LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

( One of the Ins* official acts of Mr H. G. Ell, as Postmaster-General, was the despatch of a note to Mr G. V. Pearce, member for Patea, stating that authority had been issued for tne ereetjon of an extra telephone wire between Manntala and Mokoia, so as to establish direct communication with Hawera. The note is dated the 9th instant, th« last day of Mr Ell's Ministerial B - su x,etace.

Whales are reported to be plentiful in the Marlborough Sounds this season. It is said that the great majority ot single men in lleefton have now lett the district and are seeking fresh fields and avenues of employment.

Word has been received by the committee that Dean Regnault, Provincial, will represent the Marist Fathers of New Zealand at Dean Power's jubilee, and that Father Coffey, Administrator of the Cathedral, and Mr I. A. Scott, M.A., editor of the New Zealand Tablet, will represent the diocese of Dunedin.

The military ball to be held at the Town Hall, Manaia, on Wednesday next, promises_to be a brilliant success. Claret cup will be provided, and a first-class orchestra of seven instruments will supply the music. During the evening a presentation^ from the members of the squadron will be made to Captain Sutherland. Every effort is being made to make the evening a pleasant and enjoyable one.

An eight-year-old girl was leaning out of the window of a hotel in Invercargill when she lost her balance, and fell on to the brick pavement between 18 and 20 feet below. On examination it was found that she had sustained several bruises on the head, and her spine had been affected, but, fortunately;, not seriously.

Mr Frank Moore's well-known herd of purebred Jerseys was sold at Wan-■■■-nui on Thursday. There was spirited lidding. The prices of bulls ranged f'-»m 40 guineas downwards. The high<,rt price for cows were paid by Mr H. Purdie, who gave 75 guineas for Prim 71. and 70 guineas for Poppy 11. Other fiws brought from 54 to 30 guineas, and "1 heifers averaged just under 30 1 guineas.

The monthly meeting of the Sons of William will be held on Monday, July 15. Special anniversary services will be aeld on Sunday, July 14.

_ Mr James William Donald, a Bunnythorpe dairy farmer, has just secured patent rights for improvements in or relating to milking machine buckets.

A party of 25 gentlemen from Papanui, with guns, accepted the invitation of Messrs Morrow Bros, for a hare drive at Montalto Station, Rangitata (says the Press.) In four days 608 hares, weighing about two tons and a-half, and filling a railway truck, were shot.

"We make a different kind of furniture nowadays," said Mr E. Collie, of Newtown, before the Cost of Living Commission at Wellington. "It is cheaper than a few years ago. A person can now furnish a house cheaper than lie could 10 years ago. The fancy work is done away with."

It is said that 22 trucks of furniture weiy sent from Waihi during a few days. It is reported that a resident bot^i/i a piece of land for a goodly sum and erected a house worth £750. Recently he endeavored to raise a loan on the house and land, and the most he was offered was £50.

Recently there were exhibited at Hastings four mammoth mangolds grown by Mr P. Burr, of Pakowhai, and formerly of Normanby. The largest of the roots weighed 681b. and was taken ii-om a phenomenal crop produced from "lellow Glove" seed.

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Master Tailors' Association was held at Stratford on Thursday. Mr H. R. Catley, president, was in the chair. He was re-elected president. Mr A. R. South am was elected secretary, and Mr Waddle auditor. Vice-presidents were elected as follows:—Messrs T. W. Rolston (Inglewoodr, W. H. Besley (Stratford), J. Stubbs (Eltham), H. Rodger/ (Hawera), and Lonergan (Waitara)

A farmer who gave evidence before the Cost of Living Commission at Wellington gave it as his opinion that the cost of living might be cheapened by economy and proper cooking. Nowadays, he said, girls were being trained for office work and were neglecting household accomplishments. Their ignorance of domestic matters was deplorable.

