The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, March 27, 1906 Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 27 March 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, March 27, 1906 Local and General.

Football meeting to-night. Preliminary notice re live pigeon match, to be held on April 17th, appears in this issue. New advertisement from Mr G. Lomas’ establishment will be found in another column. Through Mr Tipping’s land agency Mr Chambers has sold to Mr Ellison two building sections on the racecourse road. In a new advertisement Mr J. A. Blom draws special attention to horsecovers and cowcovers. Tenders for Waipukurau race privileges close to-morrow, at one o’clock. Slight shock of earthquake yesterday at 1.30. Heavy rain and hail fell last night, and rain continued to-day. We hear that Rev W. F. Martin experienced illness during his sojourn in Otago, and was compelled to keep to his room for a time. Mr Mackay returned from Wellington yesterday. A friendly societies’ demonstration in aid of the Waipawa hospital funds was held at Norsewood on Sunday. A few days ago a settler was handed a prohibition order, and expressed his thanks by striking the police. The court is to determine the sequel. Some of the rails at the approach to the big bridge have rotted away, and the Town Board overseer has been authorised to have temporary repairs effected. “ The children of the South Sea Islands are better off spiritually than the people of your backblocks, twenty, thirty and forty miles from New Plymouth. The spiritual condition of these backblock inhabitants is very sad indeed. And people have a love for the brown heathen, and will contribute willingly to funds for their spiritual amelioration, hut strangely enough, the same people will not give a penny towards the uplifting of their own kith and kin iu the backblocks of Taranaki.”—Archdeacon Cole.

In the Supreme Court, Napier, a verdict of not guilty was returned in the case of J. Manning Wigg, charged with an attempt to procure abortion. An action H. Carrick against H. I Simson, a claim of £250 damages for assault and insulting language, resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for £2O and costs.

The quarterly summoned meeting of the Loyal Tavistock Lodge of Oddfellows was held on Friday night. Bro. R. Staines, N.G., presided, and there was a good attendance of members. The meeting transacted general business ; contributions amounted to £25; one candidate was initiated.

On 31st December last the population of New Zealand was estimated at 882,462.

Mr A. T. Lake, of Palmerston North, has bought Mr Shanahan’s interest in the Takapau Hotel. The Napier Borough Council has voted £lOO towards the cost of the proposed Hawke’s Bay exhibit at the International Exhibition.

School committee elections will be held on Monday, April 30th. Some of the local committee, we hear, have decided not to seek reelection.

A deliberate attempt was made the other night to set fire to the residence of Mr Wood, M.H.R., at Palmerston.

Arnst, of Npw Zealand, won the thousand pound cycling race at Sydney on Friday amid great enthusiasm. The winner had 75yds start of Rutt, of Gtrmany, who finished second, three quarters of a length behind Arnst. Thirty-five thousand people were present. The time was Imin 54 4-ssec. This is the biggest cycling event in the world.

Easter Monday falls fairly late this year —16th April. It never goes beyond 25th April.

A return shows there were 28 sets of brothers shooting at the recent Trentham meeting, totalling 63 individuals. Te Whatau contributed five brothers-—the Vennels. The timber for the kerbing along the northern footpath of the main street is being got ready, and the work of forming will be done as soon as possible. The immigrant who arrives in New Zealand with the intention of taking up land wants an improved section, if the experience of Mr Trrgear, secretary of the Labour Department, goes for anything. Some of them, he said, would like a farm in Lambion Quay at a back country price ! He mentioned the case of an artisan who arrived with his wife and child in Wellington from England. That man travelled from Bluff’ to Auckland in search of land, and failed to find a place or work that would suit him. After spending the £5O he possessed in this way, he called at the Labour Office and asked Mr Tregear’to use his influence in the direction of getting him a position as steward on one of the Home-going boats, in order that he might get back to his native country. Mr Tregear offered to send him to the North Island main trunk line, but he said he could not go there, because his wife was too ill. He looks upon a town without gas lamps as a village not yet elevated from the later stages of barbarism. “What could you do with a man like that?” Mr Tregear asked. England has a comedian, named Herbert Cyril, who is seven feet high. He is now resting, under the doctor’s orders. A long rest! We hear that a man working on one of the subdivided estates was caught iu the act of preparing to commit suicide by shooting with a rifle, the other day. He accepted advice, and desisted. The Noble Order of Red Men, into which President Roosevelt has been initiated, is a friendly benefit society of American origin. It is one of a vast number of societies with fanciful titles existing in the States, with objects similar to our Foresters, Oddfellows, etc. The officers of the “Red Men” have a number of resounding titles, and they admit honorary or social members, which is probably the grade attained by the President.

