The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, April 3, 1906. Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 3 April 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, April 3, 1906. Local and General.

:OOwing to pressure of advertisements at the last moment, we have to hold over leader and other items. Mackay & Co. sell horses, rustic cart, sewing machine and sundries at their mart on Saturday next. Commissioner of Crown Lands gives notice of ten sections open for selection in the Tamaki Village Settlement Extension, under the lease in-perpetuity system. Further particulars will be found in announcement.

The chairman of Waipukurau Town B tard publishes notice in reference to proposal to raise loan to provide town lighting.

A business notice from MrP. W. Sampson, coal and firewood merchant, and agent for machinery and implement firms, appears in this issue.

New advertisements from MrDAnnand and Messrs Potts &Downes will appear in next issue.

The local football club intend making an early start this season. A trial match between teams to be selected by the captain and vice-captain will be played on the Waipukurau ground to-morrow afternoon. All members and intending members are requested to be on the ground by 2.30 p.m.

Mr E. Houseman was the successful tenderer for the outside luncheon booth at the Waipukurau races.

Mr J. Williams has two quiet young milking cows for sale.

It coats Taranaki farmers £5OOO a year to cut blackberry from their land. Ormondville is showing good signs of progress of late, several new buildings having been erected and in course of erection. The recreation ground—a fine spot right in the township—is being put in order, and the place generally is assuming a more compact appearance. Norsewood, too, about three miles distant, is also on the move. Insurance statistics show that, if the wife dies first, the husband on an average survives nine years; while if the husband dies first, the wife survives 11 years. Mr H. Poynter is having indifferent luck in the matter of health, rheumatism, it is thought, being responsible. Dora Meek, 18 years old, of Centralia, Illinois, has beon in a trance for 70 days. The trance began after a violent quarrel with her sweetheart. A ball held at Norsewood on Friday night in aid of Waipukurau Hospital netted about £l5. A remarkable case of successful salvage wts reported by the chairman of the Liverpool Salvage Association at annual meeting recently. A Booth liner named the Cyril, with a cargo of rubber valued at £llO- - was sunk in 20 fathoms of water in the River Amazon. Prospects of effective salving seemed at first remote, but a staff wus despatched in the Ranger salvage vessel, and succeeded in recovering over one hundred thousand pounds worth of rubber. Mr F. Cook received a severe kick from a horse the other day. The Carnegie Hero Fund has awarded a gold medal, £3OO to pay off a mortgage, and £lOOO in trust for the education of his son, to Captain Castor, who rescued the passengers of the Cherokee, wrecked near Atlantic City on January 12th. Each member of the crew of the rescuing vessel (the Alberta) was awarded a silver medal and £lOO. During last year, 1900 deaths from consumption occurred in Victoria. At Taihape the other evening a number of people were having “ a night out.” A turmoil was caused at one of the hotels, whiskers and bottles flew about, and the proprietor had to eject the crowd at nine o’clock, and close down for the night. It’s worth a guinea an hour to be a constable at Taihape when an unemployed social’s in progress. Acting-Detective Raynes, who succeeds Const able W il’cocks at Waipawa, has taken up his duties. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward have arrived at Florence. According to the New Zealand Trade Review, the auction sales of wool in New Zealand in the past season comprised 168,620 bales, against 149,250 bales iu the season 1904-5. In our report of the wedding the other day, we omitted to mention that Mr E. Houseman and Mr Maher supplied the conveyances. Dannevirke hospital is out of the contractor’s hands, and will be formally opened by the Premier at an early date. MrsDowie, the Swiss heiress, who married the “ Profit’s ” son, has written to her mother on Lake Constance, says the Pall Mall Gazette, that “Zion City is falling to pieces.” We hear Mr Harris and family intend leaving Waipukurau shortly. The Government steamer Tutanekai, with the Premier, AttorneyGeneral, and Bishop Julius on board, returned to Wellington on Friday night from the Chatham Islands. The steamer experienced very bad weather during the run across, and lost one of her propellers ; at one period the voyagers thought they were bound for glory. The Premier was well received at Waitangi, all the settlement turning out to welcome him. He made a speech, and afterwards promised to give attention to a number of local requirements. This is the first occasion on which a Minister of the Crown has visited the Chathams.

Rev F. W. Martin is expected to return next week, and will conduct services on Easter Sunday (April 15th). The emigration department of the Salvation Army in England is receiving more than six hundred applications every day from persons who wish to emigrate.

The attendance at the cricket meeting, held last night, was small. Mr J. C. Simpson was voted to the chair. Resolved to hold annual social on A.pr-1 16th (race night). Resolved to engage Miss Maroney to supply music (piano and cornet). Tbe price of admission was fixed at 3/6 the double ticket, extra lady 1/6. Resolved tbat 100 tickets be procured. Advertising and sundry other matters were dealt with,

Hawke’s Bay Autumn Show at Hastings to-morrow. It is understood that the applications for the vacant secretaryship of the H,B. Education Board number over one hundred.

Stock sale to- day; good business done.

Another addition to the boarding house accommodation of Waipukurau is about to be made, Mr Jos. Scudmore having let a contract to Mr W. A. Chambers for the erection of a two-storey building at the corner on the north side of Ruataniwha road opposite the railway gates. Some of the material is already on the ground. The building, which is to face the main street, will contain not less than twenty rooms. “ In the Normal School, which I visited the other day,” said Dr Greenwood during a lecture at Christchurch recently, “ all the children were taught to breathe through their nostrils. It is safe to say that not 5 per cent of those children would be at all likely to get consumption.” A Hatuma wedding takes place this month at the residence of Mr Mellor. Great Britain spends on tobacco and pipes 14 million pounds sterling every year. Glasgow, one of the New Zealand rep. footballers who recently toured Great Britain, is located in a bank at Waipawa, and is likely to play for the neighboring team this season. Beyond assuming he will prove valuable as a coach, there is no reason to be alarmed at his individual play, because, though no doubt good, his ways may not be our ways. A contract has been let to Mr J. Winlove to build a ten-roomed homestead on the Mount Herbert estate.

Mr Alfred Hill has another comic opera ready, and if “ A Moorish Maid ” is a success in Sydney it is the intention of the Stephenson’s management to start rehearsing it immediately. Those who have heard the music are enraptured with it, while the book is said to be the best yet written by any colonial author.