LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 31 May 1909, Page 4

LOCAL A ND GENERAL.

A reminder is given of the householders' meeting to be held at the Hawera District High School this evening. The number of dead sheep strewn about a certain paddock near Oeo suggests that dogs have been having a vicious time. Captain Morrison, of the Hawera Mounted Rifles, has passed his major's examination, and has been granted a certificate accordingly. At the meeting of the Opunake branch of the Farmers' Union on Saturday the Secretary reported a credit balance of about £15. Mr Cross, delegate to> the recent Provincial Conference, referred to the remits that had been adopted, which members would have seen, by the press reports. A rabbit-trapping competition . took place in Victoria recently. Two experts were pitted against each other for £5 aside, and the winner was to have all the rabbits caught in the contest in addition. They worked country close to one another, and in nine days the winner brought 440f pairs of rabbits, the loser being two behind him. Teams representing Patea and Hawera District High Schools played a friendly hockey match at Hawera on Saturday, when the visitors were victorious by one goal to nil. The Patea team was a little heavier than the Haweja team, and played with better combination. The Hawera team, however, has only been in existence for about three weeks, and as it/ was their first match they put up a remarkably plucky fight. As there is some good material among the players the team should soon develop into a fairly strong combination.- Mr S. McDonald refereed. The Charles Wesley bi-centenary celebration at the Methodist Church on Sunday evening proved a most attractive service. Rev. Mr Boys was the preacher, and ho dealt very vividly' with the life 1 story of the great Methodist poet, with which he also associated a description of the social conditions prevailing in England when John and Charles Wesley became identified with the Methodist movement. All the hymns in connection with the service, of which many were interspersed throughout the sermon, were the work of Charles Wesley, as was the anthem by the choir, "A Charge to Keep I Have," and a solo by Miss Strack, "Jesu, Lover of My Soul." • The proprietors of Wolfe's schnapps are advertising a caution to any person guilty, of refilling their bottles with other spirit and retailing it as Wolfe's. Under th© Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act of 1908 such an offence is punishable by a term of imprisonment up to two years. The proprietors offer a reward of £50 for information leading to a conviction, and notify that information may be given to their solicitors, Messrs Chapman and Tripp, 4 of Wellington. "What! Would you have a £7000 building pulled down because it encroaches three inches on a right-of-way?" exclaimed Mr/ Justice Cooper in the Wellington Court, during the hearing of a claim for an injunction. I can't help noticing that you have applied for a mandatory injunction, when you could have moved • for an interlocutory injunction in the case of a building costing that amount. A mandatory injunction weuld compel the defendants to pnlf down such a building." "We don't want to pull the building down," explained counsel; "we only want to shave three inches from the wall." "Shave three inches off a brick wall!" said the Judge; "you can't shave three inches off a wall without pulling the building down. Why do you want to pull a £7000 building down, when you can get adequate damages?" Counsel contended that the encroachment that had taken place had been deliberate, and, therefore, the offending party should be punished. The matter is "".settled. la the Wellington Arbitration Court a witness from Christchurch explaiaed, in simple fashion, how to keep a family of seven (including himself) on £2 12s 6d. He put in a statement to show tfhat his average weekly disbursements were £2 17s 6d, made up in th© following way : — Rent, 12s 6d ; coal, wood and lighting, ss; groceries, including butter and eggs, 14s; milk, 2s 3d; bread, 2s 9d ; fruit and vegetables, 3s ; meat and fish, 3s 6d; lodge and union dues, Is 6d ; newspaper, 6d ; sckool )ooks, 6d ; boots, clothing and replenishing household lineci, , 12s. When risked by Mr Justice Sim if he weje not in debt, witness said that a few pounds a year he got for work in connection with the union kept him just clear. None of the children were old enough to work. Doa't let headache spoil the day for you. Take one wafer of Steams' Headache Cure — it's tasteless — and very soon the pain is gone. Twenty million people use it. They know. Is a box. . *

