LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A portion of section 17, Block XII Hawera Survey District, containing an approximate area of 1 rood 29.5 perches, has been proclaimed a road. The sum of £2 has been forwarded to the ."Chief of Customs," Dunedin, by an unknown person, as conscience money. Inspector Hugo, speaking to the Hawera Fire Brigade on Tuesday evening, complimented the members on their attendance at fires, which he said compared favorably with the record j of larger brigades. It was at fires that the men were particularly wanted, although it was also necessary for them bo attend the practices regularly. : . At a special meeting of the Hawera 1 Fire Board the adyisableness of obtaining up-to-date appliances for conveying the men and the plant to a fire was discussed, and eventually it was agreed that the matter stand over until the December meeting, when it h expected the secretary will have a lot of data from other boards bearing on the subject. Sykes's Drench.—Used everywhere for cows after calving.—Advt.

j Four misguided youths who had the effrontery to enter a Hastings livery stable at a late hour on Saturday night and, in the absence of the proprietor, take a motor car for the purpose of a joy ride, paid rather dearhr for their fun. The driver lacking experience, the car sustained some damage, which the youths who were caught on the return trip, have been called upon to make good. • | Unauthorised decorating got a small boy of Wellington into trouble a few I clays ago. Armed with a brush and a tin of white paint, he started out to improve the color scheme of the exterior of a red house. He was not allowed to finish his study, and since the Juvenile Court has dealt with him he is under the obligation of making restitution to the extent of 13s, at the rate of Is per week. Like many other great men, Pasteur was absent-minded. Eating some cherries at a dinner party to which he was invited, he was observed to clip each cherry in a glass of water and carefully wipe it before placing it in his mouth. On his neighbor uttering some comment on this precaution, Pasteur held forth at considerable length as to the dangerous microbes with which cherries are invariably covered. When he had finished talking he picked up the glass he had washed the fruit in, and drank the contents — microbes and all. What savors of a particularly mean theft was perpetrated at the Presbyterian Church grounds, Opunake, the other night (writes our correspondent). The church committee had put up a new fence on the church frontage and planted it with ornamental shrubs, and some particularly mean person came along and removed seveial or tliem. 'ihe person who was guilty of this act must belong to that species wlncn attend fires and "borrow without leave" | any article of salvage tJiat they can conveniently get away with. ' 'I had often heard of the Queensland kauri." was .an. observation or Mr Mitchelson, who is a kauri -gum expert, "and was anxious to see whether they really did approach the New Zealand trees in s.ize and quality. What Isaw I in the -Northern part of the State certainly reminded me of some of the best forests of this Dominion so far as the height and girth of the trees were concerned. The Queensland millers are now working this timber very extensively, and large quantities are also being shipped in the log for cutting in Sydney." Mr Mitchelson added that the timber was of very good quality, and similar to our own kauri, except that the former was not quite as hard. A gum was also produced, but its qiiality was not as fine as that found in this Dominion. With the present prices ruling for kauri gum, many workers find it more profitable -to engage in search of gum rather than proffer their labor to employers (writes the Auckland Herald'sDargaville corrsepondent). In various portions of Hobson County diggers are making high earnings, in some cases as much has £1 per day. Owners of farms whereon kauri trees originally flourished are constantly being importuned to grant digging rights over their properties, and in many instances receive handsome royalties'. Occasionally the diggers strike rich patches, and their good luck serves as an incentive to further toil on the part of their fellow-workers. A few weeks ago some Austrians took £150 worth of gum from a small gully, and last week some Maoris', digging on the Kohuroa estate, unearthed a patch of half a ton, which is valued at £100. It is stated that bacon still rules high in price in London, so much so that the public have started a boycott of