THE Kawhia Settler FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1908 Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 381, 16 October 1908, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1908 Local and General.

In this issue Mr R. Davies notifies that be will contest the Matakowbai Biding election in November next.

We are pleased to note that Mr F. W. Newton, who had hi? arm badly broken some time ago has completely recovered from bis accident. The second race for the Willison Challenge Cup, rowed in the Marokopa river, resulted io a very easy win for Messrs P. W. and F. Bell.

The building formerly used as a store at Te Maika by Mr Jonathan was this week removed to Oparau, as an addition to chat firms store there.

According to the annual list of dairies just published the Te Rau amoaDdry Company’s ,-utput last year was 6 tons and the number of suppliers 11 Th_■ s. j Rothesay made a trip to Aoten in Saturday with pollesaod ma ferial to be uaed in erection of the telephone line between Te Mata and Ruapuke returning the same evening. There i< likely bo be a big day here on October 2H'b, when the B.M. Court will be held. Besides several minor cases, the charges arising out of the fences at Kiritebere will also be heard.

Mr C. 11. Holloway,Dental Surgeon, will pay a visit to Kawbia on October, 19 h io make arrangements to regularly u'Gnd here. Io as much as he will <-nly be bore for the day Dr Cam bell Jenkins will be pleased to make app in ments.—AdvL The Rev. Father Lynch conducted Cat hoi c service i at Kawhia on Suu-f-*y, Lbe congregations being very good We ieirn that it has been decided to

e-tfiblith ft Sunday school here in connecti ;u with that denomination to bu held every Sunday. The s.s Riinu arrived from Wanganui ■ »i Monday last with 500 sheep for Mr Anderson, of Awaroa, which have boon taken to that place by pontoon. We learn that Mr Brandon is also on the road with 250, but this lot are being brought along the Main Trunk Line.

New Zealand has already gone as far m is safe or prudent in the direolion of reckless finance and hazardous S' ciMiatie experiments. It will go still farther, however, unless a brake

i* promptly applied, and the only way in ahich that can bo done is by sir< uz’hening in the next. Parliament tho party that is opposed to speudmiif p’odigality and Socialistic fads, QLrioicbnrch Press.

The Te Ruu-a-moa butter factory has commenced running, the supply being very good. The Rev. C. E. Davidson left for Auckland overland ou Thursday morning, a largo number of friends oongretzaiing on the wharf to eay farewell. Ln this issue Mr H. E. Thom notifies that he is holding a clearing sal* of drapery, etc., and a!t>o that he is prepared to act as indent agent. A minis tar opened the Sunday school oinks 1 with the well known hymn, “Little dram of wnur, lit’l grains of sand.” In the iniddlo of tin first verse he stopped die sipgitig and complained Rirongly of the half-heart ed manner in which it was snug- He made a frrsh start f “Now then,” he shouted, “Lillie drops of water, and for godueee s»ko pu‘ some spirit into it.” Cowsheds are not designed as afternoon tea-rooms, and people do not want to oat their dinners off the byre floors. Cleanliness is an essential to successful dairying, but there a happy medium between the dirty sheds which unfortunately are still to be found and

ly are still to be found and the fancy establishments Mr M‘Nab wants to force the farmers to maintain. —New Plymouth Herald. It behoves parents to keep their children from playing on the wharf, as if this is not done most assuredly a serious accident will happen. On Sunday last a number were busily en gaged pushing along the trucks, when

cue fell a distance of about 12ft, the bead narrowly escaping coming into

contact with a pontoon tethered there. Luckily, alee, the tide was out, or perhaps a Hutnaue Society’s medal would have had to be awarded tn gome of the bystanders. As it was the lad was uninjured. A tragic ending to a romantic love story is reported from Lesina, a well known health resort along the coast of Dilma tia. Fiorina Briui, aged sixteen, fell in love with Albrto Conti, a visitor. The girl’s parents would not hear of the match, and the lovers decided to elope. They took a small boat and put out to sea, with the intention of boarding a passing steamer to Venice. Unfortunately they were overtaken by a violent storm, the boat was upset and the lovers were drowned.

The October number of “Good Cheer,” New Zealand’s Popular Home Journal,, is just to hand. This capital journal has now made its sixthappearauce, and there ia every indication that the proprietors intend it to be worthy of the Dominion. In it there is something for every member of a household, and the tone of the whole publication is of high order. Ladies are particularly well catered for. The “Good Cheer” journal is sent post free to any address for the small sum of half-a-crown a year. The Waikato correspondent of the Raglan Chronicle says ;—“The Chamber of Commerce is a very live body here. I have had a chat with Mr Maxwell, the able secretary, and he informs me that correspondence and agitation is constantly g?ing on to help to improve facilities of all kinds between Hamilton and theaurrouning country To-day he has received word from the Minister frr Public Works, in reply to urgent pressure by the Chamber, that the trial survey for the railway between Hamilton, Raglan and Kawhia is to be put in hand as soon as surveyors can bo spared from other work. May this be the favourable sign in the East 1”