LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We regret that a name was entirely mis-spelt m the mepcert of the Court proceedings which appeared yesterday, in the case of a man who was charged with reiusing to quit the Empire Hotel when ordered to do so. The name appeared as B. Milne, whereas it should have been Charles Milkm. It unfortunately happens that there is a Mr R. J. Milne at Nprmaiaby, and we have to say- that heVwas 1 not the .person concerned. , If the accident has caused Air Milne any annoyance at all we take this cppoitunity of expressing our regret.

The Hawera Mounted Rifles in camp have settled dowft to hard work, To-day, the corps are doing field manoeuvres on" the Robertson Lakes property. According to Christchurch papers, good progress is being made with the erection of workers' homes at Sydeuham, and' the cottages should be ready 'or occupation at no distant date. ' : Local papers recoird that Ashjbwrtqn poultry breeders are complaining- Npf an outbreak of a disease, among their fowls. y The owner of one yard lost thirty fowls' in a week, and other fanciers have sitf-, fened to a great extent/ The name of the disease is not known. - * ' ■ A Napier paper states that the accident insurance companies have lost about £600 a year for the past two orlthree'' yearns through accidents to employees- of the Napier Harbor Board. As- a result, they have raised their premiums from £2 per cent to £6 and £7 per annum," on the ground that the business' is unprofitable. The Board intends to approach the companies to . reduce their I tender isubstanitaally, failing which it will form its own insurance fund. In the course of his report to the Patea Harbor Board the pilot said": "We have had. very high tides the .last two springs, with strong winds and very, heavy seas,' but no damage has been done. The shipV ping was delayed a good number -©f^days* last month. There have 'bean 16 arrivals, and 15. departures since my last report}' three went out on the, lights. The Kiripaka on the 14th ran into the Harbor Board's wharf and smashed a pile." A curious will was that made by "the late Mr Laban 1 BaderidiUe.,. . a Manchester merchant, , who loft estate valued at £82;000. He . bequeathed; among other legacies, £20,000 to his trustees upon trust for the benefit .of his son Henry ; if, in their opinion, he shall, within ten years, have'retiupnedi to the religious faith, yi which he was "brought up, in which event the said sum oind all accumulations of income- should be paid to him; but otherwise the said sum ris to be divided amongst his other children, Striking comparisons between the -relative mortality of war and of consumption were drawn by Dr. Lawson, the medical superintendent at Baaichcry Sanatorium, in Glasgow jrccemtly. In the, great ware of the edghteei>th- s ceintury 14;P0D,000 lives were lost; in '.the same period phe "white death" sle*r3o,ood>ooo^ Annually, at present 5,000j000 throughout the world— 1,000,000* Jn Europe alone — die of pulmonary disease. It is, however, gratifying to know that during the last ten years a marked' fall in the mortality has been manifested. N

Stainer's beautiful work "The Crucifixion," composed' expressly for performance in Holy Week, will be stung at St. Mary's Church by the choir, assisted .by local singera, on Wednesday next, April15. There will be & short service at 7.30, and the performance will commence- at' 8L o'clock. Dr. Stainer stands very high in ■the ranks of ecanpesors of cliurch music,, and this work is perhaps his best. "It is described* as a meditation on the Sacred Passion, ior two. sola' voices (tenor and-ba-ss) and chorus, interspersed with hymns in which the congregation may join. The words ane selected and written by ltev. J. Sparrow-Simpson; M.Ailusic and words so. fitly harmonise the one with the other 'that they combine to m»ke one of 4h© most beautiful examples of church music. , *'- There are methods of "raising the wind." For audacity and- grim humor I the conduct of the porters hi a certain great market must claim (says .the Evening Standard) a foremost place: '<__' man well known among those who load' and unload -the wares' of the market ' suddenly disappears. His fellows call, daring' the morning, sad-visag«d and doleful, upon •the men with money. "Pore old ' 's dead/ sir," they say, "and we're just collectin' a bit of money to give him a decent funeral." It would be a breach of the, immutable laws of the game closely to enquire in£o the affair. Next day there may tie ,a sligtft shortage of porters. On the fallowing day they wall all be back in their places, and .the most active is certain to be the, "corpse." "Hulloal Tnought you were dead?" say the contributors -to his funeral fund. "Yus, 1 just died to give the- boys, a beanfeast," was the answer. There have been more resurrections in this particular market than all the rest of the world can show.

