LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 7 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Appeal Court lias reserved judgment in the Feilding gas case. Sjr frewton Ban^ has received the following cable [his. Sy<lQey agents re hides: "All weights * firmer." -. r " _ Mr Felix Mc&uire f was 'a' passenger, by the s.s Earawa'fpr Onenunga. f cin..the ,6th

A general meetipg of the Kaponga Horticultural' and~ General Produce Society wUTbe Held 'in'thfe^ToWn" Hall oh Thimsday,; April- 9/at.-:B^p|jn. One good ieatmre '.(says the Hawke's Bay Herald) "in the otttlook for' Hawke's Bay sheep-farmers is that -the weather conditions this sumnxcr and autumn have boen favorable for a igooelT fonn^atio^ for . The Hawke's/ Bay Herald says it"i«, probabte that.' the Rev. teonord'M. Isitt, will Se u r caiididaCe' for' the representationof Napjer^'at th« next general election. Acoordijig -to another exchange Mr'fTsxit denies that he will be a candidate. ,

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Passengers by the Takapuna from Onehunga to New Plymouth report having had a very trying time last sight, the sea being very rough.

During last year the gross revenue from the trams in Christchurch totalled £91,000; expenses absorbed £58,000, and interest, depreciation, eta, the balance except £188.

The sudden change in the weather this week, a sharp southerly wind with Eeavy rain, is being severely felt by -slock of all kinds. Since Sunday the rainfall has totalled 1.45 inches.

Messrs James and Qiliman, land agents, Hawera, report having sold Mr Henry White's homestead farm, Skeet road, Kapund, to an Gkaiawa investor ; also two splendid building sections in Hawera Extension, to a local investor.

Some excitement was caused in Napier the other morning by the presence of a young lady, a stranger to the town, walking with a revolver exposed in her hand. On examination of .the weapon by the police it was found to be unloaded.

As a result of the extensive nature of ploughing operations in North Otago at the present time there is a greater demand for. honses than has been the case for * two years. Prces are at a boom scale.

Last week an effort was made by some of the Nelson milkmen to raise the price of. milk to 6d per quart, but several declined to make any advance on the present price, viz., 5d per quart. Those who desire to get 6d per quart contend that if the Government dairy regulations are to be carried out the business will

not pay at less, than 6<v

Am extraordinary accident happened recently at Waihi. A'young man, who was driving a cart, jew the horse and vehicle standing on the main road while he entered a house on the opposite -Bide of the road. In his absence it ie surmised that the horse must have -backed the cart across the road, over the embankment and into the river, which was much swollen by the recent heavy rains, and both must have been carried- down* stream, as neither horse nor cart has since been seen.

An agent for a firm of South Island gram, merchants^ was in • Hawera on Saturday, and quoted oats at' 2s 7d per bushel f.o.b. A paragraph stating that the price of oats in the South Island was 2s 3d has been published, and- farmers may have gained the impression' thai that price included sacks and delivery ito the nearest wharf, whereas ,it was,,; for .the bare oats, an extra charge being, made for railage and sacks,

la another column Mr Newton King, Stratford, advertises the sale by auction on Saturday, 25th hist., of 33 valuable business sites in the centre of Eltham borough. The auctioneers point out that Eltham is situate in the midst of a rich dairy land and has a big scope of good back country. It is distinctly progres- j sive. Every section to be" offered has' water and drainage laid on, and fronts an asphalt street. The steady growth .of the town indicates a rapid rise in business sites, and those to be offered should prove a profitable investment; - *

That Hawem is progressing is very apparent by the difficulty people have in securing houses for rental purposes, and the number of new houses from time to time being erected does not eeem to ease the position. Both .in and out. of the borough building continues, s . and the landscape in several directions bears quite a new aspect of late. Take, for instance, the locality known as the Haweia Extension, in- the north-west of the borough. .It is now about three or four months ■since this property was opened for selection, and already the contracts. have been let for the erection, of r foua* "substantial residences, while it is understood .five* more are contemplated in the . near future. So elsewhere throughout the borough, in almost every street substantial dwellings have lately been erected.

In i speech at Cairterton, Mr Martin, Opposition organiser, said he recognised that the Opposition had much to learn from the present Government in the maker of organisation. He recalled a mistake^ made by the Government towaydjs the close of last sessiion, when a ii^ember of the Opposition obtained : poragssioii . of a circular, . intended Vfp? ' one,f|ff J''lihe _ Governmeiit'B . sttT&D&ere.which showed that ".they Govemiment even prepared! 7 the Hnraife^neinbers to dedive¥f '" NQthing was left undone, and speaking from an organising point of view he thought the Government was fully entitled to the tremendous success it had goimed throughout New Zealand. What the Government had done by organisation only showed, what the Opposition could attain by' the same means.

