Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 301, 15 March 1907, Page 2

Local and General.

The next of the New Zetland Shipping Co.’s boats to leave tbe Waitara Roadstead will be tbu s.s Opawa on or about April 3rd. According to tbe Eltham Argus, Mr C. A. Wilkinson, a prominent resident of that town, will be a candidate for the Egmont seat at the next election. Make sure of gathering your potato crops by eprayiug the plants with Sharland’s Potato Blight Exterminator. It is tbe surest safeguard you can have against blight.* At the teacher’s examination held at Christmas, Mr H. J. Durham, of Kawhia, succeeded in securing his C certificate, and was Bpeoially mentioned for his knowledge of agricultu ral chemistry. P»y tfie Kia Ora on Friday last another lot of sheep arrived. Messrs Rose Bros., of Kiritehere, landed 100 excellent young ewes and five purebred Romney rams (one of which took tbe champion prize at the Hawera Show), Mr J. Wright also had on board two rams, Mr Stokes two and Mr Stanley three. An issue or two ago we queried whether the tomato was a fruit or a vegetable. A correspondent asked the editor of the Farmers’ Union Advocate the same question, and no doubt scratched his head when be read tbe following reply :—“ Tbe tomato is a fruit, being a product of the ovary after fertilisation, and consists of the pericarp, mesocarp, endocarp and seeds. The apple is not botanically a fruit, although the tomato is.”

A spray in time saves not nine, but many times nine, if it be potato plants you spray, and tbe solation Sharland’s Potato Blight Exterminator.* The Raglan Chronicle says; “ The 8.8. Rothesay is now at Kawhia and is prepared to run to Aotea when cargo offers. .This she will do, under present arrangements, but is expected to run ofroner later on, when a timetable will be issued. There is no doubt that many of the farmers at Ruapuke, Aotea, Te Mata, and Pakoka will avail themselves of tbe steamer’s services. The freight from Kawhia will be HL per ton on general cargo, and 7s 6d for manure, and this will mean that 1 manure can be landed in Aotea from Onehunga, nt 15s per ton. There is a shed nt the Pakoka landing in which goods can be stored. The Pakoka flax mill will find the service a great convenience.’’ Mr Langley, tbe local agent of tbe N.B.S. Co. informs us that when tbe Hccumulated shipping to Marokopa has been attended to Aotoa will be worked. Up to the present he has not been able to arrange n time table, but hopes shortly to ad-vr«rti'-:e a regular service, subject to weather condition'!. SMOKERS, ATTENTION PLEASE. Th,. | (O t n f a io DERBY .-GT »j IWU TINS.

SMOKERS.—A firsi-olaee tobacco , 18 DERBY FLAKE CUT in the now , TWO OUNCE TINS. The booth for the races at Kawhia has been let to Meeers Edwarda and Wetere for £3 G«, Tho beaoi u at Te Maika was partly destroyed by fire the other night owing to tbe lamp burati*. g. Mr E. K. Northdroft, son of Mr H W Northcroft S M-, has been admitted ae ix solicitor of tbe Supreme Court. By advertisement it is notified that the s.s. K Ora will n»t leave One ..hunga till T.lo-ii -y .4 next week. Note the altered advertisements in thia issue of Messrs J K. Newton, H. Armstrong and Jonathan Ltd. E. C. CARTER. Watchmaker and Jeweller, will undertake to do wo»k in tho above linos, at town prices, during next week * Mr Heywood Armstrong has fo cared £he contract for improvements

to the telephone room at the Kawhia Post Office. Captain Blacklock and Engineer Baggstrom, of tbe fi.B, Kia Orn, leave tha ship for a fortnight's' holiday on shore next week. At a recent police examination in Auckland, only four candidates out of 21, Constable Kawhia, being one of the f ur. SMOKERS, PiuEaSE NOTE.— The famous DERBY Tobacco is now sold in TWO OUNCE TINS, FLAKE OUT. Try it. Mr Peterson, late of the s.s Chelmsford has been appointed chief steward of the s.s. Kia Ora, in place af Mr G. Rout, who has been transferred to the first-named steamer.

A splendid canos, measuring 75ft. in length, was towned from Marokopa to Kawhia by the s.s. Rothesay on Wednesday, and shipped by the Kia Ora to Ooehunga oei Wednesday. The canoe is a present from the Marokopa natives to the Waikatos.

Whilst working a horse in a dray at Te Rau-a-moa during the early part of tbe week, Mr M‘Burney mat with a painful accident. He was backing the animal whan it sitruck him in the mouth with one of hiis fcro feet loosening several of his tesla ssvarsly injuring his face. SMOKERS READ THIS. The good thing nt last I DERBY Tobacco, FLAKE CUT, in TWO - OUNCE TINS. Try it. Mr Massey is unlikely ever to be Premier on New Zealand if be relies fur his support purely on a country party Unless he can bring town and country into line, he will never take rank as a New Zealand statesman. Union between the town and country is the policy of the future. —Masterton Times.

“ If the country is going to be magnanimous and give the Maoris roads free of cost, and without the payment of rates, it should be at the expense of the whole colony and not at the expense of the European settlers in the neighbourhood of the Maori holdings. ” —Mr Foreman at meeting of the Clifton County Council. Don’t forget that good printing can be done at tbe Settlbb Office. Attention is directed to the following new advertisements in this issue : —Messrs J. B. M'Ewan and Co., of Auckland, advertise the celebrated Lawrence - Kennedy •• Gillies milking machine; Mr P. T. Porima notifies that be has started business in Kawhia as a boot repairer ; Professor James, of Wellington, has a medical notice. Persons who require a first-class piano on very easy terms are advised to read the new advertisement of tbe Loudon and Berlin Piano Co. on our back page.*

Although it is some time since iho telephone to Kinobaka was completed the office has not yet been opened, and this fact has been the cause of much annoyance and expense to settlers. Since our last issue the doctor’s services have been needed four times and on two of these oocmiobs joarnoys have had to been made to Te Maika to use the ’phone. Sach a state of affaire is deplorable.

News was received in Kawhia Ou Thursday of the death of Mr Thomas Phillips, which sad event occurred at Gisborne, the cause being fracture of the skull, which wan due to being thrown from a horae whilst endea voaring to jump a gate. Deceased Was well known and highly respected in this district, and the sorrowing relatives have nnivoraal sympathy in their sad bereavement.

A young bull sixteen months old and landed in Buenos Ayres at a cost of J 64000 was ordered to be slaughtered by tbe sanitary authorities, presumably owing to some defect, but this did not deter tbe owner and a large number of friends from assembling to dine on tbe meat which was estimated to cost eight guineas per lb. The meat was tender and sweet and declared to be the finest ever .sampled in the Argentine—Buj nos Ayres “ Btundard, 11th November.

Mr Laird, the Superintendent of Engineers of the Northern S.S. Co., visited Kawhia thia week to inspect tbe a.'S. Rothesay. The steamer ha* bad a good overhaul, a new propeller put on and a number of minor im provoments ellected, that will, it is hoped, enable the boat to run a much faster service, and fit her (o encounter tbe rough seas that are so often met with on this coast. Ebe is taking in loading for Harihari at present, and is booked for Marokopa on Tuesday next. We give this ndvt. free.

of pounds are yearly saved to the poultry keepers of this Province by the nno of Rh au,c7L‘ M..\ Biiand Ego Pukrekvatiif. It innluw eggs bring in Is 2d to Is 4d per dozen Inoipnd nf G'l ‘n Rd Gn® T’llnn p'-o. y VV-' 8J uuZcjU . ggs, .1 < uut, tutl correct name is on tbe hbol.*