LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 26 June 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It having bean suggested that it would be interesting as well as useful if all who took took part in the fighting on this coast were to meet and be photographed, several gentlemen readily agreed to endeavor to get the necessary names and addresses. The idea is to try to find out all who served, whether now Jiving, in the district or in other places. Later on arrangements will be made to bring them all together. Any information on the subject will be gladly welcome at the Star office. It is hoped that the present effort may lead to the formation of an Historical Association the object of which will be to record all the veterans can tell of the early days, and of the places and people of historic interest.

While lecturing recently at Timaru on "Marriage and the Home." the Rev •J- W- <-*. Chappie is reported to have said that maternity was the fost important factor in the universe. What the dominion needed was about 20,000 marriages.

It is reported that 40 additional men can be placed in work on the eastern end of tne Stratford Main Trunk Railnay, and also 20 men on the western end.

Mr Shrimpton, chief telegraph engineer, passed through Hawera on Tuesday morning. He will pay an official visit to Hawera at an early date, and will go thoroughly into the" question of the metallic circuit telephone system for Hawera.

On Tuesday afternoon Mr C. A. Strack found embedded two feet in the sand near the Waingongoro reach a native carved panoi, made of flint. It was in two pieces, each fitting into one another perfectly. About ten years ago Mr Strack picked up a similar panoi in the same locality, but it was not broken:

About two years ago an employee of a Palmerston North seed firm accidentally dropped a letter in a sack of grain. Ibis letter was returned a few days ago from Denmark. The incident shows that New Zealand seed is in demand even at the opposite side of the world.

At the Police Court, Dunedin, Herbert Holt, manager for a theatrical company, was fined £2 for obstructing the f otopath by exhibiting a hypnotised man in a shop window. The wonder is that these vulgar and more or less degrading exhibitions are allowed at all.

Representations were made by the AVellington Furniture Trades Union to tbe Minister of Labor yesterday that the introduction of chemical into methylated spirits in order to make it more noxious for drinking has had a bad effect on users of the, spirits, causing workmen to seek medical treatment for partial blindness. The Minister promised to at once rectify the matter.

At the last meeting of the Eltham Chamber of Commerce the matter of the freights between Wellington and Patea was discussed. It was decided to cooperate with the Hawera Chamber of Commerce (says the Argus) in any action it might take for the readjustment of the freights.

The orchardists in the vicinity of Hastings, especially those in a small way ot business, are very much perturbed at being cited in the general laborers' dispute, and the claims that are being made for a minimum of 10s per day for all workers in the orchards. They'contend that such expensive labor 'would mean ruin to the industry.

An enterprising Dunedin syndicate (says the Alexandra Herald) recently obtained a lease of 800 acres of land behind the Alexandra Cemetery, and under the name of the Terrace Orchard Company, they have set to work to try and convert it into an orchard.

Is it any wonder (says the Oamaru Mail) that witnesses giving evidence belore the Education Commission deplore the scant attention given to history geography, and other useful subjects iii the primary school curriculum? The other day a resident received a communication from a reputable English ousiness firm addressed to "Oamaru Sandwich Islands, New Zealand "

An attempt by the police at Waimate Canterbury, to recover from the grandfather of two inmates of the Burnham Industrial School arrears of fees not paid by the father, a man who was said to be m constant work at 9s per day as a plasterer's assistant, failed the Magistrate deciding, upon hearing defendants statement, that the provi! sions of the 1910 Act should not operate in this instance against the grandfather, says the Waimate Advertiser. all w? tin S recently to a friend in Ashburton, a farmer in one of the a<rlw\ Uu aI dls _tricts of Tasmania stated that the past season was an unusually dry one and stock feed was very scarce. Indeed, farmers were compelled to artificially feed their stock, and wth oatsheaf chaff at from £5 lbs to £6 per ton the process was a very cos tly one. Potatoes, he added, were very scarce and were selling at £9 per ton. ' Mr Moriarty, secretary of the Wei hngton Furniture Trades Union, states that despite denials there was undoubS 9d v cause for alarm as to the noisi bihty of Chinese competition^ the fur mture trade. He had facts which show" ed him that Chinese capita] is SLlv to" be diverted to New Zealand in conse quence of the unsettled state of Chiiia Mr Moriarty proposes joint action on the part of employers and workers to get legislation passed on the lines nf that of Western Australia. °* Newton King will hold a clearing sale at Toko road on Thursday, July 4 ou account of Mr E. Kelliher* > y '

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. will hold a clearing sale at Monmouth road. Stratford, on July 1, on account of. Mr Henry Richard '

Piano tuning can only be done. successfully by a skilful tuner.' An expert is. engaged by E. Dixon and Co.—Advt.

It will probably surprise many to learn that the youngest" daughter of lhomas De Quincy is still alive and ivmg at Kensington, London. Th__ Umstian World mentions that she has been in comparatively feeble health tor some time. In addition to reminiscences of her father and his eccen tncities, Miss De Quincy, now in her seventy-ninth year, has many interesting recollections of the literary "lights" and University men of note who frequented her father's house in Edinburgh during her girlhood in the earlier years of the Victorian era. A e-oorl many people in New Zealand probably still remember one of De Quincy*. SO Ws —Captain De Quincy, who served in the troops in this country, and afterwards became Sergeant-at Arms in theHouse of Representatives.

Under the law as it now stands persons desirous of defending civi] debt* must give notice of their intention to defend. A defendant in a case before the Hawera Magistrate's Court on TuesThl m 5 . hV vas ™* aware of this, lhe Magistrate asked him if h e had read his summons ,to which he replied in the negative. Mr Kenrick said theAct had been m force for some timenow and defendants should read their summonses. He would not grant leave $L\ /if IGr° an % xcuse was made that the summons had not been read. Sni^ff' WaS ?PPearinS for the plaintiff said he understood that th<y defendant had receipts, and under thespecial circumstances he would ask that the case be adjourned for one week Tlie, request was granted.

A social is to be tendered to Mr and Mrs It. H. Clement at Kanuni on Fr-i----day evening.

H .E. Harris advertises seasonable lines—vegetable and flower seeds and table potatoes Yates' catalogue may be had on application. J

A class m dressmaking, under Miss Dempsey, has been start-ed in Manaia meeting on Thursday at 7.30 p.m. in the school. *

in^i-b? rtfe ndiln^ tyP,nS class meets to-night (Tuesday), at the Hawera Technical School at 7.15. Fee, 15s for term of 12 lessons. Room for more students. * "How is your wife getting on with her social settlement work ?« <'Great *■ h"pictnreinthepa Pert--

Nervous and run down women are greatly benefited by Steams' Wine oi Cod Liver Extract. It never fails to restore the lost energy and vitality necessary to women.—(Advt.)