Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 364, 5 June 1908, Page 2

Local and General.

Parliament meats on Monday, June 29th. The furniture for the new court house arrived on Thursday. Captain Greenberg is temporarily in change of the 83. Claymore, Captain Dorling having gone on shore for his annual holiday. It is said that considerable quan.'itias of Chinese eggs are being imported into the Dominion. Perhapschina oggs are meant. Nearly two hundred sacks of oysters c mugned to Auckland from the Bay of Islands beds returned to the native element when the Muri tai went down. An altered tide table for the port of Kawhia, and also the dates of the savings of the Northern S.S. Co.’s steamers to this port, will ba found on our second page. The Claymore arrived on Thursday with a large cargo, but still a quantity of goods had to be left at Onehunga oa account of the fact that there was not sufficient space. On the night of the Leap Year Ball Friday next, 12th inst, Mr F. Newton notifies that the launch Maroro w 11 run from Oparau, the return trip teiig made either on SitutJiy, or Sunday. Japan has under contutucUon the largest ba. eship in the world. It displaces 20,750 tons, jut. 50J tons more than the St Vincent, but the latter w ’l be able to steam 21 knots to the former’s 20.

The s.e. Claymore ende Ayonrrd to go to Nnkuhakeri on Friday to secure the 300 bale i of bax stotel there, bat had to return on account of the heayy sea. Another attempt will b» made to morrow

Mr T. D. Hamilton is on the warpath and has started suing for outstanding accounts. The first summons was taken out to day, and all defaulters wi be treated alike without exception.—Advertisement.

We learn that Messrs Ward and Hunter have definately decided to start the butter factory : i Kawhia, and intend returning here by next boat to pr seed with the preliminaries. It is anticipated that a start w'U be made in September of this year.

There’s a mean sneak thief somewhere about Kawhia, and nothing would give us more pleat.are than 1.0 chronicle the arrest of the offender. During the pasu fortnight Mr J. Ft - wasser has bad no less than three razors taken from his hair-dressing saloon, the articles having evdently been removed through a .ndow, which had been pushed open.

New Zeaiond were discovered in 1640 by Tasman, the Dutch navigator but be did not land then, and no subsequent European is known to have visited the islands until 1869, Captain Cook landing at Poverty Bay, and quitting it for the last time in 1777. In 1814 the first mwaionaay stelion wa : founded, the first acta ' settlement bring made in 1839. In the following year, 1840, the islands became a British colony, and its onward progress has been steady. The School inspector, (Mr Ralph D. Stewart) has forwarded the Kawbia School committee the following copy of the report of bis last inspection ; There were 46 children present. Organisation, satisfactory; marking and keeping of registrars, good ; regularity of attendance, only fair; suitability of timetables) satisfactory; the methods of instruction were generally quite satisfactory, but writing was a weak subject and the drawing was too heavy; the order and discipline, and the tone of the school with respect to diligence, alacrity, obedience and honour, and the manners aud general behaviour of the pupils were quite satisfactory.

Several residents of Kawhia, w’jo were friends of the late Captain Blackloco, obtained mementos of the s<i Kin Ora, which are prized very highly. Pieoesof the wreck were secured which bave been made into articles of furniture, eta. Mrs W. Morgan has in her posßMiioo a beautifully-made round table, the timber being from the door of chc smoker room, the work being very faithfully done by Mr William Morgan- Captain Rot irts, (who it will bo remembered brought the Kia Ora ou’ from Home) made a very neat pipe rack, which he carved beautifully and gave to Mr Pettit. Both articles men) ioned are splendidly done, and the gentlemen named are to be complimantod on their workmanship. Persons who require a first-class piano on very easy terms are advised to read the new advertisement of the London and Berlin Piano Oo. t on oar back page.*

Note the altered advertisements in this issue of Messrs Kearns and Wright, and Mr J. K. Newton. It is rumoured that Mr P. Bell, of Harihari, has been appointed manager of the flaxmill at Marokopa owned by the Marokopa Milling Company. On Saturday last the s.s. Rothesay made a trip to Harihari, but on arri val there it was found that the surf was too heavy to work.

