Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 308, 19 April 1907, Page 2

Local and General.

Don’t forget that good printing can bo done at the Settler Office. Note the altered advertisements in this issue cf Mr J. K Newton and Mr E. C. Falwasser. The SM. Court, Kawhia, will be held on Wednesday, May Ist, not Monday, as announaad_last issue. Wo learn that Messrs Mowatt Bros h ive leased their Te Kauri section to Messrs Noonan Bros fora term. Mr Hamilton, of Kawhia. hn e - purchased the eection and Uo'uAr-g h ,«*<. on the Kawhia beach (rein MrD, Col Kawhia householders are reminded oi the meeting to elect a School Committee, which is to be held in Scott’s Hall, on Monday next. Mr Heywood Armstrong has completed his contract of improvements to the telephone room at the Kawhia Post Office, On our front page will be found an advertisement relative to Hamilton’s Fancy Goods Store, Kawhia, to which the attention of our readers is directed

Owing to the Chairman of the Kawhia County Council being unable to attend on Monday next, the meeting has been postponed till the following day (Tuesday). Persons who require a first-class piano on very easy terms are advised to read the new advertisement of the Loudon and Berlin Piano Co. on our back page.* Sunday last was a very windy day. ’the gale being from the east. The only damage reported is from the Settlor office, where a large pane of glass was blown in. A meeting of the creditors in the estate known as Symons and Co. is convened (by advertisement) for Saturday night, April 20th, at 8 p.m., in Scott’s Hall.

Spray, spray again, and still epray your potato plants with Sharland’s Potato Blight Exterminator. It may be a little trouble, but it will pay you when yon come to dig your crops.* A man named Bridgart was brought to Kawhia on Friday for treatment by Dr C. Campbell Jenkins, with a badly out foot, caused by an accident whilst bush felling at Te Rau-a-moa. A splendid line of sheep were brought into this district from Ohaupo on Saturday last, 500 being for Mr W. A. Mason Kawhia, 208 for Mr J. Woulds, Kiritehere, and 850 for Messrs Noonan Bros., Te Rau-a-moa.

No answer has been received to the wires asking foPthe Native Land Commission to sib in Kawhia.—Owing to the indisposition of the Chairman (Sir Robert Stout) the sitting at Te Kuiti has been postponed until the 27th inst. At an extraordinary election for the Central Riding of the Traralgon Shire Council (Victoria) recently, Mr T. A. Pettit, J.P., (father c-it the proprietor of this paper) was returned by a majority of 96 over his opponent, the voting being—Pettis, 271; Coates, 175. The work of erecting ths bridge on the road at the back of Mr Cowern’s house, Rakaunui, has been started by Mr H. Armstrong. The iron work tor the Okupata bridge is now being made in Auckland and Mr J. E. Scott expects to commence the constauction in about a month’s time.

Thousands of pounds are yearly saved to the poultry keepers of this Province by the use of Sharland’s Moa Brand Egg Preservative. It makes eggs bring in Is 2d to Is 4d per dozen instead of 6d to Bd. One gallon preserves 80 dozen eggs. See that the correct name is on the label.* An influential deputation waited on Mr Allen Bell, of Hamilton, last week, with the reppest that he contest the Waikato seat at the next general election in the Opposition Interests. Mr Bell replied that if be were chosen as the candidate of the Politioial Reform League he would accede to the repuest. The residents of Te Rau-a-moa have decided to go on with the erection of a public hall, and to form a company for that purpose. Mr J. E. Scott has prepared the plans and specifications, whilst Messrs Noonan Bros, have made a start getting in the logs, preparatory to sawing tbe timber, as soon as the milking season is finished.

Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R. who has been visiting Westland, found that Kumara, that once was uproariously prosperous, has fallen on sad days. As instancing tbe decline of the town, he said that during his visit to the coast, a first-class hotel, freehold, was sold, look, stock and barrel, as a going -concern, for £l2O. Quite near by a quarter-acre section, with a five-room-

cottage, was gladly sold for £BB. One matter brought under tbe notice of the Hon. R. M'Nab has. been promptly attended to: the opening of the telephone office at Kinohaku. This was authorised on, Thursday, Mr T. 0. Turnbull being placed in charge. We have hopes of the visit being productive of much good, and judging by tbe expeditious manner in which the injustice of keeping the Kinohaku telephone office closed has been remedied, our hopes should be realised. You bave soaked your seed in Sharland’s Potato Blight Exterminator end your plants are now looking well. Keep them well by spraying with the same solution*

Four lady members of the local tennis club, indulged in games for a trophy (a silver book marker) presented by Mrs M'Cartby, on Wednesday last and after some goad sets Mrs Newton (scratch) was found to have won the prize.—The Oparau club held thd* closing day this(Friday)afternoon when n u' od number attended, and an enjoyrtb'fj time was spent.—The final for the Hamilton Championship played in Auckland last week, resulted in a win for Moubray, who hen*, Billing 6—B,

The next English mail (via Suez) will close at Kawhia on May Ist. We learn fthat the flax mill at Marokopa is to close down shortly, but the company intend cutting timber during winter. Turnip crops at Oparau have suf tered severely from the ravages of the fly, whilst those that escaped were attacked by the blight.

A spray in time eaves not nine, but many times nine, if it be potato plants you spray, and tbe solation Sharland’s Potato Buoht Exterminator,* - The Tiuina atini P.ess announces that at Papakura < □ 2nd inst., Mr Earl was married to Miss Moffat, daughter of Mr T. Moffat, J.P., Taumarunui. Mr and Mrs Earl will reside at Mananui. Mr E. Wood, of Omata, six miles from Now Plymouth, has a flock of 120 Angora goats, and is well satisfied with them. The goats are doing good work in breaking down blackberry, eating the bramble in preference to grass. The Taranaki Herald understands that Messrs Borthwick ami Sons intend making extensive additions to their Waitara Freezing Works, involving an expenditure of something like £20,000. They intend to add meat tinning works to their freezing industry. A rumor is current in the district to the effect that a syndicate has communicated with tbe Hawara County Council with reference to the laying down of a railway from. Hawera to Manaia on the mono-rail system. The rumour, we believe is*well founded.— Waimate Witness. It Cfinuot be gainsaid that at present most of tbe Maoris are wastrels, tbe victims of all manner of vices, but chiefly the det tractive vice of idleness. That, of course, means extinction, and unless the present methods of living are radically altered no other destiny seem* possible.—Hawera Star.

The Naw Zealand Trade Review refers to the general complaint about the diffi - culty of collecting money. It says the Christchurch Exhibition is blamed for this, but suggests it is only one cause, or rather a symptom of the main trouble, the tendency of people to live beyond their meat s and at an extravagant t »te. Make sure of gathering your potato crops by spraying the plants with Sharland’s Potato Blight Exterminator. It is the surest safeguard you can have against blight.* It is not right that a settler should bedumped down on a bush uaction with miles of impenetrable bog between him and his market, and this after he has been led to believe that he is paying for a road worthy of the name in the amount which is debited for reading by way of addition to the purchase money.—Wellington Post,

Before the Hon. R. M'Nab left Kawhia on Friday morning, he was interviewed by Mr Toomatb, relative to the erection of a wharf in the Marokopa River, stating that if ihe Government voted £lOO for th® work the Marokopa Milling Company would be prepared to grant £5O. The Minister appeared to be favourably impressed with the proposal. Speaking at the meeting of Marlborough A. and P. Committee on the question of the sheep tax, Mr Vavasour said the Stock Department had been for years coining money out of the sheep-owners—£.2o,ooo per annum—without giving anything in return for it. Horses and cattle were not taxed. Mr Neville said it was as iniquitous to tax sheep as to tax each bushel of wheat. We are thinking of joining the “Australasian Press Association” and if so tbe following, which is one of their rules, will have to be carried out: —“ That the Association affirms the principle of quarterly payments for advertising and job printing, and that newspaper proprietors be urged to give effect to such; and that credit for newspaper subsoriptionii be limited to 12 months.”

