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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5967, 21 November 1912, Page 2

Oommeroial nawa and a raport of a abatement made by the ohairman ol the Harbour Board on Tueaday. The reading matter on the fourth page oonaiata of a report of a reception to Mr Maaaey. Mr W, H. Bagger; officer in oharge of the Ohriatahuroh branob of the Department of Labour, aaya that more people this year have adopted Saturday voluntarily aa the balf holiday than ia any previous year, and so far as he hai ascertained, all have been wall satisfied. Host of the ooal, timber, and grain merobants, and the painters, as well as others in various trades, have adopted the weekend half-holiday. A telegram from Dunadin states that housewives muit faoe the probability of having to pay from 2|d to 3d par lb (or potatoes, at any rate up to Christmas, when looal potatoes oome into the market in bigger quantities. The season has been a most baokward one. In many oasss seed has been planted twioe only to be found rotting in the ground. At an indication of how thinga stand, it may be mentioned that old potatoes going to Sydney have brought as much as £lB a ton, or nearly 2d a lb. We know Warner's Rust-proof Corsets to be thoroughly reliable aa regards shape, oomfort and aervioe—in fact we are prepared to guarantee every pair not to rust, break or tear. Looal drapers.a

-Oyer 30 are sitting far the junior eiail aervioe examinations Ist Waipawa thii yaar. The Rev J. T. Guon la Inparvltor. Thf examinations began on Tuesday.

A poll In oonneotion with tha gMWorki site loan will ba held on Batnrday nax', tha hours of polling being from 9 a.m to 7|pm At the Bydney wool sales, yesterday, priota ware firm. At Melbourne, im proved values wars maintained and at Timaru tha raoent rises were wall meiu. tainad.

The jurymen who aat at an inqnaat at Rongokokako (Eketahuoe) deoided In pool tha fata reoaivad for aerviea and pnrohasa a wreath to plaoa on tha grave of tha deoeased.

Dr Parkin, of Oxford, speaking at the National Aiaooiation of Slate Dniversi ties, oritioiaed tha Amerioan Rhodti ■cholera. It was, hs said, a mystery bow ■oYna aver got (o Oxford. Merit alone was apparently not s daoidlng factor. Mr O. K Wilson, M.P., who psased through Taumarunui to Ta Kulti on Saturday morning, inoidentally man tionsd that out of £600,000 voted for baok blook, eto , roads, £IIO,OOO had bean voted for Taumarunui aleotorata.

The oonoession made by tba Postal Department for the uarriage of books from librsriM to subscribers at tha rate of Id per lb baa beau little availed of, but a further tpial of three months Is to be given to tbe scheme. A Palmerston resident writes to a local paper offering to give £lO towsrds tbs expenses of representatives appointed by tha Employers' Federation to go round tba Dominion and' put the true facts ot tba Waihi oasa bafore the workers, as a counter movement to the Federation of Labour's leoturing proposal. The Education Department has mads a grant of £165 for tba enlargement of the laboratory at the Waipawa Taahnioal Sahool on the extended plan suggested by tha obairman of tba Education Board, Mr WhittingtoD, anb drawn by tha Board’s overseer, Mr Boland This plan ensures symmetry of design and provides ample accommodation Tandara will ba oalted for the work at onoa.

A motion wee paaeed the other day Id the Te Kuiti Boroogh Council ei fol low« " 'l'het ioeimuoh >■ lend reloee in Te Kuiti ere elreedy aufiioiently high, the Government Veluer be inlormel thet the reeaon thia Oounoil hea applied (or e new valuation ia only (or the purpoae ol getting an equitable adjuatmant ol raluaa, and thia Oounoil la of opinion that a f general riae in valuea ia not at preaent j notified. The inolemeut weather interfered with the attendanoe at the leatura da livered by the Rev Blamirea, on Tueeday eveuing. The rar. gentleman dieoouraed on 11 The Wit and Wiadom of Methodiat Preaohara " in an exoeediogly able and intereatiog manner end kept hie haarera amuaad while imparting inatruotion and aenaible advice, Thoae who attended were well rewarded for faoing an inclement night. Two aoloa, sung in good atyie, added fgree able variety to the dieoouree. When the aafe at the White Heart Hotel, Harton, waa opened on Friday it waa found that the paper money, together with other important doonmanta, had been deatroyed. Beeidea thia, be tween £2O and £3O in ailver and eoloa had been melted to aueh an extent that Abe

