Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 1 June 1906, Page 2

Local and General.

Monday next will be a holiday at the post office, all mails closing at 9 a.in. The office will be open from 9 to 10 a.m. only. Monthly meeting of the Waipukurau Town Board will be held on Monday evening. Mackay & Co.’s sale to-morrow, at 2 p.m. Among the produce to be offered is one ton of seed or eating potatoes

The Te Aute Trust Commission is now taking evidence in Wellington. Two other oil-boring companies are in process of formation in New Plymouth.

Monday will be a school holiday. We understand Messrs Mackay & Co intend shortly to open a grain and produce store in vacant premises next to the auction mark. The erection of a large granary at the back is also in contemplation. There seems to be no limit to the number of crops that can be taken oft’ a piece of land in succession. There are cert in lands in the Manawatu which, according to a speaker at the Farmers’ Union Conference at Pahiatua, have produced oats without interruption for twenty or thirty years. There are lands here and there which require cropping to bring them into condition. Another member mentioned that he knew land, he did not say in New Zealand, which had produced wheat for sixty-four years in succession, the yields at the end of that period being as good as at the beginning. Population of Hastings borough is 4593, an increase of 942 since 1901. Michael Davitt died in Dublin. Now we could do with a little less weather; the affects business. The coach got Arlington yesterdays was a short delay. $ Williams & Ket^'Ltd., had successful year,.aßd pay a dividend of 7 per cent. Jt has to form an Agricultural Pastoral Society Bay, and a held on the Wairoa fafeecdurslr the same week as the ’ 4$ ■ I ‘J

The post-mortem examination on the body of a man who died suddenly at Ashburton last week revealed a physiological phenomnon. The organic system of the deceased was found to be transposed. The heart and other organs which should be on the left side were found on the right, while the liver was found on the left side.

President Roosevelt, on the occasion of the presentation to him, on March 28th, of Mr W. 8. Mayer and Mrs G. P. Black and family, all of Sydney, made the ’following remarks, after welcoming them most graciously and shaking hands with each : —“ lam always very pleased indeed to meet, or even get a glimpse of anyone from Australia. You are working out in that country the same problems which we in America, in some cases, have already solved. I am also very interested in New Zealand and its experimental legislation. I have had a great desire to have the time to enable me to visit New Zealand, to see its Southern Alps, and to visit the South Sea Islands.”

Recent rains have replenished the waler tanks. It came just in time to prevent a water famine in this town. As it was, several people had commenced to have water carted to them. The downfall will do the surrounding country a great amount of good. While this district was experiencing weeks of fine weather, Taranaki, Wellington, Woodvilie, etc., had it very wet, the first named district especially.

Extraordinary revival scenes are still being “witnessed in Wales. The central figure at present (the St. James’s Budget wrote recently) is a Mrs Sarah Jones, who sometimes conducts the services in a trance. “A pretty young girl,” says an eye witness, “ suddenly uttered a piercing shriek, and, burying her face in her hands, she wept bitterly, crying aloud : —‘ 0, iesu yr ydwyf y.n Bechadur ’ (‘ Oh, God ! lam a sinner’)- She made her way towards the platform. An expression of terror appeared on Mrs Jones’s face, and she exclaimed in Welsh :— ‘ Leave me ! Leave me! Oh, God! I can see the devil.’ Falling on her knees with outstretched arms the girl prayed for ten minutes. Then Mrs Jones laid her hand on her head, and once more smiled. ‘ The devil has left the girl,’ she said.” No ratepayers attended the statutory annual meeting in connection with the Waipukurau Road Board convened for yesterday ; in any case this meeting is regarded merely as a formality. The monthly meeting of members of the Board will be held next Tuesday morning. Speaking at the Farmers’ Union dinner at Invercargill last Friday, Mr J. 0. Thomson, M.H.R., referring to the Premier’s visit to Australia, said that he had no doubt that good would result, especially in regard to his proposals to open up trade with the Far East (says the Southland Times.) Great gain would also result to New Zeathrough Sir J. G. Ward’s visit to Rome. Cheap postal and telegraphic communication brought the people closei* together and conduced to a better understanding among the nations and a wider diffusion of commerce.

The Rev D O. Hampton, recently of Levin, will act as locum tenens for Rev F. W. Martin, taking up duties in a fortnight’s time. The prospectus of the Gisborne Oil Company is advertised in the Poverty Bay papers. Its objects are:—First, to secure land and boring rights for excavating or boring for oil, gas, petroleum, wax, or other products of petroleum in the colony of New Zealand, and secondly, for refining and manufacturing all the products of petroleum into a marketable commodity, and then placing the same to the best possible advantage on any markets in the world. Thus Robert Louis Stevenson, in his essay on San Francisco, written many years ago : —“ Such swiftness of increase, as with an overgrown youth, suggests a corresponding swiftness of destruction. We are in early geological epochs, changeful and insecure, and we feel as with a sculptor’s model that the author may yet grow weary of and shatter the rough sketch.”

Says the Woodville paper: —A resident of Maharahara did a little prospecting some time ago up one of the creek beds on Wharite. He found several good specimens of surface quartz. One of the pieces was forwarded to the Government Assaver, and on Saturday a report was received stating that the quartz yielded 17dwt to the ton, and that the gold was a very fair sample. We understand that more prospecting is to take place with a view to finding the reef. New advertisements from Mestrs Tipping and Booth next issue. | The Farmers’ Union resolved-jTf That the Government be make no appoiinmenL as unless the date J^^'passeff l such in subjects as Mr Gil-= ! rutaWbommeirds 5 .’

The conference of Havyke’s Bav Sunday school teachers, which will be held at Waipukurau on Monday next, is likely to be largely attended and a number of important subjects will be discussed, among which will be the following: “The relationship of the Bible class to the Sunday school;” “ The ideal teacher ;” “Working under difficulties;” “How shall we improve our Sunday school work,” etc. Bev J. Pattison will preside. The conference starts at 10.30 a.m-, and visiting delegates will leave by evening trains. All persons interested in the work are Cordially invited to attend.