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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5086, 21 March 1907, Page 2

On the first and fourth pages will be found particulars of the American sensation, the Thaw triel. Dairymen in the Manaia district (Taranaki) are doing well at present. One farmer with an 800 acre dairy farm received £350 for his produce for last month, and another with 600 aotes made £550. Five of the prisoners who worked so hard a few weeks ago in putting out the grass fires on the Sumner Road (Canterbury) have been granted a remission of their respective sentences, varying from six montns to seven days. This has been done in consequence of representations to the authorities in Wellington made by the Mayor of Lyttelton.

The storm this we*k washed out the approaches to the Mangatera bridge. It is estimated that it will cost £l5O to effect repairs. It is notified that Messrs Mackay and 00. will sell, on behalf of tho Universal Furnishing Company, Napier, a large quantity of furniture. The sale will be held in the Town Hall, Waipukurau, at 1 30 p.m, on Saturday. A few days ago a Wanganui artist purchased three pictures which he saw in a boardinghouse in that town ; for thirty shillings. Later he received an offer from a Hawera resident of £ls for the pictures. A correspondent of the Eketahnna Express says a cowardly act was committed in that town on Wednesday night, when two men assaulted their step-father in tho street, breaking several of his teeth. After the assault they hurriedly decamped. At the request of a number of residents Madame Staunton has consented to give a concert at Qnga Onga, on Saturday next. Residents of the district should not miss this opportunity of hearing such a gifted singer. Tho annual haivest festival, sale of work, produce, eto., in aid of the funds of the Waipawa Methodist Church, is advertised for Wednesday, April 3rd, in the Oddfellcws’ Hall. Donations, gifts of work, and produce will be thankfully received at the Parsonage.

“ This seems to be waste,” was a remark made by a European to a Maori, referring to the gathering of Maoris now at Papawai. “What about your bazaars, don’t you call them waste P This is our bazaar,” answered the Maori. The pakeha subsided. During the paet five years the number of cycle works in New Zealand has increased from 71 to 97, employing 452 hands, whose wages last year amounted to £30,831. The value of the manufactures (including repairs) rose from £64,047 in 1900, to £75,991 in 1905an increase of 17 per oent. It is computed by some of the men that the fines inflicted on the strikers at the various Canterbury works must aggregate about £I4OO, of whioh the Belfast and Islington men have paid about £7OO.

The Maori of the present day is nothing if net up-to-date. At Greytown station last week there was landed a patent cooking machine, to be used in cooking potatoes, etc., for the use of the Maoris attending the meeting. What would their ancestors have said to such an expeditious way of cooking their food ?

A nasty accident happened to Mr S. McGreevy while driving to the races yesterday. The horse shied and ran on to the side of the road, throwing the occupants out. Mr McGreevy had three ribs broken, and was slightly stunned. He was driven to Waipawa, and attended to by Dr Todd. We are glad to say he is progressing favourably.

Two sales of Bank of Now Zealand shares at Dunedin at £lO brings to mind the fact that these shares have been firming of late years. In March of 1904, exactly three years ago, local buyers were offering from about 86s to 90s for them, and now they are offering 198 s on the Dunedin Exohaoge.| The manner in which the lighting of the streets in the town is neglect 3d is shameful. On Tuesday and Wednesday nights it was as dark as it could be but not a lamp in the streets was lighted, and pedestrians had to grope along as best they could. It is about time the Town Board paid a little attention to the question. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, L mited, have received the following oable from their London office : —Wool sales progress firmly. As compared with last sales closing rates prices are higher by about 5 per oent for coarse greasy orossbred and crossbred slipe, while medium greasy orossbred remains about the same. The Court should have sat this morning, but at the appointed hour neither the Magistrate nor Justices were available. A Justioa was obtained from Waipukurau thii afternoon, and the Court is sitting as we go to press. The happy-go-luoky manner in whioh sittings of the Court have been held her© for some time is nothing short of a scandal, whioh has entailed trouble and unnecessary loss of tima on litigants and witnesses.

A strange occurrence is reported from Brighton (says the Dunedin Star). On Friday a little girl named Kathleen Gawne, three years of age, was wading in the sea, when she suddenly called out, spun round three times, and fell. When she was brought on shore her odour rapidly changed to a livid hue, and she has been semi-unconscious and in a critical condition ever since. It is surmised that she was stung bj a stingaree. The first prize, a gold medal, awarded for the best collective exhibit of furniture at the New Zealand Exhibition has been won by the D. 1.0, This display is one of the features of the furniture bay at the fair. The design of tbe article is not too pretentious. Attractive simplicity, combined with quality, is the leading characteristic of the prize-winner. Part of the exhibit was imported and part was manufactured locally by the firm from its own designs. “ When shall their glory fade ?” Thomas White, 70 years of age, one of the very few remaining survivors of the Six Hundred, applied, on January 2nd, to the Medway Board of Guardians at Chatham (Eng.) for relief. He had been for months on the verge of starvation. He was severely wounded iu the Balaclava charge, and was invalided on 6d a day for 18 months—in all, the map. nificent sum of 13 guineas. He was temporarily relieved with 3s 6d and one loaf per week. A company to provide cool storage for meat and other produce in Japan is a matter of interest to all the Australasian colonies that aim at creating a market for our produce in the East. According to the Melbourne Argus , merchants and others of Osaka have decided to form a large cool storage company, which intends to build stores at Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Tokio, and other places. It is stated that storage is to be provided for meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, etc., and that contracts have been praotically arranged for supplies from Australia. At a meeting held in Osaka on 21st January, Mr W. Araki stated that the poorer classes of Japan were beginning to eat meat and butter, and, as the country could not supply sufficient of these commodities at a reasonable prioe, then was necessity to import supplies.