•aim were •licking »o nob other, bat h • tovereigo am found among the mini, and daapita tha fiaroa but it muit have beau subjected to a eovereign found in lido wee pot damaged at all. Sydney evidently oarriaa ita by-laws to maintain abaolute oieanlineia to tba extrema limit, ae a resident of that eity, writing to a friend, mention! that he bad been eummonad to appear at the Polioe Court for plaoing a tram tioket on George etreet, “whioh interfered with the olean linen of euab etreet, oontrary to tha bylaw in that oaee mode and provided.” He mention! that the oilending pieoe of paper wee rolled up hard and wee about tba eiae of a pea. Tbie, however, did not abiolva bim from tba penalty. Tire death of "King” Mahuta hai bad an unexpected effect on looal farmeri who are praotioally dependent on native lebour lor getting their potatoee out of tbe ground (eaye a Pukekohe oorreepondent). When the Maorie beard that tbeir king wee dead they all “ downed tools ” and eet off for the tangi, premieing to oome bank at the end of tbe week, but their week will at long ae the tangi. Farmers are offering good money to white diggers, but there are very few about at present.

A ourious ou> ot restoration of light II reported it the Heidelberg (Viotorii) Hoipitil for Inourablea. William Jltoo, ■ butoher, 25 years ego wn itruok by lightning md blinded. He waa tuffering from pertiel pirilyiii end mi deaf and dumb Ten dayi ago be reooyered bit light, and wai able to lit up iu bed and read and oonverie with the help of a diagram. The eauie of tbe oure ii uo known It ii lurmiiad to ba dua to tha abiorption of a olot of blood on the brain.

Thqmaa Heiketb and Bernard Evison were invited to appear before Mr W. I. Limbriok, JR, on Tueaday morning, to explain why they ware drunk and ditorderly at tho Waipawa railway station, on tba previoua night. Thomaa failed to convince bis Worship that ha waa guilt lan and waa oonviotad and diaohargad. Bernard declined the invitation to attend the ooukt. For refuting to aoknowledge i tha majeaty of the law hip bail of £1 want to replenish the ooffera of tbe Statp,

During tbe paat month the Wellington office of the Labour Department aaaiatad 104 reoent arrivals from Great Britain to find employment Work waa found during tbe same period for 202 man, 83 married and 110 tingle, having 267 dapendanta. Of that number, 128 ware aent to private employment and 74 to Government worka, oomprinng brloklayert, engineers, farm hands, hotel hands, paintara, and labourers, of whom 64 hailed from tha North Island, 18 the South Island, 10 from the Commonwealth, 104 Irom Great Britain, and six from other plaoti. Warner's Rust-proof Ooraeta, Roelyn Ontbriukable Underwear aod Hoyla'a Prints in atrong demand * Tour Local Draper atooka tbe Roalyn Writing Pada at 6d and la each. Remarkable Value. Try one.*

Mr Higga, of Pukebou, the well koowt horticulturist, aaka os to draw ettentiea to tha damage dona by tha yellow flown, Eeoholria Cal torn la, that flourbfias on tba river bed. In Marlborough, Mr Hiokt aaya, the weed baa spread with alarming rapidity, especially on atuoy anil, and laid waite many aeraa of land.

A ramarkib'e ooeurrenee haa bean ra. ported to the Federal wireleai expert by the oAioiala at tba Hobart atation, aayi the Melbourne Age Ooe day last wash there wea a faint tioktog of the reonrder and when onmmnoioetioo waa finally aatabliihad it waa aaeartaiced that tbe message was from none others than thi members of the Mawaoo expedition at Adelie Land, in the far south; The mas aage had apparently mined the station wbioh waa erected at Maoquaire Island, in the hope that it would eventually gai into touch with the Aotarotie, and had then travelled about 2000 miles furthn north until it was picked up at Hobart It waa forwarded to the eeeretery of the expedition.