LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIII, Issue XVIII, 30 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The parlour social in connection with the Methodist Church at Kaponga will take place to-ni<i;ht. An enjoyable evening is assured to all who attend.

A reminder is given of the grand ball to be held at Otakeho to-morrow (Wednesday) night. The committee and secretary are sparing no pains to ensure a sucessful evening.

The bachelors of Okaiawa will entertain their friends at a grand ball tomorrow (Wednesday) night at the hall. They have made the best arrangements, and hope to see a crowded house.

A laborer in the Sandon district is doing well on the land. In his spare time he has been cultivating an acre and a half, and, in addition to a plentiful supply of vegetables which will keep him going for some time, has cleared just on £40.

A resident of Woodville. who has been keeping count of the wet Saturdays experienced there, intimates that there have been 22 wet Saturdays continuously up til 1 Saturday last.

A very handsome gift has been made to St. Mary's Cathedral, Parnell, Auckland, by the addition to the new organ, built three years ago by Mr Croft, of Auckland, of vox humana and tremolo .stops. The gift' involved the addition of 162 pipes, making the organ, which was already one of the finest church instruments in the dominion, about the most complete in New Zealand.

Many years of experience of the Courts and the seamy side of life anpear to have given Sub-Inspector McGrath imt a pooi- idea of man as a class (says the Christchurch Press). On Tuesday, while referring in the Magistrate's Court to a case in which it was j-tated that a man beat his wife while he was drunk, he con chid ed: "And I think, your Worship, that man is the only animal who would beat his mate in that way!"

A three-year-old girl, seeing her brother on the other side of a railway crossing at the Thames, made an attempt to reach him before an approaching train swept by. To the horror of the bystanders, the cow-catcher of the engine struck the little dot and threw her clear of the rails. Expecting that the child was killed, probably mangled, the spectators were astonished to find her unhurt, save for a few bruises, and quite unconscious of how near she had been to a horrible death.

A shipment of 20,000 nursery fruittrees was oent recently from New Zealand to the Argentine. Their value was put at £800. They came from Messrs T. Horton and Sons' nursei-y at Hastings, and consisted chiefly of apples. Mr Horton thinks his win at the Melbourne Fruit Exhibition was responsible for this order.

A general meeting of the Kaponga Jenius Club is called for Wednesday, July 31.

1 articulars. are given concerning a property near Riverlea factory for straight lease.

Newton King will hold a salp at Mansawhero road, Riverlea, on Thursday, August 8, on account of Mr W. Gardiner.

A concert in aid of the school funds wil! be held at Mangatoki on Thursday August 1.

Newton King will offer a free!n!d farm for sale at Stratford on August 10.

The Waitohi Dairy Factory advertises for a manager.

The electoral roll for the Manaia Town District is now open for infection.

A break in the harness miles from a saddler, a break in the belting in the workshop, with the prospect of idle hands, to say nothing of the hundred and one other little breaks in canvas, leather and other goods which mean the usual trip to the saddler and the boot repairer. How dreadfully annoying; and what a delightful surprise and help it would be to most people, especially farmers, if they had something at hand or upon their person to just fix up things rieht away. Such a line is the new needle awl advertised by Mr A. Blair in to-day's paper on page 6. *

Th 9 continuous veterinary science classes meet on Monday, August 5. in the Hawera Technical School, the afternoon class at 2 p.m. and the evening one at 7.30. Fee, £1 Is for course of lessons. *

At the annual general meeting o£ members of the Taranaki Jockey Club, on Monday evening the election of of--hcers resulted as follows: President,, v + °- Samuel; vice-president Mr Newton King; judge, Mr R. H. P gottChancy, J. H. Hampton/ and C H Western;; committee, Messrs C. M Let per, K. k\ Blundell, 0. W Sole B H Chancy, E. Elliott F. drSSI ' L \ -Nolan L. B. Webster, A. R.Standist it ., eS rt.°"1 A- Alexander, N Kin" ex omc H.em^»' »ith the trealurer "I am often asked," said Dr Marion light, per Be , had no injurious effect but those who mstalled it in shops ' and oihces and public and private building as. a rule, understood nothing of tfc science or lighting. They simp v nut up the lights in order to* produce the greatest blaze possible. Their sole ide 2 seemed to be to make a m-eat lMrt' »»r.lhant and gorgeous, but they took no pains to so arrange it tW it a-i the least possible Sfery to^Se^ lights were invariably placed in the «-rong position, and not properly shad and oiten only served to make the. darkness more intense. In many o{ ™ h * FuWinK dmßf ihe 6ye m* nothing i-ut \iolent naked staring lights Tim same applied to some of thefhurches and it was because the glare tired the eye, she added humorousty, that people rnons! 6'1 Went *° s]ee P d »"»g «er!

At the annual meeting of the AMienuakura Co-operative Dairy Com noIS thW T o>\Sat^ V afternoon ("el ton, there bemg a balance of £1835 to sale of butter were £16,656 4s. Mess"* hi + V° hA DISt If as a new shareholder nns was the basis worked on hx the C if °f ''^""'"IK for the *ir£ ■sX,?TS, a k tthcrateofls^iw ?ne»! Je,i ntroducedto prohibit "treat

f),?!^!. 811 xcursi°n in the valley of Polo 1, ™A c f? embers of ™ antL£ &;•!#|-lE-Hr '"S "I se*.">5 e*.">- A sand bank in the and 'II °thf %"™i Se7 e, d as tho tab^ ra^r a^zs £fl son to complain of such fare in the clays of his boyhood Mr ]W SSdfltfiS + of T >»-%fnd e rL°hS were in ill i »* Humewood. Those fc.» I? t d. ays when nobody would could tr^l '{ jP°^ible that i Hum! Son'i^wS; 11 a Ye r{ri; ita^ Diok suffered thisfnte IS i I ln^ ance: ln connection- with S/ t^^^re nJeS Uts rit jell known, Mr Geor.se Wyndham J ind no£ naia' + Kapollga ' Eltham» patea, and other centres, as desired classes for sS^WI^T in, £1 is &°i North. Fee, TeVn^l^choor 1'11 R™*™