In reference to the school excursion suggested by the headmaster recently, the chairman of committee remarked at last meeting that the proposal had never been brought directly before the committee. It had, however, been mentioned to him, and he had consulted two or three members, who did not approve on the grounds that the children had just had their Christmas holidays, and a succession of holidays interfered with the work of the school.

A practical result of the good work being accomplished by the boys of the Industrial School farm at Levin is the sale of butter made on the farm in the local stores. The butter, which is selling at current market rates, is of excellent quality. Berry, the late British executioner, stated that not one of the five hundred people whom he hanged was a teetotaller.

A steer, one month under four years old, which turned the scales at 12281b5, exclusive of sOlbs of inside fat, was killed by a Raglan butcher last week. The bullock was sold at 21s 6d per lOOlbs — realising £l3 4s.

May : “George kissed me before everybody last night.” Aunty: “ Well, you didn’t expect he’d let I everybody kiss you before he did, did you?”

There was a meeting of the Teachers’ Institute held in the Waipukurau school last Saturday. About a dozen teachers — headmasters and assistants—were pressent, including two ladies. The question of holding school sports was discussed, but further consideration was postponed until the annual meeting of the Institute, as was also the election of officers of the sports association. It was decided to recommend the different branch institutes to discuss the question of holding the forthcoming annual meeting at Napier, instead of at Dannevirke as provided for by the rules. It was felt that holding this meeting at Napier would enable more teachers to attend, especially the Poverty Bay teachers, but the secretary explained that the place of meeting could not be altered except with the consent of all the branches. The resignation of the secretary, Mr Caughley, was received with regret, and a resolution expressing appreciation of his services was heartily supported. Mr Holmes, of Havelock, consented to act as secretary until the annual meeting. The matron of the hospital kindly supplies the following for the week ending Saturday last. —Number of patients in hospital, 37; admitted, 4 ; discharged, 5. A sad fatality, by which a young woman named Mary Jane Daniels, daughter of the lessee of Te Aute refreshment rooms, lost her life, occurred at Te Aute on Saturday. A party of four young women were returning from a wedding at Pukehou in a vehicle driven by Con Boyle. At a bend going down the hill the vehicle lurched heavily and the driver and two others were thrown out. The horse continued to gallop, and deceased presumably jumped out, with fatal result, her body being found on the road quite dead. The other four were more or less injured. After evidence had been taken at an inquest held on Sunday, the jury returned the following verdict: —“ That Mary Jane Daniels was killed iu a buggy accident at Te Aute hill, caused by the carelessness of the driver, Con Boyle.” Messrs Coneys and Thodey were local winners of prizes at Waipawa bazaar.

Mr J: H. Hyde, of the Equitable Assurance Company, gave Sarah. Bernhardt a banquet during her recent visit to New York which cost twenty thousand pounds. Owing to the vote having become exhausted, the Government roadmakers on the Lindsay estate have been ordered to cease work.

■The Misses Harding had a vehicle accident on Sunday morning while driving to church. When opposite Mr Nicholson’s new residence the ponies were startled by a dog and made off as fast as their little legs could carry them, eventually colliding with Mr Grosvenor’s fence. The occupants escaped injury, but the carriage was seriously damaged and is now up for repairs.

Paris has an artist who decorates “ art ” stockings, and his charges are from £24 a pair to almost any amount, according to design. A portion of the Springhill estate was offered by auction at Waipawa on Saturday, but no bidder sprung enough for Springhill, all sections being passed in. £4 10s an acre was the highest offer. Justices Edwards and Cooper have been appointed commissioners to enquire into the case of J. J.' Meikle.

During the lifetime of a healthy hen she will lay from three to five hundred eggs; her best laying capacity is during her second year Speaking at Te Puke, the Hon W. Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, said the Government had had under consideration amend’ ments to the local bodies law, and he hoped that next session something would be brought down that would be satisfactory to local bodies. He spoke of the necessity for absorbing very small local bodies into larger ones, and thought it likely by that time twelve months they would have reform in that direction.

A survivor of the ill-fated Valencia states that when the vessel began to break up, a number of men, women and children clung to each other shivering, and singing “ Nearer, my God, to Thee.” They were swept into the sea with the words of the hymn still on their lips. In this connection a Home paper recalls the fact that when the* Stella was wrecked on 30th March, 1899, Miss Greta Williams, one of the passengers, sang the hymn, “ Oh, rest in the Lord.” The Premier, accompanied by Miss Seddon, left by the Tutanekai on Saturday for the Chatham Islands. He returns to Wellington in about a week.

The case Inspector of Police v. A. A. George, for alleged defamatory libel, was before the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and justification for the statements published in the Bulletin. A large amount of evidence was taken, and the jury retired to consider the issues submitted to them by the Judge. At midnight the jury had failed to agree, and were locked up for the remainder of the night.