The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. "Te Oranga Moti Iwi." FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 36, 13 December 1901, Page 2

The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. "Te Oranga Moti Iwi." FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901.

Mukloon’s Picnic Company, which appears in the Institute Hall on Monday evening, has drawnfcrowded houses in other parts of the Colony, and is very highly spoken of by the press. We anticipate a bumper house. A replace advertisement for Mr A. Manoy, announcing the opening up of Christmas and New Year novelties, will appear in our next issue. Messrs Irvine and Stevenson of the St. George Preserving Works, Dunedin, notify growers of fruit that their representative will be in Motueka about the 17th instant.

Mr C. J. Bartlett notifies in our advertising columns that he has a few colonies of bees, in Langstroth hives for sale. Mr Bartlett has been a most successful apiarist in the past and persons procuring his bees can depend upon them being strong and free from disease. Full particulars elsewhere.

The following is a copy of the subscription list referred to by Mr John A. Guy at the school demonstration held at Ngatimoti on the 6th instant. The originators of the movement to establish the first school at the then junction of the Oronico and Waiwero roads were Messrs Walter Guy and George Remnant. Of the persons mentioned below only four are to-day, Messrs C. Remnant, D. G. Beatson, George and John Canton. It is.

dated Ngatimoti r 16th April, 1868 (over 33 years ago)', and reads :—We, the undersigned, agree to give the sum stated against our names towards the erection of a school house at the junction of the Waiwero and Orinoco Valley road :—George Remnant £3 3s, George Canton £2, John Canton £2, Christopher Remnant £2 2s, George Young £2, Henry Young £2, D. G. Beatson <£l, George Simpson £l, John Parsons <£l 10s, Walter Guy £3 3s(and front door), Charles Limmer 4s, Frank Jellieoe £2 2s, McDonald £1 (in rails), a Friend ss. Noisiness in a public hall does not help good singing by any means. At the entertainment held on Wednesday livening at the Institute Hall a callow gossoon, evidently shod with cast iron shoes by a member of the local Horseshoer’s Union, persisted in stamping up and down the gallery steps, distracting singeis and the audience. Then again, owing to the neglect of the authorities to oil the hinges of the door, some person or persons persisted in opening and closing it during the rendering of some part of the programme, thereby producing noises such as may be heard when a man is sharpening an ancient saw with a file. We are asked by the Rev. Mr Wills to state that a number of greenhouse plants, procured from Nelson, to dispose of locally for the benefit of the Wesleyan Church renovation fund, are still unsold and that he will be pleased to quit them to any person who wishes to help along the good cause.

By the S.S. Manaroa,' which arrived here on Thursday, Messrs Charles Lowe and E. Fry of Riwaka received a pui-e bred Polled Angus bull calf, which they purchased from Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co, of Wellington. The Polled Angus breed of cattle has been proved to be admirably adapted for hilly country, on which they thrive bitter than other strains. They are good milkers, and when required for the butcher fatten very rapidly. Messrs Lowe and Fry are to be congratulated upon their enterprise and desire to improve the breed of cattle in tllis locality.

Messrs Brown and Herr, of High Street, are now opening up their new stock of jevvellry etc., especially selected for the Christmas season.

A letter from “ Trooper ” re the local corps, is crowded out of this issue. It will appear on Tuesday next. On the first of January next, Messrs Rout & Sons, the well known land and financial agents of Nelson, will add a new branch to their already large business, namely that of auctioneering. This step has been decided upon in response to requests from leading settlers and others throughout the Nelson dist let. In order to give clients the benefit of rips experience in the selling of stock, land, and other articles which are disposed of to the highest bidder, they have secured the services of Mr Alfred Wallace, of Christchurch, who is not only armed with exceptionally good testimonials, but is known in Canterbury and elsewhere to be a capital salesman.' This fact, combined with the well known probity of Messrs HQb&V Sons, will no doubt be the means of making the firms new departure a splendid success from the date of its inception. Tenders are invited by the trustees in the estate of the late George Holmwood for the lease of the property known as The Gap. Full particulars on application to Messrs J. A. Guy and J. W. Wills, of Ngatimoti. Raspberries are ripening all over the district, and we are informed that on Thursday over a bucketful was gathered in Mr Trewavas’ garden on the Swan road.

A nusiaace is spreading in Ngati-

moti which will soon require the use of

prompt measures for its suppression. We are informed there are hundreds of acres of ferns in the locality and that the farmers are not at all satisfied with the way they aie gradually covering the grassed country.

The next visit of the American Dental Company will be on Monday and Tuesday the 16th and 17th inst., when Mr Parker, a member of the firm may be consulted at the Post Office Hotel. Since the firm opened a branch in Nelson, some months ago, business has increased at an extraordinary rate. This can only be accounted for* by the reputation for good and faithful wo-k, performed by skilful bands, which has been gained by the company. It is, therefore, no wonder the (residents of Motueka and surrounding districts prefer to “ hug ” a decayed molar and suffer martyrdom from a wayward tooth till a competent dentist like Mr Parker arrives.