LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The Tututawa Daiw Company learns trom Mr -Newton King, agent for Messrs R. and W. Davidson, of Glasgow, thnt its cheese is at present selling at 96s 6d per cwt, equal to over yd per lb in New Zealand.

Twelve ships, all insulated, are now on their way to New Zealand to load meat for Army siimjlies. Following are the vessels:—Rangatira. Pauaroa Kia Ura, Indrabarah, Athenic, La Blanca, Remnera, Opawa. Tongariro, Waiwera, lndrapura, and Somerset.

A South Canterbury sheep. farmer, wno has a event many sheep on hand, has paid £12 an acre for 40 acres of turnips on which to feed some of them (says the Timarn Herald). In addition to paving this big price for the roots, he will have the cost of railing his sheep to and from the crop.

A- Palmerston North paper states that the lam lung season is exceptionally early this year. Mr J. Linkater. of Milson's Line, claims to have the first lambs of the season, two of them having been on his farm for. about a month. There is keen 'competition for the purchase of lambs this year, and a good season is looked forward to.

Money cannot buy a more effective remedy iov coughs and colds than "NAZOL." Wise mothers give it to their children. 1/6 buys 60 doses — Advt.

Mangatoki;ScW. m^ iTWffiQyjn \ W^iV s *hemfc^^d ! CoMiili l ipe_f to J 8^ 1 _125,. **$ *«£.. <• _ - j*x r<L j, %>* !£. v J*?? 77 3- \rii ... -_ V - -.- - *..(■' At^ho close of the Leiderkranz prafctl^^f^.^v6s_©l?» "th§ Ojuestion^df Changing thelaame' oKthe toociety"Vas _congidered{_an4 it "wa^'unanimously decided to do so', Th% choice of the new name Has, however, been leftover till the practice , next 1 week, when new names will* be submitted, and one approved. s Mr H. C. Isaac, evangelist^ is continuinfi; addresses at the Oddfellows' Hall, Manaia, to-night' (Wednesday) and t.n Thursday and Friday at * 8 o'clock each evening. A large chart is used in connection with these special addresses. A welcome is extended to all.

A reminder is given of tho annual grand Hibernian ball to he held in the Town Hall; Kaponga 2 this (Wednesday) evening. The cptamittee hart, c worked hard, and are supplying first-class music, a good, floor, and a sumptuous sitdown sypper. Funds are to be given to the 'Hospital ship, and it is hoped that the public will give the Jball the patronage" it justly deserves. -

Mr Forbes (Opposition Whip), and Messrs G. Witty (Kiccarton), J. T. M. Hornsby (Wairarapa), W. D. S. MaoDonald (Bay of Plenty), Liberal M.P.'s, arrived at Whangarei on Tuesday (says a Press Association message), and proceeded north*- to take part in the contest for the-Bay of Islands seat. '..•■.

In all there were 6416 New Zealanders engaged, in the -Boer war in ten contingents, the total casualties being pij.aiwl the number of livos lost 176. year_'of the campaign, the heaviest f^ccurring An .he engagement fought by the Seventh Contingent at Botnasberg. The Australian casualties m South Africa were 120 officers and i^&U men.

A singular accident recently befel a member of the Mounted Signal Troop in camp a+ Hautapu (says the New /eialand Herall). He was practising for a tent-pegging competition when his lance tooK.tne ground firmly. Swinging over with the onward rush of his horse& he lost control of the weapon, which' having pulled clear of the ground *flew round and Vas then driven complef _- ly through the .thickest part of the calf of the man's light leg.

Recently the firm of A. and G. Price, engineers, paid a tribute to the excellent services of five of their s.dtjst workers, by taking the party for a motor drive down the coast (says the Thames Star). The quintet, who were the guests of the firm, were Messrs G. Lowson, who has -43 service to his credit; E. Brownlow and R. Leslie 40 years; J. Coutts, 36 years; and J. Bucan, 30 years. It is claimed that there is no ether fir.m in New Zealand that can boast of 189 years' service from five of its employees. The little compliment paid them by their employers was greatly appreciated.

A strange meeting of two brothers who had returned to England after long years of separation abroad took place at the headquarters of the Artists Rifles in London. A young man who some months ago returned from Ceylon to join the Artists Rifles anrived at the headquarters of the corns after dri.l and there met his elder brother. They had not met for thirteen years. The elder brother exolained tl-at' after thirteen years in China and Japan he had come home to fight for the c untry. The* younger brother explained "-H-at ne had co-me.-.'froiS CeylOn on exactly the same mission.

, Accoruing to Mr A. R. Sennett, the' inventor of submarine signalling, wno is touring New Zealand' in the endeavor to establish a Board oil Trade, £100,000 worth of valuable chemicals is poured down the drains in New Zealand c.very year, principally from* the gas companies. It would be possible to supply from this source all the cyanide of sodium necessary to the gold-mining industry and have 250 tons over for export. The moral was, said Mr Sennett, for business men to conduct their factories on scientific lines, which ! might make all the difference between . profit and loss.

A comet was observed in the eastern sky by Mr L. Morley, of Nelson, at about midnight on Wednesday night. It was visible to the naked eve. It may be found by, looking about the length of the constellation Scorpion below the tail of Scorpion. Speaking of the. discovery to a Colonist reporter, Mr Morley said : "There is a trapezium of bright star- below the tail of the Scorpion and about the length of the Scorpion below the tail. The comet is in line with the two lower stars, at nearly double their distance apart. It appears to be of about the fourth magnitude. For those who know the Omega cluster in Centaurus it may be said that the comet appears slightly brighter. In the telescope the head is about 20min of arc. in diameter, and has a pronounced. stellar nuclues There is a tail extending about threequarters of a degree west and slightly north, and it is just visible in good held glasses. Its motion is eastward and quite pejceptible in an hour. In a pair of binoculars it appeared quite a large hazy object, with suspicions of a tail. It may be Mellish's Comet, but its position differs considerably from the expected position of that comet. It sises at about half-past 8."

fortitude" of a nurse, who stuck to her post after receiving fatal burns, was disclosed at a recent inquest at Southend (England) on Elizabeth Ellen Daly, twenty-six years of age, of the local sanatorium It was stated that Nurse Daly had been doing night duty in the scarlet fever ward She took her food with her as usual and was preparing scrambled eggs for her breakfast at 4 a.m. when she slipped at the fireside, causino- her clothes to catch alight. Rushing to the bathroom, she jumped into the bath, turned on the taps, and rolled over and over until the flames were extinguished. She then changed her clothes and returned to duty. She did not report the accident until she had been relieved by the day nurse four hours later. Nurse Dalv then collapsed, death following upon shock A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.