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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3547, 15 July 1905, Page 2

Blenheim is to have a Town Hail, to cast £4.000.

The first copv of “ Hansard ” of the 1905 Parliamentary session is to hand.

The Manawatn A. and P. Associa'ion’s winter show last imnth realised a profit of £3OO. Parishioners of AH Saints Church are reminded of a meeting to be held on Wednesday next. The Diocesan Synod at Wellington on Thursday night carried a resolution in favour of the Referendum League. A mild water famine is just now being experienced in the hill suburbs of Dunedin.

Blitter shipped from Taranaki during the past season was valued at £620,000. The attendance at the Foxton State School for the week ended yesterday averaged 223.2, and absentees 29-8, making a roll number of 253. It is notified that the Foxton-Sanson tram will run to a special time-table on Wednesday next to convey passengers to the football match at Sanson.

Municipal gas works are 'to be estahlised at Rangiora. Rangiora’s population is vjoo. Foxton should move in a similar direction within the next decade.

The annual meeting of the Foxton Racing Club was held last evening, but a report is unavoidably held over to-day.

Facts and fallacies in up-to-date temperance reform is the subject advertised for Sunday evening in the loca 1 Methodist Church, and should prove interesting and instructive in view of the approach of the licensing poll. The woollen manufacturing industry in New Zealand shows no improvement, the Otago “ Daily Times" states, although the wool market is good. This is owing to the increasing importation of goods containing a large per centage ofshpddV) the public demand fora cheap article being inimical to the sale of higher-priced all-wool material.

Palmerston North’s £ro,ooo Open Bouse war, officially opened this weel by the A/ayof and 1 Mayoress. Lasl ni"ht the first conCetf was held in th< hall.

The body of the man Hosie, who Wat drowned in the Oroua river in the mid lie ot June, was recovered close to tb fatal spot Ofi Thursday. It had apparently been hatMl in silt, which ha< gradually washed away.

A niari named Geo'. Edward Johnson who had beefi donVifc'tfed on Wednesday for drunkenness, was again before tb court for (he same offence to day, whe* Mr Alf. Fraser, J.P., fined him 10s, in lefault 48 hours imprisonment. The horse which formed the subject of a recent court casein which Mr C. F. Johnston Was sued for its value on account of itS disappearance while in his charge at the stables, Was found on McDonald’s run at Levin.

An American gentleman once observed: “ When the Pilgrim Father? landed from the Mayflower they first got down drt the aborigines.” Modern colonizing methods often prove that the old Puritan spirit is net yet extinct. Perhaps invaders get down on their knees less, blit they make up for.it by getting down On the aborigines more.

li Some men are so industrious and persevering that they triumph over every obstacle. It is recorded of a modern captain of industry, who happened to be sojourning in a Boston gaol, that, not content with “doing time,” he “did” the gaoler. By mean? of a clever story he extracted all the gaoler’s savings, some £ISOO, from him. In this case the reforming influence of the modern gaol system proved doubtful, to say the least of it.

All who take an interest in roller skating are invited to read a notice in another column relative to the opening of a rink in the Public Hall, Mi Phipps, of Levin, is arranging to havea representative in Foxton every Monday evening, commencing on Monday next, 17th inst. The novelty should take on well, and the venture will doubtless meet with a good reception.

A witness called in a case in the local S.M. Court on Thursday caused some laughter when he inquired, almost before “ Th’v’denceyoush’llgive ” etc. formula had been finished : “ Beg pardon, I want to know who is going Hi pay me my exes in (his case?” The Bench, with an ingratiating smile, poured oil on the troubled waters by informing the witness that the party who had subpoened him would have to see to that, ana business proceeded.

Herald representatives at the Levin Bachelors’ Ball last night speak in the highest terms of praise as to the success of the affair. Over looconplcs were present, and danced till five o’clock this morning to the sweet strains of music supplied by Mr Archie McMinn, of Palmerston North. The floor was in good order, and the supper (served in a large marquee) left nothing to ha desired. Visitors were preset t from all over the Manawatu.

The cosmopolitan nature of the work a paternal government expects a stipendiary magistrate to do is apparently unending in variety. On Thursday during the hearing of ahorse case at the local S.M. Court Mr A. D. Thomson was invited to go out and fix the value of a certain equine which was browsing in the courtyard. His Worship declined the invitation. Later on he was engaged in dissecting the physical economy of a post and wire fence, defining the exact amount of wire ot a certain gnage required for a particular length of fence.

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