THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1908, Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 351, 28 February 1908, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1908, Local and General.

, On Saturday last the s.s. Waitangi ' want to Lemon Point, (Kinohaku), and there discharged stock, furniture, ' o'©., for Mr Biddock. II Io thin issue the Kawbia County Clerk advertises that Mr T. Ashbolt has been authorised by the Council to collect dog tax. We acknowledge the receipt of a treatise ou "Potato Blight" from the Agricultural Depirtment, and also the Pod,al Guide (or 190 S from the Postal Department. SMOKERS READ THIS. The good thing at Let ’ DERBY Tobacco, FLAKE OUT, in TWOOUNCE TINS. Try it. Messrs Bell Bros and Ross have decided to close the Harihariflax mill on account of the serious fall in the price of fibre. The mill has been temporarily closed during the past few days owing to an accident to the tram used in drawing the green leaf op a very steep bill. Thes.s Torgau'en (195 tons, Captain VVeddilove, R.N.R) arrived from Pictou on Friday morning, being met at the heads and brought up to the wharf by Mr Walter Morgan. The steamer Lad on boaad 112 u sheep, three horses and sundries, for Messrs Nickel Bros, of Cambridge, which will be taken overland.

There is on view at tbe Sbttler • ffica a splendid sample of paapalnm di'ninm grass. The exhibit which win grown on a bush clearing at Oparan, teln-grjg to Mr T. B. Scott, mw»«nres7ft 2m in height, [We ate always glad to receive such samples ai.i! Would be pleased if our readers will forward same to us.j The full wing transfers of the Northern Steamship Company’s officers will tskti effect on or before March 2nd next; —R. Collins of tbe Muritai, to be chief otl’cer of the Paeroa; E. Darling ol the itacawa, to be ciptain of the Cl lymore; F. A. Macindoe, second officer of the Rarawa, to be chief offi see of that vessel ; A. W. Goertz, of LjJVainiarie, to be second officer of ; W. Scott, of the ths •VoTOahi, to be chief officer of the Cluymore; M. Pierotti, of the Waitangi, to be second officer of the Rirawa. SMOKERS PLEASE NOTE. SMOKERS. DERBY Tobacco in tbe new TWO OUNCE TINS is a i delightful smoke— is MILD, but du©> I uot bate the tongue. Try it. 1

A rash on it. What ? DERBY Tobacco, FLAKE CUT, ia TWO OUNCE TINS. All tobWcnnLU. ‘ In this isaua Mr W. Seeoombe, of Sydney, N.S.W., has an ■AterSsem'ent relative to hie paspaluin flilatum seed, The next boat of the New Zealand S.S. Co.'s to sail from Waitara Roadstead will be the s.e. Orari, about March 3rd,

E The rowirig ebampionsliip' was won 0 by Webb, by four lengths. A local rearfent i».rh<. poverty ft f»w pn -nd, through eappwticg , Erst week’s Gazette announces that an area of 15 acres 1 rood 84 perches at Te Rau a-m >a has been temporari ? ly reserved for staok purposes. “God’- < wh country, but, the devil’s own roads,” aays-air Pateworr, M.A , a member of the Scottish Bar who hag * just concluded a cycling tour of the Dominion, Master Ralph M’Carthy, wSo has been messenger at thte Kawhi* Post Office for the past 12 months, has received notice of transffirrence to the Auckland office. His place has * been taken by Master H. Langley. , The Auckland Education Board has 1 notified the Kawbia School Committee 1 that. Miss Isabella H. Blackett, of the 1 Wbakawbaia SchooLhas been appointed Bfsistattt teacher of the Kawbia I school, to take from March Ist. I PersduH who require a first-class J piano on very easy terms are advised ' to read the new advertisement of the “ Loudon aud Berlin Piano Co., on oar back page.* J

Mr Philip G. Smith, a well-known settler of Kaetihi, Chairman of the Waimarino County Council, has decided to contest the newly createdTaumarunui seat at the general election. Mr W. T. Jennings M.P. will also be & candidate as was stated by him some twelve months ago.

Sir J. G. Ward has telegraphed as follows to the Kawhia County Clerk: —“Your letter of the 16th ulto. Heartily thank your Conncil for their cordial invitation to visit Kawhia. I hope to do so. a little later, and will advise you definitely when in a position to do so. Kind regards.”

Tbe Bachelor Girls’ Club in Alton, Illinois, has offered a silk dress worth £4O to the gid who can prove next month that sho has received more proposals of marriage than any member in the club. The bachelor girls’ aim in life is to make men propose, so that they can reject them, and thus prove women’s independence of mere man: The competition is to be decided at the beginning of the annual ball, when every member expects to have at least three refusals to her credit. This being Leap Year the bachelor girls discreetly remain silent concerning the fate of their dancing partners after tbe prize has been awarded. SMOKERS, ATTENTION PLEASE. —The best of all smokes is DERBY OUNCE FLAKE CUT in TWO TINS. A contemporary states that busb fires have not worked injury alone, for the probability is that, given a prompt spell of wet weather, the country will quickly recover, and farmers who are now bewailing their evil fortune will complacently survey paddocks swept clear of old logs and stumps. One Dannevirke fanner has already declared that tbe bush fire has im proved his bolding to the extent of about £2 10s per acre. Dairy cows do much better on cleared paddocks, and the fires will help dairying in this respect. It is tbe small farmer whose feed has been destroyed who feels the pinch momentarily. It yet remains to be seen, in some districts, at any rate whether the fire has burned up good gruss so badly that it will have to be ' resown.