this breakfast-table commodity. The boycott has achieved a partial success. There has been a great falling off in the demand, and the price has therefore begun to drop. "The decrease in the demand is the only reason for the lowering of prices," said a provision dealer. There is lio sign of a much greater supply yet. Hotels and boarding-houses have been looking round for substitutes for breakfast bacon, and with the help of fish, chicken, and other foods have been able to reduce their bacon orders. Some merchants increase their buyings, hoping for still higher prices, and were' caught by the falling off in the demand, so they are now obliged to sell at lower prices. Mr T. Hupo, Inspector of Fire Brigades under the Government, inspected the Hawera Fire Brigade on Tuesday evening, when there was a capital muster. 23 members answering the roll call. Two were on leave, and every member of the Brigade was accounted for. The Superintendent (Mr Pettett) i pyerc^ed the men in a wet practice at tiie Commercial Hotel corner, when some very good work was accomplished. The proceedings were watched by a large section of the public, who were loud in their praise of the work carried out and incidentally of the excellent pressure of water obtained. Afterwards the men were addressed by tlie Inspector in the Fire Brigade Hali. His remarks were attentively listened to. and at the close Mr Hugo was accorded a hearty round of applause. The fishing season In the Hawera Acclimatisation Society's' district opened very successfully, a number of grand catches having been reported. Messrs Bretherton, Bell and McCallum, fishing in the Waingongoro, secured between them thirteen ljlb trout, while Messrs Eastbury, Clements and J. Robertson landed 29 from the Taungatara, also averaging l^lbs; Messrs Spragg and Tonkin obtained a number of nice conditioned trout from the Kaupokonui, including a 3£lbs fish ; Messrs M. Hunter (Kai Iwi) and A. Kean, for two days' fishing in the Kaupokonui, Taungatara and Waiau streams, landed a catch of 41, averaging ljlbs.; Mr J. Caldwell caught nine rainbow trout from the Lakes, and Mr W. Goodland grassed 14 well conditioned fish from Bolger's dam. All the fishermen state the streams are plentiful with good takeable fish, and that the prospects for an excellent seaI son are most encouraging. Smith and Easton will sell salvage furniture from the late fire at the Coffee Palace yard on Friday, 10th October, at half-past two. Several pieces of furniture are only damaged by smoke or silghtly scorched, and can be 7-enovated for a very trifling outlay. Wearers of the famous "Borsalin'o" felt hats will realise the magnitude of the bargains offered in these goods at The Melbourne's sale of The Kash (Wanganui) assigned stock. The regular prices of these fine felt hats is 12s 6d, 13s 6d up to 17s 6d. The Melbourne's sale price is 9s 6d for choice of any hat. That's what buying stock at I2s 6d in the £ means.— Advt. Many a person is made a black pessimist for a week at a time by the disorganising effect of a too heavy Sunday dinner. There is no source of discouragement so great as a stomach that won't digest, food, and you cannot expect to radiate optimism if your digestive organs are engaged in a fyopeless fight with every meal you eat. Get a few Compound Quinine Pills—Baxter's —and they will cure your indigestion. Remember to ask for Baxter's and see that they are silver-coated. Is 6d box, grocei-s and chemists.—Advt. 43 The first shipment ol- new season's goods, ex s.s. Rctorua from London, are now on view at Ward's, the Cash Draper. These goods are received direct from the manufacturer and the prices asked are an absolute proof of the advantages gained by dealing with firms who are cash buyers as well as cash sellers.—Advt. '

A team of Hawera golfers went to ' Waverley this morning to meet the c Waverley club. * A nice warm rain fell over the district ] last night., and it will have a beneficial ( ettect upon pastures. . i • "I have not seen the hills drier at ' this period of the year for the last 22 years, said a Masterton settler to a Wairarapa Age representative recently. < A percentage of 111 lambs is reported ] by Mr S. E. Thompson, of Waitahora, 1 near Dannevirke. • This average is made ! more noteworthy by the fact that out ( of 600 ewes 500 were 2-tooths (says the ' Dannevirke News). Now that the "trying out" process is completed the approximate amount of oil obtained from the Opunake whale is reported as somewhere "in the neighborhood of 800 gallons.