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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3791, 20 August 1898, Page 2

Stock quotations, the Inspector’s report on tbe Kaikora school, and other reading matter will be found on the fourth page. Harts aro proving destructive to the oat cropß in the Manawatu distriot. Owners of valuable dogs should take ciro of them, oe several were poisoned during tbe week. The prr jeot to secure a public recreation ground at Waipukurau has fallen through. The Hawera Borough Oouneil has adopted Mr Leslie Reynold’s scheme of water and drainage to (.-oat £30,000. Mr T. P. Hatpin announces in this issue the last two weeks of bis sale of drapery and clothing, after which his raoob in Waipawa will be closed. We regret to hear that Mr E C. Good had a paralytic stroke on Thursday night He is unable to speak and it is feared that the injury will be permanent. The members of the Waipawa Volnn- , teer Fire Brigade are reminded that the monthly meeting and practice will be held at 8 o’olock on Monday evening. ] Victoria’s little bill for entertaining Federal Convention delegates totted vp i

to £7OOO. It iooludod 25,000 of the oboioest cigars and 20,000 oigaretteß. A map of New Zoaland, for nse in the pablio schools of the colony, is being prepared by the Survey Department, by arrangement with the Department of Education.

The concert ia aid of Mrs Fonlds, whioh wm promoted by the Hampden Lodge of Oddfellows, readied in the aum of £l2 4« being taken. The expanses amounted to £2 4s, so that the snm of £lO will be handed over. Toe death is announced of Mr David Home Christie, an early Oauterbory colonist. He was a prominent member of the Orange Society, and in 1872, represented the New Zealand Orangemen in London at tbe triennial oonnoil of tbe society.

Mr H N. Tanner, of Tai Tapu, sold at Addington yards last week an exception ally large Liocoin-Leioester wether, tbit took first prizo at the Christchurch Wiuter Show last year. It realised and it should go very near the record weight for a fat sheep in the colony.

There is nothing like seizing opportunity—when it presents itself. Last Saturdiy a slip at tho Rimutaka incline brought the express to a stop. As the engine was pnlliug np off jumped a man with a camera, and before the train had come to a stnod—still he had taken a snapshot of tbe obstruction.

A meeting of the Waipawa Licensing Committee was held at Danevirke, yester day, Mr A. Turnbull, B,M. (chairman), and Meiers Henderson and A. Mackay being present. A temporary transfer was grantod of tho lioenso of the Junotion Hotel, Norsowood, from John A. Young to Matthew Edward Rains.

News has been received that Major Elliott, who was Private Secretary to the Earl of Glasgow when the latter was Governor of New Zealand, was amongst those who were journeying to tbe Klon dyke. Bniland, the well known footballer, was also going up to the goldfields at tbe same time.

This is the age of record breaking, and even the sheep farmer is not free from the spirit of emulation that is abroad Recently at the Addington yards a farmer ia tbe northern district obtained the re cord prioe of 50s for fat wethers, sold at the Smithfield of New Zealand, aDd last week an Ashburton farmer, Mr M. Fried lander, went one better by obtaining 52« 6d for some of bis famous Hampshire down wethers, and there was do mistake about the genuineness of tbe bidding. By this evening’s express Mr R. McCalloch will reoeive the well bred Aire dale pup, Hobson Briar, which he has purchased from Dr Newman. The pup is seven weeks’ old, and is from Dr Newman’s lately imported English prize winners Hobson Test and Randalwell Vixen As Mr McCulloch already possesses tbe Melbourne bred bitch Millswyn Vic, he should have the stock to produce some excellent specimens of this popular breed. As Mr Buchaaon, of Blackburn, was riding along the bank of tbe Tuki Tnki the other evening, his attention was directed to something luminous Being curious Jo see what it was, he dismounted, and found it to be a small root of a tree that had evidently boen washed down. When seen in the dark it gives one the impression that it has been smeared with phosphorus, but au analysis of a portion of it shows that thero is not a particle of that substance about it. From wheooe it derives its luminous property ia a mystery Anyone interested can see a piece of it at this office.