HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 379, 4 December 1878, Page 2

HAWER A.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) R.M. COURT— Monday, December 2. (Before C. A, Wray, Esq., R.M., and Capt, Wilson, J.P.) Constable Jones - v Karl Jumble, for being drunk on the 20th November, at Normanby. Fined 5s and costs, or 24 hours. Sergeant Cahill v J, Whitmore, for being drunk and using blasphemous language in the public streets, Hawera, on the 25th November. Fined 5s and costs, or 24 hours. Same v Awhiti, for being drunk in public streets. Fined 20s. or 48 hours. D. Johnston v James Hughes, claim £3O, being amount of promissory note. Judgment by default for amount claimed and costs. The only stir made here during the past few weeks has been the two late sales of sections, Mr Bamford’s realising over £57 per acre ; but the greatest surprise of the year was given on Saturday last, when 44 sections of the Normanby Extension were sold by Messrs Thomson & McGuire for a total of £2,732, or at an average of £O2 per section. The section mania was supposed to have reached its limit a few months ago, when sections in Normanby realised £SO and over, but now the first section put up by auction, away from all the at present business part of the town, fetched £135. Enough sections have now been sold to supply all building demands for many years to come, and yet other large blocks are about to be cutup and sold, to meet the demand of buyers, whose cry is still for more. Our sports this year promise to be a great success. Many new hands are already in heavy training, and our veterans will find some warm customers to contend with. Normanby is looking well, and they intend giving a prize of £5 for the mile race, which will no doubt bring a great number to the post. Altogether, Christmas promises plenty of amusement, as our Amateurs intend giving two performances in the Town Hall about the New Year.