LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 21 September 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The late comedian Toole's estates are valued at £79,964. He leaves many bequests to friends. It has been decided to form a branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation at Maumai(Wairoa). A Tatarariki millhand, named Gibbons, met with a serious accident on Monday last, by cutting his leg with an axe, The Exhibition authorities Lave been advised that Mr R. E. Chatfield has accepted the management of the Auckland provincial exhibit. According to a Sydney cablegram, East Greta has adopted the owners' compromise, and the colliery crisis is now practically over. Arrangements are being made by Ihe Telegraph Department to instal a cable which will be capable of supplying'the requirements of 5(1 telephones throughout the Christchurch Exhibition Buildings. ; The estimated population of the', Colony on June 30 (exclusive of Maoris, etc.) was 891,281. With the : addition of 17,371 Maoris and 12,310; inhabitants of the annexed Pacific Is-; lands, the grand total was 951,352. > This morning's spring tide, with a' heavy gale behind it, and supplement- ! ed by flood waters, brought the river ( up to within a few inches of the top. of the Town Wharf, and all the sur-' rounding low-lying lands were inundated. During the month of August rain fell on 21 days at the Ruatangata Nursery, there being an aggregate fall of 5.86 inches, with the maxiumum of 1.91 inches on the 11th. At the Puhipuhi Plantation 11.08 inches fell (15 days), and there was a total fall of 10.27 inches at Tutainoe (25 days). Ainoii£ (,i, ( » ru i a [ lands in the Auckland Land District, to be thrown open for sale or selection on October 30, art' the following :— Section 3, block IJ, Tutainoe, 198 acres ; .section 61, block 2, Whangape, 1102 acres ; section 2, block 8, Waipoua, •JO acres ; section 3, block 8, Whangape, 133 acres. There was a large gathering in the Tc Kopuru Mall a few nights i'go, on llio occasion of a social tendered to Mr Curtis Moore, who is leaving the district to act as manager of the Mitchelson Timber Company's mill at Aoroa. Mr Curtis has been employed as manager by the Kauri Timber Company for the past 19 years. A word to our business men and others :— lt is desirable to impress upon all residents in the Marsden electorate that tliey can now obtain all their supplies of the celebrated Roslyn wearing apparel from the Wlian^arei drapers, and at prices distinctly in favour of the purchasers for Roods of such excellence. The success of drapers is assured when it becomes Known that they carry a full stock uf our own New Zealand Koslyn nianufautuies. To the credit vi our Northern settlers he it said, they will have the best that money can buy, and that, no doubt, is the reason why they persist and insist on being supplied with Roslyn.

I The Ameer of Afghanistan has intimatI ed that he will be unable to visit India until December, A very saccessfal practice of "The Pirates of Penzance" was held last evening. There is evidence that the weasel is beginning to make the town of Whaingarei a habitat. One of these pests was killed this afternoon by a dog behind Messrs Harrison and Sons' store. Captain Edwin wires : Wind will change from southward toward south-west; glass rise slowly; t.des high ; sea heavy ; raia probable. Although the dairy season may be said to have only just commenced, the Flthaui Dairy ConipaDy are alreaiy making abou", a ton and a half of butter per day.. A male teacher lecently appointed to the charge of the school at Motu, I Poveity Bay, has resigned, owiug to the only available accommodation coating rnoro than the salary he received. With the death of Mr Seddon a vacancy occurred on the Assets Idealisation Board. It was tilled temporarily by Mr Hall Jones, who, it is understood, did not draw a salary. Since then the appointment has been conferred upon Mr Mills, ex-Minister for Customs. The Agricultural Departmpnt lvts arranged to establish a small experimental station at Lichfield, on the Eotorua line, chiefly for the purpose of testing sevoral varieties of S:\ltbush for growing in that district. About two acre 3 are to bo kid down in saltbusb. A meeting of the v.irious Wairoa school committees will shortly be held to consider the advisability of erecting technical schools at D-irgavillo and Kopuru. Mr Georgo Goorge estimates that the equipment of each school would cost £600, and suggests that £300 should be raised locally, which the Goverement would sub.sidi^e by £'for £, ami in addition give a grant of £600. His desire is to have schools on tho Wairoa as well equipped as those at Whangarei, Waikato, and Tliameß. A law passed in Norway prohibits -the sale of tobacco to any boy under 16 years of age without a signed order from an adult relative or employer. Even tourists who offer cigarettes to boya render themselves liable to prosecution. The police are instructed to coufiscate the pipes, cigars and cigarettes of lads who smoke in the public streets. Apropos, tho Chief Health Office of JSew Z-nlaud ha* been instructed to have tin analytic made of samples of the vnri>m cigu leltes on the market. A gentlomau, wh) his ji^t conpleted a trip round the nir«l disuiors of Otago and Southland, states ihafc agricultural and pastoral j rospects never looked better (says the Waiiarapa Standard). Owing to tho record mild winter stock in osso and po.«-T is, to use the informant's words, "Al." This pariiculnrly applies to the Otago Central and the North Otago. In •Southland the winter has been rather j too wet for tho turnips, bat that ia the only little blot on the pleasing picture. An exceptionally rough trip was experienced by tho s.s. Kanieri last night, but sho arrived at tho Town Wharf this morning only a little beyond her proper time. There were no passengers aboard. A rumour was current this morning that tho s.s. Ngapuhi had not got past tho U cads on the journey to Auckland yesterday, but this has proved to bo unfounded, as the Ngapjhi was mot by the Kan eri off Tiri Tiri about 7 o'clock ] last night, and wi uld probably be in Auckland abou" 9 p.m. ■ Ono of the first quest'om now asked by Mtry Jane beFore taking a situation a* lady help is: ''Do you ÜB3 Kiripabi c >al ?" Since this co tl has come into use the chimney sweeps are having a hard time of it. Chimnyes want no sweeping when Kiiipaka coal is used, as it makes no soot The mistress who has the most, consideration for her domestics is the one who uses Kirinaka cjul. — Advt.