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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3524, 20 May 1905, Page 2

Messrs Wyatt Clark and Co. notify that they have been instructed f’o offer for sale by auction Mrs Harris’ boarding-house in Main Street, Foxtoa. Captain Edwin wired to-day: Strong winds to gale from between north-east and north and west after 30 hours from now, with glass falling ; tides high ; sea considerable. During the hearing of a case in the Whangarei Court the proceedings were stopped by the continual crying of an infant. The Magistrate asked a constable to act as nurse, but he was otherwise engaged. Ultimately a lady volunteered to take charge of the youngster. The indifferent accommodation provided at the local Public Hall for the gentlemen of the Fourth Estate led to rather a qnrious question being put to Mr Vile last evening. The Herald representative, preferring a hard form with a Quakerish back to the rickety chair and still more treacherous table (!) provided on the stage, had disposed of himself amongst the audience, and a questioner who had not observed this wanted to know if another gentleman with political inclinations had drawn the pencil pusher away to another town by. we suppose, the piospecfof more exciting entertainment:' The querist was speedilv enlightened on the point, however, and found himself a subject for the attention of the note-taking chiel wha was amang them.

At a well-attended public; meeting, it \vas decided to form a Cremation S)cic:vin Auckland.

To-ano'rrotf is the anniversary of the opening df the Manchester Ship Canal, in 18:44. Monday next, 22nd inst. : tVilf be the anniversary of the proclamation of J-J-w Zealand as a British colony in

At the Magis’rate’s CoWf/ P&'aiingS, P. J. Custigan, charged with stab bing K- ]• O’Sullivan, was committed for trial. M;tdMab<w’s ( Dramatic Company staged ‘'lied A stray" 7 at the Public Hal) on Thursday night in’ their latest style: In hn old, armchair purchased at auction at Townaflarry, Donegal, the buyer found a leather purse containing nearly £2BB. Boring operations at the petroleum prospecting works at the Moturoa (New. Plymouth)’ are, in full swing again, anil everything is vkcfbing. satisfactorily. In our report of the Debating Society’s doings in our last issue, we should have ttidntioned that Mr Arkle opposed Messrs Moore and Barnard’s corU'kTiori thsft international Arbi* trailed Wls a sn&tittftc for War/’ The Wellington Trades’ Coundil last evening decided (u write to the Premier pointing out that a large number of breaches of the Shops Act were being cdihmitlcd, in the city and requesting that steps tie tditei! to stop them. The statue pf thh kite’ Horn W. Ivolleston, which is to be Greeted in GhristcHiircH, is expected to arrive in the colony at ail oaj’ly ditei THe dtrio'uht collected in New Zealand towards tile cost was about £IOOO. We would advise those of the public wlio are in search of children’s beaver coats, to have a, look at a very fine-show of these goods id .Mr O. Hr Stiles’ window to-ilight, also a flfiW lot of ladies black dress skirls.- The advertisement will appear in next issue. Auckland Scotsmen dd ndt appear to be ferveriily patriotic; The Burns Club in that city has been allowed to die, and last week formal notice was given by the the Registrar of Friendly Societies that, as the club has ceased to exist, its registry lias been cancelled. The Taranaki Land tloard lids decided to bring under the motice of tli£ Minister for Lands the urgent necessity ot at once forming the portion of the Ohura-road north of Tangarakau river to give the settlers of the Ohura district a better and cheaper access to obtain cattle and stock to their farms. The attendance at the Foxtop State School fol‘ the week ended to-day averaged 'it 3.6 and absences 39.4, making a roll number of 255. The: presence- of the Truant Inspector is urgently necessary, as the present average of absences, in many cases notoriously easily avoidable, is inordinately high. The mail companies have submitted to the Australian Butter Exporters’ Association the draft contract provided for freight at seven sixteenths of a penny freight per pound on butter shipped to London, The terms, which are favourably received in commercial circles, also provide for reduged temperatures and opportunities for inspection. ’ A serious break occurred in the Blackball Coal Company’s aerial line on Thursday, which will stop work at the mines for some time. The line broke, and over thirty travelling trucks were smashed. The line is getting much worn, and there is much discontent in the district at the delay in completing the short piece of railway required to connect the pit’s mouth with the main line. The company has guaranteed interest on outlay.

THE CARES OF MOTHERHOOD. Lecturing in England recently on the duty of mothers, Mrs Gilman said ; —Yon talk about the sacred duty of motherhood, and leave the care of your babies to your servants. The motherhood of the upper classes in England is deputed to one who is more ignorant than the actual mother, and socially her inferior. Women’s ideas about the education of infant children have not moved since civilisation hegam. There is a whole literature about horse breeding, and nothing at all about child raising. We have made motherhood a cult, set up an ideal, set up a lovely roseate cloud of emotion and sentiment around it, but we give our children half-civilised mothers. Ninety-nine women out of every 100 would, if necessary, save their own child at the cost of the lives of the children of hundred of other women, and would think it right. That is why the word stop-mother has become a synonym for crueltv. It is remarkable that the greatest number of children die in the years they are in their mother’s care. If they survive the first years of their mother’s care, they may grow up to maturity. For centuries women put tight bandages round their children, and when the child cried all these millions and mil lions of mothers did was to walk the floor with the child, or make the millions and millions of fathers walk the fl )or with it. Motherhood never taught a woman how to alter the method of clothing the child. That is left to a doctor. A man has to teach the mother how to kill fewer children. But the average mother resents any attempt to teach her. She _ thinks motherhood is sufficient. It is not. There is a colossal ignorance about it. The care of children is a science, not an instinct.