LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 20 June 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—t There are about 100 workers' dwellings in the dominion at present, and the Labor Department is negotiating for fui'ther blocks of land for dwellings in Oamaru, Mosgiel, Franktoh, Napier, Wellington and other centres. A hermit sheep recently caught on the Mako Mako station, Tokomaru Bay, had a fleoce weighing 471b. Two locks of the fleece measured respectively 21in and 19in. A female teacher (says the Marlborough Express) whose appointment to a school in the Marlborough Sounds was approved by the Education Board last week is a full-blooded Maori. There was recently a pathetic case before the Waipawa Charitable Aid Board (says the Daiinevirke Evening News). A woman with several children was found trying to sell her bed shortly prior to her confinement to raise a small sum for her subsistence rather than apply for charitable aid. Though some business people in Napier are grumbling of the tightness of aioney (says the Daily Telegraph) it is interesting to note that there has been only one petition, in bankruptcy filed since August. One of the events of the season is announced by Mr J. C. Gillett in this issue. This is no other than a great mark-down sale, which commences at the busy store on Friday. Great bargains are promised all-comers. Look out for inset in to-morrow's Star. * An elderly woman had an uhpleAsant experience recently at Oamaru. She resides (says the North Otago Times) at the north end of the town, and had occasion to go to the front gate after dark. There faintness overcame her, or; I she fell down and lay all night in t'r.3 drenching rain. She'was found in tha morning by a passer-by, who assisted !-ei* into the house, and m response to r. yuo.stion later on as to how she felt s"iid she was pretty tough, although tyighness is not generally associated v.ich four-score years. Veterinary science classes are to be taken by Mr Raft, M.R.C.V.S., of Palinorston North, at fiawera, Patea, Eltliara, and Manaia centres. It is hoped to take a week's continuous instruction r>t each centre. *

A line of 135 lambs, off turnips, was sold recently from the Cheviot district to a freezing company for 19s 6d each. There is a good deal of building going on in Hawera just now. The value of permits issued by the Borough Engineer for the past month amounted to £5,655.The Salvation Army in New Zealand, formerly under Australia, is now independent, so far as the management of its own affairs is concerned, and Commissioner Richards is at its head. On the recommendation of the General Committee of the Hawera Borough Council on Wednesday evening, it was resolved to call applications for the position of Inspector of Nuisances at a salary of £3 per week Brown trout (says the Auckland Herald) have proved a failure in the Auckland district, according to the chairman of the AucKland Acclimatisation Society (Mr Hazard.) The Hawera. County Council has informed the Borough Council that it has instructed its foreman to confer with the Borough Engineer and report as to the cost of erecting an overhead bridge over the railway crossing on the South road. In reply to a communication, the Waimate West County Council has been advised by the Premier (Mr T. Mackenzie) that. plans and specifications for Skeet and Glenn road bridges have been, completed, and are now in the hands of the resident engineer at Stratford for final inspection; also that the matter is being expedited as much as possible. "There would be less heard of the difficulty of procuring labor in this country," said a farmer speaking at Waiau (Canterbury) "if there were more labor farmers and fewer motorcar farmers —more practical everyday men." The Municipal Association's Conference is to commence at Wellington on Monday, July 29. The Hawera Borough Council has considered the various remits, and decided that it does not consider it necessary to forward any remit or to be represented at the conference. ; Mr Hemsworth, of Paramatta, New South Wales, has accepted an invitation to act as judge at three of the largest poultry shows to be held in New Zea- I land this year. He will attend the Has- J tings Show on July 12, Carterton on July 17, and Christchurch on August 15. ' The Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Commercial and Industrial Associations will be held jri Boston from September 24 to 28 of this year. The purpose o fthis congress, which is an organisation representing the business men of the entire .vorld, is to facilitate the commercial intercourse of nations and to promote cordial relations between them. A manifest flaw in the criminal code relating to horse-stealing is being brought under the notice of the Legist lature by the Farmers' Union (says the Timaru Post). It appears that, as the law stands at present, a person may remove a horse from another man's paddock, and convert it to his own use for an unlimited period, and a charge of theft will not He against him unless it is proved that he offered the animal for sale. At the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on Wednesday it was announced that a settlement had been arrived at in the Hawera case of Emma Lash (Mr R. G. Sellar) v. R. H. Heappy and wife, a claim for £200 damages for moneys alleged to have been advanced by way of loan. In the case of Catherine Cameron (Okaiawa) v. the Public Trustee, an originating summons under the Family Protection Act, it was intimated that the order asked for had been consented to by the Public Trustee. Mr R. G. Sellar appeared for the plaintiff. There has recently arrived in Wellington a miniature in stone of the statue of the late Mr Seddon, which has been designed by Mr F. Brook, the noted sculptor. The miniature is'about three feet in height, and portrays the late Prime Minister in one of his.most characteristic attitudes—his left hand grasping a sheaf of papers, his frock coat thrown back, displaying his massive chest, and his right hand raised aloft, to stress the point that he is making. The sculptor has also effected in the stone a really excellent likeness, and cast in bronze and about nine feet high (as it will be), the monument should prove a splendid memorial of one who for so many years occupied the. place of honor in the administration of the dominion. Over £700 has been spent in permanent improvements at Lincoln Agricultural College during the past year. A fine 1 new woolshed capable of holding about 500 sheep has been erected, most of the work being done by the students themI selves. The experimental work on the improvement of cereals being carried out under the supervision of Dr Hilgendorf is progressing satisfactorily, and the College hopes in two or three years, to be in a position to supply pure types'1 of wheat and oats. Twenty-two *stuuents left the college at the end of last year. Four had completed one year, seven had left in their second year* and the full three years' course had been attended by eleven students, seven of whom had been awarded diplomas. The roll number of the college at present is Zion City, Illinois, the settlement established by John Alexander Dowie, was con verted into a Donnybrook recently. Serious rioting occurred between the Zionists and the employees of a manufacturing concern which recently began operations there, and which is' not in any way connected with the religious sect. These employees are, many of them, tobacco-users. Smoking is' very wicked in the oyes of the Zionists. As a protest against the use of tobacco, about 200 Zion men and women held prayer meetings at the manufacturing plants twice a day. The enraged the .nan-Zionists, and several score of them broke up a prayer meeting on the afternoon of April 29, beat the men and women of the Zion sect, and drove them all from that part of the town. Elder F. M. Royal and Joseph Bishop were most seriously injured, both being beaten until they were almost unconscious. The next day a truce was declared, Wilbur Glenn Voliva (overseer of Zion) announcing that there would be no more militant marching against the employees ■of the factory who insisted upon smoking. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d.—Advt.