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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3567, 31 August 1905, Page 2

Football concert rehearsal at the Public Hall to-morrow night.

Fires on* Tuesday destroyed Thompson’s wood working shop in Wanganui and a large grain store near the Blenheim railway station. The annual meeting of the Foxton Rowing Club takes place on October 3rd. Prospects for the dairying season now opening are considered excellent by those in a position to know. A total eclipse of the sum was duo to-day, and should have been visible in the Southern Hemisphere. The Public Trustee has been appointed trustee and executor in the estate pf R. D. Walden, late of Foxton, flaxmiller, deceased. The Public Works Statement was to be presented to Parliament this afterneon.

In the House on Tuesday evening a motion to place the administration of the various State departments under a Public Service Board was lost by 43 votes to 24. The Auditor-General’s report on the “ Fisher incident ” was not ready for presentation on Tuesday as expected, bnt was brought down yesterday. The charges were all refuted.

A large number ot Foxton residents went out to Motuiti yesterday afternoon to witness the tangi oyer the remains of Rore Rangihiiea. The interment takes place on Sunday next, the funeral cortege starting at 2 p.m. trom Motuiti for the Himitangi Cemetery. At the meeting of the Borough Council held last Tuesday a proposal by Cr Baker that steps should be taken to provide gas works for Foxton was promptly thrown out. The majority of the councillors seem to be of the opinion that the council tab'e supplied sufficient gas for all requirements of Foxton.

The fame of the New Liberal Parly has evidently reached “the othnside,” and its performances are regarded with a considerable amount of interest, On Friday night a cablegram wqs received asking Messrs Taylor and Laurenson to go over to Sydney and address a meeting there, and in addition the request was made that photographs of “th« four” should be seat over for reproduction m a Sydney weekly paper.

No reply has been received to the application made ,to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to receive a deputation from the recently farmed Railway League and local bodies in the district. A meeting of the League will accordingly be held in the Borough Council Chambers at 8 p.m. on Thursday, the 14th. September, to consider what further steps shall be taken. His worship the mayor, chairman of the League, will preside. A trial was made on Saturday with the Mosgiel water supply by letting the pipees fill from a side cut near the reservoir. The trial was in every way a sacce=s, (he pressure at Mrs O’Kane’s and in Gordon-road; where the pipes were tapped, forcing the water to a height of over 50ft. The fact of a good permanent supply being available will be a great boom to Mosgiel {says the “ Otago Dailv Times ”). as for the past two months water has been very scarce owing to the very exceptional dryweather.

The work of creating the new Shannon dairy factory has been commenced. Ten years ago the flax industry employed 261 men; now there are 3268. It is reported that a rich gold find has been made in County Down, Ireland. An unusually heavy thunderstorm occurred in the Forty-mile Bush last week, causing great consternation among stock. Eongotea is moving ahead. A block of five new and up-to-date shops is now almost finished, to the order of Mr F. H. Vile. The Otaki “Mail” states that the Mauawatu Eailway Company’s workshops at Paikakariki are to be removed to Otaki.

Levin Bendicts purpose giving a ball early next month in return for a bachelors ball which took place a short time since..

The “Advocate” remarks on the apathy displayed by many farmers around Feilding regarding the potato blight, and says very few potatoes being sold for seed are free from disease.

A women’s meeting in Christchurch urged the establishment by the State of cottage homes and provision for the proper maintenance, supervision, and education of illegitimate children. A man named James Lyndhurst pleaded guilty at Christchurch on Saturday to a charge of uttering gilded farthings a» half-sovereigns. He was committed for sentence.

At Hayti (San Domingo) a deficit of five million dollars in gold out of a twelve million loan raised recently has been discovered. It is said the money was robbed by officials, and the country is now in a deplorable state verging on resolution. A gang of three is reported to be busy at Levin just now. Their specially favoured sphere of action is the hen roost. The people have applied the euphemistic title “ The Weraroa Fly Push” to the trio, who will, it is hoped soon fall into the hands of the police.

The August number of the “ Scindian,” the magazine of the Napier Boys High School, a copy of which is to hand, maintains its usual standard of excellence. Old Boys of the school will find much to interest them in the doings of the present generation of scholars, a well-written resume of events of the term being provided. Some excellent illustrations are included in the maga* zine.

The *• Roadless North,” as the large district north of Auckland is so often termed, wants many things, but in the matter of newspapers it seems to be getting well provided for. A new weekly paper, the “ Hokianga' County Times,” has just made its appearance at Kohu Kohu, on the Hokianga Harbour, and promises to become a useful and prosperous journal. It is, the venture of . Messrs Wake Bros., of Mangonui, who a year ago started the “ Mangonui County Times,” which has proved so successful that the proprietors have been encouraged now to go farther afield and establish the new bantling. We wish them luck.

If the scene that tb* House presented at 3.30 a.m. on Saturday could have been photographed, and all its attendant surroundings truthfully depicted, the country would have an extraordinary notion of Parliament and its methods. Bui tha country ean never realise the exact nature of those methods, for the democracy is snugly asleep when its representatives are watching the clock slowly go round from dinner to supper, aud from supper to close on breakfast time. Aud the question arises, is this kind of unnatural existence necessary, with about twenty-three members in the House and the other fifty-seven in bed or elsewhere? The system is vicious in the extreme. The grave yawns prematurely for those who see it through.— N.Z. “ Times.”

