LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 9 September 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is understood that the Rev. Mr Klingender (Manaia) and Mr C. A. Strack (Hawera) are organising a committee to arrange for another memorial service next year at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu. A written examination of all noncommissioned officers of the 4th Wellington Rifle Volunters who have held their acting appointments for six months will be held this month, the dates for this district being: Eltham Rifles, September 17; Hawera Rifles, September 23. To 200 of the Hawera District High School pupils 600 packages of garden seeds are now being distributed for homo, gardening. Mr Strack (headmaster) also intends tp distribute 300 packages among the Maoris in the dis.trict, and to forward 300 to the Wanganui Education Board for distribution among pupils for school gardening. The speeds are worth about £15, and have been donated by various persons. The Acting-Minister for Defence (Hon. R. McNab), in a telegram to Lieutenant-Colonel Bauchop, C.M.G., Officer Commanding the Wellington District, thus referred to the memorial service held at.Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu on Sunday: —"The gathering was an immense success, and went off without a hitch. The Rev. Mr Klingender well deserves the congratulations he has received, and also those who were associated with him in the proceedings. The estimate of those present is probably 3000. The gathering was one of the most unique successful in the history of Taranaki." ' ' c N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. advertise particulars 'of their Opunake and Kakaramea stock sales. Look at West Coast' Farmers* _roparty K»t en pdfce 3.^-»4dvtyv*"" "'

The fortnightly parade of the Hawera Rifles on Tuesday evening was attended by 30 members, Captain Wilkie in command. Lieut. Wright and Staff Sergt.-Major Sanderson were also present. A reminder is given of the "Tennyson" entertainment in the Opera House this evening in aid of St. Mary's pipe organ fund. The unique programme arranged^ together with the object of the concert, should attract a big house. Mr Maxwell telegraphs that both Harbor Bills have been approved by the Local Bills Committee of the Legislative Council, but a clause has Keen inserted in the Opun'ake Bill, to secure that the board on taking over the jetty from the company shall pay compensaiton. The agricultural officials in Queensland have discovered instances of contagious inflammation of the udder having been transmitted by milking machines. Owners are being warned to milk cows by hand if they show, any signs of udder trouble, to take care to disinfect the machines, and also to be sure that cattle purchased are free from udder disease. Kaponga spring show in aid of the Methodist Church promises to excel last year's initial effort. The show will open at 2 p.m. to-morrow, and will continue till Friday night, when a grand concert will be given by new performers to Kaponga," assisted by local talent. The wants of the inner man will be cared for in such a way that the refreshment room should draw large crowds. In the early hours of Monday evening the tills in the fruit shops of Sing Lee and Ah Chang were rifled, the contents, amounting to about £4 in gold and silver, being abstracted. About 10 o'clock on Tuesday evening the till of a fruit shop belonging to Mrs Smith was removed. It was subsequently found with only a few pence in it, 20s in silver having been taken away by the thief. The police have the matter in hand. The series of Victoria assemblies held throughout the dance season in Hawera was concluded last night, when another highly successful and enjoyable evening resulted. There was a large attendance, and capital music was supplied by Mr W. E. Bennett, assisted by Mr A. Jones. The M.'sC. were Messrs G. Meyrick and G. Mitchell. The following were the ladies acting^ as committee during the season, and who are to be complimented on the'successful functions held: Mesdames Young, Carter, G. Johnson, G. Meyrick, and Misses Chadwic'k and Young. • The gentlemen mentioned also assisted for the same period. As a "wind up" a 'complimentary social is to be tendered j to invitation holders on September 22,. | The Mayor (Mr H. -W. Sutton) and the Chairman of the Hawera County Council (Mr Goodland) have received the following telegram from the Premier :—lt: — It is desired that the first anniversary of Dominion Day should be fittingly celebrated on Saturday, September 26, and in connection with this the Education Boards throughout the Dominion are being asked to assist by having a muster of the children at the respective schools at 11 o'clock in the morning of that day to salute the flag and receive the Dominion medals. In the principal centres arrangements are being made for a military^ review during the afternoon. In "other towns where corps exist it is also desired that the volunteers should turn out and have a military ceremonial. I should be glad if your Council and the citizens would co-operate with the Government in making the ceromony in your town or district successful: The following programme winch is being arranged for Wellington rkkyL-be of some assistance to you in f raining your arrangements. At 11 o'clock all 'the schools muster at the Basin Reserve, salute the flag and receive medals; at two o'clock in the afternoon the troops, march through the principal streets to Newtown Park, where a review will be held. A resident of Wellington who spent many years sheep-farming in Central Otago expresses the opinion that the increased productiveness anticipated as a result of the saturation of the soil by the snowstorm would in no way compensate for the loss of stock. "As a matter of fact," he adds, " it will only balance the loss to farmers by the last two seasons of excessive drought." He further stated that as yet it wasimpossible to estimate the losses. Many sheep were already lost in the drifts, but those that were left had now to face the ordeal of spring. In their enfeebled condition, the effect would be be that when the new herbage began to grow they would "scour" and die wholesale, whilst the ewes would have a particularly bad time at lambing, and the death rate would be enormous. We always looked on September and October as the trying months of the year, especially for ewes, in any season, and particularly after a wet winter," said he, "and this has been the worst winter Central Otago has ever had." 1 It is advertised that the Otago-Tara-naki Rugby representative teams will play at Hawera on September 16, the match to commence at 2.15 p.m. A cheap sheep farm in the Waitotara district is advertised for sale by Mr C. E. Major, land broker, Hawera. We again draw attention to* the advertisement published by the Public Trustee, in which he notifies the opening for lease of a number of sections, being part of the West Coast Settlement Reserves lands. The sections are of handy size for small settlements, und the term's, are liberal. Mr Nicol, sight specialist, in another column notifies his, intention of' being in " Hawera from Saturday next to Thursday, September 17. He is recognised as being eminently capable of improving the sight, and" has already earned an excellent name in Hawera as a specialist. Those with poor vision or those who suffer from eye-strain should certainly invoke his : aid when he comes here. Mrs L. Peters, Miramar, Wellington, N.Z., says: f'l can safely recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy to anyone suffering .from pains in the stomach. A few days ago my little boy, aged 6 years, was suffering agony with this complaint. I only gave him a few doses of Chambertain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and he was soon well and has not been troubled since. I think this remedy should be kept in every Home." For sale by all chemists and! stbre-ke«psrß,.--Advt. ■ ]

