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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4055, 22 May 1900, Page 2

Particulars concerning the relief of Mafeking will be found on the fourth page.

The Waipawa Mail will not be published on Thursday next (Queen’s Birthday).

A full dress rehearsal of “ Withered Leaves” will be held at 8 p.m, tomorrow.

The Cabinet has approved of the expenditure of £IOOO on the Ngaepaeruru block (Danevirke). The law offices in Waipawa were closed yesterday in honour of the relief of Mafeking.

The bush train was half an hour late yesterday, owing to the fact that a large number of natives and their baggage had to be set down at the pa. During the celebrations on Saturday night, a girl named Nelly Ireland had her head injured by the discharge of a gun. Medical aid was sought and the sufferer sent home in a cab.

A meeting of the Committee of th< Waipawa Racing Club was held lasi night, when formal business in connection with the coming races was trans acted.

The gatemen formerly employed by the Waipawa Racing Club are requested to meet or communicate with the hon. secretary to-morrow afternoon, stating whether they wish to retain tho positions they bold. Tho matron of the Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows for tho week ended May 20th: Patients in hospital, M 14, F 10 ; admitted during the week, Ml, F 2 ; discharged, M 3, F 2 ; died, MO, F 0. Volunteors are reminded of the Government parade to be held at the public school playground, on Thursday next, 24th inst., at 9 a.m., sharp (Queen’s Birthday), to fire tho feu-dc-joie. A full muster is particularly requested. The licensee of the Junction Hotel, Danevirke, Mr P. Gleeson, has laid two informations against Sergeant Haddrell, charging him with using insulting, abusive, and threatening language, and with assaulting him by striking him with his open fist. The cases are to be heard next Friday. The Waipawa Dramatic Club will hold a re-union on tho stage, after the performance on Thursday night, for the purpose of saying “good-bye ” to Mr W. J. Standley, who has been a prominent member of tho organisation for some years, and who will be leaving for England shortly.

The pigeon race from Waipawa to Napier for owners under 21 years old took place on Saturday afternoon. The birds were liberated at 12.30. Eight birds faced the starter, and the result was :—Master T. Redward’s Silver Dust 1, Master F. Lascelles’ Plague Rat 2, Master Creagh’s Galtee Moore 3.

On the receipt of the news of the relief of Mafeking Mr R. D. D. M‘Lean granted a whole holiday to his employes. His action was greatly appreciated by the men, who unitedly express the opinion that other sheepfarmers in the district should have followod his example.

We were shown to-day, by Mr William Golder, a number of photographs taken by him at the departure of Lieutenant Collett for South Africa. They are excellent photographs, and should make a good souvenir of the occasion. We notice one very good one, taken as the train was leaving, where Lieutenant Collett can be seen on the platform bidding his last farewell. The pictures are good and tho prices low. In his tour through the Maori settlements of the North Island, the Native Minister, tho Hon. J. Carroll, is said to have found the people very satisfied with the native legislation introduced into Parliament by tho Government last session, but not passed into law, and they expressed hopes that it would be adopted by the Legislature during the coming session. The Minister pointed out to the several tribes visited that the best thing they could do would be to hand over the Vhole of their trifial lands to Government for administration. He assured them that Parliament would see that the natives were treatod with the fullest justice, and ample reserves set aside for their permanent maintenance.

Mr D. A. Macdonald, the special correspondent of the Sydney Morniny Herald, writes from Ladysmith and gives particulars of the effect of shells. His experience leads him to oonolude that the shells, next to shrapnel, wore thoso which pitched upon a macadamised road. Off that hard surface they flew into a thousand splinters, he says, and their onward sweep was aweinspiring. There is a Roman Catholic convent and sanatorium at Ladysmith which was shot through and through. The sanctuary of the chapel connected with tho convent was raked from end-to end, and ther& was scarcely a yard of

wall or roof or floor that was not pierced. But a carving of the Saviour on the Cross, a statue of the Virgin, and a picture of the crucifixion all escaped without receiving even the slightest disfigurement.

In* a private letter, which Trooper McCulloch sends to his relatives, from East London, he says that the residents of thqt town have been favourably impressed with the appearance of the Third Contingent, and their horses are thought a good deal of. Great secrecy was being observed as to the destination of the men, who were absolutely in the dark regarding where they were to be sent. He surmises that the information was withheld on account of the number of Boer spies in the locality. The rations served out were bread and coffee for breakfast, bread, meat and tea for dinner, and bread, jam and tea for supper. Their kits had been reduced one half, “the active service kit.” Even their leggings had bßon taken away and “ putties ” substituted. It may interest the uninitiated to know that “putties ” are serge bandages, about five inches wide and eight yards long, which are wound around the leg from ankle to calf like a spiral bandage. They are lighter and cooler than leggings. Mr McCulloch says that up to the time of writing, 4th April, they had not received a New Zealand mail.

What Messrs Nelson, Moate and Co. claim on behalf of their fragrant teas may well be said regarding the firm itself. A business that has been established for over twenty years, and has each year shown an extension of its influence, has not only stood the test of time, but has also advanced with the times and proved itself equal to the rapid progress of a new country. In the artistic handbill that is circulated with this issue of the Mail, Messrs Nelson, Moate and Co. quote favourable press opinions that were written twenty years ago of their capacity as tea tasters and blenders ; and it is. fair to suppose that the added experience and the superior power of selection that comes from the expansion of business have added to the firm’s ability to supply the wants of the discriminating public. The firm, from its large warehouses in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, is in a position to supply promptly and satisfactorily the demands of the whole colony for Indian, Ceylon and blended teas. The circular issued by this oldestablished, tried and tested firm is, in the circumstances, extremely modest in its statements, for the accuracy of which thousands of our readers are probably able to vouch. A firm with such a history and reputation as pertain to Messrs Nelson, Moate and Co. may rely upon a continuance of public confidence and support.