LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9304, 21 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Iv the •eyent of the weather not being suitable to-morrow for the open-air performance ait the racecourse^, the Be-ses o' th' Barn will appear at the Opera House at 2 o'clock. , ■ ■ Even' in this • land of "no strikes,"- a "o&sation of work" is costly 1 It is computed liy some of the men that the fineo inflicted on the strikers at the various Canterbury works must aggregate- abjout £1400);: of which tho'BelfaSt and■ls&ngton 1 men have paid about' £700. '' ' | A travelling,company not Being able to I pay up to a certain idcaT, person before ~^ I they Jieft Hawera. agreed to give two *> houses', in lieu <of tlie> money. The account was for £4 16s. ■' One of the noraes was sold for £5, arid' the better one Sa stiH | retained. j The bicycle-stealing epidemic seems to have spread dangerously of late. The Christchurch police state that they have had an average lately of .filoin seven to eight reported missing daily from various parts of the town. The tmthusiasm with which boye enter into many things often brings the youngsters great success. Certain of our cadets °~ have evidently excluded the •woid "impossdble' from their vocabulary. The I Opunake contingent was told that they could not take part in the excursion to Christchurch as the coach fare from Opunake to Hawera would have to be paidu The boys were determdiwd to go and it :e said actually prepared to toramp the 30. miles. Their grit wa6 rewarded); they ware driven down. '■* "The general run of the people of Dun edin would be astounded," .says the Star, "if they even guessed dimly blew much many of the commercial and business methods of this city are becoming •'■Ameri canised' in a very bad sense. JResort is had to 'commission,' Tinder which 'palmgreasing' is alleged to be rife. From time to time cases are brought under the notice of our reporters, and often startling proof accompanies the allegations. In the interests of those Who are victimised, in the interests of olean legitimate business, these cases should be exposed to the last detail. But there is the libel Taw. As long as it stands in its present iadrnittedly unsatds-

Football will open on Saturday next in Hawera, When the Rugbyites will hold their opening piactice. Amongst the visitors to Parihaka last week was an old blind Maori, who (hails from near Hawera (says the Opunake Times). He rides tin old chestnut horse, who seems to understand the old nian'6 affliction. On Sunday he rode from Oeo, and when in the town rode into the right-of-way by Mt HaTwood's shop, dismounted, tied his horse up, and then walkexL across the street, where he heatd voices, and sat under a verandah, hod a smoke, and' then returned to his house, which he led out of the yard. He feels his way waith a stick, but to ccc him walking one would think he would bump against a post or go through a window. After he came out of the yard he led his horse for a quarter of a mile then mounted, and jogged on. By some means his horse turned down a side road, but the old fellow pulled up, turned the horses' head, discovered tine metalled road, and then jogged along to do duty at the shrine of men wiho order the peculiar ways of adherents of the Parihaka faith. A scene which was enacted at the Waihi railway station the other morning previous to the departure of the Auckland train examplifiad the manner in which the local 'tradesmen are occasionally victimised, (says the Auckland Stair). It appears that a certain individual, one of the very floating population, was getting away q'viietly without much fuss, but with some unpaid accounts in his pocket. Two wideawake creditors, however, got news of his' sudden departure, and arrived on the platform a few minutes before the train left. Afteg* some skirmishing the delinquent was found comfortably seated in a carriage •and a three-sided argument followed, emphasised by the presence of a gentleman in blue. Seeing that no escape was possible, both accounts were reluctantly paid on the spot. A remarkable instance of the effect of extremely cold weather on billiard balls is told by a representative of the Sporting Life, wiho was present at the Tecent match between Stevenson and 1 Dawson. He says of Dawson: "When engaged on a 254 break, he was observed to be playing particular attention to his ball when picking it out of one. of the bottom pockets.' At first it was thought a piece of grit had fastenedi on to it, but as he made no attempt to rub it, as is his wont, on. has shirtsleeve, it could 'not have been due to that cause. At the. close of the session the cause, of Dawison's close observance of the ball was most apparent. 