LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 11 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A public meeting of citizens of Hawera has been convened for Thursday next «t 3.30 p.m., for the purpose of discussing the question of raising a mounted corps and offering it for serZ% at TlB dis«: etion of the Government The meeting will take place at the Farmers Co-operative Horse Ba«ill ha" c P™mote« hope that there zens a V6ry " ge attendance of citi-

Messrs Geo. and C Hartley \vh* visited the Old Country JZ'e five months a-o ,v connection with thei? claim to the ''Hartley Millions,'' fill returnea to Hunterville. The brother! did not brin 2 back any millions wfth SS f i Ut + iSt?te ,that the establishment or their claim is proceeding satis actonlv. As the matter cou d not be facilitated in any way by their presence in England, they returned to the Dominion, leaving the prosecution g the matter to representatives at

\ou tink I too big," S aid a seriousxaced Maori ton Dressman in front of the traune Post building on Saturday. I volunteer with my friend, a i.lnovi, to no to the war. He E o. but they say I too bi-—only 20 stone! By Jingo, I tvish I not so fat! Mv horse pretty {rood, heavy, though. You tink te war last lon-, Mister, because I a <l lt tlnn:J By £°IT-V 1 like to go." i-lie-Maoris, it is understood, are oftenujr their servu-es in considerable numbers.

. The Maori is keenly alive to the inconsistencies which he sees in the lives of white men professing to be Cnnstians. They find the white man keener to »et land than to save souls," T'\ Dr, A> -. Averill, Anglican Bishop ot Auckland, m the course of a sermon recently. "The Maori/ he continued, "sees an agreement about the prohibition of liquor in certain districts, which lie considers binding, circumvented with de-n-adino- results He sees the Lord's Day turned into a day of pleasure by the pakeha, who professes to teach that the seventh day should bo ke;>t holy." The Bishop added that one old Maori once asked him if the Fourth Commandment was made for the Maori only and not for the pakeha. Captain Weeks, of the British steamship Isle of Mull, which arrived recently at New York from Lisbon, has narrated how an echo saved his ship from collision with an iceberg. Just after midnight On ,7iine 1" on New Foundland Banks he sounded the usual fivesecond blasts of the foghorn. He < thought he heard another steamer reply, and stopped his ship. After a moment he. sounded the foghorn again, and this time caught an answer very close to starboard. Captain Weeks, then whistled, and his whistle was repeated. It was not until he had whistled again that it dawned upon him that the unwelcome neighbour was an iceberg. He quickly headed southward and to safety. Millions of bullets picked up on the battlefields of the Balkans are arriving in Marseilles. Gleaners hava scoured the scenes of the recent fightino- picking up the bullets that either had gone to waste or had killed or wounded some ■soldier, and selling them to dealers in old metal, who ship them to France in , sacks, one vessel alone carried 2000 j sacks, weighing altogether more than 100 tons. These bullets are melted and used tor casting gas and water pipes arid making capsules for bottles. The gleaners have also picked up and shipped millions of b'-ass and copper carta iisei ? ?' "; hr' eh brin S a good price. All old metal has its value There are some big bargains for men at the Melbourne's annual sale, now in full swing, such as fashionable felt flats, ds od; lovely silk wide end ties Is; navy military coats, with deep detachable capes, 16s Od: flannel undershirts 2s 3d; all-wool colonial socks, 3 pairs for 2s 6d. Tho Melbourne saW always create extraordinary interest among the sterner sex.— Advt. EVERYONE NEEDS REXONA A here are so many uses for Rexona that a pot of this new Rapid Healing j Ointment should be kent in every * home One day it may be useful to cure the bites of insects, another day to heal the Cuts, Bruises, or Scalds which are forever occurring in everyday life. Again, for the more serious complaints such aa Bad Legs, Piles, Eczema. Ringworms, and the various forms of skin disease, Rexona is a proved remedy. In this Ointment are combined Juices and Essences in an entirely new and unique manner, forming a remedy justly celebrated for its wonderful rapid cures. Pn>e, Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable at W. K. Wallace's.—Advt. j

At P&,lm«rston. & r poynton, S.M., gave judgment »m the case in which O**!?* oi Auefcland, disputed the bill of V. %Harman for £9 2s for dental work donf for Taine's daughter who, was attending a boarding school thera. The Magistrate said that a father s moral obligation to pay for such services rendered for, his childr«n drd not make him legally liable «i the absence of an express contract tor the supply of necessaries to an infant. It would be well if commercial and professional men realised this. Plaintiff, therefore, was non-suited. Th© Magistrate said the plaintiff could I sue the daughter herself, but he would have to show that the dental work was a "necessary."

_ A new 60-horse-x>ower two-passengor Cauldron aeroplane is being brought to New Zealand by the Kaikoura, due at Auckland on August 15, to the order of Mr Scotland, the well-known New Zealand airman, whose machine ca vn© to grief at Newtown Park a few mouths ago.