THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1908, Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 356, 3 April 1908, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1908, Local and General.

Whilst working with an axe last week Mr T. (/Connor cut bis foot, tbe b ; g toe being almost sc-vend. Dr C. Campbell Jenkins attended tita auf fe r er. Notwithstanding rumours to tbe c ... p in- ■ J. G.- Y-o 6 wiH re tu- ' : ' f So b Lland especially to vi'i - K;wbirt.

At Marokopa on Saturday last tbs local footbsll team beat Hangitiki by 12 points to nil. During tbe progress of the game one of tbe former’s men wa? laid out, having to be carried off the field and not recovering for some •days afterwards. During tbe week a couple of changes in the proprietorship of tbe launches

r • ning rn tbe harbour have taken I ’ -39, as set forth in our advertising I c lumns. Mr Jourdain, who intends

1 i ■ ving tbe district, has disposed of ti.-- Rare re to Mr Williams, and the I iner run will he adhered to. The I i-whaku has been scoured by Messrs K- arns and Wright, Mr H. Green bav ' fog been appointed to run the boat. ; Wooda’Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Odds never (ails. Ist fid ' and 2s 6d.

A RUSH ON IT. -What ? DERBY tobacco in the new TWO OUNCE TINS. It’s splendid.

Mr J. D. Sutton and Mr J. K. Newon have altered advertisements on >ur third page. Mr King, Inspector of Pust"Offices> visited the various offices round the harbour daring the week. Tbe tender of Messrs Forbes and Ormsby has been accepted for the sup ply of wood to the local school as 9s 61 pec ton. Dr F. Wallace Nt »ck >»' , o ' \V - iingtou, is at preseul on >. vi .it to O J avau, where hi is iutere-.teu i;i tie

During the past week miprovemen’s Imve b rr. iff ct<?d to J rvois street which will be very beneficial during tbe winter.

Last week Mr H. Bowater, who has been mentioned as a probable c&ndid i*e for the Taumarunui seat, visited Taumarunui.

Our readers are reminded that to morrow (Saturday) night, a meeting is convened to discuss the question of holding races in Kawhia.

To-morrow (Saturday) a cricket match will be played i t Kawhia, between Kinohakn and a combined team chosen by Mr Chase. We learn that Mrs Willison pur* chased the whole of Mr T D. Hamilton’s stock of fancy goods, toys, etc., which will bo taken to Marokopa. Constable P. J M‘Carihy left for a mouth’s holiday on Thur-day. Daring that term the duties will ba undertaken by Constable Montgomery from Auckland. SMOKERS READ THIS.

The good thing at last I DERBY Tobacco, FLA.KE CUT, in TWOOUNCE TINS. Try it.

Members nf the Kinohaka branch of the Farmers’ Union are notified by advertisement in this issao that tbe annual meeting has been fixed for Saturday night, April 11th, at 7 p.m. Arrangements have been made for the trip of tbe members of the Kawhia Lawn Tennis Club to Hamilton at Easter. It is expected that nine players will take partin the tournament. Owing to the slump in the flax market. it is stated that two flax mills in the Awakino district are about to be dosed, Messrs Otway Bros’., of Wbakawau, being one, and Mr Monteith’s the other. The lamp posts have been erected in the main street, and the lamps will be put up during the next few days The Town Board in thia issue invite tenders far the lighting ofjthe lamps for a period of 12 months. The injuries which Captain Bark received when the s.s. Waitangi was on fire recently have proved more eerioue than was at first thought, and the vessel is still under the command of Captain Stephenson. Mr Lang, who now occupies the seat for Manukas in Parliament, is to be opposed at the general election by Mr Charles Bagley, chairman of the Mount Roskill Road Board, who has been accepted as the Government candidate.

Tbe s.s. Pitoitoi, which was aground at Marokopa, has been floated off. and now lies in the stream awaiting the e turn of a steam pipe which wes burst. When the steamer struck she had a large cargo, including 90 sacks grass seed. Persons who require a first-class piano on very easy terms are advised to read the new advertisement of the London and Berlin Piano Co., on our back page.* A Government organ reports as follows :—“Wealth per head of total es timated population on December Ist, 1906, £885,258.” Yet Jones with his four children fails to realise that his family wealth exceeds a million of money. It’s statistics that explain everything in New Zealand. The Carterton correspondent of the Wellington “Post” writes : —“Land values, which have been very high for the past few years, are showing signs of dropping. Several farms are in the maiket at less price? than were formerly asked, without finding purchaser?. The unfavourable season has helped to bring this about, but the scarcity of money for investment is the chief cause.”

Sir Joseph Ward at Onehunga re the Blackball strike March 25th 1908 ; —“Any loss of production was not only a loss to those immediately concerned, but was a direct loss to the (State.”. Would he have the honesty to acknowledge that the settlers are suffering from a similiar condition of things directly attributable to the fact that the Government will not give them roads and therefore the State suffers.

A “Dominion” paragraph a day or two ago made refarenoe to a seaside piano, in the Hawke’s Bay district, c-wlbd by. 'he charming Maori name, Mr C. R. Parata says this is an abbreviated form of the name. In full it is Tamatauwbakatangihangakoauoataue nuiarangikitan«tahu. Mr Parata’s translation is, “The hill on which Tanenuiarangi (the husbandof heaven) played his flute to bis beloved.”

