Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 254, 13 April 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

/ Cvfii JpoB& *ehoo*QiTrorh at this office. Attention is drawn to the altered advertisement of Messrs Jonathan Ltd in this issue.

The adjourned meeting of the Kino- . .ku b-aneb of tbo Farmers’ Union will be held nn Saturday, 14th inst. A nice collection of post cards, comic and views of Now Zealand, have just been secured from Auckland, and are now on sale at the Srttlbr office.

An effort is to be made to start a football club in Kawhia, and with this object in view a meeting will be held on Saturday night, 11th inst., in Mr E. G, Falwasser’s office. Messrs J. Scott and Terry arrived in Oh&upu on Monday with 1700 sheep for settlors in the district, which were driven overland from Napier. The several owners took charge of their mobs at Obaupo. It is stated that on Easter Monday the Kinohaku Local Championship Chop (held over from the late .-ports) will be decided, together with three other chopping events., In the evening the new school will be opened. At the recent general elections in England the Leamington seat was won by Mr Berridge, who defeated the Hon. Alfred Lyttleton (Colonial Secretary) by a substantial majority. Mr Berridge is a cousin of Mr G. G. Jonathan. of Kawhia. There is on view at the Settler office a splendid sample of onions grown by Mr H. Moore, at Taharoa. There are four bulbs which weigh within an ounce or two of 4lbs. The seed was secured from Messrs E. C. Pilkington, of Auckland.

We have received an excellent article on the dairying industry as applied to this district from the pen of Mr N. Neilson, of Waibarakeke. As an old dairyman, Mr Neilson advocates one central factory and hand separation. The article will appear in our next issue.

An account for £6O for the Kawhia County Council’s share of valuing the County, was read at the last meeting, w':eu it was referred bock to the Government. the opinion being that as rates could u«>t be levied on native land the account should be reduced by abont half. We should think by about 75 per cent. Easter Holidays in tbe Post Office. —Good Friday t April 13th, will be olmerved as a Sunday. Qn Easter Monday tbe office wit! be open to the public in all branches, except money ord«*r and savings bank, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Overland mails will be closed and despatched as usual on Monday morning.

The everlasting tinkering with special! native legislation has been going on ever since the white man's occupation, and has resulted in heaping up a mass of laws that arc a blot npon the Statute Book, and our Native population, -also poseessiug millions of sores of tbe best lands in the colony, in times of stregs, as at present, “ cry for bread,” —Mangonni Times.

Rather an interesting illustration of bow a letter travels at times was shown to ua the other day. A letter was posted at Kawhia addressed “ Mr Cowern, Bakaunui.” There is a post : office of this name near Wellington, eo the letter was forwarded there, and when Mr Fred Cowern, of Rakaunui, near here, received it two months later tbe envelope bore the date stamp of 19 post offices through which it had passed. This proves that people should take greater care in addressing their correspondence. Positively, something will have to ba done to protect the colony against the destructive powers of the tomato. Nobody suspected the innocent loniking vegetable—by the way, is it a vegniab‘o or a fruit?—of being a source of danger ‘to navigation until w« learned from Monday’s Star that the buoys and beacons at ‘be Society Llauds hud been almost entirely deal r«>yed by a tomato.” But as the tftar says it is so, on the authority of tbe French Consul, it must be true. It will ba interesting to learn what steps the Agricultural Department are taking in the matter.—Exchange. There is every reason to believe that the Tennis Club’s conce-t and dance on Monday night next will be a great .success. The programme wiil be an excellent one, as besides all tbe kctl talent, Messrs Archor and Bate, ot Te Mita, who have already appeared before a Kawhia audience and established 'hemselves as favourite ’, have acceded to the committee’s re q-te-k to contribute items. A very amu-ing sketch, “ The Patent Agent," will be one of tbe features of the con cert. The dance will start at 10 p.m., the music for which will be supjlied by Miss Stevens and Mr Jonathan. Persons who require a first-jlaas piano on very easy terms are adrised to read Ibe now advertisement of iho Loudon and Berlin Piano Co. oi oui back page. :;i

Don’t th*♦ good oriufing can be done at thv Setixxr Office. A eonplo of d *ys ago Mr Hally, ac comnanied by hfa wife end family, arrived at Kiritehcre, to take np his rosidvoee on his sec.ion there. Mr Esau Pretty .-inade a rapid re covery from his sovei-e illness, Saturday last won the Charity Fete uf Auckland, being second and D. Pretty t On Saturday oveuing. RoM »nd Gun-Pit »>"t sU.<re tS< iai.re.tcd- io tbe Atiry’io* inaigSHi Au assurance was given that cows were guaranteed a factory would be erected, and 7|d paid for butter fat. Since our last issue a little fine weather has nrevailed, which has been fully taken advantage by looal tennis players, .,jr.»ry interesting games being decided. A private match -between Pettit and Falwasspr («he former conceding 25 points in 75) was won by the eoratcb man, whilst the tournament game between the two scratcl men (Pettit and Jackson) 75 np» was won by the same player.

The following new books have been added to the Kawhia Public Library daring the past, week :—Miss Cavley’s Adventures, The Gadfly. The Downfall, Diana Please, Captain’s All, The Master, The Crossing, R’jhbery Under Arms, For the Term of His Natural Life, The Intrusions of Peggy, Life In a Garrison Town, Dia’atone Lane. All Men Are Liars, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, Tess of D’Urbervillea. Vanity Fair, Red Pottage, Life In a Crack Regiment, The Virginian, I Forbid the Banns, Moondym.’, Te Ranpirahara, Geoffry Halymn, God’s Good Man, Anna the Adventur?s«, The White Causeway, The Manxman, Les Miserabks, Simple Life.