LOCAL & GENERAL MEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 21 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL MEWS

cnSpage ni. nOteS bySi^ Single appear It As understood that the tender of £ ti * ? ayward has been accepted rlihvay. C°ntract on the °P™£ W K^^i^-^ Harboi Board's Siberia quarry i s esti- „ T_2r day, tne anniversary of tTiP Battle of Trafalgar, which took placl Loid..Nelson, who lost his life in the action, defeated the Franco-Spanish fleet engaged in the Napoleonic wai Dairy companies are receiving en qumes as to whether they desire to insure produce in London warehouse taff in|LS SkS, °f ae"al warfare'(Syl the fetratford correspondent of the l ar s a a ?W Hif rald)> T^ Premium askel is said to have a. rising tendency. A very few years back a prophet who £t SUC\ a *»*? «f S would have been stoned, in a metaphorical way, by all sober-minded, sensible peoThe custom of awarding reserve championships .was recently disconand Pastoral Association, but at last week's meeting o f the executive a wfL^ resc? d ihat decision was brought forward. Letters from kindred associations in various parts of the Dominion were produced with the object of showing that any attempt to have reserve championships omitted tiom their schedules would meet wifh warm opposition. The motion was rescinded after free discussion and a turther motion declaring second miza aiumafe to be entitled to reserve championships was carried; n Tn, er.e - was serious trouble in the Cambridge cadet corps recently (says fcii m £ dg xc corespondent of the •W »? d ?*??K** mZ *° the la* being •kept at drill longer than' the stipu. lated time. The boys state that the parade should finish about 8 p.m., but they were kept at it until getting o n towards 9 o'clock, at which time they dismissed themselves and went homewards. Doubtless some of them h-id Snd n tn<kil^ g °V6r c te«^?" WV and the-officers put m extra work by way of Pumshmg the offenders, but they punished the innocent.as well as the guilty It i s stated that an thl (non-coms.» handed in their stripes "American employers,", said Mr Snowden during an address at 'Wellington, "recognise the economy of j^tt wages .Employers should recognise that their property depends to a I?iS?m gre6A°i? \ he P^Perity of their workmen All large businesses have been built up on the principle of giving their employees conditions a little above the average. What they put into, the men they take out again in efficiency.. To the recognition of this principle,is;largely due the commercial prosperity of America to-day." | A number of purebred dogs from i various consignors were brought to New Zealand by the s.s. Rotorua, ■ which arrived at Wellington on Mon- | uay. lhey comprise three collies (two males and one female) consigned to Mr o May,- Paparongi, Wanganui: one ! blue roan cocker spaniel bitch, Mr Richmond, care J. H. Pugh, Christchurch; one male black retriever, Mr A. H. Goatley, Warkworth, Auckland; one male bull terrier, Mr J. Marshall Auckland; and one female Pekinese sable Mr D. Cornwallis. Children's tan and black cashmere !?ck^ £ d a Pair for siz6s 2t07, at the Melbourne, Ltd. Also full stocks of three-quarter socks, with double ribbed tops,-size., four," 9d ; fives, lOd; sixes, lid; sevens, Is; eights and nines, Is . dv. Famous all-wool hosiery.—Advt.

The New Zealand Shipping Company s steamer Kotorua bnngs 195 assisted lmmigi-ants. They comprise 34 domestic servants U form - laboiws (with n-iires and children numbering 1J) . and uy separated relatives. -■ . c «f Directors'of the Bank lof £9?n f ea ai\ d i 1,88 -,given a donation i +•+ 7 ? Jo^s the Distress Fund instituted for the Poor of' Great Britain Ireland and Belgium, and also £50 in aid of the Boys' Scout jfund. Next Sunday a collection will be taken up in alt the ltoman ■ Catholic churches in. the Dominion on benalf of the Great Britain and Belgium Relief iund, and the fund for the relief of distress (caused hy the war) within H^w Zealand i Van proceeds will be equally divided between the two funds. The St. Andrew's Tennis Club, Kaponga, will be opened for the season on Ihursday. A club will be formed and all interested in tennis are invited o be present. A good grass lawn has been laid down, and patrons may be assured of having an enjoyable time. One of the things that touched him most during his visit to New Zealand said Mr t'niiip Snowderi, at a civic- reception at~ Wellington, was the hundreds oi New Zealanders ho had met who had never seen England, but yet spoke oi it as Home. "I can assure'you "he proceeded, "that that is extremefv touching to an Eng:ishman. So lono- as a spirit like that exists I feel that inland can stand four-square to every wind that blows." (Applause). "I haven't much sympathy with the clergyman who says he . can't ride," said Bishop Averill at a Home Mission meeting in Auckkland. "I have to ride, and I'm sixteen stone nearly (Laughter). You needn't pity me'" pursued the Bishop; "pity the horse. ' I iiope that all young clergy and candidates for holy orders will come to think it as much their duty to learn to ride a horse as the purchaser of a motor-car ■■ni lfc s duty *° leai'n to drive." ** ' hi* address at Wellington, Mr iiiilip bnowden gave an example of the eliects of the lack of adult suffrage in Great Britain. . He himself, he said, had never voted in an election. There were over four million men in like case. He was not qualified to register as a voter when he was nrst elected to Parliament. ' In other words, he was legally considered fit to make laws, but not fit to choose a man .o make laws for him. (Laughter.) A Dunedin shopkeeper was heard complaining that some folk were trying to be patriotic at his expense One lady ordered a little lot of things at the counter, and then artlessly said that as the stuff was wanted for making up for the British and Belgians, she supposed there would be no charge. On top of this appeal he had a ring-up from another lady, who point-blank asked, m a courteous tone, for some flannelette or print 6 o that she could tuliil her promise to supply garments for the distressed. This ' shopkeeper makes the point that he has already given freely to. the fund, and really cannot afford to he wheedled or bounced for more by persons who can very well afford to pay for their own donations.

