The Patea County Press, (With -which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not." WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 3 April 1895, Page 2

The Patea County Press, (With -which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not." WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL

oi eoial train service for the Hawera Produce Show is advertised to-day. The usual meeting of the Star of Egmont Lodge, U.A.0.D., takes place this evening, The regular monthly meeting of the School Committee takes f lace in the ■Council Chamber to-morrow evening. The regular meeting of the Pafea West Pond Board will, be adjourned from Friday next to Friday ;2th instant. The school committee meets to-morrow evening in the Borough Council Chambers. Ah this D the last regular monthly meeting, of the present committee, a full attendance is desirable. We would remind our renders of the footba 1 ! competitions to take place on the Domain Grounds on Friday afternoon. This being the opening of the season deserves recognition at the hands of all townspeople, and given good weather we anticipate a good gathering io mark the event. Yesterday was a busy day at Waverley. Mr Brabant, S.M., sat in the Assessment Court from half past ten to tive, and Messrs W. Wilson and J. Muir, Js.P., sat in the S.M. Court during almost equally long hours. Seventeen civil cases were sot down for hearing, eleven of which were settled out of Court. One criminal case was dealt with, two young men being committed, for larceny, to take their trial at the Supreme Court, at New 1 lymoutb. Notice appears elsewhere of an entertainment in aid of (he Fire Brigade funds, arranged to fake place on the evening of Easter Monday, our race night. It would 1 e difficult to pick a better evening for an f'ritertamiuent, will tbs members of the brigade have certainly done their best to give a good evening’s amusement by securing “an entire change” of per formers for the occasion. Mr Horace Baker, of Hawera, has undertaken the production of a really good programme by members of the Hawera Dramatic Society, an outline of which appears in our aivortising columns to day. New nicies and new faces should secure a good house without, any reforanco to the object to which the funds are to be devoted.

The report is renewed in London society. 1 says despatch, that a marriage is in course ’ arrangementbef ween Consuola Vanderbdt [ of New York, and i!>o young Duke of Marlborough. This playjwjts firat noted I last summer when the Duke paid several j visits to Mr Vanderbolt’s residence at Marlborough at Thames, but it is sub.sei qnenlly said he rvas paying attention to IMisa Davey. the daughter of the Australian millionaire, ami proprietor of Mount Morgan Gold Mine. Miss Davey is now engaged (o an officer ip the Life Guards, and it is stated that negotiations ate pro eroding for a settlement of the Marl >r. ngh-Vanderbelt marriage It is qui»o eeimnilly recognised that the duke mast vm.'otv for money, if he is to keen lift mib-dm, his income being only £B,OOO tip* il&mWui 8o&t8 ft ywi

A despatch to the London Daily News, from Odessa on March Ist says that Madame Modgeska has.been forbidden to appear at Warsaw because while at Chicago she lectured at the World’s Pair on Russian oppression in Poland. Fashionable London dressmakers say that the young Duchess of York now sets London fashions quite as much as her mother*in law, the Princess of Wales. The Chroniclers endorsethisby invariably describing the Duchess’ dresses as fully as those of the Princess of Wales.

Regulations by Order-in-Couucil are gazetted reducing the rate of interest payable on the common fund by the Public Trust Office. Up to £3OOO in one estate the interest is to be L] per cent, on sums over that amount 4 per cent, on the excess. In lunatic intestate estates per cent, is to be paid on sums above £‘so, and in testate estates the rates above specified. The Rev. R. Lawson, of May bole relalessomehumorous marriagoexpeiiences On several occasions ho says, when the question was asked of the bridegroom whether he took this woman as his wife, no reply was returned at all. He then repeated the ques-ion more pointedly, which always brought out the tardy but cool response, ‘* Ob, ay.” A common practise is for the minister to shake hands with the young couple and say, “ I wish you much joy.” A bridegroom once briskly replied, “ The same to you, sir.”

