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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 10 February 1906, Page 2

The Wanganui Christmas Carnival Committee has decided to hold another carnival next Christmas.

At the Ohaupo annual fair 16,000 sheep yarded. Fat lambs brought to 14s 6d. There was a rise all round on last year’s prices, it being especially noticeable in breeding ewes. The cricket match, Orona Bridge v. Foxton, which was to have been played to-day, has been postponed, Oroua Bridge not being able to muster a team. At Victoria Park this afternoon, Moutoa and Foxton schoolboys try conclusions. A Sydney cable says a private match has been arranged for the 24th instant between the Rawhiti and the Bona over the harbour coarse. The Rawhiti is a new Auckland yacht, owned by Mr Pittar. She was beaten in her maiden race by the Bona, a Sydney yacht. Nearly £4,500 is in hand from Palmerston, Feilding, and Foxton districts for the purpose of aiding Palmerston Hospital Board to carry out muchneeded Improvements and additions. This is a magnificent amount, and includes the Government subsidy. Last Saturday morning Ruby Westwood, one of the giant children who had been on exhibition at Nelson during the previous week, had a narrow escape from drowning. She was bathing in the Maitai river when she overbalanced herself, and failed to regain her feet. The tun sly arrival of her father who pulled her out saved her from her perilous position. We have been asked whether it was nossible to improve on the beach joke. We d">n’t know whether such inquirer refers to the “ towny ’’ who was caught in the storm, but we can assure our friend that we cannot see where the joke came in. Neither does the “ towny,’’ whose daily Turkish bath ever since has not served to rid him of Ihe pleasures derived from sleeping In a hen-roost. Besides, the unfortunate 1 one is said to havo acquired a "cackling ” habit.

The local Methodist Church celebrates Harvest Thanksgiving services to-oaor-row, and advertises a pleasant evening to be spent in the schoolroom on Monlav nr-xt. A variety of produce will be offered for sale. There is alre a varied assortment of fancy goods, children’s garments, etc., to be disposed of. Entertainment is to bo provided in the shape of competition of various kinds for old and young of both sexes. Admission free.

Tho practise of taking “babies-in-arms ’’ to the theatre is one which is not approved of by the average attendant, for the childish screeches are generally heard just at an interesting turn of the programme. This was noticeable on Thursday evening last, and much censure was on all sides of the babe who meant no harm, but created much annoyance. Mothers would do well to take note and allow no boalfchy-lunged child to accompany them to a " drama ’’ in future.

The Evening Post of Tuesday announced that “ there is a very ppr=is f ont rumour current that the Government has come to terms for the purchase of the Wellington and Manawatu railway, but that the purchase will not be completed for a little while, or at least until about the time the railway debentures mature." In connection with the above the N.Z. Times gays;—" If there is any such rumour in the city it is without foundation. The Government has not come to any terms for the purchase of the railway. Moreover, there have been no negotiations in progress of late, or even quite recently." Thus the Wellington correspondent of the Petone Chronicle; —" Many are the wise people who are becoming one of the “hat-ters’ brigade." One of our Wellington lady medicos—Dr Platts-Mills-may often be seen, driving in town with nought to protect her head but the finest gossamer veils. So far the men are in the majority in carrying out the new physically beneficial idea, but no doubt, if one or two of our Wellington girls were brave enough to walk along Lamhton Quay, hat-less, I’m sure others would follow. I hear rumours of a hatless Garden Party to be given shortly, and I’m sure this will meet with the approval of all bill-paying husbands."

Two Tan-tail pigeons were lost on Thursday last from Union street, and the finder would oblige by communicating with this office.

