Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 365, 12 June 1908, Page 2

Local and General.

For Childrens Hacking Cough at night Woods* Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d.

Twelve months ago to-morrow (going by the date) the s.s. Kia Ora was wrecked at Tirua Point, and three valuable lives—Captain Blacklock, Mr M. Forbes and Mr Ross—thus lost.

Mr J. G. Ward, who is about to Rtart a butter factory in Kawhia, was a passenger by the Waitangi on Tuesday, accompanied by his wife and family. The gentleman named has leased lhe house now occupied by Mr E. D. Hamilton. The Maoris of Kawhia and district have decided to hold & regatta on Lake Parangi, near Kawhia, between Christmas and New Year f no. It is stated there are good number of canoes that will compete—including four nsw ones—and the promoters antL.pate good entries and splendid fun.

There is a treat in store fcr the residents of Kawhia and district on Saturday (to morrow) night, in the local hall, when the childrens’ plain and fancy dress ball will be held. We learn that the costumes will be both unique and pretty, whilst the efforts of the ladies who have trained the juveniles, have been rewarded by a great improvemant noticeable in the dancing. A feature of the evening will be a very pretty grand march, and a cakewalk by six young-ladies, Prizes are to be given for best dress, etc., and also for a waltzing compttition. Mr E. C. Falwasaer (of Falwasser and Pottit) has just returned from Te Kuiti and owing to the number of land seekers he came in contact with he has decided to return and open a branch business there. Kawhia is an isolated place, and the district is nofei brought before a buying public, as it should be. It is only natural to that the agents of Te Kuiti are gding to do their best to keep the buyers away from here having no interest in the diatrict. This is Mr Falwaeser’s reason for opening at once, and it would be well for all those that desire to place their properties on a good

market to commmuaicate with the firm.—Advt.

It has been our duty to record many important items in these columns but the announcement that gives us more pleasure than the rest is the fact that it has been definaiely decided to establish a butter factory in Kawhia. The reason of these remarks is because we have had previous experience of the dairying industry and are quite aware of the prosperity that invariably follows. There is no gainsaying the fact that as a means of increasing the spending capacity of the settlers dairying is easily first, the,income being constant and assurred. Mosers Ward aud Hunter have announced their intention of starting operations, about S’ptf’mber next, the guarantee ndbes-

s.iry (600 cows) having been secured. The stie of the factory has not yet been fixed upon, but it is quite probable that it will be adjacent to the Set tlkr office. We trust that all who can will milk, and thus give the industry

a good start, as it will be found by those who do that this branch of farm life pays well, whilst it will also show that the enterprise of the proprie’ors is fully appreciated.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cura for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d end 2s 6d.

The s.s. Rothesay made a journey to Marokopa ou Monday, returning on Thursday. A Public Works Inspector paid a visit to Kawhia last week, and finally passed the new Court House.

Miss Godsell, who for some time was teacher at the Moerangi school, is at present spending a holiday at Oparau . To-morrow. (Saturday) the County Council hold a meeting at which the question of a butter factory site will be discussed. It is stated that the station which has hitherto borne the name of Hangatiki is to be changed to Waitomo by the Railway Department. At the last meeting of the Auckland Land Board thirds to the amount of £259 19s ld wore approved for payment to the Kawhia County Council We hear that to morrow (Saturday) the return football match between Marokopa aud Kawhia and Oparau combined will be played at Marokopa.

In this issue Mr W. Shaw, of' Te Rau-a moa, calls tenders for the right to graze 100 acres of turnips and new grass, ready for stocking Evboub Ist July. The attention of settlers is directed to the details of an important clearing sale to be conducted by the Farmers Co operative Auctioneering Ccl, on Wednesday, June 17th. More properties are added to Messrs Falwasser and Pettit’s list in thia issue. The firm report that there is a growing demand for land, and that prices have a decided upward tendency. In ten-year-old Jane’s advice to housewives about milk, a Newtown teacher found the following :—“To keep milk from turning sour you should leave it in the cow.”

Mr A. E. Langley’s smart little launch has lately been overhauled by Mr F. Hosking, and is now in thorough working order, a trial spin on Wednes day having proved that fact.

Messrs Falwasser and Pettit, land agents, Kawhia, report the sale of an education lease of 284 at Itbe Kauri, to Mr Wo Noonan, and a shop in Kawhia, for removal to Mr A. J. Mountfort.

The Observer remarks that the eyes of William Jennings M.P. glisten at the thought of the deep-sounding road bogs to which he will be able to intro dune Premier Ward on his visit to the Kawhia bacublocks.—No fear ; the Premier will not have much time for this kind of work.

The barometer points distinctly to bad weather, and, however optimistic a man may be, he's simply a fool if he declines to take note of what the weather glass says. This country has entered upon an era when caution in both public and private affairs is necessary. —Christchurch “Speoator.” The time is rapidly coming when there will be a split in the parties as now constituted when farmers and commercial men will require, in selfdefence, to combine together as a party and sink all other political differences and creeds, in a united fight against labour unionism.—Cambridge “Independant.”

“Yes, sor,” said the man with the frayed collar, “that land is now worth £2O a foot, and only a year ago I could have have boughtnc for a mere song.” “But you could’nt sing?” chuckled, the funnyman. The man with a frayed collar eyed him distinctly, and replied in quick cutting tones “but I couldn’t get the right notes.” The following paragraph from “Settlers from Arabia,” by Lady May Wortley Montagu, is quoted in the last number of the Lone Hand ing is more ridiculous than censuring tie actions of another; and, as I never found any pleasure in malice, I bless the destiny which has conducted me to a place where people are better employed than in talking of the affairs of their acquaintances,” The history of the wrecked steamer Marital is of more than average interest. Away back in 1891, when the seamen went on their famous strike, the Seaman’s Union brought the Muritai—then known as the Bellinger—over from Hobart, and ran her on the Onehunga-Waitara route in opposition to the Northern Company’s Gairloch. A few years later, the Northern Co mpany bought the Bellinger, and rechristened her the Muritai. It is rather a curious coincidence that both the Muritai and her estwhile rival, the Gairloch, ended their respective existences by being “piled up.”—Observer,

Mr H. A. Ellison, Government Valuator, returned last Friday from an official trip through Waitomo, Awakino and Kawhia Counties, going throug to Kiritehere. Marokopa, Kinohaku, Awaroa and Oparau, and returning to Te te Kuiti via Pirongia, Puketarata, Oborohanga, Waitomo andOparuru. One of his duties was co instal the newly-appointed valuers for the Kawhia districts. Mr John Shaw, of Kinohaku, will have charge of the southern portion of Kawhia and a part of Awakino North, and Mr T. B. Scott of Oparau, the northern portion of Kawhia Oounty~Te Kuiti Chronicle. There were only eight gentlemen p*esent at the meeting to elect a school cimmittec on Monday night. The Chairman (Dr 0. Campbell Jenkins) reported that there was a debit balance of 9s Id. The committee sleeted was : De 0. Campbell Jenkins, Messrs W. Morgan, E. D’Arcy Hamilton, R. Nes bitt, P. Ward, 0. F. E. Barton aradH. H. Pettit. The committee met afterwards and re-elected Dr Jenkins chairman and Mr Pettit secretary. The meetings were fixed for the first Tuesday in the month at the Settler office At 4 o’clock in the afternoon.