The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Ora Mota Iwi.” TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1904.

Motueka Star, Volume V, Issue 295, 14 June 1904, Page 3

The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Ora Mota Iwi.” TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1904.

In response to numerons requests Miss Florence Menkmever, the gifted pianiste and vocalist, will give recitals at the following places :—Upper Moutere Tuesday, in- the Public Hall ; Motueka to-morrow, Wednesday, evening in the Institute Hall ; and at the Schoolroom, Riwaka, on Thursday evening. Entirely new programmes will be presented at the above named places and we have no doubt that the recitals will be well attended for it is not often-residents have a talented musician such as Miss Menkmever in their midst.

A meeting of all persons interested in poultry will *be held in the High Schoolroom on Friday, 17th inst, at 8 p.m ," to consider the advisability of holding a poultry show. It is hoped that there .vill be a large attendance at the meeting. Mr R. Fry, the Riwaka-Takaka mail contractor, notifies in this issue that his coach is now running regularly be. tween tiie'above mentioned places. The Huia Football Club’s team play a team from the Albion Club, of Nelson, in the senior championship at the local cricket ground next Saturday afternoon. The names of the Huia team have already been published and the members are requested to turn out as frequently as possible during this week for practice. Mr P. JE. Irving, well known in this district as the Christchurch Meat Company’s buyer, was recently married in Picton to Miss E. C. Seymour, fourth daughter of Mr and. Mrs H. C. Seymour of that town. We are pleased to notice that the New Zealand Postal Department has concluded. arrangements with the British Postal authorities whereby facilities are now afforded the general public of New Zealand for the transmission of small . remittances to the United Kingdom by means of “British Postal Orders,” which are now procurable at all the principal money order offices throughout the colony at a very trifling cost. We understand thescale of commission to be for sums from 6d to Is 6d, Idq from 2s to 10s 6d, 2d, and from 11s to 20s, 3d,

The adjourned meeting of ratepayers and sympathisers of Mr E. A. Knapp will be held in the High School next Thursday evening at 7.30. Mrs James Grooby, Motueka, advertises in tqis issue for a general servant; wages ten shillings per week. A team from the Riwaka Football Club journeyed to Nelson last Saturday to meet one selected from the Nelson College in the junior championship. The Riwakaites proved victorious by 3 points [a try scored (by H. Bate] to nil.

At a clearing sale at Seaaown (South Canterbury), on Wednesday last, dairy cows realised phenomenal prices, springers selling up to LI 6. and cows in profit up to £l6 ss.

The Motueka Hockey Club intends to send a team of ladies to Nelson this week to play a match against the Wakatu Ladies’ Club.

Mr R. McKenzie, M.H.R., is at present on a visit to Motueka. The Manchester Guardian tells of a witty son who telegraphed to his parents on their golden wedding day. “Is marriage a failure ?” The old couple laid their heads together over the reply paid form, and presently made answer :—“No ; but its results sometimes are.”

It is related of a certain judge that on one occasion he took a dislike to a witness who had a long beard, and told him that, if his conscience was as large as his beard, he had a swinging one. “My lord, if you measure consciences by beards, you have none at all,” replied the witness. At the sale of fat stock at the Dunedin Winter Show, very good prices were realised. Prize bullocks ranged from <£l3 5s to LIS ss. A pen of wethers sold at 40s, and the second pjize pen of hoggets at 25s 6d. The following notice appears in an Auckland paper :—“J, , of Waihi, contemplate being married in Jnne, or thereabout, and anyone objecting to my marriage please lay complaint to this paper. Their names in full necessary.” Horseflesh apparently is at a discount in Coromandel. The other day a bay mare was sold at the public pound for the sum of 2s 6d.

Since 1897 the sum of £19,633 [less £5,261 received] has been expended in connection with the Government Poultry Department. The plant for producing the muchdiscussed “powdered milk” has been installed at the Madino Dairy Factory, Feilding, and operations are to be commenced forthwith.

A Wanganui citizen, who has recently returned from Tuamaranui, says that the sly grog selling there is deplorable. The place is full of grog shops, which unblushinglv expose bottles and other liquor stock for sale. When a police raid is made only a small portion of the stock-in-trade is seized, the remainderbeing carefully hidden out of reach. A sturdy co-operative labourer employed on the 'fain Trunk Railway construction works at Taihape has accomplished a novel feat. He has built himself a dwelling of the staves from the barrels which contained cement used for the heavy pier work on the railway. This unique house, which was pointed out to the Hon J. McGowan the other (say, is watertight and habitable, and is occupied by the enterprising workman and his family. —N.Z. Times.

The Mataura “Ensign” states that one wide-awake farmer in the Gore district made £7OO last year by purchasing fat lambs for export, and the same paper (states that fat lambs in Southland are so scarce this year that a dealer with contracts totalling 10,000 at his own price is quite unable to fill the order. Woods’ is the name, a remedy Of sweet peculiar excellence ; Great, as the mighty restless sea, ‘Tis purchased too at small expense. Peppermint doth form its base, With Pharmaceutics,’ pure, of course. Cure you ? Oh, fool! the hardest case Cannot withstand its magic force. An American war correspondent arrived at Victoria (8.C.) from Yoko - hama by the steamer Victoria early in April, He had returned from the theatre of war in disgust. He stated that absolutely no news was to be obtained, and that the correspondents spend their time in playing billiards. At a conference of local bodies at Rangiora last week, during a discussion on the small bird pest, one member stated that a boy had been caught sell- | ing eggs made of clay to a near sighted i member of a Road Board.