The Waipukurau Press. Friday, June 29, 1906. Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 29 June 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Friday, June 29, 1906. Local and General.

.O: Rev F. H. Speneer’s lantern lecture is announced to take place at the Church of England Hall this evening. The lecture is said to be of a very entertaining and interesting nature. Reminder is given that Maxwell’s Novelty Company appears at the Town Hall this evening. Newspapers have favourably commented ou the entertainment. Mackay & Co.’s usual fortnightly sale takes place to-morrow, at 1.30. A consignment of choice fruit and ornamental trees will be sold. Mr H. J. Cryseli, watchmaker and jeweller, announces that he has disposed of his Waipukurau business to Mr J. Hitchins. Messrs Jones & Son desire to inform the public that owing to the trees not coming forward they were compelled to postpone the sale, which will take place on Thursday uext, at 11 a.m. P. Barrie’s new announcement in this issue.

The report of the Te Ante Commission has been sent to the Governor. We have received a complaint in reference to a certain function that took place recently. As the writer’s name does not appear on our subscribers’ list, and he is evidently one of the two or three householders in this town who do not subscribe to the local paper, we do not feel justified in inserting the communication. It is hardly fair to attack us and others through the medium of a borrowed paper. Mr C. E. Gold Smith, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawkes Bay, is to be transferred to Canterbury. Mr Trent, of Marlborough, will take his place. A petition is to be prepared for presentation to Parliament praying for the abolition of the Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board, and that control of the work be taken over by the Agricultural Department. The petition expresses confidence in Inspector Miller. It is expected that throughout the province about four hundred signatures wiil be obtained to the petition. Portions of the main road between Waipukurau and Waipawa have been patched; not before needed. At theS.M. Court, Ormondville, yesterday, M. Symons, butcher, of Takapau, was charged by Mr Jas. Harvey, stock inspector, with feeding his pigs on uncooked offal. Fined £2 and costs.

Schools broke up this afternoon for winter holidays. The French Public Prosecutor considers Captain Dreyfus is innocent of crime or offence, and that rererence of the case to another court is useless. Mr Anthony Nathan has been elected first mayor of Taihapo by a large majority. The wife of a resident at Castlecliff (Wanganui) who recently presented her husband with twins had thrice previously done the same thing. Eight olive branches have thus made their appearance within about six years, and all of them are sturdy, healthy-looking chil dren. It may be added that the husband and wife are each one of twins. Empty Cradles. —' Paterfamilias’ writes to a Wellington paper:— “Social precedence is nfbre precious to the heart of woman than anything else. I suggest its order should be regulated in the future by the number of children a woman has. Then, would motherhood be rajaed to its true dignity.”

The sum of 41 guineas was paid at the Sydney sheep sales by Mr Seth Smith, of New Zealand, for a yearling Shropshire ewe from Mr Mansell’s Tasmanian flock. The price is said to be a world’s record for a yearling ewe. Major-General Babington suggests the contributing of £lOO9 by the defence forces of New Zealand as an endowment of a bed in a hospital in memory of the late Defence Minister, Mr Seddon. A novel complaint was made at the Christ Church, Warminster, England, vestry meeting, the vicar saying that owing to the size of the congregation he had great difficulty in getting hymns long enough for the offertory. The hymn stopped before the collection was finished. The difficulty was met by appointing two more sidesmen.

W. L. Falconer, a well-known resident of Fernridge, near Masterton, is taking round a - petition for signature asking that he be appointed to the Legislative Council. There are said to be no less than two hundred New Zealand patriots anxiously awaiting the moment when they shall be called to the House of Lords by a slow Government. They all have an equal chance of getting there. It has been decided to substitute music for handcuffs and straitjackets for. the insane inmates of the Kansas State Asylum. Twen-ty-five pianos are being introduced. A stationer in a French provincial town was struck by a great idea when a regiment visited his town in 1870. He produced a picture postcard, and from this small beginning has sprung a great industry. Not until 1894 were picture postcards printed in England, and yet in 1903 at least 450 million pictorial cards we produced in Great Britain. In Germany 1161 million postcards were posted the same year, about four-fifths of which were pictorial. These were a few of the facts presented to an interested audience at the Society of Arts (London) by Mr Corkett, who is connected with the firm of Raphael, Tuck, and Co. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., of Dunedin, report: —We have just completed one of the most important transactions in high-class pedigreed Clydesdale stud stock recorded in the colony for many years, having sold to Mr J. W. Harding, Mout Vernon, Waipukurau, on account of various vendors, the imported Clydesdale stallion Baron Graceful, the champion Clydesdale brood mare Kate O’Shane, the prize Clydesdale mare Violet, a prize brood mare by Lora Lyon, and five pedigreed fillies.

British troops are to be kept away from Chicago meats until the inspectors report. A petition is in circulation in Marlborough praying the Government to acquire, under the Land for Settlements Act, the Hillersden estate, Wairau Valley. The estate has an area of 120,000 acres, 40,000 acres of which is freehold, and the remainder Crown land. The petition states that the estate is held by trustees, there being no heir.to it. A good many residents attended the funeral of the late John Nicholson on Wednesday afternoon. Park races were well attended. For the two days £13,023 was put through the totalisator. £5 13s was the highest dividend paid on the second day. A robbery of jewellery at Waipawa has been reported to the police. A Gisborne wire yesterday says : —Galte More, one of the horses engaged at the next winter races, broke his neck whilst being schooled over the hurdles. “ I don’t care a dam ” (says the Academy) is in effect “ I don’t care a brass farthing 1 ” A “ dam ” was an Indian coin with a Portuguese origin, the value of which was about an eighth of a penny.

“ Don’t be content with what your father told you, for the possibility is that he only knew what his father told him, and so back for generations; on that plan you may easily be three or four hundred years behind the times.” —Captain Young’s advice to Inglewood farmers.

Mr Herbert Baillie, chief librarian of the Wellington Free Public Library, has an autograph album that shows a remarkably interesting page. There are four signatures in the following sequence: “J. Ballance ” [January 18, 1893] ; “The Land for the People—John McKenzie ” [April 1893] ; New Zealand for the New Zealanders-A. J. Cadman ” [April 17th, 1893]; “ Know me by works: Co-oper-ation —Richard John Seddon” [Apl 24, 1895]. It is a strange coincidence that the four signatures should fall not only upon the same page, but in the order in which the respective statesmen passed away. Of every nine accidental deaths, eight are men and one a woman. Farthing is only a corruption of “ fourthing,” the fourth of a penny. German schoolboys study harder and play less than those of any other country.