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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3630, 29 March 1906, Page 2

A meeting of the Flaxmill Employees' Union will be held on Saturday night at the Temperance Hall, Additional entries are made to the Himatangi sale in to-day's advertisement.

Winter seems to have set in very early this year 1 . The last few days have Deen showered with biting cold winds, while the nights haVe been freezing. Mr P. Hennessy has a price lisc in his advertising space to-cliy which is worth perusal. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the Municipal Handbook of New Zealand, 190.5, as compiled by direction if the Hon. Colonial Secretary. It contains much information relating to municipalities throughout lha colony. In our 0, tile lottuCst dn Tuesday last, a typographical error made it dp" pear that Constable Whitehnuse referred to Peek falling into the river. This should have read deceased. The Census Sub-Enumerator for Foxton, Mr J. Osbaldstone, Informs tia that the report current that the New Zealand census is to be taken on Saturday next is entirely wrong. The census will be taken towards the latter end of April.

The funeral of the late Mr I?red Effelbein took place yesterday morning at the Avenue Cemetery, the burial rites being read by the Rev. Mr Southern. Mr W. Jllpp also made feeling reference to the deceased. 'The cortege \Vaa a large one. Seeling, one of the Auckland reps, in the New Zea'and football team, who arrived from England yesterday, will probably return Home in September and take hia permanent residence in England. At the Hawke’s Bay Supreme Court on Saturday, Henderson Garrick, reporter, was awarded £2O damages and costs from Horace lan Sims on, farmer, for assault and insulting language. The action was the result of an election squabble. It is interesting to know when a genuine sale meets with public approval We learn that Messrs J. B. Clarkson Ltd., sale as notified in their advertisement in this issue is meeting with great success, their sales of cycles and sundries beating all previous records. In addition to marking down prices this enterprising firm are giving away one of * heir well-known Popular cycles to soma lucky purchaser. We understand Messrs Geo. Coley and Chas. Easton arc presenting a Cup to the champion team of Foxton footballers, and that Messrs A. Shadholt and J. T. Levett, who are at present visiting Wellington, have been entrusted with its selection. What with the chances ot possessing the •\ustin Banner and the Champion Cup, Foxton followers of Rugby have nothing to complain o r . At the Christchurch Old Ag’ Pensions Court a slim old lady, when asked for proof of her age. produced a silver spoon which she said had bean presented to her at her christening. It bore the five initials of her name, followed by the

■late 1832. The metallic document was accepted as sufficient proof, and Mr Day remarked that it was sometimes good to be born “ with a silver spnon in one’s mouth," and just as good to have kept the spoon. An orator, said to be an American,

thus describes his native land :—“ We live in a land of high mountains and high taxes, low valleys and low wages, big crooked rivers and crooked states men, big lakes and big strikes, big drinks, big pumpkins, big men with pumpkin heads, silver streams that gambol in the mountains, and pious 10'iticians that gamble in the night, fast young men and faster girls, sharp financiers and sharp-toed shoes, fertile plains that lie like a sheet of water, and diausands of newspapers that lie like thunder."

“ Look where you are going ?” is a proverb that, in future, will be practised more often by one of our telegraph messengers, who had rather a peculiar ex-n-rience yesterday. He happened to be cycling round the corner of our office, and, of course, was gazing round the opposite direction. Imagine his surprise when he discovered he had run into some object unknown. It turned out to be a pony lying across the path, and the youth had attempted to cycle right over Its girth. As a matter of fact, the cyclist went over the top of the noddy alright, but. he did not take hie machine with him—it went another direction altogether. The pony became affrighted, but apart from the fact that the telegraph youth turned pale, no material damage eventuated. At the Palmerston S.M. Court Mr Thomson, S.M., read the judgment of the Chief Justice m the case of Mary Symons, Poxton, against the Poxton Borough Council. Mr Cooper appeared for the claimant and Mr Hankins for the Borough Council. L was contended, in the recent sittings of the Supreme Court, on behalf of the borough, that the closing of a street in that borough was not the “ construction " of a public work such as to entitle the claimant (the holder of freehold land on the side of the afreet closed) to compensation under the Public Works Act. The Chief Justice, in the course of a long judgment, held that the closing of a street was a public work within the meaning of the act and the claimant was entitled to compensation for injury to her land. The question of compensation was left to the Compensation Court, which, his Honor said, would, in determining such compensation, have to take into consideration the whole scheme of the Poxton Council in the matter. The question of costs was left to the Compensation Court, —Manawatu Standard.

Mr Wycherley, saddler, was in town yesterday. Mr Alf. Fraser, Borough Clerk, gives notice to-day that the poll for JGIOOO loan to erect new Borough Offices will be taken in the Library Buildings on Wednesday, 11th April. All ratepayers in the Borough have a right to exorcise their votes.

Among the passengers by the Frisco mail '"boat Ventura at Auckland on Tuesday were Roberts and Wallace, of Wellington, returning members of the “ All Blacks.” Freddy Roberts has fully recovered. On landing, they were driven to the Mayoral Chambers and welcomed by the Mayor (Mr M. Myers). Down Timaru way the other evening a clergyman while cycling was stuck up by a tramp who demanded his money and the machine, The clergy man promptly knocked the mart down, and after waiting til! he recovered consciousness left him a sadder and a wiser man?

A now system of filling vac-maiea by proautiou ia being inaugurated by the Auckland Education Board. The six inspectors of the district sitting as a body have oast upon them the duty at tile beginning of each year of grading all the teachers lil tile Service, and when vacancies occur they are to bo filled in accordance with the light.

The Borough Clerk is compelled to that the Main Street bridge will be closed tci dll li’affio if the notice on the bridge is not complied with. Certainly, we think some of the heavy fibre loads could be taken round other roads in this case of emergency. It does not seem Mr to contractor, and it may result in unnecessary delay if the practise is continued. Miss Karnctb, a lady novelist, has been touring the colony, inquiring into many sodill and political questions in which she takes an interest- The Post has tried, without success, with one exception, to obtain her views so far as she Ins gone. On the subject of woman's franchise, she said that, to her mind, the eJicrcisn of electoral rights in this country by women did not make any appreciable difference m the politics of the country She wouid certainly go Home and say that, if the Legislature granted similar concessions. there was no reason to fear that all the dreadful made cone-rning (he exercise of women’ franchise would be realised, and tha! there would never he that measure of household dissension so frequently spoken of, Those apologetic journals who have “ ccme to the conclusion that a thin leavening of John Chi taman is advantageous rather than detrimental to a community's interests,” will be infer ested in the following :—“ The editor of a Natal paper has compiled and sent to (he English papers a list of outrages perpetrated by Chinese in the Transvaal during the first te months of 1905, which includes four teen murders, twelve farm outrages, sixteen assaults and attempted mur* ders, and sixteen riots and mutinies." No doubt South Africa fully appreciates “ a thin leavening." A flaxmiller from Shannon, Mr J. Toomath, was in Marlbor mgh last week, trying to discover why the flax from that district gained higher points in grading than that from Manawatu. After an inspection of several mills, lr was satisfied (according to the Ma ’- borongh Express) that the secret lamore in the handling fh >n in -he qirdity ot '.he green flax. Marlborough millers appeared to make the most each lot tr-ated, fir; greates* can being taken in s'eeping and paddock. Manaw ttu millers att mpted to pm through t 'omuch material in a daThey would treat ten tons p°r day under circumstances in which Mar! borough millers, employing the satn number of bands, would treat seven tons. Mr Toomath noticed that laree flax-bearing areas were being depleted, and that there were large area' nf swamp land which, with Government assistance, could he obtained for flax culture.

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