Some years ago a Rongotea man leased a block of land valued, at £6 10s per acre (says the Dannevirke Evening News). Later, when valuation put it at £12 7s Cd, he purchased, and at his death the property was put on the market and purchased by the widow for £32. And when she" wished to retire just recently the property was again put on the market and purchased bv a son for £46. He gave up a large block of cheap land in Taranaki district to acquire his old home property, and considers he has got a great bargain.

It is stated that C. G. Macartney, the hero of the cricket this season at Home, will probably be lost to Australia at the close of the present tour. Macartney will be married on his return to Australia, and will settle in Colombo. Australia's loss will be Ceylon's gain. There is much cricket played in Ceylan, so that Macartney will not be lost to the game. Still (says an English writer), he is a very serious loss to Australia, for he had developed into one of the very best of the many great batsmen Australia has produced. His cutting is probably superior to that of any batsman now playing, while no one, since Robert Abel and J. T. Tyldesley were at their best, has been quite so quick on his feet.

The L.O.L. No. 44 will meet for church parade at the Wesley Hall on Sunday at 10.40 a.m. The Rev. Bro. W. A. Burley will preach a special sermon. The monthly meeting will be held at the lodce rooms on Monday, at 7.30 p.m. The L.O.L. Black Watch, No. 20, Eltham, will be in attendance, and the L.O.L. Star of Peace No. 25 Wanganui is also expected to be represented. Refreshments and special entertainment are to be provided on a liberal scale.

T. Barmby will hold a sale at the mart to-morrow.

Gillies and Nalder will hold a sale on the farm, Auroa, on Thursday, J'ulv 18, on account of Mr G. Harcoiirt.

Meremere residents are reminded of the service to be conducted by the Rev W. A. Burley next Sunday'afternoon at 2.30.

Two notices of applications for transfers of lieenses are advertised.

Messrs Smith and Easton give particulars of their mart sale for to-mor-rmv- They also wish to notify that the double corrugated iron gate" and gateposts on the Central Hotel site have been withdrawn from sale.

A class in the pruning and spraying of fruit-trees is being formed in "Hawera. Intending students should forward then names to the Director Hawera Technical School. When you go visiting, don't have a headache and be out of sorts. Carry Stearns' Headache Cure. Make vour stay pleasant. Headache relieved immediately.—(Advt.)

It is notified in another colmn that the annual general meeting of members ot the Hawera Tradesmen's Association WIU oe held on Tuesday evening next the Eltham County Council notifies that tiie bridge over the Wainoneouo river on the Eltham road will be closed on Monday, July 15, till further notice.

At the Hawera Technical School a class in Shorthand and Typing meet* to-night at 7.15. Fee, 15s per term or li lessons. *

Captain Preece, New Zealand cross, who served with the late Major Gilbert Mair in several campaigns, in speaking of the dead officer the other night at Palmerston North, said that in his early life he had experience on the Victorian gold fields, and on his return in farming with others of his family at Whangarei. In 1863 he became Sub-Inspector in the Colonial Defence forces, and interpreter to General Cameron. Thatbrought him to Orakau. In that famous fight 10 -Maori braves were killed, 7tt of them being Uriwera, who bore the brunt of the fighting. The Uriweras were under Te AVaru and Paerau, and the former took 70 men from the Wairqa and returned with 20; the rest wer» killed. Major Mair saw an immense amount of fighting, and was many times mentioned for gallantry. He chased T& Kooti after the latter's attack on Whakatane, and attacked him at Tauaroa, near Galatea, but owing to having insufficient force. Te Kooti escaped through the lines. Major Mair was second in command to Colonel St. John in the Uriwera campaign, and Tamaekoha and other Uniwera chiefs of note surrendered to him. He was a very brave man as well as a splendid^ Maori linguist.—Manawatu Times. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. will sell choice Jersey and Holstein cows on account of Mr T Phillios at Stratford yards on Tuesday" July 16. * *

Dalgety and Co., in conjunctions with the New Zealand Loan and MercantileAgency Co., will hold a sale on the farm, Kohi, near Waverley, on account of Mr S. R. Heslop, on Monday, July 22.