'What do you think of .that?' he said, as he handed me the ball for' examination. Looking at it, I saw two cracks over an inch in length on the ball, and one could mot only see them, .but on passing the hand over the surface of the ball in question, one could also feel them. 'Quite remarkable ; and how do you account for it?' I queried. 'Caused? by the extremely cold weather,' was the laconic reply. 'And, remarkable to relate,, he continued, the ball ran throughout as true as a die, but what worried me was the expectation- of seeing the ball fly in half when playing a stroke at anything above medium strength.' Thus was Dawson's painfully evident anxiety a at the table fully explained." Should public school teachers be allow ed to act as local preachers ? This q us.tion was involved in a complaint made at the New South Wales Methodist Conference, several members intimating their knowledge of cases in which. teachsTs in public schoolsi were precluded from preaching on the Sabbath Day. The speaker said the Public Instruction Department placed such a restriction on the staff on the groumdi that by going about preaching on Sundays the teachers rendered themselves incapable of performing their dutses during the week, and, he pointed out, "to show the hollowness of this reasoning," that other teachers whose bent was not in the direction of pneachimg, were allowed to go pickmckdng, swimming, gambling, i drinking and so on on Sunday without anything being said as to the likelihood of those -things rendering them unfit v for duty. Rev J? E. Carruthers explained that some time ago he saw the then. Minister for Public Instruction (Mr Perny) regarding this question, and' the statement then made to him was to the effect that the department were only opposed to tea/cheis preacning in and atround the neighborhood of the schools iaa which they taught, as their daily , pupils included not only Methodists, but Presbyterians, Anglicans, Congregationalists Roman Catholics, and so on. It was eventually resolved that st«p6i be taken with a view to the removal of the restriction. I A Southern press correspondent writes to on exchange: — "It may not be generally known in Canterbury that, with all the high prices forMand' ruling there and the general prevailing land hunger, there are thousands of acres down- here in poetically one compact block in its virgin state awaiting selectors or synidcates with capital and go. The Seaward Moss, including a big portion of the Seaward Bush recently destroyed by fire, extends for a distance of about 'twenty -five miles from the Bluff Tailway, and is as yet, with the exception of a little draining and clearing* here and ' there, in, ite natural state. The land, which is owned partly by the Crown and partly by private individuals, can, I understand, be bought for from 5s an acre upwards. The most of low land is suitable for flax growing, and only requires' draining to assure a profitable return from this profitable commodity. The fall varies from two to twelve feet into the Waituna lake. The country' requires only systematical draining, and, of course, a deal of capital would Be required to caary this out. The capital, needless to say, would be sunk for a few years until the flax grew and the peat settled down. In years to come a big area of this country will undoubtedly compare favorably with some of the Canterbury agricultural districts." It is the commercial traveller who finds the many changes of climate and water trying. The experience of Mr Chas. G. Chapman, who represents a large Brisbane concern, is not the exception. He had been in trouble for years with chronic diarrhoea, and was especially bad when in North Queensland. On one of his trips a fellow traveller recommended him to try Cfoamberlain's Colic, CholeTa, and Diarrhoea Remedy, which he did, and what hf has to say is most intesesting :— "I procured a bottle the first opportunity, anc experienced great relief after taking s few doses, and was cured before the bottle was finished. I have not been troublec j since, and wish to recommend this won derful medicine to anyone suffering from £he same complaint." For sais by W. X Wallace, chemist, and H. E Harris, gro cer. — Advt. Unlike other headache medicines Steams' Headache Cure does not cause thai stupid druggy feeling. It always curei

