The Association football social to have been held at Auioa next Wednesday has been postponed till Wednesday, June 10. It is understood that Mr Marx is going further afield than Hawera ward, and intends to hold a meeting at Opunake among other places. In the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday, May 26, the Salvation Army will exhibit a series of biorama pictures. There will also be several musical items. Mr W. Fox, who is well known in Taranaki, informed a Stab, {representative on Friday that he intends to contest the Western Maori -seat with the ' sitting member, Mr H. Kaihau, at the general election in December. Notification is '■ made that a Masonic bail is to be held in the Opera House on Wednesday, June 17. A limited number of tickets will be issued to non-members. Particulars are contained in advertisement. Sir Joseph Ward is visiting Taranaki next week. He is to open the Technical School at Patea on Monday, and to perform a similar function,' at filtham on Tuesday, delivering a political speech in ,the evening. On Wednesday morning the Premier proceeds to New Plymouth. Mr J. G. Wilson, President of the Colonial of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, who has been attending the provincial conference at Auckland, was a passenger for the South by thorn morning's express. Mr W. M. Singleton, Government cheese instructor, was also a passenger. Both gentlemen visited the Ruakura State Farm,; A meeting of ratepayers is to be held at Rahotu on Tuesday next to discuss haTbor matters. The, meeting is the outcome of .the deputation to the iNew Plymouth Harbor Board; last Friday, when we (Opunake Times) understand Mr Newton' King challenged Messrs McKeown and' Moore to call a meeting at Rahotu, which he would attend,' and that he felt si|ie he could carry a: majority agriirist theni> It was finally settled that both; .sides should join in calling the aneeitmgl Wilh Btioh big gulfa on the scene there should be a lively time. The 1 * views of the! alien, concerning Policy Court ( procedure are sometimes interesting -(says the, XDtago Daily Times). A Cjhinaman vrM chaTged at Dunedon with*' crossing a city, street intersection .iaster than at a walking pace. He pleaded somewhat that his horse, was old and lame, and had been frightened intoi rapid motion by a iramcur. ■ The Magistrate explained V"_g situation in a friendly way ' n< j g^j the aqoused. ss, v&£ Js « Yes ... remarked the cetestAalj as he stepped down, "that the way .you hlakft money. " With New Zealand about to embark on an expenditure of £100,000 for irrigation in Central Otago, it is interesting iQ iea,rj] what the South' African colony hopes to do in this direction. «Mr H. Browne, a West Coast resident, who "Went to South Africa for •engineering expe.rienes fcfryen yeave ago, has returned to the DomiiiiicHl, and gave a Now Zealand Times representative" some information about the work in which he' had been engaged. The sum of £60,000 is being spent by the Transvaalers, simply in sur- ' veys and exploiatiom for irrigation schemes, and 1 it is intended to allocate £400,000 of a £5,000,000- loan now being raised in London to carry out * the irrigation schemes. Large areas of 'the Northern Transvaal, thirsting for water, V will probably be irrigated within - fivc\ years, and the scheme will be enormously extended if it proves — as it is expected it will — that cotton growing can ' be carried on successfully.* ' Tobacco / cultivation is also beingVencouraged ''in the Northern- Transvaal, the ' Milner Administration, which , preceded the* representative constitution, having established at Tzaneen a tobacco factory with machinery to bum out 10,000 cigarettes a At their Stratford yards on Wednesday, Messrs Ypung, Hpbbs^nd Co. will sell 500 head j£yf y On We<iES«a^^l^%3rM^i:«Lßarmby and (>lepM"#;oarfff^^g .sjtle on behalf of? "^f-3aftßS'^Br<Jwn,' Argyle street. MOUNT^^Kltf G^ASTS&A POWDER , Asthma i&patafuTand cxhtfusting, enervating' afli^ -: %)Bti«ssing.. Why. suffer when relief can be%n 7 «dti>diately obtained by the use of that*^truly wonderful remedy, Mountain King Asthma Powder, which gives prompt and refreshing relief. Use Mountain King Powder ; it never fails. Obtainable all good chemists and stores. 2s 6d.— Advt. You need jtot suffer with pains in the chest after eating. Take Pearson's Pepto oa'or. . J
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 23 May 1908, Page 4
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801Page 4 Advertisements Column 7 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 23 May 1908, Page 4
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