THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1907, Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 314, 31 May 1907, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1907, Local and General.

We learn tba. Mr -rod Mrs J. G. Howes and family tate.-.d leaving Kawbia in about a fortnight’s.time. A quotation from a letter recently j received by us : “ . . . I have to • congratulate you on the improvement .of your paper. . .” Thanks. I Messrs Sn' lliug Brothers, contracj tors of Grey Lynn, arrived by the s.s. 1 Kia Ora on Thursday, bo complete the alterations and additions to Mr E. D. Hamilton’s buildings on the beach. The many friends of Mr “Kia” Randall, of To Rau-a moa, will regret to • bear that he is at present in Auckland ■ ar (forgoing an operation with his eyee. W-' sine rely trust that he will ere , long return completely cured. The pipes to be used in draining j Jeivois street, Kawhia, arrived by the 1 s.B. Kia Ora on. Thursday. We trust that the Council will have this work put iu band at once, so that the benefit can be appreciated before the close I of winter. One of the few remaining land marks of old Kawhia was removed during the week—the small house in front of Mr Hugh Campbell’s. Old re.-idents speak feelingly of the “ good old times ” they used to have when Mr Patterson lived therein. For Bronchial C »ughs take Wood o . • Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d& 2s Gd’ The native race enj .y many advantages and immunities which are not ex.ended to the Europe io, and a fatherly Government shields and protects them even from the result of tbi it own excesses by placing restrictions on the sale of their lands.—Greytown Standard.

SMOKERS. —A first class tobacco is DERBY FLAKE CUT in the new TWO OUNCE TINS. Mr J E. Scott commenced the erection of the Okupata Bridge, at Oparau on Monday last. Sevc al large bundles of fruit trees have been landed here recently from a nursery near Melbourne (Vic.) Flonr has crone up in price another 80s a ton. The price of bread is increasing in consequence throughout the colony. A gontlom n who was in A last week states that in ona morning h? mot 17 retidenta of this district in Queen street* There is a cynical comp, on the Melbourne Argus, Lately be made a prer-cher declare that he was gov erned by “Gold Almighty.”—Bulletin. Mr E. D. Hamilton has h id a commodious shop erected on Jervois street, and opened it on Tuesday. The stock comprises fancy goods, toys, etc.* After being absent for some months relieving on various steamers, Mr Robertson, second officer of the s.s. Kia Ora, has again joined his boat. The next of the New Zealand Shipping Co.’s fleet to sail from the Waitara Roadstead fo% England will be the Kaipara about the middle of June. SMOKERS, ATTENTION PLEASE. —The best of all smokes is DEBBY OUNCE FLAKE OUT in TWO TINS.

“Toddles,” a valuable poodle, owned by an Atlantic Ci’y, New Jersey, town councillor, .lost one eye in a fight, and is now having a one made to replace it. SMOKERS PLEASE NOTE. A rash on it. What? DERBY Tobacco, FLAKE CUT, in TWO OUNCE TINS. All tobacconists. The work of altering the Council Chambers is almost completed, and it is very likely that the transaction of business will be conducted therein in about a fortnight’s time. Giving evidence before the Arbitration Court, Sydney, Samuel Hordern stated that the firm of Anthony Hordern spent £20,000 or more annually in advertising. In one year they spent £85,000.

People in need of good furniture are reminded of the clearing sale on account of the Hon. W. W. M'Cardle, M.L.0., at Kawhia on Saturday next, June Btb, at 1 p.m. Mr A. R. Langley, of Raglan, will conduct the sale. Mr W. M. Bankart, of Te Mata, is at present laid up at Darrow’s Hotel, Raglan, with a serious illness, brought on by a cold. On Thursday morning, we are pleased to state, it was reported that be was progressing fayourably. A high authority says : “In the domain of agriculture it used to be thought that a man succeded only where .he soil was right, and the climate right. Now it is recognised that the chief element of success is the man himself.” This is a great truth that is not limited to the domain or agriculture. 4

News of a bad case of sheep worrying reaches us from Oparau. A dog, the property of an employee, got amongst'the sheep on Mr Elliott’s section and did considerable damage, the remains of over 20 sheep having already been discovered, The ewes were a really good line, consequently the loss is a severe one.

Messrs L. Pattie and Co., land agents, New Plymouth, write as follows :—“ Kindly contradict the statemade in yours of the 17th inst., that the Haribari run had changed hands at a price almost double that paid by Mr Hills to Messrs Bell Bros, and Ross. An exchange of properties was suggested and offered, but not Accepted.”

SMOKERS. DERBV Tobacco in tbe new TWO OUNCE TINS is a delightful smoke—is MILD, but does not burn tbe tongue. Try it.