Numerous Foxton residents last evening were ou the look-out for she iotas -f -s-o , r ~ O ~ rr ‘V heavy weather prevalent prevented any material effect being witnessed. The Railway Department are issuing excursion tickets to the M'-inerton Show. These tickets will be issued on HHh and 2Cth inst, from Foxton, and will b« available for return up to 27th February,

Mr J. Hillary, Coley street, has as advertisement in our advertising columns to-day which is worth perusal by those in search of building properties. Look up the advertisement and satisfy yourselves. A wealthy grocer In London is offering a prize for the grocer’s assistant, who in an examination by experts shows the best knowledge of his trade. The prize is as a novel as it Is munificent—viz., a perfectly fitted grocer’s shop worth JBSOO. An Irishman and a Frenchman were disputing over the nationality of a friend of theirs.—" I say," said the Frenchman, •• that he was born in Franco, therefore he is a Frenchman." *' Not at all," said Pat; '• Begorra, if a oat could have kittens in the oven would you call them biscuits ? "

Extraordinary things in connection with th« great football match against Wales are reported by the Daily Mail to have happened in the Rhondda Valley. Scores of Welsh colliers bad staked their full fortnight's wages on the Welsh team, Never in the history of Rugby football has such unbounded confidence in Welsh sport been showi by the mining inhabitants of South Wales. Though betting has not got a very firm hold on the more respectable Welsh colliers, the most extraordinary bets have taken place over the match. Two Rhondda tradesmen staked £ioo merchandise each that Wales would win,

We recommend our readers to carefully survey the advertisement which appears in our advertising column drawing at*ention to further reductions at the L.M.B. Surplus Sale in Speir- ’ Buildings. The prices are indeed a revelation and it seems hard to raaliz that the goods were ever manufactured lor the prices quoted. We understand that the firm are constantly opening up new goods as their limited space will permit, and every article which does not meet with ready sale at the Sale prices is immediately re-marked at further big reductions to ensure a thorough clearance. There can be n doubt that the community of Foxton will benefit to a very considerable extent by visiting this sale as often a? their purses will admit them doing so. After a good deal of study and work we have at last figured out whv so many newspaper proprietors get rich; here is the secret of successA child is born in the neighbourhood ; the attending physician gets £33 33. the editor gives the loud-lungea youngster, and the “happy parents" a send-off, and gets nothing. It is christened : the minister gets £t as and the editor gets nothing. It grow up and marries: the editor publishes another long-winded, flowery article aud tells a dozen lies about the “beautiful and accomplished bride," the minister gets £z and a piece nf cake, and the editor gets nothing. Ir the course ot time it dins, and _ the doctor gets from £$ to £2s, the minister perhaps gets another £3, the undertaker gets from £lO to £3O, the editor publishes a notice of the dea l and an obiHiary two columns long, lodge and society resolutions, a lot of poetry, and a free card of thanks, an-: gets nothing. No wonder s> man newspaper owners get rich.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., who is master of oratorical quips and cranks, delivered himself recently of a choice collection of political phrases. In the course of a speech at Carlisle, he said, with reference to the end of the Tory Government, that the whole mass o‘ organised hypocrisy had fallen, never to rise again. “ Dissolved, dissipated, discomfited, and destroyed, there thev lay, a mass of miscellaneous, misguided mortality, on the field of battl—your Balfours and your Chamberlains, your Brodricks, your ‘ wholehoggers,’ your little piggers—(much laughf«r)—your protectionists, v-mr fai' tnde s, vonr foul traders—(l fug'itr)—your fiscal r formers, y nr retaliatory your reciprocity mongers your Imperial thinkers and your Imperial drinkers—(great laughter)~-yont Jingoes and your stnigoes—(laughterl —yonr landlords, your Randlords. your Philosophic Doubters, yonr Imperial shooters, men with no convictions, men who ought to have ba-n convicted long ago, your Balfours, your shufflers, your scut tiers, your pure B 1fourians, and your Chinese coolieshorse, foot, and artillery, there they He in one mingled mass of misery." (Cheers.l