The appreciation in value of tho Ruakura State farm since its was purchased by the Government is shown by the fact that as much as £70 an acrehas been recently offered for a portion, of the estate (says the Feilding Star). The lasiid uas purchased at an average* price of £6 17s an acre, a::d it is considered that if it were now placed in the market it would realise a-n averageof about £25 an acre. The funeral of the late Mr John Carter took place at the Elthain cemetery on Sunday. It was one of thelargest seen in Eltham. Messrs T. O. Hodgson, T. W. Corbett, C. J. Belcher,, and H. D. Forsyth, co-directors with deceased on the Eltham Dairy Co., were the pall-bearers. Rev. Mr Copeland (Wesleyan) conducted the funeral service. Members of the ManchesterUnity Order Oddfellows, of which deceased was a member, marched from the Eltham Lodge in mourning regalia. At the inquest on Friday a verdict was returned that death was due to heartfailure. ; Captain Cozens, who undertook to interest a Wellington audience in matters seafaring the other night, became facetious over the happy-go-lucky way in which dangers to navigation have • been discovered around our coasts in the absence of a systematic detailed survey. It appeared to be the custom, he said, to wait until things happened, and when a vessel struck an uncharted rock it secured the doubtful honor and glory of having the rock ever afterwards called by the ship's name. Thus we had on the East Coast the Hawea, Monowai, Tomoana, Tokomaru, and ' Waihora rocks, all of which had been "discovered" by these vessels. This, was how the surveying of New Zealand • coasts was being done! A writer in the Hawke's Bay Her- • aid protests vigorously against the ■ license given to lawyers when crossexamining witnesses In the witness- ■ box. "I have seen a poor servant girl,, who happened to be in the house when-, some rumpus occurred, and was called 1 as a witness," he says, "standing: trembling and crying in the box whilea brutal lawyer poured forth streams.--of contempt, sneers, insults and jeersupon her because her evidence was-; injurious to his client. And all thetime the Magistrate— a most kindly, courteous old gentleman in private^ life— sat by utterly indifferent to the poor girl's suffering. H word fromnun could have stopped i£ all, but a Me spent in a Police Court makes a man as unfeeling as a machine, and" the refinement of the private person is crushed by the pitiless tyranny of thelaw It 1S quite time that the victimsot the system should protest, and it is - through the press- alone that we can • make our voice heard. If every personwho has experienced the cruelty of cross-examination, as it is generally conducted, were to write his experiences, we might obtain some mitigation- v 6f this abuse." One of the witnesses giving evidencebefore the Wellington Arbitration Court . on behalf of the union's demands for' higher wages was comparatively new to^ New Zealand conditions of the trade, having been in this country only about12 months. In Leicester, on piece and/ day work, he earned 30s per week for~ 52* or 54 hours'- labor; ; he was now a dicker in receipt of £3 2s 6d per week. "But I do twice the work here," he. assured the Court. He believed, .with others, that a man .should eaVn accord--ing to his abilities, and, with a fine degree/of aplomb, he rated his own services at £4 per week— no less. Then,, he took the Court into his confidence and told a story of his first engagement!m New Zealand. While earning 45s a, week at one establishment, he looked" round for brighter prospects, finding them, at the same salary to begin with, with another firm. He suggested vivid- ■ ly to the Court his surprise when, aftery being in his new place but a short time he received 48s.- "Then I thought,"' said the witness, "that when an em-, ployer gave me a rise without asking • for it, it was time for me to go and ask' for one myself." He did, and the result • was another three shillings advance. This witness, to an interrogator, who; aske-d why a friend of witness's whowas an expert, stayed at Home, when 1 he could earn £5 per week in New Zea- ■ land, readied that a man did not neecV to "kill himself so much" at Home. "Don't you desire ta go back" then? 17 ' said the questioner, and the witness, betrayed by the shake of his head that £3 2s 6d was a Kttle more than 30s, and that 48 hours (or slightly less) in New Zealand, was rather more prefer.able to 54 in Leicester. The New Zealand Anti-Asiatic League intends to advocate the passage of legislation during the coming session' of Parliament, the object of which tV to make captains of vessels responsible" for Asiatics that have been wiffiilTv allowed to land from their ships. It is' also proposed that finger prints should ?£ £ •of all Asiati cs admitted to' the Dominion in order to facilitate the! detection of those who have evaded the poll tax. A further amendment of th* " law is proposed, the object of which i«% to restrict the hours of labor in businesses conducted by Asiatics, and theprevention of the registration of factories and laundries run by Asiatics,, unless the Asiatics are naturalised/ British subjects An amendment-of the Police Offence Act is also proposed, to make it penal for heads of families to allow their children to enter shops owned by Asiatics .unless accompanied by their parents. ' 'j* e object of the League is to realise the ideal of a whit* New Zealand, and to prevent the con~_ tammation of the race by intermixture, with Asiatics. Mr Cameron has just returned to Christchurch from a visit to the West Coast, where, he states, he" round the people unanimously in favor' of excluding Asiatics. A concert ana dance will take place in Te Roti Hall on June 4. It is announced in this issue that the hounds meet at 12.30 on Wednesday, J« ne 2, at Mrs 1 A. Johnstone's ' " "Westward," Ok-aiawa. Dalgety and Co.'s Waverley sale takes place on June 4. For chronic chest complaints. WoooV Great Pepper.min-t Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d. ' Many persons End themselves affect-, ed with a persistent cough after an attack of influenza. As this coxigh can be promptly cured by the use of Cham; berlain's Cough Remedy, it should not; bo allowed to run on until it becomes w troublesome. For sale by all chemists," and sterekeepers. — Advt.