Local and General.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 408, 2 April 1909, Page 2

Local and General.

t'ap’.ainJ B’irfcn, of Hamilton ia yuHinzer brother of Mr Bsrton, of K’»wlti-;, has been selected as one of the foc.r v dunleers of the Dominion who fr<?i to proceed to to receive milutary ilsuticuou.

| .M? H. D. Uontts, who fcns been s | Guf. Foment Valuator for come years I»i jt, has resigned h ; s p-aition, as frum March 31st. In another column Mrs D. Galvan notifies that she has taken over thr Strand Boardinghouse, Kawhia,, and loliciis r fair share of public palronige. Members of the Kawhia School Committee are notified by adverti ;, er .ent that a meeting will be held in he Settler office on Tuesday after ioon next. The rainfall for Kawhia for the month of ALroh was 3 23iu. For the oorrepponding period of last year 6.65 in fell, whikt in 1907 4 lOin, was recorded and 3.19 in. 1906. Whilst crossing the M'.nukau bar on Monday the s.s. Clay more shipped i big sea, the resalt being nhat a new buggy on deck, consigned to Raglan, was badly knocked about. / Attention is drawn to the altered ur-'l notice in this which states that in fn*nrc the overland mails from Kawhia will close at 9 jp.m. on Wt Inesday and Sunday nights. There wes a e : tiing of the S.M. Court at Kawhia on Friday morning, vhen a debt case, Willison v. Rehana, vas called and adjourned to a J'a.P. Oio-t to he held on May sth. The death took place in the Reefton Hospital lent week of Mr A. Jeeklin, brother of Mr G. Jeeklin, of Kawhia, whilst undergoing au operation. Tho deceased wds one of the old ideotitifa -f the West Coast of the South Inland

Miss Coweru, of Rikauuui, recently paid a visit to the country to the North of Auckland ami her impressions on the trip are set forth in a very readable article occupying nearly two columns of the North Auckland Times of March Ist. The following arrangementi have been made for the observance of the Easter holidays at the Kawhia Post Office:—Good Friday (April 9th) close holiday; Ep3t;r Monday (April 12th) open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in all branches, except money order. By advertisement in this issue a meeting of the Kawhia Harbour Railwiy League is called for 7.30 on Wednesday evening next, to disours a more vigorous move in the matter t.nd to elect a secretary in place-of Mr Pettit, who has resigned. The Kawhi ♦ Dairj’ Factory oloerd for the season on Wednesday. It is stat. I that the business wes not vet 7 good, but the pro r r ctors are co fidout that next ; ear (La supply wi’i mateiiaily incru’se, and the industry be pormcnently estabPsbed'bere

Inspector Barnside visited the Junction School at Kinohaku during last week, the first visit raa.lj by any official of tho Educ itiou D .rtment. His piredec: ■ jor (Mr Stewart) made all the scholars jouri ey to Kinohaku, a proceeding which .as naturally resented by the rarenta.

Mr and Mrs Geo. Stevens, who, have been “ doing ” Auckland, Wai ka'o and Rotorua are now the guests of Mr Gao. G. Jonathan, J.P., of this town. Mr Stevens has baen very agre:sably surprised to meet some of his old chums of the pioneering days of Wellington, who now live in tbi» district:

For the second time within a few months the s.s. Claymore could not bring all the Kawhia cargo on Tuesday last, some tors having to be brought on by the s.s. Rimu. The shod could not hold all the goods lauded, cooseqaenlly_ a considerable quantity had to remain outside, under the cover ef a tarpaulin.

That change is often scarce in Kawhia is well known, cheques for five or tiH shillings being frequently in ciiculation. At, the time of the Taharoa races a local business man solved the problem by purchasing postal notes to the valunof 10s, which saved bis silver very considetably and at the same time satisfied his Maori customers, who, it may bo added, are not at all partial to cheques. On Friday an Assessment Court sat at Kawhia to revise the rolla for the Kawhia County. Mr Catfou, S.M., presided, ibe Hou. W. W. M‘Cardle, M.L.0., acting as assessor for the Government and Mr T. B. Scott (or the County. Mr J. Wallace appealed on bahall: of the Valuation Department, Valuator Thompson also attending. The whole of the few objections weio purely technical, and those were fixed up with very little trouble.

Constable Wade did not have to wait long for his first arrest in Kawhia. On Wednesday morn ; rv b e was busily employed getting h’ J furniture off the wharf when he uw a commotion down the beacb, where a Pakeha and a Maori were giving an exhibition a la Johnson and Burns. It is sa’d by thc.c who taw tbo enoouu ler that the remit was the s.ime as in the memorable fight above quoted The new guardian of the pc ic i quickly arrive I on the scene and ph c-d under art/at the combatants. William Haury Treiidder and Her i King. Asa result thereof on Fridip morning Mr Cutten, B.M , fine 1 (he culprits £1 each.

After much agination ai ' many weary moiitLs of wailing the telephone line to Marokopi from Kinoh t'<u ia at last an a- Jomplisbed fact, communication betveen the pieces vacationed bein'? established on WedD'> day 1- it. The honour of ending ♦ first tf’egr.t-n t > M'lrikopa fell to di.' Srrrr.'SK, the wire reading:— “ e/u Mrs Willison, M-iro-koni. Congratulation® telephone comDiiiuicattao opened at last,” The • < ply went by Mr Bell was We c mgratuiate the world iu being counected with Marakopa.” Weil put. W<: feel certain that the line will be a ■' j -hl« one, a '‘at 9 J. tn, on Friday being numbered 16.

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 bick page-* The attention of tho public is direc•ed to an advertiset in another column announcing lb*) fact that the ■reamer tares between Ou&Lunga and New Plymouth have been reduced and •he freight to New Plymouth from Ynehunga or Wellington increased. We learn that as a result of the iporta and hisket social recently held at Kinohaku a suits aa ial .-uni of money will be placed to tbe credit of rhe ball funds. The sccc 38 jf both events wr? in do smull meesura due to 'be secrjtary (Mr J 3. Kearns) who worked throughout, with great z.al. He wes ably supported by the other officials. Rumour again has it that the Norhsrn S.S. Company’s tender at Kavhia, the Rothesay, will eeose running iu a mouth or so. The company ' iiert that the little boat has oat money month siuc-e the Maivkopa and Haribari fiasrailla closed dnwn, and hat this cannot go on aty larger. The decision is < > t j regi-ett d, f s the laying up of the Rothesay will be a severe blow both to Marokopa and Kawhia, [Sines the above wf in type the local agent for the company (Mr A. E. I ngiey) hi t. received definite notice that the ste mor will ee: ~e ruiuning at the end of April, and inserts a notice to that«effect in our advertising columns ]