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Waipawa Mail, Volume 4, Issue 339, 10 December 1881, Page 2

Divine Services. —Services will be conducted to-morrow as follows :—By Rev. J. C. Eccles, at St. Peter’s, Waipawa, at 11 a.m., Kaikora at 3 p.m., and Te Aute at 7 p.m.—By Rev ill. Long, at St. Mary’s, Waipukurau, at-iJKsptn., and 7 p.m., and at Takapau at 3 p.m.—-By Rev. E. Barnett, at the Methodist Church, Waipawa, at 7 p.m. Special Service. —By advertisement elsewhere, it will be seen that the Rev. R. S. Bunn, of Napier, will preach in the Free Methodist Church, Waipawa, on Tuesday evening next. Sales To-day. —Messrs Miller and Potts will sell by public auction to-day, at the Empire sale yards, a number of draught, trap, and hack horses, drays and harness ; also the booth, &c., privileges of the Waipawa County Racing Club, and the Waipawa Athletic Club sports. Medical. —Tenders are invited by the Abbotsford Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U", Waipawa, for the supply of medicine and medical attendance to that lodge for the ensuing year. Tenders must be sent in to the secretary not later than 6 p.m. to-day.

Mr Smith at Waipukurau. —Mr W. C. Smith addressed a crowded meeting of electors at the Town Hall, Waipukurau, on Thursday evening last, and received an unanirnious vote of thanks and confidence. The chair was occupied by Mr Henry Wilding. No questions were put to the speaker, and the meeting terminated immediately after the address; a cordial vote of thanks being first returned to the chairman.

Waipawa C.C. v. Herald C.C.— A match will be played at Hastings on Saturday, 17th inst, between teams from the above cricket clubs. The following have been chosen to represent Waipawa : —Messrs Harwood, Waddington, Bishop, Chicken, Potts, Craven, Nicholls, Bibby, Goldsmith, Peters, Clayton, and Fraser. It is expected that all the Waipawa players will meet for practice on the new cricket ground this afternoon.

Heirlooms. —At his meeting at Lumsden, Mr Driver said that no fewer than thirteen articles had been devoted to him by the press of Invercargill. He had no idea that he was such an important person. He had cut out these articles, and pasted them in a scrap book for his own amusement, and to hand down to his children that they might know what a ruffian their father had been.

Christchurch Cathedral. —lt will require £20,000 more to complete the Christchurch Cathedral. Already £46,000 has been expended on it. Dunedin Pottery. The New Zealand Pottery and Glass Company have received from the Government the bonus of £250 for the first £IOOO worth of household pottery manufactured in New Zealand.

Preserved Fruit. — It has been decided to start a factory in Dunedin for making jam and preserving fruit. A company has been formed with a capital of £6OOO, in fifteen shares of £4OO each. All the shares have already been applied for, and suitable modern plant offered the company from one of the Australian colonies.

Defective Genius. —How quickly we forget the rules of arithmetic as learned in school is shown in the fact that a prominent dry goods merchant in Boston worked on the following proposition, and failed to give an answer : If four mefci build a wall five feet high in four d^ T s ; how long will it take six men to buildT eight feet high in seven daj’s? Nuggety Bouquets. —Gold seems to be plentiful in New South Wales, for, says an exchange, at a recent concert at Temora, in aid of the New Catholic church, Miss Slattery, the principal vocalist, evoked such enthusiasm by her singing that several members of the audience wrapped up nuggets and threw them to her on the stage. Indemnity. —The Spanish Government haR just made a claim upon France for the indemnity few the victims of the recent disturbances at Oran, in the French colony of Algeria. The ground on which the claim is based is that France did not provide sufficiently for the safety of the Spanish colonists. The French Government in reply, points to the large number remaining in Or in as a proof that the fugitives need not have fled ; but consents to entertain the claim on the condition that the demands of France for the injuries sustained by her subjects in the Carlist wars of 1872 and 1876 are settled.

Stamp Duties. —An important Order in Council has been issued. It reads as follows :—“ A good deal of unnecessary trouble has been'given the public by the regulations enforcing the use of stamps in payments of fees and other matters, and especially that certain fees and payments should be made by stamps marked Law Court Stamps, and- others by stamps marked Land and Deed Stamps. The trouble and annoyance thus occasioned to the legal profession and to private individuals has been vigorously protested against, and at last announcement is made that from and after this day it shall be lawful to use any kind of stamps issued by the Government of the colony (except Beer Duty Stamps) in payment of any matters which, under the Stamp Fee Act, 1875, or the Stamp Fee Act 1880, or regulations thereunder, require to be paid by stamps. It is further announced that penny postage stains may be used for stamping receipts. The Order in Council does not extend to giving permission that receipt stamps may be used on letters, but probably it is intended hereafter to issue but one uniform kind of stamp, applicable alike for postage and stamp-duty purposes.