In the vicinity of the New Zealand and Australian coast there have been lost at various times numerous ships with valuable cargo, aboard, and there stu remains much treasure on these vessels which has not yet been recovered "With the intention of obtaining salvage, the schooner Robert Henry (40 tons, Captain Munson), according to an American exchange, was to have It S£ n/ rancisco ]ast month ft} NBVf Zealand coast. The vessel is com- ! ing out on a two years' expedition un-J £ ie .apices of the American Deeo bea Exploration Company, of. which Mr rLf' tF} ° Sa^ FraDciSCOy is presitw'rt, 1S c? nsiiered q«ite probable 1 nri T T rai Grf nt wreck at the Auckh?viJ 1 ldS ' tll6-P^ious expeditions 5 j bert, Henr? has b^n fitted with modern salvage and wreckage appS.

tell-• S^S'ii in-tlle Melbo*™ Leader, tells the following story of the reconciliation of Kelly and McKean Kel y iis a fierce Hibernian Home RulerMcKean is (or was) an equally fierce j Fate made them Zxl i door neighbors, and their feud afforded enjoyment for the whole block Kelly kept his Hibernian flag flyin° in his back yard a s a defianc? U, mS Kean, and McKean flew the Oranee r ble" contempt of Kelly So2E" times McKean would swarm the fence Keilv^™ Kf yt fla S' would mvade the enemy's territe and + dr*™y tie- Ulster bunting. Ihese acts led to many battles-We purely wordy, others fistic andlorT Ihe European w ai - had been raginf for thiee weeks when one afternoon Kelly stole into McKean'a back yard and la d fIS \r¥ nds °n the Orangeman's flac McKean came roaring out of the lou ye tore- me flag," said McKean. v-m yer come in an' dthrink hpitb -f^ ould Ireland?" said McKean i that same," said Kelly. And S i? 5m S ian and Oran Seman «« brothel

fnr IT a n numh. er of parents were before the Court m Auckland the other ren *£ "^T^H 8 *° 6end their ■cMH.leii to school, the excuses were that children were wanted to run messages, +W S* ey r e ic sent but P]ftyed truant that they had gone to work that they IS\ni PA at Sr? *° ,helP that thg did not like school, and even that the parents could not make particular children attend school. Nearly aff the I e'f p «*<wed thoughtlessness Lid lack of discipline on the part of the parents There is no room in the Expeditionary Forces for men who can't keep away from home and feather-beds. A soldier whose experience in South Africa had provided him with high credentials has found this out to-hfi heh^\! ydnT- il* 6° haPPened 9tS lie had been placed in a camp separated from his home only by a, very short distance. And each night after "lights out' he used to slip out of his tent and, taking.cover all the way, wriggle through the lines and cross the road and enjoy the. comforts of home and a feather ted. He would return before daybreak. But one night-he was caught m the act, and 'the result was that he was discharged. Later he made an attempt to be enrolled again rSi« i 6 T^^g officer, Lieutenant! Oolonel Antill, made it clear to him that in no case would a man who had been discharged regain entry to the Expeditionai-3' Force. TO CURE il\ DIGESTION dyspepsia at.d stomach troubles it i^ necewary to take after meals' some harmless preparation which will supply the .uatural digestive fluids which every weal, stomach lacks. And the bsst preparation of this character is Dr Shpldon s Digestive Tablets, which contain all he natural digestants which nature requires for prompt digestion Price i W Ka\v l S 6d Br er tin' Obtainable at W. K. Wallace. Rawera.—Advt-