The Farmers’ Union may at one time have resolved to keep apart from politics, but the trend of events will force it and other bodies into the field as a political organisation. It is necessary to the existence of tbe Trades and Labour Council that it should have a well defined political existence ; and it is jost as necessary that farmers should be as solidly combined as to the men who are to represent them. Oar politics are bailfc that way.—Oamara Times. Negotiations started by tbe farmers in the early part of the year being complete, the auctioneering business ho long and favourably known as M'Nicol and Co. will now be .carried on under the registered name of tbe Farmers’ Co-operative Anctionoering Co. Ltd., and all business transacted since let February last comes under rhe present agreement. The firm of M'Nicol and Co. is taken over with- : out any alteration of staff or manage- | men’. Tbe farmers are to bo con ; gratnlated ot» their progressive move ' find it now rests with tbeir eoppoit as to tbe limits of the Company* business.

An Auckland wire says that Mr Ormsby on behalf of the owners of [ Maori lands, has submitted proposals j to the Native Land Commission ask ing, amang other things, that the siilos of land to the Grown be discontinued in the King Country, and all restrictions removed from the lauds of capable Maoris. The Chief Jastia.i r. iid ho foresaw great difficulty in giving eff ct to their proposal. The system w ; open to abuse he thought. Another proposal to put up all the la ds for sale or lease by auction was most desirable. Heutatod that 59,000 acres leaved tc> Joshua Jones were lying idle and the natives asked the Government to take tbe land over and enforce the terms of the lease, but it transpired that the lease could not b? found*

Woods' Gueit Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is. 6d. and 2s. Gd. The monthly mooting of tbe Ka-’ whia Town Board will be held next Thursday evening. The weather so far this winter has been rather mild, but during tbe past week severe frosts have been experienced. The social given in celebration of tbe closing of tbe Te Rm a-moa Dairy Company’s re.oo d season has been fixed for T mo ,24th. In th j irisuu Al ■ A. L. Tjirali anil ounces thaft to he rise in the price of floor, in future 8d will be charged for a 41b loaf, in place of 7d Persons who require a firat-clau piano on very easy terms are advised to read the new advertise men t of the London and Berlin Piano Ou. on our back pago.* . - Fifty head of cattle were brought down from Oparau by pontoon on Friday to Te Malka. Tbe cattle are to be placed on Mr Gregg’s section at Kiritehere.

The case against John Beianelt at the Auckland Supreme Court, had not been heard up to onr going to press. Mr J. R. London has been secured to defend accused. It is rumored that Mr G. Hutchinson, formerly member for Patea, ia to be asked to contest the Ha were electorate in the Oppositioa interests against Mr C. E. M-.jor, M.H.R. An American paper remarks that when Thaw’s parents started him out in the world with an allowance of £l7 000 a _ ar for pocket money they might have known where tbe finish w 'uld be..

Ono of the first matters whiah net de con •iteration is that of providing better roads for the country settlers iu miuy parts of the North Island, many uf whom are pursuing their labours under the greatest-diffi culties.—Tauranga Tinier.

Some five or six years ago tbe winter game of ping pong was very popular in Kawhia, and this winter it has been again started in many private houses, some very pleasant evenings having been spent. A proposal is afoot to form a club and hold weekly gatherings in the hall. Information has reached that a few days p.go a fine troat, estimated to weigh over 31bs, was found lying in the middle of the road at Oparau. Our informant assures us that the fish was a trout, and some of the Maoris are getting good hauls. Wo know not if this assertion is correct, but if so the news should be very acceptable to followers of Isaac Walton, many of whom there are in this district.

We have serious doubts as io the reliability of the statement of expenditure and tbe tale of a hugh surplus, when we remember that at the end of March the men on tbe public works had received no pay for an unduly lengthy period. This hardly seems consistent with a flourishing condition of things in a Department where every, thing is paid fur in cash and credit is unknown.—-Roef-on Times. Thus last weeks Auckland Observer: —•When William Jeuuings, M H.R., showed a perfectly natural interest in the by election for Taranaki, where his home is, there were clever people who formed a theory of their own and gossiped ebout it freely. Tbeir deduction was that Mr Jennings was personally concerned in the contest, inasmuch as Mr Dockrill, if he woo, would be merely a seat-warmer for him till the next general election, when Mr Jennings reckoned open being the Government candidate for Taranaki. A pretty political romance but lacking the essential element of troth. Mr Jennings has destroyed it with a word. He has authorised an announcement that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for Taranaki at the general election. And those who know William Jennings know that when he eaya a thing he means it.