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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 23 May 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AMD GENERAL. At the Methodist Church to-morrow evening the Rev. F. W. Boys will preach, taking 'for his subject, "He that is without sin among you. let him first cost a stone at heT." The climate at Muritai,/ a Wellington watering suburb, is so congenial (saye a CQjreflpondent <?f a Masterton paper) that flowm usually seen uri<tef glass are in full bloom out of doors. "My experience of day labor is that the men employed on that system are so slow that the head of a nail is rusted off beforeNt is driven in." — Mr Ritchie, at the " Wanganui Harbor Board. During the past two weeks over 100 tons of canned fruits were, sent away from the Frimley works, Hastings. The manager joi the works estimates that next season the works, will put through nearly 1000 tons of fruit. The Wanganui Education Board's net costs in the recent Supreme Court and appeal case with the Wanganui School Committee totalled about £17. In addition th© <josts allowed the Board against the committee amounted to about £70. A Pohangina settler who recently sold his f arm has purchased it at a £300 • addianco. He could not find a more suitable, property in' the North Island (says an exchange) thought he spent a considerable time on a. land-hunt. A, good' many of the potato crops in 1 the -n district (says .the iMastearton ' Daily* Times) are now being dug,-: and the i yield-, generally is found' to' be •&■■ poor tone*: This is due to the long- .stretch' of". day weather in the summer, which completely parched the plants. When the rain did come it was too late to be of any material benefit. . As a result of the low values of wool, it is statedi that there is scarcely a farmer in the Manawatu district who has drawn on the bank for advances on wool forwarded to London tut will have to refund part of his advance, his return being less than was estimated. The new. Judigeship of the Native Land Court has been conferred on Mr Eliot Roscoe Reeve, solicitor, of Auckland. Mr Reeve is a New Zealander by birth, and is about forty years of age. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, and was called to the Bar in 1897, since which date he' has-been practising in Auckland. It is satisfactory to know ' that the Hawera County Council has decided to take a poll on the tramway scheme. The f ropoial was held in abeyance until the larger question of the loan' proposals had been dealt- with. The Chairman promised that when that wab dome the tram scheme would be. submitted to r the vote of the ratepayers. Mr Budge, the. County Clerk, is arranging all the details necessary for the poll. 1 •, ■[ / „; . , The sweep business has. .'been 7 damaged to some extent by the Gaining Act of last year,- but it is astonishing to see how easily Tatfcersall's tickets • ore' still procured, and how widely- they are distributed in New Zealand (says the Lyttelton Times). The plain envelopes with the big purple Tasmanian stamp and the Hobart postmark are to be noticed in all sorts of unexpected places. They appear amongst the correspondence of most business firms, the addressees being employees in the great majority of .cases. They may evan be Been displayed in the letter racks in Government offices. The man who desires to waste his substance in this particular form of riotous living hands his money over to certain persons who are discovered without much difficulty, and it proceeds to Hobart by moans of channels regarding which he does not have to enquire. Then in due time the ticket arrives through the post, and later the same medium supplies .a list of the winning numbers. TheTe seems to be no particular reason why the Postal Department should not malce use of the powers 1 given in its regulations to discourage the practice. Any addressee may be required^ by the postal officials to open in their presence any letter which they have reason to suspect' deals. with illegal ll transactions,, and all' officer of, average' intelligence could us© this power without" interfering to any extent with business and personal oonunutticationa from Tasmania. , i .Look aft James and Gillman's list o f properties on page T. — Advt.