Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 30 March 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

——:o: A meeting of members of the Waipukurau Cricket Club will be held at the Tavistock Hotel on Monday evening. The principal business will be to arrange for the annual social on Easter Monday night. Train arrangements for Hawke’s Bay Autumn Show are given in another column. Tenders for supplying riverbed metal close with the Town Clerk at 5 p.m. on Monday next. Reward offered for recovery of lost gold watch. Notice appears re proposed train alteration. Mr P. W. Sampson announces that he has taken over Mr C. W. Mitchell’s coal and firewood yard, and is prepared to supply all material pertaining to that business. The torrential downpour of rain at Carterton on Saturday exceeded in intensity any similar deluge within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. —Leader. The shop lately occupied by Mrs Nidd is to let. Mr Jones, assistant master, will leave for Hastings school at the end of next week. A professional notice from Mrs Swain, teacher of music, will appear in next issue. The ballot for sections in the Tawaba estate, formerly a portion of the Bid will property, Wairarapa, recently acquired by the Government, takes place at Martinborough to-day. Sections in all the subdivisions have been applied for. Mr Tipping, estate agent, has money to lend. A mob of over 300 cattle passed through Woodville on Sunday (says the Examiner). They had been twelve days on the journey from 25 miles north of Napier, and were expected to take another six days to reach their destination in the Taranaki district. The cattle looked very well in spite of their long journey. Wellington City Council intends to borrow £264,352 for further public works. Durnan, the Canadian oarsman, visits Australia in September, to arrange a match with Stanbury. An English paper announces the engagement of Miss Seddon, eldest daughter of the Premier, to Sir John See, ex-Premier of New South Wales. This is another instance of going from home to hear news. A prominent member of the Football Club expresses the opinion that the club has a worthy successor to the late secretary in Mr Geo Ellison, who is certain to carry out the duties with credit and ability. Master Chambers has been highly commended for an essay on the Frimley orchards.

Monthly meeting of the Waipukurau Town Board will be held on Monday evening. There was bad weather for Hospital Sunday (last) at Norsewood, and the attendance consequently small. £lO 6s 7d was collected. As a result of systematic spraying, a Kimbolton Road (Rangitikei) farmer will crop fully 400 tons of potatoes from 36 acres of land. The yield, it is estimated, will return about £4OOO. When the New Zealand footballers were embarking on the steamer New York at Southampton en route for home they were serenaded by a party of Welsh students from the Hartly University School. At an interval in their singing, one youngster, acting as interlocutor, aeked, “ What’s the matter with the New Zealanders ? ” and the others responded with the A merican gag, “ They’re all right,” with tremendous emphasis on the word “ they’re.” “ Did they beat Scotland ?” “ Did they beat Ireland ?” “ Did they beat England ?” were demanded iu turn, the chorus answering “Yes” to each. Then came the question, “ Did they beat Wales?” and this was followed by “ N o-o-o-o I ” delivered with a long drawn yell of triumph.“ Who carried the leek ?” shouted the leading juvenile, nis companions replying ” Gwynn Nicholls.” And then “Who ate the leek?” brought a resounding cry of “ Gallagher ! ” The New Zealanders took the chaff with good humour, and sang their Maori war song as the steamer drew off. Another block of the Tamaki estate, near Dannevirke, is gazetted to be thrown open on April 25th. The rentals have been reduced. Mr Tipping reports having negotiated the sale of Mr Cox’s section in the Lindsay settlement. A Thames miner, located in the King Country, reports that he has prospected a portion of the Urewera lands, and is satisfied of its auriferous nature. He is quite confident that the systematic prospect ing and development of this terra incognita will eventually result in the opening of a new goldfield. It is stated that Mr F. Pirani has purchased the Feilding Star newspaper A coincidence. At Wednesday’s wedding there were J. W. Cook, sen., J. W. Cook, son, and J. W. Cook, son-in-law. The bridegroom was already a Groom before he took the bride. The popularity of the bicycle is still on the up grade. Altogether 13,672 of these articles were imported into New Zealand during 1905,the value being £81,830, while the imported material was valued at £12,958, the total in each case showing a large increase over that of any previous year. A writer in London Opinion says: A woman is worried ; then she worries because she is worried to think that she worried over the original worry. The wool market is very firm, both at Home and in Australia* Prices show a further slight upward tendency. A Hastings gardener has a string of twelve onions ready for the H.B Show, which weighs 291 b 14oz. About 500 school excursionists from Woodville, Dannevirke, etc., passed through Waipukurau at 8.30 this morning by train, bound for Napier. The children have struck a fine day. An officer of the Pnblic Works Department inspected the local post office building yesterday. Prince Arthur of Connaught received an ovation in Canada. In the case police v George the jury could not agree, and a change of venue was applied for. The Hawke’s Rugby Football Union has suspended the Hastings sub-union for failing to comply with one of their rules. Sub-union meeting at Tavistock Hotel to-night. Chinese papers received by th 0 mail circumstantially recount th e death of the Empress Dowager.