LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Premier's meeting at Dargaville on Saturday night, Mr A: E. Harding, formerly Opposition member fo,. the district, moved that the Premier should be merely thanked for his address. This was seconded by Mrs Harding, but when put to the meeting only three hands Aiere held up in its favor, says the report which has reached us. A vote of confidence in the Ministry was carried with cheers.

Fresh eggs were selling recently in Greymouth at the rate of three shillings per dozen —3d' each.

During the past six months a Wellington meat company handled two million carcases of mutton, a record as far as the meat works of New Zealand are concerned.

At a recent meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council it war, decided to plant the various reserves thi'oughout the county with trees suitable for bridge and culvert purposes. The reserves are to be fenced.

Thirty-five members of the Masterton A. and P. Association have agreed to become life members by paying £10 in one sum to the funds of the association.

As there is no monetary allowance for garrison bands under the new defence scheme, the garrison bands have had to retire from the defence force, and either disband or become civilian bands.

A special meeting of the Hawera NoLicense League was held in Wesley Hall on Monday evening, when Mr H. Halliwell presided. The Rev. iJ. R. Shore and the Rev. Mr Mclvor (Waverley) were appointed delegates to attend the" annual convention of the New Zealand Alliance, to be held in Wellington this month. Mr W. Cody (Patea) was appointed as emergency delegate. This was all the business. I

A very pretty sight, no doubt one of many m South Canterbury, is to be seen near Winchester,1 on the farm of Mr A. Russell (says the Timaru Herald). This is a nine-acre paddock of turnips being fed off by 1300 wethers. The correspondent of the Herald measured the turnips carefully,, and found that the yfeld was 60| tons to the acre.

The experimental work on the improvement of cereals being carried out under the supervision of Jr Hilgendorf at Lincoln College (says +«ie Lyttelton limes) is progressing satisfactorily, and the college hopes in two or three' years to be in a position to supply pure types of wheat and oats.

It is understood (says the Blenheim correspondent of the Press) that several large estates in the Marlborough district are to be subdivided in the near future. Preparations are well: on- the way in some cases, and there is a definite prospect of a considerable- area of closer settlement land being offered shortly.

Ihe farm and crops at Lincoln College during last year were inspected by over 20 farmers (says the> Lyttelton Times), among whom were 60 from the South Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Associations. The consensus of opinion was that the college was fulfilling its object as it was teaching the students the principles off'scientific agriculture and how they should be applied in a commercial manner on the farm.

During a recent thunderstorm in the Opotoki district, a thunderbolt descended at Paerata Ridge, striking the chimney of Mr E. C. Luxton's, residence. It smashed up about two feet of the upper portion of the chimney, and then struck the stove of the room in which Mr Luxton was sitting. Kettles and other utensils on the stove were scattered in a f directions, and were battered and rvisted almost beyond recognition. Mr > n.xton, who was sitting near the stove, lad a narrow escape, says the Poverty Lay Herald.

The State Statistician reports that the • anufacfcories and works in New South T»7ales number 5048, an increase of 220 «m the previous year. The employees number 108,777, an increase of 9031, Lhe number of males being 83,258, an increase of 6839, and females 26,519, an increase of 2182. The wages aggregated £10,044,494, an increasa' of £1,353,----IUo.

The atfau'al tea and social in connection with the Normanby Presbyterian Church will take place on Wednesday 19th instant.

Mr Vernon Reed, the Liberal member for the Bay of Islands, holds the opinion that Mr Massey will come into power when the House meets, and remain there.

It may interest those who are interested in land values to know that Mr John Reid, of Little River, who has been farming for fifty-one years on Banks' Peninsula, Canterbury, has just sol-! his Little River dairy farm of 024 acres to Mr Geo. Barclay for £20 per acre. The Arawa, which left for London last week, took 5619 crates of cheese, including 2079 crates from Patea and 377 crates from New Plymouth. William Joseph Owen, aged 50, a resident of Gisborne, went to town on Saturday evening, and did not return. His wife found him lying dead on the verandah afc 3 a.m. Heart disease is believed fco be the cause of his death. At the Arbitration Court at Gisborne on Saturday morning the chief business was the general laborers' application for an award for wages at the rate of ]s 3d per hour. After hearing evidence the Court adjourned. According to the Voice of -Labor, Waihi is just now a veritable shrine of liberty. At present (sayt the Voice) "the whole town of Waihi is held up; no union man dare leave the town except by special permit issued by the officials of the Federation; no union man can enter the town but what his name, his business, and all about him becomes an object of consideration fey the revolutionary tribunal. No union man can i visit his neighbor, enter any office, store or private house, or hold conversation with anyone without his aetio/i being ! reported to the same tribunal." Mr Jas. E. Campbell, D.8.0.A., Sight Specialist, may be consulted at Mr J. ■ O'Hagan's, chemist, Eltham, to-mor-i row (Wednesday), and at Hawera, as usual, on Mondays and Thursday*. L. G. Grace advertises a second-hand piano and other lines for immediate sale. "W. H. and A. McGarry advertise particulars of some straight leases. "W. JEL and A. McGarry have a special advertisement about a dairy fawa with £100 cash. Alf. Parkes has taken ever tii& Maeksmithing business of Mr Prince at Auroa. The new term classes in dressmaking at Hawera meet to-night at 7.30, and on Friday morning 10-12. *

Newton King will sell dairy stock at Eltham road, Mangatoki, on June 27, and a dairy herd at his Stratford ja^ds on June 25.