Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 8 May 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

Reminder is given that the annual meeting for the Social will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hail tomorrow evening at S o’clock. All interested are invited to attend.

The Hawke’s Bay races take place at the Hastings course on Wednesday and Thursday, and intending patrons are notified that the Railway Department will issue train tickets at excursion rates. Mr F. C. Cook will run a drag to the Wanstead ball on Friday.

It is said that continuous shooting since the opening of the season has seared game to remote and quieter regions. A sportsman suggests that the law should be amended to provide a cessation of shooting at intervals to encourage tie birds to return to their usual I.aunts. We notice there is an agitation in the. Auckland province to fix the maximum number of birds which may be shot by one

perso. i. A correspondent iu a Wellington paper affirms that the totalisator gives more credit than the bookmaker.

Foolishness is contagions. One long-eais wrote on a San Francisco list on a local bank counter: “A Friend, L>30,000.” Second ditto came along and inscribed “ Lover of Earthquakes, £60.0U0.” Then a third Balaam’s pensioner topped the score thus, £95,000.” The list is now closed.—Palmerston Times

Theßuyal Commission to inquire into the circumstances of Te Ante native education endowment will probably assemble at Napier on Thursday. The commissioners are District Judge Kettle (chairman), Mr A. W. Hogg, Mr RLee (chairman Wellington Education Board), Mr Apirama T. Ngata, M.H.R., and another native.

Island Bay fishermen are securing large hauls of warehou, a fish that finds much favour with the public. From 1500 to 2000 head are being secured daily, and the hauls will probably increase with the advance of the season, which is generally of about three months’ duration. The average weight of the fish being caught is about 81b, so that between five and seven tons of warehou are being brought, into Wellington for daily consumption At last night’s meeting the Town Board passed a vote of thanks to Willoughby & Co. for exhibiting the Kitson light in Waipukurau. The lamp is to be taken to Waipawa, the Town Board there having "made enquiries about the light.

The word “ teetotaller ” has a peculiar origin. An English temperance orator unfortunately stuttered, and speaking of total abstin ence invariably pronounced it—-“t-t-t-total abstinence.” In derision his supporters were nicknamed teetotallers.

A social and concert in aid of St. Andrew’s Sunday school library will be held in the Sunday school on Friday evening next. An attractive programme has been arranged, and Sunday school prizes will be distributed.

The chairman of a banquet held at Eketahuna recelitly, in proposing the usual loyal toast, said, “ I beg to move the King !” The King was moved accordingly. It is believed that the population of the Waipukurau Town District now numbers over seven hundred persons.

What may prove to be an important discovery, from an angler’s point of view at anyrate, says the Ea t Coast Guardian, was made in the vicinity of Opape the other day by Mr.l. M. Butler. Seeing a fish struggling in the breakers he went to the spot and landed a magnificent specimen of the finny tribe weighing forty pounds. The remarkable feature in connection witn the discovery was that none of the natives present could name the variety, the flesh, when cooked, being of a pinkish hue. This fact and the size and weight point to the conclusion i hat it must be a salmon.

Mr Lomas’ white setter dog Don was found dead at the lake on Sunday. Indications were that it had been intentionally shot with a bullet.

It is estimated that on Easter Monday £lOO,OOO was put through totalisators in New Zealand.

Last week’s Auckland Weekly contains an excellent photograph of the delegates to the Oddfellows’ conference held in Nelson during Easter. The group includes the Hawke’s Bay representatives — Messrs Chambers, JuH and Fielder.

Hastings Bulletin says the Waipukurau Jockey Club were so well pleased with Mr F. Christensen’s catering for the private lunch that they gave him a bonus of 6d per head (over 200). Some miscreaut wilfully damaged the copper tubing at the Kitson light, and the local agent is offering £5 reward on conviction of the offender.

Circus crowded at Hastings last night; many turned away. Startling reports are current in Vienna regarding the health of the infant heir to the throne of Russia, whose birth was signalled by the booming of many guns and much national rejoicing. According to these reports the Tsarewitz is both deaf and dumb. Other reports describe him as suffering from microsephalous. That his mental condition is such that he can never ascend the throne of Russia and rule is a court secret that is just leaking out, and is startling the monarchs cf Europe, who had believed that the child of the Tsar was healthy. His physical health, as well as the menial condition is, by rumour, said to be such that he may uot survive many months. The reports have caused a sensation in Russia, and may affect revolutionary movements. There was a lengthy order paper at the Town Board meeting last night, but business was got through in good time. The members of the Board signed a “joint and several ” to the bank to secure an overdraft of £lOO, should such be required to carry on the town’s business.

Efforts are to be made to form a P. and A. Society in Waipawa, also to institute regular stock sales. The Canterbury Rugby Union is still sore over its suspension last season by the New Zealand Union in reference to the payment of a small sum of money in entertaining the New Zealand team before it left for England. After a long discussion it was moved, “ that in the opinion of this cauncil the New Zealand Union Management Committee iu suspending the Canterbury Union for the expenditure of a trivial sum on behalf of th j New Zealand Union in Christchurch was unduly harsh, and that it considers the suspension should be removed from the records of the colony.” The motion was lost.

Soyou want to know where the flies come from, do you ? Wei l , the cyclone makes the house fly, the blacksmith makes the fire fly, the carpenter makes the saw fly, the wind makes the blow fly, the driver makes the horse fly, and the boarder makes the butter fly.” Gustav Paul Gunzel, tailor, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The first meeting of creditors at Waipawa next Friday.

Plenty oil at New Plymouth—can’t stop the flow.

Through Mr Tipping’s agency a number of suburban properties have changed hands lately, at figures satisfactory to vendor and buver. Mr Tipping has been appointed local agent for the-Govern-ment Accident Indemnity and Life Insurance Office.

England has sent an ultimatum to Turkey regarding the occupation of portion of the Egyptian frontier. The Turks must make themselves scarce within ten days. The street collection in aid of the hospitals at Sydney on Saturday included over three tons of coppers.