Amongst tbe list of requirements put before Sir J. G. Ward in Hamilton, Mr J. A. Young asked that a survey be made for a road passing on the Hamilton side of Mount Pirongia, between Hamilton and Kawhia. Such a road would greatly shorten the journey between the two places and would open up a lot of valuable land. Sir Joseph said that the Government seldom made a survey of a road unless the formation of the road was contemplated. He would bring the matter before Parliament next session, and get an opinion oh the question ; if that was that tbe road was needed he would have the survey made ann the cost of the work prepared with a view to having it placed upon the Estimates. On March 18th he would meet the Minister for Native Affairs (the Hon J. Carrol) and he would then talk the matter with him.

Nowhere save in the Australian bugh does the kerosene tin play such an importune part both in domestic and ornamental arrangements, and a competition opened recently for a hundred different ways of utilising the kerosene-tin and case was both instructive and amusing. As a boiler for clothes, for corned beef, plum puddings and vegetables in large quantities, the korosene*.tin ie utilised in many busb hompsteids. With two holes bored in the ai les and a handle it is made into a water carrier or a receptacle for hop beer, ginger a'.u, and other homemade beverages. Cold tea is taken oit to the men on the run by the “kerosene lin fall”. Ornamental 11 wer pots, buckets, receptacles for ja>n in large quantities, all find requirements answered in the kerosene tin. Au exact medal of a bush humpy “ia the far nor'-west, *’ built and roofed with kerosene cases and tins, besides st curing a prize in the competitions, slio'wer] how tbe Australian housekoepet out back coaid make “some thing out of nothing,” and elevate the adap able tin into a veritable colonising force.—Australasian.

SMOKERS, PLEASE NOTE— Tae famous DERBY Tobacco is now sold in TWO OUNCE HNOa, fLAKBQUT. Try ft.

H The g s Claymore will not take up ba running to this port before about March 20th. A BUSH ON IT.-What? DERBY tobacco in tbe new TWO OUNCE TINS. It's splendid. I We apologise for the lateness of this issue which was caused through tbe proprietor being laid ap for a couple of days with an attack of iufinenz-i.

The Kawbia School committee, by advertisement in another column, call fAr tbe Hnnn’ r and delivery of six tons of firewood, cut to the necessary size. At the teacher’s examination held in Auckland in January last, Miss Ruth E. Perbam, (daughter of Mrs Perham of Kawbia), was successful in passing for class D.

The fifth test maicb roaal.ted in a win for .Australia by 69 runs. The scores were:—Australia--First innings 137 ; second, 422 ; to al, 559. England—First Tunings, 281 ; second 229: total, 510.

Ou Monday and Toesday last there was a nice downfall of rsiu, which was of immense benefit in checking the fires. The guasje at Kawhia regia-

t tered 26 points on Monday, and 16 on tbe following day. We hear of more damage by tbe fires. At Awaroa Mr Bert Brandon had a four-roomed bouse destroyed. At Kiritehere Mr lost bis grass, whare and contents, Mr F. Templeman also losing about 100 acres of feed.

On April 15tb, the following area of land in this district will be open for selection: —Section 5, block XVI, I Kawhia North, 382 acres, situated about six miles from Oparau Post Office, five miles by road and balance 1 by bridle track. 1

The~final game for the trophy competed for by the lady members of the Kawhia Harbour JUawn Tennis Club (presented by Messrs Falwasser and was played on Thursday 1 ist, when Mrs McCarthy (owes 17) beat | Miss Thompson (2 on) 30—17. We have to go away from home to hear news. The Waikato Times says: —“ The bush fires 'are playing havoc with the telegraph and telephone wires and office® m tbe country districts. In the Kawbia district three or four offices have been destroyed, consequently there has been a block in business.” Mr Vernon Jackson, of Ratanui, reports the discoyery of some moa bones in that district. The relics were discovered in a creek bed, and are in a good state of preservation. Mr Jackson states that bones of the great wingless bird have been found at various times in the same locality, which probably was one of the favourite haunts of the moa. SMOKERS.—A first-class tobacco ii DERBY FLAKE CUT in ths new TWO OUNCE TINS. The Commissioner of Crown Lands ' left for Raglan aud other placen afflic- 1 ted by the recent tires this (Friday) 1 morning. On Thursday he met a 1 large uamber of settlers at tbe Kino- ‘ haku landing, and discussed mattters s with tbetu much on the same lines as at Oparau He mentioned to a repre- ’

sentativeof the Sbttlei: that it was | not quite decided as to the inodu operaudt of supplying the seed. It might either be by order on a store' for seed needed to suit each particular settler, or tbe Department forwarding to settlers direct. Mr Mackenzie recognised tffiat the main object was promptness iu getting seed into the settlers hands. Moat of the Kinohaku settlers prefer a rebate in rent to being supplied with seed. The complaint be beard all round was not so much the loss by the fire—as all appeared recognise fully that it would be for their ultimate good—but the sadden stoppage of income. Seve-

ral settlers were making from £2 to £5 per week out of butter, with their herds not ap to the maximum, and suddenly they find their living gone; they also were afraid that o wing to the scarcity of feed they would bare to sell their cows at low prices now and buy at a much higher figure iu spring. Speaking of the ultimate benefit the fires would be, Mr Mackenzie cited one particular case that had come under his notice. On one section the settier had let a contract to cut tbe second growth on a portion of his holding, and tbe men were camped on tbe ground and just making a start. The fire came along, burnt out tbe camp, •nd also did the work—the laud was useless before the fire, but was now ready for sowing, the saving to tbe settler being £l2O. Sucb was not an isolated case by|any means. Don’t forget that good printing ca be done at the Settlbb Office