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Manawatu Herald, 20 August 1903, Page 2

Mr Cottle, dentist, will pay his next professional visit to Foxton on Saturday next, and may be consulted at Mr Healey’s Medical Hall. Considerable additions have been made to Messrs Abraham & Williams’ Shannon stock sale, which takes place to-morrow. The carcase of a whale, 64ft in length was found last week on the beach at Otara, about five miles from Fortrose (Southland). The swamp close to the Wirokino bridge has been drained by Mr Ghas. Symons, and a fine thick crop of flax is consequently making its appearance.

The Town Clerk notifies that a meeting of the electors will be .held in the Public .Hall on Wednesday evening next to decide whether or not Gray street shall be stooped.

A young man named Charles Ernest Wilkinson, recently employed as a motorman on the electric trams, has been arrested in Auckland on a charge of abducting Bessie Wilson, a girl 16 years of age. He was remanded, bail in one surety of £SO being allowed. Fifty Polish girls, who 'were attending the High School at Gnesen. while reading in Polish and discussing the prospects of the re establishment of. the Kingdom of Poland, were arrested on a charge of high treason.

It is reported that the International Congress on wireless telegraphy at Berlin favoured the making of wireless telegraphy the business of the various Governments, exactly as inland telegraphy is now regulated. It is .understood that this extinguishes Signor Marconi’s chance of securing a monopoly.

At the Palmerston S.M. Court, on Monday afternoon, Thomas Doyle, charged with doing bodily harm to C. Anderson, at Shannon on 3rd inst., reserved his defence and was coin mittecl for trial at the Supreme Court, Palmerston North. Bail was allowed accused in his own recognisances of £IOO and two sureties of £SO each.

There are now three cases set down for hearing at the first sitting of the Supreme Court to be held in Palmerston in October —F. Walls, of Foxton, charged with making .a false declaration to procure a marriage license; a charge of breaking and entering, for which the accused is at present in gaol, and T. Doyle committed on Monday. Mr G. lanes, the postmaster at Palmerston North, 'will retire on a pension of £l9O per annum next No vember, atter thirty-seven years’ service. He arrived in the colony in 1866, and, after seeing considerable service as a lineman in the Otago district, was appointed postmaster at Otaki. He afterwards became the first permanent postmaster at Palmerston North. Our enterprising citizen Mr Wm. Loveday, announces by a special notice to the inhabitants of Foxton and surrounding districts that in consequence of his intention to hand his business over to a syndicate his large and well assorted stock of drapery, clothing, etc., ''will be disposed of at ridiculously low prices for cash. . We therefore recommend those desirous of making good bargains to call at the Centre of Commerce before the end of the present month and-take advantage of the big discounts Mr Loveday will allow for cash. At the banquet at Levin on Monday last, which was given to the Ministerial p,arty and other members in commemoration of the opening of the new Post Office, new Court House, and Ohau Bridge, reference to the necessity of metalling the Wirokiuo road was made by Dr Mackenzie. Mr Nation and the doctor also spoke of the benefits that would be derived if the Tramway was extended from Foxton to Levin. Mr Nation said that the extension would enable them at Levin to obtain cheap coal, and in many other ways would benefit the residents at Levin and also the settlers throughout the district. He urged the settlers to give this important question more prominence in the future;

It has been computed that up to the present time 300,000,000 dollars (£60,. 000,000), has been spent in checking swine fever in America. The same work costs England £70,000 per annum.

Mr Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the “ New York World,’’ has provided the Columbia University with two million dollars (£400,000) to establish a School of Journalism on the same lines as those of the Schools of Law and Medicine.

Mr Moore, our new solicitor, has arrived in Foxton, and is now established in an office in Manchester House, where he may be consulted at any time from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., also if requited in the . evenings at Mrs Langley's, We would direct the attention of our readers to an advertisement in this paper in which Mr E. Healy refers: to his stock of patent and proprietary medicines, &c.i &c. Also that he has a stock of cattle and sheep medicines which he in addition preparesThe Wirokino bridge appears to have suffered through the flood in the river. On Monday nothing seemed to be wrong, but on Tuesday morning it was reported that the piles supporting the swinging span had dropped 2 or 3 inches, consequently the floor of the bridge is now uneven. '

Flax is coming tip pretty thick on the swamp near PorotaWhao. Mr Henry Coley has recently put in drains to carry the water into the Manawatu. All the lagoons and, hitherto useless swamps surrounding Foxton appear to have been taken in hand for flax cultivation. Those who are now making these improvements will Undoubtedly and deservedly reap their reward in the near future.

The secretary of the Glen Oroua School Committee wrote to the Education Board stating that the Presbyterian Church authorities did not wish their church to be used as a school after the end of the year, and wanted to know if the Board would pay £26 a year for two years towards the rent of a hall the settlers intended to build if it were used as a school. It was decided to point out that the Board could not continue to pay rent, and if the application made to the Government for a building grant was not granted, the school would have to be closed. .