LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 1 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

c Tte fol. lowi?8 are the vital statistics for May for Hawera: Births 15, deaths 5, marriages 2.

Typhoid fever is reported to be tairly prevalent amongst the natives of the Uisborne district.

xT£ eJ u.n?£ aX.took 2lace on Saturday at Taitai (Wellington) of the late Mr i 8 • and at Karori of the late Mr G. Gnmstone.

This year's potato crop in some districts of the South Island is reported to be very good. One farmer recently disposed of 300 tons at £3 per ton

The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) says that in New Zealand female-crim-inals are very rare. He does not know of another country with a population similar to that of New Zealand where the «arae could be said.

".The bottom has not fallen out of Taranaki land," said an auctioneer at the land sale in Hawera on Saturday. He added that he believed it would yet go up to £100 per acre.

I\ view of some of the opinions which have been expressed concerning the cause or causes of the recent fatal railway accident on the Main Trunk at Whangamarino, it may be useful to recall that a collision on the Paris to Calais line in January was alleged to be due to the frost preventing a signalwire from working.

The King's Birthday excursion fares commenced on the railways to-day, and consequently the mail train for Wellington was crowded when it reached Hawera. Two additional carnages had to be put on to accommodate the large number of passengers who joined the train here. Approximately ninety excursion tickets were issued from Hawera.

When General Sir lan Hamilton was entertained at Hamilton, in tho "Waikato, he stated that he probably knew more about the history of Hamilton than the rest of the company imagined. When quite a boy, of 12 or 14 years, he was one day walking with his father, when he was introduced to a. very old soldier, with long, bushy hair grown into his whiskers, and develop ing into a curl in each cheek, who was most benignant, patting the speaker on the head and giving him half-a-orown. This was Oolotipl Hamilton, after whom the town of Hamilton New Zealand, derived its name. When he (General Hamilton) afterwards joined the 12th Suffolk Regiment, Colonel Hamilton was iust concluding his term of service with the regiment. On one occasion when the Colonel had occasion to address some of his officers, his voice was so loud and his manner so ferocious that the officers rushed from his presence. He (the speaker) therefore learned that the Colonel was like a human _ tiger. He was a man of most ferocious disposition, who had alternate turns of generosity and kindness and ferocity. "There was nothing like having a man as nrogenitor of a town," concluded the General, "who has real force of character." Boys' suits. To introduce our boys' tunic suits, we will supply only 50 suits at 7s 6d, jnst half price, for two weeks only. As these suits are all newgoods and worth double the nrioe asked for. we ma-v anticipate a big demand for same. Our hoys' clothing is always well to the" front and it is owr aim to 'fnrth°r adVertise t^ese by eivinf the first 50 customers the benefit nf these. They range-for ( "Koys "rwr try-six v^nrs. Wvi+.o, ■bo_':'<vv. ;J\Tew- Zealand Clothing Factory, Ha wera.v- '■■■•' Pwwnnint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d ; 2s 6d.—Advt. ' ■■•:;;

FJoSt?^ 0"16 lately paid out £244 10s-5d for the supply of eggs for four weeks. Since January 31st the Circle has paid out' £763 8s ?d tor eggs, compared' with £726 2s 4d for the same period last year.

Mr A. Searle secretary of the Hawera Liedertafel Society, has received a letter from the Wanganui Liedertatel Society, asking if the winning quartette -at the Hawera competition would favor the Wanganui Society with a quartette at its next concert in July. Wanganui said it would be agreeable to sending a quartette to one of tlie Hawera Society's concerts later on. This is a compliment to the Hawera Society.

The trade movement towards the practice of branding New Zealand made goods with a distinctive brand has so far been restricted to the boot industry The New Zealand Federated Boot Trade Union, however, is endeavoring to create a national movement in the direction of having all goods that are manufactured in New Zealand marked with a brand symbolical of New Zealand.

Mr S. F. Anderson, writing in the Journal of Agriculture, says that the approximate cost per acre to work an established vine-yard in New Zealand, is £38 per annum. This includes the making of wine as well as the cellar work,' and the maintaining of the vine-j-ard in a high state of cultivation. Many Austrians, who are earning a livelihood by gum-digging and grapegrowing in North Auckland, are spending as much as £40 per acre on deeptrenching their ground. There are now 376 acres in the Dominion devoted to wine making, producing about 90,0CR) gallons of wine per annum of the value of over £11,000, calculating the price at 2s 6d per gallon.

Mr Cyril Parsons, one of the proprietors of the dried fruit factory at Motueka, recently had a miraculous escape from death. It appears that he was caught by the clamp in the axle of the engine which drives the plant, and was picked up bodily, whirled round the axle, and, his clothes giving way, thrown clear on to some tins. The whole of his wearing apparel, with the exception of one leg of his trousers and his boots and socks, were torn off, and he was considerably bruised and knocked about, but, most remarkable to relate, no bones were broken, and he never lost consciousness.

"When the farmers were selling their butter at 4£d per lb. and taking it out in goods, had anyone suggested that factories would be able to pay Is and upwards for butter-fat he would have been considered mad," said the president of the Farmers' Union in the course of his address. This has been going on for some time now, and farmers are apt to forget that a score of years ago less numbers of them were making their own butter —often a very indifferent article-^and thinking themselves extremely lucky if they deceived 6d alb. The refrigerator and the co-operative system have made a wonderful change in the comparatively short period, and it is not surprising to find Mr Wilson predicting that New Zealand's exports for the current year will reach the £23,----000,000 level. "If this is so," he adds, "it is another triumph for the farmers of New Zealand, and the whole population benefits thereby, ?•'-

A curlOus find Was made in Auckland on Thursday morning at the residence at the top of »Shortland street that was many,years ago occupied by Sir George Grey. Some workmen were digging at the side of the house, when they came across what appeared to be a, huge slab of sandstone. When the find was unearthed and cleaned* it was was discovered to be an old tombstone. The inscription 6h th*6 stone tells its own story. 1% lies all that "could' die of, Ihe Rev. Charles Lucas Reay, formerly of Queens College, Oxford, 8.A., and vicar of Swanbourne, Bucks, England. He was an Israelite; indeed. in whom there was no guile! Learned and brave, yet simple as a child; a fond husband, a tender parent, a faithful friend. In obedience to the commands of his Great Master,, to go forth and preach the Gospel among all nations, he left a Christian home and Christian friends, and here, borne by the weight of his labors in the Lord's vineyard, he sank to rest; March 31, 1848 aged 38, in the hope and faith of a joyful resurrection. A. volume would not tell his many virtues, but this stone is erected to his memory by his widow."