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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3617, 8 May 1906, Page 2

Mr G. A. Simpson will address the burgesses after Mr Baker has spoken on Wednesday evening. The Foxton Sub-Union acknowledge the receipt of £ 1 from Mr John Stevens, M.H.B. Miss Charlotte Coley has presented the Cub with a set.of rosettes. There is talk of a local gent starting business in the cab line in Foxton. And the business should pay too. A championship Cup has been donated for football competition by Mr E. A. Coley amongst the Wednesday juniors.

The Foxton Football Sub-Union meet at Laing’s Hotel ai 7 o’clock tomorrow night. For Children’s hacking cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle. A parcel containing a pair of bo rs was lost between Foxton and Mutmti on Saturday evening. Find-*;-rewarded on communicating wi h us The Foxton Rifle Club shooting c *tnpetition for the Motoa Estate Cup has been extended to Saturday next owing to the rough wea her experienced

The meetings of burgesses c died bv

Mr S. H. Baker for to morrow night will bo held at the Masonic Ha’l, n~l the Public Hall, as previously stated. Mr S. G. Feek gives notice thafhe conducts a general carrier’s business, with head quarters at Harbour street, Foxton. Horses are broken in by him to single and double harness. Mr Ales. McMinn, sole selector of Manawatu reps., will very likely be in Foxton for a week or two. Local footballers should note this fact, and show their best form. Tenders are called for the erection of a morgue. Plans can be seen at the Borough offices, where tenders close with the Town Clerk (Alf. Fraser) at 7 p.m. on Monday nex 1 . The High Commissioner cabled -on Sth May No change in the price of hemp; market quiet for spot lots; better demand for distant deliveries.”

’ Mrs J. Frew has been called away from Foxton, on account of the illness of her mother,

“If deaf and dumb or blind, please state so.” This absurdity appears upon the N.Z. census papers this year. Verily, the dumb shall speak and the blind be made to see.

Oil shares have sold at New Plymouth on Saturday as high as £52 10s. The bore looks as good as ever and perhaps better. Enquiries are coming from ah parts of the colony and Australia. Mr Alec. Ross, of Ross and Sons, was in town to-day seeing that everything was in order for shifting the rope-works plant from Hawke’s Bay to this town. The building itself is almost completed.

Mr C. Hunt, from Marcon, is down at Foxton, laying out residential grounds for Mr Bert. Austin at Moutoa. The pirns for (he new residence are ex pected to arrive to-day, and tenders Will be at onoe called for the contract.

Mr Murray, for some time clerk at the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, left for Hunterville yesterday morning, where he has been transferred. Mr Hare, of Palmerston North, fills the gap here. Striga, a Russian, was mortality wounded at Charenton (France) by the explosion of a bomb in his pocket. The Galois states the bombs were intended to wreck a train conveying Olemican, Striga’s companion, to Russia. Messrs Wilford and Levi, acting for the relatives of the late Mr Charles Newall, of Makmo, have given nolice to prosecute a claim for £2OOO as the result of the recent fatal accident to the latter.

The Customs authorities at Lyttelton on Saturday seized four cases of wild ducks, which were about to be ship > to England The seizure was mad under section 3 of '‘The VninaU IV i toctiou Act, 1900.” which priihibi s the export of muive game.

The wettest district in Mow Zealand appears to !)o that around Tin an me, the largest mountain north f \nckUah \l«n>oc ilog cil 'baervati ms hiv • been carefully recorded for the past twelve months, and the total rainfall from Anri I. 1905, to March 190(5, inclusive, wis 118.19 in. On an average, rain fed on about "twenty-four days in each month.

In Johannesburg a working man with a family cannot scrape through on £3OO a vear. A salary of £BOO leaves a married civil servant or professional man of ii'iv standing with the barest surplus. Extravagance is a characteristic of the British, but the inadequancy of incomes is explained by the tremendous cost of certain necessities of life, Leader. Johannesburg.

A curious story has been going the rounds about a lovely foreigner, one of whose verbal slips gave King Edward occasion for a hearty laugh. A very lively personage, with a delightful accent. she made such a favourable impression up m the King that he ask-d her to be his partner at bridge. “ But, sir,” she said. “ I really don't know how to ola".’ The King would take no d> nial, ' mvever, and she became rather embarrassed. “I assure you. sir,” s!v» said, “I could not think of play! ig. I don’t know the difference between a king and a knave.” There was an awkward silence, and then she realised what she had said, and was covered with confusion. The King, of cours-.-, laughed it off, "nd now tells the story with gusto.

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