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, advise as follows: Wool.— “As compared with last sales closing rates prices are lower for about 10 per c nt for lambs, greasy merino super and fine cross bred wool, Lower for al >it 15 per cent for medium and inferior merino a&d scoured merino super. L -wer by about 20 per cent for coarse and medium cress-bred. There is n weut of confidence in tbe bidding and large withdrawals.”

A rush on it. What p DERBY T ‘isoco, FLAKE CUT, in TWO OuNCE TINS. All tobacconists.

The 8.8. Claymore will make a trip from Onehunga to Raglan and Kawhia on Monday next. SMOKERS. -- DERBY Tobacco in the new TWO OUNCE TINS is a delightful smoke—is MILD, but does not burn the tongue. Try it. w Ou Wednesday night an impromptu d ince was held in Scott’s hall, about 15 couples attending. The music was, supplied by Mrs Langley, Misses' Thompson, Reeves and Mr Leyland.

At the land ballot in Auckland on Wednesd W-u'-’i-nn ’routed the nc ion at M > .i >lc \V. Healy, fo merly of Kawhia, drew a s crion at Waiuku, and bh wife one at Waitomo. Although land is reputed to have

attained v< ry high values in the D•minion, the rale of oheav land reported occrsionally, says the “Western Star.” The other day a form situated on the banks of the Pourakino changed hands at 12a an acre.

List wook a mob of 1300 sheep arrived overland frem Waitara, for Mr Shaw, of Kinohaka. The time taken on the journev was a fortnight, and the losses were very small. It is stated that another mob of about 5000

wilt taranaki shortly for this district via the same route. We have received several letters re lative to ths Marokopa telephone and the dissatisfaction that crisis at the manner this important work is being delayed. There appears to be some misunderstanding over the subject, and to get at the real facts the correspondence at the Council office has been gone into. Although it has been asserted that guarantees pr iperlysigned, had been sent to the office, such documents could not be traced.

SMOKERS, PLEASE NOTE.— Tbe famous DE R B Y Tobacco is now sold in TWO OUNCE TINS, FLAKE CUT. Try it. A baazar in aid of the Congregation-

al Church at Te Kuiti will te hold on April 15th aud 16th. Aa the residents here are interested in the work thero through oar previous minister, the Rev. R. Mitchell, the Kawhia Church committc a have decided that the goods remaining oyer from the last

sale of work should be forwarded ns a donation from this district. The goods have accordingly been forwarded to Mrs White, Station House, Te Kuiti who is acting as secretary.

The credit system is the curse of many small trades. We know business men, says the EUbam Argus, in various towns who are merely struggling for a lix og because they have to give long terms of credit. The unfortraders are paying interest on bank overdraft, whereas if they could only collect what is owing to them the would be in credit. The wretched part of the whole business is that many people who take long credit are well -to-do men who could pay cash without any inconvenience to themselves. In some eases they go to Church three times on Sundays and imagine themselves Christians. There is not much Christianity in a rich man who deliberately keeps a pojr struggling tyadesman waiting for many months for payment of his account.

SMOKERS.—A first-class tobacco is DERBY FLAKE CUT in the new TWO OUNCE TINS.

A native resident of Marokopa had a trying experience one day last week, and if he had not have been a powerful swimmer there ’is no doubt that be would have been drowned. He and another Native were not fishing at tbe mouth of tbe river, when by some means or other he was swept off bis feet. Although the tide was running in the unfortunate was carried out to sea and was loft sight; of. An attempt was made to go out in the Pitoitoi’s life boae, but she swamped twice. Tbe crowd who bad assembled gave tbe Maori up for lost, but after watching for over an hour he managed to make the beach, though he collapsed before the shore was reached. After being assisted out be was taken to a wbare and in a couple of days had completely recovered. The Maoris thereabouts now regard the survivor as someone out of the ordinary, for he has since told them that when *he lost sight of the land he dived to the bottom to find out which way the tide was running, which knowledge enabled him to make the shore I

A New Plymouth paper is urging the need for extensive harbour works to afford improved shipping facilities at that port, and in referring to the desirability of the Taranaki capital making a bid for tbe trade of Raglan, Kawhia, Awakino and Mokru, says: “At pre sent settlement ii only in its infancy, and the trade is small, but large capital is being invested, nnd improvements ase being made, so that it is probable more substantial progress will be made and a greatea growth of population will take place in the next decade in the districts named than in any other part of New Zealand. The trade is chiefly done by Auckland merchants, but at such a disadvantage th t it is possible for Wellington merchants, to compete with them to gome extent, and i« is understood that a company is being formed in Wellington for the purpose of purchasing a steamer to trade between that port and Kawhia and Baglan. But a great opdorbunity is presented for New Plymouth to establish iiself as the distributing centre for the districts. We are only a few hours steam from the coastal ports mentioned; the settlers are largely from the district and in sympathy with it, so that in addition to freight a considerable passenger traffic would grow up if a regular steam service were inaugurated. “To what do you attribute your Pre-eminence asked the interviewer Of Madame Melba lately, “What keeps your voice so clear and pure, The tone so steady, firm, and sure. That charms ths world bo greatly ?” “I kill a cold at once,” said she “With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, you seel”