The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, January 16, 1906. Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 7, 16 January 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, January 16, 1906. Local and General.

:O: The Bank of New Zealand will be closed on Monday next (Anniversary Day). Mr C. Tricklebank, of Waipawa, has a business notice in another column. The Ellwood Musical Family and Bioscope Company will appear at Waipukurau about the end of the month.

Recently the Eltham dairy company beat all previous records, turning out 160 boxes, or four tons of butter, for the days’ output. At the price at present being received by the company this is worth £464 daily, or £3248 per week. Little wonder that Taranaki towns go ahead.

At the railway station on Saturday, Mr Houseman’s bus collided with Mr Maher’s cab, through the horse attached to£the former becoming startled. One of the wheels of the cab was considerably injured. A cable says that five orphans at Chicago were awarded £3500 against three publicans, on the ground that the latter had supplied their father with drink and ruined him.

We understand that Mr Jensen, owner of the pound site, has consented to the pound being used until an understanding has been arrived at between the Road Board and Town Board. 4

A message from Perth states that Grand Rapids, the ex-New Zealand horse, winner of the N.Z. Cup in 1904, was offered at auction and passed in at £320. The reserve was £4OO.

Colonel and Mrs Porter are on a visit to this district, and staying at the Tavistock Hotel. The Thibetans as a nation possess the best teeth in the world, altho’ there is not a single tooth-brush in the whole country, arid no form of cleansing the teeth is practised,

Writing to friends in Wellington, a player with the New Zealand football team said he would not take on the trip again for a thousand pounds. The constant travelling and knocking about in the matches made one feel very wearisome before the tour was three parts through. Mr G. Lomas is about to have considerable additions made to his business premises, for the accommodation of farm implements and vehicles, he having been appointed local agent for two of the large manufacturing firms. The magnificent floral tribute sent by Mr J. C. Williamson to the family of the late Sir Henry Irving was specially singled out by the London Press. It was entirely of golden chrysanthemums ; from the floral base rose a pillar of the same flowers, bearing in the centre a purple panel, with the words, At Rest.” A single streamer was inscribed “ Australia.”

A total of nearly a million paupers in England and Wales is shown in the report of the’Local Government Board for 1901-5. In London alone the number of paupers was 127,985.

On Friday last Messrs Simpson and Knight successfully took the contents of the beehive which has been located for some time past in the belfry of the Presbyterian Church at Waipukurau. A stage was erected on the roof near the hive, from which operations were proceeded with. It was found necessary to remove a portion of the belfry. There was a large accumulation of honey, and wax within ■— between five and six bucketsful of honey being secured, not counting much that war wasted. The hive was growing to such an extent that it affected the tone of the bell, and the bees were getting troublesome in the church. The “All Blacks” were simply enchanted with the Irish character. “ The crowd seemed almost as pleased at our victory as they would at their own,” said one of them after the international match with Ireland.

The flax on Mr Bailey’s property is being cut and conveyed to the flaxmill at Takapau.

At an inquest on the body of James Jarmey, who was accidently shot with a pea-rifle at Palmerston, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider of sympathy with Ethel Linton, who fired the shot.

Mr Justice Grantham, in charging the grand jury at Hertford Assizes on Nov. 18, remarked that he had long been an advocate of giving habitual criminals long terms of punishment, as after serving short terms they only fell again into crime. The prison commissioners had now determined in cases of old offenders that, after a certain amount of punishment, they should be kept at some place where they could learn trades. At present men did not as a rule become better for being in prison, but it was hoped by this plan that they would improve and have a chance of leading better lives when they came out. Well-attended mission services were conducted at Hatuma last week by Bev J. Pattison and Mr Clarke.

Reports received by the Minister for Public Works indicate that very satisfactory progress generally is being made on all three sections of the North Island Main Trunk railway. There are at the present time about 1500 men employed on these works, which it is intended to push on with all expedition during the summer months. Bad weather has been experienced at the southern end of the line, between Taihape and Waiouru, one of the difficulties of the department in railway construction being the excessive rainfall in that locality. Mr J. N. Barrie, secretary to the sports club, has received intimation that Wills’ protest has been dismissed by the Christchurch central committee.

The Labour Department has of late been sending a large number of men to various public works throughout the colony, especially to the North Island Main Trunk line. The steamers every week from Australia are bringing over many men seeking employment, attracted here, no doubt, owing to the prosperous state of the colony. Some are first-class labourers for pick and shovel work, but others, again, are altogether unsuitable, as clerical vacancies are limited.

Mr Hislop, inspector of permanent way, who succeeds Mr Court, arrived from Otago last week. Mr Court’s family left for Canterbury to-day, taking with them the good wishes of a host of friends. Mr W. Miller, Chief Stock Inspector for Hawke’s Bay, whilst on a visit to Poverty Bay recently, found that the caterpillar is doing an enormous amount of dgmage to the grass-seed crops. Potato blight has also made its appearance, but is not nearly so serious in its effect as as a green aphis that has attacked the bean crop, and which completely stops the growth of the bean foliage. The maize crop all through the district promises to be exceptionally heavy. Barley, which is sown in large areas, is somewhat of a failure, owing to the extremely wet spring and the consequent baling of the land when the dry weather sets in.

A lad named Fox was thrown from his horse on Sunday morning, getting his kneecap and elbow injured. Dr Godfray ordered the boy’s removal to the hospital, where he is progressing favourably.

The whistle of a locomotive is heard 3300 yards through the air, and the noise of a railway train 2800 yards, the report of a rifle and the bark of a dog 1800 yards ; the human voice reaches a distance of 1000 yards. Wellington will entertain Sir J. G. Ward at a banquet prior to his departure for Europe. Mr P. J. Cotter, sign-writer, has just finished some excellent ornamental writing at Mr Crysell’s Waipukurau premises. Those requiring work of this kind done will no doubt remember that a capable artist resides in the district. In India a native, visitor never takes his departure of his own accord. Etiquette requires the host to dismiss him, which he does in the politest way possible, not by saying “Go,” but by saying, hospitably, “ Pray come again ; the sooner we see your face the pleasanter it will be.”

The ladies of St. Mary’s Anglican Church will meet in the schoolroom on Friday afternoon for the purpose of arranging for a garden fete which it is proposed shall be held on an early date. The Waipawa Rifles broke camp last night after a successful encampment.

There was a football social at Blenheim on a recent night, and when the health of the champion team was proposed the official who toast remarked that 12 of the 15*members of* the team were married men. The local Express sagely apropos of this, that “the fact is a handsome tribute to the weaker sex, and one that promises that the game will not die out in the Marlborough Province.” Public schools resume off Monday, sth February. The Porangahau sports club paid away £63 in prizes, and have a credit balance of £B. Fine weather again.

It is the intention of Captain Walker, acting on behalf the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, to establish a station at the International Exhibition which opens at Christchurch on Ist November.