BREVITIES.

Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 38, 17 May 1909, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Mr. A. Mekay has an advertisement in this issue which demands attention.

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 & 2/6.

It has been decided to call Parliament together for the dispatch of business on June 23. / / Leser’s heavy navjf pHnts Ijkve made a name for themselves. | They wash well and are oheap,* f

The appointment of the Hon. T. MacKenzie as Minister for Agriculture as from May 1, is officially announced. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1/6 & 2/S.* We are asked to state that Mr. George Wilkinson was not present at the Northern Counties Conference at Dargaville.

At the laying of the foundation blocks of the Mangonui Methodist Church subscriptions to the amount of about £3 were received.

The Australian cricketers in England are doing well. They are very much too good for the County teams and the “ teßt” matches should he interesting.

The football clubs of the North are shaking themselves together. We are informed that Waihopo and district are expected to have the crack team again this season.

An advertisement elsewhere notifies saw-millers that two million feet of mixed standing timbers are to he given away, by Mr. J. D. Edwards, to anyone who will work the bush.

The Eaglan County Connoil balance sheet just issued shows that during the past two years only £7 has been paid to the Council out of a total of £2,900 due as native rates on native lands.

Whangarei County Council are drafting new by-laws. In the matter of width of tyres the proposals are even more drastic than those passed and allowed to lapse by the Mangonui County Council. A wire from London says that keen competition exists in the wool market and Americans and Germans are good buyers. Best merinos are now 10 per cent higher, and fine to medium crossbreds 10 to 15 per cent, higher. The secretary of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has been instructed to make inquiries as to the advisability of introducing into the Dominion English toads, which it is said are the natural enemies of the codlin and cabbage moths. At a general meeting of the Merchant Service guild in Wellington, on Friday, a resolution was passed deploring the fact that the finding of the Court of Appeal in the Penguin case was against what was, in the opinion of tho Guild, the weight of evidence. Mr. W. J. Bray paid Mangonui a visit on Thursday. Our old friend came from town in order to look into one or two of the business interests which he still retains here and we were pleased to see that he is looking fit and well and is as full of business energy as ever.

Now that there is to be a Church half way up the hill, above Irvine’s in Church street, the Council should consider the question of making a decent footpath on this township road. In winter time this road is notoriously muddy and greasy and as an encouragement to church going a path would be of value.

In addition to those whose names are advertised elsewhere the followiug have taken out shooting licenses during the last week, viz: —At Mangonui Messrs L. Wallace, Tadi Pakich, W. Foster, jun,, and A. Garton; At Kaitaia Messrs. W. Richards and Henry Switzer; and at Whangaroa Mr. Henry Hayes. That well known building contractor, Mr. C. B. Donald has undertaken the building of a house for Mr. G. Leser on his corner section. Mr. Leser has ever been one of the quiet, steady and already “ settled down ” ones of Mangonui but we understand that the new house betokens a fixity of settlement unknown to bachelorhood,

Mr. W. E. Holden the well known piano tuner is advertising pianos for sale on very easy terms.

Mr. J. H. Edmondson preaohed to a small congregation in Harris’s hall, Mangonui, last evening. Mr. Wm, Garton, sen., who is leaving the district, announces the sale of his furniture and effects on Wednesday, 2nd June.

The Northern Steam Ship Company advertise special excursion fares for those who wish to visit the Auckland Winter Show.

The Kaeo Meat Supply Co., notify their intention of applying to the Whangaroa County Council at its next meeting, for a slaughtering license, Repairs to the comer pile of the Mangonui wharf which was broken a short while back are now in progress. Mr. S. J. Wrathall is in charge of the work.

A lament from Waipapakauii groaningly sighs that the frost has nipped the carrots and that this succulent vegetable will be a rare dainty in the vicinity of “ Old Joe’s ” this season.

As we go to press two sportsmen report that they have done well in Oruaiti —ten brace of pheasant and four ducks. Not bad for a day’s shoot! Editorial thanks ate due for a fine brace.

