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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 19, 23 April 1892, Page 4

The following nominations have been rereceived for tne 1 School Committee election' on Monday next:—Robert Henry, nominated > > by J M Cooce ; Charles Feathersfcone Mit- , chell, nominated by W. Littlejoh'n ; George Iforman McGruer, nominated' by Carroll Nash ; William Littlejohn, nominated by C F. Mitchell. According.to the "School Committees Election Act, 1891," nominations can also be received on the nighc of the election* At Fleming and Co.'a weekly sale of fat cattle, which was held at their yards, Parawai, Thames, on the 20th insfc., they report: A full ma kefc were yarded, and all sold, bidding being brisk hr.uuhout Steers sold at from £7 to £8 7b 61 each, being prim« quali y »nd equal to 20a per IOOIbs ; .heifers, from £3 7s 6d to £4 15s each, being equal to 18s per lOOlbs ; cows* from £3 17a 6d to £5; 5s each, beiug equal to 17a per 100163. A ■ full market of sheep and lamba were peoned and sold as follows : Sheep, being a mixed lot and small, realised 10s 9J each; lamba 8s to 83 6d each. Good eating potatoes £4 5s per ton.;

Fleming and Co. held their usual monthly pale of horses, cattle, etc., at Paeroa.on S:» turday last. They rpport that horses were full yarded, prices real-sirg from £4 to £7. Store cattle—aged cows, £2'loa; yearling heifers, £1 15a. A lot of sundries were also disposed of at good prices.

A good area of land in the Masterton Hospital grounds is now planted with vines. ■ A s-plr-ndicl harvestf of grapes has been gathered this year, a large prooortion o£ which has been converted into wine A man named ."John Byrne, employed on Kelly's contract, at the W a tawheta (iorge, Karangahai-e, met witli a painful aeoi lent on Saturday last, hy inadvertently dr.ving » - pick through his foot at the iusep. Ihe woun i sh /wing unfavourable symptoms, he , was sent down the lhames hospital on. Ihuisday. R«v. T. A. No'rrie will preach to-morrow at Paeroa at 11 a.m.. Karangahake*2 p.m.* Owha oa 4 p.m , and Wa hi 7 p.mMr Tetley will conduct service -at the . Wesleyan Church, Paeroa, to-morrow evening at 6 30. , " A thirsty miner asked one of our publicans the other day for a pint of "Legs and Arms. Publiciu (quite puzzled) — " What d yer maanP" Miner-"Why, some of your been Publican - " Why do you call it that? Miner "Becase it has neither head nor body !" On the principle of "live a»d let live," the Hawke's Biy County Council has adopted att excel cut ybn in regard to public works. IS ia this: Not to accept a tender for work below the estimate of the engineer. This secures f^ir remuneration to the contractor, - , and enibles him to c r»y ou;. ha contract with credit to himself and the Council. On the ooher hand, when a contract is taken 1 below its value, the work is scampe 1, or «lac the contractor suffers ■ serious low, and has to throw up his contract, which is extremely , UQsarisfactoiy to all parties concerned.

The Maonland "na-ive interpreters' — , mostly Knglsmen, who often have learnt the lan^Ui^e from bojk sources rather than from the Maoris—of ,eu make iudi .rous mistak s, especially in c.*ses where native words, so-newhat similar iv sound, have an altogether different origin and meaning from each other, and where ihe distinguishing accentmtions are so vague that, the nidauiug can only be gathered from >.he context. For. example: " I'ai po" signitie* ''tlie night tide," and "taipo" is "the Devil." AUo, , 11 tai epa' is " the morning tide," and " <\iXhep* "" a fence.' An old, dignified native is giv ng hia ev-deu- c, ia-which he describes an attack upon a hostile pah. He has sta ed that his son, who haa been fighting *t liis siiie, received nis death-wound from • biille- tired fr-nn. the pah. As his *oa fell. the old m,u turne itoh m, cryingr "Depart,. my sou, oo the eveniug tde (t»i p<o J Wll follow on the morning tide (o»i epl)-. . poe ie simile, by which he expressed his intention of following his sou to another worl I after meeting hi* leath in a morning att ick on fie =tronglioU. The inexperienced iuterp-etrr kuoeked all the poeiry out of the sentence when he translated it thus : w, my son, to the devil; I will folio* on %h0 fence."