LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, 11 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A remindei' is given that the nominations for the winter meeting of the Egmont Racing Club close with the Secretary, Mr J. A. Tui-ton, at nine o’clock on Monday evening. A resident of Nelson has maize growing to a height of 15 feet. The Mail says the growth probably forms a record for New Zealand.

It is stated that the New Zealand professional footballers will be about £2OO in pocket as the result of thdfr tour in England.

A Hawke’s Bay resident is offering £IOO reward for information that will lead to the conviction of the persons who have taken nearly 500 of his sheep since January.'

it is understood (says am exchange) that an Auckland syndicate is arranging for a Maori professional' team to visit Sydney during the conning season. The annual meeting of the Kapuni branch of the Farmers’ Union is convened for Wednesday evening next. The Riverlaa branch will hold it" meeting <9l Saturday, April 18, at 7.30 p.m.

The effect of the dry weather is shown by the supplies at tho different dairy factories (.says the Wairarapa Standard). Featherston Co-operative Dairy Company is only receiving 700 gallons of milk per day, and will close on the 20th of April. This time last year the supply was 2200 gallons.

Since the break-up of the drought a.nd the ccavicquent improvement in the rivers trout have. been more plentiful. The other day an angler landed 26 fish. Captain Gathome Hardy and) Captain Lyon, of Lord Plunkct’s secretarial staff, arrived in Hawem yesterday to spend a few days’ fishing in the district streams. The visitors are the guests of Mr J. N. Gaiiilin, of Kaupokomui. A grave charge against the Education Department of overcrowding a school was made by C. H. Opie, at a Tecent meeting of householders at Linwood,. Christchurch (reports an exchange). . He sakTme could take anyone to a school in the North Canterbury district where 181 children wore crowded In the space that was allotted by the regulations Jo seven. If a .farmer packed two bullocks in a truck bug enough for one, said Mr Opie, he would*.hear very quickly from the;Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. On Wednesday of last week the Rev. Mr Boys, who is about to take charge'of Haw Ora Methodist Circuit, was entertained at Clutha, the district he is leaving. The Balclutha Free Press has a two-column report of the affair, which records the complimentary speeches made. Mr Malcolm, M.P., presided, and spoke very highly of Mr Boys’ influence, for good and his abilities as a preacher. Rev. Mr Currie, Presbyterian minister, f also made some very kin# remarks and wished him every success. On behalf of his congregation Mr Boys was presented with a handsome marble clock and a travelling rug! The Hawera Mounted Rifles (in camp) spent a busy and useful day on the Lakes property yesterday. In, the morning the Corps, under Captain Morison,. did skirmishing manoeuvres. In the afternoon the troops'practised mimic warfare. One half of the company in command of Lieut. Sutherland took up a position on the sand ridges os a defending post, while the remainder (Lieut. Muir in change) composed the attacking force. The attackers made a good attempt to dislodge the enemy, but -the position, was too strongly fortified to, enable it to be taken. The positions were subsequently reversed, and the attackers were “completely. annihilated.” On Thursday evening Lieut.- Muir gave an instructive* -lecture • on 1 “Reconnaissance,” and last night Staff Sergt.-Major Dodd’s subject was “Musketry.” This evening Lieut. Sutherland will lecture on “Semaphore Signalling.” There will be a church parade to-morrow at St. Mary’s Church.. The camp will be thrown open to the public in the afternoon. . Particulars are advertised for Newton King’s Kaponga sale to be held on Wednesday, April 15, instead of on the usual sije day. Clients should note the alteration. ■•••.

Wanganui Education Board invite applications for headmastership of Normanby School. - Acceptances for Feilding Jockey Club close cn Monday -evening at .8.30-; o’clock; : FV if. Jackson andi Co. insert entries for Waverley sale on Thursday next: > A., notice" pf interest, to ladies is injfentbd by the secretary of Kaponga Brass Band. b'or Bronchial . Coughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint- Cure, Js 6d mid 2s 6d.—Advt.

Methodist Church services will be conducted to-morrow by Mr Boagey in the morning and the Rev. S. J. Gibson in the evening. Mr Gibson will preach nt Normanby in the morning. These will be his farewell services. A peculiar accident occurred at Geraldx'jo last week. A young man employed oif a threshing mill was sleeping overnight in an upstairs bedroom in one of. the local hotels, the null being stationed clcse to the township. About 4 a.m. the mill whistle was blown. The young man ca hearing tho whistle in his sleep sprang out - of bed, threw up the bedroom window, and bundled out on to the asphalt footpath, falling ’ about 13 or 14 feet. As he fell he came to his senses, and was able afterwards to get on his feet, and find his way back to his room by climbing the fire escape, whon his groans attracted the attention of the proprietor, wliq immediately summoned medical aid. Strange to say no bones were broken, and beyond a bad shaking and severe bruises the somnambulist is none the worse for his. adventure.

The Taranaki Herald says: “For some time past there have been persistent buyers of Taranaki Petroleum Company’s shares, a fact which has caused holders to won-der what has happened to lead' to the demand. We are constantly being -asked by shareholders for information as to the progress of operations at Moturoa, but all our enquiries from the directors are met with the -reply that there is nothing to communicate. In tho meantime rumor is busy as to the water .feeing shut off mndi.the boro full of oil. Shareholders have, however, been assured in the past; that they would be kept informed of any; developments, and' they do not know' what to believe when the directors are siletnt and brokers are inviting them: to sell their shares. We have no desire to be always finding fault, _ but must say that it appears to us the shareholders are entitled to some information from the directors, either that the rumors are without foundation, or that the prospects are brighter. Local shareholders have the opportunity of making their own personal enquiries, but there are numbers at a distance who look for the publication of official reports as to the- progress of operations. The question is whether the directors are warranted in paying no attciuition to reports, which m&y oi’ may ■not be idle ones. It appears to us that in the interests of the shareholders these rumors should be denied or ' confirmed; them shareholders could please themselves about holding or selling.”

Settlers are requested l to note that Messrs Jackson and Co.’s next Waverlcy sale will be held oil Thursday, 16th inst., instead of Friday, owing to the Easter holidays.

Mr J. C. Gilleit, draper and clothier, has an advertisement appearing to-day with reference to winter hosiery. Gibsons- Ltd., Howera and Patea, insert a replace advertisement to-day. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s fid.—Advt.