Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 246, 9 February 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

Note Hiutou and Hustler’s altered advertisement on our front page. In another column appears the programme of the Kinohaku sports to be held on March 9th. A plan of the lands in the Marakopa district to be ballotted for in March, may be inspected at tbe Settler office It is stated that a regatta, run entirely by tbe natives of tbo district will be held at Kawhia on Easter Monday. Or W. J. Shaw was absent from the meeting of tbe Kawhia Council on Monday last owing to ill-health, but is now about again. At a meeting of the trustees of the Kawhia Medical Club on Monday last, Mr K. Nfiwton was appointed secretary, vice Mr G. Whitcombe. A nice collection of poet cards, comic and views of New Zealand, have just been secured from Auckland, and are now on sale at the Settler office. That deadly weed waoriki is still rather prevalent m the swamps about the town. On Sunday last Mr Alf. Symons lost a nice hack through eating this plant.

Private communication from Auckland states that tbe Commissioner of Crown Lands and members of the Auckland Land Board leave for a tour of inspection of this part of the province on Monday next. Tbe question of wandering cattle in the town of Kawhia was brought before tbe County Council on Monday hat by Cr Jonathan, but action was deferred until the bye-laws were compiled. Cr Armstrong drew attention to the fact that there was also a bull at large, which, be thought, was very dangerous to the public. Other councillors agreed, and it was decided to bring the matter under the notice of the police. The fact that the Kawhia Library i® now under proper care and control i 8 having a most satisfactory effect, so much so that it is now suggested that a magazine club be formed. The doc tor has offered the use of his waiting room for the exchange of these, and .Mr D. Baird has offered to take care of them. Tbe great difficulty ie to select a time when books, etc.,, can be exchanged, but Mr Baird assures ub that practically any time (if your sub pctiption is paid) will suit him. I

iUvcrheard on wharf.—-Mr B. : Have you seen the summer goods Jonathan Lid. have just landed ? They are | simply lovely and the prices are exi ueedingly low. Mr C. : No. 1 hive 1 only just landed l*y launch, but I always procure my (Jbrapery there. I fit d their goods are always o£ bust quality, the prices arc right and a god assort moat to pick from, Mr B. : Yes that is 00 and I advise everybody to inupeut before they buy oleowhtro.

Mr H. J. Greenela.k, left pur Wellington by the lUrawul on Saturday last on various matters of in* ■csest to Waikato. Mr E. K. Muigan, school inapco’-or, who is well known iu this district, has been appointed Inspector of Schools under the North Canterbury Education Board. Mr Thomas Phillips, of To Majm, met with a severe accident a few days ago. When driving a baggy and p;-ir down a steep hill the horses got beyond control, the trap being overurned. The result was that Mr PbilipH* leg was broken above the ankle, • hich Ims since been set by Dr C. i "Campbell Jenkins.

The Kawhia Wharf Trustees have toceivud the following letter from the Marino 1) ipariment:—“l have the honor, by direction of the Minister of Marine, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16‘h alt., in which you a?.k that the surplus revenue from the Kawhia wharf now iu band may be used towards tbe cost of forming a street to tbo wharf, and iu reply I have to state that thia department has no objection to this being done.” “ To discontinue advertising/’ says Juun Wanamaker, the millionaire, “ is like taking down your sign. If you want to do business you must let the people know H. Standing advertisements, when frequently changed, are better and cheaper than reading notices. They look more substantial and business like, and inspire confidence. I would as soon think of doing business without a clerk as without advertising.” This is advice which all bnsiness men would do well to follow, but it must bo borne in mind 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. “A new thing iu the shape of prohibition ordeis was issued iu a King Country during the time that several shops were doing a flourishing trade—-that is befure Magistrate Northcrof*; got bis iron heel upon them. A resident well known iu the district, who was a slave to drink yvheii he could get it, had had an unusually severe bout, and his friends decided to take out a prohibition order against him. The forms were duly issued, and the local constable, blissfully unconscious of tbo humour of the thing soryed copies on the three loading sly-grog sellers iu the township Thus an exchange. The town alluded to is not Kawhia, for although a prohibition order has boon issued here, our local custodian of the peace did not servo notices on the “ licensees ” of tho town, for tbe simple reason that there are none.