Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 197, 17 February 1905, Page 2

Local and General.

The usxt sitting of the B.M. Court in Kawbia is fixed for Wednesday, April 19th. ; .. Sheeting.—Just to band a splendid 72in. fro nls per yard. Hisvos & Husthßß.—Advt. Mr T. Burd, Inapeotor of roads, last week paid a vhit of inspection to works in progress in thia diatrict. Mesara Jonathan Ltd. have received a lafge consignment of all Hues of drapery. If you cannot call send tor eamplee and quotations.—Aovt. The first consignment ot flax from Mr Langley’s mill at Pakoka was exported to Auckland yesterday moroioK when the e.e. Kia Ora took away 16 bales. Mr Robertson, of To Micks, sacseeded in capluring an enormous etingeree last week. The fish measured 9ft from uoee to tail sod 4ft across ihe back. Call cud see samples and quotations of grass seed, dover, etc. Consigneiguments arriving every .throe weeks. Order tii rime to arrive at end present month from Jonathon Ltd,—Advt. The Brass Band played a few tunas in Kawbia on Sunday last. The attendance was only email owing to the residents having taken advantage of the flue day to go picoiciug, etc. A 916-acre'aaotion of heavy bush land situated three miles from the Harapope Poet OBce, io Pirongia Pariah, is to be thrown open for selection on March Btb, with option of teoures. Mr H. Nelson, of Nelson, Moato and Co., Limited, returned to Welling, too on Wednesday from London and Ceylon. During his stay io Ceylon he opened a branch office there for the purpose of baying sod shipping teas. Mr Nelson spent some time in the tea-growing dwuncte.—Advi. We are asked to state that tbe Kawhia school wav not supposed to re-open until Wedbesday last, owiug to the staff not having taken the Michaelmas holidays, and having them atteched to tbe Xmas vacation. Tbe school re-opened on Friday, wbeu a good number of aobolan were in attendance. Considerable let erest was taken in B obepping ntatub, 18in. standing blocks, between J. Deegan, of Tasmania, aud Beau Pretty of Raglan, which took place io the Gretna Hall, Tiahppe, on Saturday evening last. There was a very largo audienoe, and both competitors camo in for a great ovation, Pretty eventually proving the victor in the good time of Im. 34 4-5* The stake was 2825 aside. After making three unsuccessful attempts to cross tbe Aotea bar, Mr Langley's lauoeb was put ou a waggon on Saturday last aud conveyed to the Aotea Harbour, where she was sue eesafttlty launched again by Messrs Maxtcd aud Galvan. The boat immediately commenced rnnuiug, and lowed a punt of green flax to the mill, returning wish a tew bales of dressed fibre, which was carted into Ruwhia, and shipped per tbe s.B. Kia Ora to Onebonga. The eight of Rex being taken along the wharf was pleasing to everyone, aud we heartily wish Mr Lwgley every eoocess ip Ma underOne of the moat useful InatHntions of this country promises to be The Diabetic Institate of London established for scientific research ipto the origin, cause and treatment of Diabetes and the secondary symptoms of goat, rhenmatiaas, carbuncles, ate. Hardly any dises-. :> so little understood, and at tbe same time so Insidious and dangerous as Diabetes, which, scaotdiug to ibe higest modern authorities, Is earsbfe after all, when treated in time. If loterutnd, write to the Dis'uelio loatitate, St. Dunstan’s Hill, London, E. 0., for free information—A cvt.

X.H. lie 3d, iootoad ®^ J ,lh.atoon n tof .to l™£ Mr Hoare, who baa boeu chief ■toward of ihvawKi* On for Uh pool nine months baa aerated bin co ineo ■ 'O with the Northern-8.8-Co- Par fata fti. p. r< Mr H«w» '•• <■>•<>• many friends,who tofttot k> d pir12 h LLf nhh**h>ato" whtob rfamtd bare read Iba 15ih and iSVih ineta The to>H. Mitob.ll left for Wettfogtoo oo Monday to attend the i nnaa l confireoco of the Uaugiwgetiosnl Ihurcb, which will take pluoo at a| Chriefoharev'tWAt week. Now Chat you have burnt make ent year quantitiea of weed and rend order tp Jonathan Ltd, Kaebia. They r>® mix all ready lor auwiog if in aired, witbout farther charge.—Atlvt . - BYNOWSW OK NEW ADVERnSCMKNT* l.oat in Kawhia -A iiorocoo podtst wallet Stanton aud-Hastier bare a re-pheeadrsr, ttasmaot on our front |<age. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cere ter Coegba and Colda uamr taito A GeologisisVisit to KitwhU Some six year# ago a German professor of palaeontology visitod Now Zealand to gat sometaforaation regarding the fossils of the moondary brmatione. Hie intention whe to pay visit to Kawhia, as the knowledge othe fossils of thie district stands praolif oally at the >me point as in 1859, when Dr F. von Hochstetler published he result of bis invostigatioria. He furthermore hoped to get good information in the Colonial Museum, wbioh, however, was not the ease, most of the fossils oolteoted at Kawbia by M*Kay, and mentional in his report of 1881, being stored np in boxes in the Museum, and tliesefom not available for scientific study. The German scientist, however, was prevented from visiting Kawhia, and Mr Souter, conohologiat, promised to collast fossils in the Kawhia district as soon so time would permit. For the past five years Mr Souter had other mgegemente, but has at last fulfilled bio promise. Over ;thrso weeks wars Bl in visiting the most important is where ssoondary fossils had collected, other by Hoohsteiter or M*Kay, and Mr Sorter soooewlsd, though with great troulile and no little expense, in bringing together a fairly food collection of fossils, which will be lent to the German scientist and worked out by him. We may now look forward to some knowledge of ths reel age of tbs ssoondary rooks oocurng in the nsighboorbood of Kawhia. Fossils in tbess rocks are, gensrally speaking, very rare, only Mrswiles and a bivalve shell, huuU, are plentifully found in some localities. Ammonitu, the most important shell tor fixing the age of stfhtum, are extremely scarce now, but a few specimens wen luckily secured.