LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 15 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Marine Department has received a request asking that improved facilities may be provided for the storage of coal at Auckland for iise of the Navy. As showing the high prices hunting mien are prepared to pay for good jump-* era, an otter of £65 was made for Waitai,: the winner of the Maiden Hunters' Jump- ■ ing Competition at the Okaiawa Sports on April 8. The offer was .not accepted/ Complaints are being made by residents of stone-throwing on houses, and . it is reported that on several occasions/ people narrowly escaped being hit. Court cases are threatened unless the nuisance , ceases. Owing to the signal success of the sports meeting, held at Oktuawa last week, a proposal to form a haok racing club is oiow under consideration, and is expected to be brought to a successful issue. Some time yesterday on accident occurred by which a portion of the side parapet of the new concrete bridge at the Waingongoro was broken. It 36 understood that' a bullock waggon turning too sharply alter crossing the bridge ran into it. ' . '. Mr J. R. Corrigan, the President of the H&wera branch' of the New' Zealand Farmers' Union, intends to encourage discussion upon questions immediately connected with farming at the' monthly, meetings of the branch. The question of breeding cows so as to get the' best j^B-/. sible Jesuits will be one of the first £iib-: jects to be discussed* r '„,'.•" The supper room that io being fadded,to the Okaiawa Town . Hall is . rapidly nearing completion. It is the .intention of the Hall Committee to celebrate . the openimg of the oiew portionbyj' holding a social and dance. - . , * > r Mr W. A. Jarret* (late of Sydney) has a notice in this issue notifying that he is open to receive orders,, for Horse clipping. All work, it is advertised, Will be faithfully carried out; -His present .address is care of Gibson's stablest ' < On Tuesday evening Miss Bone' was the ' recipient of a silver cake basket, & itably inscribed, from the' staff / of Messrs McGruer, Borne and C 0. ,. on the occasion of her marriage.. Miss Bone carries with her to her new Home, in the South Ihe heartiest good wishes of a large circle ol friends in Hawera, It pays shrewd men now io. giv4 tip to £120 an aore for Hawke's Bay fruit lands, and an apple orchard is a' surer and more profitable thing than soft fruit (eayfl the' ilanawatu Times)., - If £80, per acre per annum cm be netted by certain Frimley orchards off soft fruits, what could the people on this coast make out of apples worked w ; th equal skill-? Where can dairying or flax-growing reach such a net return? • At the Waimate Road Board meeting on Tuesday, Messrs Wells 'and Long spoke of the shaky 'condition -of the. Kaupokonui bridge. . TKe 1 BoaaJd' has ordered timber <for Btrengthening-the 'strucr-, ture, but it has not yet' come, to hand. Some time ago a notice was put up to the effect, that the bridge was unsafe for traffic exceeding two tons, but no notice'has been taken of this warii»iig'. The Board now .notifies that 30cwt' is the limit that cam be carried with safety. Cbirriers should recognise that- the Bridge is distinctly dangerous. • * The Rev. Mr Hammond, at the farewell social to Rev. S; , _J. Gibson on Tuesday ■night, stated that the- Maoris from -Whito Chffe to Wellington had recently held a meeting to choose a candidate for. Parliament, and had, docided, providing^ they could get the consent of the, church, they would nominate the- Rgv, Mr Haddon. The matter had beejt^iriJntianed to Mr Haddon, but he_ iref used, paying : "There was a higher House lKe*jdjq|ired to serve. He had been ox^ainedit^jejp God's work, and he would', fulfil lis^niibsion," During ; m : the, fareweft: social td the' •Re.v..Olr/Gjfli»6n,, at the Methodisfr Church yon Tuesday ivight, Mr HutcHens, choirmaitei-p. presented MW Borne, who is leaving\'*h* diritrict, with an engraved* silver kettle and stand, as <v <mark<of 'the 1 : members" appreciation of her .services ;lo the choir. Mr McAlpine, oh\. behalf of #Jic members, pre « se(nted t? Mrs Hratchens, who is leaving Hawexa on a trip to the Molher Country, witH a purse of sovereigns, wishing her a pleasant trip and a , speedy . return. , Admiral Robley Evansj commander of the U' 4 S. fleet now an'itsVay to the Pacific; '.has a story to.iell <thg,if interest- ling, in^ewsoOhe relations : of the United- States and; Sapati, and his momentous Pacific cruise (says' an.exchange)., ylt- illHstratee how briskly the Japanese /-assimilate European methods, and manners. "When I commanded the New Yorjk, some years ago," says the Admiral, VI had a Jap. - servant,' with v whom I was specially pleased. He Was prompt, remarkably quick to Jear'n ? . and took such deep interest* in everything that sometimes, • just "to '-amuse 'myself,.-1 1 devoted oiotf a little time to explaining! things that *jhe did not seem, to "understand, A * igood waiter,- too, he was. Well, finally*, my Jap. disappeared. Some ■time later, v^hen on the, EJuropean-station^ I made a call on a Japanese battleship m the harbor of Marseilles. The' cap-, tain met ue in the gangway and. escorted' us to his caßin. When we -we're seated, he suddenly turned, threw off his 'hat,' whroped . a f ipkin under his arm, and said to me^ 'The Admiral would eat?' 'Kato!' I crl< d, recognising him immefH* ately as my <Id servant 'The some, he renlied, bowiig. , 'Captain. Kato. of the Mikado's t nav r, at your service.' '-'►• Gibsons Ltd.' 'will be open all day Saturday ,nex< until. 9 p.m. — Adyt. Particulars .f Mr Newton King's Stratford autumn Jb'ullock fair are advertised. Nomination^ for election 'of office-, 'bearers tor ugmonb A, and P.. Association, ■^rill ,be neoeived by the Secretary up too p:m. of Ttesday, April 21. "- The offertories at St. Mark's Church, Kaponga, fan Easter Sunday are to be handed to /the vicar. Tenders kre invited by Hawem County Council for erection of concrete culvert' &nd for supply' and 'delivery of crushed metal. | --„.'" STRONG LAMBS.— Heaithy JHoggiets, Increased/ Clip secured by using "Vermo,cifte," tbf -famous internal parasite "destroyer afid tonic. . Its tonic- properties are esperihliy valuable, ac besides killing and paa-asites Jit ojierates im•"mediately ■ in, buiidiiau: -up\ ; th© - . system, and so prevents fresh attack. Prepared by the^A. and P. Food "Co., Ltd. OBtainablf from Barmßyi and Cole, Hawera. — Adv4 " , You/ need not suffer with pains in the cheitjafter eating. 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