Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 206, 28 April 1905, Page 2

Local and General.

The next meeting of the ManiapotoTuwharetoa District Maori Land Council will be held at Otorohanga on Tuesday, May 9tb, at 11.30 a.m.

Mr Newton, surveyor, of Oparau, when recently in the Te Mata district kindly surveyed the Te Mata hall site for the trustees as his donation towards the building.

THE LONDON AND BERLIN PIANO COMPANY have forwarded to their Kawhia Agent a REVISED CODE of TERMS for payment of Pianos and Organs. All information sod specimen instrument on view at the local Printing Office.* We believe that there is every likelihood of a post office being established at Kiritehere, and a weekly mail service between that settlement and Te Maika. The secretary of the Kiritehere Settler’s Association (Mr P. 0. Rose) has been very energetic in this matter, and it is to be hoped that his efforts will be successful. One of the conditions under which the mail service will be established, is that a postmaster offer his services free for the period of 12 months, which Mr Rose has consented io do. ! Mr J. T. Fleming, the travelling agent of the New Zealand Alliance, I who was in this district in connection 1 with the no-license movement a short , time back, has written to a Raglan supporter of the temperance cause on ! the working of the new laws under ' which the liquor trade is conducted. ; Having spent a considerable time in ’ Kawhia, Taumaranui and Te Kuiti, Mr Fleming says he has had an op- ! portunity of investigating the effect of the new Licensing Act on the sly grog [ traffic, and says “ You will be glad : to learn that sly-grog selling has been knocked on the head at last, chiefly through the increased power conferred on the police. The Maori chiefs informed me that the Maoris have become quite sober, and the police are of ! the same opinion.”—Chronicle. The Raglan Chronicle:says r—“ Cooperative dairying has not been an unqualified success at Te Eau-a-moa, and we learn that the past season’s results have been very unsatisfactory. Ragwort and dry weather may have had a good deal to do with it, but from wbat we hear lack of genuine interest and too small a guarantee seems to have been the chief cause. It ia a pity, as the company has a first-class up-to date plant, but these plants cannot be run to a profit without an assured supply from a fairly large number of cows. We have had to find that out already in this district, and it is hoped that these experiences will act as a warning to our local dairymen. Perhaps some of those who some time back were considered over cautious have been the beat friends tu the industry,” At the last sitting of the S.M. Court at Kawhia, Mr Nortbcrcft (before fining Daniel Arkell 10s for sending liquor into the King Country without it being labelled as such), stated that he known merchant? in large businesses send liquor into the King Country marked as “ sundries,” and even had cases specially constructed to deceive the police. He bad also seen six cases of whisky arrive at a railway station, the boxes being marked 11 cigarettes,” whilst another stated that the case contained “envelopes,” and on inspection it was found that the contents were one row of envelopes and six rows of whisky. People carry ing on a big business should not en deavour to evade the law, and on this occasion he would like it to be plainly understood that the Act clearly stated that a fine could only be inflicted for the first offence, and that the next conviction meant imprisonment— tthere was no alternative.

Bor every description of Job Printjog go to the Settler Office.

A line of snramer straws to be cleared at your owa price at Hjnton A HUBTLSB'B.* Our newly-elected J.P., Mr, A. M. Symons, was sworn in by Mr North croft, 8.M., last week. There woe an exceptionally high tide on Friday last, which <3!id slight damage to the footpaths. We shall be pleased b» pi owe seed from any firm on a Ftnail ccrtiimiseion. —Hinton & Hustler.* Mr 18.’C. Falwasser has added a few more properties to bis already long list appearing on our front page. The Rev. Father Tormey, of Kihikihi, will conduct Mass at Ksiwhia on Friday morning, April 28tb,a. 7 a.m. Messrs Jonathan Ltd. have received a large consignment of all lines of drapery, p you cannot call eend for samples and quotations.* Residents of Kinohaku celebrated Easter lime by holding a danci at Mrs Garr’s residence, which proved highly enjoyable. The attendance was very large. On Easter Monday Mr W. Morgan’s launch Naumai, ran an excursion to Kinohaku, Waiharakeke and Mahoe, which was attended by about twenty residents. . Members of the Kawhia Huck Racing Club are re unacted- thet a meeting will be held on Saturday, Maj' 65h, to receive the balance sheet of the races held recently. We thank our patrons for the support received daring the quarter just ended, and hope that the same will be renewed, to an even greater extent, dating the comiug term Mr Heywood Armstrong’s tender for alterations and additions tc the old Maori Hall, has been accepted by Mr Morgan, and a commencement has been made with the work. Call and see samples and quotations of grass seed, clover, etc. Uopsignsignments arriving every three weeks. Order in time to arrive at end present month from Jonathan Ltd.*

Reports from the country on the coast south of the harbour, state that daring the past few nights a couple of severe frosts have been experienced, which have had a bad effect upon the young grass.

