The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Ora Mota Iwi.” TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1903.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 202, 28 July 1903, Page 3

The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Ora Mota Iwi.” TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1903.

Whooping cough, prevalent in Motucka just now, is interfering with the regular attendance of scholars at the public schools.

A largely attended meeting of shareholders of the Motueka Fruitgrowers’ Co-operative Society was held last night, Mr J. B. Dudgeon in the chair. It was decided to alter Rule 6, relating to the capital of the Society by placing the 1375 shares applied for up to and including the 11th of July, 2 903, under series “A,” and to issue 3625 shares to be classed as series “B,” to be paid for in accordance with the amended rule. Mr J. Greenwood, the well known dentist, intends making periodical professional visits to the Motueka distric 3. the first of which will be on Thursday next. He may be consulted at Mr .Rumbold’s until the following Saturday afternoon. A resident of the Ngatimoti district informs us that the roads in that locality are at present in a very bad state, any amount of gravel being required. The weather for the past few days has been very good, with frosts at night. Collectors of used New Zealand postage stamps, particularly of the early issues, will notice that Messrs J. E. Hounsell and Co., the well known Nelson booksellers and stationers, are cash buyers. This firm has special facilities for disposing of stamps to the best advantage and collectors cannot do better than communicate with them before mailing to English, American, and German speculators. A notice with respect to the estate of the late James Wilkie appears in our advertising columns. Some of the .Scots worthies will sigh no sigh on hearing of the death of the witty Frenchman Max O’Rell. Is it

r eported that a Highland waiter once r efused to serve the Frenchman at dinner, and, when reproved explained : “Its no to be expected that a self-re-spectin Scotsman could serve him with ceeveelifcy. Didn’t he say we took to the kilt because our feet were too large to’ get through trousers ?” Mr Alec Wilkie, of Murchison, has Kindly placed at the disposal of the Borough Council a bath chair and crutches, belonging to his late father Mr J. Wilkie, for the benefit* of anyone who may require the use of them. At the annual meeting of St. James’ Church, Ngatimoti, the Rev, W, G. Baker being present, Messrs C. E. Beatson and A. Straehan were re-elec-ted Churchwardens, as also were the Yestry with the exception of Mr T. Brereton. whose place was taken by Mr G. Heath. Yotes of thanks were passed to the lay readers Messrs E. F. Burrell and F. Holder; likewise to the choir and Yestry and to Mr Burrell for kindly auditing the accounts for the past year.

The Hawera Star says : In respect to the ironsand industry promoted by Sir Alfred Cadman, it is distinctly disappointing in all news, telegrams and paragraphs to find Parapara named before New Plymouth as a chosen site for the works. The iron ore at Parapara is hematite and not titanic iron sand. An expert might recommend the establishment of works which would leave laranaki out of it altogether. When Messrs Cadman and Smith returned from tiae first visit the latter was supposed to have talked too much, and now the former says muchtoo Ifttle. House rents are considered to be high in Wellington, but they pale into insignificance when compared with the rents demanded in Capetown. One anxious advertiser in a “Cape Times” of last month says he will give up to .£ls per month for a six roomed house and guarantee twelve months’ occupation. lor the purchase r of a five roomed house standing on a 100 ft square section at Rosebank, .£I6OO is asked ; for a six roomed house in the same quarter .£I7OO is wanted. In the same issue top wages are offered to 150 carpenters and joiners, 60 bricklayers 4 60 painters and paper-hangers, 30 plumbers and tinsmiths, 10 plaster-ors, 10 electricians, 10 woodworkers etc., for East Loudon—showing that there is still room for the artisan in South Afr'ca.

A young lady, a visitor from Christclnnch, aroused the admiration of those of the Morning’s crew who were on board at Lyttelton on Sunday afternoon by climbing into the crow’s-nest at the main mast head. This is a feat whic-h many men, landsmen, that is to 1 |would not care to attempt. A Lyttelton lady performed it soon after the vessel arrived there. An incident showing the stupidity of sheep occurred at Mangaweka the other day. A mob was being driven along a bridge, when one of them t-cok fright, and jumped into the river, which was flowing rapidly. All the rest followed, and although a flood many men tried to rescue them, they were nearly all drowned, owing to the steep banks of the river. An echo of the lamentable “ragging” scandal in the Guards is heard in the resignation, recently announced, of Lord Douro, one of the young officers who were the victims of the notorious treatment. Lord Douro, who bears by courtesy a title won by the great Duke of Wellington in 1814, is but seven-and-twenty, and received his commission something over three years ago. He has in the interval seen service in South Africa.

Toothache is a severe test of a man’s philosophy. A simple remedy is to saturrate a niece of cotton with Chamberlain’s Pam Balm and place it in the cavity of the a «ected tooth. One application gives ehef. A. Manoy sells it.