The annul meeting of the South Taranaki Referees' Association will be held in the Eamont Hotel on March 27. According to Dr Clark m "The Labor Movement in Australasia," the people of the colonies regard th© American Republic as an irdustriail and manufacturing nation, and themselves, as engaged chiefly in primary production. But, he writes, from Ihje standpoint of labor conditions this is not true. Nearly 27 per cent, of the breadwinners of Australasia follow manuCactuiting pursuits, as compared with but 24 per cent, in the United States. Among primary producers, the proportion of farmers, more than half of whom are their own employers, is twice as great in America as in Australia and New Zealand. Therefore employing industries are no more prominent, and wage earners havo relatively raore political strength in the Australasian coJonies than in the -American- Union. The ratio of urban to rural population is also higher in Australasia, where 47 per cent, of the people reside in cities of not less than 4000 inhabitants, a 9 compared with 37 per cent, in the United States. The average concentration of working populatioa is therefore greater in those countries, and the labor element has better opportunities for organisoticn. Inexperienced peoplo sometimes, use s»heep-dSp as a lotion fox bathing open wounds, on animals, blissfully (ignorant nf the fact that these dips are often caustic and poisonous. A case in point was mentioned at Tuesday's! meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in Wellington. A dairyman had allowed a raw wound on his. horse's hoof to be bathed for a long period with dip, till the hoof began to come off. The- inspector's advice was then obtained, and the practice was discontinued. That the horse was in pain was shown by its action in frequently lifting its hoof from the ground. The horse, which was a valuable animal, will lose its hoof, and be useless, for sdx months. On another occasion the inspector arrived in time to prevent a man from plunging his pet dog into a bath of the dip strong enough to have caused great suffering and certain death. The stuff required to bo very much diluted far these uses. Jeyes' and Condy's fluids -were much safer. Miss Beer©, a member of the society, said she had often heard people advised to use sheep-dip for dfogs. As tho cruelty to the hoTse was the result of ignorance, it was decided not to prosecute. The Daily Mail publishes a peculiar tribute of one London millionaire to another, in the shape of an appreciation of the late Mr Whiteley by Sir Thomas Lipton. Sir Thomas was fascinated by tho extraordinary quietness of Mr Whitelcy's manner, and with the strong personality behind it that managed the "'Universal Provider's" huge business with so little difficulty. '"Mr Whiteiley was th© same whether at home or in business, his manners never changed, his courtesy never failed." At his weekly dinners, '"he neither smoked nor drank, yet his tables on these occasions were spiead with .tihe best of wines, and his guests smoked the best of Havanas. He was a great advocate of Sunday rest, and this is. the main reason why be never sold milk in his shop — the only thing which was not sold — as it would involve Sunday work." At the dinners, "the conversation was generally limited to social topics arid music, of which he v-as particulaiiy fond, especially select aad clatsioal music, whether on the piano, the violin or the harp. He had found out its charm®, and it was his only pastime, and many a musician owes his success in life to William WMteley, for he over helped, those who he noticed- were struggling." Whiteley "owed Ms success in life to his sober, punctual and straightforward habits; he had a set of rules aad maxims from which he r-evesr departed." A well knewn Sydney firm has apparently been victimised pretty effectually by the confidence trick in a very impudent •form. On the 25th ult. Ph'lip Trie Stramberg, who it was stated belonged tt> a well-known theatrical family in New York, appeared at tihe quarter sessions on a charge of false pretences. The case was ihat Stramberg represented to an employee of Las^etbex- and Qo. that he had largto estates in South. .Africa, and America, and a. considerable bank talanee, that he owned three motor cars and l]o horses, and that in consequence he obtained large quantities of good 3 from the firm.' These goods in eluded six watohes, fifty oases of kerosene, six ovens, a gramophone, and three hundred records, four clocks, a- stove, and other things. The evidence of Walter Browne waa that Stramberg said he- had -onie into a Tot of money through I/he, death of a brother who had been murdered in New York. His account with Lassetter and Co. amounted to about £690. Mr Mack, for Stramberg • He told you he was a millionaire?