A deputation of the 'Federated Builders' Association (reports the - Feilding Star) waited upon the Minister for Customs, asking lor the "imposition, of a strong export duty on kauri and the abolition of duties xxtt "foreign tiftibere. It was stated tha? for tfie Fast^two or three years timber had been steadily •going up, and now millers proposed/to make a further increase of from 2s ,to, 2s 6d per 100 ft, bringing "heart .of matai and ■ rimu up to 23s or 24s per 100 ft. The deputation asked the Government to v remit the duty on Oregon. _,- If this were done this timber ; r coiild -be sold at the same price as "ordinary building" rimiii, which had a'Ufesof a fjtom^ls;4©2o years only, and even "less" than that. .There was a very great difficulty indeed -in getting heart of "fotara in'^ellingtion ot all. : As a matter of fact,, it was being displaced by jarrah. .They, also asked for the increase of the export duty on kauri, as there was great ;n getting even the seoond-cldss^ timber in Wellington, the best being ; se»lr to Melbourne. The Minister feared nothing could be done in regard to taking off the duty on foreign- timbers. T^at was a matter for Parliament to 9ettle. The Government, could increase the export duty' on kauri up to 5s if required: He suggested that the deputation should furnish him with a resolution as'iyom the. Federated Builders in order that ihe/wholes matter 'of the' price of timber^ could J&e brought before his colleagues. '-.. ■~' • -- «

Mr IL J. ;Eaves, Otjikehb^ 'fos ' new "wanted" advertisements' appearing today. . -* y ' c ":';' - ,;'-' ' Entries for Dal^ety aiid. Coy's. Waverley Bale -cm Friday Jane advertised.'

An advertisement wrtfi 'reference tothe closing of nominations Jor_. Auroa Sports appears in this issue. iWsnowroom ;at*t|ie Economic clfliiw first- thoughts of- nil women who, are, thmkfc? o£ the styles for the new season. There" is sjfcr'Vinsr originnlity in the new /TPation* tfc hand.. Y<>u <ire cor<WaHy JnWfed t*f see the display. W. Spence. Economic.— Ad vt.

A reminder is given of the meeting of the Hawexa hrancli of the St. John Ambulance Brigade to be held in 'the Fire Brigade Hall this evening. All who hare' attended a course of lectures on first aid are eligible to join the Brigade.. It is proposed to start another men's and women's first aid class. It is expected that, the local -classes this* year w^i be largely, attended, and that several more firemen .will join as well as others. The, Hawera: Society is a branch of a brigade winch has no fewer than 46 divisions on the roll, with a membership oomsjdierably over a thousand. In view of its. importance there should be a large gathering of those interested at the meeting to-night. This ist how the Auckland Star reports ' a "'drunk" case at the Police Court: • He 'came down from the King Country, and, hie avowed intention was to re- [ plenish a wasted wardrob6'jffi<| _|p%^d a day or two in quiet relaxation before .r«tmrning once more to railway graft. But vain, aro the ,ipiQposjt*Dga| 'of/ map, $nd a long train jouwiey,&aggravat«d- by- prohibition refreshment rooms, lands many a well-meaning pilgrim-^a'. ihfr&y and gloomy misanthrope- < on ' tae- Auckland platform. And his valiant, efforts to dispel the megrina fbroiaht .him! along ihia - morning without / even .'the price of a ' r matutinal shave. - The usual Saturday option was his thriiaicleaa "l^.fj , \. r *. The Tiger, which -was rippeid in halves in the collision last Friday, was jt twinscrew- torpedo^boa<j, destr^ye^ ¥>f 400^tons and "an Midicated^ oi jMOO. She was quartered at Portsmouth, and retained for the ' Home Fleet as a tender to . the , <depot ship v Hecla. She , .'was o in : charge? of Lieut, wd Commainder Vy'. : Er^frfdletottf^Accidente to torpedo boats" Have' u&fortiunately not been in- - frequent' On April, 17, 1906, a torpedoboat was rammed-janH sunk by the' Ardent off Malta. A month later another torpedo capsized off Damietta, four of the - drew -, being The destroyers Leopard/ ;»nd Boyjafl were in collision-, on . August 29, 1905, but there was no loss of life. On. January 15, 1903, the torpedoboat destroyer Oswell was run down by the cruiser .Pioneer; k while manoeuvring in Corfu Channel without lights, fifteen lives being lost. In 1903 ' the Prince George, one' oi the vessels engaged -in tihe t , present manoeuvres, was rammed by th^e, .but.the damage' sustained was not very serious. r - -

