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Manawatu Herald, 17 November 1904, Page 2

The formation of a Rifle Club is mooted at Oroua Bridge. The London Mendicity Society has records of 70,000 street beggars. The secretary slates they are all ingMounsey and Co t j llrtve a detailed advertisement in another column re Mr A. Jonson’s sale of household requisites on Wednesday next. The Wanganui A. & P. Show opened yesterday to a targe attendance. It is People’s Day <0 day, when there should be a record crowd present. Says a rural editor in the West:— “ Owing to the crowded condition of our columns, a number of births and deaths are unavoidably postponed until next week." Over £7OO worth of Government plans been called into requisition in connection with the present hearing of Otaki water rights action now before the Supreme Court. The correct position of Foxton shopkeepers re the early closing on Saturday night as demanded by the Shops and Offices Bill, is that a vote be taken of business people interested. Mr Robert Murray, the Palmerston North jeweller, has passed away ta the great beyond. Deceased had reached the ripe old age of 70 years. His bereaved relatives have our deepest sympathy. The ladies took advantage of the fine afternoon yesterday and attended the local Tennis Court in large numbers. There was also a good number of the sterner sex present, and some hard tussles were witnessed. A report has been cast abroad that the infant daughter of Mr H. Procter died from eating poisoned berries. This should be contradicted as the little one died from convulsions, a certificate being given to that effect. Twenty members of the Petone Bowling Club journeyed to Masteiton last Wednesday. On arrival there they found no one to meet them, though they had been invited, and they could not get access to the green. They went home slightly disgusted. “ You gave her a lot of fatherly advice," a witness in a civil case told a prominent lawyer at New Plymouth. “Oh!” cried the S.M., “who ever heard of going to a lawyer for -fatherly advice. I suppose the lady paid 6s 8d willingly.” At the Christchurch Supreme Court George Joynt Cotton pleaded guilty to making a false declaration when registering a birth, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Arthur Percival Crook was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for making a false declaration stating that he was a bachelor in order to obtain a marriage certificate. A bullock killed for Mr Holloway’s butcher’s establishment in Masterton last week, bad an extraordinary large kidney, though the animal was perfectly healthty, and the meat in prime condition. The kidney, with the fat, weighed no less than 1501 b. None of the experts who saw it weighed had ever met with anything approaching such a large and heavy bullock’s kidney in all their previous experience, nor can the abnormal growth in an absolutely sound animal be accounted for in any way. Herr Schilling, a German-American who visited New Zealand three years ago in the course of a walk round the world, no% claims to have accomplished this feat, having walked 43,000 miles. He left New York in August, 1897, for a £IOOO wager, to walk round the world in seven years. Although he has got safely round, Schilling loses the wager, as he did not finish within the stated time, the Turks having im prisoned him as a spy for several months. On his journey he wore out 156 pairs of boots. The boot-war is raging in Foxton, and another enterprising firm have commenced operations in our midst. Ihe new business is carried on under the style of Wright and Son, who come with years of experience in both repairing and retailing boots of the best quality. The residents of Foxton are invited to give the new-comers a call, who guarantee to satisfy even the most vain. Go to Wright and Son, next Ah Pat’s, to get shod, and see for yourselves. Mrs W. K. Simpson and family, who have lived in the district for 26 years, were the recipients of a very eulogistic address on a recent evening from the residents and settlers of Oroua Bridge and district. A pleasant evening was spent in song and story to mark the occasion, amongst those present being Mr W. R. Hutchison, Presbyterian Student of Foxton. We join with others in wishing the Simpson family success and prosperity in their new home.

Mr Moynihan, the licensee of the Club Hotel, Shannon, which was destroyed by fire on Saturday night estimates that he lost £IOO in notes and cheques, beside® jewellery. Mr Southwick, a chenVidt, lost all his clothes and cash, and Mr McPherson about £l7 in cash. Two hundred delegates from all parts of the Transvaal, in conference at Pretoria, recommended the prohibition of all Asiatics and immigration except under a labour importation ordinance. Louis Botha (formerly a Boer leader), wrote sympathising with the_ effort to make the Transvaal a white man’s country.

Thus “ Drumstick" in the Manawatu Standard Characteristic Of iflost voung country bands, under favourable circumstances, the Foxton Borough Band is evidently making great progress. On king’s Birthday, at' the ■iports in that town, I was afforded an opportunity of hearing it play, and I must say*, notwithstanding the fact that the combination in Orly fjuitS recently formed, their performance was surprising, and I compliment the band on its Creditable display: Mr McKen nie is condiiCtdr, and the Band ought to consider itself fortunate in possess ing such a competent, experienced and hardworking leader. The organisation is numerically strong and well equipped as regards instruments, but uniforms will be the next consideration. The public of Foxton, I am informed, is supporting the band in a liberal manner, the band, in return, giving public performances at various intervals. There is no cause why the band should should not prosper. May its career be eventful or uneventful; either !” There Is a tale about the punters and anda pigeon (says the Taranaki News). Not one hundred miles from New Plymouth were, a knowing crowd who had a good thing in Caiffigoffil, but the trouble was that he was a tryer in only one race, and the puzzle was to find out which one. The telegraph was not available from Waverley, so with far-seeing astuteness the turfites arranged the pigeon game, the bird to be liberated in tlrtie to enable those watching the loft to invest with the local pencillers. Just on the time of ringing down the curtain the bearer of the good tidings made its appearance, but liberty was too dearly purchased for it to settle down at once, and the bird continued to circle round and round. Time was passing, and the anxious watchers losing patience, went and plunged on the first race. “It must be right," they said “ or the bird would not have been sent." Five minutes after the second Start had taken place, the tardy one consented to deliver its message, which informed the receivers that their fancy was going for that money. And the “ div.” was Fa Bs.