THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1997. Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 325, 9 August 1907, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1997. Local and General.

The next sitting of the B.M. Court, Kawhia, has been fixed for Wednesday, October 2nd. A special meeting of the Kawhia Con noil will be held on Monday next, August 12. h. We have received from the Postal Department the “Postal Guide,” corrected up to July, 1907. The months of December, January, and February are proclaimed a close season for mullet each year. The usual monthly meeting of the Kawhia School Committee will be held on Monday evening next, at 7.30 p.m. We believe that a meeting of the K iwbia Medical Club will be held on M inday next at the conclusion,©! the Council meeting.

The Rothesay took another good cargo to Marokopa on Monday last returning to Kawhia on Tuesday with 6 bales of flax and 23 of tow. Last week's Government Gazette notifies ibat Sec. 1, blk. VI, Pirongia S.D , about 3 acres, has been vested io tbe Kawhia County Council, as a metal reserve. The lease of a flax area some miles south of Marokopa has been sold to Mr L H. Otway and others, at the upset prica of £lO9O for the first 4 years, and an annual rental for the remain* ing 10 years of £250. “Owing to the overcrowed condition of our columns, several important births and deaths are unavoidably p< slponed,” is tbo remarkable announcment made by the Colesburg Advertiser Cape Colony. SMOKERS.—A first class tobacco if DERBY' FLAKE CUT in the new TWO OUNCE TINS.

Tbevtris a great ehoi.dage of men this ditflifcL and settlers are finding it very difficult to get bush work ©<•' any description done, fu thia issue advertisements appear for men hush falling. New teacher (whofinds the drill wf' been disgracefully neglected) : -“Now then, don't you know what right wheel means? Halt! Now—right wheel!” No. 4 (hurriedly), to No. »*Whoa Bill, an* gee up !” A wood-carter of' Beridigo (Aus-. tralin) ba:i bit on a novel method for' securing" a wife. TtD‘ h 7 -3'r tbe main roeu,. and qp . c piece of calico, bearing’ the notice “Wanted, awifp. Apply early.” Tbe wood-carter is still unmarried. “Politicians are the most slippery individuals in all the world/' said Miss Murcutt in a lecture at Wanganui. “They get into their positions op promises, and are like an eel. Just when you think you have got a good bold of them they slip through you* bands.” Tbe Kit Ora inquiry was one of the most extensive ever held in Auckland. Tbe derositions occupy between 600 and 700 pages of foolscap. At a rough average this works out at about 125,030 words. Over 80 witnesses were ««■* amined, and many of them, recalled several times. « lu this it-snn will be found We time e table to which tbe as. Waitangi is to run. The company are to bo complimented upon the manner in which it is proposed to treat Kawhia. and wo trust that the excellent work' doce by the new boat np to the present will be continued-

After much agitation the Postal Department has seen its way clear to procure a handcart for conveying the mails from tbe Post Office to the wharf. The vehicle arrived by the s.s. Waitangi on Friday last, and no doubt its usefulness will be greatly appreciated by the various mail contractors.

Mr J. E. boo tt has completed the bridge over the Awaroa, aud will shortly move tbe plant to Marokopa, where a cable bridge is to be erected over the river. The last of the timber co be used on the job was taken from Kawbia by tbe s.s. Rothesay on ber last trip. On Saturday Irst, at Oparau, the Awaroa and Oparau football teams mot, the result being a win lor the home team by 19 points to 3. The try for the losers was obtained by Veteran Jack Orotty.—To-morrow (Saturday) the Oparau team play Pirongia, at Pirongia.

The idea of the volunteer forces being the “backbone” of a fighting force is absurd, because when the worst comes to tbe worst it will be found that the “backbone” of the country will be tbe 'backbone* of defence—the farmer, and tbe man who works on tbe land, generally considered.—Foxton Herald.

We do not want to create a race of native landlords, nor do we want to hand over to the natives large sums to be squandered by them. But it is not difficult to find a middle course by paying for the land with debentures, with a provision that these might be converted into cash to improve or tn stock tbe natives* holdings.—Napier Herald.

Private adyice from Auckland states that the lease of the swamp at the back of the township has successfully passed the initial stages and now only wants the official seal to make it complete. It is farther stated that the lease is for a Taranaki syndicate, and it is tbe intention to immediately go on with the improvements, the cost of which is estimated to ran into the thousands.

Tuesday’s Waitara Mail says : “Captain Williamson, of the Kotahi, on the way from Marokopa yesterday, discerned a floating piece of big timber above the Kia Ora wreck, and investigating he found it to ba tbe ship's derrick broken off at the goose neck. He decided to secure it, and after a great deal of trouble in lifting and loosening tbe shackle bolt, he hauled the derrick on to bis boat, and it is now in Waitara—an interesting relic and probably something of value, to a shipping man.” A new method of labelling bales of flax and putting on the grader's marks is being introduced by the Agricultural Department. Flaxmillers will be required to insert in the middle of every bale a tag made of tin, stamped with their own brand and connected by means of a piece of stout wire with a leather tap, similarly stamped, on the outside of the bale. Tbe grader will impress his mark on ibis, and it will be practically impossible to exchange the marks a practice which is temptingly easy with the present system of grader’s tags made of parchment and tied to the outside of the bale with string The new device is to be compulsory from September Ist, and, in the meantime, specimens will be on view at all the offices of the Department, and in the care of all stuck inspectors throughout the colony.

Last week wo reported a page of sheep worrying in the district, bnt lbte issue have to add to tbo list of depredations committed by the same dog. Mr W. A. Mason suffered the loss of eighteen prime ewes (that number has boon found, but it is probable that there are more in the titree), whilst Mrs U. L. King had two pct lambs worried in ber front garden. The dog appears to have been an expert worrier, eimply running past the Khcep and catching them by the neck. The number of deaths attributed to thbrniougrel are now 30. Mr Mason's shepherd was sitting in wot*, when tbo dog actually attacked him. A double barrelled gun being in Waron’s possession did good service, and that dog will not worry sheep again* It is srobable that the matter will bo yentia fed before Mr Nori bereft JS.M. next Gc tuber. ’ r ‘ "