London “Punch” and Mr W. H. Lucv (“ Toby, M.P.”) have been mulct in £3OO damages for libelling a biographical sketch by another London journalist, Mr F. Moy Thomas. Thomas and Lucy were formerly confreres on the “Daily News." In summing Mr Justice Darling quoted a passage from Goldsmith’s poem on the Islington “Mad Dog” and the Islington godly man :

This dog and man at first were friends, But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. Unlike other dogs who came into that Court, said the Court jester, “ Toby was not entited even to a bite. At the Police Court, before Messrs Alf, Fraser and B. G. Gower, J’s.P., James Walden, for whom Mr Moore appeared, was eharged on Wednesday with the theft of a quantity of empty bottles, the property of Andrew Laing. Constable Whitehouse detailed the result of inquiries made, and the finding of two oases of empty bottles at defendant’s place. Defendant denied any knowledge of the bottles, which cou'd be seen from the road or from the house. Cross-examined by Mr Moore, witness said anyone could have seen the bottles, and they had apparently been at the spot some time. Androw uing, licensee of the Family Hotel, Foxton, deposed to having missed some bottles about the 20th June. He identified two cases found by the police as those missed from his place. Constable Lander also gave evidence. Mr Moore submitted that there was nothing to connect defendant with the theft of the bottles in question. He was in constant work and had no need to do such a thing. The police evidence showed that the bottles • could not be easily seen. The defendant then gave evidence denying any knowledge of the bottles, which would not be easily seen by anyone about the house. Witness hadknown persons to doss in the shed at night, and it was possible these might have placed the bottles where they were found. M. H. Walker, storekeeper, and M. Perreau, baker, gave evidence as to character, and tha Bench dismissed the ease. The bottles were ordered to be returned to Mr Laing. Albert Lee pleaded guilty to the theft of a quantity of timber, valued at 4s, and was convicted and fined 20s and costs, the timber |to|be returned to the owners, Prouse Bros.

A Local Option Bill has been read a second time in the Tasmania* State Assembly, There will be no football match, Foxton v. Manawatu, at Palmerston next Wednesday, The Borough Council invites tenders for the purchase of hay in the cemetery. The Foxton Athletic Club hold an important meeting at Levett’s Hotel at 8 to-night. At the Police Court this morning, before Mr Alf, Fraser, J.P., a first offending drunk was convicted and discharged. The application ®t Mr H. A. Haack for the position ot nightsoil contractor has been accepted by the Borough Council.

The Borough Council proposes to ask the ratepayers to agree to the erection of a suitable building for the purpose of a library, council chambers, etc. in Gray Street

At last Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting, on the discussion as to raising a loan for obtaining a waterplant for fire purposes, one councillor expressed tha opinion that it would all end in smoke. Some councillors appeared to be of the opinion that more smoke resulted from the want of water. A concert and dance in aid of the Shannsn Brass Band last night, at Shannon, was largely attended. Amongst the vocalists on the concert programme were Messrs A. Harper, Joe Johnston, and E. G. Sutherland, all ot whom were well received. Mr Rowland Smith provided the accompaniments for the Foxton trio, Mr and Mrs F. May loomed largely on the bill of entertainment. Dancing was kept going till the early hours of the morning. At the special meeting of the Borough Council held on Tuesday evening, there were present the Mayor and all councillors except Cr flye. After some discussion, a motion by Crs Baker and Stiles was carried “ That the ratepayers, at a public meeting to he convened at an early date, be acked: {t) To consider, the borrowing of about £SOO to obtain a manual fire engine and to sink wells to supply same with water; (2) The borrowing of about £4OOO to obtain a steam fire engine and lay down pipes as has been done in Blenheim.

“ Bright, crisp, cheery and informing ” are the terms which should be applied to the August “ Review of Reviews ” (edited by Mr W. H. Judkins) just to hand. The issue is specially interesting as it contains a character sketch of Mr Rider Haggard, the tamous novelist, whose work as British Commissioner to inquire into the working of the Salvation Army farm colonies, is likely to be of such benefit to the British nation. Senator Smith gives a further instalment of his article on “ New Guinea,” and the editor a character sketch of General Booth, whose tour of the Australasian colonies has just recently ended. Further interesting articles are the “ Kid-Judge,” a description of the methods by which Judge Lindsey deals with juvenile offenders. It is exceedingly interesting. Mr Max Hirch replies to the Rev. A. H, Collins’ articles on “ The Church and Social Problems ” A very interesting feature is a full page photograph of the Rhodes scholars at Oxford University. In addition to this, there are the usual interesting features. The “ Review ot Reviews ” is bound to increase in popularity if it deals as it is doing with the prominent features of Australian life and world-wide interest which are agitating the minds ot people to-day. An item of special interest to New Zealanders is a photograph of Mr W. P. Reeves, New Zealand High Commissioner, and the report of an interview with him by Mr W. T. Stead.

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