Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 331, 27 September 1907, Page 2

Local and General.

There are several local cases set down for hearing by Mr Northcroft 8.M., at Kawhia on Wednesday next October 2nd. William Crossman, the "working man Mayor of Cardiff,” who was recently knighted, is a mason working at bis trade and earning 25s a week. A wowan of 25 has been appointed gravedigger, bellringer and organist in the Danish town of Grenoa. She is the first woman gravedigger, in Denmark, At the last meeting of the Waitomo County Counc : ! it was decided to have the thirds accruing on sections fronting the Hauturu road scheduled for widening the road, and tha t they be handed to the Roads Department for expenditure. "Taranaki I Taranaki!” exchaimed Mr J. Stevens in tbe House on Tuesday when someone ventured to enquire where Taranaki "Game in” as compared with the Manawatu ; "why in Taranaki they only get butter from cows; in my district we got it from ‘ Bu s’!” The interest pa’d by New Zoalaui on its na.tonr debt says 1* concern pcary, amounts to about £7OOO per day for eve. j day in tbs year, including Sundays. In adfHon to this ar. aH tbe debts of the local bodies, barb ,ur boards, etc., probably mounting up to at least another £10( ) per day for interest alone. A Sydney paper of the BOtb ult. says: By i» Japanese $ earner bn Wednetday o-ime two camels as u gift from tbs Mikado of Japan to tbe Sydney Zoological Society. V« ry nice •’ —At the Newcastle Police Court on Wed nealay a sk.pper was fined £lOO for allowing a prohibited irptnigrant, a Japanese, to enter the Commonwealth, Very-r-—?

•Note the altered advertisement of Mr J. K. Newton on our third page. The Frank Gny has arrived safely at Westport. The usual monthly meeting of the Kawhia Town Board will bo beld on Thursday evening next. Some more sections have been added to Messrs Fatwrseer and Pettit’s sup plomontary property list on our third page. We L ive been asfffS to acknowledge the receipt'bf a present of a ba< by the b c?’ cricke* club from Messrs Sirg< od Soo d , Auck’ind.

Domini m Day was n »t recognised in Kawbia, the shops not even shutting. The flag at the school wa? hoisted and tbe scholars given a holiday. Weacknowledge receipt of a number of pamphlets from the Depart men t of Agriculture, wbicb should prove very interesting to and otheis who make their living on the hind.

.ThoK.*, Rothesay made au attempt to get to Marokoi a on Tu nay, Ln after reaching Aftwrbas Point reiu.ned to port, owing to the weather and sea becoming very rough. The Northern S.S. Co have decided to put a coil chamber 1 n thes.s. Wai tangi, and at present the work is being carried out by the company’s carpenter. There will be room for 150 boxes.

VVc- regret to learn that Mr G. G Jonathan has been confined to his residence for tha past week suffering from an atta'ck of influenzi. At the time of writing he is making good I rogress towards recovery.

Good news—if true ! We are in receipt of inf irma'.ion from a private source that it, has been stated in Te Kuiti that a good <mm of money is to be set aside fur metalling the main coach road between Oparau and Te Rau a-moa. It is noted that at a recent social in Taranaki one of the singers left the platform as a eign of disapproval of the fact that loud talking was being indulged in. The;e should be no nead for such action in Kawhia, as the audiences here are ■ ways very apprecic live.

Mr R. Carnachan, who has been suffering from an attack of pleurisy, was taken to Auckland on Tuesday last by his brother, who had been summoned on account of the serious uess of the cise. His very many friends here will wish "Dick” a speedy return to his usual good health. At a golf tournament held in Traral gon (Victoria) recently Miss G. Pettit (sistet of Mr Pettit, of Kawhia) won tbe Ladies Championship of the Province of Gippsland. The same player finished third in the Ladies’ Handicap, and together w.th Miss Keys won the Ladies’ D mbles and with Mr F. H. Chappell tbe Mrxed Doubles. A Wellington reporter, who states that he has had tbe good fortune to go through tbe roadless north without losing his life in the mud, gives a very graphic account of the negleqted district. He concludes : "One of these days a funeral party will get smothered along with tbe corpse, and then perhaps the Government will do something for tbe unfortunate survivors.” Mr T. A. Edison, the famous electrician, replying to a letter asking his opinion a ; to the effect of ironsand on a ships compass, writes: "There must be an immense body of iron near the New Zealand coast, judging from Ibe magnetic sands well known to exist there. I have no doubt this body of ore would cause deflation in a ship’s compass.” There appears to us to be an answer to the question as to how the Kia Ora was wrecked in the above quotation.

The Pirongia correspondent of the Waikato Argus writes:—“Before concluding, a word or two about the weather and roads here. Forever a month there has been only two or three days without rain. How Mr Stewart, the contractor for the Kawbia mail, has managed to keep his time with the maila and tbe coach running, speaks volumes for his energy and pluck A* we have the road grader at work here on that line of road, and as rain has been almost unceasing all the time, the road is one sea of mud, often axledeep. Whether the road grader will have been of any benefit to the road when dry once more, remains to be seen—opinions here yary.” At a meeting on Wednesday night last it was decided to hold a social (in aid of tbe Kawhia Library) in Scott’s Hall, on Friday, October 4th, the admission to which was fixed at 2s 6d, 8s for a double ticket and extra ladies Is. Messrs M'Carthy and Hamilton were appointed to carry the arrangements out, whilst Mesdames Newton, M'Oarthy, Barron, Galvan and Miss Hamilton were deputed to look after the refreshments. It was resolved that vocal items be included, the arranging of the programme being left to Mr Aubin. The object in aid of which the social is being held is a deserving one, therefore we trust that there will be a good attendance. In a letter, written by Mr E W. Buckeridge, to the Now Zealand In siituts of Surveyors, dealing with the question of survey liens on native lands and the necessity for improving the existing conditions, be mentions that while there are at present unexecuted orders of tbe Native Land Courts dat ing back twenty, thirty, and thirty five years, surveyors are leas mg this colony for the Straits Settlements and Queensland. The Native Land Court Judges contended that there were no surveyors available to do the work. This was not so ; it was because of tbe unsatisfactory position of the surveyor, and it would be in the interest of settlement of large areas of virgin land held by native owners, and also to their benefit, that the surveyor should be pat upon a better footing.