This country blows about its scenery, but it could do a good dea' more wittnut straining the truth.” This is the verd'et of Mr Edmond aditor of the Sydney Bulletin, after a trip down the Wanganui river. He told an Evening Post reporter that a while back he was on a holiday tour in Burmah, and he came down the Irrawaddy. For two days everybody was talking of a magnificent gorge they were going to see, and while he (Mr Edmond) was watching nut for it in the expectation of being laid low with admiration and awe, they passed through it before he was aware. Then they talked for seven davs of the glories of it. Coming down the upper reaches of the Wanganui he thought ot the Irrawaddv. and of other river grandeurs that he knew, and he decided that there is nothing of the kind anywhere that can be mentioned in coiljunction with the beauties of our “star "river. He was told that the Government was devoting much perspiration and adjective to our scenery with the object of attracting the tourist, and be gravely replied that it was well to advertise it, but that he hoped that Mr Seddon, whose borrowing tendencies he had been discussing, would not attempt to float a loan and offer the scenery as security.

WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is invaluable te the traveller.

Sir J. G. Ward, who leaves Wellington to-day en route for the Postal Conference at Rome, was hanq netted in the City Town Hall on Thursday evening. Tiu- affair Wa- a IrUliau. sauces. Mr W. Bullard, saddler, gives notice to-day that he has renewed business in premises at the rear of A. R. Osborne’s Tailor establishment, and that all repairs can be relied upon. In most play-houses in the colony the practise of ladies removing their bead, gear has been adopted. Not so by all in Foxton, and many of the fair sex at fault on Thursday night are sure to gain much admiration and eulogy should they choose to remove their handsome cranium draperies in future. Be kind, girls, and who knows but what that kindness will be doubly rewarded 1 An instance of what pluck and perseverance will do may be seen in the reclamation at Napier of whst was formerly a huge sheet of water at the back of the town. The local syndicate which took the matter in hand, dredged out. several deep channels for the river water to run through, which, being con fined to these, did not carry away the silt deposited in the intervals between the channels. The effect of every flood is now to deposit large quantities of rich river silt over a huge area of what is now splendid pasture land, grazing large numbers of sheep and cattle. So successful have been the syndicate’s operations that a portion of the land, which they hold on a long lease from the Napier Harbour Board, is shortly to be cut up and offered for building leases. Mr Kettle, S.M., gave his decision at the Magistrates' Court, Auckland, in the case of Joseph Etonian versus Francis E. R. T. Peacocke, in which the complainant claimed the sum of £22 l(h for money lent to defendant. His Worship said “In this case a fraud war committed on the Licensing Committee which issued a wholesale license to Peacocke, believing him to be a bona fide applicant. The evidence shows he had no Interest in the business. He deceived the Licensing Committee, being in truth and in fact a dummy. Ehrman knew he could not obtain a liceo*> having been previously refused one. The whole thing is steeped In fraud Knowing Ehrman to be in a fix, Peacocke took advantage of his position, md practically levied blackmail on him >n order to perpetrate fraud. lam of oninion that the Court should not lend ite<»lf to assist either party. Plaintiff will therefore be non-suited, and no costs allowed to either party.

The trials of a man summoned to serve on a petty jurv are considerable, m matter how light the servitude ma; be, tor in the first instance he has to entirely disregard his own private business for the nonce; and. secondly, he receives inadequate remuneration for the duties he, as a citizen, has ren dered to Justice and to the interestand welhneing of the State. But > n would appear, from ar incident which occurred in the Wellington Supreme Court recently, there is another, and *->en mow ghastly, terror to which mu ’urv system exnoses a man who is er • panelled for the purpose of trying crminal case. It was necessary tV»* ‘he man in the nock should be identified hv one of the principil f or Hie Crown That witness happene o b° a g’i-l who was said to he bn' "ueht and a half years of age. Shwas asked to look around the Oir J nd indicate the person whom s’" '-new as being connected with thf ->ffence charged. The little mitebolW! over the jury box and then, pointing l o *he foreman, raid “ That’s him 1 ”

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