— Yes; he said he had oome in for a million.— Did you not think it a funny thing to &ell lace berthes, one of which was worth ten guineas, to a man who lived in a three-roomed cottage at Manly?— The house was in a bfig piece of ground, and he told ;no he was going to build a mansion to cost £15,C00.— That matter of watches and clock 3. Did yem not think it funny" fbr a man to buy watchea and clocks like that?— No.— Have you had such a customer before?— No. We don't get millionaires every day. — Did Jon. ever see his motor cars?— No. He always gave an excuse that the chaiuffeur was away. — Colonel Lassetter saftd Stramberg told him he had land in Johannesburg worth £50,000, and other land in Mexico, besides a fixed deposit in the bank. Stramberg stated that he had no remembrance of making such representations. He alleged that if he did make them he mubt have been drunk. A verdict of guilty was returned. Messrs McGraer, Bone and Co. advertise some particulanis of a fine assortment oi winter goods. xJieumatism can be cured — then "wibj will you continue to -suffer. Rheumo ha; effected wonderful cures for others, aften all else had failed, it will cuire you. Ttj SIMPLE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. The following simple cure for rheuma bism has been forwarded to us by a Wai rarapa resident who was incapacitated foi years before trying this remedy : — "Drink first thing in the morning and the last a night before retiring, a oup of very warn water. Next bathe the affected parts witl a hot solution of sulphur and water (tea spoonful to about a quart of water), an< while the limb is still steaming, wrap i in lint or thick white rag, thickly sprea< with Bee Ointment. Cover the whol with absorbent wool and bandage firmly On no account must there be any rubbing but the treatment must be repeated thric " daily until the pains have enirely dis appeared." Bee Oinment contains mcdi cinal qualities similar to those at th b Rotorua springs, and that is why it ha 3 been found to be such an efficacious re s medy for rheumatism and .aunilar ail

At a special meeting of the Borough Council last night, the resignation of the Town Clerk (Mr B. A. Meek) was accepted with regret. Air Atkinson, manageT of Hawera Gas Company, is about to visit England. It is understood that will leave the colony towards the *nd of April, and be absent about six months. The Postal Department advise us that it has now been decided to forward specially addressed correspondence ior the "United Kingdom and Europe per Ventura, via 'Frisco. Mail will cios3 at HaweTa on Friday, 22nd March, at 5 p.m. Addiress correspondence "per Ventrara, via 'Frisco." I At the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, ' on Wednesday, several divorce petitions were heard. In the case of DruTy v. Drury, wife'si petition, on the ground of adultery, a decree nisi was granted. A defended case, P. F. Burrows v. Mary Ann Burrows, (nee Buckland) and George Talin as co-r:ispondent, Avas partly heard-. In the case of Henry Walters, convictof indecency at New Plymouth, His Honor Mr Justice Cooper said' that the report of the probation officer, whilst showing that the accused had never been before the Court charged with an offence, indicated 1 that he was a man of low moral character, one thing to his discredit being that he had induced a married woman to . leave her husband and family, and go to j live with him. Whilst the medical cviI dence showed that he was not legally inJ^ane, His Honor was of opinion that he •jyas anoraJly insane, .and mentally weak. He was not inclined to let such a man out on probation.; in fact, it was a question whether he should pc allowed at large at all. Such a man must b© watched., and it was 'impassable for the probation officer to watch Mm at every hour of tihe day. And tie must protect the public: from a repetition of this offence, for it was monstrous that he should have committed such a<n offence as to stand naked in the middle of the day in a town of the size of N«w Plymouth. The accused was fined £10, and ordered to enter into bonds for hie good behaviour for two years, and he would be kept in custody until sureties, approved by -fabe solicitor fox the Crown, were obtained, provided that the period of his detention should not exceed twelve months' imprisonment. — News. ' A unique point in connection with