LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A number of persons in Otago are making a living by trapping rabbits and selling them to poultry farmers, who utilise them as food for fowls. The League football organisers in Wellington state that they have enough members in Wellington to put three teams in the field. Labor "Union secretaries in Wellington state that there is a wrong impression being created regarding the labor market. Judging by their experience they consider the outlook for the winter not promising. "The statement that I have become a convert to the 55 per cent, majority on the local option issue is quite false," said Mr Russell (Minister of Internal Affairs) at Christchurch. "I was elected at last election as a supporter of the three-fifths majority, and I shall stand fast to that pledge during the present Parliament." Mr William Stoddart, rural postman, of West Newton, Cumberland, has finished a tramp of 325,000 miles, and retired after 55 years' connection with the service. He started as a lettercarrier, and for 20 years he covered 30 miles a day afoot, and for the next two decades regularly tramped 22 miles per day. Stoddart was formerly a great athlete, carrying off many prizes in Cumberland wrestling rings and at poleleaping. The Bradford Corporation made a i profit of £30,000 from grease recovered I from sewage last year, and new machinery for extracting marketable produce from the city's sewage has now been started. It is expected that at the new works at Esholt the annual profit : will be raised to £50,000. The total sales of these products up to last year reached £100,000.' Besides grease, a market has been found for the pressed cake which remains after the grease has beenl extracted. The second day of the Timaru races was a veritable "gold mine" to the police of Timaru, as far as by-law breaches were concerned, and the officers of the law made a good "haul." At the Magistrate's Court on Thursday (says the Timaru Post) there were no fewer than 21 charges of furious driving, either of motor -cars or motor cycles, preferred against 18 offenders, all the offences being committed on April 25, either on the way to or from the racecourse. In nearly all the cases the offenders were fined 20s and costs. In one case a fine of 10s was imposed, while in another the offender had to pay 40s and costs. Ladies interested in forming a class in cookery will meet at the Technical School on Tuesday, 21st inst., 7.30 p.m.* Classes in Bee-keeping and in Veterinary Science can be taken in Eltham, Hawera, and surrounding centres. Apply Director Hawera Technical School. * ' PRACTICAL AND USEFUL , PATENTS Bring wealth to their inventors if the ideas have been patented and exploited in the right way. You can learn whether or not your invention is patentable in our free booklet "Advice to Inventors." Henry Hughes, Ltd.,157 Featherston Street, Wellington. R; ' Two guineas for four lines of poetry! Read Tonkin'g's Linseed Emulsion intimation every Saturday amongst news»*

A Waipukurau land agent reports having sold, on account of various clients, £54,000 worth of property recently. About 15 occupiers of factories in the Hawke's Bay district have not registered their factories, and a list of them has been forwarded to Wellington with a view to prosecutions following. Miss M. Stoddart, whose water colors are so well and favorably known in local art circles nas (says the Christchurch Press) been notified by the Societe dcs Artiste Francais, of the acceptance of one~of her pictures for this year's exhibition in the Paris Salon. I Pillaging of cargo still continues, either during transit from Home or on the wliarves at Wellington (says the Pahiatua Herald)'. A Pahiatua bootmaker is a victim to the extent of goods valued at £24 on an indent order of boots and shoes. The Pahiatua Herald says that a medical man was told the other day by a patient living not a hundred miles from Hamua, that she did all the vegetable and flower gardening, milked eight cows night and morning, and looked after six menfolk's wants, kept a large eight-roomed house in order, and^was expected to go out and earn sufficient pin money for herself and family. One of a number of lads charged at the Waihi Court with failing to register sought to be funny at the expense of the bench, and when asked why he had not registered said he had religious objections in the matter. When asked by the magistrate what religion he professed, he replied^ a "Bush Baptist," and pressed to aenne the term, said, "One that has got more sense than to go down on his hands and knees." The magistrate promptly and firmly said he would stand no cheek or impudence, and that if defendant insulted a court | of justice he would have to go to gaol for 14 days. , ! At Wesley Church to-morrow the Rev W. A. Burley will preach both morning and evening. The evening subject is "Christ's Attitude to the Young." During the Aveek the mission at Gospel Hall, Princes street, has been well attended, Avith an apparently deepening interest. Messrs White-head and Isaac. Evangelists, will continue the mission at 7 p.m. to-morrow (Sunday), and it is expected that there will again be a large attendance. A cordial welcome is extended to all. The Eltham County Council invites tenders for the supply and delivery of metal. The fortnightly meeting of the U.A.0.D., Hawera Lodge, will be held on Monday at 7.30. The annual ball of the Okaiawa Football Club will be held on Wednesday, May 29. Weak and emaciated children gain strength rapidly by using Steams' Wine of Cod Liver Extract. Enriches the blood, increases the vitality, and strengthens the muscles. They like it, too.