If you want fine potato crops don’t forget to spray your plants with Sharland’s Potato Blight Exterminator. It is fatal to blight spores.* A curiosity in tomato plants is mentioned in the Feilding Star, the product of cultivation by Mr Towler, of Feilding, who has grown a new kind of tomato. They are about the size of a large plum. Unlike the ordinary tomato, they do not grow iu bunches, but in rows along the branches, while they are very prolific, ‘and the production per plant is enormous. Tbe tomato has beon named “Towler’s Beauty. What gives promise of proving a valuable industry has beon brought under our notice, says the Thames Star by Captain Norgrove. It is the treatment of the flax of the cabbage tree. Put through a process somewhat similar to that of the ordinary flax it can hardly be distinguished from tbe dressed fibre. It is if anything finer, is equally as strong, and appears likely to prove a valuable marketable commodity. Seven years experience has proved every claim m<de for Shahland’s Moa Brand Ego Preservative. Iu all that time not one egg has been lost when directions have been carried out. It simply cannot fail. One pint bottle preserves seven dozen eggs.. See that the name is on the laoel.*

A drover near Wanganui found four of his sheep dead one evening, and could not account for their destraction. On each of the following days he lost it sheep, so decided that he would stay at home and watch. The peculiar part was that the sheep were killed in the day time. The drover watched and daring tbe afternoon saw a young colt of his catch up a sheep throw it over his bead, and then begin to stamp it to death. To the colt’s playfulness or viciousness the loss of all tbe seven sheep is naturally attributed. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for C nghfi nr d Quids never fai ls, la. 6d. and 2a, 6d.

It is reported that two or three grog Oisee are to come before Mr Northcroft, 8.M., on bis next visit to Kawhia.

It is pleasing to note the return to Kawhia of Mrs Chase, that lady hav ing completely recovered from a sevee illnes.s. Another medical man (Dr B inner man) had decided to commence practice in Kawhia, but at the eleventh hour, very wisely, altered his plans. We believe that Mr C. King lias obtained a further leaee of Taharos, and that Mr Mason has leased another large tract of native land on the Aotea Harbour. The many friends of Mr E. C. Falwasser will regret to learn that he has been confined to tbe house daring the past week owing to a severe attack of asthma. E tikana ia me maranga mai i tana mate.

At the last meeting of the Kawhia Town Board a letter was teceived from the Treasury asking that body to pay the sum of £4 12s 81, due for expenses of election,—The Clerk stated that he bad replied that the Government had promised to pay this amount, and deduct it from the first payment made to tbe Board.

The Kia Ora arrived' at Kawhia, after her annual overhaul, on Friday, and returned the same evediug to Onehunga. Oneimprovement noticeable is the replacing of the old hand steering gear, by tbe more up-to date steam apparatus. The steamer was advertised to leave Onehunga for Raglan, Kawhia, and Waitara on Wednesday, and no word was sent here to the contrary. Saveral people vzere waiting to go south but the company at the last moment decided to alter the arrangements. But the passengers were not notified. The company ought surely to be able to pay the cost of a telegram now and again, but as such does not appear to be the case we have decided (in tbe interests of settlers and intending passengers) to ask the management to send collect wires to this office as to tbe movements of the boats, so as we. can be in a position to be able to. answer the numerous enquiries. One of the features of the meeting at which Mr M‘Nab was deputationised at Kawhia on bis recent visit to was an exhibit of cereals grown on na tive lands, which were nicely arranged on a small table. There were seven potatoes (weighing 121b5.), grown by Turanga Kingi, Taharoa, 5 kumeras (ISalb.), grown by Ratihi, Taharoa, a 12ft. stalk of corn, raised by Mr H. Moore, Taharoa, and two other stalks of corn, 16ft. high, grown by Wbaye nui, at Pati. The articles were sent to the Settler office. When the hon. gentleman was shown the potatoes, he examined them carefully and pronounced them as being excellent specimens from splendid crops. Almost every tuber bad a card placed on it, bearing words of advice such as—- “ Grown by Maoris on native land ” ; “ What coaid the pakeha grow ” ; “ 119,000 acres going to waste ” ; “If opened for settlement what population would it carry?” ; “Is not this disgraceful ? ” ; “No roads to this country,” etc. Ia the centre was a kumera (grown by Haki Ponui) which bore a most striking resemblance to a , kiwi. The bill was very clearly de fined, and printed on a card hanging thereon was—“ This kiwi is dead ; so will this grand district die except tba native lands are opened up.” Mr M'Nab suggested that the kumera should be sent to the Agricultural Mu seam, but, unfortunately, a hungry rat fancied tbe curio and spoilt it for purposes of show.

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