LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 24 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kapiti sailed from Wellington for Patea. at 4 p.m. oil Monday.

Mr Newton King has received the following cable from his Sydney agent re hides: "Farthing lower."

A public meeting will be held in Kaponga Town Hall on May 27 of those interested 'in securing a daily bank for Kaponga.

One of the old veterans presented to His Excellency at the Hawera railway station on Monday was questioned as to the absence of a medal, and he explained that he had lost it some years ago. His Excellency advised the veteran to communicate with the authorities at Wellington, and promised to look into the matter of replacing the lost token. The quarterly summoned meeting of Hawera Lodge, U.A.0.D., was held on Monday c\ r ening, when the Arch-Druid (Bro. J. W. Harding, jun.) presided. There were 40 members present, and the icceipts for the evening amounted tk) £61. Four new members were initiated, and two propositions were received. The nominations of officers for t.ic ensuing Six months brought forth a Dig field of candidate.? for the respective chants, and the ballot will take place next lodge night.

A special meeting of the Hawera Hospital Board was held on Monday. In attendance were Messrs Tarrant, Goodland, Duirs, Bridge, Tayler and Phillips. Mr Bridge was voted to the chair. Dr Mac Gibbon's successor (Dr Thomson) was appointed to act as medical superintendent until the Board deal with applications for the position, which will be at next ordinary meeting. It was decided to advertise for a medical superintendenit at the same salary (£175) as was paid to Dr Mac Gibbon. A proposal to pay £250, moved by Mr Taylor and seconded by Mr Phillips, was defeated.

Typewriting class at Hawera Technical School to-night. A meeting will bo held in Manaia D.H. School on Thursday, Juno 2nd, at 7.30 p.m. to arrange re formation of classes. *

i<or influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d — Advt.

A party of Riverlea farmers and their wives visited the State Farm at Moumahaki on Monday. They had an enjoyable and profitable outing.

The Maoris' annual dance will take place in Manaia Town Hall on May 26. A meeting of those interested in the formation of croquet and tennis lawns in Joll Memorial Park will be held in Okaiawa Town Hall on May 26 at 8 p.m. A reminder is given that the polling for the vacant seat on the Hawera Borough Council takes place to-morrow at the Council Chambers. Polling hours, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The candidates are — Messrs G. Easton and R. J. Hughes.

It was mentioned at the Hawera Technical School Committee meeting on Monday afternoon in connection with the success that Tias attended the beekeeping class and beekeeping generally in the district, that a Wellington man had recently bought 75 hives for beefarming in South Taranaki, and intendei: going up to 1000 hives.

The Opera House was comfortably filled in all parts on Monday evening when the Cooper and Ma^dermott proprietary submitted a capital entertainment which met with approbation. The Operascope moving pictures were exceedingly good, and covered a wide range of interesting subjects. One of the best sea projections submitted to a Hawera audience was that depicting a torpedo attack on a British Dreadnought. It was certainly a realistic subject. "Scene" in Japan", was a good educative film, while "The Panther of Bengal," "The Outlaw," and "An Englishman's Home" were all splendid dramatics. "A Moonlight Dream," "The Wishbone," and "At Home Day" were laughable comic studies. A clever faked projection was "Madam Hold's

Puppets." The Blaudhards delighted the audience with their excellent musical turns on the Westminster chimes, the orchestra bells, and sleigh bells. Miss Hettie Rosedal© contributed a couple of pleasing serio-comic vocaL items. There will be a new programme to-night.

In the course of a letter from Oamaru a correspondent writes : — ' 'Mile after mile I've reeled off through poor and uninviting country that they tell me is 'grazing land,' but my informants didn't know that I once lived in a grazing district that is worthy of the name, and if some of the unfortunates who have grazing runs in Central Otago could only see Hawera and its green paddocks and sleek stock they'd think you people were indeed in a blessed region. Imagine miles of country and scarcely any stock (sheep) to be seen, and no green blade showing anywhere, badly watered, and rabbits! .Talk about rabbits. And these are the friends to the poor man, ' oractically che only product of the soil in so rau«Ji of the country: despised rabbits. My mind goes back to the bad. old days in Taranaki when I used to skirmish round the clearing looking for fungus; despised fungus. And yet it was the staple product of my land just as the rabbits seem to be in so much of the inland high country in Otago."