—Own correspondent. A Greytown nurseryman had the bad fortune to have a tnousand ton:..iO ■ plants destroyed by the frost experienced last week. Other plants suffered in a less degree. At a meeting of the Overseas Club at Christ-church recently, Mr A. Kaye stated he found the club badge most useful during his recent trip to Australia. It served to introduce him to a number of new friends, and there was no doubt that the club was making great headway in Australia. A sailorman who holds a University degree is comparatively rare. Captain Gillman, master of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's s.s. Matatua, who was lately appointed from thirty-two applicants to the position of harbormaster at Gisborne, however, is nob only *an experienced master mariner, but a man of scholarly attainments, holding the degree of B.A. The secretary of the • Hawera Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from the Minister for Railways in reply to the representations of the Chamber to have the cattle yards removed. The Minister states that all the available funds have been allocated for more urgent and important works during the current financial yea* and after giving the matter every consideration, he regretted that at the present time he could not see his way to authorise any expenditure in the direction desired. When the Christehurch-Dunedin express was near Hinds on Friday, the tyre (weighing about five hundredweight) of the centre big wheel on the left side of the locomotive split in almost three equal parts. One piece penetrated the boiler and tt>re away the guards over the wheels. Another, piece, weighing about 2cwt, went flying into an adjacent paddock, bounding about sixty yards from this line, and the third piece was picked up in a small water channel. The brakes were torn off. The driver at once clamped his emergency brake, pulling the train up within one length. The locomotive was not able to proceed. Mr G. 11. Sykes, M.P. for Masterton, has received the following communication from the Minister of Finance: — "With reference to your enquiry as to the result of the decision of the Crown Law Office with respect to the power of the Government to levy increased interest on all loans to local bodies issued since the passing of the Amendment Act of last year, I find that the Solicitor-General is now considering the advisability of submitting the questoin to the Supreme Court for decision. When the matter is finally settled, I shall be glad to let you know the result." The matter affects the Akitio County Council and other local bodies (says the Wairarapa Age). A somewhat remarkable accident, pro- ( bably unique so far as the now-expiring Sydney dancing season is concerned, occurred at iVlamy recently (.says the iiydney Sun). .Nowadays t-ne programme is made up of the two-step, tne one-step, and the waltz, and the trouble occurred ( in. a two-step. The male partner to the compact was a head taker than his lady. Both, danced in the latest style—close, together, iney had circled a couple ot J times —and then the man retired with a I cut throat. In the maze of the two-step his throat was torn by an ornament in , his partner's hair. Ulooa streamed rrom the wound, and soon his shirt front was drenched, if he had sustained the injury in a boxing contest the police would have stopped the fight. As it was, he iiad to iiiiriKe hurrieu.apologies and nasten to the nearest doctor. _Mr John O'Brien, a, young millionaire ot New York, who was missing For three years, has just been discovered working as an assistant engine-driver on the Missouri-Pacific railway. Mr O'Brien, a former Association football star of Columbia University, mysteriously vanished at the close of his college year, 1910. His friends made an unavailing search for him, and he was finally given up for lost or dead. On July 9 a friend recognised him at Van Buren, Arkansas working on his engine, when Mr O'Brien explained why he disappeared. He said he had become tired of being a rich man "with nothing to do but play the society game and study new ways to kill time, i have got a job, and when I convince myself that I have 'made good' in the world I will return home. Just now I wouldn't trade my ISOOdol. (£300) a year position for the biggest fortune in the world." "A Chinaman can go into a bank and borrow money on his word, where you or 1 could not on our bond," remarked a prominent citizen of Honolulu to a Post reporter recently. He was illustrating the reputation that Chinese have throughout Hawaii for their scrupulous honesty and business integrity. They largely formed the merchant