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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3614, 27 January 1906, Page 2

A meeting of the Foxton Rifle Club is convened for Tuesday evening next at Laing’s Hotel, at 7.30 p.m. Mr W. C. Howan, one of the partners in the firm of Shadbolt and Howan, has purchased the former, gentleman’s share ot the business, and takes control from the first of February. The Crown flaxrnill, which has being lying idle for some months past, has been disposed of by Mr Geo. Coley to Mr James Symons. We understand it is the new proprietor’s intention to at once commence working, the green material to be procured from the Moutoa Estate.

Boys’ strong washing Blouses 1/9 each at the L.M.S. opposite Police Station, Main Street. J. B. Clarkson, Ltd., have an interesting change advertisement in this issue, and is worth pursual by those in want of cycles. In another column Messrs Shadbolt and Hovvan inform the residents of F-'xton and district that they have disposed of their butchery business in M-in-street, and thank the public for the support accorded them in the past.

The Woodville Examiner understands that as a result of the inquiry into the train collision at Piri Firi on the 30th ult., Guard Vickers and Driver, Mars ball have been dismissed from the railway service.

Mr Jupp, of Poxton, has purchased 1500 acres of the Makerua Swamp at i?l6 per acre, with immediate possession. It is understood it is Mr Juppn intention to convey the green flax by river to his Poxton mill.

A charge of explosive with fuse attached thereto was discovered in a cargo of coal received from Australia the other day by the Napier Gas Company. Had the charge reached the retort disastrous results would have followed.

At Boston (Eng.) County Court Sir George Sherston made an order of Id a month to pay off a debt of £5 14s 6d. At this rate the debt will be paid off in the year 2020, 114 J years hence. The tree upon which the famous explorer Livingstone carved bis initials at Victoria Falls is dying. It is proposed to cut it down and send the trunk to London, to be preserved With other Livingstone relics.

“ Our collection to-day, my dear brethren,” said the rector, “is for the clothing fund. At, the same time, may I earnestly imp re s upon you that, though the collection is for the clothing fund it is not necessary to contribute buttons.”

During the hearing of an illegitimacy case at Tiroaru a day or two ago, the defendant made ah dfeer which somewhat astonished the court. He said he was willing to marry the complainant's sister, and to take over the child after tlje marriage. It appeared that the sister was not at all enamoured of the idea, and the usual order was made against the defendant.

Mr Fred, Foley, the groat ventriloquist. magician, ard shadowgraphist, returns to Foxton on Tuesday, Jan. 30th, after four years toir of India, China, Japan and Australia. The China Mail says ; “ The large andience were as well satisfied as though they had witnessed an entire vaudeville entertainment.” The Calcutta Star says; “A? a ventriloquist Mr Foley is gifted with rare talent.”

According to the Daily Telegraph, an electric “ spanker ” has been introduaed into a public school at East Penna, Illinois. A recalcitrant pupil is placed in a stooping position over a chair, a button is pressed, and a number of revolving paddles spank the anatomy of the wilful child into testability- The power can be regulated to a nicety. The parents of the children attending the school are indignant, but the in ventor thinks he has manufactured the best punitive agent in existence. At the Frimley Canning works the area put down in peas was seven acres, and the varieties were Break-o’Dav. Stratagem, and Yorkshire Hero, which are grown to perfection. From If acres seven tons of Hraak-o’Days were harvested, and Mr Jones estimates that 16 tons will be taken from the remaining of acres. The wages of the boys who pick the peas range from 6s to 10s a week with bonuses. In the pickiner rooms, 50 boys and girls are engaged shelling peas, which are then sifted, washed, blanched,‘and put into tins. * Robert Gardener, tried for murdering his sweetheart, says a Chicago message, escapes the death penalty bv hanging owing to a strange disease which causes ossification of the neck. Only four such oases are recorded. The tissues of the neck and throat are encased in a bone pipe, and the hangman’s noos n might not cause strangulation. The only possible way legally to execute tb penalty upon him—that is, “to hang bv the neck until he is dead ” —is to drop him through the trap and let him remain suspended in the air till he starves to de >th. Gftrdener’s counsel has formally notified the court of the impossibility of hanging his client, and sen ►ence has been deferred.—Lloyd’s Weekly. Mr G. L. Gomrae, clerk to the Lon don County Council, told this story at the recent house dinner to the Lord Chief Justice of EnglandAn Ameri can, who had a big case coming before the English Courts, thought it would be the right thing to send the Judge before whom he was to appear a few oases of champagne and some nice brands of cigars. The reply of the English lawyer was: “For heaven’s s 'ke don’t do tha*: it wi'l lose you your case." Subsequently the American, when he had won his case, said to the Englishman, with a chuckle: —“ Well I sent the champagne and cigars.” “No!" was the reply: “ vou don’t mean that ?” “ Tes.” replied the American ; “ hat I sent them in the name of my opponent.”

A contemporary, in discussing the class of men it is most desirable fo employ, savs “ There is a greater demand to-day than ever before for men of character. There is room at the top. Good men are scarce. Th« truth is more and more growing that abilitv of the highest rank is impossible without character. The individual of low morals is a weakling. Late hours, late suppers, the excitement of the card table, the cigarette habit and fastness generally, will not only take away the character, but the ability to perform as well. Clear heads are only possible when nature’s laws are rightly observed. Strong muscles are only made and maintained by the exercise of rigorous common sense in the manner of right living. The young man who indulges in fish suppers at 11 p.m., or the chappie who hankers after the succulent bivalve when he should be restoring his energies in balmy sleep is courting disaster that is sure to yield to the wooing. An all wool Robe length- of y yards for 6/n at the L.M.S. Sale opposite Police Station, Main Street.

The Foxton State Schoel re-opens on Monday.

Ladies’ smart Crash Costumes tor 7/6 each at the L.M.S. Sale, opposite Police Station, Main Street. A youth named Ria, of Collepso, Italy was stabbed to the heart at the altar, as he was being married by a girl whom he had jilted. The girl threw down the poniard with which she comiiiiiud the deed, and exclaimed: “ Now you can arrest me!" She was taken Into custody. Turnip seed soaked in kerosene is an effective method of keeping birds and fly from the crops. Mr F. Raddon, of Fairview, Canterbury, has used the method mentioned for twenty years, and has never once experienced a failure. Mr Raddon adds that the kerosene can even be tasted on the young leaf, but of course the taste and smell soon pass off. There were 105 suicides committed in the colony during the year 1904. Twenty-eight were by shooting, 21 by hanging, 18 by cutting the throat, 18 by taking poison, and 11 by drowning. The victims comprised 89 men and 16 women. Eight of the women destroyed themselves by taking poison, three by shooting, two by cutting the throat, and one each by drowning, hanging, and strangling. At Christchurch on Wednesday night a middle-aged man, apparently a farmer, had supplied himself with a wad of about fifty pound notes, which he thrust singly into the hands of passersby and threw promiscuously about throadway. He purchased about worth of postage stamps and commenced to dance a haka on them, but the police put a stop to his eccentricities before he could unburden himself of any more cash. He was taken'before a Magistrate, and committed to the Sunnyside Asylum..

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