Those sections of the Bankruptcy Act, as well as of the Distress und Replevin Act, which allow of a landlord effecting distraint for rent against a *bankrupt between the time of the official adjudication in bankruptcy and the advertising of the fact, were commented upon by Mr Justice Edwards in Auckland in giving judgment in a case in point. His Honor remarked that the distress in such circumstances was a gross injustice to creditors, but, unfortunately, the state of the law permitted such action. Possibly some notice would be taken of his comments in this regard. He repeated that it was a gross injustice upon creditors that a landlord

should come two or three hours after a debtor had been adjudicated bankrupt, and after the official assignee "has adtually taken possession of his effects. The Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C., who appeared for the official assignee, said the only thing -he could do was to endeavor to get an amendment of the Act.

A licensing test case of, an unusually interesting nature will come before the Magistrate's Court' at Masterton on Friday, May 27, when William George Lamb will be charged at his ,own re-

quest with selling liquor and keeping it for sale within the no-license area- of Masterton. Mr Lamb contends that on account of the fact that his wine is manufactured from New Zealand-grown grapes no breach is committed, and iv order that a test case may be brougit before the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Masterton he has asked Sergeant Miller to witness an alleged breach of the Act. The whole point of the proceedings lies in the fact that the Licensing Act of 1881 provides that that Act shall not apply to wine made from prapes grown in New Zealand. In opposition to thatj the Alcoholic Liquors Control Amendment Act of 1895 provides that liquor shall not be sold in a no-license area, no distinction being made between New Zealandgrown liquors and others. These two Acts have since been consolidated (in the year 1908), embracing the conflicting clauses. The information is laid under the later Act, and Mr Lamb's contention, under legal advice, is that he is not prohibited from selling; as the Act of 18S1 has not been repealed. ,

The pleasures of a cosy home are not complete without those toothsome delicacies which are the handicraft of a clever cook. The Home Cookery section at the National Dairy Show specially provides classes for the many who are skilful in making bread, scones, toffee, plain and fancy cakes, and the reward" offered are quite substantial for each class, with a handsome most points prize of £2 2s. Quite out of the common are the easy conditions for showing bottled fruits and preserves, the whole section is made up of one and up to three bottles in different classes with very acceptable prizes of ten shillings for first prize and five shillings for second prize. _ A points prize of_ £1 Is goes to the winner of this section. The home department at the National D.airy Show is always a popular one. The nidge this year is Mr J. Godber, of Wellington. For a list of the attractive prizes write to the Secretary, Mr J. C. Lane, Palmerston North.

.All southern n; vision Association football fixtures were postponed during the past fortnight, and the first round of cup matches commences this week. As Hawera Club have an off day on Wednesdaj a practice match will take place.

Fireside T'lionoaraplJ Ts the one bis hit: the bfst seller of the season Only

Ladies' Woven Underwear for Winter was never so attractively displayed at any store as it is at "The Economic." Mr Spence has bought large stocks of these goods and there is such a variety that any woman can choose quickly and satisfactorily. An important point to note about this AVoven Underwear is the very low prices that arc asked. W. Spence, The Economic, Hawera. — Advt.

Nature's Embrocation. ROCKE'S Eucalyptus Oil. The finest that Australia produces. There's "something" distinctive about "ROCKE'S." 2

A very good view of_ the comet should be obtained this evening, given clear weather. The moon will rise totally immersed in the earth's shadow, from whi. "i it will begin to emerge at 5.30^ As ft will take an hour for the shadow to pass there should be at least another half an hour during which the brightness of the comet will not be very consideiably imnnired by her light. M•. Jennings, M.P., has given noticeto wove at the next meeting of theTaranaki School Commissioners: "That after taking into full consideration thesuitability of lands that are thrown open by the commissioners, no holder of a lease that exceeds in land area thelimitation "imposed by the Land Act shall be allowed to take up furtherlancJ.''