class and were very respected citizens. As an instance of their high sense of honor our informant cited the case of a well-known Chinese resident, who was now one of the directors of an. insurance company a European organisation. Twenty years ago he failed for 200,000 dollars. Instead ot seeking the protection of the Bankruptcy Court or assigning his estate, he threw all his energies into payin°- his creditors in full. Last year he paid off the last thousand dollars. "I saw him at the time," remarked the visitor, "and I have never seen a man so happy 'I leave ray boys 'he told me, 'a heritage of honour ! If the man had not succeeded in discharging all his liabilities, his sons would have taken up the burden at their father's death, added the Post's informant Had they m turn been unable to liquidate the debt, the Chinese Guild would have settled it. Such was the commercial morality of the Chinese. He added that the morals of the Chinese m Hawaii were also on a par with those of the white population, and their children were brought up on the strictest lines. Of the two Oriental races the Chinese were far more popular than the Japanese. Methodist Mission of Inspiration an-i Appeal WI commence in the Methodist Church, October 19. Missionar, Rev. H. T,. P.inrrurps. n f Nnnier — 'nrivi. "ADVICE TO INVENTORS" IS FREE but it will help you to make money from your ideas. Don't keep an idea till it is out-of-date—-use it. Many a monevmaking idea never sees the light until too late. Write for Booklet.—Henry Hughes, Ltd., 157 Featherston Street, Wellington 43 SKIN DISEASES, j including Eczema; Pimples, "Rashes, Boils. Chilblains, Ringworm, Shingles. ' Ulcers. Old Sores, have their cure in Rexona. the Rapid Healer. Sold in triangular pots at Is 6rl and 3s Obtainable at W. K. Wallace. Chemist. Hawera. —Advt. Sykes's Drench.—Used everywhere for cows after calving.—Advt " *>.

During the past season over 25,000 cows, purebred and crossbred members of ordinary dairy herds, were tested in New Zealand, while over 300 pedigree cows were officially tested in connection with the Register of Merit scheme by officers of the Agricultural Department. An item of interest to motor car drivers and local authoritoies is published in the Essex Weekly News. A doctor wrote to the Essex Rural District Council, demanding 17s 6d for damages to his motor car, the wind-screen of which was broken through jolting over ruts in a road at Mashoury. The Council paid the money. New Zealand's apple export for the ! coming season, is expected to be worth j over _<±u,tiua xo tue growers. Space I has been booked for over 50,000 cases ! ot apples to go to South America ! alone. Most of these apples will, no • doubt, come from the Nelson district, j j but other fruit-growing localities wjll also participate. Speaking at a meeting of Moslems and sympatliisers "to protest against the action of the Powers to coerce Turkey to the evacuation of Adrianople" <it Caxton JHLaJI, Westminster, Lord Newton said Sir Edward Grey (Secretary for Foreign Affairs) was a very remarkable institution in Britain. He was the only person in the United Kingdom he could think of of whom it was almost forbidden to speak an evil word. He occupied almost the same position as the Ten Commandments, the Jockey Club, and the Rules of Cricket. The days when a big London hotel closed several floors during the "off" season are over. Nowadays, except, perhaps, in the ultra-fashionable, establishments, a West End hotel is as busy during the holiday months as at any other time of the year. The manager of one of the leading hotels, in an interview with a representative of the. Pail Mall Gazette, explained why this is so. "The activity in .London hotels during the socalled 'dead' season," he said, "is a feature that is becoming more marked each year. London is fast becoming the world's great pleasure centre." Writes the Pall Mall Gazette:—' 'The Pekin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph continues to warn us that the | great struggle' in China is only in its infancy, and will continue indefinitely. He is now quite alone in' his belief. When we see the revolutionary leaders bolting to Japan we may be tolerably sure that the game is up. Some day there may be a great cleavage between Norbh and South in China, but for the present President Yuan has clearly triumphed." Bishop Averill, in his address at the Waiapu Synod, referrerd to the question of military training as follows: ""Whatever may be our attitude towards the perplexing question of war," he said, "we can hardly fail