A poultry farmer, who consigns large quantities of eggs <to the Government Poultry Depot, adwiiirsterod an amusing "rebuke" to the local staff the other day (says an Aucßlaad paper). On several occasions the authorities hod written "to the farmer -complarning that his consigjijn.eots oi eggs were usually two or three short in each case,, though ihe/fairaier stoutly protested thai; there had been mo deficiency at hie end. At length, in one of 'his- boxes was discovered a piece of bacon addressed to the egg tester, who -was ".at a loss for a time to understand thief generosity, '■until it suddiemly struck him; that the inference to be drawn was that he might "ak» well have bacon witb/<th<» eggs^ ._--".

A Bluff wraespondenfc^wxites to the Otago Daily TimesVr"Pecußaarily"speaking t.he oyster, trade makes & neai?" little addition- to the .mediuen of" the ..place,- Settling- <up day., wanes once ' a month. ■ -The eew>nd Bottling day of the .season, cam© -round -the end of last week. In..rough numbers ~ .the month's I 'take' is set down' at 5500 sacks. ' Allowing 80. dozeai to- the sack, tlie j&ark<fb -value of these .is,fsay, Ilwnglily c 'pu£, its dttstfibutian" wj«s"iollow*^One-third to the^;dired'geis ) ."«oie4M^ i .tort_)fe sß^t,s B^t, and - the. remaining- third [id *W$ '% bdmpany. Ten. or twelve 'boa-v-s»e of which are cutters, have been engaged in the work, and. -they, aret^eamed; by 38 dredgers, assisted T)y J 12"whaTfingers. It is stated that 20s TSfcr^ofkirig day was not far off the* dverage psiiy." The local bodies in Auckland are complaining that, chiefly .owihg-\to<, a shortage jot railway rolling stock, tkey are. unable to -get delivery of road "metal, ated that in coaisequence'gona-its fox roads which have to 'be expended in a given time cannot be availed of properly. WHereupon the Herald remarks : "Apart from the habit of the Government in not expending j road money -placed on the Estimates, there is at the present time such a shortage of rolling ©tock in the Railway Department that it' has- been impossible for | local : authorities to obtain the" haulage of <road->m«king- 'material; yet iKe winter is upon us, and unmetalled roads are already being turned into bogs and morasses, while> f local authorities - are unable to get -road work , done because tho -railway cannot spare lie rolling 'stock to haul metal. Sir -Joseph Ward was reoently'through the North of' Auckland, and ought tojfcmow Bomething of the impefative needCfor metalling, but, unfortunately, he saw the ronda in the dry ■weather, iwhite, now it *» -weL if he wete *0 J^_ja over tne Satfle route between noWvamd the opening of Parliament, we venture: to say that he would take steps to provide, enough rolling stock to prevent jthe work of road making from- be- - ing so unjustifiably interfered with.'* THE "HARTNETT* MILKER. Mr"J. N: Gamlin, Kaupokonui, writes :"" "Having • used* your 'Hartnett'^ Milking Machines- for '"the. pa§& 'eight mouths, I feel 'ConjJdent in flaying it k the beet machine yet placed on. the market. I- have about 160, cows, .and our 8 machines have milked these in the flush of the season in 2£ hours. A small boy can operate them jwith the greatest of ease. I think the automatic releaser is a splendid idea, and your machines should prove a boon to dairy farmers." C. Dahl and Co., Ltd., Agente/PalmeKfcon North.— Advt. Doctors* bills saved by taking Pearym'n Pepto-chlor for indigestion. Is, 2b « «». •' „ 3 , - 6 . ' "" — ' — r — - —^ 5 ~\