Me H. Baily, , representing the Opunakt- Motor Transport Co., waited om Taranaki County Council ->n Monday regarding the reduction of fees charged at the Puniho toll-gate for the passageof the company's waggons. He pointedout that the motor-waggons carried a. minimum of two tons, whilst the horsewaggons carried up to thrge tons. The* motor-waggons paid 5s a trip, and the-liorse-waggons 2s 6d a trip. The company had paid £55 7s 6d in tolls in the last four months, and the annual charges were going to amount to £180' a year, or thereabouts. Councillors, were in favor of reducing the charge to' the company provided the revenue of the riding could be conserved, and CrAndrews gave notice to move that thecharge on the motor-waggons be reduced to 2s 6d. 'A committee was set upto enquire into the working of the present schedule.

Ib is a truism that history repeats itself — it would almost seem as if parables had the same peculiarity. A certain incident wh^ch occurred recently at Normanby appears to bear a striking, resemblance to one of the most familiar,, which relates that the excitse given byone who scorned the invitation was to' the effect that he had married a wifeand therefore he could not come. Recently the Young Men's Social Club mi connection with the Presbyterian V M.B.C. in Normanby issued invitation^ for a banquet to open their new rooms. Amongst the replies was received the following: "Re your invitation to banquet on the 19th inst., in roplv I beg to J;ate that any banquetthat is not good enough for any man's; wife, to attend 's not the proper function for the husband to attend.'* "Cashed again," someone muttered.

A story of how two Parisian boulevardiens proved the gullibility of the puWic is told by the Daily Telegraph'sParis correspondent. They bet a friend £40 that by inserting three advertisements of three lines in papers in the course of a week they would, receive £20 without giving any explanation oe making any promise to the senders. On a Saturday the following advertisement appeared: "Intelligent persons will send five francs to such an address." On the Wednesday the insertion ran: "Last possible day is Sunday. Send your five • francs then, or. refusal." The third on the following Saturday was: "All five francs posted after to-morrow will beinexorably refused." By the Sunday morning seventy-seven postal orders for 4s' each had come in, and the next morning eighty-two more arrived. The gullible public had sent in not 500fr, but 795fr in a week. Having proved their point and won their bet, tne two boulevardiers naturally returned thepostal orders to the ingenuous senders.

The county tell-gate at Puniho was removed from its hinges m the early hours of Sunday morning,- 'taken about a hundredyards away, chopped up, and burned. The tax-collector and his wife, sleeping about five yards away, werenot disturbed, so the thing must have beer very cleverly done. Cr Andrews, in importing this to the County Council on Monday (says the News) described it ay "a neat job, well done." The perpetrators went prepared with screw wre.* dies and crowbars, ac said, and ever nad a bottle of kerosene to assist in the burning. Cr Hill said he couldn't call it a "neat trick." H was a mosb discreditable action. Cr Andrews said he had been expecting this to happen for some time, for the toll-collector was> hardly popular with the people down theie , Looking at the remains of th©gat* he had come to the conclusion that the man who cut it up was a bushman and that his axe was keen as' a razor. The affair took place somewherebetv een one o'clock and half-past two on Sunday morning, at which hour a small boy near by noticed the glare of the fire. Upon the motion of Cr Allanson it was decided to plaes the matter of the destruction of the gate in thehands of the police, and bhat a reward of £10 be offered for information leading to the conviction of the parties concerned.

You cfemnot hope to succeed when your health is always poor — you mustnave enthusiasm — to have that you must have energy — Steams' Wine of Cod Liver Extract supplies it. 16

£500 given away.— Reliance Blue (bag or square) keeps linen snow white. All Grocers and storekeepers. — Advt.