to realise that the training and disciplining of the youth of New Zealand is to be commended and supported altogether apart from the primary purpose of the movement. To inculcate in our citizens a sense of individual responsibility for the well-being of the whole community, and to teach them that discipline, obedience, to. authority, respect and willingness to give as well as to get (even if the giving demands some self-sacrifice of them) are alone consistent with true manliness and patriotism, must tend towards strengthening the moral fibre of the nation and creating a nobler ideal of life and duty." ( The statement made at Home recently referring to the increased cost of food has caused no little apprehension amongst the many thousands of people who patronise popular restaurants as to the effect this will have upon their pockets. The huge task of feeding London day by day, which is undertaken by various companies who own restaurants in all parts of the metropjios, necessitates, of course, the expenditure of vast sums of money on "raw material," and if the wholesale buyers have to pay higher prices than formerly it seems but natural that the retail purchasers—in this case the hundreds and thousands who lunch daily at the restaurants—will have to pay more for their meals. There is, fortunately, no immediate cause for anxiety. Enquiries go to .show that, while it is recognised that the time must come when steps will have to be taken to meet the increasing cost of supplies, the day seems far distant when any actual raisins; of prices will lie made, remarks a London correspondent. Seldom has a stranger resolution been passed at a guardians' meeting than that agreed to unanimously by the parochial fathers of Delvin, County Westmeath, and which followed'on the resignation of Miss Nugent and Miss Conalty, two nurses of the Union Hospital. The resolution was as follows: "That we view with dismay the number of bachelors, young and old, on this board and throughout the union generally; that we regret very much the departure of our two charming and amiable nurses, and we condemn the apathy of our eligible bachelor members in not availing themselves of the chance of having them settled among us, and trust that now, at the last 7noment, Cupid will intervene towards bringing about this result." Miss Nugent and Miss Conalty, in an interview, said that they had no matrimonial intentions, at least, so far as the Delvin guardians were concerned. Their only reason for leaving was to take up better positions. At the quarterly meeting of the Egmont National Park Board, held in New Plymouth on Tuesday, it was stated by Mr'Goodson that about £250 would be needed to make the proposed alterations to the tourist cottage at Dawson's Falls; the alterations, however, would put the buildings in a more sanitary state. As the season would soon be here, he had decided to go on with the work.—Mr Goodson's action was endorsed. The Board decided to recommend to the Government that the Eltham county should be represented on the Board, and that Mr R. Law's appointment to the position of Eltham representative be confirmed. The secretary's financial statement showed that the bank balances are as follows: New Plymouth £74 18s lid, Kaponga £10 11s Id, Stratford Is 6d, Opunake £4 17s sd. The Northern Committee's receipts for the June-September > period amounted to £128 19s 3d, and the Southern Committee's to £1 9s 6d. ' If you cannot procure the "Gilrutir' Calf Fqod from your storekeeper, drop us a line. Besides doing us a good turn, /ou will benefit your neighbour as well ac yourself. The storekeeper that cannoi supply "Gilruth" Calf Food is out of date, or out to make an unreasonable profit Lv selling an inferior food. — *rlv-. 2 Gent's, novelties, just opened up. Silk pyjamas, silk shirts, 30 dozen newest designs silk ties, colored "Pyramid" handkerchiefs, fancy socks, and great value all-wool black cashmere socks, American "Shirley" braces, new design. Felt hats in large variety; boxed suits—serge, tweed, worsted, at our busy prices.—J. C. Gillett.—Advt. A useful present one "Anticor," the perfect safety corn shaver, 2s 6d. Onen Llosyln writing pad, 100 sheets, 6d. One Warner's rust-proof corset, low bust, long over i the hips; very stylish and comfortable, 8s lid. Posted to any address on receipt of 8s lid.—John Cobbe, the Mail Order House, Feilding.—Advt. No home snouM oe without the famous Roslyn Writing Pad, 100 sheets. Pretty picture of New Zealand's wonderland on the cover. Only <5d and Is each from all dealers. Ask for vt.— Advt.