Mr. Collins, representative of the London County Council, who is visiting Sydney, said that owing to tbe policy of the Labour party, English capitalists are afraid of investing money in Australia. The Scottish Amateur Swimming Association has suspended P. E. Beaurepaire, the Victorian swimming champion, for failing to fulfil his fixture with Taylor at Edinburgh, when the Victorian was in Scotland last year. Victoria Valley footballers come into Mangonui on Saturday next to play a game with the local team. The match will take place at Cooper’s Beach and arrangements have been made for the customary dinner in the evening. Mr. T. B. Taaffe, the energetic treasurer of the Waihopo Medical Club advertises that he will be in Kaimaumau and Waiharara from Saturday May 29th to Monday May 31st for the purpose of receiving the subscriptions of members of the Club. As membership carries with it a fifty per cent reduction in medical fees all should join.

In the case in which J. A. Subritzky, as owner of tbe Greyhound, sued the Northern Steam Ship Co., for damages sustained by the schooner in a collision with the Apanui Mr, C. C, Kettle has given judgment for the plaintiff, the question of the amount of damages (£67 10s. was claimed) being reserved for further consideration.

An extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Whangaroa Amalgamated Copper Company was held last Monday afternoon in Mr. H. P. Taylor’s Office. Colonel W. D. Holgate presided. On the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr. E. W. Alison, the resolution authorising the voluntary winding up of the Company was confirmed. The Ferguson Mining and Smelting Company has opened its smelting works at Waiomo. At one time it was expected that the Company would attempt to deal with the copper and other ores of the Whangaroa County but operations in Whangaroa have not been persisted in and the Company looks like oonfiing its energies to working the Coromandel peninsula.

Those objectionable documents requiring returns of income are being distributed through the postal department. As the Commissioner of Taxes has very arbitrary powers if these returns be not rendered promptly those enjoying any income worth mentioning—and few of ns are in receipt of very great remuneration for our toil—Bhould not delay in supplying the information asked for. There is a life buoy on Mangonui wharf but its condition is so dilapidated that we doubt whether it would float if thrown into the water. As at every wharf there is a chance of accidental immersion in the briny those in authority should see to it that any life saving applianoe kept for cases of emergency is in good order. But we don’t know who is the responsible authority on the Mangonui wharf. Some capital samples of oysters have come to hand from Russell, and, from what we can elioit, the crops this season are all just as good, Mr. H, Stephenson, under whose charge the oyster pioking goes on, is giving every satisfaction by his method of supplying the Auckland market. It is said that under the present system, there will be a good supply of the luscious bivalve every seasou. “ Northern Luminary.” Mr. R. May has written us asking an emphatic denial to a statement made by our Fairburn correspondent to the effect that Mr. May is in treaty for the sale of a property on the Fairburn road known as Adamson’s point. Further Mr. May wishes it to be distinctly understood that he is not in treaty for the sale of the section in question. We have much pleasure in complying with Mr. May’s request and regret that our correspondent should have been misinformed. In the course of an interview at Christchurch the Prime Minister stated that the theory that money is being sent out of New Zealand was not bourne out by facts. More money had been coming into the Dominion by amounts running into a few millions during the past year or two than was going out of it in every shape and form. In addition, money was being offered to the Government for governmental purposes from Australia, and as he had already stated, in one instance a sum of £259,000 had been offered. All the theorising in the world could not discount what was absolute fact and was on record.

The Pirates, the newly formed football club containing members from the Mangatete, Awanui and Waipapakauri settlements, have opened their season with a shockingly big win. The boys of the scull and crossbones played Waiharara on Saturday, on the Waipapakauri convincing ground, and the Pirates scored thirty-one points to the unwelcome nothing of their opponents, Messrs. Kenny Campbell and Alf and Harry Christensen did all the scoring for the piratically inclined. The game was a very friendly tussle and after it the dinner proved friendlier still, “Old Joe” and Co., putting on a table replete with good things,