Mr Lawson on one occasion remarked to a middle-aged bride that this was the last time that slio should sign her maiden name. She coolly replied, “ I’ve signed it lang aneuoh, I think.” Tilings must be in a bad way in Queensland, according to the following from a country correspondent there: — I wish no harm to anyone, but we want the dry season back again. What wo had tu sell then we got something for, now we get nothing. Just fancy butter at Id per lb., and maize at lOd per bushel! How are we to live on it ? Your Forest Hill correspondent quoted an instance in his last where a neighbour sent two tons of potatoes to Brisbane, and got (5d in return, and lost his bags into the bargain. Well, I sent five tons of really good potatoes to Brisbane last season, and got back 17s sd, and I lost also my bags, .which cost me £l. so after all I was 2s 7d to the bad, with all my labour lost. And this is how we live and are expected to pay our way.” The funeral of Bishop Suter took place in Nelson on Monday afternoon. The body was lying in state in the Cathedral all the morning, when communion service was held, the building being draped in black, but largely relieved by white flowers edged with cypress. Every business place was closed in the afternoon, and the Cathedral was .occupied to the doors. Bishop Mules and Archdeacon Grace conducted the service. The procession was beaded by the Rev. D. Galway and choristers and clergy preceding the coffin, the pall-bearers being the Revs. A. Wright, Cachenmillo, Jennings Edgewick, Livesay, Johnston, and Hnllott, Then came the chief mourners including Mrs Suter, Mrs Mules, Col. Branfil, members of the late Bishop’s household, boys of the Bishop School (carrying wreaths), Diocesan officers, members of the Legislature, public men (including members of the corporation), and citizens, who walked to the outskirts of the city, over fifty vehicles following. The last offices at the erravo were performed by the Revs. Kemptborno and Jennings, the Bishop pronouncing the Benediction. The whole ’town was in mourning, and clergy of nearly every denomination, including Roman Catholics, joined the procession.

The President of the Board of Agriculture, in the House of Commons, was asked oti March 7th by Mr Jeffreys, mem her for North Hampshire, whether his attention bad been drawn to the statements in the Times concerning the preparing and packing of meat in Chicago, said to be diseased and intendei for exportation to England, and whether be had reason to believe that, though a bullock at Chicago might be condemned ns diseased and unlit for food, yet its tongue was preserved and exported while its fat was made into oleomargarine, and whether it was a fact that, in many instances, diseased meat that had been condemned had nevertheless been taken out of the condemned tanks after the inspector bad left and bem preserve 1 and exported to England. Finally, Mr Jef freys ask'd, whether the Government would endeavour to prevent Mich meat being u«ed in England. Replying to Mr Hubert Gardner, the President of the Board of Agriculture said be had received the statements referred to and proposed to make the neceseary enquiries through the Foreign Office. He would also bring to he notice of the Sanitary Officers in England any information which reached him in respect to the existence of danger to the health of the public arising from imported goods, The February issue of Night and Day, the organ of Dr Barnardo’s well known Homes, is more than ordinarily interesting. It is worth perusal for the contrast engravings alone, with which it is fully illustrated. These two or three twin views of hoys in nil the rags and wre’chedness of their original poverty, and then of the same lads after a period vf Insli'utional (ruining, followed by emigration to Canada, speak eloquently both as to the necessity for the Homos, and as to the unqualified success which is attending their efforts. “ Personal! Notes ” are nop only interesting because they contain references of a very personal nature, bat also because in them Dr Barnardo, who recently gave evidence before the Poor La w Commission, places before the public his views on (he relative merits of the Barrack Hchool, of the small home and of boarding ont foy training girls of the waif or pauper class, The Notes show that (ho Homes appeal to a wofld-wj.de petition of helpers, as indeed they should, considering that their doors are open to children irrespective of class or creed or path nality, that nearly 5.000 rescued Waifs nye now under the care of the Institutions, and that from 40 to (j() new cases arc being admitted weekly. A prominent place is given to an announcement of a proposed >Self Denial Week on behalf of the Houjfls, to bo held from 10th to 17th May next, 'fha number contains stirring accounts of two widely diverse meetings: one the annual iSupper to Waifs and Strays (which for 20 years has been hold under Dr Barnardo’s auspices), ami tho other the Entortainmeut for Members of the Young Helpers’ l/’agim, held in the Royal Albert ilall. A cony of the njagrrino will be sent to to any address on ' application the Head Offices of ihe Homes. 1$ to U«wew«y» X- & 1