"It is one of the outstanding weaknesses of the Labor and Socialist move- , ments —not in Britain only—that their leading personalities are so slow to develop, even amongst themselves that combination of respect for each other's views, reciprocal courtesy of manner and speech, and mutual personal affection that creates effective solidarity," says the New Statesman. "Before the Assistant Governor-Gene-ral of Turkestan and his wife left Tashkent for their summer residence the authorities compelled 2000 natives to water the roads for four days over a distanceof 50 miles, in order to lay the dust for the official motor-car," says the Russkaya Molva. The Presse Centrale of Berlin circulates the following message from St. Petersburg:—"The Swedish sailing ves^ sel Mura has picked up in the Gulf of i Bosnia a small sailing-boat, of which j the only occupant was a ten-year-old I boy, who, with a compass, a rifle, and '■ a small bag of ship's buiscuits, had set ! out upon a journey to America. On the first day a storm had swept away his 1 mast, and he had been drifting helplessly." j "The fact is that you cannot have a I soldier, or a sailor, or even a member of j Parliament, supposing that you wanted one, without first saving a baby.," says the New Statesman. "Excepting only the cases of Minerva, Adam and Eve, it ; is now clear that the origin of adults must be traced back, through various phases, to infancy. The chief singl* cause of infant mortality is a defective j ■■condition of development at birth, and j this depends upon the facts of ante- , natal life. If we are to save infants, in ' short, we must protect the mothers who are the original device of Nature for the prevention of infant mortality." . I "The death of Lady Alicia Blaekwood has removed from among vis almost the I last of the devoted women who placed i themselves at the disposal of Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War," i says the Nursing Mirror. "Nearly sixty j years .ago. in December, 1854, Lady I Alicia Blaekwood, accompanied by her husband, who was an Army chaplain, arriven at Scutari with two young Swedish ladies named Almroth—one of whom became subsequently the mother of Sir Almroth Wright—and addressed herself to the task of organising a hospital: for the wives of the soldiers whom she found herded together in a basement of the barracks hospital." "A striking example of American fear of other people's ailments is to be found in the 'nine-foot sheet' law enforced in certain distrcite," isays Professor J. Adams in the British Weekly. "This insists upon every sheet on a hotel bed being big enough to cover completely all the blankets, and thus prevent all possible contact with the vestigia of any previous occupant of that bed. All this gives us a very uncomfortable feeling and makes our flesh creep. But, after j all, it is fundamentally right, and must be of interest to us in England, for in these matters we are likely to follow America's lead. I Mr Henry Vivian, the chairman of the j British Co-partnership Tenants' move- | ment, presiding at a co-partnership festival, said that nowhere else could the . work they were doing be seen to better advantage than in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. The enormous success of the movement was shown by the fact that, whereas in 1903 the cost value of land and buildings of societies federated with Co-partnership Tenants (Ltd.) was £10.237, to-day the value stood at £1.- ---| 250,000. But the money value was not the only measure of success . Their pioneer work had led to great" developments in Scotland and Wales, whilst' all over England schemes, some wise, some, he feared, otherwise., were springing up. Perhaps you have some special engagement, have a headache and afraid 10 You needn't be. Steams' Headache Cure makes the going possihle. i " , A *°y "1* a purpose—Meccano. A toy that will make your boy the happiest and most contented boy in town- a toy that will lay the foundations of a ! big future, from os Cd, at Dixon's only. —Advt. J j A martyr to Rheumatism, Gout Sciatica or Lumbago, is to be much pitied— and yet he can easily be cured. His illness is due to excess uric acid in the Oiood, and this must be removed before a permanent cure can be obtained. Many sufferers fly at once to plasters and liniments because they obtain temporary ' ifc but they- can no real benefit •until the cause is removed. RHEUMO is the. only successful remedy for uric acid i trouble. RHEUMO has cured thouS Sj nd i* ™n etoe.you. Buy a bottle o^lnd JMrfl chemist, and stores,^