licens-, iihg .prosecutions was raised by Inspector O'Bpieni duiiug the course of a prosecution at Port Chalmers last Wednesday (bays the Otago Daily Times). The licensee of the Marine Hotel was. charged with having soldi liquor to on - intoxicated! pearson, who .had been amnestied by the local sergeant aaad, a. constable in the open bar, behind .which ■ def endant'sf daughter was seirviing at the tame: After the police witnesses had been' called and the' case for the prosecution apparently closed, Inspector O'Brien electrified the Court by calling the licensee as a witness for the prosecution. Defendant's solicitor (Mr Hanlon) objected strongly, whilst the Bench looked perplexed for a moment. Inspector O'Brien persisted' in his right to call the licensee as a witness, and in support thereof quoted "Th© Evidence Further Amendment Act, 1905," which provides that a "judge or justice may require any person to be examined as a witness." The Magistrate overruled! the objection, and the licensee and his daughter were both sworn in the ordinary way, and gave evidence against themselves, as though they were witnesses for the prosecution. In view of the circumstances a comparatively small fine was imposed. This is probably the first time, that advantage has been taken of the Act referred to during the course of a licensing prosecution in the local Courts. A remarkable incident has just been brought under the notice of the Gore Standard. It appears that 23 years ago a New Plymouth resident put away for safe keep ■ ing a life insurance policy, issued by the Government office, for £500, on the life of Ms father, who was then lying on his deathbed. The man hid the policy away, owing to the theft of ab|t>ut £200 from his home, which was a public house. The father died, but when the policy was required, in the course- of the settlement of his affairs, it 'could not be found, the son having forgotten where he had secreted it. Yeaira passed on, but the mystery was not elucidated, and m the course of time the trustees carried the claim against the Insurance Department to th© law courts, and eventually to the Privy Council, but the defence was successfully raised that the policy was not lost, and when it was produced the claim would bo paid. Th& sequel occurred in Gore the other day, When the man who had hidden the policy visited a dentist for the purpose of having several teeth extracted. An anaesthetic was administered, and under its influence the patient's mind wandered to the question of the policy, and the whole of the details connected with the secretion )of the document came back to his memory He reoollected f cutting open the wallpaper in the passage of the hotel, and secreting the policy behind the scrim, and then pasting the paper over it again. No time was lost in despatching a telegram to a brother, asking him to make a search at the spot indicated in the vision, and in three or four hours, a- reply was. l'eoeived that the policy had been iound just where the search was made, as directed. Tenders are invited for painting the Presbyterian Church, Hawera. Messrs W. H. and A. McGatrry advertise properties for sale and lease. A social will be held in the Auroa Hall on April 3 in aid of the sport* fund. N.Z. GOVERNMENT VETERINARIAN APPROVES SYKES'S ABORTION CURE. When the Government Veterinarian endorses a preparation it means that 1 c is satisfied that it is the best. Captain Young is the Government Veterinarian in chaTge of Taranaki Province — the largest dairying district in the colony. This is what ho say? of Sykes's Animal Abortion Cut©: "A most useful preparation in handy form with superior advantages over tabloids, for the prevention and cure of abortion, and one which I can safely re- - commend. — A. R. Young, M.R.C.V.S., - Govt. Vet. in charge of Taranaki Ptor vince." , Cows which have aborted, or healthy t animals which, after calving, retain the (i whole or part of the afterbirth, should first h be drenched with Sykes's Drench. This -- allays the fever and purifies the blood. & Sold everywhere Sykes's Drench, Is 6d I1I 1 Sykes's Animal Abortion Cure, 2s 6d. d I Showroom display at the Economic of » charming millinery creations from London r - I and Paris ; a comprehensive show of mil- !. i linery for every occasion. Ladies are core j dially invited to promenade our show- » room. W. Spence, Economic, Hawera. — '- Advt. « When children fail to thrive give them * Steams' Wine. It makes weak children ; - strong by giving them better appetite and L- digestion. They like to take it because its