Mr P. C. Rose, secretary of the Kiritehere Settlers’ Association, informs that he has received comm animations from the Minister of Public Works and Mr T. Burd, District Road Engineer, that shortly the sum of £lOO will be expended on the Potaka, on the road to Tabaroa.

Mr H. Nelson, of Nelson, Moate and Co., Limited, returned to Wellington on Wednesday from London and Ceylon. During his stay in Ceylon he opened a branch office there for the purposeand shipp.iog teas. Mr Nelson spent some time in the tea-growing districts.*

On Saturday last a meeting was held at Te Rau-a-moa to discuss the prospects of the dairying season for 1905—6, when tbera was a good attendance. Mr Boesen addressed the assemblage at length, after which it was decided to adjourn for a fortnight, to allow time tor those interested to carefully think the matter out. We have pleasure in directing attention to the advertisement 'of the Northern S,S. Co., which appears in this issue for the first time. The announcement sets forth the dates on which the Kia Ora sails from Onebunga during the month of May, which will doubtless prove interesting information to our readers. Sheeting.—Juet to hand a splendid 72in. from Is 4d per yard. Hinton & Hustler.* Mr Houchen and party, under the supervision of Mr Bankart, have been busy during the last day or two blowing out the rooks ia the Pakoka River, Aotea Harbour. A number of rocks ana boulders are right in the fairway of the channel and it is expected that on their removal punts and launches will be able without risk to negotiate the river up to the shed on the Pakoka crossing at ball! tide. A visitor to Kawhia was recently asked by Mr Boesea, the new mail contractor, why he did not return to Auckland by the overland route, when the visitor very innocently remaiked: “ Why I am informed that you have to get out a walk up the hills.” This remark was surprising to Mr Boesen, who immediately denied it, and he has asked us to intimate that persons travelling by the coach route do not have to get out and walk. On Saturday last Mr F. Newton crossed over 200 head of cattle to Te Maika for Mr C. King, the mode of transport being the pontoon, towed by the oil launch Maroro. Every beast was landed safely. There Is no gainsaying the fact that Mr Newtau’s pontoon has proved a great boon to settlers, as now cattle can be crossed without swimming them—a very risky undertaking, which in the past has cost owners of stock thousands of pounds. Writing to a resident of Kawhia, from Dunedin, Mr W. F. Massey, Leader of the Opposition, saysr—• “ Yours of the 3rd Inst, has just reached me here. Many thanks for the invitation to visit Kawhia, and which it would give me much pleasure to accept if it were possible for me to make the necessary arrangements. I have fully a month's work in front of me before getting back to Auckland, but oo arrival I will consult Mr Lang, and if possible will visit some of the centres in the Waikato electorate, Rawbia included. In the meantime I cannot make any definite promise, but h >pe to be able to communicate with you later on.” Our stock of boots and shoes will provide yoa with an exceilout choice, —Hinton & Hustler.” I

Now that you have burnt make out your quantities of seed aud send order Co Jonathan Ltd -, Kawhia. They-will mix all ready for sowing if icqaired, without.furtber charge.* For the Te Awamutu Races to Se held next month, The Don has been entered for the Hurdles and Kihikihi Plate, Howitzer for the G-eeti Hilt Handicap and Kihikihi Plate, and Mangahoe for the Flying Stakes. At the meeting < f the Oparau settlers held on Saturday last, it was decided to get a gafir.iofee.list signed so as a telenhone to Kawhia could be established. Those present did not select a candidate to represent them in the Matakowhai Riding of the Kawhia County, owing to the reluctance of the gentlemen whose names were mentioned to allow themselves to be nominated. “ To discontinue advertising,” says John Wanamaker, he millionaire, “is like taking down your sign. If you want to do business you must let the people know it. Standing advertisements, when frequently changed, are better and cheaper than reading notices. They look more substantial and bueiness like, a.id inspire confidence. I would as toon think of doing business without a clerk as without advertising.” This is advice which all business men would do well to .follow, but it must be borne in miud that the advertising medium must be the best obtainable We can confidently say that in consequence of its large circulation, The Kawhia Settler is one of the best papers to advertise in. For Broncial Coughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1 6

AN ’INT.

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