementa for the WanganmTaranaki football match, to be played at i Stratford on Thursday next, are advej- A iis«J. - M Messrs Steuart and Gorriean wSR tAi^m at Manaia on Toetda, next -*.