A peculiar case' of hallucination oc- , cumned , jin \Napiexj last week. A resident flf tt)e,jtf>wp vs^afi j% /bachelor "for- the time ibejng^ .having; eenij his wife away on a ho^i<l»y. w< '| < he i -fo)][owingday he wai ab-" Sent *' from tiie 'Twuse, leaving it . locked and hidlEff tfoe. key in, a supped; i^fep^c^. ;; .Pttat^Milng home late in the evenip^Vte ftevind . the house lighted.jap, . aaid'an 'elderly woman in charge. Natux-. he 4 woft amazed "at /this miexpected dovelo^ment; and, on his knock being, answered, he asked what the, intruder was doing, there.^ -Sho reiortod by aak'iiig .what ''Her ' questioner . wanted; the building had been given to hex; had t»lc«n> posseedom. that afternoon, and" was going to stay .there. A-Uittle per; sunsiom- succeeded in her' giving >hef : name, and she vnaa . returned to the Jbosom of her f amiljr.. The remarkable feature of -the affair "is that thfc woman had not been in .'the vicinity of 'the ,v house she took possession of since it. was erected. ~ By same^in^Clhc£- , she discovered the key, and she _wani about ~the. house as if she,had-&en accustomed to it ell her, life, having made use of the cooking _ utensils, the, wardrobes, and variously other parts of the" residence. Once "pr*L^ vioiusly she took possession of a -house where' she was unknown to the occu-

piers. - --'.'- '■''••"*?.- i" An old settler, in conversation with a representative' of.^Ee^Manawat/u '{Saiidand, pointed out that the farmers'? Have a special in^ai fin ttKe 'opining of the Main. Trunk"- line. The completion >f th« railway,, he: spdd { ; wojaJd-K^kgfttfdH' Vrfiere than people thought; One important -effect would be tp^a'HofeiriiOflisjiifoAi'itha Auckland district travel through to the Manawatu, - Y?esagsoß# m&rke's Bay, and Taranaki , wuthaat. any travelling whatever.^ <:£$ ?isxakfßi' lh» facilities" 'for transport 'were -of "such a native that stock wew pjtajsicaliyr.Bhut i»p". in their own , districte, and transport w^T' only effected at :&ss&§ rable cost ajtkl risk. People dia riot like ig rail 'ffiHJr stock _from the Maijawatn , to New Plymouth', thence to" be^tranßh'ipped and take their chances crossing ,$o .Onehunga bar, and af-t^r-lhat^^iiraTned again or dnven to the northern markets. When the line was- through they would simply consign, the beaete on the train at 'this end, and they would go straight through without transhipment of bother to Auckland, and 1 at r a"much cheaper rate than the present sea-and-rail charge. The tendency, would ,be to secure a greatly increased -intermixture of- new- blood' in 4he North' Island.

Famine prices at present prevail in Auckland for nearly all classes of produce (saye the Auckland 1 Star), and the outlook for the .winter is $o be regarded as/rat|fer aeries. $ >paji"e Kiefbj§en .almost unprocurable joi'Stiwo'dr "three weeks sSfttf? arid 4th?: East Goast arrivals this week were eagerly bought up ot ss. The f^esep*,, quotation in -Sydney is 6s 3d. illeiOutlopk.Vas, far as the, por Itry farmer ."!*v,W»Wffi*i.-4?,T9«y-«?«9». Fowl feed ia • ! almo^ -unprocurable, and with the ■winter coming the poultryritan's pros*peoto look dismal. Fowl wheat f.o.b. quotation is 4s 7d, and it is going into «tbne .at- 5s 2d. 'The question of horse feed is equally Unsatisfactory. Oats are a luxury' at 2s 6d, i.0.8., or 3s ex store, but whether this price is going to remain permanenily it is. difficult to say, wmoe it is; considered in many quarters that the high price is not justified, Brnn and sharps rule at the extreme quotations of 6s lOd and. 7s 10d"ex store. The scarcity here -is, of course, jaccountaßle by the^ fact that ' many, oi the mills art not going full time, and - by-products, are short. Chaff brings record prices, and w higher now than it tv«s after the January floods laafc year. Fortunately, there- ie a good growth of 'green -feed on the farms." but the outJoofc" for the winter is, (nevertheless; to be considered as serions>" . >:' ■ r, \ ' • . JD'ON JTJ T .WAIT till "to-morrow. It's ''f;tle "colds that • grow -into Big colds, the "big colds that* end in consumption and death: ' Don't wait' ft'il tomorrow to cure the little colds, for one dose of Dr. Shel don's. New Discovery for ,Goughs, CoFds. and will break up a cold if taken; at the beginning. Dr. Sheldon's New^ Discovery. is a safe and never- failinp TWQe&y- ■■', Price Is ,6d and 3s. For sale W chemists an 3 storekeepers, Hawera ; v. J. Gonner; , Kaponga ; and C. James, Alton.— Advt.

need not nutter with pains in the <-*** after ©ating. Take Pearson's Pepto-