Mr Astbury advertises that the address to have been given by him at the Fraser road school has been postponed owing to its clashing with a local affair. An address at Matapu Hall will be delivered on Monday, September 14.

Evidently it is time something more definite should be known about historical places in Taranaki. The following is from the Wellington Post: — "Among the memories for ever consecrated in the history of New Zealand is the brilliant but brief career of Lieu* ■ tenant Gustavus Ferdinand yon Tempsky, who, after- signal services in tho wars of the , 'sixties, fell to a bullet from a Maori rifle on the 7ih September, 1866, while leading- an attack on a Maori stronghold near Okaiawa, \ Taranaki. The exact spot on a cUffV* overlooking the Waingongoro river is marked by a cross. Here, at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu as the place is called, an. anniversary service will be held on Monday." If we said that the site of the projected Seddon monument was on a cliff at Kawai Flat overlooking Wellington harbor we should be about as near the mark geographically as tho Post is in the information it gives Wellington readers.

Remarkable bravery and presence of • mind were recently shown by a six-year-old boy named John ■ Collins, the son of a farm laborer living at Marden, Kent (says the- Daily Mail). Several children were" playing on the^ side of a stream, when' Isabel Briant^ a girl aged seven, fell into five feet orj water. Thereupon a panic ensued among the other childnm, who ran off crying to tell her parents, but the boy (John Collins) displayed the utmost, I coolness and presence of mind. Breaking a long branch from an ash-sucker near by, he quickly ran along a plank, only eleven inches wide, held the branch' out to the drowning girl," who was able to grasp it. Then, walking along the narrow plank, the boy pulled the girl fourteen feet through the water to some ',brickwork, where, after a hard struggle, he succeeded in land-. ing her just as the terrified parents, came running to the spot. In giving his version of .the rescue, the little hero remarked, "When she got hold of the stick she did swim."