Mr R. Nesbitt has purchased the business which belonged to the late Mr Hug-; Oamnb IL t lin Un nds contacting it ou the same Lue- as pre- \ iouely.

We learn that Mr Mountfort has surveyed about fotft acres at the Operau Ferry for a wharf- landing site. An acre has also been cut out at the upper landing for the same purpose. A very enjoyable dance, under the auspices of the Oparau Lawn Tennis Club, was held in the school room on Friday night last. The attendance waa large, the music being supplied by a number of those present. The boys at the local school are to be provided with a football, a subscription list for which has been well sub scribed to. It is also intended to have a match between the Kawhia and Opa rau schools in about three weeks time.

In our paragraph last issue referr log to the next sitting of the court in Kawbia a mistake' was made in the date which should have been the 26th instead of the 12tb. One of Rua’s fo”owers was asked why be wore his hair long. “That,” he replied “is bis pezziness, same as you pezziness why you wear it short and part it at the side.” The rainfall for the month of May as registered by the Government rain guage at Kawhia. was 6.58 in. For the corresponding period of last year 5.19 in. were recorded, whilst 7.06 in. fell in 1906.

The North Otago Times stales that a farmer in the Oamaru district planted a dry lagoon of large size with potatoes this season, from which he dug seventeen tons to the acre. These be sold at £4 a ton, or at the rate of £6B an acre.

Mr K. Campbell, a nephew of the late Mr Hugh Campbell, has been in Kawhia during the past few days attending to business connected with the deceased, and left for Auckland, from where he will taae boat to Sydney on Thursday mowing. The ladiss of Kawhia are to give the juven* es of the district a dance on Saturday June 13tb, in Scott’s hall. The event is going to be a plain s id fancy dress ba 1 !, and judging by the talk that it has already occasioned, a successful evening should eventuate. The lamps in Jervois street, Kawhia do not appear to be giving satisfaction, and we are informed that already about half-a-dozen glasses have been broken. In fact, the lamps have not been lit for a couple of nights past, on account of the stock of lamp glasses having run out. Ever since this journal has been under the present management a great number oj notices (which should have been paid for) have been inserted gratis, There are some people in our midst who fa*’ to appreciate these little efforts, and we are now compelled to notify that in future all notices will be charged Itor at scale rates—irrespective of object.

An advertisement re the Kawbia School Committee election appears in this issue. The last meeting fell through for want of a quoram. That parents should take so little interest in the welfare of their children as to allow such an occurrence is surely a severe blot on their consciences. We trust that there will be a good attendance on Monday night. We are parlico’ariy pleased to hear that Mr Hugh Lester, at one time second engineer of the Waitangi, has been re instated into the Northern Company, and is now second of the as. Wakatere. For some weeks Mr Lester was chief engineer of the s.s. Victoria, and was offered the position permanently, but could not accept it owing to the poor state of his wife’s health.

An amusing instance of the use of trade labels is reported from a Crown colony ia West Africa. A commissioner asked a dusky chief to produce his copy of a trading agreement, and was amused to find that the “honest” trader who had secured the trading concession from the chief had detached a Bass’s label from the bottle and affixed it to the agreement as a Government stamp. At a meeting of ladies in Scott’s hall on Monday night last, (Mrs M'Oarthy in the chair) it was decided to bold a Leap Year Ball on Fyiday, June 12. Miss G. Langley was appointed secretary, and Misses Forbes aud Cowell M’s.O. The admission was fixed at 2i f>r eacb'lady, the gentlenen being in the somewhat unique position of being allowed in free. A waltzing competition will be held on the same night for single people only. Crossing the Atlantic last summer with Mark Twain, a fellow-passenger asked his opinion of the prohibition lavz. His reply was very oharacteris tic and very humourous. “I am a friend of temperance, and want it to succeed, he said, “I dont think prohibition is practicable. I am sorry to learn that the Germans have just invented a method of making brandy out of sawdust. Now what chance will prohibition have when a man can take a rip saw and go out and get drunk with a fence-rail ? What is the good of prohibition if a man is able to make brandy smashes out of the shingles on his roof, Gt if he can get delirium tremens by drinking the legs off the kitchen chairs ?”

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