LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The report of the case, Police v. Valentine, in which some remarkable evidence was given, is printed on pages 2 and 3.

An interesting paper on "How to Improve the Pastures" was read at a meeting of Otakeho Farmers' Union on Saturday by Mr W. Lsmdon. We shall publish it shortly for the information of the farming community.

The Hamilton Borough Council has approved of the Mayor's scheme for municipal dwellings. It provides for buildings to be erected by the council on Glasgow leases, giving the occupiers the option of becoming the owner of all improvements. The endowments of the borough and the domain total about 250 acres, which can be dealt with.

At a meeting of settlers in Block r>, Moumahaki Survey District on Friday last (the Press reports), it was decided to form a co-operative dairy company, to be called the Ngaio Co-operative Dairy Company. It is calculated that the cheese factory will start with over 350 cows.

Tenders are being called by the Public Works Department for the construction of the Okahu tunnel on the Stratford-Main Trunk railway. The time for receiving tenders has been extended from April. 30 to June 30, but the time fixed for completion has been reduced from four to three years.

"If you can afford to play snooker, you can afford to pay your bedt3." Thus the Napier magistrate when a judgment debtor was endeavoring to show cause why an order should not be made against him. He pointed out that he had suffered considerably through the recent slaughtermen's strike, had a sick wife and six children, and had another debt of £13 to wipe off, but admitted that he was in the habit of indulging in the highly fascinating game of billiards. His Worship ordered the debtor to pay the amount at so much a week, and fixed a default of' one month's imprisonment. Look up W. H. and A. McGarry's land advertisement on page 1. List of farms is well worth inspection.—4dvt

The monthly meeting of Sons of William, L.0.L., was held on Monday evening. There was a good attendance, and a successful evening was spent.

The quarterly meeting of Hawera Lodge, U.A.0.D., was held on Monday evening, when nomination of officers

for the ensuing period was 'received. One new member was initiated, and one proposition for membership taken. The receipts amounted to £105. On Wednesday morning last a serious accident befel a man named Lagan (says the Patea Press). With a companion the unfortunate man was shooting near Ngutuwera. In attempting jto dislodge a refractory cartridge case he was knocking the stock of his gun on the ground, when the cartridge .n the other barrel went off and blew away the first and second fingers of his right hand. Fortunately his companion was an adept at first aid work, and help being summoned, Lagan wis I driven to the Waitotara station, and thence travelled to Wanganui,. where the injured fingers were amputated. Mr J. Grimmond, county chairman, has extended an invitation to the Aus-

tralasian Institute of Mining Engineers to hold its next conference at Hokitika, suggesting January of next year, the occasion of the jubilee of the West Coast goldfield, as being a suitable time for the visit. The Institute will meet this month at Broken Hill, Australia, when the invitation will be considered. Ift the invitation should be accepted the community will do everything in its power to make the visit a pronounced success. "It appears to me that this business of giving trophies in New Zealand is being entirely overdone," said Mr G. H. Mason, of Canterbury, at the meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union. "If we get up any kind of competition nowadays it is always a question ef what value is the trophy you are going to give for it. i should like to make an end of these trophies. I can assure you that if you give a flag' for school football, as we do in Christchurch, and allow the winning team to have the name inscribed upon it each year, the boys will appreciate it better than a big leaden cup." According to the Napier papers, there appears to be a rapid increase in that town in the number of persons suffering from appendicitis. So much so, in fact, that the seriousness of this complaint has become a matter for general comment. The resident medical officer's report submitted at future meetings of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board is to show the number of patients suffering from this complaint who have been admitted to the Napier Hospital each month, the number or operations performed, and the-number of cases that have resulted fatally. Another instance cf the extent to which land values have risen in Southland of late years is given by the Invercargill Times, which states that a South Hillend property, consisting of

300 acres, has just been sold for £22 10s per acre. In 1899 it was leased for five years with a purchasing clause, which fixed the value at £7, and be fore the expiration of the term was bought at the price stated and again sold at £9, so it is within the past ten years' that the difference in value "between £3 and ' £22 10s has arisen. The land was highly improved at the time of the.first sale. An amusing incident happened at the Kimbolton Policy Court recently (says the Palmerston Standard). The Magistrate (Mr Poynton) was informed by a defendant that one of his employees (a cook) refused to take a half-holiday when it was offered to her, and asked the S.M. whot was the best thins: to do with her. The S.M. replied: "Well. I , think the best thing you can do with her is to put her in a glass case. She deserves to be taken round for exhibition.'*

A distressing accident occurred :.t the York Road creamery, Midhirst. on Saturday morning (says tlie Stratford Post), when John Dunderson, actingcreamery manager, aged 24 years, received a fractured skull as the result of becoming entangled in the machinery. There were no spectators of the accident, and the actual particulars are not available. From what can be gathered, however, it seems that about eight o'clock, when a few supplies were at the factory, some of them heard a cry at the back, and at the same time noticed the machinery belting was jerking. Rushing round, the.r found Dunderson entangled in the water wheel which supplies the motive power for the creamery. Dundee-son was taken to the Stratford Hospital, and his condition, though at first critical, has since improved. The much-despised pinus insignis. which is always being exclaimed against by road engineers and aggrieved neighbors for shutting out sunlight, has some whole-hearted admirers among the members of the Forestry Commission. Amongst a few interest--1 ing exhibits which the Commission carI ries about is a wide board cut from a pinus insignis log ; and it has surprised I more than one witness. Grown under forest conditions, the tree shoots up a long, branchless barrel, so that when the timber is cut it is perfectly straight in the grain, and free from knots. It is fairly strong, charged with resin, and therefore distasteful to the dreaded borer, and it will stand any amount of nailing. It is already used for building in parts of Canterbury, and experts have said that it might easily be used for butter-box timber if it were seasoned and paraffined to protect the butter from possible taint. from the resin in the wood. Bellingham and Son advertise particulars of a sale for Mr J. A. Marx. A replace advertisement from J. C. Gillstt deals with furs and mufflers. A euchre party and dance will be held in the Otakeho Hall on Wednesday. May 21.

A class in Magnetism and Electricity as for telegraphy and telephony will meet on Thursday, 22nd inst., at 7.30, in the Technical School. Instructor, Mr J. H. Cameron. —Advt. Did you evei nave a Headache that simpiy wouldn't stop ? Tried everything uith no result? But not Steams' Headache Cine. Try it next time.—Advt. The lovely uncertainty of our climate has been strikingly exemplified during the past few days. Our quick climatic changes are very disconcerting to newcomers, but the average Taranakian has learned from bitter experience never to be abroad without his trusty oilskin — a "Fish" brand for preference, costing 19s 6d at any of the Melbourne stores. —Advt.

NEW WINTER MILLINERY. We cannot adequately describe the charm and the beauty of the new season's millinery. Our first shipment is now on view, and includes the latest models in trimmed and untrimmed, also ready-to-wear felt and velvet hats and fur toques. You should really visit the showroom at the Economic, Hawera. — Advt.

KICKED ON THE KNEE. "I was kicked on the knee by one of my horses," writes Mr Duncan H. Stevens, South street, Feilding, N.Z., "and arr. confident that but for Chamberlain's Pain Balm I would have been unfitted for work. I could*not stand for hours, but applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm freely, and after applying it once the next day was quite recovered." Sold by all ehemirts and storekeepers. —Advt. Bacilli are said to cause Influenza. That may be. But there is not the least j doubt that "NAZOL" shifts the disease- j carrying organisms "holus bolus" and