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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 4373, 1 July 1902, Page 2

Stock quotations appear on the first page. The balance sheet of the Waipawa County Council will be found on the fourth page.

The Waipawa Debating Society meets at 8 o’clock, to-night. At the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, William Moran, for assaulting William Hall was fined £2.

The Waipawa school committee have nominated Mr S. Johnston for a seat on the Education Board.

The Waipawa Dranfatio Club held a successful rehearsal of “ The Guv’nor ” last night. The next rehearsal will be held at 8 p.m., to-morrow.

At the half yearly meeting of the Loyal Abbotsford Lodge of Oddfellows, last night, Bro. M. Collett was nominated for the office of N.G. and Bro. G. Abrahams was nominated for the V.G. chair.

A sub-committee of the Hawke’s Bay branch of the Teachers’ Institute has decided to recommend that a gathering of the school children of the district be held at Waipawa early in November.

The congregation of St. Patrick’s Church have decided to hold a concert and social, on Wednesday, 6th August. It is intended to present a strong programme, which it is expected will meet with the approval of the public.

The matron of the Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows for the week ended June 28th : Patients in hospital, M 28, F 9, admitted during the week, M 4, F 2 ; discharged, M 3, FI; died, M 0, F 0. A forest about thirty miles from Roto rua, estimated to contain 300,000,000 feet of Totara, rimu, and matai, has been purchased by Mr Peter Bartholomew, of Levin, and two Auckland residents, who intend to erect a sawmill on the block at an early date. A tram line, twelve miles long, is to be laid to connect the mill with the Auckland-Rotorua railway.

At a targe mooting of Sydney licensed victuallers the other day it was resolved “that on and after Ist July hotelkeepers in Sydney shall stock no whisky which costs more than 50s per case to serve over the bar counter at 6b, and also stock no brandy which costs over 65s per case, to be retailed at 6d over the counter.”

At St. Peter’s Church, on Sunday evening, after the extra published by us announcing that the King was out of danger had been read, the audience sang the National Anthem. Sympathetic reference to his Majesty was made at the Presbyterian and Wesleyan churches. Father Johnson, at St. Patrick’s, requested the prayers of his congregation for the recovery of the King.

Constable Beattie, of Waitara, had to enforce the Waitara town by-laws against himself on Monday. He prosecuted himself for allowing a horse to wander, and the Justices fined him Is and costs. The constable’s excuse was that the horse had got out of the paddock.

Some excitement has been occasioned at Dungog, New South Wales, by Alderman Whitehouse going to gaol for fourteen days rather than pay his sanitary rates. He entered the council as a strong opponent of the weekly system in vogue, and succeeded in reducing the rates from 5s 6d to 3s 6d. He still thinks the rate too high and is making a martyr of himself rather than pay. One of the proposals to be submitted to the farmers’ delegates when they meet at Woodville, on the 17th July, to make final arrangements for starting works, will be a suggestion for the importation of an American expert, competent to advise upon the very latest system of works for, and methods of, treating byproducts. America is further advanced with the treatment of frozen meat and its many by-products than any other part of the world.

At the last meeting of the Waipawa County Council the question of the rate for this year was informally discussed, and on the motion of the chairman and Cr. Smith it was resolved that the same rate as last year be levied. Mr Jull has given notice to move to-morrow that this resolution be rescinded, the idea being that a lesser rate will be sufficient. Mr Jull has also given notice to move that the new works, for which grants are asked from the Government, be re-con-sidered.