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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 4279, 16 November 1901, Page 2

Stock quotations appear on the first page and further particulars concerning our rural products will be found on the fourth page. About 50 persons left this district, to visit the Palmerston show, yesterday. The engine was gaily decorated for the occasion.

The playground at the district school has been tarred, which will prove a great convenience, especially during the wet weather.

A successful trout hatchery has been established on the upper waters of the Manawatu, on the property of Captain J D. Hamilton. Last month 58,900 tons of mud were removed by dredging at Lyttelton. In the past ten months 410,000 tons of mud have been dredged from the inner harbour.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, as now united, includes 214 charges, with 27,233 members, and the number of its adherents, young and old, as shown by the last census return, is 176,503.

The Railway Department has put a long drive into the side of Mount Egmont for the purpose of testing the quality of the stone in the mountain, which is thought to be suitable for railway ballast and road metal.

During the past few years quite a number of yachts costing £SOO each have been built in Auckland to the order of Sydney and Melbourne people. Under the Federal tariff a heavy duty will have to be paid on account of every boat sent across to Australia in future. The duty payable on a racing 30-footer just built by Logan Bros., of Auckland, for Mr Marks, of Sydney, is £4O. An instance of extraordinary delay in the transmission of mail matter is given by the Auckland Herald. A parcel addressed to Mr F. Young, Moeraki, on August 7th, 1896, failed to reach its destination. On October 23rd of this year, Mr Young, who has since moved to Alexandra, received the parcel, after an interval of five years and two months, bearing the postmark of the 1896 date. The Muldoon Picnic Party were greeted with a large house, when they made their appearance in the Oddfellow’s Hall, last night. The performance hit the public taste, for the applause and laughter were loudy and hearty. Mr F. M. Clark was the life and soul of the piece as the eccentric Muldoon, and he received good support from the other members of the company. As will be seen by advertisement Messrs Williams and Kettle, Limited, have been instructed to sell by public auction on 26th November, in addition to 650 woolly hoggets, the goodwill of the late A. Mitchell’s choice section at Hatuma, of 350 acres, including fencing, &o. Also a horse and cart, a quantity of stores, &o. This will offer a very unusual opportunity for acquiring one of the best sections, being a portion of what is known as Cabbage Tree flat to travellers on the line. A number of Mr Hall’s constituents took advantage of his visit to Waipawa last night, to draw attention to several local matters. He was urged to try and bring about more satisfactory train arrangements and promised to give the matter his earnest attention. Those present passed a resolution expressing their disappointment at not receiving any definite reply to their petitions for the acquisition of Abbotsford and The Brow properties. It was also decided to request the Premier to address the electors here.