LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 17 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-day being St. Patrick's' Day, the Government offices and the banks have been closed. } The secretary of the Hawera Hospital and Charitable Aid Board advises that a donation,of £2 10s 4d has been received from the Hawera Minstrel Society.

A garden party is to be held at the residence of Mr H. Halliwell, Dive's avenue, to-morrow (Wednesday) by the Presbyterian missionary Union. In the event >of wet weather, a social will be held in the Church Hall in the evening.

During an address given by him in Wellington the other evening, the Hon. T. W. Hislop said that he was in favor of women's courts, and, in reply to a question by a lady present, stated he aid not see why mixed juries should not be found workable.

It is expected (says the Stratford .Post) that within three months the new faces at the Mount Egmont quarries will be fully opened up. At present whares are being erected to accommodate forty men, on a site nearer the faces than the present camp. A youth with a bent towards Nature study near Riversdale, took careful note of the fecundity of a hen sparrow whicih commenced operations at the usual time last year on his father's farm. From October up to the present, the observer states, he has taken no fewer than sixty eggs from the nest, and as the markings were the same, he contends that the eggs were laid by the i same bird.

An unusual case is being heard at the -Supreme Court, Hamilton, before his Honor Mr Justice Cooper, who ha» sitting with him two assessors. The case is one in whidh eight natives who live at Kawa, near Te Awamutu, are claiming from the Kawa Drainage Board tho «un. of £1500 as damages for the destruction of an eel pa (or weir) on land owned by the natives. The natives claim that the drainage works of the Board have put an end to the supply of eels.

I Referring to the fine Milking Shorthorn herd of Mr R.. Heffernan of Yarragee (N.S.W.), a correspondent or a Sydney paper writes: "One cofv in particular attracts the eye, on account of her wonderful udder. This looks abnormal when compared to her size, for she is only a small beast. The teats, one of which she lacerated through treading on it, almost touch the ground. At the present time this cow is giving slightly over 6-J- gallons of milk daily, and she is not the best of the herd. Nellie, such is her name, has never been beaten at a show either for quantity or test. j

This is the last week of The Melbourne's great annual reduction sale. Anyone, wanting to make real savings on every-day goods, such as boys' and men's apparel, men's boots, sheetings, towels, damasks, and other household lines, should not fail to pay a visit ft> the store. The sale ends "on Saturday next. —Advt. i

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+_£ }-< a-_ 7 sports meeting at Wai;taia ±~4 8s 6d was taken at the gates. Hitxi nominations, and other amounts, the receipts came to between £230 and

A considerable number of the Waitara Maoris (says the Mail) travelled along the coast to Parihaka in trucks arawn by two traction engines—two trucks to an engine. Many of the visiting Wanganui natives had their own motor cars.

Cigarette smoking came in for strong denunciation by Commissioner Richards during his address to the "vounppeople" .at the Alexandra Hall/Wei' iington (says the N.Z. Times). He hoped there was no one there that indulged in the habit. Cigarette smoking was a positive injury to health; it was a positive injury to morals; it was a positive injury to body, soul, and spirit. •ix!ly^ne whom Z am addressing," said the Commissioner, "is in the habit ol having an occasional cigarette, make your minds up to throw the habit overboard."

A remarkable instance of Christian union and concord in the backblocks was cited by a Presbyterian home missioner at a conference in Auckland thother evening. He stated (says the Star) that ins small congregation at one preaching station consisted of four Irvmgites (Catholic Apostolic), four Baptists two Anglican, four Weslevans, and six 1 resbytenans, the organist bein°- a Roman Catholic. "You couldn't find a more united congregation anywhere " he declared. "To go among them is like a glimpse of the New Jerusalem." (Laughter).

■Mr Harry Lauder, who is under engagement to the Tait Brothers, ■ Sar Francisco on the 10th of this month, and will reach Australia shortly before Easter. His tour will commence in the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne, ci. Easter Saturday. Mr Lauder brings with him the vaudeville company which supported him in America, amongst whom are the Bercenys, in a novel and musical entertainment ; DArk, a very fine exponent ot stage diablerie; Ernest Sewell and his marionettes; Selwvn Driver, musical comedian; Kitty Ryan, an English ballad singer; and several others. Mr Lauder is not playing a lone hand.

-rr *, a ]?& 6r to the New Plymouth Harbor Board Messrs. Hendry Bros. Ltd., oi Glasgow, asked for 'information as to the best terms on which the right to work the ironsand deposits in the neighborhood of New Plymouth within a convenient distance of shipping facilities would be granted. They were in a position, they wrote, to commence the construction of plant at once, and providing the terms were suitable for a sufficient supply of ?<?and, the plant would be on a very large scale. They would, of course, require to be assured of an amnle supply of ironsand for a very considerable period of years. The Board (reports the News) expressed its pleasure at the possibility of anything being done towards working the ironsand, and th^ secretary was instructpd to supply all the information possible.

The lack of religious instruction in the backblocks, which is aften lamented' publicly by clergy of all denominations, was referred to at a Presbyterian home mission conference in Auckland (says the Star). One home missionary said that he knew of two boys, one aged 14 and the other 12, who asked to be shown a Bible, as they had never seen one. Another missionary said that in five years in one northern district he had baptised 111 persons of whom 20 at least were grey-headed folk, old enough to be hip parents. In one house he baptised 19 persons at one service, and all of them' belonged to the same family—children, grandchildren and a sprinkling of nephews and nieces.

An important Act came into force in Great Britain on New Year's Day, the object of which is to lessen the dangers of fiannelette. The measure is based mainly upon the recommendation of a departmental committee which, three years ago, recommended that it should "be made a penal offence to describe as non-inflammable material which would not stand certain prescribed tests. The Act, the title of which is the Fabrics (Misdescription) Act, 1913, provides that it shall not be lawful for any person to sell any textile fabric to which is attributed, expressly or inferer.tially, the quantity of noninflammability as may be prescribed by the Home Office regulations. The penalty for the first offence is a fine not exceeding £10, and for a second £50. It will not cfily be an offence to apply a written or printed misleading description to the article, but it will be equally illegal to make verbal misrepre- i sentations at the time of sale.